Texas ECE undergraduate Allen Zhou worked with UT biomedical engineering student Aditi Merchant and his brother, Anthony, a computer science student at the Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton to build a website that matches older people with younger ones to give both older and younger generations a chance to connect with someone new and battle social isolation.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

The international award is given to one recipient annually who has shown "outstanding scientific or technical achievements which has been significantly beyond the average performance of a person at that career level."

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Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia led the study with first author and second-year graduate student Can Cui. Incorvia and Cui discovered that spacing magnetic nanowires, acting as artificial neurons, in certain ways naturally increases the ability for the artificial neurons to compete against each other, with the most activated ones winning out.

After graduating from Texas ECE in 2010 with a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sowmiya Narayanan went on to co-found Lily AI — an AI-based software designed to enhance users’ online shopping experiences — and she now serves as its chief technology officer.

Prof. Nan Sun of Texas ECE and two members of his research group were recognized with awards at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the premier conference in the integrated circuits design field.

Prof. Soloveichik is among the 126 young scholars from across the country selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive this award. Each recipient will receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to further their research.

Texas ECE PhD students Jiaqi Gu, Zheng Zhao, Chenghao Feng, and Mingjie Liu, along with professors David Z. Pan and Ray Chen received the Best Paper Award at the 25th ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2020) for their paper "Towards Area-Efficient Optical Neural Networks: An FFT-based Architecture."

Christine was selected based on her "demonstrated excellence in teaching innovation and excellence in K-16 instruction."