Texas ECE hosted an inclusivity roundtable on September 2 to take a look at the demographics of our current student body and brainstorm ways that we can build a more inclusive and welcoming community. The event was part of ECE Welcome Week supported by Texas Instruments.

"There was a common thread among the examples that the way a person is made

Eighty-five of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half day event.

Prof. Haris Vikalo of Texas ECE will benefit from the contributions in his research to "enable discovery of disease transmission patterns based on analysis of genomic data."

The Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) "supports key professors and their research through a $75,000 charitable donation to their university."

Texas ECE will welcome seven new faculty members for 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 the academic years.

The team of Khurram Mazher and Andrew Graff won for their project "Radar-to-radar Interference: System Level Analysis and Solutions."

Texas ECE and chemistry double major and Dean's Scholar Teddy Hsieh joins an exclusive club of 56 undergraduates from across the country to receive the 2020 Astronaut Scholarship.

Alex Dimakis, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as the AI institute’s co-director. In addition to Dr. Dimakis, four other Texas ECE faculty will be involved in the institute: Dr. Al Bovik, Dr. Constantine Caramanis, Dr. Sujay Sanghavi, and Dr. Sanjay Shakkottai.

Prof. Jean Anne Incorvia (co-PI) of Texas ECE along with Prof. Xiaoqin Elaine Li (PI) of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics have received a NSF MRI grant for the development of a magneto-optical spectroscopy system for investigation of spintronic and quantum materials.

Their paper, "Key research problems in NoC design: a holistic perspective," was published at CODES 2005. The award will be presented during a virtual conference on September 22, 2020.