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To better understand the company and the problems they are addressing, VMblog reached out to Mohit Tiwari, CEO at Symmetry Systems, to learn more. 
Robots now on the front lines in battle against COVID-19

Prof. Andrea Thomaz is developing robots to take on tasks in hospitals to reduce exposure risk for frontline health care workers, including operating ventilators, taking inventory and delivering PPE.
The Case for Hardware-ML Model Co-design with Diana Marculescu

Texas ECE chair Dr. Diana Marculescu sat down with TWIML to discuss her work on hardware-aware machine learning.
New Sensor May Soon Test for Coronavirus and Flu Simultaneously

“With a second wave of the coronavirus likely to appear right as we get into flu season, there’s an urgent need for diagnostics that can differentiate between COVID-19 and influenza,” said Deji Akinwande, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
New Imaging Discovery Could Take Tech Behind Self-Driving Cars to the Next Level

The team’s findings were published in May in Nature Photonics. The team includes UT’s Seth R. Bank, a professor in the Cockrell School’s Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, UT electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student Stephen March, and, from UVA, Campbell and postdoc Andrew Jones.
EURASIP

Prof Alan Bovik, Prof. Sriram Vishwanath and their students have been awarded 2020 EURASIP Best Paper Awards.
New 5G Switches Mean Battery Life Improvements

Prof. Deji Akinwande and his research team published their findings today in the journal Nature Electronics.
A New Building Block Emerges to Power the Ultra-fast Computer Processors

The discovery is part of a larger $6.5 million project sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and led by electrical and computer engineering professors Ray Chen and David Z. Pan.
ECE Honors 2019-2020 Award Winners

Texas ECE held a Virtual Honors event on Wednesday, May 20 to honor students and faculty for their successes and contributions during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Two student teams in Prof. Jaydeep Kulkarni’s 382M.8 VLSI-II course won the inaugural Intel Outstanding ASIC Design Contest for their excellent performance in the final class project.  A team of experts headed by Dr. Prashant Joshi from Intel Austin Design Center served as judges for this design contest.