$1.5M award from National Science Foundation to support cross-disciplinary machine learning and data science research

Texas ECE graduate student Chang Liu has won the Best Student Paper award at the 28th IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS) held at Montreal Canada, Oct. 6-9. Chang’s paper was titled “A reduced-domain layered-medium integral-equation method for electronic packages”.  The paper, which was co-authored by Prof.

John B. Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry — jointly with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University — “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”

Cockrell School of Engineering Dean Sharon L. Wood has named Christine Julien, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Anna and Jack Bowen Professor of Engineering, as the Cockrell School’s assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion — a new position established this year.

It is awarded in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution which has resulted in an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense.

Prof. Bob Metcalfe of Texas ECE has been elevated to IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Eminent Member, the highest membership category of the honor society. Eta Kappa Nu established the Eminent Member recognition in 1950 as the society’s highest membership classification.

Profs. Michael Orshansky, Ali Yilmaz and Andreas Gerstlauer have received a $1.2M NSF research grant to develop computational tools to generate accurate security-focused EM profiles of an application running on an embedded system. 

Prof. Huang was recognized “for the development of Si and SiC high-power devices and the promotion of their industry applications.”

The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has named renowned Carnegie Mellon University researcher and professor Diana Marculescu as the next chair of UT’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She will assume her position on Dec. 1, 2019, succeeding the department’s current chair, Ahmed Tewfik.

Texas ECE will welcome nine new faculty members in the 2019-2020 academic year. The department welcomes five new faculty members beginning in Fall 2019, and we will welcome a new department chair and three additional new faculty members in Spring 2020.