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Dr. Francesco Monticone Awarded the Inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize

Dr. Francesco Monticone was awarded the inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Scattering Engineering at the Extreme with Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, and Nanostructures." 


Prof. Andrea Alù is a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

For the second consecutive year, Prof. Andrea Alù of Texas ECE is a finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists and will now compete for the largest unrestricted award of its kind for early career scientists and engineers.


Prof. Alex Dimakis Gives Plenary Talk at Canadian Workshop on Information Theory

Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE will be one of the three keynote speakers at the 15th Canadian Workshop on Information theory to be held in Quebec City, Canada, June 11-14th. 


Prof. Alan Bovik Has Two Papers Recognized as Google Scholar Classic Papers

Two of Prof. Al Bovik’s research publications have been recognized as 2017 Google Scholar Classic Papers. Google Scholar Classic Papers are highly-cited papers that have stood the test of time, and are among the ten most-cited articles in their area of research published ten years earlier.


PhD Student Jiaojiao Ou Receives 2017 BACUS Scholarship

Jiaojiao Ou has received the 2017 BACUS Scholarship, one of the premier Optics and Photonics Education Scholarships offered by SPIE. The award is presented to students who demonstrate prospect for long-term contribution to the field of optics, photonics or a related field. The mission of the SPIE society is to advance emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth.


Senior Design Winners and Student and Faculty Honors Presented at Spring Awards Banquet

Texas ECE held a banquet Monday. May 8, 2017 at the Connally Ballroom in the Alumni Center to recognize graduating students, exceptional students and faculty, and present awards. The keynote address was delivered by Texas ECE alumna Duy-Loan Le who will be inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame this weekend.

View this photo gallery of the event and award winners


Prof. Sanjay Shakkottai and Prof. Mohit Tiwari Receive 2017 Qualcomm Faculty Awards

Qualcomm encourages partnerships among engineers from hardware, software, and systems maintain close relationships with key universities to keep track of their latest discoveries and facilitate new collaborations. The Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) is one of the programs that the company uses to support key professors and their research at leading universities identified by the company.


Prof. Dan Wasserman Named Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Photonic Society

Dan Wasserman has been selected as one of the Distinguished Lecturers of the IEEE Photonic Society for the 2017-18 term. The IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Awards program is designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions of high quality to the field of lasers and electro-optics, and to enhance the technical programs of Photonics Society chapters. Each Lecturer will give six lectures at IEEE Photonics Society chapters over the course of their appointed term.


Prof. Jacob Abraham Receives 2017 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing

Since 2012, the award has been given annually by the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance, in honor of the late Jean-Claude Laprie. 


Ramesh Yerraballi Earns Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship

Ramesh Yerraballi has been selected to hold a Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship during Fall 2017. Established by the University of Texas System Board of Regents in 1983, faculty members considered to the fellowships should be actively engaged in the instruction of freshman undergraduates. This award recognizes Yerraballi’s excellence in teaching and his commitment to undergraduate education. Nina Telang was the last ECE recipient in 2014-2015.