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New “GreenWeb” Tools Aim to Create an Energy-Efficient Web

To help mobile device users maximize their limited battery storage, electrical and computer engineering professor Vijay Janapa Reddi and graduate student Yuhao Zhu have developed what they are calling “GreenWeb."


Prof. Ray Chen delivers an invited technology transfer tutorial at 2016 OSA CLEO Transfer Program

Prof. Ray Chen was invited to give an invited technology transfer tutorial entitled “Silicon Nanomembranes for Sensing Applications” in the 2016 Optical Society (OSA) Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Technology (CLEO) Transfer Program, which was held in the San Jose Convention Center early June. The talk was a summary of Prof.


National Academy of Engineering honors Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi with Gilbreth Lectureship

Prof. Janapa Reddi received this honor  "in recognition for outstanding contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering and presentation of his lecture on energy efficiency and mobile computing." 
 


Texas ECE Ph.D. student Xinnian Zheng awarded DAC ‘Best Research Paper’ award

The paper titled, “Accurate Phase-Level Cross-Platform Power and Performance Estimation” received the honor at the leading conference in electronic design automation (EDA).


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

He along with 31 national finalists will be competing for three spots as the 2016 National Laureates.


Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi receives the 2016 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award

Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi was awarded the 2016 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award in recognition of outstanding research contributions in mobile computing and resilient architectures.


Professor Emeritus J.K. Aggarwal and co-authors receive the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Best Vision Paper Award

The award recognizes the paper titled, ‘Multi-Type Activity Recognition in Robot-Centric Scenario’, which he co-authored with Dr. Ilaria Gori, Dr. Larry Matthies, and Dr. Michael  Ryoo.


Prof. Milos Gligoric receives NSF’s Computer Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant

Prof. Milos Gligoric has received a grant under the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program.


Texas ECE PhD student Ahmed Kord receives 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

Texas ECE graduate student Ahmed Kord received the 2016 Qualcomm Innovation fellowship for his project titled, ‘Fully-Integrated Reconfigurable Magnet-less Non-reciprocal Components for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems’, in collaboration with Columbia University.


Incoming Texas ECE Grad Student, Narae Yoon, awarded Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Company-Named Fellowship

Narae Yoon, an incoming Texas ECE PhD student has been awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s (SRC) Company-Named Fellowship in partnership with Intel Corporation. Narae will be starting her first semester as a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin’s ECE department in Fall 2016 under the mentorship of Prof. Daniel Wasserman.