Prof. Andrea Alù Selected for DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award
Prof. Alù was selected for "Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-optoelectronics" from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
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Prof. Ray Chen Selected for DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award
Prof. Ray Chen has been awarded a Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award in Attojoule Nanooptoelectronics.
Texas ECE Alumnus Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos Receives 2015 Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award
Texas ECE alumnus Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos has received a 2015 Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for a paper co-authored with Texas ECE Associate Professor Alex Dimakis entitled "Interference Alignment as a Rank Constrained Rank Minimization." The award was presented at the Society’s awards ceremony at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai, China.
Sungmin Cho and Prof. Christine Julien Receive PerCom Best Paper Award
Texas ECE PhD student Sungmin Cho and his advisor Christine Julien received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2016, held on March 14-18, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Percom is the premier conference in pervasive computing and communications. The pair was recognized for the paper "CHITCHAT: Navigating Tradeoffs in Device-to-Device Context Sharing." The Mark Weiser Best Paper award is given to a single paper in the selective PerCom conference based on a combination of the paper and its presentation at the conference.
Texas ECE Grad Student Yuhao Zhu Receives Google PhD Fellowship
Texas ECE PhD candidate Yuhao Zhu has been named a recipient of a 2016 Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing. In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship program "to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its seventh year, our fellowship programs have collectively supported over 200 graduate students in Australia, China and East Asia, India, North America, Europe and the Middle East who seek to shape and influence the future of technology."
Texas ECE Postdoc Yakir Hadad Receives Felsen Award in Electrodynamics
Texas ECE postdoctoral researcher Yakir Hadad has been named the recipient of the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics from The European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). The award was originally established jointly by the University of Siena and the University of Sannio, funded through a donation from Michael and Judy Felsen in fulfillment of the last wishes of their father, Professor Leo Felsen (1924-2005). The main purpose of the EurAAP Felsen Award is "to keep alive Prof.
UT Austin Engineers Design Next-Generation Non-Reciprocal Antenna
Prof. Andrea Alù along with postdoctoral fellows Yakir Hadad and Jason Soric, discuss their non-reciprocal antenna’s design and capabilities in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Texas ECE Student Yibo Lin Receives Best Paper Award at SPIE Advanced Lithography
Texas ECE PhD student Yibo Lin received the Franco Cerrina Memorial Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Advanced Lithography 2016, held on February 21-25, 2016 in San Jose, California. SPIE Advanced Lithography has been a premier conference for the lithography community for 40 years. Lin was recognized for the paper "Triple/quadruple patterning layout decomposition via novel linear programming and iterative rounding," co-authored by Xiaoqing Xu, Texas ECE alumnus Bei Yu of The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, and Texas ECE professors Ross Baldick and David Z. Pan.
Prof. Andrea Thomaz Presents Robotic Healthcare Assistance Technologies at stARTup Studio
Prof. Andrea Thomaz appeared at stARTup Studio to present Diligent Droids, a company that seeks to provide aid to healthcare providers through robotic technologies.
Prof. Robert Heath Elected to IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
Prof. Robert Heath has been elected to server on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors. The IEEE's first society, the Signal Processing Society is the world’s premier professional society for signal processing scientist and professionals since 1948.
