Prof. Michael Orshansky and Prof. Sriram Vishwanath of UT ECE have received a research grant as part of the Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS) program.

UT ECE alumna Temiloluwa Olubanjo received the Best Student Paper award at the 36th annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society for her work on "Tracheal Activity Recognition Based on Acoustic Signals." Temi received her BSEE from UT ECE in December 2010 and is currently a graduate student at Georgia Tech University.

Prof. Ananth Dodabalapur along with researchers at Northwestern University have demonstrated a new method to improve the reliability and performance of transistors and circuits based on carbon nanotubes.

UT ECE Professor Andreas Gerstlauer has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on "Network-Level Design of Cyber-Physical Systems."

Romain and his supervisor Prof. Andrea Alù were recognized for the paper "Parity-Time Acoustic Metamaterials and Unidirectional Invisible Sensors."

UT ECE alumna Dr. Kristen Parrish is working on autonomous vehicles as part of the Texas Instruments Kilby Labs team.

UT ECE Graduate Student Xingyu Zhang recently won a Best Student Paper Award at the Organic Photonics + Electronics Symposium, held at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference.

UT ECE professor Emanuel Tutuc and graduate student Kayoung Lee have developed a novel device structure that can measure the level of electrons in graphene bilayers.

UT ECE professor Dean P. Neikirk has been appointed associate dean of graduate studies at the Graduate School at The University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Neal Hall has been named a recipient of the 2014 Regents Outstanding Teaching Award by The University of Texas System Baord of Regents.