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The human face does more than help us tell each other apart. Studies have suggested that our perceptions of attractiveness and personality traits — even intangible qualities such as trustworthiness and sincerity — could be based on instinctive responses to certain facial features.
But breakthroughs in facial recognition technology have been used in recent years to screen for criminals, to catch cheaters at casinos and even to recommend products at vending machines.
UT ECE professor Yale Patt has been elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Established in February 1995, the Academy of Distinguished Teachers was one of the first associations of its kind in the nation. Each year, new members of the Academy are selected through a rigorous evaluation process.
Cardan Samples has two favorite prime-time T.V. shows: "The Office" and the science fiction series "Fringe."
But between classes and homework at McCombs School of Business, the Management Information Systems junior doesn't have time to watch them when they air.
Instead, once or twice a week he uses the 15-20 minute bus ride from The University of Texas at Austin campus to his apartment on Riverside Drive to catch up on episodes by streaming them on his 4x2-inch cell phone.
At the 2011 ECE Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Dept. Chair Ahmed Tewfik was asked to be on panel discussing the "Challenges and Opportunities for ECE in the Coming Decades." The panel included department chairs from five schools, including MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech and UT Austin. This is a clear testament to the impact and reputation of the UT ECE Department.
Professor David Z. Pan and Kun Yuan Receive Best Paper Award at 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design UT ECE Professor David Z. Pan and former graduate student Kun Yuan received the Best Paper Award from the 2011 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), for their paper "E-Beam Lithography Stencil Planning and Optimization with Overlapped Characters".
Professor Robert Heath and Former UT ECE Student Dr. Rahul Vaze Receive EURASIP 2011 Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Best Paper Award
Professor Andrea Alù Awarded URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal
UT ECE Student Seunghyun Chun Wins Best Presentation Award at APEC 2011
U.S. News and World Report has just published their annual rankings of the Best Engineering Graduate Programs in the country for 2012, and the UT ECE Department is ranked #9 in Electrical Engineering and #10 in Computer Engineering. This continues a long streak of UT ECE being ranked among the Top 10 programs in the country. U.S. News surveyed 198 programs to get the information used in the ranking of top engineering schools. The UT Cockrell School of Engineering was ranked #8 for its overall excellence in Graduate Engineering programs.
