Radu Marculescu Receives Amazon Research Award
Radu Marculescu, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a recipient of an Amazon Research Award.
Postdoc Jianing Zhu Receives 2025 TrustAI Rising Star Award
Texas ECE postdoctoral scholar Jianing Zhu has received the 2025 TrustAI Rising Star Award, presented at the Lock-LLM Workshop of NeurIPS 2025.
Ehsan Vatankhah Receives First Place Talk At ASA Conference
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Ehsan Vatankhah received first place in the Structural Acoustics and Vibration Young Presenter Competition for the talk "Magnetostrictive-based Jerk Sensor: experimental characterization and analytical estimation of sensitivity," at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) New Orleans meeting this past Spring.
Vivek Tallavajhula Receives IEEE Electron Devices Society Fellowship
Texas ECE MS student Vivek Tallavajhula has received the 2025 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Graduate Masters Fellowship.
Souradip Poddar Wins Inaugural LAD Fellowship
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Souradip Poddar has won the inaugural IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (LAD) Fellowship.
Jaydeep Kulkarni Elevated to IEEE Fellow
Jaydeep Kulkarni, associate professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2026 for "for contributions to low-power SRAM and compute-in-memory circuit technologies."
Jeff Andrews Wins IEEE Communications Society Technical Achievement Award
Jeff Andrews, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award for "contributions to the analysis and design of wireless cellular communication systems.”
Coming Soon: A Blood Pressure Monitoring Smartwatch
A new smartwatch, being developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and North Carolina State University, will enable continuous monitoring of blood pressure, a key indicator of heart health.
Wired for Rhythm
A year-long collaboration yields a unique performance that combines dance with next-generation sensing capabilities.'
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent too long doomscrolling on X or TikTok.
