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.

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 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 appeared at stARTup Studio to present Diligent Droids, a company that seeks to provide aid to healthcare providers through robotic technologies.

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.

Deji was nominated for the honor by the Department of Defense for his ground breaking research on nanomaterials, sensors, devices, and flexible technology.

Prof. Milos Gligoric has been named the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. He was selected for his proposal  "Multi-Language Regression Test Selection."

The award “honors the contributions of one individual, within the first 5-10 years of an independent research career, who has made major impacts on the field of photonics.”

A research team led by Mechanical Engineering assistant professor Yuebing Zheng and including Texas ECE associate professor Deji Akinwande has invented a way to handle these small particles and lock them into position without damaging them.

Prof. John Pearce has been selected as a recipient of an Editor's Choice award for 2015 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.