Professor Yale Patt, his PhD students Khubaib, Hashemi and former studentSuleman, and Intel engineer Chris Wilkerson have received the Best PaperAward at the 45th annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Microarchitecture(aka Micro-45), held in Vancouver, BC in December, 2012. Micro is consideredthe flagship conference in the field of microarchitecture and one of the toptwo conferences in computer architecture.

The EURECA program has received a $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its mission to provide research experiences for undergraduates in the area of Communications, Networks and Systems.

EURECA was created seven years ago by UT ECE professors Sriram Vishwanath and Bill Bard and hosts 10-15 undergraduates to work on research projects over the summer.

UT ECE junior Mark Anthony Coleman has been selected as one of 25 to participate in The Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Austin. This federally funded program’s goal is to increase the number of students in doctoral degree programs who are low-income and first-generation undergraduates or students who come from groups underrepresented in graduate education, particularly African American and Hispanic/Latino students.

The winners of Dr. Valvano's EE 445L Microprocessor Applications and Organization design competition were announced on Friday, December 7th. First place went to Joe Martinez and Bassem Iskander for their Midi Loop Station project.

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First Place
Midi Loop Station
Joe Martinez and Bassem Iskander

Second Place
Teaching Piano
Bryan Brumm and Mochi Li

Dr. Christine Julien and the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Group, along with collaborators, are working on redefining search based on locality though Personalized Networked Spaces. “In the future you might want to search very new information from the physical environment,” says Jonas Michel, a researcher working on the Gander project. “Your information needs are very localized to that place and event and moment.”

Prof. Sarfraz Khurshid and his co-authors Chandrasekhar Boyapati and Darko Marinov Receive the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award for 2012

The University of Texas at Austin Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (UT ECE), a top-ranked department, provides a unique opportunity and a supportive environment for academic/industry partnership through our Senior Design Projects. This capstone coursework provides academic excellence as well as key corporate benefits as teams focus on solving open-ended problems submitted by industrial collaborators.

UT ECE professor Jeff Andrews has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2013. Jeff was elevated to Fellow for his contributions to cellular and ad-hoc wireless communications.

IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation

UT ECE graduate students Bei Yu, Jhih-Rong Gao, and their advisor Prof. David Z. Pan won the 2nd Place Award at the ICCAD'12 CAD Contest in Fuzzy Pattern Matching for Physical Verification. There are over 60 teams around the world participated in the ICCAD'12 CAD Contest, which has three distinct contest problems. This fuzzy patterning matching problem and benchmarks are provided by Mentor Graphics, a leading EDA company, to advance the state-of-the-art of IC design for manufacturing (DFM).

UT ECE professor J.K. Aggarwal recently gave a distinguished lecture at the University of Notre Dame as part of their King-Sun Fu Prize Winner Lecture Series. The King-Sn Fu Prize is given every other year by the International Association for Pattern Recognition in recognition of outstanding technical contributions to the field of pattern recognition. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame recently hosted a series of lectures by winners of the King-Sun Fu Prize. Dr. Aggarwal was awarded the K.S.