UT ECE professors Al Bovik and Joydeep Ghosh have received a grant entitled “Intelligent Autonomous Video Quality Agents,” from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into the theory and design of automatic “agents” that will be able to learn to identify and assess distortions on computer networks.

UT ECE professor Ted Rappaport has been named the recipient of the 2011 IET Sir Monty Finniston Award for Achievement in Engineering and Technology. The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

UT ECE professor David Pan and students have received the IBM Research 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award. This award is selected among all published papers in CS, EE, and Math, (co-)authored by IBM researchers in 2010. Close to 120 papers in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematical sciences published in refereed conference proceedings and journals in 2010 were submitted by IBM Research authors worldwide for the 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Awards in CS, EE and Math.

UT ECE professor Yale">http://www.ece.utexas.edu/directory/directory_details.cfm?id=132">Yale Patt has been named as the 2011 recipient of the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award from the IEEE Computer Society. The award is given for important work related to microarchitectural technology, including both hardware and compiler optimization. The award recognizes Prof.

Prof. Ted Rappaport Re-elected to Board of Governors of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

UT ECE professor Andrea Alù and colleagues at the UT Applied Research Labs have successfully created a cloaking device capable of hiding a 3D object in free space from microwaves. To create the device, the team used a plasmonic metamaterial shell to cover the object being cloaked. The cloak, based on a plasmonic metamaterial, can hide a cigar-sized cylinder from microwaves – it currently only operates for one microwave polarization.

UT ECE professors Constantine Caramanis and Michael Orshansky have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct interdisciplinary research into new techniques for robust automated design of analog integrated circuits.

Andrea Alù and Team Receive Army Research Office Grant

UT ECE professors Miryung Kim and Dewayne Perry have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for research titled Analytical Support for Investigating Software Modifications in Collaborative Development Environment. Prof. Kim will serve as principal investigator Prof. Perry will serve as co-principal investigator.

UT ECE Senior Academic Advisor Janice Williams has received the UT chapter of the Academic Counselor's Association (ACA) award in the category of Taking Initiative and Creating Positive Change in recognition of her creation and leadership in running The Move Forward Program.