Dr. Gustavo de Veciana is the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #18 and the Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

He is a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.  Dr. de Veciana has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication networks, probability and random processes, analysis and design of communication networks, digital communications, and information theory.

He is a recipient of a 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, was an Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and a co-recipient of the IEEE/CAS William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, 2000. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow status in 2009.