Caramanis was honored "for contributions to robust statistics and optimization in high dimensions."

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. Texas ECE now has 33 faculty who have been elevated to IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Deji Akinwande of Texas ECE has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2021 for "contributions to wafer-scale graphene synthesis and application to flexible devices."