Diana Marculescu
@dianamarculescu.bsky.social
Computer engineer and Professor/Department Chair at UT Austin #Energy #Computing #DiversityInTech. Math, art, literature lover. Opinions are my own. She/her.
Prof. Incorvia and her team developed a graphene “tattoo” that can be stuck onto a leaf to provide real-time moisture readings. They believe it could one day be the building block for a new kind of plant monitoring by turning the patches into a neural network that computes on the plants themselves!
Graphene Leaf Tattoos Turn Plants Into Living Moisture Meters
A collection of thin, flexible sensors could monitor plant hydration in drought-prone areas
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What a year 2025 has been! You won't want to miss the @utexasece.bsky.social latest magazine featuring our trailblazing students, faculty, staff, and alumni - hope you enjoy their stories!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · 10mo agoCheck out the new Texas ECE Magazine! Learn about our researchers making advances in healthcare, a profile of alumnus Kinesh Patel, a unique collaboration between ECE and the UT Dance department, an AI Tutor implemented in our courses, and more! bit.ly/3NmsDJi
Thanks to groundbreaking AI research at The University of Texas at Austin, 3D medical imaging is becoming faster, smarter, and cheaper, making it accessible to hospitals and clinics everywhere and ushering in a new era of affordable, high-performance diagnostics.
New AI Breakthroughs Bring 3D Imaging to the Patient's Bedside
A research team led by Professor Radu Marculescu and PhD student Md Mostafijur Rahman in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have made great strides in the medical ima...
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Texas ECE Ph.D. students toured the @AMD campus and showed off their research with the iMAGiNE Consortium. Big thanks to our friends at AMD for hosting us! Learn more about the iMAGiNE Consortium: bit.ly/48qSc4e
Prof. Nina Telang along with alum BP Rimal and student Sneha Ballabh designed and implemented an AI-driven virtual tutor that creates personalized learning experiences for first-year engineering students in EE 306. bit.ly/3KAejLK
AI Tutor Helps First-Year Engineering Students
Professor Nina Telang and students BP Rimal and Sneha Ballabh designed and implemented an AI-driven virtual tutor that creates personalized learning experiences for first-year engineering students in ...
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Texas ECE has multiple faculty openings with a start date of Fall 2026 for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level. Join a Top 10 program and help us change the world. More info: bit.ly/ece-hire
Many thanks to AMD for supporting our research and hosting the iMAGiNE consortium poster session!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · last yr.Texas ECE Ph.D. students toured the @AMD campus and showed off their research with the iMAGiNE Consortium. Big thanks to our friends at AMD for hosting us! Learn more about the iMAGiNE Consortium: bit.ly/48qSc4e
Join us in the @utexasece.bsky.social department next Fall!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · last yr.Texas ECE has multiple faculty openings with a start date of Fall 2026 for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level. Join a Top 10 program and help us change the world. More info: bit.ly/ece-hire
Looking good, @utexasece.bsky.social ! Consistently ranked in #Top10 in the nation by @usnews.com !
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · last yr.Can we get a hook 'em? 🤘 The U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate electrical engineering program No. 9 in the nation, and our undergraduate computer engineering program No. 8 in the nation!
Check out our newest work led by @icountfromzero.bsky.social!
Natasha Frumkin@icountfromzero.bsky.social · last yr.Our work, Q-Sched, is compatible with state-of-the-art few-step diffusion models, achieving high fidelity images while only modifying the diffusion model scheduler. Special thanks to my research advisor, @dianamarculescu.bsky.social
Congratulations, Hyeji and Shwetadwip! We can’t wait to see what you’ll accomplish!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · last yr.Texas ECE assistant professors Shwetadwip Chowdhury and Hyeji Kim have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awardd from the National Science Foundation (NSF). www.ece.utexas.edu/news/chowdhu...
We are proud of you, Chuck! Congratulations from @utexasece.bsky.social!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · last yr.From the Air Force to industry to @utexasece.bsky.social, 78-Year old Chuck Corley earned his Ph.D last December. Tomorrow, he will walk across the stage as the oldest person to ever earn a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. Read about his journey: bit.ly/corley-ece
Check out our latest work on post-training quantization for Mamba2 models! #LLM #SSM #Quantization
Hung-Yueh Chiang@hychiang.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re excited to pre-release our latest work: Quamba2 🔧 Supports W4A8 / W4A16 / W4AX / W8A8 for Mamba1 and Mamba2 🚀 Achieves 4× memory reduction and 3× generation speedup ⚡️ Enables 8B model inference on Orin Nano 8G at 13 tokens/sec 🔥 Outperforms W4A8KV4 Llama3-8B in both speed and quality
How does this make sense when the academics that made OpenAI possible make a (very small) fraction of $20K/month? VCs and investors need a wake up call…
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2y agoSource: OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $2,000/month agent, a $10,000/month agent for coding, and a $20,000/month PhD-level agent (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
What a great group to be part of at @utexasece.bsky.social ! #WomensHistoryMonth
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 1947, Edith Clarke became the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country when she joined @utaustin.bsky.social. In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we would like to honor our extraordinary women faculty in @utexasece.bsky.social
Standing with Hinton, standing with science. Please @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7, links enclosed. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
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A good time to revisit Hannah Arendt's classic on the slippery normalization of evil and our only effective antidote to it
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human h…
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New in 2025 - Computing Research News now features a monthly #ICYMI recap of articles and announcements to help keep you up to date on everything happening at CRA! Check it out: cra.org/crn/2025/02/... #CRA #ComputingResearchNews #ComputingResearch
See the work of INC Lab students and alumni Can Cui, Thomas Leonard, Nicholas Zogbi, and Sam Liu highlighted in UT Cockrell School of Engineering’s article, “Magnets Emulate Neurons for Next-Generation Computing!” cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive...
Magnets Emulate Neurons for Next-Generation Computing
In the quest to develop new computing tech — electronics that can think like the human brain — researchers from The University of Texas have made breakthroughs.
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Congratulations to Sam Liu for receiving the Ben Streetman Senior Award “For Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student in Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices."
Great work from @utexasece.bsky.social’s Jean Anne Incorvia!
Texas Engineering@cockrellschool.bsky.social · 2y agoMagnets that think? Texas Engineers are pushing the boundaries of computing by developing artificial neurons made of magnetic materials 🧲 Swipe through and tap to learn how these neurons can also keep working for a long time without losing efficiency, a major challenge.
Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.
Congratulations, Linran! We are lucky to have you in @utexasece.bsky.social!
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to assistant professor Linran Fan who received a Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Each year, the Sloan Foundation selects fellows based on their creativity, independent research and potential to become future leaders in their respective fields.
Productivity is overrated. What counts most is the quality of output, not the quantity. People may be impressed by the volume you produce, but impact depends on the value you create. Success is not about getting more things done. It's about doing more worthwhile things well.
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion."
Kierkegaard on Nonconformity, the Individual vs. the Crowd, and the Power of the Minority
“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs w…
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Heartfelt congratulations to Mark Papermaster and Mike Krames for their election to the National Academy of Engineering! They join our @utexasece.bsky.social colleagues Alan Bovik, Yale Patt, emeriti faculty colleagues Bob Metcalfe, Ben Streetman, Irwin W. Sandberg, and ECE alumnus James Truchard
Texas ECE@utexasece.bsky.social · 2y agoCongratulations to Texas ECE alumni Mark Papermaster and Michael Krames on their election to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest honors in the engineering field! 🤘https://www.ece.utexas.edu/news/two-texas-ece-alumni-join-national-academy-engineering
Hi -- I have a postdoc position open in Computational MRI -- looking for experience and interest in MRI acquisition (in addition to reconstruction). Offer competitive pay. Opportunity to collaborate with Center for GenAI and Dell Med School. Bonus if you get your app in before Dec 1!
