Texas ECE chair Diana Marculescu received a 2026 Google TPU Builders Research Award for work on "ATHENA: Adaptive Configuration Tuning for Hardware-Efficient Generative AI on TPUs."
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The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top ten programs of its kind in the nation.
Congratulations to Prof. David Z. Pan on being named the recipient of the UCLA Samueli Professional Achievement in Academia Award this month.
Texas ECE assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar has been selected to receive a 2026 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of her work in Cloud ML Systems.
Top 10 looks good on us. Texas ECE has once again been named a Top 10 electrical and computer engineering program by U.S. News & World Report. Here’s to the students, faculty, staff and alumni who keep powering what’s next! 🧡
Please join us in welcoming Kun Woo Cho and Guandao Yang to the @utexasece.bsky.social faculty as assistant professors! Learn more about them: ece.utexas.edu/news/texas-e...
Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to? Prof. Lizy John says weightless neural networks could slash AI’s energy bill. Read more on @IEEESpectrum: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-we...
Can Weightless Neural Nets Make Chatbots Lean and Fast?
Lizy K. John says weightless neural networks could slash AI’s energy bill
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Associate professor Jaydeep Kulkarni has been appointed as an ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Speaker for a three-year term.
Congratulations to professor Gustavo de Veciana on receiving the 2025-26 Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching. Since 1956, Lockheed Martin has honored a faculty member in the Cockrell School of Engineering for their exceptional teaching.
The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to welcome Robert Canik, Shanaz Hemmati, Carl Meade, Michael Nassirian, Peng T. Ong, and John Sheputis as the newest members of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
Texas ECE assistant professor Emanuele Galiffi has received the Nanophotonics Early Career Award for “development of fundamental theoretical frameworks focusing on time-varying media, metamaterials, and low-symmetry nanophotonic platforms.”
Texas ECE associate professor Hao Zhu has received an Amazon Research Award from the UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub for her work enhancing the power capacity of AWS datacenters by modeling their interconnection with regional power grids. ece.utexas.edu/news/hao-zhu...
Hao Zhu Receives Amazon Research Award for Work on Datacenters
Texas ECE associate professor Hao Zhu has received an Amazon Research Award from the UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub for her work on “Building Capacity for Powering the AWS Datacenters and AI Workloads.”
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Three @utexasece.bsky.social faculty, Poulami Das, Linran Fan, and Shyam Shankar, have been selected to receive a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ece.utexas.edu/news/three-t...
Online now: Probability distribution for coherent transport of random waves #newton #physics
Probability distribution for coherent transport of random waves
Random-matrix theory predicts universal wave transport properties by averaging over random-media ensembles but cannot address wavefront-shaping experiments on a single fixed sample. Wang and Guo prove that the transmissivity distribution for random coherent waves through any fixed medium is universally a fundamental B-spline determined by the transmission eigenvalues. In the many-channel limit, this distribution converges to a Gaussian. The framework extends to other observables such as reflection and absorption, providing rigorous guidance for wavefront-shaping experiments.
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Prof. Lizy John of Texas ECE has been selected as a recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program Award. As part of the program, she will complete a project at Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia .
U.S. News & World Report has ranked our graduate electrical engineering program No. 12 in the nation and our graduate computer engineering program No. 8 in the nation! 🤘
Congratulations to @utexasece.bsky.social assistant professor Emanuele Galiffi who has been named the recipient of the 2026 Santimay Basu Prize from Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI). www.ece.utexas.edu/news/emanuel...
Emanuele Galiffi Wins Santimay Basu Prize
Emanuele Galiffi has been named the recipient of the 2026 Santimay Basu Prize from Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI).
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Congratulations to Texas ECE professor Radu Marculescu on his election as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for seminal contributions to design automation and embedded computing. news.utexas.edu/2026/03/26/u...
UT Faculty Members Elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professors Radu Marculescu and Dev Niyogi have been recognized as 2025 AAAS Fellows for their contributions to science and engineering.
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Check 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
Congratulations to Prof. David Z. Pan on being named a 2026 NVIDIA Research Faculty Fellow in recognition of exceptional contributions to research collaboration on Electronic Design Automation algorithms.
Congratulations to Jaydeep Kulkarni who has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for 2026 for "for contributions to low-power SRAM and compute-in-memory circuit technologies." bit.ly/4auMf7h
Jaydeep Kulkarni Elevated to IEEE Fellow
Jaydeep Kulkarni, associate professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I...
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Jeff Andrews has been selected as the winner of the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Technical Achievement Award for "contributions to the analysis and design of wireless cellular communication systems.” www.ece.utexas.edu/news/jeff-an...
Jeff Andrews Wins IEEE Communications Society Technical Achievement Award
Jeff Andrews, professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 IEEE Communications So...
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Texas ECE assistant professor David Burghoff has been awarded a 2025 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). bit.ly/3WRTwq0
Burghoff Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
David Burghoff, an assistant professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2025 Defense Advanced Research P...
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In celebration of #VeteransDay we would like to honor and say thank you to these @utexasece.bsky.social faculty and staff who served the United States in the Armed Forces. Join us in honoring Dan Book, Mark Innmon, Mark McDermott, Yale Patt, and Mychael Solis-Wheeler.
Yale Patt has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Okawa Prize by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Patt was honored for “pioneering and outstanding research in high-performance microprocessor architectures.” bit.ly/3LSa7HG @cockrellschool.bsky.social
Yale Patt Wins Prestigious Okawa Prize
Yale Patt has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Okawa Prize by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Patt was honored for “pioneering and outstanding research in high-performanc...
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Researchers at @utexasece.bsky.social have demonstrated a breakthrough in transistor design that reduces leakage current in very small geometry transistors by more than a factor of 10, essential for technologies like AI accelerators and neuromorphic circuits bit.ly/4otOCeZ
New Transistor Design Expands 3D Memories
Researchers in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a breakthrough in transistor design that reduces leakage curr...
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Congratulations to Jim Derryberry (not pictured), Deepu Talla, David Jarmon, Teresa Hastings, Steve Kush, and Howard Neal on their induction into the @utexasece.bsky.social Academy of Distinguished Alumni Friday night. @cockrellschool.bsky.social
Four @utexasece.bsky.social students, Avinash Kumar, Mohammad Omama, Litu Rout, and Haoran Xu, have been named Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows. sciencehub.utexas.edu/amazon-award...
Amazon Awards 15 UT Graduate Students AI Ph.D. Fellowships - UT-Amazon Science Hub
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Texas ECE Ph.D. student Peihao Wang was named a Rising Star in Data Science by Stanford Data Science. Peihao is a final-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Atlas Wang. bit.ly/48zvbMH
Peihao Wang Named Stanford Rising Star in Data Science
Texas ECE Ph.D. student Peihao Wang was named a Rising Star in Data Science by Stanford Data Science.
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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
