The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin ranks among the top ten programs of its kind in the nation.
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Check out the new @utexasece 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
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Texas ECE chair @dianamarculescu 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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Congratulations to Prof. David Z. Pan on being named the recipient of the UCLA Samueli Professional Achievement in Academia Award this month.
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Texas ECE assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar (@NeerajaJY) 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.
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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! 🧡
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Please join us in welcoming Kun Woo Cho and Guandao Yang to the @utexasece faculty as assistant professors! Learn more about them: ece.utexas.edu/news/texas-ec…
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Texas ECE alumnus Sanmi Koyejo has been named one of the TIME Magazine Top 100 People in AI. Sanmi received his Ph.D. under Prof. Joydeep Ghosh in 2013. He is the co-founder of Virtue AI. time.com/collection/time100-…
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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-…
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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.
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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.
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Congratulations to Texas ECE professor David Z. Pan on receiving a Jane Street Research Collaboration Award for his work on "Differentiable and GPU-Accelerated FPGA Placement and Routing."
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Congratulations to Texas ECE professor Surya Santoso for receiving the 2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society Award for Excellence in Power Distribution Engineering for "pioneering contributions to power quality analytics for distribution systems."
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Texas ECE associate professor Atlas Wang has been named the winner of the 2026 J.K. Aggarwal Prize from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The prized is named for Texas ECE professor emeritus J.K. Aggarwal.
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Four Texas ECE faculty, Sandeep Chinchali, 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).
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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.
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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.”
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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-…
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Deepu Talla, Ph.D. ECE '01 and Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing at Nvidia, has given back to the University with the Nvidia-Talla Endowment for Texas Robotics, helping to further AI research and build the future of Texas Robotics.
Read more: news.utexas.edu/2026/04/09/b…
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Three @utexasece 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-te…
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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 .
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Prof. Lillian Chin of @utexasece has a good grip on robot grasping.
Robots with a soft touch 🤖
Researchers at the @CockrellSchool have developed a robot with a sensitive grasp so that it can pick up fragile objects without crushing them.
This breakthrough could improve robot performance in manufacturing and health care: utex.as/4sYYFuy
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