Chandra Family Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UT Austin

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.

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."

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."

The Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to welcome the newest inductees into the Texas ECE Academy of Distinguished Alumni.

Join us in congratulating Robert Canik, Shanaz Hemmati, Carl Meade, Michael Nassirian, Peng T. Ong, and John Sheputis as members of the Class of 2026!

The inductees will be honored at a ceremony on October 16, 2026 in Austin.

More information: https://cvent.utexas.edu/event/8e5bd6fb-e04e-4b67-bfc3-ee786748801d/summary

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.”

You did it! We are so proud of our newest Texas ECE graduates! Go change the world!🤘⚡💻

Three Texas ECE 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). https://ece.utexas.edu/news/three-texas-ece-faculty-receive-nsf-career-awards-2026