Chandra Family Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UT Austin

09/29/2026

Top 10 looks good on us 🤘⚡💻 Texas ECE has once again been named a Top 10 undergraduate 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! 🧡

09/16/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out for ECE Bonanza! ⚡💻🤘

08/17/2026

Are AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to? Prof. Lizy John says weightless neural networks could slash AI’s energy bill.

Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multiply inputs by learned weights. Lizy K. John thinks that’s more work than the job requires.

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Lizy K. John says weightless neural networks could slash AI’s energy bill

08/12/2026

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.

07/30/2026

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."

07/30/2026

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."

07/20/2026

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

06/02/2026

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.”

05/08/2026

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

05/07/2026

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