Faculty

Computational Sciences Pioneer Mary Wheeler Retires

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:59:42 -0500

Mary Wheeler broke glass ceilings and scientific barriers in her more than five-decade career in applied mathematics, computational science and petroleum engineering.

Texas Engineers Part of Huge NSF Semiconductor Program

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:35:45 -0500

Texas Engineers will develop next-generation semiconductor technologies as part of a collaboration of the National Science Foundation and leading industry companies.

Srinivas Bettadpur Wins Whitten Medal for Earth Dynamics Research

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:15:18 -0500

Srinivas Bettadpur, a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, is the recipient of the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Charles A. Whitten Medal.

Peer Mentorship: It Takes a Village

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:33:51 -0500

Kasey Faust was part of the second class of the Provost's Mentored Scholars program, which provides a year of scholarship-focused, one-on-one mentoring, specifically for tenured and tenure-track faculty, from any rank and discipline at The University of Texas at Austin.

Nina Telang Helps Students Find Their Engineering Community

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:29:05 -0500

Nina Telang has impacted thousands of electrical and computer engineering undergraduate students over the last two decades, at the most important time of their academic careers.

Alper Elected to IAMBE

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:23:22 -0500

Hal Alper has been elected to the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, a select group of innovators recognized for their outstanding contributions to the medical and biological engineering professions.

CityLearn Challenge Gets a Boost from Climate Change AI Program

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:39:22 -0500

A global artificial intelligence challenge led by Texas Engineers Zoltan Nagy and Javad Mohammadi has been recognized by the Climate Change AI Innovation (CCAI) Grants program.

Texas Engineers Help Lead New Video AI Startup

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:25:40 -0500

ラーメンベット禁止ゲーム of Engineering faculty and alumni are playing key roles in a new artificial intelligence video startup that creates narrative videos from existing footage libraries.

3 Cockrell Faculty Members Elected as AAAS Fellows

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:17:07 -0500

A trio of Texas Engineers have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.

Karen Willcox Wins 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:38:04 -0500

Karen Willcox, professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics and the director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, won the 2024 Theodore von Kármán Prize from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Clint Dawson Honored With President’s Research Impact Award

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:52:04 -0500

The creator of a code to predict hurricane storm surges and an expert on the federal courts and constitutional law have been named the 2024 recipients of The University of Texas at Austin President’s Research Impact Award.

'Smart Swarms' of Tiny Robots Inspired by Natural Herd Mentality

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:51:36 -0500

In new research, Texas Engineers gave tiny robots the same organizing abilities as schools of fish to form "smart swarms."

Universal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:49:04 -0500

Imagine playing a racing game like Mario Kart, using only your brain to execute the complex series of turns in a lap.

This is not a video game fantasy, but a real program that engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have created as part of research into brain-computer interfaces to help improve the lives of people with motor disabilities.

The Ekerdt Effect

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:08:03 -0500

In 15 years as an associate dean, John Ekerdt helped build a collaborative research culture and served as a catalyst for the transforming skyline of the engineering campus.

Revolutionizing Civil Engineering

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:53:45 -0500

It's been 40 years since I walked into my first civil engineering class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The curriculum I studied back then is largely the same as what our students at The University of Texas at Austin experience today.

Texas Engineers Inducted into AIMBE

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:03:08 -0500

A pair of Texas Engineering faculty members have been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Scientists to Study Real-World Eating Behaviors Using Wearable Sensors and AI

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:28:46 -0500

A new National Institutes of Health-funded project by three scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and University of Rhode Island aims to shed light on real-world eating behaviors, using AI-enabled wearable technology.

Machine 'Unlearning' Helps Generative AI 'Forget' Copyright-protected and Violent Content

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:19:34 -0500

When people learn things they should not know, getting them to forget that information can be tough. This is also true of rapidly growing artificial intelligence programs that are trained to think as we do, and it has become a problem as they run into challenges based on the use of copyright-protected material and privacy issues.

To respond to this challenge, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin developed what they say is the first "machine unlearning" method applied to image-based generative AI.

Fire-Resistant Sodium Battery Balances Safety, Cost and Performance

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:10:21 -0600

A sodium battery developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin significantly reduces fire risks from the technology, while also relying on inexpensive, abundant materials to serve as its building blocks.

New Disease Testing Component Facilitates Lower-Cost Diagnostics

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:18:33 -0600

Biomedical researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new, less expensive way to detect nuclease digestion – one of the critical steps in many nucleic acid sensing applications, such as those used to identify COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.