PhD student Chandler Bauder won first prize in the highly competitive the student competition at the National Radio Science Meeting 2022 (NSRM 2022), held January 4–8 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dongarra Professor Michela Taufer and EECS Computer Science graduate student Nigel Tan have co-authored a paper on improvements to computer memory that enable more complex computer simulations of plasma, and for their efforts they have been awarded a Best Track Paper Award at the 2021 International Conference on Computational Science.

For his research in incorporating phase transition materials into electronics applications, Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Ahmedullah Aziz has received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation from the Association of Computing Machinery.

Bai’s research employs a new approach to electric vehicle applications, using what are called hybrid switching modules. His team’s designs utilize both the more expensive gallium nitride devices and the less expensive silicon devices in tandem, resulting in greater operating efficiency without hiking up the cost.

Mench, a Chancellor’s Professor, the Condra Chair of Excellence, and a professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, has served as interim dean since February. Mench joined UT in 2010 after serving as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

Professor Hairong Qi is using her experience and research on the evolution of computer vision to guide the UT EcoCAR team through the integration of Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAVs) technology, integrating cameras and radar onto their vehicle.