This fall, new EECS Associate Professors Hongkai Yu and Ben Riggan will begin applying their electrical engineering expertise to major agricultural challenges.

Michela Taufer is the principal investigator on a $9 million project awarded by the National Science Foundation to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

Professor Jian Huang’s startup, VisualizAI, helps healthcare organizations build institutional intelligence around insurance billing, recovering revenue to better serve patients.

Phillip Graham leveraged the senior design project and his team’s expertise to achieve his dream of making the complex Japanese writing system easier to master.

Using software tools she helped create, Professor Michela Taufer enabled an AI tool to autonomously conduct a beamline experiment in New York in real time.

Seven students from the Tickle College of Engineering have been selected for the 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Hector Santos-Villalobos will receive a StART award for his work on an AI-driven framework designed to enable autonomous experimentation and advanced microscopy workflows.

The UT Alumni Association recognized Assistant Professor Ahmed Aziz with a 2026 Outstanding Teacher Award, reflecting excellence in instruction and mentorship.

See the faculty, staff, students, and alumni honored at the annual Gonzalez Awards ceremony, the department’s way of highlighting excellence.

Min H. Kao and Mark Dean have been selected as the inaugural inductees of the department’s Alumni Hall of Fame.