News

Materials young investigator award winner.

Prof. Andrea Alù Awarded Inaugural Materials Young Investigator Award

Feb. 3, 2017
Andrea Alù, Texas ECE Professor, is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. The award recipient must show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area. Alù was the outstanding candidate, voted for by the evaluation committee of the Materials Investigator Award, out of 36 candidates who were each proposed by at least two other colleagues from the field of material science.
An abstract image of a colorful light pattern.

Video Aware Wireless Networks (VAWN) Research Program

Feb. 24, 2014
The next generation of wireless networks will become the dominant means for video content delivery, leveraging rapidly expanding cellular and local area network infrastructure. We believe that video networks at every time-scale and layer should operate and adapt with respect to perceptual distortions in the video stream.