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Four Texas ECE Students Win Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

April 3, 2023
Four students from the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were chosen as Fellows of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Isha Chakraborty, Greg Holste, Hannah Lee, and John Ting of were selected for the program which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
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Prof. Alex Dimakis Receives 2018 IEEE Information Theory Society James L. Massey Award

June 7, 2018
Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE has been named the 2018 recipient of the Information Theory Society James L. Massey award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community based on the impact of their research in the field of Information Theory as well as their teaching contributions. The award is named in honor of James L. Massey, who was "an internationally acclaimed pioneer in digital communications and a revered teacher and mentor to an entire generation of communications engineers."