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With Big Data playing a role in the lives of companies and individuals across the globe, and data being collected on everything from apps to electronic health records to parking meters, society debates how best to use this mass of information. “The stormy sea of Big Data can lead to data indigestion,” WNCG Associate Director Prof. Constantine Caramanis states. “We are interested in the application of data for engineering problems, from petroleum to health to recommendation engines.”

With Big Data playing a role in the lives of companies and individuals across the globe, and data being collected on everything from apps to electronic health records to parking meters, society debates how best to use this mass of information. “The stormy sea of Big Data can lead to data indigestion,” WNCG Associate Director Prof. Constantine Caramanis states. “We are interested in the application of data for engineering problems, from petroleum to health to recommendation engines.”

Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been named the 2015 recipient of the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). The Terman Award is bestowed annually upon "an outstanding young electrical/computer engineering educator in recognition of the educator's contributions to the profession."

UT ECE professor Joydeep Ghosh has received two research awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totalling more than $1 Million focusing on topics in complex data modeling in the healthcare field..