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AUSTIN, Texas — Three researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected by the Department of Defense to lead Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) projects, receiving grants totaling $22.7 million to help advance innovative technologies in energy, computing and nanoelectronics.

Prof. Andrea Alù has been awarded a Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award on Attojoule Nanooptoelectronics, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Prof. Alù and his team, formed by researchers from Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and international collaborators from Belgium and the Netherlands, were selected to work on the project "Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-optoelectronics".

Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin wrote a piece for the IEEE Communications Society on whether or not densification will be the death of 5G. Prof. Andrews is the The Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering and a member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). Over the last decade he has been one of the leaders in the effort to apply statistical theory to network capacity calculation. Read more at comsoc.org