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Dr. Robert Heath Receives Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award

April 17, 2019
The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Robert Heath the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the academic year 2018 – 2019. The Cockrell School of Engineering established this award in 1977 to recognize a faculty member who has made significant contributions in furthering the profession of engineering. 
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Prof. Alex Dimakis Delivered Plenary Talk at Conference on Information Sciences and Systems

March 26, 2018
Prof. Alex Dimakis of Texas ECE was one of three distinguished speakers o give a plenary talk at the 52nd annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) at Princeton University on March 23, 2018. Prof. Dimakis delivered a talk entitled "Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Compressed Sensing." Prof. Pramod Viswanath of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Prof. Bin Yu of the University of California, Berkeley also gave plenary talks.
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Prof. Alan Bovik Receives 2014-2015 Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award

May 20, 2015
The Cockrell School of Engineering awarded Dr. Alan Bovik, the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award for the academic year 2014 – 2015 for his outstanding achievements in the field of image and video quality engineering. The Cockrell School of Engineering established this award in 1977 to recognize a faculty member who has made significant contributions in furthering the profession of engineering.