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It's no secret that WNCG produces stellar industry and academic professionals. Here's where WNCG students and alumni are headed this summer for internships and employment: Internships: Andrew Thornburg - AT&T, Austin, TX Anum Ali - Intel, Santa Clara, CA Avradeep Bhowmik - Verizon, Palo Alto, CA Deepti Ghadiyaram - Google Research, Mountain View, CA Derya Malak - Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Ghadi Sebaali - NXP, Austin, TX Jaeseong Lee - Spirent, Frederick, MD

Prof. Al Bovik, holder of a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Wireless Networking and Communication Group (WNCG) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $600,000 grant over five years from the National Institute for Standards and Technologies (NIST) to develop methodologies for testing the perceptual quality of images delivered by microwave, submillimeter wave, millimeter-wave, x-ray, infra-red, and optical imaging devices commonly deployed in security applications.