Academics

WNCG is an organized research unit in the Cockrell School of Engineering  .

The majority of the faculty and graduate students are in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, though WNCG also includes faculty and graduate students from the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering. WNCG has links with other departments and research centers at UT Austin, including the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Transportation Research.

WNCG provides ample opportunity for students to engage in research collaborations with industry, as well as with other universities. Many of our students have gone to work for Industrial Affiliate companies, entered into successful academic careers at institutions around the globe or founded notable technology start ups.

Graduate Students

ECE Graduate Admissions

All graduate students looking to work within WNCG must first be accepted to a graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin.

View information regarding applications and enrollment in the graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Undergraduate Students

Though most research within WNCG is performed by graduate research assistants, there are some opportunities for undergraduate research. These vary by semester and faculty member.
 

Research

Al Bovik

Al Bovik Delivers Keynote Speech at 2024 Workshop on AI for Streaming

July 15, 2024
Dr. Al Bovik presented the keynote speech at the inaugural Workshop on AI for Streaming at the 2024 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Seattle, Washington.
AI4Good

Jose Millan and Team Present Research at AI for Good Global Summit

June 24, 2024
Millan and team presented a demo at the 2024 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
Atlas Wang

Atlas Wang to give Keynote Speech at ICTERI 2024

June 20, 2024
WNCG Professor Atlas Wang was selected as a keynote speaker for this year's ICTERI Conference in Lviv, Ukraine
Ghosh_Bovik

WNCG Faculty Help Lead New Video AI Startup

June 13, 2024
WNCG faculty are playing critical roles in a startup that will use artificial intelligence to create narrative short-form videos using libraries of existing, real-world footage.
6G@UT Forum

6G@UT Hosts Third-Annual Forum

May 14, 2024
Third installment of 6G@UT Forum hosted on UT Austin Campus
Aryan Mokhtari

Aryan Mokhtari Receives Google Research Scholar Award

May 6, 2024
Aryan Mokhtari received a 2024 Google Research Scholar Program Award
Edison Thomaz

Scientists to Study Real-World Eating Behaviors Using Wearable Sensors and AI

March 19, 2024
The four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, supports the researchers’ plan to develop a system to detect detailed information on eating motions, potentially every bite and chew.
Dimakis_Klivans

New Texas Center Will Create Generative AI Computing Cluster Among Largest of Its Kind

Jan. 25, 2024
UT is launching the Center for Generative AI, powered by a new GPU computing cluster, among the largest in academia. The cluster will comprise 600 NVIDIA H100s GPUs — short for graphics processing units, specialized devices to enable rapid mathematical computations, making them ideal for training AI models.
Todd Humphreys

WNCG Director Todd Humphreys Featured in New York Times

Dec. 4, 2023
Research from WNCG Director Todd Humphreys was featured in the New York Times in November.
An image of a man with glasses in front of a binary code.

Digesting Big Data

Aug. 24, 2015
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.”