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Prof. Andrea Alù Awarded Inaugural Materials Young Investigator Award

Feb. 3, 2017
Andrea Alù, Texas ECE Professor, is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. The award recipient must show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area. Alù was the outstanding candidate, voted for by the evaluation committee of the Materials Investigator Award, out of 36 candidates who were each proposed by at least two other colleagues from the field of material science.
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Alumni Yung Yi and Song Chong Receive 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize

April 26, 2016
  Alumni Yung Yi (PhD '06) and Song Chong (PhD '95) received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize for their paper "Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?," from the April 2013, Volume 21 edition of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The prize is given to the best original paper published in any communication networking journal sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society during the previous three calendar years. Drs. Yi and Chong will receive the prize at the IEEE ICC 2016 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 24th.