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Texas ECE PhD student Dejia Xu has been selected to receive a Snap PhD Fellowship. The Snap Research Fellowship program is designed to foster a strong collaboration between Snap Research and the brightest, most driven graduate computer science students across the world. Snap Research recognized 12 PhD students with Fellowships for 2022.

WNCG professor Atlas Wang has received the 2021 International Neural Network Society (INNS) Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award. The Aharon Katzir Young Investigator Award is conferred on up to two exceptionally promising young investigators in the field of neural networks.

Although advanced neural networks continue to dramatically improve the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems, they are associated with substantial energy use. In an effort to address this problem a growing number of organisations are focused on the creation of technologies designed to reduce energy use in the training and operation of such systems.