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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.

WNCG Alumnus Sanmi Koyejo recently accepted a faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He will join UIUC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science where his research will focus on Machine Learning. “I look forward to the opportunity to mentor students and pioneer impactful interdisciplinary research,” Prof. Koyejo states. According to Prof. Koyejo, his time at WNCG was invaluable for securing a faculty position at a prestigious university like UIUC.