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Ian Roberts Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 22, 2020
WNCG student Ian Roberts has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF program identifies researchers “anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering.”
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Prof. Al Bovik receives $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

Aug. 27, 2015
Professor Al Bovik, holder of a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Wireless Networking and Communication Group and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $450,000 grant over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled “Tasking on Natural Image Statistics: 2D and 3D Object and Category Detection in the Wild.”