UTA EE in the News

Kanishka Tyagi awarded a 2013 IEEE CIS Research Grant

24 May 2013:
EE PhD student, Kanishka Tyagi (supervising professor Dr. Mike Manry), has been awarded a 2013 IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) Research Grant. This grant was awarded in conjunction with his research work as a visiting scholar at Seoul National University, South Korea and the IPNNL lab at UTA. Congratulations!

Azhar Ilyas and Kristian Hengster-Movric

awarded with fellowships

20 May 2013:
Ph.D. students Kristian Hengster-Movric (supervising professor Dr. Frank Lewis) and Azhar Ilyas (supervising professor Dr. Samir Iqbal) were each awarded a $6,726 Summer Graduate Dissertation Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies for the summer 2013 semester. Congratulations!

Professor Vasilyev uses quantum nature of light to

boost internet security

07 May 2013:
Vasilyev, a UT Arlington associate professor of electrical engineering, is participating in an $8 million research project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency that enlists five universities and three companies to study advanced quantum communications. ...more

UTA Student earns IEEE Accolades

April 10 2013:
Isaac Cohen, a senior electrical engineering major and the IEEE chapter president, received the IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Student Award on Apr 6 2013. ...more

Dr. Liang's research finds more space on cell phone spectrum

March 28 2013:
A UT Arlington electrical engineering professor is developing a system in a cell phone could automatically locate available space within a bandwidth, reducing or eliminating “dead spots” in coverage. Qilian Liang, the electrical engineering professor, received a three-year, $470,000 National Science Foundation grant that creates and implements a plan that researches spectrum-sharing technologies. ...more

Dr. Liang to provide navy better RADAR performance

with less data

March 21 2013:
A UT Arlington electrical engineering professor is working to provide the U.S. Navy a signal processing system that provides better information for radar even though it collects less data. The Office of Naval Research has awarded Qilian Liang, the electrical engineering professor, a five-year, $797,500 grant to simplify data collection ...more

Congressional Record congratulates NAI Charter

Fellows Dr. Kondraske and Dr. Magnusson

Feb 28 2013:
Electrical Engineering Professors, Dr. Robert Magnusson and Dr. George Kondraske were inducted as 2012 National Academy of Inventors' Charter Fellows by the United States Commissioner of Patents, Margaret A. Focarino. ...more

UTA Project Gives Robots Sensitive Skin

December 11 2012:
Dr. Dan Popa is the principal investigator of a collaborative effort to advance robots and robotic devices, improve prosthetics and enable those devices to perform tasks that people can no longer do themselves. We really believe this technology will make an impact and the application of robots in everybody’s lives in the future. A video of the working is shown in this link here. ...more

Research Team Wins NSF Grant to Develop Smart Skin

December 07 2012:
Dr. Dan Popa is the principal investigator of a collaborative effort to advance robots and robotic devices, improve prosthetics and enable those devices to perform tasks that people can no longer do themselves. Co-principal investigators are Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler, Dr. Donald Butler and Dr. Frank Lewis. ...more

Frank Lewis Received a 2013 IEEE Award

July 05 2012:
Frank Lewis has been chosen to receive the 2013 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer award. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of neural networks. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: Fundamental understanding and engineering application. ...more

Dr. Iqbal Featured on the Cover of Lab On a Chip Journal

June 07 2012:
The research of Samir Iqbal, an electrical engineer specializing in nanotechnology, and his colleagues was featured on the cover of Lab On a Chip journal. The research focuses on building solid-state micropores and using them to get direct information about cell populations. Cancer cells are detected from their distinct behavior using this system. ...more

UTA Researchers Presented with Grants from NTCRF

June 01 2012:
JC Chiao is a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. His project is to develop a microfluidic device to predict cancer metastasis risk. Using prostate cancer patients’ own blood, the device can find out the risk of cancer becoming metastatic. This can help doctors to adjust patients’ therapy strategy to make sure the patients receive the most appropriate chemotherapy without having to suffer from the unnecessary side effects. ...more