The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. Annual research expenditures are over $267 million and the school has the fourth-largest number of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering.
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell,Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965,Patt introduced the WOS module,the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery,and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Alan Conrad Bovik is an American engineer,vision scientist,and educator. He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin),where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is a faculty member in the UT-Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,the Machine Learning Laboratory,the Institute for Neuroscience,and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group.
Bruce Eisenstein is an engineering educator serving as the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was formerly Interim Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing,pattern recognition,deconvolution,along with biomedical engineering. He also served as president of the IEEE in 2000.
Harold Vincent Poor FRS FREng is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University,where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications,signal processing and information theory. He has received many honorary degrees and election to national academies. He was also President of IEEE Information Theory Society (1990). He is on the board of directors of the IEEE Foundation.
Chung-Chieh Jay Kuo is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and the director of the Multimedia Communications Lab as well as distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Southern California. He is a specialist in multimedia signal processing,video coding,video quality assessment,machine learning and wireless communication.
Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport is an American electrical engineer and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS.
Robert W. Heath Jr. is an American electrical engineer,researcher,educator,wireless technology expert,and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California,San Diego. He is also the president and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He was the founding director of the Situation Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems initiative.
Harvey G. Cragon was an American engineer,who was the Ernest Cockrell,Jr. Centennial Chair Emeritus at the Cockrell School of Engineering,University of Texas at Austin.
V John Mathews is an Indian-American engineer and educator who is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Oregon State University,United States.
Diana Marculescu is the Department Chair and Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2 at the University of Texas at Austin. She was formerly the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the first female chair in the department's history.
Professor Yucel Altunbasak was born in Kayseri,Turkey in 1971. He attended Izmir Science High School in Izmir,Turkey. He received his B.S. degree with high honors from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University,Ankara,in 1992. Afterward,he moved to the USA and studied at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester,New York,where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees,in 1993 and 1996,respectively.
James J. Coleman is an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs,Rockwell International,and the University of Illinois,Urbana. He is best known for his work on semiconductor lasers,materials and devices including strained-layer indium gallium arsenide lasers and selective area epitaxy. Coleman is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,the African Academy of Sciences,the Materials Research Society (MRS),and the IEEE.
Moeness G. Amin is an Egyptian-American professor and engineer. Amin is the director of the Center for Advanced Communications and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University.
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo is Vice President (Academic) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shenzhen,Director of Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data and Director of CUHK(SZ)-Tencent AI Lab Joint Laboratory on Machine Intelligence.
Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor,who works at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins University,he is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing,the Center for Imaging Science,the Institute for Assured Autonomy,and the Mathematical Institute for Data Sciences. He joined Johns Hopkins University after 29 years at The University of Maryland. Before that,he was an assistant,associate professor,and later,director,of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.
Chin-Hui Lee is an information scientist,best known for his work in speech recognition,speaker recognition and acoustic signal processing. He joined Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002 as a professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering
Athina Petropulu is a Greek electrical engineer,researcher and academic. She is Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey. She has made contributions in signal processing,wireless communications and networks,radar systems,etc.,and has received many awards and honors in these areas.
Arthur Bernard Baggeroer is an American Electrical Engineer and emeritus Ford Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering &Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
