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Faculty Accolades

Zhu Han, a Moores professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has been selected for a three-year term as a Distinguished Speaker by the Association for Computing Machinery…
ECE's Han chosen as ACM Distinguished Speaker
Harish Sarma Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, is part of the 2022 class for the Offshore Technology Conference's Emerging…
ECE's Krishnamoorthy named OTC Emerging Leader
A professor from the Cullen College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is part of one of 20 teams or individuals chosen for the 2022 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics annual cohort. According to…
ECE's Shih selected for TMCi accelerator
University of Houston researchers have received $4.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for two projects developed in the Cullen College of Engineering and Texas Center…
ECE Professors Receive $4.4M to Develop Clean Energy Technologies
A Cullen College of Engineering professor will be extending his stay in Germany to collaborate with international researchers, after being picked for the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, which started in January 2022.…
Becker awarded prestigious Humboldt fellowship
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface and have published their research in the latest Materials Today Physics. Jiming…
ECE Professor, Postdoc Discover Method to Create Upward Water Fountain in Deep Water
Kaushik Rajashekara, a Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Cullen College of Engineering, has gained another prestigious membership affiliation, thanks to his visits and his…
Rajashekara elected asForeign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering
According to an updated paper from researchers at Stanford University, 46 past and present professors affiliated with the Cullen College of Engineering are among the Top 2 percent of cited research papers in the world. The…
Paper finds 46 Cullen College professors among Most-Cited
A recently published paper from a team of researchers and students from multiple departments at the Cullen College of Engineering and the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth proposes a way to provide real-time, continuous…
Biomed, ECE, McGovern collaboration leads to new epilepsy research
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that six professors have earned promotions, starting with the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year. All listed positions are tenured, or on a tenure track. Professors…
Cullen College of Engineering promotes six professors
A coveted technology, while attractive to established defense companies like Rockwell in Thousand Oaks, California, and others around the country, made its home in Sugar Land, putting millions into the greater Houston economy.…
 Boosting the Economy Through UH Engineering Technology
A professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering has been asked to serve on the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research (NABMRR) for the National Institutes…
Contreras-Vidal named to NIH advisory board on medical rehabilitation research
University of Houston engineering researcher Wei-Chuan Shih has been awarded $2.7 million from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to detect cancer biomarkers in blood by counting exosomes. Known as…
Shih Receives $2.7M to Develop Cancer Test with ‘Unprecedented Early Detection Power’
An aviation industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience at General Electric and 80 patents to his name will be joining the Cullen College of Engineering's Computer and Electrical Engineering Department as a…
Huang's industrial expertise joining Cullen College of Engineering
Stanko R. Brankovic, Ph.D., a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering departments of the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow…
Brankovic named fellow of Electrochemical Society
The Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston and Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph.D., P.E., the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Endowed Chair and Dean, are pleased to share the 2020-21 Faculty and Student Excellence Award…
23 honored with 2020-21 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards
UH Students Experience ‘Color Field’ Wearing Brain Imaging Devices The “Color Field” public art exhibition at the University of Houston has attracted art enthusiasts from all over since it launched last fall, but engineering…
Making Waves in Art and Engineering
An invention from University of Houston researchers to help children with walking disabilities has won the Southwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium’s Pediatric Device Prize at this year’s South by Southwest.…
P-LEGS takes home pediatric honor from SWPDC, SXSW
Dr. Donald R. Wilton, a professor emeritus of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, has added another impressive honor to his career of distinction with…
ECE professor emeritus elected to NAE
Hien Nguyen, Jeffrey Rimer and Gangbing Song Elected to Senior Member Class of 2021 Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)…
Three UH Engineers Named to National Academy of Inventors