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Faculty Accolades

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today the induction of 169 distinguished inventors to be NAI Fellows, which includes Hao Huang, a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the…
ECE's Huang among NAI 2022 Class of Fellows
Four University of Houston scientists have been recognized among the world’s elite researchers for the significant and broad influence of their scientific work. The annual Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers includes…
Four UH Researchers Named Most Cited in the World
In two separate announcements, three staffers at the Cullen College of Engineering have been recognized and awarded for their exemplary work as employees by the University of Houston. Miranda Vernon-Harrison, the Graduate…
Three Cullen employees honored with UH awards
The UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Department of Health and Human Performance Associate Professor Pranav J. Parikh and Cullen College of Engineering Professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal have been awarded the NIH…
UH Professors awarded $768K NIH grant to develop extensive neuromotor training
Mission: Microchips On July 20th, 53 years after Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind, NASA announced target launch dates for the Artemis I mission, the agency’s long-awaited first step to…
Names of Artemis I Team Members Headed to Space on Microchips Made at University of Houston
UH Engineering Professor Kaushik Rajashekara, Fueled by Unrelenting Will to Achieve, is One of Three Recipients This Year "Professor Rajashekara does not see limits, only possibilities. Electric vehicles are changing the way the…
Rajashekara Named Global Energy Prize Laureate
The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce that the following eight members of the faculty have been promoted for the 2022-23 academic year. All promotions take effect as of Sept. 1, 2022. This listing is alphabetical…
Cullen announces 8 promotions for Fall 2022
The Cullen College of Engineering and Dr. Joseph W. Tedesco, Ph.D., P.E., the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Endowed Chair and Dean, are pleased to share the 2021-22 Faculty and Student Excellence Award winners. The initial announcement…
Cullen recognizes efforts of faculty, students with 2021-22 Excellence Awards
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