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Faculty Accolades

UH Engineer Contreras-Vidal Recognized for Research to Help Patients Regain Mobility Jose Luis “Pepe” Contreras-Vidal, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH…
World-Renowned Brain-Machine Interface Expert Named IEEE Fellow
Seeking Delphi, a podcast dedicated to futurist issues, recently released episode No. 27 titled “Future of Driving Part 2, Flying Cars with Kaushik Rajashekara.” “Whenever I’m in traffic, I wish I had a flying car,” Rajashekara…
Podcast on Flying Cars Features National Academy of Engineering Member and UH Professor Kaushik Rajashekara
Badri Roysam recognized for his groundbreaking research Badri Roysam, professor and department chairman of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was recently elected to the American…
Electrical & Computer Engineering Chairman Elected to AIMBE’s Elite College of Fellows
Lead poisoning has become a national concern as aging water pipes pose a threat to public health. You just have to mention Flint, Mich. for Americans to acknowledge the dangerous realities of contaminated water. UH researchers…
National Magazine Features UH Engineer’s Smartphone Tool to Detect Lead in Drinking Water
Stanko Brankovic, professor of electric and computer engineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, served as a guest editor for a special issue of The Electrochemical Society…
UH ECE Professor Guest Edits Special Issue of Electrochemical Journal
Cullen College engineering professors collaborate to solve monolayer catalyst mystery The South Texas Section (STS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) chose a paper written by two UH Cullen College of…
Paper Outlining Fuel Cell Discovery Wins AIChE Best Fundamental Paper Award
Bao recognized for contributions to the field of semiconductor and metallic nanostructures Jiming Bao, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, was elected a Fellow of…
Optical Society Elects UH ECE Professor Jiming Bao as Fellow
Contreras-Vidal seeks to answer what happens in the brain as people create and enjoy art Bringing together scientific research and artistic inquiry is a serious mission for the D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER). It…
UH Professor Part of National Event on the Interworking of Art and the Brain
UH Engineers Focus on Degradable Reconnaissance Vehicles and Evasive Drone Maneuvers Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing…
Mission: Possible — Mapping Dangerous Terrain
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society recognizes Stuart Long for his ‘commitment to electromagnetics education.’ Stuart Long, Cullen College professor of electrical and computer engineering and Associate Dean of the Honors…
UH Engineering Professor Wins IEEE Distinguished Educator Award
Award Celebrates Professors with Dedication to Students and Passion for Teaching The late William A. Brookshire – a UH chemical engineering alumnus – understood firsthand the impact that dedicated teachers can have on students’…
Cullen College Announces Two Winners of Inaugural Brookshire Teaching Excellence Awards
National Geographic explores the brilliance and creativity of Pablo Picasso in an April article titled “How Picasso’s Journey From Prodigy to Icon Revealed a Genius.” A trailblazing, legendary artist, Picasso revolutionized the…
Unlocking Secrets of the Creative Brain: UH Research Cited in National Geographic Article on Picasso
Conrad and Yao sweep 'Associate Professor' category The Cullen College of Engineering faculty swept the associate professor category of the University of Houston’s Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative…
Cullen College Faculty Shine in UH Research Awards
Plus: Other Faculty Award Announcements Zhu Han, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, is having a good year. He’s been awarded a 2018 Moores…
UH Engineering Professor Wins Prestigious Moores Professorship
It’s no secret that data is everywhere today – endless streams of information are constantly being collected through our smartphones and mobile devices, by sensors placed on bridges and in buildings and even through our smart…
UH Engineer Part of Team Awarded $7.5 Million MURI Grant to Analyze Social Behavior and Predict Outcomes
Groundbreaking brain-machine interfacing with prostheses highlighted About 3.5 million people in America are living with some degree of paralysis related to stroke, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy. Nature magazine this month…
Nature Magazine Features UH Professor’s Work to Address Paralysis
When it comes to batteries, UH engineer Yan Yao never runs out of award-winning ideas. Yao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College, and his research partners are known for their…
Battery Expert Powers Up With a Scialog Award
Yan Yao Receives Scialog Award A paper about safer batteries made with organic materials written by a team of researchers at the UH Cullen College of Engineering made the cover of one of the world’s most prestigious chemistry…
From Exploding Hoverboards to Tomorrow’s Batteries:  UH engineering team lands on front cover of prestigious publication
Badri Roysam, chair of the electrical and computer engineering department at the UH Cullen College of Engineering, has been named a 2018 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The honor is the…
Image Processing Expert and ECE Chair Named IEEE Fellow
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded UH $2 million to recruit cancer researcher Rohith Reddy, who focuses on next-generation technologies for detecting gynecological cancers. Reddy, currently a post-…
Cullen College Recruits Leading Researcher In Gynecological Cancers