Faculty
Director - Vijay Garg, Ph.D. | Distributed Systems
Prof. Garg's current research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, discrete event systems and software engineering. He has published more than 130 refereed research articles in these areas. His research has been supported by NSF, IBM, Texas Advanced Research Program, TRW, and Compaq among others.
Milos Gligoric, Ph.D. | Software Engineering and Systems (SES)
Prof. Gligoric’s research interests are in software engineering and formal methods, especially in designing techniques and tools that improve software quality and developers' productivity. His Ph.D. work has explored test-input; generation, test-quality assessment, testing concurrent code, and regression testing.
Sarfraz Khursid, Ph.D. | Validation and Verification
Dr. Sarfraz Khurshid is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on software testing, specification languages, code conformance, model checking, and applications of heuristics in program analysis.
Dr. Aryan Mokhtari, Ph.D. | Decision, Information and Communications Engineering (DICE)
Prof. Mokhtari is an assistant professor and Fellow of the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Most recently he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Michael Orshansky, Ph.D. | Integrated Circuit and Systems (ICS)
Prof. Orchansky received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining UT Austin, he was a Research Scientist and Lecturer with the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley. His research interests include low-power design, hardware security, approximate computing, design optimization for robustness and manufacturability, and statistical analysis and design methods.
Pedro Santacruz, Ph.D. | Decision, Information, and Communications Engineering (DICE)
Prof. Santacruz is an associate professor of Instruction in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In this position, he focuses on teaching and creating innovative learning experiences for ECE students.
Edison Thomaz, Ph.D. | Decision, Information and Communications Engineering (DICE), Software Engineering and Systems (SES)
Prof. Thomaz holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the School of Interactive Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab. Prior to his academic appointments, Prof. Thomaz held industry positions at leading technology companies such as Microsoft and France Telecom.
Haris Vikalo, Ph.D. | bioECE, Decision, Information and Communications Engineering (DICE)
Prof. Vikalo is a professor and holds the William W. Hagerty Fellowship in Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, bioinformatics and communications.
Sriram Vishwanath, Ph.D. | Decision, Information and Communications Engineering (DICE), bioECE
Prof. Vishwanath received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, M.S. from CalTech and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His research interests include information theory, wireless communications and coding theory. His industry experience includes work at the National Semiconductor Corporation, CA and at the Lucent Bell labs, NJ.
Ramesh Yerraballi, Ph.D. | Communication Networks
Dr. Yerraballi's teaching interests and experience span a broad swath of the Computing curriculum from, Theory of Computing, Algorithms and Data Structures, Introductory, Object-Oriented and Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture and Performance Analysis of Computer Systems.
