People
Graduate students, postdocs and undergraduates in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a long line of alumni in industry and national labs.
Principal investigator
Neal A. Hall
Associate Professor, Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No. 5
Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Microelectronics Research Center
Neal Hall received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from UT Austin (1999) and his M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2004) in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2006 he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He joined the UT Austin ECE faculty in January 2009, and founded Silicon Audio, Inc., an Austin company that designs, manufactures and sells precision seismic and acoustic sensors. His research spans silicon micromachining and MEMS, acoustics and dynamics, optics and photonics, and advanced transducer development, with support from NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA and DARPA.
nahall@utexas.edu · EER 4.802 · 512-471-2349
- DARPA Young Faculty Award (2012)
- ONR Young Investigator Award (2014)
- UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award (2014)
- Gordon T. Lepley IV Endowed Memorial Teaching Award (2016)
Postdoctoral researchers
Wei Wang
Photonic and acoustic MEMS
PhD students
Zihuan Liu
Piezoelectric transducers (LiNbO₃, AlN) for extreme temperatures; mechanical frequency combs
Ehsan Vatankhah
Magnetostrictive sensors, hydrophones and underwater acoustics
Yuqi Meng
Photonic integrated accelerometers and optomechanical sensors
Will Leskowitz
Piezoelectric MEMS microphones, electrode layout optimization
Yen-Chen (Jasper) Wang
High-temperature transducers and MEMS characterization
Qiyun Hu
Photonic inertial sensors
Zhichen (Charlie) Yan
Piezoelectric MEMS microphones
Alumni
| Name | Role in the group | Year | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiaoyu Niu | Ph.D. | Apple | |
| Yoonho Seo | Ph.D. | Apple | |
| Randall P. Williams | Ph.D. | ||
| Donghwan Kim | Ph.D. | Silicon Audio, Inc. | |
| Michael L. Kuntzman | Ph.D. | Texas Instruments | |
| Carly A. Stalder | M.S. | Soundskrit | |
| Samuel K. Hord | M.S. | 2017 | |
| Jingqiang Zha | M.S. | ||
| Colton D. Snell | M.S. | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Karen D. Kirk | M.S. | TriQuint Semiconductor | |
| Nishshanka N. Hewa-Kasakarage | M.S. | ||
| Daniel W. Corona | B.S. | ||
| David P. Gawalt | B.S. | ||
| Blake Levy | B.S.E.E. | ||
| Sang H. Yoon | Postdoc | ||
| Moinuddin Ahmed | Postdoc | Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Emma Stearman | Undergraduate researcher | 2015–2016 | |
| Xintong Huang | Undergraduate researcher | 2016 | |
| Shivansh Madan | B.S. | ||
| Marilyn Mathew | NNIN REU intern | 2015 | |
| Grace Noel | NNCI REU intern | 2016 |
We are always looking for motivated new students. See how to join.
Alumni: tell us where you are now and we will add it. Email nahall@utexas.edu.