University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX·Public·Medical school
49 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.1B a year on research and awards 871 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 56,150: 44,663 undergraduates, 11,487 graduate
- Postdocs
- 534
- Faculty
- 2,828 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Daehyeok Kim
Computer Science·Early-career
Create a programming model that describes robot manipulation tasks as cooperating control loops with explicit deadlines and recovery from robot and network failures.
Wennie Wang
Materials Science·Early-career
Use first-principles calculations to determine how complex defects in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers set the energy needed for resistive switching, revealing trends across materials.
Huiliang Wang
Biomedical Engineering·Early-career
Design biodegradable organic nanoparticles, including hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs), that convert focused ultrasound into several colors of light, enabling control of multiple light-sensitive proteins without implanted optical fibers.
James Gardner
Earth & Environmental Science
Reconstruct the 1980 Mount St. Helens pyroclastic density current in four dimensions by mapping the orientations of trees it knocked down and combining them with closely timed eruption photographs from multiple vantage points.
Hsin-Chih Yeh
Biomedical Engineering
Develop live-cell imaging methods that show glycoRNAs, small RNAs carrying sugar chains on the cell surface, alongside their sugar-free RNA counterparts, to compare their abundance, location, membrane movement and trafficking.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.