Latest Happenings at the Oden Institute
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April 27, 2026
Oden Institute Staff Shannon Thorne Receives President’s Outstanding Staff Award
Administrative Manager at the Oden Institute, Shannon Thorne's outstanding work places her among an exceptional group of staff honored for their contributions that have made a significant impact at the university.
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April 26, 2026
Oden Institute Awards 2026 Undergraduate Scholarships
The Oden Institute awarded its 2026 undergraduate scholarships to Soohyun Ahn and Mohammed Dawood for outstanding research in computational science, spanning clean hydrogen energy and lunar spacecraft guidance systems.
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April 24, 2026
Oden Institute 2026 Moncrief Grand Challenge Awardees Announced
The Oden Institute has awarded Narayana R. Aluru, Patrick Heimbach, Thomas J. R. Hughes, and Joseph Kileel as recipients of the 2026 W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards.
Their funded projects span brain-inspired ionic computing, climate and ocean modeling, patient-specific digital twins for metastatic prostate cancer, and scientific machine learning.
Next Upcoming Event
Curvature-Aware Optimization for High-Accuracy Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Khemraj Shukla, Research Associate Professor, Brown University
3:30 p.m.– 5 p.m.
May 5, 2026
POB 6.304 and Zoom
Media Coverage
Nov. 20, 2025
ACM Gordon Bell Prize Honors Breakthrough in Real-Time Tsunami Modeling
In hpcwire
Media Coverage
Nov. 19, 2025
Texascale: The Magazine of the Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin
Profile
March 11, 2026
An Accidental Advisor, a Serendipitous Direction - Profile Rodrigo González Hernández
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Oct. 22, 2025
Helping Researchers See Alzheimer’s Before It Starts - Profile Zheyu Wen
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Oct. 21, 2025
Inelegant Solutions for a Messy World - Profile Christina Taylor
Feature
April 14, 2026
Ufuk Topcu on the Future of Trustworthy Autonomy
Ufuk Topcu leads the Center for Autonomy, which focuses on human interaction with AI and robotics, expanding community outreach and pioneering new concepts in safety, trustworthiness and accountability as autonomous systems evolve.
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Nov. 19, 2025
CosmicAI Institute Tackles Universe’s Deepest Mysteries
Astronomy is an excellent sandbox to develop AI techniques in a safe and open way. The NSF-Simon's CosmicAI Institute at UT's Oden Institute is an incubator for innovation and developing trust in AI to help researchers make new discoveries about the universe.
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Oct. 16, 2025
New Technology, Data Drive Advancements in Breast Cancer Care
UT Austin researchers, in partnership with MD Anderson and Dell Medical School, are advancing breast cancer care through predictive modeling, protein-based therapies, 3D reconstruction tools, and large-scale data resources. These innovations aim to make treatments more precise, accessible, and patient-centered.
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April 24, 2026
David Fridovich-Keil Receives O’Donnell Distinguished Research Award
David Fridovich-Keil, an Oden Institute core faculty member and assistant professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Distinguished Research Award for his innovative work in computational science and engineering, with applications in game and control theory.
Media Coverage
March 3, 2025
Clint Dawson Receives SEC Honors for Outstanding Educators with Faculty Achievement Awards
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Sept. 16, 2025
Pushing the Boundaries of Computational Fluid Dynamics - Profile Dhruv Apte
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July 30, 2025
