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Neal Hall is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006, he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since joining the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in January 2009, his research has focused on silicon micromachined acoustic transducers. He has received several awards for his work, including the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2014 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012. Additionally, he is the founder of Silicon Audio, Inc., a high-tech startup that commercializes photonics-based acoustic seismic sensors. His research is supported by agencies like NIH, NSF, DOE, and DARPA.
The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, focusing on silicon micromachined acoustic transducers.
Sandia National Laboratories • Albuquerque, NM
Conducted postdoctoral research.
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