As the Spring 2026 ECE graduates prepare to cross the stage and embark on their next chapter, they reflect on the people and communities that helped them find their way.

This award recognizes units that have successfully implemented high-impact practices in their curriculum and co-curricular experiences.

Through the first-ever Innovate ECE: Ultimate Thread Challenge, students created and showcased projects designed to help peers and future students better understand ECE’s popular curriculum Threads.

The noninvasive fall detection system was named the School’s top project by judges, while ECE students also contributed to the Best Interdisciplinary and Best Overall Project Award winners.

The medals recognize James McClellan’s impact on digital signal processing curriculum development and Biing‑Hwang “Fred” Juang’s role in defining modern speech and audio signal processing.

As the JUMP 2.0 center nears the end of its timeline, work on neurosymbolic AI—an approach that blends machine learning with human‑like reasoning—is showing results.

Emmanouil Tentzeris and Marvin Joshi’s new work demonstrates how a lens‑enabled backscatter system can deliver modern wireless capability without traditional transmitters.

ECE undergraduate student Shreya Iyer was one of two Georgia Tech students to receive the award and will use it to join the Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering celebrated its outstanding students, staff, and faculty at the 2026 Roger P. Webb Awards Program.

The team, led by ECE Assistant Professor Baoyun Ge, won for their innovative magnetic prediction model using analogies in physics.

Professor Emeritus Russell Dupuis became the first ECE faculty member to headline the series, offering a career’s worth of perspective on semiconductor innovation and its real-world impact.

The professor was honored for his contributions to and leadership in high-performance and energy-efficient logic transistor research.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate programs were both ranked in the top seven in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings.

The honorees were recognized for their outstanding teaching and educational impact in engineering, computing, and liberal arts classes.

The honorees included entrepreneurs, academics, and leaders across a variety of industries.

The ECE researchers are recognized for their lifetime achievements in cybersecurity and microchip technology.

The Ph.D. candidate was honored for his work as the Instructor of Record for ECE 3072: Electric Energy Systems and CETL 8000: GTA Preparation Class.

The 2026 cohort spans influential contributions in AI, wireless systems, integrated circuits, and machine learning.

It is the fourth time the ECE professor has received the honor and will give lectures to CASS chapters around the world.

The new endowed role reflects the Carrekers’ commitment to advancing ECE’s mission and recognizes Davenport’s leadership in research and education.

The experienced power‑industry leader will head Georgia Tech’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research & Applications Center (NEETRAC), a leading utility research and testing consortium. 

For the second year in a row, an ECE Ph.D. student received the prestigious award that recognizes outstanding Korean graduate students in the field of biomedical science.

The ECE professor now leads the Solid-State Circuits Society’s news publication about the global integrated circuit world.

Founded by current electrical engineering student Stephen Fazio, the growing toy brand ZipString earned recognition for its latest invention at the “Oscars of the toy industry.” 

As a recognized expert in emerging semiconductor technologies and next‑generation computing technologies, the ECE Associate Professor will lead the IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits.

In labs chilled to 4 kelvins (-450 degrees!) and on expeditions to polar regions, Georgia Tech scientists are discovering how extreme cold simultaneously challenges and advances technology in computing, space exploration, and the interpretation of Earth’s natural signals.

The graduate student received the award for research on improving the efficiency and scalability of datacenter infrastructure for large language model training and inference.

The Ph.D. student will get financial and technical support from the largest industrial research organization in the world for his work on neural processing units design optimization.

Run by HKN, an honor society for electrical and computer engineering students, the program delivers affordable, dependable lab kits and demonstrates how a student‑run effort can grow into a lasting success.

After serving as interim director, Mr. James steps into the permanent role to support ECE’s growing operational needs.

The new technology, developed by Professor Emmanouil Tentzeris and Ph.D. candidate Marvin Joshi, uses an advanced lens to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free sensors.

The program and operations manager was praised by her colleagues for her professionalism and initiative when supporting a variety of school processes.

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering assistant professor Matthew Flavin brought prototype haptic device to students in Georgia Tech’s EXCEL Program as part of a research study developing wearable technology that creates an experience of touch using vibrations while gathering sensory data from the user through skin contact.  

The Ph.D. student earned the Best Demonstration Award for developing a 3D ferroelectric memory design that enables high-density, low-power storage for future AI systems.

The Ph.D. student was one of seven students globally to receive the newly established IEEE LLM-Aided Design Fellowship, awarded for research using large language models to automate hardware design.

Spatial computing is transforming engineering education at Georgia Tech and opening new paths for entrepreneurship and technical training.

The initiative, co-led by Ali Adibi and Ashkan Zandi, is developing sensor technology in feminine hygiene products to detect heavy menstrual bleeding, addressing a condition often overlooked until it causes severe health consequences. 

Georgia Tech Draper Scholars Laurel Hilger, Gus Richter, and Kevin Zhang presented thesis research at a prominent national security symposium in Cambridge, Mass.

Honored for decades of service, the Regents Professor has been instrumental in supporting Beta Mu, Georgia Tech’s Eta Kappa Nu chapter, widely regarded as one of the strongest in the country.

Jameson Gatewood came to Georgia Tech to study electrical engineering. He’s leaving with not only a master’s degree, but also a growing company in a field few engineers ever consider.