Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professors Shimeng Yu and Ghassan AlRegib were honored with 2025 College of Engineering Faculty Awards. They were among the eight faculty members from five engineering schools recognized for their excellence in research, service, teaching, inventorship, and commercialization.
Candidates were nominated by their peers or submitted self-nominations. Materials were reviewed by a committee of academic and research faculty members within the College. Each honoree receives $2,000.
Read more about the ECE honorees below:
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Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research Award (Midcareer)
Shiming Yu
Dean’s Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yu is a global expert in semiconductors and microelectronics, especially AI hardware design using emerging memory devices. Among his accomplishments is designing a computing paradigm that merges computation into data storage, reducing data movement cost and improving the hardware system’s performance and energy efficiency when executing AI workloads.
Yu is on the leadership team of a Semiconductor Research Corporation JUMP 2.0 center and part of the Georgia Tech team collaborating on an $840 million DARPA program that is building the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems.
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Outstanding Teacher Award (Midcareer-Senior)
Ghassan AlRegib
John and Marilu McCarty Chair of Electrical Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
AlRegib has been instrumental in reformatting existing courses and creating new ones that use the AI Makerspace. This includes Fundamentals of Machine Learning, which previously had been reserved for senior- and graduate-level students, and is now available to all electrical and computer engineering undergraduates. AlRegib also created AI First, a course with hands-on studios that provides a foundational entry into artificial intelligence and the Makerspace.
AlRegib also leads a Vertically Integrated Projects team, AI Makerspace Nexus. Nearly all of the 100 students have been working on guidelines, tools, and services to integrate the AI Makerspace into classrooms and the wider campus. They focus on democratizing accessibility to AI as more Georgia Tech students gain access to the supercomputing hub.
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