The 2026 cohort spans influential contributions in AI, wireless systems, integrated circuits, and machine learning.
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Four faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been awarded promotion and tenure, effective July 1, 2026.
Professors Larry Heck and Karthikeyan Sundaresan have been awarded tenure. Pan Li and Shaolan Li have been promoted to associate professors with tenure.
“Promotion and tenure recognize not only individual excellence but also the collective strength of our School,” said Arijit Raychowdhury, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair. “Larry, Karthik, Pan, and Shaolan continue to raise the bar in research, education, and innovation. Their work reflects the ambition and impact that define ECE, and we are proud to celebrate this milestone with them.”
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Larry Heck
Professor
Larry P. Heck holds the Rhesa S. Farmer Advanced Computing Concepts Chair and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2021, jointly appointed in ECE and the School of Interactive Computing.
His career spans leadership and research roles at SRI, Nuance, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and Samsung, where he has contributed to foundational advances in conversational AI and speech processing.
Heck is a Fellow of the IEEE, a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, and an inductee in the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.
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Karthikeyan Sundaresan
Professor
After spending 15 years in the wireless and telecom industry, Sundaresan joined the ECE faculty in 2021. He is widely recognized for contributions to wireless networking and mobile computing, and his work spans algorithm design and system building, with more than 60 patents and multiple transitions of research technology into commercialization.
He co-founded the Center for Wireless Intelligence in 2025, which works to advance autonomous, secure, intelligent, and ultra‑reliable wireless networks.
Sundaresan is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is also a recipient of the ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award. His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India, followed by his master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2003 and 2006.
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Pan Li
Associate Professor
Pan Li joined Georgia Tech in 2023 after serving as an assistant professor in computer science at Purdue University and completing postdoctoral research at Stanford.
Li’s research centers on machine learning on graphs, including trustworthy and efficient large language models, geometric deep learning, and AI for scientific discovery. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, Sony Faculty Innovation Award, and JPMorgan Faculty Award.
He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 2019.
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Shaolan Li
Associate Professor
Shaolan Li joined Georgia Tech ECE in 2019 following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin.
His research focuses on analog, mixed‑signal, and RF integrated circuits, including high‑performance data converters and integrated sensing systems. He also leads a signature analog VLSI course created with Texas Instruments that gives students unprecedented, real‑world chip tapeout experience.
Li is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NIH Trailblazer Award, and the IEEE Solid‑State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award. He received his BEng from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and his Ph.D. from UT Austin.
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