Anthony J. Yezzi has been named as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor, effective October 1.

Professor Thomas M. Conte has been elected as president of the IEEE Computer Society.

Led by ECE Assistant Professor Pamela Bhatti, researchers are developing a device that could improve sound quality offered by cochlear implants.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has won the 2013 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the findings of which could lead to better land mine detection methods.

ECE Ph.D. student Uppili Raghunathan received the 2013 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) Best Student Paper Award.

Christopher J. Rozell, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective September 1.

Bernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as a Joseph M. Pettit Professor, effective September 1.