ECE Professor Emeritus Nikil Jayant is among the 175 renowned academic inventors named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

The Juno Mission has been extended through September 2025, or its end of life. It will continue its key observations of Jupiter and also expand its investigations to the larger Jovian system. ECE's Paul Steffes is a member of the Juno Mission team.

ECE Associate Professor Shimeng Yu has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for 2021-2022.

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan has worked with colleagues from UCSF and Northwestern to design a wearable device that adults with preexisting conditions can use to monitor their heart and lung function from the comfort of their own homes.

As the spring semester gets underway, Georgia Tech’s asymptomatic surveillance testing program is up and running at full capacity to serve the campus community.

ECE Ph.D. student Ahmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.

ECE Advisory Board Chair and ECE alumnus Larry Heck has received the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Adou Sangbone Assoa has received the Cadence 2020 Black Students in Technology Scholarship.

ECE Professor Emeritus Dale Ray, our treasured friend and colleague, passed away on December 23, 2020. 

ECE Associate Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as a recipient of the IEEE SPS Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award.