Aravind Samba Murthy was chosen as the co-recipient of the People’s Choice Award at the Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, held November 15 in the LeCraw Auditorium of the Scheller College of Business.

ECE Ph.D. student Zachary Fleetwood has been selected for the 2016 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Award.

ECE Professors Faramarz Fekri and Xiaoli Ma have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2016.

Raheem Beyah and Xiaojing Liao won third place at the Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Applied Research Competition, a prestigious contest for graduate and doctoral level security researchers who have published papers in the last year.

Raheem Beyah has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective March 1.

ECE Professor Abhijit Chatterjee and a team of his present and former Ph.D. students have been chosen for the 2015 Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA)/IEEE Test Technology Technical Council Best Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Ryan Bahr was chosen for the GOMACTech 2016 Best Student Poster Paper Award.

A new educational collaboration among Georgia Tech, the city of Shenzhen and Tianjin University in China will expand global opportunities in science, technology and engineering education.

ECE's Sean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award.

Three Ph.D. students from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) won Best Paper in Session Awards at SRC TECHCON 2016, making Georgia Tech one of two universities with the most awards received at the conference.

Sungjin Cho and Fumin Zhang, both of Georgia Tech ECE, received the runner-up Best Student Paper Award at the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, held October 24-26 in Shanghai, China. 

Five ECE students have been named recipients of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis received the 2016 Award of Outstanding Achievement for Global SSL Development for Science and Technology at the opening ceremony of CHINA SSL 2016, held on November 15 in Beijing, China.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been chosen for a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award by the Army Research Office.

ECE Ph.D. student Min-gu Kim won the third place Oral Student Paper Award at IEEE Sensors 2016, held October 30-November 2 in Orlando, Florida.

ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan has been chosen for a 2015 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.

The Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions, including Georgia Tech.

ECE Ph.D. student Shoufeng Lan has been named as a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.

On Sept. 14, Ajeet Rohatgi, Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named one of the 19 funding recipients in the Photovoltaics Research and Development Program as part of the U.S. DoE SunShot Initiative.

Adam Charles, Majid Sodagar, and Amit Trivedi have been chosen for Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards, which will be presented at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on April 21.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has been elected to a two-year term as secretary for the Atmospheric and Space Electricity (ASE) Group in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), effective January 1, 2017. 

The Engineering for Social Innovation (ESI) Center supports a collection of ongoing projects, which are selected from corporate and non-profit organizations.

Professor Ayanna Howard has been named associate chair for faculty development in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective April 1.

Justin Romberg has been appointed as the new associate chair for Research, and independent of that new role, as the Schlumberger Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering both moved up and maintained its positions from last year in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah has been appointed as the associate chair for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective September 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has been selected for a 2016 Lockheed Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award.

ECE Regents' Professor Emeritus Russell M. Mersereau will receive the 2017 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to the advancement of signal processing, other than in areas of speech and audio processing.

Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Systems and Controls in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award.

Ayanna Howard has been named to the Invention Ambassadors Program, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lemelson Foundation.

Mary Ann Weitnauer has been appointed as senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the A. Nico Habermann Award, given by the Computing Research Association (CRA).

Raymond C. Hill has received the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award.

Four faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering will receive the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, which is sponsored by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL).

Ninad Shahane received the Best Interactive Presentation Award at the 2016 IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held May 31-June 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Georgia Tech College of Engineering Dean and Southern Company Chair Gary S. May has announced leadership changes that affect several units within the college.

ECE Professor Bonnie Ferri has been unanimously selected for the 2016 Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.

SIx ECE faculty members have been awarded promotion or tenure, effective July 1, 2016.