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

Ballistocardiography—or, the graphical representation of the body’s movements in response to the heartbeat—is a promising, newly revived technique that may soon make it to the masses as a wearable medical device.

When Patricia Ford, Miss Georgia and a Georgia Tech alumna, competed for the Miss America title on September 11, she outshined the competition, thanks to her computer-coded shoes.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang and his colleagues from Georgia Tech and Toshiba Corporation have been named the recipients of the 2016 Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).

ECE Ph.D. student Saiful Alam won the Best Poster Award at the 2016 European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held May 2-6 in Lille, France.

MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

The Beta Mu chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) has been chosen for a 2014-2015 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Chapter Award.

Electrical engineering maintained its fourth place position from last year, while computer engineering remained strong at sixth place.

ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi has been named a recipient of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications.

Electrical engineering undergraduate student Eric Pollmann has been named the recipient of the IEEE James C. Klouda Memorial Scholarship from the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.

ECE Postdoctoral Research Fellow Junwen Zhang has been named as a 2016 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award recipient by the Marconi Society.

Thomas M. Conte has been named the new IEEE-CS representative on the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors.

ECE Professor Shyh-Chiang Shen visited the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where he gave a presentation on III-Nitride Power Electronics.

Jong Hwan Ko and Saibal Mukhopadhyay received the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2016), the premier conference in the area of low power electronics, on August 10 in San Francisco, California.

Nominations are now open for the 2016 Roger P. Webb Awards, which recognize the excellence of the faculty, staff, and students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer Inan has been named to the 2016-2017 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

ECE Ph.D. student Emeka Obikwelu has been named as the School's first 3M Fellow.

ECE Ph.D. student Jackson McCormick won an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

ECE Ph.D. student Shoufeng Lan has been awarded the 2016 DJ Lovell Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to optics, photonics, and other related fields.

Suman Debnath and Maryam Saeedifard have been named the recipients of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Best Trans. Paper Award authored by a graduate student.

ECE Professor John D. Cressler has released the second edition of his textbook, Silicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology,

ECE Ph.D. students Min-Yu Huang and Taiyun Chi won the 2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Best Student Paper Award.

SEMI, the global microelectronics industry association, has chosen ECE Ph.D. student William Wahby to present his award-winning SRC TECHCON research paper at the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium, to be held January 8-11, 2017 in Half Moon Bay, California.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport was presented with the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at the annual Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon.

ECE Ph.D. students Saad Bin Nasir and Jong Seok Park have been named as recipients of the 2016-2017 Predoctoral Achievement Awards, given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has published a new book, RF and mm-Wave Power Generation in Silicon.

ECE Professor Gregory D. Durgin has won the best paper award for IEEE RFID 2016, held May 3-5, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.

ECE Ph.D. student Charles Munson received the first place prize at Trophée MC6, a French scientific startup competition.

Nexidia, a leading developer of dialogue and audio analysis products and technologies, was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) with a Technology and Engineering Achievement Emmy Award for Phonetic Indexing and Timing.

A group of Georgia Tech students from the IEEE Power & Energy Society aim to improve access to clean, reliable power at a remote health center in one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, using a solar-based microgrid.

ECE Ph.D. students Jong Seok Park and Moez Karim Aziz won second place for the Best Live Demo Award at the 2016 IEEE Sensors Conference, held October 30-November 2 in Orlando, Florida.

Georgia Tech’s Aditya Anupam and Ridhima Gupta received the Students' Choice Award at the Serious Games Competition, held November 30-December 4 during the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida.

Georgia Tech ECE's Vijay Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga have released a new textbook entitled Big Data Science & Analytics: A Hands-On Approach.

Twenty-five teams from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and three interdisciplinary teams with ECE student participants presented their projects at the Fall 2016 Capstone Design Expo. 

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

On April 22, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 15th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah has been named a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) “for contributions in networking and security.” 

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.

Electrical engineering major and Dunwoody, Georgia, native Jonathan Tuck accepted the highest award for a graduating senior at the Georgia Institute of Technology on April 20, 2016: the Love Family Foundation Scholarship.