ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been appointed as a member of the 2014-2015 Defense Science Study Group.

ECE Professor John Cressler will present his debut novel at the Georgia Tech Barnes & Noble on June 25.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named to Atlanta Magazine's Innovation Index.

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaohang Li has been awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious scholarship given by this society for optics and photonics professionals.

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ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and two of her Ph.D. students, Hae Won Park and Richard Coogle, took the first place prize at the DARwIn-OP Humanoids Application Challenge at the 2013 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013).

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard explains how robots can become smarter.

The Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named five faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the 2013 Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Issue, which includes undergraduate engineering program rankings, has been published, and the results for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech are very good.

ECE Professor Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Ying Zhang has received an NSF CAREER Award to support her research project, "Adaptive Power Management for Supercapacitor-Operated Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks."

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis has been named the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Haicheng Wu is one of 11 graduate students nationwide who has won a prestigious NVIDIA graduate fellowship.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics, effective March 1.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva was named as a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Matthieu Bloch took part in the EU-US Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, held November 21-23 in Chantilly, France.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair in the College of Engineering and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler has been elected to the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2014.

ECE School Chair Steven W. McLaughlin recently talked with bloggers from AroundTI about university research and the present and future of engineering education.

Georgia Tech Ph.D. students Logan Sorenson and Peng Shao received the Outstanding Oral Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, held January 20-24, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and GSU's Yu-ping Chen have been named to Atlanta Magazine's 2013 Innovation Index.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has published a new textbook, Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channels.

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, effective November 1.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts–IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal.

Erik Verriest has been elected as an international member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He will be inducted into the Academy's Class of Technical Sciences on February 14, 2013.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Yue Zhang won the Outstanding Interactive Presentation Award at the 62nd IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, held May 29-June 1, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has awarded a Georgia Tech team with a three-year research contract to develop the next-generation of high-performance biosensors as part of SRC’s new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Two faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech have received three prestigious junior faculty awards for their work in the field of big data.

ECE Ph.D. student Tom Sarvey won the Best Poster Award at the 2014 IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), held May 27-30 in Orlando, Florida.

ECE's Chao-Fang Shih and Raghupathy Sivakumar received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications, held February 3-6 in Honolulu, Hawaii.