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.

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.

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 Robert J. Butera received the Georgia Tech Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award at the Institute’s Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon, held on April 22 at the Student Center Ballroom.

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.

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 Ph.D. student Zachary Fleetwood has received the 2016 IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

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

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

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.

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.

Seven faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been awarded promotion or tenure, effective July 1, 2017.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineer Award, given by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)

Dogancan (Can) Temel and Ghassan AlRegib are the co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles from Signal Processing: Image Communication during the last 90 days.

Frank Lambert has been named president-elect for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received the 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award for his project titled “All-Electronic Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for High-Throughput Multi-Modal Cell Phenotyping.”

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has received the Goizueta Foundation Fellowship for a second time, beginning this fall.

ECE Professors Muhannad S. Bakir, John D. Cressler, and Sung Kyu Lim have been chosen to receive the 2016 Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award. 



ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Technical Recognition Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Maria Santos has been chosen for a La Caixa Fellowship for Graduate Studies in North America.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah was named as an Emerging Scholar in the January 26, 2017 edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

ECE Professor Muhannad S. Bakir has been appointed as the editor-in-chief for the Electronics Manufacturing section of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard is featured in Atlanta magazine's Women Making a Mark.

Ian F. Akyildiz has been ranked in Google's Top-H Index for Computer Science and Electronics, the impact factor for top journals in those two areas.

ECE Ph.D. student Karan Mehta was chosen for the Best Student Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices (ISSLED 2017), held on October 8-12 in Banff, Canada.

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

ECE faculty and students from the GT-Bionics Lab brought home awards from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), held October 23-28 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Georgia Tech team won third place overall and second place in the technical part of the Year Three phase of EcoCAR 3, a four-year student competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and General Motors.

ECE Ph.D. student Hanju Oh and his colleagues have been named the winners of the 2016 Best Oral Session Paper Award at the 66th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held May 31-June 3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

ECE Ph.D. student Pyungwoo Yeon received the Third Place Best Paper Award at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), held October 19-21 in Turin, Italy.

ECE's Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and Abdullah Nauroze received the gold medal award at the 20th edition of the Archimedes IP Salon, held May 16-19, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues won the third place prize at the Nokia Bell Labs Prize Competition, held on December 14 in Murray Hill, New Jersey at the worldwide headquarters of the company.

ECE postdoctoral fellow Carlos Martins received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), held October 19-21 at Columbia University in New York City, New York.

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017). 

ECE Associate Professor Ying Zhang and ECE Ph.D. student Zongyang Xia have received a TechConnect National Innovation Award, which was presented last week in Washington, D.C. at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo. 

ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term.