Georgia Tech’s newest international initiative, the Georgia Tech-Shenzhen Master of Science (M.S.) Degree Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) launched successfully in Shenzhen, China on August 18, 2014.

ECE's Amit Ranjan Trivedi is one of three recipients of the 2014 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Ph.D. Fellowship and is the sole winner from the United States.

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.

Members of Georgia Tech Systems Research (GTSR), a lab directed by Fumin Zhang, attended the briefing and exhibition "Robots for Good" in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 2014.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang and his colleagues won the First Place Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, held June 1-3 in Tampa, Florida.

An ECE/ME research team won the 2013 IEEE Transactions on CPMT Best Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Jacob Keilman has received a Chateaubriand Scholarship, which is awarded by the Embassy of France in the United States.

George Alexopoulos has been named as a recipient of an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Undergraduate Scholarship for fall 2014.

ECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Bashir Akbar was named a finalist in the Broadcom Foundation University Research Competition, held on June 5.

ECE Ph.D. student Abbie Kressner has received a Chih Foundation Research Award.

ECE Ph.D. graduates Mehdi Kiani, Qing Li, and Wencen Wu were chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Ph.D. Thesis Awards earlier this spring.

ECE Ph.D. student Yue Zhang was chosen for the 2013 S.C. Sun Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Jin Wang has been chosen for the prestigious NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.

A House Built on Sand was written by ECE School Chair Gary S. May

A new electronic biosensing technology developed by Georgia Tech microelectronics engineers and biomedical scientists could usher in a new era of personalized medicine.

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has been awarded the 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

ECE's Hyung Suk (James) Yang, Chaoqi Zhang, and Muhannad Bakir have been named the winners of the 2014 IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Best Paper Award in the Advanced Packaging Technologies category.

ECE Ph.D. student Nelson E. Lourenco has been honored with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Song Hu will receive an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship later this spring.

The Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)/Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society has been selected for the 2014 IEEE SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Li received the Best Paper Award at Photoptics 2015, the Third International Conference on Photonics, Optics, and Laser Technology, held March 12-14 in Berlin, Germany.

ECE Ph.D. student Brendan Gunning received the 2015 Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Materials (WOCSEMMAD) Award for the Most Valuable Contribution.

ECE Ph.D. student Shoufeng Lan received a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Silver Award at the 2015 MRS Meeting, held November 29-December 4 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ph.D. student Anthony Spears explores Antarctica's icy waters

ECE Ph.D. student Song Hu has been named the recipient of the 2015-2016 Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

ECE Ph.D. student David Zhang won the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), held October 25-28 in San Jose, California.

A team from the GT Bionics Lab received the Best Live Demo Award at the 2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2015), held at the Historic Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

ECE Ph.D. student Byunghun Lee won the Silver Award at the highly competitive 11th Samsung Electro-Mechanics Best Paper Awards.

ECE Ph.D. student Zachary Fleetwood has received the 2015 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Professor Linda S. Milor and her students – T. Liu, C.-C. Chen, and S. Cha – received the Best Paper Award at ESREF 2015 (European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis), held October 5-9 in Toulouse, France.

ECE Ph.D. students Jong Seok Park and Tso-Wei Li won Intel/IBM/Catalyst Foundation Student Scholarship Awards at the 2015 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), held September 28-30 in San Jose, California.

ECE Ph.D. student Anvesha Amaravati won the Best Paper Award in the analog and mixed signal track at the 2015 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC 2015).

ECE Ph.D. student Monodeep Kar received a Best in Session Award at SRC TECHCON 2015, held September 20-22 in Austin, Texas.

An ECE student team – consisting of Francesco Amato, Christopher Peterson, and Muhammad Bashir Akbar – won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE RFID-TA 2015 Conference, held September 16-18 in Tokyo, Japan.

Georgia Tech and Emory faculty members are uniting to train the next generation of engineering students in healthcare robotics technologies, so they can better understand the changing needs of patients and their caregivers and healthcare providers.

ECE Ph.D. student Spyridon (Spyros) Pavlidis received the European Microwave Conference Young Engineer Prize at the 45th European Microwave Conference (part of European Microwave Week), held September 6-11 in Paris, France.

An interdisciplinary research team from Georgia Tech, representing the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (ME), won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM ISLPED 2015.

ECE Ph.D. student William Song won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), held April 21-23 in Monterey, California.

As an undergraduate computer engineering major, English joined the Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS) program. Now English’s graduate research is an ORS project and she is mentoring a fresh new crop of undergraduates.

Semiconductor Research Corporation, the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has awarded $103 million to Georgia Institute of Technology during more than 30 years of supporting research at the university.