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 Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for a CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled “A CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.”

Ayanna Howard has been appointed to the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 17.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis is among the 170 distinguished innovators named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholars–Deepak Divan, Stanislav Emelianov, and Ravi Kane–bringing the Institute’s total of GRA Eminent Scholars to 22.

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.

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

ECE Assistant Professor Maryam Saeedifard received the 2015 Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for her paper, “Trends in Microgrid Control,” from the IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris will receive the 2015 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Microwaves, Antennas, & Propagation at an upcoming technical conference.

ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo has been named an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer for a two-year term.

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.

NEETRAC Principal Research Engineer Nigel Hampton was honored with the Jicable'15 Prize at the 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables, held June 21-25 in Versailles, France.

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.

Written by ECE's Vijay Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga, Cloud computing: a hands-on approach was selected as a notable book in computing during 2014 by Computing Reviews, published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Sudhakar Yalamanchili has been promoted to the rank of Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective November 1.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been named the recipient of the 2015 John R. Ragazzini Education Award from the American Automatic Control Council.

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for a 2015 Intel Early Career Faculty Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Hanju Oh has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Charles Hutchins Educational Grant.

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.

ECE Ph.D. student Nak-Seung Hyun won the Best Contribution Award at the Georgia Tech Decision and Control Laboratory Graduate Student Symposium, held on April 24 at the Georgia Tech Student Center Ballroom.

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 Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been named an IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society Distinguished Lecturer for a four-year term.

ECE Professor and Georgia Tech-Lorraine Director Abdallah Ougazzaden received the first International StelLab PSA Award at the France-Atlanta Symposium on October 28.

ECE Ph.D. student Nelson E. Lourenco has been awarded the 2015 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship.

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

ECE Professor Anthony J. Yezzi has been offered a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Italy, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

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.

Cisco Systems said it plans to acquire Lancope, a privately held, Alpharetta-based network security company founded by ECE Professor John Copeland, for $452.5 million.

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 Professor Ayanna Howard has been named as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider.

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 Nelson E. Lourenco has been awarded the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Award.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has been awarded the 2015 Goizueta Foundation Fellowship.

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.

This article was written by Omer T. Inan, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his Ph.D. student Andrew Wiens.

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.