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.

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.

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 Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has been selected for an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his project entitled “Very-short Antennas via Ionized Plasmas for Efficient Radiation.”

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).

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Ahmet Ceyhan has been named the recipient of the 2014 S.C. Sun Best Student Paper 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research 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.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum awarded the 2015 Current Achievement Trophy to NASA's Kepler Mission Team on March 25 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C.

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 Associate Professor Christopher F. Barnes has published a new textbook entitled Synthetic Aperture Radar, Wave Theory Foundations, Analysis and Algorithms.

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.

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 Professor Madhavan Swaminathan won a Best Paper Award at the 10th IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC 2015), held September 13-16 in Anchorage, Alaska.

Georgia Tech researchers Christopher R. Valenta and Gregory D. Durgin have been named the recipients of the 2014 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award.

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

ECE and ME Associate Professor Aaron Ames took part in a robotic roundtable on the September 20 edition of Atlanta Tech Edge.

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

ECE and ME Associate Professor Aaron Ames took part in a robotic roundtable on the September 20 edition of Atlanta Tech Edge.

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 Professor Ayanna Howard has been named to The Root 100 2015, a list of 100 African-Americans ages 25 to 45 who are responsible for the year’s most significant moments, movements, and ideas.

A paper published by ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues has been named as one of the 50 most downloaded IEEE Sensors Journal papers for the months of November and December 2014.

The UMI-Georgia Tech-CNRS, an international research lab based in Metz, France at Georgia Tech-Lorraine (GTL), has successfully completed a process demonstration on the new Aixtron MOCVD system by growing a variety of III-nitrides and device structures.

Waymond R. Scott has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective February 1.

Arijit Raychowdhury has been appointed as the ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1.

A team of scientists has developed a relatively simple mathematical explanation for the rogue ocean waves that can develop seemingly out of nowhere.

DARPA awards $9.4 million to develop a new technique for monitoring IoT devices.

A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised.

The Georgia Tech Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies has expanded to include Amazon Web Services.

A simple solution-based processing technique could help reduce the cost of polymer solar cells.

GTRI researchers are adapting optical techniques to enhance U.S. electronic warfare capabilities.

Georgia Tech has been awarded $17.3 million to help establish new science of attribution.

Research Paper Featuring Researchers from the School of Computer Science and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wins Coveted Best Paper Award.

NSF funding to link technologies from Georgia Tech, Smithsonian and IBM to study environment.

Researchers are investigating the sources of information “leaks” that could provide information to hackers about what computers and cellphones are doing.

Researchers have developed a novel cellular sensing platform for next-generation bioscience and biotech applications.

Micro-electromechanial systems offer new ways to detect sound, motion, position, force and other variables.

A new microfluidic device for capturing rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is the first designed specifically to capture clusters of two or more cells.

System allows human to control robots with finger and beams of light.