The cover story for the August 6, 2020 issue of Nature features the optical observations of lightning flashes on Jupiter made by the Juno spacecraft.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has been chosen as one of the recipients of the Facebook Research Faculty Award for AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design.

Felix Herrmann is the recipient of the 2020 Reginald Fessenden Award, presented by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). He is receiving this award with Charles (Chuck) Mosher, of ConocoPhillips.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been selected for the 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) for his contributions to wideband energy-efficient radio-frequency (RF)/mm-Wave circuits and novel wireless transceiver system architectures.

Mingu Kim, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, has been chosen for a Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has released a news story that features Georgia Tech lidar (light detection and ranging) research as it relates to autonomous vehicles. 

ECE Ph.D. student Rakshith Saligram has received an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award.

Shimeng Yu has been named as a recipient of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award. This award recognizes the top young innovators who have made a significant impact in the field of design and automation of electronics. 

A multi-institutional team known as GO-SNIP, which included representation from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), took second place and earned a $400,000 prize in the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition.

ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the 2020 Donald P. Eckman Award at the American Control Conference, which was held July 1-3 in an online format.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen E. Ralph to the Glen Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics at GTRI, effective February 1, 2020.

Vince Calhoun has been chosen as the recipient of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Achievement Award.

Researchers from the Synergy Lab at Georgia Tech and Intel Labs won the Best Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), held February 22-26 in San Diego, California.

Baris Volkan Gurses has been named as a recipient of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship.

ECE Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Taghinejad has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. 

This article, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, focuses on conferences adopting virtual formats. With COVID-19 preventing in-person meetings, at least temporarily, the time is ripe to explore the feasibility and advantages of virtual conferences.

On February 20, members of the Georgia Tech community gathered to honor the extraordinary service of Roger P. Webb, professor emeritus in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech.

Manos Antonakakis has been appointed to the Dean’s Professorship, effective June 1, 2020. 

Aline Eid has been selected for a 2020 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) graduate fellowship award and received the first-place award in the student poster competition at the FLEX MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress.

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan was featured in this story published on May 15, 2020 by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

ECE Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay is a recipient of Intel’s 2019 Outstanding Researcher Award.

Kevin Martin, who was the associate director of the Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC) for many years, passed away on June 28, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio.

ECE Ph.D. student Qianxue Xia received the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award

Erik Verriest has been named the Giovanni Prodi Chair in Mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Wuerzburg for the 2020 summer semester.

ECE Professor Angelos Keromytis is part of a high-level expert team that is providing advice and assistance to the European Commission on how to strengthen innovation ecosystems and management, technology transfer, and investment. 

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been awarded a prestigious Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 

Second-year electrical engineering major Katie Bishop is one of six Georgia Tech undergraduates who has been chosen for a Brooke Owens Fellowship. 

ECE Ph.D. student Prasanna Venkat Ravindran has received an IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Masters Student Fellowship.

Baris Volkan Gurses, a spring 2020 B.S.E.E. graduate of Georgia Tech, has received a 2020-2021 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship.

ECE's Poulami Das has been chosen for a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship.

ECE's Yuchen Liu and Doug Blough won the Best Paper Award at the 45th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks.

ECE Ph.D. student Siddharth Ravichandran has been chosen for the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Ph.D. Fellowship Award.

Georgia Tech faculty members Stanislav Emelianov, Richard Fujimoto, and Vivek Sarkar have been named IEEE Fellows, the society’s highest grade of membership, effective January 1, 2020.

ECE Ph.D. student Milad Frounchi has received the 2020 MTT-Sat Challenge Award.

ECE Ph.D. students Charles Topliff and Joanne Truong have been named as recipients of the 2020 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna will have one of his recent research papers featured in the IEEE Micro “Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences,” to be published in the May/June 2020 issue. 

ECE Ph.D. students Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, and Gauthaman Murali and their faculty advisors won the Best Paper Award at this year's IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI SoC 2020).

Clever students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) are coming up with “work-around” ways of continuing their experimental research. An example of this is the ongoing research being conducted by Ji Ye (JC) Chun.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in obtaining valuable insights to the operation of photonic nanostructures, which manipulate light.

Jinwoo Kim and a team of researchers from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) won a best paper award at the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design.