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).

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.

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

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

Matthieu Bloch has been appointed as associate chair for Graduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1, 2021.

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.

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

Luong Nguyen and Baki Yilmaz received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).

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.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Samantha Lubaba Noor has received a 2020 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.

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. 

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 and BME Ph.D. student Mohammad S.E. Sendi will participate in the Global Young Scientists Summit, which will take place virtually January 12-15, 2021 from Singapore.

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. 

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. 

A team from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was presented with the third-place prize at the 2020 Bell Labs Prize, a competition that recognizes disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.  

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.

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.

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.

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

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis was presented with the Materials Today Innovation Award at the 2019 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit, held December 1-6 in Boston, Massachusetts. 

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.

ECE Ph.D. students Jia Wei and Tushar Damle have been named as recipients of the 2019 IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) Graduate Student Fellowships.

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

Gregory Villiam Junek has been selected as a GEM Fellow based on his academic record, prior awards, and current Ph.D. research.

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

Fei Wang has been chosen to receive the 2019-2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, the highest honor for Ph.D. students from the IEEE SSCS.

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

ECE Professor A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Professor) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece.

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. 

Mohammad Sadegh Eslampanah Sendi has been named the recipient of the Bobby Jones BME Award, which is presented each year to a biomedical engineering graduate student for exceptional research accomplishments as identified by the faculty.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduates Razi Dehghannasiri and Sean Rodrigues have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards. 

ECE Professor and School Chair Magnus Egerstedt received the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), held July 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ECE Associate Professor Alenka Zajic has been selected for the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award.

ECE Professor and GTL Director Abdallah Ougazzaden was awarded with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor on June 28 at the Metz City Hall in Metz, France. 

Marilyn Wolf has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2019 Harry H. Goode Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Mengxue Hou received one of the three Best Poster Awards in the Student Poster Competition of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, the flagship international conference on Ocean Engineering and Technologies.

Magnus Egerstedt has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.