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. 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).

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.  

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

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

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

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). 

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 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.

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 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).

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. 

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

ECE Professor John Cressler will receive the 2020 Outstanding Educator Award from the IEEE Atlanta Section at a virtual banquet hosted by the group on November 10.

In 1988, the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology hired Bonnie Ferri as its first female faculty member. The School now has 13 women in its faculty ranks.

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been named as a recipient of the 2020 Intel Rising Star Award.

Alenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020.

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Jennifer Simonjan has won an Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award. 

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Vince Calhoun has been named director of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI), a joint venture between Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

This article, celebrating the life of ECE Professor Emeritus James D. Meindl, was published on the IEEE Spectrum website on September 8, 2020.

ECE Ph.D. student Tony Wang has been chosen for an ARCS Scholar Award.

Lukas Graber has been appointed as a Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor, effective July 1, 2020. 

Despite difficult circumstances, ten current Ph.D. students, newly minted Ph.D. graduates, and postdoctoral fellows/associates from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been hired into faculty positions around the globe.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome our two newest faculty members, Frank Li and David Frakes, to Georgia Tech.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a three-year, $1.5 millon grant for their project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: A Hybrid Programmable Nano-Bioelectronic System.”

James D. Meindl, our treasured friend and colleague in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), passed away peacefully on June 7, 2020 at his home in Greensboro, Georgia after a long illness.