ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler has been elected to the IEEE-USA Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2014.

Anthony J. Yezzi has been named as the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor, effective October 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Jongman Kim has been selected for the 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues will receive the 2013 IET Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Premium Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaohang Li has been awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious scholarship given by this society for optics and photonics professionals.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair in the College of Engineering and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

Georgia Tech Ph.D. students Logan Sorenson and Peng Shao received the Outstanding Oral Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, held January 20-24, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

ECE Professor Abdallah Ougazzaden was awarded the Medal of the City of Metz on September 16 by Mayor Dominique Gros.

ECE Ph.D. student Will Wahby has received the esteemed Intel Foundation/SRC Education Alliance Graduate Fellowship.

Farrokh Ayazi has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1.

Nine ECE students receive awards in the Georgia Tech Research & Innovation Conference (GTRIC) Innovation Competition, including one who takes top honors.

ECE Professor John D. Cressler was selected for the 2014 IEEE Rudolf Henning Distinguished Mentoring Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Debashis Banerjee will receive a Best in Track Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, to be held November 2-6 in San Jose, California.

ECE Associate Professor Gregory D. Durgin explains how satellite data helped determine that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight crashed into the ocean.

Sung Kyu Lim has been appointed as the Dan Fielder Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective July 1, 2014.

ECE's LaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, held March 8 in Princeton, N.J.

ECE Ph.D. students Temiloluwa Olubanjo and Hakan Toreyin won two of the top three student paper competition awards at the 2014 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, held August 26-30 in Chicago.

ECE Professor Emeritus Thomas P. Barnwell, III will receive the 2014 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, which is given for outstanding contributions in signal processing.

ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi was presented with the Intel/Texas Instruments/Catalyst Foundation Student Scholarship Award at the 2014 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), held September 15-17 in San Francisco.

Two faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech have received three prestigious junior faculty awards for their work in the field of big data.

ECE Ph.D. student Cen Lin received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, held September 2-5 in Washington, D.C.

C. Dean Alford (BEE ’76) received the Engineer of the Year in Industry Award from the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers at the 2014 Georgia Engineers Week Awards Gala, held on February 14 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

ECE Postdoctoral Fellow Roozbeh Tabrizian received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the IEEE MEMS 2014 Conference, held January 26-30 in San Francisco.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang had one of the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Microwave Magazine for August, September, and November of 2013.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li was honored with two IEEE awards–the James E. Avant Garde Award and the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) Wireless Recognition Award–during fall semester 2013.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics for a three-year term.

ECE Associate Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay and two of his Ph.D. students won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), which was held August 11-13 in La Jolla, California.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic and her colleagues from the University of Agder received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics, held July 30-August 1 in Da Nang, Vietnam.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. Tentzeris had one of the 25 most downloaded papers from the IEEE Sensors Journal for September 2013.

ECE's Amit Ranjan Trivedi is one of three recipients of the 2014 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Ph.D. Fellowship and is the sole winner from the United States.

ECE Ph.D. student Paragkumar Thadesar has has been named the recipient of the Outstanding Poster Paper Award from the IEEE 63rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held last May in Las Vegas.

Hua Wang has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Li has been chosen for the 2014 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, which recognizes the best systems paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) has announced that ECE Professor Ayanna Howard will receive the prestigious A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award.

ECE Professors Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Saibal Mukhopadhyay and their recently graduated students, Subho Chatterjee and Mitchelle Rasquinha, received the 2014 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Very Large Scale Integrated Systems Best Paper Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Tom Sarvey won the Best Poster Award at the 2014 IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), held May 27-30 in Orlando, Florida.

ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT) for his pioneering work and leadership in electronic packaging at Georgia Tech and IBM over the last 25 ye