ECE Professor Ayanna Howard and GSU's Yu-ping Chen have been named to Atlanta Magazine's 2013 Innovation Index.

Erik Verriest has been elected as an international member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He will be inducted into the Academy's Class of Technical Sciences on February 14, 2013.

ECE Ph.D. student Yue Zhang won the Outstanding Interactive Presentation Award at the 62nd IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, held May 29-June 1, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has awarded a Georgia Tech team with a three-year research contract to develop the next-generation of high-performance biosensors as part of SRC’s new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program.

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, effective November 1.

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

Led by ECE Assistant Professor Pamela Bhatti, researchers are developing a device that could improve sound quality offered by cochlear implants.

Professor Thomas M. Conte has been elected as president of the IEEE Computer Society.

Bernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as a Joseph M. Pettit Professor, effective September 1.

Christopher J. Rozell, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective September 1.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has won the 2013 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the findings of which could lead to better land mine detection methods.

ECE Ph.D. student Uppili Raghunathan received the 2013 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva will receive the HENAAC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award at the Great Minds in STEM Conference, to be held October 2-5 in New Orleans.

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's Erin Hanson has received a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Defense.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been named as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

With a new type of engineering class, ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has a chance to educate thousands. Can he pull it off?

ECE Ph.D. student Aritra Banerjee wins 2013 IEEE ISCAS Student Travel Award.

ECE Professor John D. Cressler has been appointed to the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics, effective July 1.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named to Atlanta Magazine's Innovation Index.

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ECE Associate Professor Raheem Beyah has been named as a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2014.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard explains how robots can become smarter.

ECE Ph.D. student Benjamin Cook has been selected for a 2013-2014 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship.

ECE Professor Biing Hwang (Fred) Juang has been named as the recipient of the 2014 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been appointed as a member of the 2014-2015 Defense Science Study Group.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis has been named the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research 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 Professor Ayanna Howard and two of her Ph.D. students, Hae Won Park and Richard Coogle, took the first place prize at the DARwIn-OP Humanoids Application Challenge at the 2013 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013).

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been named as the Wayne J. Holman Chair Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1, 2014.

Morris B. Cohen has been selected for the Santimay Basu Prize, an award given by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

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 Ph.D. graduates Mehdi Kiani, Qing Li, and Wencen Wu were chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Ph.D. Thesis Awards earlier this spring.

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.

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named to CETL's 2014 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

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.

ECE Professor Gabriel Rincón-Mora recently published his ninth textbook, Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators.