Osama Waqar Bhatti and Madhavan Swaminathan received the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’21), which took place April 7-9 in a virtual format. 

Hyoukjun Kwon, a recent Georgia Tech Ph.D. graduate, received an Honorable Mention at the 2021 ACM-SIGARCH / IEEE-CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award ceremony, presented virtually at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2021.

Arijit Raychowdhury has been appointed as the Motorola Solutions Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective April 1, 2021. 

Maryam Saeedifard has been named as the recipient of the 2021 U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Technology Research & Innovation Award.

Georgia Tech serves as a vital partner in training the microelectronics workforce, driving future microelectronics advances, and providing unique fabrication and packaging facilities to develop and test new solutions.

Five recent graduates from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards.

Maryam Saeedifard has been appointed to the Dean’s Professorship, effective July 1.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis has been named as a co-recipient of the 2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2021 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Asim Gazi received a third-place prize Best Paper Award at the IEEE-EMBS Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference, held July 27-30 in a virtual format. 

ECE Ph.D. student Aline Eid won two top honors at the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI 2021), held December 4-10 both in a virtual format and in-person in Singapore.

Six faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been awarded promotion and/or tenure, effective August 15, 2021.

ECE Ph.D. student Matthew O’Shaughnessy has received a Science ATL Communication Fellowship, which is sponsored by Emory University and is designed to help close the communication gap between scientists and the public.

Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar is among the 164 renowned academic inventors named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been named as a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, and Arijit Raychowdhury won the Best Paper Award at this year's ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2021).

The Capstone Design Expo returned to McCamish Pavilion for the first time since the fall of 2019, with more than 500 students broken into 118 teams from seven schools and three colleges participating.

ECE Ph.D. student Mouhyemen Khan was chosen for third place in the Nokia Bell Labs Intern Program 2020 for Outstanding Innovation.

It is with much sadness that we share with you that our treasured friend and colleague, Frank Lambert, died on July 27, 2021 after a long illness.

ECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Saad Zia, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), placed second in the recent Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

ECE Professor Emeritus Paul Steffes and his colleagues with the NASA Juno Mission published a paper that is the cover feature of the November 19, 2021 issue of Science.

Shweta Dutta won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting, held January 10-15, 2021 in a virtual format. 

Yi Zhang and Maryam Saeedifard won the first place prize paper award for 2020 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, one of the most impactful journals in the area of power electronics.

ECE Ph.D. student Mandovi Mukherjee has been chosen for a 2021 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.

Vince Calhoun has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Honorific Award for Outstanding Translational Research from the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS).

Omer Inan has been appointed to the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis spoke about the evolution of LEDs and lighting, as well as its future applications, on Acast, a podcast hosted by Lord John Browne, director of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 

ECE Ph.D. student Sridhar Sivapurapu won the third place in the student poster competition at FLEX 2021.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been appointed as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for the period of 2022-2024.

ECE Professor Xiaoli Ma has been elected to the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Board of Governors in the capacity of Member-at-Large for the 2022-2024 term.

ECE Professor Ghassan AlRegib and his expertise in machine learning were recently featured on Scientific Sense, a daily podcast focused on science and economics.

Vince Calhoun has been elected as a Fellow of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM).

NEETRAC is an electric energy-focused, industry-supported center located in Forest Park, Georgia. The Center is part of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary on October 27.

A paper written by ECE Associate Professor Chuanyi Ji and her colleagues has been considered among past and present editors’ favorite papers published in Nature Energy in the last five years.

ECE Ph.D. student Venkatesh Avula won the Best Overall Poster Award at ITherm 2021.

Senior Research Technologist Ray Hill provides a history of NEETRAC and how it came to Georgia Tech. 

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2020 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).

ECE Ph.D. student Foroozan Karimzadeh has won a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Graduate Fellowship, which is awarded in partnership with Texas Instruments.

ECE Ph.D. students Aline Eid and Asim Gazi recently participated in workshops geared toward developing and diversifying the next generation of academic leaders.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis and his colleagues were awarded the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering on February 2.