ECE Ph.D. student Saad Bin Nasir won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), held May 1-5 in McLean, Virginia.

Nader Sehatbakhsh, Robert Callan, and Monjur Alam received second place for their demo, “Leveraging Electromagnetic Emanations for IoT Security,” at IEEE HOST 2017, held May 1-5 in McLean, Virginia.

ECE's Nelson Lourenco, Reza Pourabolghasem, and Dogancan (Can) Temel were chosen for Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards, which were presented at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on April 18.

ECE Ph.D. student Edgar Garay has been chosen for the National GEM Consortium Fellowship. 

Marc Higginson-Rollins, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

ECE postdoctoral fellow Carlos Martins received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), held October 19-21 at Columbia University in New York City, New York.

Nicholas Gross, a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been selected as a Sam Nunn Security Fellow by the Georgia Tech Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy.

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017). 

A team of volunteers led by Sean Rodrigues, a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech, held a mini workshop series titled "A Day of Light" that introduced K-12 students to the field of optics.

ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term. 

ECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco.

ECE Professor Ayanna M. Howard has been named as a recipient of the Walker’s Legacy Power25 Atlanta Awards.

ECE Professor Ian F. Akyildiz has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Recognition Award. 

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been chosen for the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication. 

ECE Ph.D. student Heechul Yoon was named as a finalist in the student paper competition at the 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium.

ECE Ph.D. student Matt O’Shaughnessy has won the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

ECE Ph.D. student Yeo Joon Youn has received a Kwanjeong Education Foundation (KEF) Scholarship. 

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as one of Atlanta magazine’s 2017 Women Making a Mark, a distinction reserved for a select group of women working to grow and strengthen the metro Atlanta community.

ECE Ph.D. students Saad Bin Nasir and Bijan Tehrani won Best Paper in Session Awards at SRC TECHCON 2017.

ECE Assistant Professor Manos Antonakakis will serve as a panelist at the CableLabs Inform(ED) IoT Security Conference, part of a two-day conference event that will be held April 12-13, 2017 in New York City, New York. 

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Multi-scale Computing Systems​​​​​​​.

Ghassan AlRegib and his research team in the Multimedia and Sensors Laboratory have been chosen to host and run the 2017 IEEE Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup.

ECE Ph.D. student A K M “Arif” Arifuzzman has received an Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship. 

ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai has received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome three new assistant professors – Azadeh Ansari, Sam Coogan, and Brendan Saltaformaggio – to Georgia Tech.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Xiaochen Zhang won the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 44) Area 10, held June 25-30 in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that a Georgia Tech research team is among one of seven chosen for R&D funding in the area of solid-state lighting (SSL).

The team of Mohammed Aabed, Gukyeong Kwon, and Ghassan AlRegib was named as a finalist for the First 10K Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, held July 10-14 in Hong Kong.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has published a new textbook entitled On-Chip Networks, Second Edition. 

ECE Professor Vijay K. Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga have released a new textbook, Blockchain Applications: A Hands-On Approach.

Elliot Moore II has been appointed as associate chair for Undergraduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 15.

Dogancan (Can) Temel and Ghassan AlRegib are the co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles from Signal Processing: Image Communication during the last 90 days.

Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Shreya Dwarakanath won the Best of Track (Advanced Packaging) & Best Student Paper awards at the 49th International Symposium on Microelectronics (IMAPS), held October 10-13, 2016 in Pasadena, California.

ECE Professor Raheem Beyah was named as an Emerging Scholar in the January 26, 2017 edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, which took place December 12-15, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineer Award, given by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)

Ian F. Akyildiz has been ranked in Google's Top-H Index for Computer Science and Electronics, the impact factor for top journals in those two areas.

Shruti Ramanathan has been awarded the Juniper Networks’ WeTech Scholarship, given annually to four female university students in the United States.

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received the 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award for his project titled “All-Electronic Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for High-Throughput Multi-Modal Cell Phenotyping.”

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.