Howard to receive Georgia Tech Faculty Woman of Distinction Awar

ECE Professor Wayne Wolf received an honorary doctorate.

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 Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis has been named the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

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.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics, effective March 1.

ECE School Chair Steven W. McLaughlin recently talked with bloggers from AroundTI about university research and the present and future of engineering education.

ECE Assistant Professor Matthieu Bloch took part in the EU-US Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, held November 21-23 in Chantilly, France.

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

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has published a new textbook, Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channels.

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

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.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts–IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Muhannad Bakir is a recipient of the 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award.

From building RF components for cell phones to teaching signal processing and electromagnetics at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Alenka Zajić has always been interested in engineering and communicatio

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 Professor John Papapolymerou has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor, effective August 1.

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

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

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

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech is proud to announce that the number of incoming freshman female students has hit the 20 percent mark, according to the latest admissions data from the Georgia Tech Undergraduate

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

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

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

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named to the 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

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.