Jeffery Hurley and Linda Wills were announced as the 2021 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards honorees on April 16 at the annual Eta Kappa Nu Spring Picnic, held at the Texas Instruments Plaza.

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

Four students from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been selected for the 2021 Warren Batts and Austin Brown Innovation Awards. They are Benjamin Bogard, Gregory Lanier, Stephen Fazio, and Madeline Wilson.

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

Georgia Tech engineering alumni Jaime Zahorian and Sarp Satir – both with Ph.D.s in electrical and computer engineering –are helping Butterfly Network to advance their goal of making healthcare more accessible for all. 

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.

Jong-Hyeok Yoon, Muya Chang, and Arijit Raychowdhury won the best regular paper award at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 2021.

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

EE second-year student Andrew Hellrigel received an Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award at the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Emerald White, an undergraduate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is making her voice heard through active participation in many different on-campus organizations.

Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera recently paid a visit to the Khan Lab, located in the Pettit Microelectronics Building, to learn more about the field of ferroelectricity and negative capacitance and its applications in microelectronics.

ECE Ph.D. student Tohid Shekari won the Online Head Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, presented by the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning.

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.

Nine faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been named to the Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 CIOS Honor Roll by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

Tushar Krishna and Arijit Raychowdhury have been selected for 2021 Qualcomm Faculty Awards (QFA). They are both faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

ECE Ph.D. student Zhi Jin (Justin) Zhang has been chosen for the prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral. 

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

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

ECE Ph.D. student Alex Fedorov received the best student paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics, which was held August 9-12 in a virtual format. 

Wen (Essay) Shu has been promoted to Senior Research Engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC), effective July 1, 2021.

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.

ECE Ph.D. students Naga Sasikanth Mannem and David Munzer have been chosen for Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Awards.

ECE Professor Andrew F. Peterson was named the recipient of the 2021 Technical Achievement Award from the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES).

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome our two newest faculty members, Nima Ghalichechian and Larry Heck, to Georgia Tech.

ECE Ph.D. student Sam Talkington received the Best Paper Award at the Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) 2021.

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

Rao Tummala, a professor emeritus in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been honored with having an IEEE Technical Field Award named in his honor – the IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award.

John D. Cressler has been promoted to the rank of Regents Professor; his nomination to this rank was approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents on August 10.

Ghassan AlRegib has been appointed as the John and Marilu McCarty Chair of Electrical Engineering, effective April 1, 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. students Milad Ghiasi Rad, Jacob Kimball, and Mohammad S.E. Sendi have received Blended Online Learning Design (BOLD) Graduate Fellowships.

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.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been selected for the 2021 Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) for his contributions to Next-Generation (5G Beyond and 6G) Wireless Circuits, Systems, and Infrastructures.

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.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome our two newest faculty members, Vidya Muthukumar and Ashwin Pananjady, to Georgia Tech.

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

In fall 2021, Biya Haile will enter the Ph.D. program in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech as the first Paul & Daisy Soros fellow ever to pursue a graduate degree at Tech.

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

ECE Associate Professor Shimeng Yu has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for 2021-2022.

ECE Professor Emeritus Nikil Jayant is among the 175 renowned academic inventors named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).