ECE Professor Moinuddin Qureshi received the Best Paper Award at the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (IEEE MICRO), held October 19-24, 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan.

ECE Ph.D. student Pranav Gupta received a Best Paper Award at the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems 2018 Workshop, held June 3-7 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Joint Sounds Sensing for Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.”

ECE Professor Shyh-Chiang Shen has been elected to the class of 2019 OSA Fellows.

ECE Ph.D. student Hakki Mert Torun received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 27th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems, held October 14-17 in San Jose, California.

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship, effective May 1, 2018.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

ECE Associate Professor Morris B. Cohen has been named president-elect of the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section (ASE) of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

It is with much sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Thomas E. Michaels, died on May 31, 2018.

EAS Professor Felix Herrmann has been named as a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the period covering January through June 2019.

The numbers tell a sad story. Nearly one out of three people in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. While a cure remains at large, innovative treatments are advancing quickly.

Panagiotis (Panos) Kintis has been selected to participate as a DARPA Riser in D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan D. Saltaformaggio has received the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

John D. Cressler, Lukas Graber, Tushar Krishna, Sung Kyu Lim, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Motaz Alfarraj was selected for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Service Award for spring semester 2018. 

ECE Ph.D. student Nil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition.

“This paper presents the first reported integrated circuit which implements reinforcement learning at less than a milli-Watt. This can enable a wide variety of applications in autonomous and bio-mimetic systems.”

Douglas B. Williams has been named senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective October 1.

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been named as one of 26 professors from across the U.S.–and the sole winner from Georgia Tech–to receive a 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.

ECE Professor Anthony J. Yezzi has been named as a Ken Byers Professor, effective October 1.

ECE faculty, staff, and students were honored at the 2012 Roger P. Webb Awards Program, held on April 25 at the Klaus Building Atrium.

ECE Professor Thomas G. Habetler won two IEEE awards at the 2012 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo.

Eight ECE faculty members have been successfully promoted and tenured, effective July 1, 2012.

ECE Ph.D. student Xin Chen won first place in the poster competition at the 39th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, held July 15-20 in Denver, Colo.

Mitch Costley has been selected to attend the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, which will take place July 1-6 in Lindau, Germany.

Four ECE students–Greg Droge, Zachary Lochner, Temi Olubanjo, and Carol Young–have been awarded ARCS Foundation Fellowships.

Amir Atabaki and Danny Duong, of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, were chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Thesis Awards earlier this spring.

ECE Associate Professor Muhannad Bakir has been appointed as the ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in Analog Integrated Circuit Design, effective August 15.

Bonnie Ferri received a 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Women in Engineering Excellence Awards Banquet, held on March 29 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor, effective August 15.

Two teams with ECE students are finalists in the 2012 InVenture Prize Competition.

Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering (WECE) received a 5-Star Organization Award at the Up with the White and Gold Ceremony held on April 23 at the Student Center Ballroom.

ECE Professor Manos Tentzeris and his Ph.D. student Rushi Vyas received the Architecture Award of Excellence from the Architecture World Summit, held in Bangalore, India on July 25-26.

ECE Assistant Professor Bo Hong received the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November 12-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Ph.D. student Vachan Kumar received the Best Student Poster Award at the IEEE Global Interposer Technology Workshop, which was held on November 14-15 in Atlanta.

ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo will take part in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions as a member of the Forum’s Young Scientists community.

ECE Ph.D. alumnus Damien Rontani received the Supélec Foundation Prize

ECE Ph.D. student Aida Vera Lopez received an Honorable Mention Award at the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition.