ECE Regents' Professor Thomas K. Gaylord has been named as one of the 50 most published authors of Applied Optics, a publication of the Optical Society of America.

A paper co-authored by Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his collaborators from Georgia Tech, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Perugia is among the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Sensors Journal.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Georgia Electronic Design Center are featured as the Faculty Spotlight on the Agilent Technologies web site.

Ying Zhang was awarded a 2012 Lockheed Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award earlier this spring.

ECE faculty members Alenka Zajić and Gordon L. Stuber received the Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award for their paper, "Wideband MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Geometry-Based Statistical Modeling with Experimental Verification."

Chenyun Pan won a best paper award at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), which was held March 19-21 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Sixteen ECE employees were honored with Years of Service Awards at the 2012 Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon.

ECE Professor and Senior Associate Chair Joseph L.A. Hughes has been appointed to the IEEE Educational Activities Board for 2012.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi was elected as an OSA Fellow, effective January 1.

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) were presented the Academic R&D Award at IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA, an industry event held in Santa Clara, Calif. on December 10.

ECE Ph.D. student Paragkumar Thadesar won first place in the student paper competition at the 2nd Annual IEEE Global Interposer Technology Workshop, held November 14-16 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

ECE Ph.D. students Hangue Park and Jeonghee Kim won the Best Demonstration Award at the 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, held November 28-30 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Electrical engineering junior Joe Luck was one of four students recently awarded scholarships by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).

The Texas Instruments University Program profiles David G. Taylor, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.

The Panasonic/Georgia Tech team–known as PIC Jackets–took third place in the Freescale Cup autonomous vehicle race event at SAE Convergence, held at the Detroit Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich. on October 17.

ECE Ph.D. student Shreepad Panth has received the Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm.

Abhilash Goyal won a Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), which was held March 19-21 in Santa Clara, Calif.

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.

Vincent J. Mooney received the Best Paper Award at the Architecture of Computing Systems 2012 Conference, held February 29-March 2 in Munich, Germany.

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

Four employees and five students from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering received top Georgia Tech honors at the Institute’s annual Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on April 12 and at Student Honors Day on April 19.

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

John Papapolymerou and his colleagues have been selected for the 2012 H.A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS).

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.

Peter Song, a graduate student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech who works in John Cressler's research group, was selected for the NSTRF Class of 2012.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.