John D. Cressler and Justin K. Romberg, both faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), have been awarded with two of the most prestigious honors presented by the IEEE.

Three students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have received funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

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. 

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

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

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.

Hua Wang was recently featured in a blog on the GlobalFoundries (GF) website as one of three highlighted, high-profile university partner professors.

ECE Ph.D. student Nathan Miller has been chosen as a recipient of the 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a renewal grant of 7.5 million dollars for a five-year period (2020-2025) to continue support of the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC) as one of 16 sites within the NNCI.

ECE Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay is a recipient of Intel’s 2019 Outstanding Researcher Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Prasanna Venkat Ravindran has received an IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Masters Student Fellowship.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in obtaining valuable insights to the operation of photonic nanostructures, which manipulate light.

ECE Ph.D. student Milad Frounchi has received the 2020 MTT-Sat Challenge Award.

ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis was presented with the Materials Today Innovation Award at the 2019 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit, held December 1-6 in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Jinwoo Kim and a team of researchers from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) won a best paper award at the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. 

Gregory Villiam Junek has been selected as a GEM Fellow based on his academic record, prior awards, and current Ph.D. research.

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

Fei Wang has been chosen to receive the 2019-2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, the highest honor for Ph.D. students from the IEEE SSCS.

ECE Professor John Cressler will receive the 2020 Outstanding Educator Award from the IEEE Atlanta Section at a virtual banquet hosted by the group on November 10.

In 1988, the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology hired Bonnie Ferri as its first female faculty member. The School now has 13 women in its faculty ranks.

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been named as a recipient of the 2020 Intel Rising Star Award.

Oliver Brand is the Executive Director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

John Hooper was the first director of the Microelectronics Research Center, now known as the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Jennifer Simonjan has won an Austrian Marshall Plan Poster Award. 

This article, celebrating the life of ECE Professor Emeritus James D. Meindl, was published on the IEEE Spectrum website on September 8, 2020.

ECE Ph.D. student Tony Wang has been chosen for an ARCS Scholar Award.

Despite difficult circumstances, ten current Ph.D. students, newly minted Ph.D. graduates, and postdoctoral fellows/associates from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been hired into faculty positions around the globe.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a three-year, $1.5 millon grant for their project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: A Hybrid Programmable Nano-Bioelectronic System.”

James D. Meindl, our treasured friend and colleague in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), passed away peacefully on June 7, 2020 at his home in Greensboro, Georgia after a long illness.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been selected for the 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award (QFA) for his contributions to wideband energy-efficient radio-frequency (RF)/mm-Wave circuits and novel wireless transceiver system architectures.

SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has released a news story that features Georgia Tech lidar (light detection and ranging) research as it relates to autonomous vehicles. 

Shimeng Yu has been named as a recipient of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award. This award recognizes the top young innovators who have made a significant impact in the field of design and automation of electronics. 

ECE Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Taghinejad has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. 

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan was featured in this story published on May 15, 2020 by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been awarded a prestigious Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 

Baris Volkan Gurses, a spring 2020 B.S.E.E. graduate of Georgia Tech, has received a 2020-2021 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship.

ECE Ph.D. student Siddharth Ravichandran has been chosen for the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Ph.D. Fellowship Award.

Clever students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) are coming up with “work-around” ways of continuing their experimental research. An example of this is the ongoing research being conducted by Ji Ye (JC) Chun.

ECE Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for the 2020 Qualcomm Faculty Award.

Four research faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been awarded promotions, effective July 1, 2020.