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. 

Handbook of 3D Integration was published in March 2019. 

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduates Razi Dehghannasiri and Sean Rodrigues have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards. 

ECE Ph.D. student Min-Yu Huang has been selected for the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award.

Azadeh Ansari has been appointed as the Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1, 2019. 

ECE Ph.D. student Sensen Li has been selected for the 2019 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Student Fellowship.

ECE Assistant Professor Azadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

ECE Ph.D. students Edgar Garay and Huy Thong Nguyen have both been named recipients of the 2019 ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.

Devin Brown was selected for the Best Student Poster Paper Award at the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN).

Pamela Bhatti has been appointed as the new Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective February 1.

ECE Associate Professor Omer T. Inan has been invited to attend the 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, to be held June 20-22 in San Diego, California.

Preserving hundreds of terabytes of ELF/VLF electromagnetic wave measurements and opening it for researchers worldwide is a joint project of Stanford University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Colorado Denver with support from the NSF and DoD.

ECE Ph.D. student Min-Yu Huang has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award for 2018-19.

A collaboration among the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the Aerospace Corporation, and the Georgia Tech SiGe Devices and Circuits Group was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2019 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).

ECE Ph.D. student Muhammad Ali won the Intel Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 68th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held May 29-June 1, 2018, in San Diego, California.

ECE Ph.D. student Hanbin (Victor) Ying received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS).

ECE Ph.D. student Siddharth Ravichandran won the Best Student Paper Award at the 51st International Symposium on Microelectronics (IMAPS), held October 9-11, 2018 in Pasadena, California. 

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.

ECE Ph.D. student Atom Watanabe won the ICEP 2018 IEEE CPMT Japan Chapter Young Award at the 2018 International Conference on Electronics Packaging (ICEP), held April 17-21 in Mie, Japan. 

Alan Doolittle has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective on September 1, 2019.

ECE Ph.D. student Sreejith Kochupurackal Rajan received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International 3D Systems Integration Conference (3DIC), held October 8-10 in Sendai, Japan.

A paper coauthored by Saad Bin Nasir and Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected as a “Top Pick Paper in Hardware and Embedded Security.”

Georgia Tech ECE researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal.

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaoyu Sun received a Best Student Presenter Award at the SRC TECHCON 2019, the annual flagship technical conference hosted by Semiconductor Research Corporation.

Muhannad Bakir has been appointed as the Dan Fielder Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1, 2019.

ECE Ph.D. student Carl Li received a best poster award at the annual review for the Applications and Systems-Driven Center for Energy-Efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT).

ECE Ph.D. student Bahar Asgari has been selected to participate in Rising Stars 2019, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ECE Associate Professor Shimeng Yu has been named as the recipient of the inaugural Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Bige Deniz Unluturk has been selected to participate in Rising Stars 2019, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ECE Professor and GTL Director Abdallah Ougazzaden was awarded with the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor on June 28 at the Metz City Hall in Metz, France. 

Suresh Sundaram received the industry-sponsored speaker award at the 18th European Workshop on Metal-Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy, held June 16-19 in Vilnius, Lithuania. 

ECE Professor Manos Tentzeris has received the Humboldt Research Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Brian Crafton and Muya Chang have won the 2019 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, which recognizes and rewards teams of two Ph.D. students each and their thesis advisor(s).

ECE and CS graduate student Muya Chang has been selected for the 2019 Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA).

Pamela Bhatti moves with ease between medicine and engineering. Her lab conducts research in biomedical sensors and subsystems, with a focus on cochlear and vestibular neural prosthesis, and the improvement of coronary artery imaging.