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

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. 

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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 Milad Ghiasi Rad, Jacob Kimball, and Mohammad S.E. Sendi have received Blended Online Learning Design (BOLD) Graduate Fellowships.

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). 

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

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 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). 

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 Juno Mission has been extended through September 2025, or its end of life. It will continue its key observations of Jupiter and also expand its investigations to the larger Jovian system. ECE's Paul Steffes is a member of the Juno Mission team.

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

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 Mandovi Mukherjee has been chosen for a 2021 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan has worked with colleagues from UCSF and Northwestern to design a wearable device that adults with preexisting conditions can use to monitor their heart and lung function from the comfort of their own homes.

Maryam Saeedifard has been appointed to the Dean’s Professorship, effective July 1.

Traditionally, electric components and systems, such as semiconductors and chips, are tuned and tested over months before they are optimized for a task. A new method uses a statistical technique based on probabilities called Bayesian optimization.

Raquel Plaskett has been named as the Culture Champion for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech.

ECE Ph.D. student Ahmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Asim Gazi received a third-place prize Best Paper Award at the IEEE-EMBS Biomedical and Health Informatics Conference, held July 27-30 in a virtual format. 

Four faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) received top Georgia Tech awards.