ECE Professor Emeritus Dale Ray, our treasured friend and colleague, passed away on December 23, 2020. 

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

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis has been named as a co-recipient of the 2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.

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.

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

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

ECE Associate Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as a recipient of the IEEE SPS Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award.

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.

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 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. 

The Georgia Tech student branch chapter of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) was awarded the 2nd place prize for IEEE Region 1-7, which covers the United States and Canada, in the 2020 PES High Performing Student Branch Chapter Program.

Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar is among the 164 renowned academic inventors named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). 

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.

ECE Ph.D. student Matthew O’Shaughnessy has received a Science ATL Communication Fellowship, which is sponsored by Emory University and is designed to help close the communication gap between scientists and the public.

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.

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

Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, and Arijit Raychowdhury won the Best Paper Award at this year's ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2021).

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.

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

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Eight 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).

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.”

ECE Ph.D. students Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, and Gauthaman Murali and their faculty advisors won the Best Paper Award at this year's IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI SoC 2020).

Mingu Kim, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, has been chosen for a Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.

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.

Matthieu Bloch has been appointed as associate chair for Graduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1, 2021.

ECE Ph.D. student Rakshith Saligram has received an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Seed Research Award.

The cover story for the August 6, 2020 issue of Nature features the optical observations of lightning flashes on Jupiter made by the Juno spacecraft.

Luong Nguyen and Baki Yilmaz received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).

ECE Professors Sung Kyu Lim and Christopher Rozell have both been honored with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has been chosen as one of the recipients of the Facebook Research Faculty Award for AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design.

ECE Ph.D. student Samantha Lubaba Noor has received a 2020 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.

Two faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been awarded promotion and/or tenure, effective August 15, 2020.

Felix Herrmann is the recipient of the 2020 Reginald Fessenden Award, presented by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). He is receiving this award with Charles (Chuck) Mosher, of ConocoPhillips.

A team from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) was presented with the third-place prize at the 2020 Bell Labs Prize, a competition that recognizes disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.  

A multi-institutional team known as GO-SNIP, which included representation from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), took second place and earned a $400,000 prize in the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition.

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. 

Kevin Martin, who was the associate director of the Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC) for many years, passed away on June 28, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen E. Ralph to the Glen Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics at GTRI, effective February 1, 2020.