On Sept. 14, Ajeet Rohatgi, Regents’ Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named one of the 19 funding recipients in the Photovoltaics Research and Development Program as part of the U.S. DoE SunShot Initiative.

Raheem Beyah has been named as the Motorola Foundation Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective March 1.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has been elected to a two-year term as secretary for the Atmospheric and Space Electricity (ASE) Group in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), effective January 1, 2017. 

ECE's Sean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award.

Mohammad Faisal Amir, Duckhwan Kim, and Jae Ha Kung received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (IEEE S3S), held October 10-13, 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Five ECE students have been named recipients of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

In the study, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of California Santa Barbara created a scanning tool called ‘BarFinder’ to track down the unique features of bad repositories.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been chosen for a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award by the Army Research Office.

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ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan has been chosen for a 2015 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has received the Goizueta Foundation Fellowship for a second time, beginning this fall.

ECE Professor Mary Ann Weitnauer has been named the recipient of the Vivian A. Carr Award, which will be presented by the Radio Club of America (RCA) at its 108th Banquet and Awards Presentation on November 17 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ian F. Akyildiz has been ranked in Google's Top-H Index for Computer Science and Electronics, the impact factor for top journals in those two areas.

ECE Ph.D. student Maria Santos has been chosen for a La Caixa Fellowship for Graduate Studies in North America.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard is featured in Atlanta magazine's Women Making a Mark.

Frank Lambert has been named president-elect for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).

ECE Ph.D. student Hanju Oh and his colleagues have been named the winners of the 2016 Best Oral Session Paper Award at the 66th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held May 31-June 3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Technical Recognition Award.

The Georgia Tech team won third place overall and second place in the technical part of the Year Three phase of EcoCAR 3, a four-year student competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and General Motors.

ECE Professor Muhannad S. Bakir has been appointed as the editor-in-chief for the Electronics Manufacturing section of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.

ECE Ph.D. student Karan Mehta was chosen for the Best Student Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices (ISSLED 2017), held on October 8-12 in Banff, Canada.

ECE's Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and Abdullah Nauroze received the gold medal award at the 20th edition of the Archimedes IP Salon, held May 16-19, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.

ECE faculty and students from the GT-Bionics Lab brought home awards from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), held October 23-28 in Atlanta, Georgia.

ECE Associate Professor Ying Zhang and ECE Ph.D. student Zongyang Xia have received a TechConnect National Innovation Award, which was presented last week in Washington, D.C. at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo. 

ECE Ph.D. student Pyungwoo Yeon received the Third Place Best Paper Award at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), held October 19-21 in Turin, Italy.

ECE's Sohail Bahmani and Justin Romberg received a Best Paper Award at the Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference, held April 20-22 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017). 

ECE Ph.D. student Saad Bin Nasir won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), held May 1-5 in McLean, Virginia.

Fred Anochie and Ragnar-Miguel Myhrer have joined the External Advisory Board for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) this fall.

Nader Sehatbakhsh, Robert Callan, and Monjur Alam received second place for their demo, “Leveraging Electromagnetic Emanations for IoT Security,” at IEEE HOST 2017, held May 1-5 in McLean, Virginia.

ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term. 

ECE faculty members Christina M. Bourgeois and Elliot Moore, II were honored with Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards on April 21 at the annual Eta Kappa Nu Spring Picnic.

ECE Professor Ayanna M. Howard has been named as a recipient of the Walker’s Legacy Power25 Atlanta Awards.

ECE Ph.D. student Edgar Garay has been chosen for the National GEM Consortium Fellowship. 

ECE Professor Ian F. Akyildiz has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Recognition Award. 

Marc Higginson-Rollins, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has won a Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

ECE Ph.D. student Heechul Yoon was named as a finalist in the student paper competition at the 2017 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium.