The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome three new assistant professors – Azadeh Ansari, Sam Coogan, and Brendan Saltaformaggio – to Georgia Tech.

On April 18, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 16th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Xiaochen Zhang won the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 44) Area 10, held June 25-30 in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that a Georgia Tech research team is among one of seven chosen for R&D funding in the area of solid-state lighting (SSL).

ECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco.

The following message is from Dr. Steven McLaughlin, incoming dean for the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been chosen for the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication. 

It is with great sadness that we share with you that Joseph Hammond, professor emeritus of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), passed away on August 6, 2017 in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

ECE Ph.D. student Matt O’Shaughnessy has won the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

The team of Mohammed Aabed, Gukyeong Kwon, and Ghassan AlRegib was named as a finalist for the First 10K Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, held July 10-14 in Hong Kong.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been selected as one of Atlanta magazine’s 2017 Women Making a Mark, a distinction reserved for a select group of women working to grow and strengthen the metro Atlanta community.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna has published a new textbook entitled On-Chip Networks, Second Edition. 

ECE Assistant Professor Manos Antonakakis will serve as a panelist at the CableLabs Inform(ED) IoT Security Conference, part of a two-day conference event that will be held April 12-13, 2017 in New York City, New York. 

ECE Professor Joseph L.A. Hughes has been named as the recipient of the 2017 William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education, given by the IEEE Education Society.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) both moved up and maintained its positions from last year in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

Elliot Moore II has been appointed as associate chair for Undergraduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 15.

Ghassan AlRegib and his research team in the Multimedia and Sensors Laboratory have been chosen to host and run the 2017 IEEE Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup.

ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award at the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, which took place December 12-15, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Shreya Dwarakanath won the Best of Track (Advanced Packaging) & Best Student Paper awards at the 49th International Symposium on Microelectronics (IMAPS), held October 10-13, 2016 in Pasadena, California.

Olatide Omojaro, a second year computer engineering major at Georgia Tech, received a President’s Volunteer Service Award in January from Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Shruti Ramanathan has been awarded the Juniper Networks’ WeTech Scholarship, given annually to four female university students in the United States.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineer Award, given by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)

ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai has received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Jingting Yao won first place at the Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, held on November 13, 2017.

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received the 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award for his project titled “All-Electronic Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for High-Throughput Multi-Modal Cell Phenotyping.”

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as one out of 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers, representing eight scientific fields, to receive a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Professor Douglas M. Blough has been appointed as the associate chair for Faculty Development in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1, 2018.

ECE Academic Professional Joyelle Harris was one of 40 individuals from the metro Atlanta area who were honored at the 2017 Atlanta Business Chronicle 40 Under 40 Awards.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled “Exploiting the LF/MF Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing.”

ECE Professor Vijay K. Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga have released a new textbook, Blockchain Applications: A Hands-On Approach.

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.

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

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna will receive a Best Paper Award at the 2017 Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), to be held March 27-31 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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.

Seven faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been awarded promotion or tenure, effective July 1, 2017.

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

Dogancan (Can) Temel and Ghassan AlRegib are the co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles from Signal Processing: Image Communication during the last 90 days.

ECE Professors Muhannad S. Bakir, John D. Cressler, and Sung Kyu Lim have been chosen to receive the 2016 Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award. 



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

It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, George Riley, died on June 20, 2018 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.