ECE Professor Muhannad S. Bakir has been named the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Exceptional Technical Achievement Award.

ECE Professor Marilyn C. Wolf is the co-editor of the current special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE, which is focused on safe and secure cyber-physical systems.

ECE Postdoctoral Research Fellow Yiying Zhu has been invited to attend the 2018 Rising Stars Workshop, hosted by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Olatide Omojaro, Bige Deniz Unluturk, and Sizhuang Liang have been selected as the nominees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for teaching awards presented by Georgia Tech’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

As doctors get better at treating diseases, engineers continue to discover new solutions to medical issues that were previously thought to be impossible to solve.

ECE Ph.D. students Fei Wang and Shaojie (Kyle) Xu have been chosen for the 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Joint Sounds Sensing for Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.”

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2018 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).

ECE Professor Edward J. Coyle received the “Advancing Civic Engagement and Socially Beneficial Science and Engineering” Award at the SUNY-Industry Conference and Showcase: Science and Engineering for Social Good.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been elected to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Board of Governors for a remarkable, seventh consecutive three-year term.

ECE Ph.D. student Pranav Gupta received a Best Paper Award at the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems 2018 Workshop, held June 3-7 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

EAS Professor Felix Herrmann has been named as a 2019 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for the period covering January through June 2019.

Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.

Saibal Mukhopadhyay has been appointed to the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship, effective May 1, 2018.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan D. Saltaformaggio has received the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Pamela Bhatti has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (J-TEHM) for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2019. 

It is with much sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Thomas E. Michaels, died on May 31, 2018.

ECE Ph.D. student Nil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition.

On Sept. 6-7, 2018, Sandia National Laboratories and Georgia Tech ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio hosted an exercise to provide students a look into how forensic incident response teams operate.

Panagiotis (Panos) Kintis has been selected to participate as a DARPA Riser in D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium.

ECE Ph.D. student Tom Sarvey has been named the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology in the Components: Characterization and Modeling category.

ECE Professor Moinuddin Qureshi received the Best Paper Award at the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (IEEE MICRO), held October 19-24, 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan.

ECE Ph.D. student Motaz Alfarraj was selected for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Service Award for spring semester 2018. 

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for a two-year term. 

ECE Professor Shyh-Chiang Shen has been elected to the class of 2019 OSA Fellows.

ECE Ph.D. student Hakki Mert Torun received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 27th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems, held October 14-17 in San Jose, California.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Muhammad Amir Shafiq was chosen for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Research Award for spring semester 2018.

ECE Ph.D. student Sensen Li has received a 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant.

ECE Associate Professor Morris B. Cohen has been named president-elect of the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section (ASE) of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has been awarded the 2018 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, which is given by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

The numbers tell a sad story. Nearly one out of three people in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. While a cure remains at large, innovative treatments are advancing quickly.

ECE Professor Robert J. Butera has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) for a two-year term, which began on January 1, 2018 and will end on December 31, 2019. 

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award.

John D. Cressler, Lukas Graber, Tushar Krishna, Sung Kyu Lim, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Assessment of Warfighter Blood Volume Status using Graph Mining Algorithms.” 

ECE Ph.D. student Cheng Qi received the best student paper award at the IEEE RFID-TA 2018 conference, held September 26-28 in Macau, SER China.

Seven ECE faculty members have been awarded promotion and/or tenure, effective August 15, 2018.

ECE and CEE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.