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

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

Eight ECE faculty and staff and four ECE students were honored at Georgia Tech awards programs held during April.

Twelve ECE employees were honored with Years of Service Awards at the 2018 Faculty & Staff Service Recognition Luncheon, held on April 19 at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Midtown Atlanta.

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 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.

ECE Ph.D. student Abhinav Parihar has received the Chih Foundation Graduate Research Award.

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

Six recent ECE graduates were honored with Best Thesis Awards at the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Banquet, held on April 9 at the Klaus Building Atrium. This is the largest number of students that ECE has ever had honored at this event.

ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-doctoral Achievement Award for 2017-18.

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 Ph.D. student Sadegh Vejdan received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, held February 8-9 in College Station, Texas.

Benjamin D.B. Klein has been appointed as associate chair for Graduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1.

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 Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has received the 2018 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award for his research contributions to the radiation effects community. 

ECE Professor Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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.

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

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).

Georgia Tech ECE alumna Xiaojing Liao has been named as a runner-up for the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award.

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 Syed Abdullah Nauroze won the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, held at the International Microwave Symposium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 10-15, 2018.

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.

Jingfan Sun and Maryam Saeedifard had their paper selected as one of the top five for the 2018 Next Generation Grid Network (NGN) Paper Competition.

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.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Issue, which includes undergraduate engineering program rankings.

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome three new faculty members – Angelos Keromytis, Negar Kiyavash, and Shimeng Yu – to Georgia Tech.

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

Scientists from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have made remarkable advances into recording the electrical activity that the nervous system uses to control complex skills.

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

ECE Associate Professor Patricio Vela received the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2018 John O. Bickel Award for a paper co-authored with colleagues from the University of Cambridge.

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 Associate Professor Omer T. Inan has been selected for the 2018 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award.

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 Ph.D. student Sensen Li was chosen for the 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Best Student Paper Award.

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