Joyelle Harris and Kevin Johnson have both received faculty promotions in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1, 2020.

Manos Antonakakis has been appointed to the Dean’s Professorship, effective June 1, 2020. 

Four ECE alumni honored in the Alumni Association's inaugural 40 Under 40 Program.

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.

Baris Volkan Gurses, a spring 2020 B.S.E.E. graduate of Georgia Tech, has received a 2020-2021 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship.

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

ECE Lecturer Anna Holcomb has been selected to participate in the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program for the 2020-2021 academic year. 

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.  

Clever students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) are coming up with “work-around” ways of continuing their experimental research. An example of this is the ongoing research being conducted by Ji Ye (JC) Chun.

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

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).

ECE Professor John Cressler will receive the 2020 Outstanding Educator Award from the IEEE Atlanta Section at a virtual banquet hosted by the group on November 10.

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

In 1988, the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology hired Bonnie Ferri as its first female faculty member. The School now has 13 women in its faculty ranks.

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.

In electrical and computer engineering (ECE) programs across the United States, women make up only 15% of undergraduates. The lack of gender diversity has academic administrators scrambling to find ways to attract and retain female students.

On February 20, members of the Georgia Tech community gathered to honor the extraordinary service of Roger P. Webb, professor emeritus in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech.

John Hooper was the first director of the Microelectronics Research Center, now known as the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN).

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in obtaining valuable insights to the operation of photonic nanostructures, which manipulate light.

Alenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020.

Georgia Tech faculty members Flavio Fenton and Anna Holcomb have been chosen to take part in the 25th annual Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program for the 2020-2021 school year.

This article was published in the September/October 2020 issue of IEEE Potentials. Its authors are Pamela Bhatti, Marissa Connor, Jingting Yao, Daniela Staiculescu, and Ruth Poproski.

Despite difficult circumstances, ten current Ph.D. students, newly minted Ph.D. graduates, and postdoctoral fellows/associates from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been hired into faculty positions around the globe.

An interview with Steve Chaddick, EE ‘74, MSEE ‘82, Developer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Alan Doolittle has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective on September 1, 2019.

Hao Chen and Deepak Divan won the first place prize paper award for 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

A paper coauthored by Saad Bin Nasir and Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected as a “Top Pick Paper in Hardware and Embedded Security.”

Muhannad Bakir has been appointed as the Dan Fielder Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1, 2019.

Daniela Staiculescu has been promoted to the rank of Senior Academic Professional in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

A team of Ph.D. students from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) received a first place award in the Student Design Competition at the 2019 International Microwave Symposium.

ECE Assistant Professor Manos Antonakakis received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), held May 20-22, 2019 in San Francisco, California. 

Nordine Sebkhi and Rebecca Royster won first prize at the inaugural TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) University Global Pitchfest Competition.

Charles Lever and Manos Antonakakis received the Best Paper Award at The Web Conference 2019: 30 Years of the Web, held May 13-17 in San Francisco, California.

ECE Associate Professors Omer Inan and Jeffrey Davis were announced as the 2019 Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards honorees on April 12 at the annual Eta Kappa Nu Spring Picnic, held at the Texas Instruments Plaza adjacent to the Van Leer Building. 

Five ECE faculty members and six ECE students were honored at Georgia Tech awards programs held during the month of April. 

Robert Butera, associate dean for Research & Innovation in the College of Engineering, was honored with the ANAK Award at the 2019 Georgia Tech Faculty and Staff Honors Luncheon.

Handbook of 3D Integration was published in March 2019. 

ECE Ph.D. alumnus Francesco Amato, currently at the University of Rome, was named the recipient of the inaugural Clive Hohberger Technology Award by the Advancing Identification Matters (AIM) industry organization.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduates Razi Dehghannasiri and Sean Rodrigues have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards. 

ECE Associate Professor Alenka Zajic has been selected for the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award.