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.
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.
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.
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome our two newest faculty members, Frank Li and David Frakes, to Georgia Tech.
ECE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan received the 2020 Donald P. Eckman Award at the American Control Conference, which was held July 1-3 in an online format.
Peter Huynh has been appointed as the interim director of Information Technology (IT) in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.
Lillian Anderson is the 2020 recipient of the Helen Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer Award, which is chosen by the Women in Engineering (WIE) program at Georgia Tech.
Joyelle Harris and Kevin Johnson have both received faculty promotions in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1, 2020.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
