ECE Ph.D. students Patrick Goley and Adrian Ildefonso have been named as 2018-2019 Leadership Fellows in the Georgia Tech Leadership Forum.

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. 

Taiyun Chi, a recent ECE Ph.D. graduate, has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Sanghoon Lee has been awarded the 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. 

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 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.

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

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 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 has received a 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant.

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

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

ECE Ph.D. student Marc Higginson-Rollins has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award, given by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

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 Ph.D. students Bijan Tehrani and Ryan Bahr have been named the recipients of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 IMAPS Symposium, held October 10-12 in Raleigh, N.C.

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.

A paper by ECE Ph.D. student Reza Abbaspour is featured as one of the highlights for 2017 in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM). 

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.

Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2018. They are BME Professor Jaydev Desai, ECE Professors Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Justin Romberg, and GTRI Senior Research Engineer Kevin James “Jim” Sangston.

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 Professor Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora has been named a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for 2018-2019.

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

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

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

ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury received the 2018 IEEE/ACM "Innovator Under 40 Award" at the Design Automation Conference, held June 24-28 in San Francisco, California. 

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Wenjing Su has been invited to attend the 2018 Rising Stars Workshop, hosted by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

ECE Ph.D. student Nil Gurel has been invited to attend the 2018 Rising Stars Workshop, hosted by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She also took part in NSF iREDEFINE last spring. 

ECE Ph.D. student Taha Ayari won the Young Scientist Award at the 2018 European Materials Research Society Meeting, held June 18-22 in Strasbourg, France.

ECE Ph.D. alumnus Damien Rontani received the Supélec Foundation Prize

John D. Cressler has been named editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Optical Wireless Applications (COWA), housed in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.