ECE Students Recognized for Fellowship Awards

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ECE Ph.D. student Prabir Saha earned the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM).

ECE Ph.D. student Yu-Ting Hsueh was selected for an IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award.

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ECE Professor Russell D. Dupuis has been named the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics, effective March 1.

Bernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as a Joseph M. Pettit Professor, effective September 1.

Christopher J. Rozell, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective September 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Uppili Raghunathan received the 2013 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues will receive the 2013 IET Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Premium Award.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been named as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

ECE Professor John D. Cressler has been appointed to the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics, effective July 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Benjamin Cook has been selected for a 2013-2014 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard has been appointed as a member of the 2014-2015 Defense Science Study Group.

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaohang Li has been awarded the SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious scholarship given by this society for optics and photonics professionals.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed as the Schlumberger Professor, effective March 1.

ECE Regents' Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair in the College of Engineering and as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

ECE School Chair Steven W. McLaughlin recently talked with bloggers from AroundTI about university research and the present and future of engineering education.

Georgia Tech Ph.D. students Logan Sorenson and Peng Shao received the Outstanding Oral Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, held January 20-24, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

ECE Professor Magnus Egerstedt has been appointed to two IEEE posts–IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and deputy editor-in-chief for a new IEEE journal.

Erik Verriest has been elected as an international member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He will be inducted into the Academy's Class of Technical Sciences on February 14, 2013.

ECE Ph.D. student Yue Zhang won the Outstanding Interactive Presentation Award at the 62nd IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, held May 29-June 1, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.

ECE Ph.D. student Nelson Lourenco was awarded the 2014 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) Best Student Paper Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang had one of the 25 most downloaded papers from IEEE Microwave Magazine for August, September, and November of 2013.

ECE Ph.D. student John Kimionis won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE RFID TA Conference, held September 8-9 in Tampere, Finland.

ECE Professor Ali Adibi has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanophotonics for a three-year term.

ECE Professor Abdallah Ougazzaden was awarded the Medal of the City of Metz on September 16 by Mayor Dominique Gros.

ECE Professor Emmanouil M. Tentzeris had one of the 25 most downloaded papers from the IEEE Sensors Journal for September 2013.

Farrokh Ayazi has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1.

ECE Ph.D. student Paragkumar Thadesar has has been named the recipient of the Outstanding Poster Paper Award from the IEEE 63rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held last May in Las Vegas.

ECE Ph.D. student Debashis Banerjee will receive a Best in Track Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, to be held November 2-6 in San Jose, California.

ECE Ph.D. student Taoran Le will participate in the U.S.-French Post-Graduate Seminar on Nanocharacterization: Chemical Analysis, which will take place March 17-21 in France.

ECE Ph.D. students Temiloluwa Olubanjo and Hakan Toreyin won two of the top three student paper competition awards at the 2014 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, held August 26-30 in Chicago.

ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi was presented with the Intel/Texas Instruments/Catalyst Foundation Student Scholarship Award at the 2014 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), held September 15-17 in San Francisco.

ECE Associate Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay and two of his Ph.D. students won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), which was held August 11-13 in La Jolla, California.