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Team participants with event sponsors at Empower a Billion Lives

Team SoULS Wins $100,000 in IEEE’s Empower A Billion Lives Global Competition

Twenty-three teams competed in IEEE Power Electronics Empower a Billion Lives (EBL), a global competition that is crowd-sourcing the deployment of clean, sustainable, and innovative solutions to one of the biggest challenges facing us today.

Google AI Chief Spends Time with Students during Campus Visit

Google's head of artificial intelligence visited Georgia Tech on Oct. 1 where he met with students and faculty and gave a presentation to more than 600 attendees.

Mohit Prabhushankar

OLIVES Team Wins IEEE ICIP Best Paper Award

ECE's Gukyeong Kwon, Mohit Prabhushankar, and Can Temel won the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

Thermally tunable optical switch

Tunable Optical Chip Paves Way for New Quantum Devices

Georgia Tech ECE researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal.

Georgia Tech Professor Lukas Graber and Postdoctoral Fellow Chanyeop Park study the plasma potential surrounding materials being evaluated for use in improved DC circuit breakers. The low-energy argon plasma creates the purple color. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

Hybrid Breakers Could Make Direct Current Practical in High Power Applications

Direct current (DC) has advantages over alternating current, and a new circuit breaker under development could make DC more practical.

Azadeh Ansari

Ansari Selected for Inaugural Sutterfield Family Junior Professorship

Azadeh Ansari has been appointed as the Sutterfield Family Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective September 1, 2019.

Xiaoyu Sun (left) and Shimeng Yu

Sun Receives SRC TECHCON Best Student Presenter Award

ECE Ph.D. student Xiaoyu Sun received a Best Student Presenter Award at the SRC TECHCON 2019, the annual flagship technical conference hosted by Semiconductor Research Corporation.