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Joseph L.A. Hughes

A Legacy of Service: Hughes Retires after 34-Year Career at Georgia Tech

ECE Professor Joseph L.A. Hughes retired at the end of 2020 after a 34-year career as a dedicated engineering educator.

Rao Tummala will receive the IEEE CPMT Award next spring. He is the director of the Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech.

IEEE Electronics Packaging Award Named after Tummala

Rao Tummala, a professor emeritus in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been honored with having an IEEE Technical Field Award named in his honor – the IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award.

Vidya Muthukumar and Ashwin Pananjady

ECE Welcomes Muthukumar, Pananjady to Georgia Tech

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome our two newest faculty members, Vidya Muthukumar and Ashwin Pananjady, to Georgia Tech.

Nikil Jayant received an Indian Institute of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award in December 2008.

Jayant Named as an NAI Fellow

ECE Professor Emeritus Nikil Jayant is among the 175 renowned academic inventors named to the 2020 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Paul Steffes in lab. Photo by Jason Maderer.

NASA Extends Exploration for Two Planetary Science Missions

The Juno Mission has been extended through September 2025, or its end of life. It will continue its key observations of Jupiter and also expand its investigations to the larger Jovian system. ECE's Paul Steffes is a member of the Juno Mission team.

Yu Appointed as IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer

ECE Associate Professor Shimeng Yu has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) for 2021-2022.

At-home monitoring devices, tools play leading role in patient care during pandemic

ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan has worked with colleagues from UCSF and Northwestern to design a wearable device that adults with preexisting conditions can use to monitor their heart and lung function from the comfort of their own homes.

Georgia Tech research technician Fang Shi places vials containing saliva tests into a device used to prepare samples for testing. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)

Testing Sites Welcome Campus Community for Spring Semester

As the spring semester gets underway, Georgia Tech’s asymptomatic surveillance testing program is up and running at full capacity to serve the campus community.

Ahmad Rezvanitabar

Rezvanitabar Tapped for IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award

ECE Ph.D. student Ahmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.

Larry Heck

Heck Wins IEEE SPS Best Paper Award

ECE Advisory Board Chair and ECE alumnus Larry Heck has received the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award.

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