It is with great sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Scott Wills, died on the morning of Friday, December 2 after a long, brave battle with melanoma.

Tom Conte has been elected as the IEEE Computer Society First Vice President, effective January 1, 2012.

ECE Assistant Professor Jongman Kim and his team won the Best Paper Award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, held September 2-4 in Banff, Canada.

ECE Associate Professor Hsien-Hsin "Sean" Lee has won a 2011 IBM Faculty Award.

ECE faculty members Matthieu Bloch and Steven McLaughlin win the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.

The 2012 graduate programs rankings from U.S. News & World Report have been published, and the results are outstanding for both Georgia Tech and ECE.

A paper written by Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee and his research team is the first ever from Georgia Tech to be chosen for IEEE Micro magazine's "Top Picks" issue.

Ian F. Akyildiz has been chosen for the 2011 W. Wallace McDowell Award, which is given by the IEEE Computer Society.

Pamela Bhatti and Saibal Mukhopadhyay win NSF CAREER Awards.

Six Georgia Tech faculty members elected as IEEE Fellows.

Five Georgia Tech faculty members have been elected as IEEE Fell

Saibal Mukhopadhyay wins 2009 IBM Partnership Award.

Honggab Kim wins Best Student Paper Award at ACM/IEEE Conference

ECE Assistant Professor Matthieu Bloch took part in the EU-US Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, held November 21-23 in Chantilly, France.

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been appointed as the Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, effective November 1.

Professor Thomas M. Conte has been elected as president of the IEEE Computer Society.

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 Assistant Professor Jongman Kim has been selected for the 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program.

ECE's Erin Hanson has received a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Program, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Defense.

ECE Ph.D. student Aritra Banerjee wins 2013 IEEE ISCAS Student Travel Award.

ECE Associate Professor Raheem Beyah has been named as a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2014.

ECE Ph.D. student Haicheng Wu is one of 11 graduate students nationwide who has won a prestigious NVIDIA graduate fellowship.

ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva was named as a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor, effective March 1.

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

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has published a new textbook, Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channels.

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

Sung Kyu Lim has been appointed as the Dan Fielder Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective July 1, 2014.

Raghupathy Sivakumar has been named as the Wayne J. Holman Chair Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1, 2014.

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.

ECE's Amit Ranjan Trivedi is one of three recipients of the 2014 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Ph.D. Fellowship and is the sole winner from the United States.

ECE Professors Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Saibal Mukhopadhyay and their recently graduated students, Subho Chatterjee and Mitchelle Rasquinha, received the 2014 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Very Large Scale Integrated Systems Best Paper Award.

An ECE/ME research team won the 2013 IEEE Transactions on CPMT Best Paper Award.

Georgia Tech researchers, collaborating with and sponsored by Intel Corporation through the Semiconductor Research Corporation, have developed a physics-based modeling platform that advances spintronics interconnect research for beyond-CMOS computing

ECE Ph.D. student Jin Wang has been chosen for the prestigious NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.

A team of four students from Georgia Tech developing a new electrical power grid technology with an Internet-like control architecture won the third annual ACC Clean Energy Challenge and the Department of Energy’s $100,000 grand prize.

ECE Professor Emeritus Thomas P. Barnwell, III will receive the 2014 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, which is given for outstanding contributions in signal processing.

Two faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech have received three prestigious junior faculty awards for their work in the field of big data.

ECE's Chao-Fang Shih and Raghupathy Sivakumar received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications, held February 3-6 in Honolulu, Hawaii.