Interested in cybersecurity at Georgia Tech? Gain traction in this fast-growing field during Fall '17

The 2016 InVenture Prize winners will use an NSF award to conduct additional research and development on a system to protect first responders.

Georgia Tech students will present their best cybersecurity research before a panel of venture capitalists and business leaders for a chance to win cash at the “Demo Day Finale” on April 13.

Georgia Tech has helped launch nearly 70 student startups since 2014 through CREATE-X programs.

Idea to Prototype (I2P) is Georgia Tech’s only undergraduate research course that allows all students (of all majors) to receive research credits, mentorship, and a financial grant to build their invention idea into a fully functioning prototype.

Up to $125,000 in cash and prizes awaits students with cyber ideas for research or commercialization.

The Georgia Tech Agile Communication Architectures team is one of 30 teams selected to participate in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge.

Winners will be announced tonight. Six teams competing for $35,000 in cash prizes.

Three Georgia Tech students head to the RSA® Conference as 'Security Scholars' to broaden their research.

Six teams are competing for $35,000 in prizes. The InVenture Prize finale will take place March 15 at the Ferst Center for the Arts.

On April 20, the following students were recognized for their achievements throughout the past academic year.

On May 22nd and 23rd, 2017, IEN hosted its first annual “Technical Exchange Conference” to bring together academic and industry engineers working on global issues using interdisciplinary approaches.

Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires core facility access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.

Across Georgia Tech, researchers, scientists, and students are creating the next breakthroughs in understanding this complex system, treatments of neurological diseases and injuries, and tools to improve neural function.

ECE Ph.D. students Taesik Na and Jong Hwan Ko won first place in the research track at the Institute for Information Security & Privacy’s Cybersecurity Demo Day Finale. This event was held on April 12 at the Krone Engineered Biosystems Building.

A paper written by Taha Ayari, an ECE Ph.D. student, was ranked 39th among the 3,000 cited papers in the Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Reports.

Tracer FIRE for the U.S. Department of Energy is a program developed by Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories to educate and train cyber security incident responders and analysts in critical skill areas.

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

ECE Ph.D. student Aqeel Anwar won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), held November 20-22, 2018 in Stuttgart, Germany. 

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 Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2018 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).

ECE Ph.D. student Mohammad Alhassoun won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on RFID 2018, held April 10-12 in Orlando, Florida.

On Sept. 6-7, 2018, Sandia National Laboratories and Georgia Tech ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio hosted an exercise to provide students a look into how forensic incident response teams operate.

On April 10, the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) held its 17th annual Roger P. Webb Awards Program, which honors the students, staff, and faculty who have shown exceptional dedication to their professions and studies.

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.

Eight ECE faculty and staff and four ECE students were honored at Georgia Tech awards programs held during April.

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

Georgia Tech ECE alumna Xiaojing Liao has been named as a runner-up for the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Abhinav Parihar has received the Chih Foundation Graduate Research Award.

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.

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.

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.

Seven students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology have received funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

ECE Ph.D. student Sadegh Vejdan received the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, held February 8-9 in College Station, Texas.

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. 

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report graduate engineering program rankings.

ECE Ph.D. student Nil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition.

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.

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.