Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Shreya Dwarakanath won the Best of Track (Advanced Packaging) & Best Student Paper awards at the 49th International Symposium on Microelectronics (IMAPS), held October 10-13, 2016 in Pasadena, California.

Olatide Omojaro, a second year computer engineering major at Georgia Tech, received a President’s Volunteer Service Award in January from Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Shruti Ramanathan has been awarded the Juniper Networks’ WeTech Scholarship, given annually to four female university students in the United States.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Engineer Award, given by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)

ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai has received an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Jingting Yao won first place at the Georgia Tech Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, held on November 13, 2017.

ECE Assistant Professor Fatih Sarioglu has received the 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award for his project titled “All-Electronic Lab-on-a-Chip Platforms for High-Throughput Multi-Modal Cell Phenotyping.”

ECE Assistant Professor Mark A. Davenport has been named as one out of 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers, representing eight scientific fields, to receive a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Professor Douglas M. Blough has been appointed as the associate chair for Faculty Development in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective January 1, 2018.

ECE Assistant Professor Morris B. Cohen has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled “Exploiting the LF/MF Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing.”

ECE Professor Vijay K. Madisetti and Arshdeep Bahga have released a new textbook, Blockchain Applications: A Hands-On Approach.

ECE Academic Professional Joyelle Harris was one of 40 individuals from the metro Atlanta area who were honored at the 2017 Atlanta Business Chronicle 40 Under 40 Awards.

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has received the Goizueta Foundation Fellowship for a second time, beginning this fall.

ECE Assistant Professor Tushar Krishna will receive a Best Paper Award at the 2017 Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), to be held March 27-31 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

ECE Professor Mary Ann Weitnauer has been named the recipient of the Vivian A. Carr Award, which will be presented by the Radio Club of America (RCA) at its 108th Banquet and Awards Presentation on November 17 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Seven faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been awarded promotion or tenure, effective July 1, 2017.

ECE Assistant Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio received the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), which was held October 30-November 3 in Dallas, Texas.

Dogancan (Can) Temel and Ghassan AlRegib are the co-authors of one of the most downloaded articles from Signal Processing: Image Communication during the last 90 days.

Frank Lambert has been named president-elect for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES).

ECE Professors Muhannad S. Bakir, John D. Cressler, and Sung Kyu Lim have been chosen to receive the 2016 Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award. 



ECE Professor Gordon L. Stüber has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Technical Recognition Award.

Ian F. Akyildiz has been ranked in Google's Top-H Index for Computer Science and Electronics, the impact factor for top journals in those two areas.

ECE Professor Muhannad S. Bakir has been appointed as the editor-in-chief for the Electronics Manufacturing section of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology.

ECE Ph.D. student Karan Mehta was chosen for the Best Student Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices (ISSLED 2017), held on October 8-12 in Banff, Canada.

ECE Ph.D. student Maria Santos has been chosen for a La Caixa Fellowship for Graduate Studies in North America.

ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

ECE faculty and students from the GT-Bionics Lab brought home awards from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), held October 23-28 in Atlanta, Georgia.

ECE Professor Ayanna Howard is featured in Atlanta magazine's Women Making a Mark.

ECE Ph.D. student Hanju Oh and his colleagues have been named the winners of the 2016 Best Oral Session Paper Award at the 66th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), held May 31-June 3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

ECE Ph.D. student Pyungwoo Yeon received the Third Place Best Paper Award at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), held October 19-21 in Turin, Italy.

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students and faculty from the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) won the Best Multi-Robot Systems Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017). 

The Georgia Tech team won third place overall and second place in the technical part of the Year Three phase of EcoCAR 3, a four-year student competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and General Motors.

Fred Anochie and Ragnar-Miguel Myhrer have joined the External Advisory Board for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) this fall.

ECE's Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tentzeris and Abdullah Nauroze received the gold medal award at the 20th edition of the Archimedes IP Salon, held May 16-19, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.

ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term. 

ECE Associate Professor Ying Zhang and ECE Ph.D. student Zongyang Xia have received a TechConnect National Innovation Award, which was presented last week in Washington, D.C. at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo. 

ECE Professor Ayanna M. Howard has been named as a recipient of the Walker’s Legacy Power25 Atlanta Awards.

ECE's Sohail Bahmani and Justin Romberg received a Best Paper Award at the Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference, held April 20-22 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

ECE Ph.D. students Bijan Tehrani and Ryan Bahr have been named the recipients of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2017 IMAPS Symposium, held October 10-12 in Raleigh, N.C.