It is with much sadness that we share with you that our dear friend and colleague, Thomas E. Michaels, died on May 31, 2018.

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

ECE Professor Moinuddin Qureshi received the Best Paper Award at the 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (IEEE MICRO), held October 19-24, 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan.

Panagiotis (Panos) Kintis has been selected to participate as a DARPA Riser in D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium.

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.

ECE Professor Shyh-Chiang Shen has been elected to the class of 2019 OSA Fellows.

ECE Ph.D. student Motaz Alfarraj was selected for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Service Award for spring semester 2018. 

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society for a two-year term. 

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.

Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Muhammad Amir Shafiq was chosen for the Center for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP) Outstanding Research Award for spring semester 2018.

ECE Ph.D. student Sensen Li has received a 2018 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Grant.

ECE Professor Geoffrey Ye Li has been named the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, which is given by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

ECE Associate Professor Morris B. Cohen has been named president-elect of the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section (ASE) of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

ECE Ph.D. student Adrian Ildefonso has been awarded the 2018 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.

ECE Professor Robert J. Butera has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) for a two-year term, which began on January 1, 2018 and will end on December 31, 2019. 

The numbers tell a sad story. Nearly one out of three people in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. While a cure remains at large, innovative treatments are advancing quickly.

ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award.

John D. Cressler, Lukas Graber, Tushar Krishna, Sung Kyu Lim, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

ECE Assistant Professor Omer T. Inan has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for his research project entitled “Wearable Assessment of Warfighter Blood Volume Status using Graph Mining Algorithms.” 

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.

Seven ECE faculty members have been awarded promotion and/or tenure, effective August 15, 2018.

ECE and CEE Assistant Professor Sam Coogan has been chosen for an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.

ECE research faculty member Fariborz Farahmand received the Best Paper Award in the Big Data, Image Processing, and Multimedia Technology Track at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communications Conference.

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

Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Matthieu R. Bloch were announced as the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Awards honorees on April 13 at the annual Eta Kappa Nu Spring Picnic.

The officer elections application is now open for The Hive, the organization overseeing ECE's new makerspace.

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.

Muneeb Zia and Rabia Zia received the Best Video Award at the finals of the 2018 Ideas to Serve (I2S) Competition, held on April 12 in the Scheller College of Business Atrium.

ECE Ph.D. student Marc Higginson-Rollins has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award, given by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

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.

ECE Academic Professional Kristine Nagel has been named the leader for assessing the ECE curriculum and maintaining the School’s ABET and SACS accreditations.

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.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has achieved its highest placements ever in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Issue, which includes undergraduate engineering program rankings.

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 by ECE Ph.D. student Reza Abbaspour is featured as one of the highlights for 2017 in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM). 

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is pleased to welcome three new faculty members – Angelos Keromytis, Negar Kiyavash, and Shimeng Yu – to Georgia Tech.

The paper, "Global mapping of stratigraphy of an old-master painting using sparsity-based terahertz reflectometry," is the sixth most read physics paper (out of more than 3,000) in 2017 in the Nature Publishing Group journal, Scientific Reports.

John D. Cressler, Magnus Egerstedt, and Benjamin Yang have been chosen for the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.

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.

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.