Georgia Tech serves as a vital partner in training the microelectronics workforce, driving future microelectronics advances, and providing unique fabrication and packaging facilities to develop and test new solutions.

Five recent graduates from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been chosen for Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Awards.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis has been named as a co-recipient of the 2022 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2021 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.

ECE Ph.D. student Aline Eid won two top honors at the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI 2021), held December 4-10 both in a virtual format and in-person in Singapore.

Six faculty members from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) have been awarded promotion and/or tenure, effective August 15, 2021.

The Capstone Design Expo returned to McCamish Pavilion for the first time since the fall of 2019, with more than 500 students broken into 118 teams from seven schools and three colleges participating.

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been named as a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

ECE Professor Emeritus Paul Steffes and his colleagues with the NASA Juno Mission published a paper that is the cover feature of the November 19, 2021 issue of Science.

Shweta Dutta won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting, held January 10-15, 2021 in a virtual format. 

ECE Ph.D. student Mandovi Mukherjee has been chosen for a 2021 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship.

ECE Ph.D. student Sridhar Sivapurapu won the third place in the student poster competition at FLEX 2021.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis spoke about the evolution of LEDs and lighting, as well as its future applications, on Acast, a podcast hosted by Lord John Browne, director of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. 

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2020 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC).

ECE Ph.D. students Naga Sasikanth Mannem and David Munzer have been chosen for Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Awards.

ECE Ph.D. students Aline Eid and Asim Gazi recently participated in workshops geared toward developing and diversifying the next generation of academic leaders.

ECE Professor Russell Dupuis and his colleagues were awarded the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering on February 2.

ECE Ph.D. students Milad Ghiasi Rad, Jacob Kimball, and Mohammad S.E. Sendi have received Blended Online Learning Design (BOLD) Graduate Fellowships.

Arijit Raychowdhury, professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been selected as the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair for ECE, effective December 1.

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

ECE Associate Professor Shimeng Yu has been named as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS).

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.

ECE Professor Arijit Raychowdhury has been selected for the 2021 Technical Excellence Award by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).

Ten recently minted Georgia Tech ECE Ph.D. graduates and postdoctoral fellows/associates have been hired into faculty positions around the world, despite a difficult and challenging job market.

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.

Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera recently paid a visit to the Khan Lab, located in the Pettit Microelectronics Building, to learn more about the field of ferroelectricity and negative capacitance and its applications in microelectronics.

ECE Ph.D. student Adou Sangbone Assoa has received the Cadence 2020 Black Students in Technology Scholarship.

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

Tushar Krishna and Arijit Raychowdhury have been selected for 2021 Qualcomm Faculty Awards (QFA). They are both faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

John D. Cressler has been promoted to the rank of Regents Professor; his nomination to this rank was approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents on August 10.

Brian Crafton, Samuel Spetalnick, Jong-Hyeok Yoon, and Arijit Raychowdhury won the Best Paper Award at this year's ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2021).

Omer Inan has been appointed to the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective July 1.

ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang has been appointed as a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for the period of 2022-2024.

ECE Ph.D. student Venkatesh Avula won the Best Overall Poster Award at ITherm 2021.

ECE Ph.D. student Foroozan Karimzadeh has won a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Graduate Fellowship, which is awarded in partnership with Texas Instruments.

ECE Ph.D. student Sajjad Abdollahramezani has received a SPIE Scholarship, which recognizes excellence in both research and leadership abilities. 

ECE Assistant Professor Asif Khan has been chosen for a DARPA Young Faculty Award.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a renewal grant of 7.5 million dollars for a five-year period (2020-2025) to continue support of the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC) as one of 16 sites within the NNCI.

Fei Wang has been chosen to receive the 2019-2020 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, the highest honor for Ph.D. students from the IEEE SSCS.

ECE Ph.D. student George N. Tzintzarov has been awarded the 2020 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant.