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Shreyas Sen receives IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award for 2008
Shreyas Sen, a Ph.D. student in ECE advised by Abhijit Chatterjee, received a 2008 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship Award at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2008), held in Atlanta, Georgia June 15-20. The objective of the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship program is to recognize and provide financial assistance to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a graduate degree in microwave engineering. Mr. Sen's research is on adaptive RF circuits and systems for low power, multi-standard and future software radio applications. (July 29, 2008)

Ron Harley to Receive IEEE Honor
Ron Harley has been named the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for his contributions to monitoring, control, and optimization of electrical processes including electrical machines and power networks. This award honors outstanding contributions in industrial systems engineering and may be presented to the person(s) who has made exceptional contributions to electrical engineering in the industrial environment through the design or application of systems technology.

Dr. Harley has been the Duke Power Company Distinguished Professor in the School of ECE since 1999. He is the second faculty member at Georgia Tech to receive this award, with the first being Sakis Meliopoulos in 2005. This makes Georgia Tech the only educational institution to have two faculty members as recipients of this honor. (July 2, 2008)

Justin Romberg Selected for Top ONR Award
ECE Assistant Professor Justin Romberg has been chosen for an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Funding for this award lasts for three years and funds his project, "Compressive Sampling for Next-Generation Data Acquisition."

Dr. Romberg's research centers on the mathematics of data acquisition. In particular, he is interested in how randomness can actually help in data acquisition, potentially reducing both the cost and the computational complexity of high-resolution sensing systems. This work will influence the design of next-generation analog-to-digital converters, radar imaging platforms, and MRI systems. (July 2, 2008)

Ajeet Rohatgi Honored by Georgia Sierra Club
Ajeet Rohatgi and several other university, government, and business leaders received Community Awards from the Georgia Sierra Club at the group's 25th Anniversary Gala, held on June 28 at Park Tavern. Dr. Rohatgi was recognized for his efforts to help move both Georgia and the U.S. into a clean energy economy through his solar energy research at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Rohatgi is a Regents' Professor in ECE and is a Duke Power Distinguished Professor. He founded the University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education in 1992. Dr. Rohatgi is also the founder of Suniva, a start-up company that develops, manufactures, and delivers low-cost, high-efficiency silicon solar cells. (July 2, 2008)

Jiahui Yuan Receives IEEE EDS Fellowship
Jiahui Yuan has been selected for a 2008 IEEE Electron Devices Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship. The EDS Ph.D. Fellowship Program was established to promote, recognize, and support graduate study and research within the Society's field of interest and is highly competitive. The fellowship will be presented at the 2008 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in December in San Francisco.

As a member of ECE Professor John Cressler's Silicon-Heterostructure Devices and Circuits research team, Jiahui's research focuses on the detailed understanding of the fundamental scaling issues of SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), and to date centers on two areas: 1) using operating temperature a tuning knob for both enhancing performance to better define the ultimate speed limits of such devices, as well as uncovering new device physics phenomena in these operating temperature extremes; and 2) defining a viable scaling path towards TeraHertz (THz = 1,000 GHz) bandwidth in SiGe HBTs. THz electronics is a newly emergent research thrust in the electronics community, with numerous envisioned applications in the high mm-wave and THz imaging and communications areas. (July 2, 2008)

Tapobrata Bandyopadhyay Wins Best Student Paper Award
ECE graduate student Tapobrata Bandyopadhyay has received the 2008 IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship Award for presenting the best student paper at the recent IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, held May 27-30 in Orlando, Fla. Co-authors of the winning paper, "Microwave Design, Fabrication, & Characterization of a Novel Nano-Cu based Ultra-fine Pitch Chip to Package Interconnect," included Madhavan Swaminathan, deputy director of the Microsystems Packaging Research Center (PRC); Mahadevan K. Iyer, formerly of Georgia Tech and now with Infineon Technologies; P.M. Raj Gaurav Mehrotra; and PRC Director Rao R. Tummala. (June 9, 2008)

Azad Naeemi Tapped to Receive 2007 Paul Rappaport Award
Azad Naeemi, research engineer II at Georgia Tech’s Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC), has been named the recipient of the IEEE Electron Device Society’s 2007 Paul Rappaport Award. Dr. Naeemi’s paper, “Design and Performance Modeling for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Local, Semiglobal, and Global Interconnects in Gigascale Integrated Systems,” was judged as the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2007. The award will be presented this December at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.

Dr. Naeemi’s paper, co-authored with MiRC Director Jim Meindl, described the potential performance of carbon nanotube interconnects. These nanotubes are being investigated worldwide to interconnect nanoscale transistors in integrated circuits and make faster, lower power and more reliable electronic systems. (April 14, 2008)

Etta Pittman Receives OMED Mentor Award
Etta Pittman, ECE associate director of development, has received the 2008 OMED Mentor Award. OMED is the Office of Minority Education Development at Georgia Tech. The award was presented at the 2008 Tower Awards banquet, which was held at the Omni Hotel on April 3. The Mentor Award is given to those who have gone beyond the call of duty to support OMED’s initiatives and the Institute’s underrepresented minority student population. (April 8, 2008)

Last revised on July 29, 2008.