Research Centers
ECE is a leader or primary participant in 20 interdisciplinary research centers, ranging from solar power to high-speed telecommunications. These entities offer many opportunities for corporate partnerships and for enhancing educational experiences for undergraduate and graduate students.
Please note that each center is responsible for the maintenance of its own site.
ACDEE Arbutus
Center for Distributed Engineering Education supports research for
education and pedagogy, content creation, and the distributed delivery of education.
Edward
J. Coyle, Director
CCS Center for Compound Semiconductors is a focal point for research
and educational collaborations in the Georgia Tech community related
to compound semiconductors, including conventional and nanotechnology
materials and devices.
Russell
D. Dupuis, Director
CERCS Center
for Experimental Research in Computer Systems is an industry-supported
center and focuses on the design and evaluation of the next generation
of interactive information grids via prototyping and experimentation.
This center is a partnership between ECE and the College of Computing.
Sudhakar
Yalamanchili and Douglas
Blough, Co-Directors– ECE
Karsten Schwan and Calton Pu, Co-Directors
- CoC
CMMT Center for MEMS
and Microsystems Technologies is dedicated to advancing state-of-the-art
technologies in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microsystems.
Mark
Allen, Farrokh
Ayazi, Oliver Brand, Bruno
Frazier, Co-Directors
COPE Center for
Organic Photonics and Electronics is an interdisciplinary
resource for research and education in flexible organic and photonic
materials and devices that support the information technology, energy,
and defense sectors.
Seth Marder, Director (Chemistry and Biochemistry),
Bernard
Kippelen, Associate Director (ECE)
CREST Center
for Research on Embedded Systems and Technology helps programmers
rapidly prototype embedded applications through the application of
compiler-centric software.
Vincent
Mooney and David Anderson,
Co-Directors
CSIP Center
for Signal and Image Processing conducts research and education
in digital signal processing with applications in telecommunications,
man-machine communications, medical technology, radar and sonar, and
seismic data analysis.
James H. McClellan, Director
CSC Communications
Systems Center performs research in Internet-protocol networks,
digital two-way CATV, and wireless network systems and also develops
new technologies for network security.
John
A. Copeland, Director
GCATT Georgia
Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology supports
the development of the latest technologies and applications in communications,
computing, and content processing.
Nikil
S. Jayant, Director
GEDC Georgia
Electronic Design Center fosters growth in the broadband telecommunications
industry and aims to establish Georgia as a world leader in the design
of broadband communication systems, devices,
and chips.
Joy
Laskar, Director
GTAC Georgia
Tech Analog Consortium is a membership organization involved
in research in the design, fabrication, testing, and application of analog
integrated circuits and systems and CAD development and applications.
John Papapolymerou, Director
GTBI Georgia
Tech Broadband Institute conducts research on broadband connectivity
for home and community networks and on integrated designs of personal
information devices.
Nikil
Jayant, Director
GTISC Georgia
Tech Information Security Center educates future
researchers, policy makers, and information security leaders, and
trains current professionals in the most up-to-date methods for
securing information systems. Center personnel also invent and
evaluate key innovative user-centric security technologies and
policies.
Henry
L. Owen, Associate Director;
Gary
S. May, Advisory Board Member
IMTC Interactive Media
Technology Center is a research, design, and education center
focusing on digital media processing applied to technology, education,
culture, and medicine.
Mark
A. Clements, Director
IPIC Intelligent
Power Infrastructure Consortium is a university-industry-utility
consortium that forms a focal point for the academic teaching and research
program in advanced power technologies at Georgia Tech. IPIC provides
a mechanism to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of early-stage,
pre-competitive, high-risk, and high-impact technologies in power applications.
Deepak
Divan, Director
MDITR Materials and Devices
for Information Technology Research is a multi-university NSF center
dedicated to serving the research and education needs in the broad field
of molecular photonics, an area of critical national interest.
Larry
Dalton, Director
Bernard Kippelen, Associate Director
MiRC Microelectronics
Research Center provides expertise, facilities, infrastructure,
and teaming environments to enable and facilitate interdisciplinary
research in microelectronics, integrated optoelectronics, and microsensors
and actuators.
James
D. Meindl, Director
NEETRAC National
Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center is
a membership-centered organization engaged in pre-competitive research
and development and testing for the electric energy industry.
Richard
A. Hartlein , Director
PRC Microsystems
Packaging Research Center is the largest university-based
research and education center focusing on next generation, system-level
packaging of electronics. The Center is sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
Rao
R. Tummala, Director
RIM@Georgia Tech Center
for Robotics and Intelligent Machines draws on faculty expertise in interactive and
intelligent computing, control, and engineering from the College of Engineering,
College of Computing, and the Georgia Tech
Research Institute. Emphasizing personal and everyday robotics as well
as the future of automation, RIM@Georgia Tech helps students understand
and define the
future role of robotics in society.
Magnus
Egerstedt, Associate Director for Research
UCEP University
Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education is
a U.S. Department of Energy-supported center engaged in research and
development in advanced photovoltaic materials and devices aimed at
accelerating the development of cost-effective photovoltaics.
Ajeet
Rohatgi, Director
Last revised on May 15, 2008.