{"486931":{"#nid":"486931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fekri, Ma Elected as IEEE Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaramarz Fekri and Xiaoli Ma have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2016. They are both professors in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and members of the Center for Signal and Information Processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFekri was elected as IEEE Fellow \u201cfor contributions to coding theory and its applications.\u201d His research interests are in the areas of communications and signal processing, in particular source and channel coding, information theory in biology, statistical inference in large data, information processing for wireless and sensor networks, and communication security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFekri has been on the ECE faculty since 2000, where he is a member of the telecommunications and digital signal processing (DSP) technical interest groups. Fekri currently serves an associate editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications\u003C\/em\u003E and was the co-chair for the ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom 2015) in Boston, Massachusetts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMa was elected as IEEE Fellow \u201cfor contributions to block transmissions over wireless fading channels.\u201d Her research interests are in the areas of signal processing for communications and networks, signal estimation algorithms, coding theory, wireless communication theory, and sensor and ad hoc networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMa joined the ECE faculty in 2006 after working for three years at Auburn University. She is a member of the DSP technical interest group, and she has been co-director for the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;Center of Excellence in Ultra Wideband Technologies. Ma is\u0026nbsp;a senior area editor for \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Signal Processing Letters\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EElsevier Digital Signal Processing\u003C\/em\u003E and has been an\u0026nbsp;associate editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ESignal Processing Letters\u003C\/em\u003E. She served as publication chair for\u0026nbsp;the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2013, local arrangements chair for IEEE GlobeSIP 2014, and\u0026nbsp;general chair for the ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems 2015. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the addition of Fekri and Ma, Georgia Tech ECE now has 42 IEEE Fellows among its full-time faculty. Two additional faculty members\u2013Calton Pu and the late Karsten Schwan\u2013from Tech\u2019s College of Computing were also elected to the 2016 class of IEEE Fellows.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professors\u0026nbsp;Faramarz Fekri and Xiaoli Ma have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2016.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professors Faramarz Fekri and Xiaoli Ma have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2016."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-01-15 10:02:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:24","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"486901":{"id":"486901","type":"image","title":"Faramarz Fekri","body":null,"created":"1452902401","gmt_created":"2016-01-16 00:00:01","changed":"1475895242","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:02","alt":"Faramarz Fekri","file":{"fid":"204343","name":"fekri_ece.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fekri_ece_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fekri_ece_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1393070,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fekri_ece_0.png?itok=_YpufzRg"}},"486911":{"id":"486911","type":"image","title":"Xiaoli Ma","body":null,"created":"1452902401","gmt_created":"2016-01-16 00:00:01","changed":"1475895242","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:02","alt":"Xiaoli Ma","file":{"fid":"204344","name":"xiaolima131023ar620_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/xiaolima131023ar620_web_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/xiaolima131023ar620_web_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1219892,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/xiaolima131023ar620_web_0.jpg?itok=9nlb29FZ"}}},"media_ids":["486901","486911"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/faramarz-fekri","title":"Faramarz Fekri"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/xiaoli-ma","title":"Xiaoli Ma"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieee.org\/","title":"IEEE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"87411","name":"Center for Signal and Information Processing"},{"id":"20181","name":"Faramarz Fekri"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"418","name":"Xiaoli Ma"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}