{"660116":{"#nid":"660116","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ayazi Appointed First Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur by USG","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents has named Farrokh Ayazi \u0026mdash; along with four other Georgia Tech scholars \u0026mdash; a Regents\u0026rsquo; Entrepreneur at the board\u0026rsquo;s Aug. 9\u0026nbsp;meeting. Ayazi is the Ken Byers Professor in Microsystems in Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new Regents\u0026rsquo; Entrepreneur distinction was approved at the board\u0026rsquo;s February 2022 meeting and is granted to outstanding full-time tenured faculty members who have an established reputation as successful innovators and who have taken their research into a commercial setting. The Regents\u0026rsquo; Entrepreneur designation is bestowed by the board only upon the unanimous recommendation of the USG institution president, the chief academic officer, and the chancellor, and upon the approval of the Committee on Academic Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Farrokh is exceptionally deserving of being ECE\u0026rsquo;s first Regents\u0026rsquo; Entrepreneur,\u0026rdquo; said Arijit Raychowdhury, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0026ldquo;He has been a leader in establishing a culture within ECE \u0026mdash; following the Institute\u0026rsquo;s strategic goals \u0026mdash; that encourages entrepreneurship and technology transfer. I am thrilled that he has been chosen by the USG Board of Regents and the Georgia Tech administration to hold this title.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAyazi\u0026rsquo;s research, which focuses on MEMS and microsystems, has allowed him to establish two start-up companies based on intellectual property (IP) developed at Georgia Tech: Qualtr\u0026eacute; and StethX Microsystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQualtr\u0026eacute; commercialized a new class of acoustic microgyroscopes (\u0026lsquo;gyros\u0026rsquo;) integrated on a chip that operate in the ultrasonic frequency range with much improved small-scale accuracy. Applications include guidance, automotive, defense and personal navigation. Qualtr\u0026eacute; commercialized low-cost chip-scale gyroscopes for GPS-free navigation of autonomous cars and unmanned air vehicles before being acquired by Panasonic in December 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAyazi also founded and serves as managing director of StethX Microsystems, which is commercializing a wearable micro-chip for long-term recording of mechano-acoustic cardiopulmonary signals. The data recorded can identify indications of asthma, COPD, and pneumonia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Ayazi, four other Tech faculty members were bestowed the Regents\u0026rsquo; Entrepreneur designation, including four in the College of Engineering (CoE). They include Kirk Bowman, professor, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs; Andrei Fedorov, Neely Chair and professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences; Mark Prausnitz, Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor, J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Gleb Yushin, professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering. In total,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/six-faculty-honored-regents-titles\u0022\u003Esix CoE faculty members were honored with Regents\u0026rsquo; titles.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/tech-faculty-tapped-regents-awards\u0022\u003ERead the press release about this year\u0026rsquo;s Regents\u0026rsquo; Professors, Researchers, and Entrepreneurs.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The new Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur distinction is granted to faculty members who have an established reputation as successful innovators."}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2022-08-12 15:34:42","changed_gmt":"2022-08-12 15:34:50","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"660115":{"id":"660115","type":"image","title":"Farrokh Ayazi, Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur","body":null,"created":"1660318162","gmt_created":"2022-08-12 15:29:22","changed":"1660318162","gmt_changed":"2022-08-12 15:29:22","alt":"Farrokh Ayazi, Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur","file":{"fid":"250190","name":"Farrokh Ayazi.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Farrokh%20Ayazi.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Farrokh%20Ayazi.png","mime":"image\/png","size":541770,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Farrokh%20Ayazi.png?itok=-9m5t-on"}}},"media_ids":["660115"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/farrokh-ayazi","title":"Farrokh Ayazi"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.usg.edu","title":"University System of Georgia"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/regents\/","title":"University System of Georgia Board of Regents"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12106","name":"Farrokh Ayazi"},{"id":"171841","name":"University System of Georgia Board of Regents"},{"id":"191054","name":"Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDan Watson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dwatson@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edwatson@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dwatson@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"654980":{"#nid":"654980","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mannem Selected for IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENaga Sasikanth Mannem has received a Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. Mannem is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) who works in the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab. He is advised by ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Mannem\u0026rsquo;s research is \u0026ldquo;Millimeter-Wave MIMO Transmitter Systems for Reliability, Security, and Sensing.\u0026rdquo; His research is primarily targeted at improving the communication reliability and security of phased array systems by employing circuit and architecture level techniques.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPhased array systems are extensively being employed in 5G and emerging 6G communication systems to enhance communication distance, steer the transmitting beam towards the end-user, and for improved data rate through spatial MIMO. However, conventional phased arrays exhibit several inherent limitations such as reduced communication reliability due to antenna load variations and limited communication security. Moreover, they often need extremely precise beam alignment between the transmitting base station and the end-user; failure to do so results in degraded data rate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve a reliable communication link even under large antenna load variations of 3:1 voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), Mannem and his colleagues proposed a Reconfigurable Hybrid Series\/Parallel Doherty Power Amplifier. To improve the security of a communication link between a transmitter and the desired receiver, they exploit the inherent spatial selectivity that a phased array offers and extend\u0026nbsp;its security performance by using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, realizing a truly directional and secure communication. Further, they proposed new array architectures to enable extremely precise beam alignment between transmitter and receiver in an array communication system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMannem was a recipient of the ISSCC Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2021. He was a recipient of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) best student paper award (2nd place) at RFIC 2021 and a co-recipient of the best student paper award 2nd place at IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Naga Sasikanth Mannem has received a Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Naga Sasikanth Mannem has received a Predoctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2022-01-31 17:32:44","changed_gmt":"2022-01-31 18:26:51","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654981":{"id":"654981","type":"image","title":"Naga Sasikanth Mannem","body":null,"created":"1643650479","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 17:34:39","changed":"1643650479","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 17:34:39","alt":"photograph of Naga Sasikanth Mannem","file":{"fid":"248347","name":"Author_Photo_Naga_Sasikanth_Mannem.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Author_Photo_Naga_Sasikanth_Mannem.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Author_Photo_Naga_Sasikanth_Mannem.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":562638,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Author_Photo_Naga_Sasikanth_Mannem.jpeg?itok=0-j66zUf"}}},"media_ids":["654981"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering "},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/sscs.ieee.org","title":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"189844","name":"Naga Sasikanth Mannem"},{"id":"171546","name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"189845","name":"phased array systems"},{"id":"180095","name":"5G communications"},{"id":"188201","name":"6G communications"},{"id":"189846","name":"millimeter-wave MIMO systems"},{"id":"186836","name":"Reconfigurable Hybrid Series\/Parallel Doherty Power Amplifier"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650398":{"#nid":"650398","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech ECE Ph.D.s and Postdocs Accept Faculty Positions around the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost faculty members will tell you that interviewing and being hired into an academic faculty position is a challenging experience, even in the best job markets. Since many universities froze hiring in 2020 due to Covid-19, that process became even harder and more competitive. While some universities seemed to be hiring more aggressively in 2021, fewer openings still seemed to be available overall.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ten\u0026nbsp;recently minted Ph.D. graduates and postdoctoral fellows\/associates have been hired into faculty positions, despite these difficult and uncertain circumstances.\u0026nbsp;Six have been hired by universities in the United States, while\u0026nbsp;four\u0026nbsp;have accepted positions in Saudi Arabia and South Korea.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are extremely proud of our recent Ph.D. graduates and recently completed postdocs and all of their accomplishments,\u0026rdquo; said Douglas M. Blough, the Interim Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0026ldquo;They have been prepared very well by their advisors and by the experiences that they have had at Georgia Tech. We wish them the very best at their new university homes and in all that they choose to pursue in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a world that continues to need the expertise of engineering and science faculty more than ever, here are\u0026nbsp;ten new additions to academia, all hailing from the Georgia Tech School of ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaad Alowaifeer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaad Alowaifeer graduated with his Ph.D. in summer 2021 and worked in the Power Systems Control and Automation Laboratory. He started work this fall as an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at The King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Alowaifeer\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. thesis is \u0026ldquo;Microgrid Energy Management System with Ancillary Services to the Grid.\u0026rdquo; The research founded methodologies to optimally manage the consumption and production of electric energy in microgrids, which are small electric networks with multiple controllable energy resources.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe management is performed considering the provision of ancillary services to the main grid, which are essential capabilities needed to operate the main grid appropriately. The demand for ancillary services has been increasing due to the installation of renewable resources. By supporting the main grid from microgrids, these increasing needs may be satisfied, and thus pave the way towards more installation of renewable resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlowaifeer was advised by A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos, who holds the Georgia Power Distinguished Professorship in ECE. Meliopoulos said that decarbonization of the electric energy sector has generated new challenges due to the variability of renewable resources.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dr.\u0026nbsp;Alowaifeer\u0026#39;s research provided new paradigms for optimal electric energy utilization and electric energy system reliability via microgrids, providing reliable solutions to the new challenges,\u0026rdquo; Meliopoulos said. \u0026ldquo;The area is of great interest to the continuing decarbonization of the electric energy sector and an area of intense academic and industrial research. Dr. Alowaifeer was offered the academic position to develop this area of research at KFUPM.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBahar Asgari\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBahar Asgari graduated with her Ph.D. in spring 2021. Starting in\u0026nbsp;July 2022, she will start working as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently working at Google on its system infrastructure team.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Asgari\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Efficiently Accelerating Sparse Problems by Enabling Stream Accesses to Memory Using Hardware\/Software Techniques.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Today, a significant portion of supercomputer workloads are sparse problems. However, as they are not able to use more than a tiny fraction of the peak performance of today\u0026#39;s computers, they waste millions of dollars and thousands of Joules of energy, and yet cannot run fast enough.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsgari\u0026rsquo;s research proposes low-cost hardware accelerators and hardware\/software co-optimization to deal with the unsolved but essential challenges of sparse problems and help them run quickly and efficiently. The results of her research have contributed to widespread application areas of sparse problems, including machine learning, computer vision, self-driving cars, and scientific computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsgari worked in both the High Performance Computer Architecture Lab and the Computer Architecture and System Lab at Georgia Tech. She was advised by Hyesoon Kim, a professor in the School of Computer Science, and the late Sudhakar Yalamanchili, who was a Regents Professor in the School of ECE. \u0026ldquo;Bahar is intelligent and very focused,\u0026rdquo; Kim said. \u0026ldquo;She likes advising and teaching students. Her students will be lucky to have her as an advisor, similar to I was lucky to have an opportunity to work with her.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENingyuan Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENingyuan Cao graduated with his Ph.D. in summer 2020 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in ECE for the last year. He began working as an assistant professor this fall in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Cao\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. thesis is \u0026ldquo;Circuit and Algorithm Design to Enable Edge Intelligence.\u0026rdquo; As a part of his graduate research, Cao made fundamental contributions to the design of ultralow power mixed-signal circuits that can enable Edge-intelligence. In particular,\u0026nbsp;his work has provided the hardware techniques needed to enable machine learning in sub-10mW systems through innovations in circuit- and hardware-friendly algorithm design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research has been published in leading conferences, such as the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference and the VLSI Symposium, and journals like the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems\u003C\/em\u003E. His work was highlighted in a number of technical media articles, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEE Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, Cao worked in the Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab, which is led by his advisor, Arijit Raychowdhury. \u0026ldquo;I am very excited to see Ningyuan join the faculty at the University of Notre Dame. His graduate work and his current post-doctoral research addresses critical circuit design challenges,\u0026rdquo; said Raychowdhury, who holds the Motorola Solutions Foundation Professorship in ECE. \u0026ldquo;Having worked with Ningyuan over the years, I am confident that he will not only be a successful, independent researcher, but also a fantastic educator and mentor.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZackory Erickson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZackory Erickson was an ECE student who graduated with his Ph.D. through the interdisciplinary robotics doctoral program during summer 2021. He joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University this fall as an assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Erickson\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Robotic Caregivers \u0026mdash; Simulation and Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human-Robot Interaction.\u0026rdquo; Physical human-robot interaction and robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people, including the millions of\u0026nbsp;older adults and people with physical disabilities who have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) on their own. This research presents new techniques for robotic caregivers, including haptic perspective-taking, capacitive sensing for tracking human pose, and physics simulation for assistive robots. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EErickson was advised by Charles C. Kemp, who is an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Zackory is an emerging leader in robotics who is making intelligent robotic caregivers a reality,\u0026rdquo; said Kemp, who leads the Healthcare Robotics Lab. \u0026ldquo;I would not be surprised if I personally benefit from Zackory\u0026rsquo;s research someday as I become older and require assistance. Paradoxically, that is something I look forward to!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYan Fang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYan Fang earned his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018, and shortly afterward, he came to Georgia Tech to conduct postdoctoral research in the\u0026nbsp;Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab.Starting this fall, Fang began working as an assistant professor in the Department of ECE at the Marietta, Georgia campus of Kennesaw State University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, Fang conducted research on brain-inspired computing based on emerging nano-devices. He has made significant contributions to the design of novel circuits and systems that implement certain computational properties of biological networks. His work has impacted the areas at the intersection of energy-efficient learning and optimization with applications to robotics and other intelligent devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFang worked with ECE Professor Arijit Raychowdhury during his postdoctoral assignment. Raychowdhury called him one of the most dedicated and independent researchers at this early career stage that he has seen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Yan is a mentor to many of my undergraduate students and has a very broad perspective of his work. He enjoys teaching and working with others, and academia is the natural choice for him,\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said. \u0026ldquo;I am very happy to see him start as an assistant professor at Kennesaw State, where he can play an instrumental role in both research, as well as teaching the next generation of ECE students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMin-gu Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn spring 2019, Min-gu Kim received his Ph.D. in ECE, where he was a member of the\u0026nbsp;Integrated Sensing Systems (iSenSys) Lab. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University until last February. Kim started working as an assistant professor this past spring in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Inha University, which is located in Incheon, South Korea.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Kim\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;All-Soft Electronic Devices and Integrated Microsystems Enabled by Liquid Metal.\u0026rdquo; Kim\u0026rsquo;s thesis work has been in the area of soft electronics, which are electronics that are bendable and stretchable. In particular, he researched the use of liquid metal conductors embedded into soft polymers for sensing and energy storage applications. Kim then developed new fabrication processes that pushed the ability to pattern liquid metal structures to sub-micrometer dimensions for the first time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Oliver Brand, who served as Kim\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. advisor, said that Kim started a completely new research thrust in the area of soft electronics in the iSenSys Lab. \u0026ldquo;Min-gu\u0026nbsp;published his research results in high-impact journals, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EACS Nano\u003C\/em\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Functional Materials\u003C\/em\u003E, and joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow after completing his Ph.D.,\u0026rdquo; Brand said. \u0026ldquo;Considering his passion for research, his creativity, and his interest in teaching, it was no surprise to me that he was hired into a faculty position at Inha University.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJingfei Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJingfei Liu graduated with his Ph.D. in ECE in fall 2020 after working in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. This past spring, he began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Liu\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Development of Ultrasound Elastography Methods for Biomechanical Assessment of Soft Tissue in Medical Diagnosis.\u0026rdquo; The objective of Liu\u0026rsquo;s dissertation research is to develop novel ultrasound elastography, or elasticity imaging, methods for medical diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring, as well as image-guided therapy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause many pathological and physiological processes of human beings, including cancer, fibrosis, and aging, can cause tissue elasticity change, tissue elasticity characterization can provide valuable information for medical diagnosis and therapy. Liu\u0026rsquo;s research is focused on addressing the challenges of the current ultrasound elastography technology by improving elasticity image quality, characterizing non-bulk tissues\/organs, and overcoming the effects of physiological motions in degrading imaging quality and measurement accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiu was advised by Stanislav Emelianov, who is the Joseph M. Pettit Chair in ECE and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u0026nbsp;He said that Liu was a hardworking and independent student from the beginning. \u0026ldquo;Jingfei was eager to identify his own projects, he conducted the studies, and he trained other students and interns,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;said Emelianov.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;At the end of his tenure in our lab, he was acting as a junior faculty member \u0026ndash; I am not surprised that he became one.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOluwaseun Sangodoyin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOluwaseun (Seun) Sangodoyin graduated with his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in August 2018. Starting in November 2018, he began work as postdoctoral fellow with Georgia Tech ECE Professor Alenka Zajic in the Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESangodoyin recently completed his postdoctoral assignment with Zajic in August 2021. He has been appointed as a Sutterfield Family Postdoctoral Scholar and is now working with ECE and BME Professor Stanislav Emelianov in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory. Sangodoyin will begin his career as a Georgia Tech ECE assistant professor in August 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESangodoyin\u0026rsquo;s work is at the intersection of bioelectronics and wireless communication and entails leveraging transistor switching in microchips for communication and sensing in brain implants and gastrointestinal devices. 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During his time at Tech, Yoon worked in the\u0026nbsp;Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab. This fall, he began working as an assistant professor at the\u0026nbsp;Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology in Daegu, South Korea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, Yoon worked on the design of low-power hardware for autonomous systems. He proposed, designed, and measured a neuromorphic SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) accelerator integrated circuit for edge-robotics. 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This is the second year in a row that Wang has won this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe QFA supports key professors and their research, with the goal of strengthening Qualcomm\u0026rsquo;s engagement with faculty who also play a key role in Qualcomm\u0026rsquo;s recruiting of top graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is a rapidly growing need for high-performance RF, millimeter wave (mm-Wave), and terahertz (THz) front-end circuits and transceiver systems to address the numerous 5G and Beyond 5G wireless communications and sensing applications. Wang\u0026#39;s research group has pioneered a variety of novel circuit topologies and system architectures that are agnostic to process technology platforms and can radically improve the bandwidth, energy-efficiency, robustness, and reconfigurability of RF, mm-Wave, and THz circuits and systems. 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Congratulations to these faculty members on achieving these career milestones!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EPromotion to Professor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPamela Bhatti\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMatthieu Bloch\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWenshan Cai\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPromotion to Associate Professor with Tenure\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELukas Graber\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Granting promotion and tenure are very carefully\u0026nbsp;considered actions, and they are significant milestones that each of these faculty members worked extremely hard to reach,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, Steve W. 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Tzintzarov received his B.S and M.S in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2016 and 2020, respectively.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, \u0026ldquo;Optical Single-Event Transients Induced in Integrated Silicon-Photonic Waveguides by Two-Photon Absorption,\u0026rdquo; was co-authored by Adrian Ildefonso, Jeffrey W. Teng, Milad Frounchi, Albert Djikeng, Prahlad Iyengar, Patrick S. Goley, Ani Khachatrian, Joel Hales, Ryan Bahr, Stephen P. Buchner, Dale McMorrow, and John D. Cressler. This work, which was performed in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., experimentally confirmed the existence of Optical Single-Event Transients (OSETs) in silicon integrated waveguides.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEnergized particles in space, such as heavy ions which typically emanate from interstellar space, can deposit energy into spacecraft systems. This energy can cause malfunctions, signal glitches, or even spacecraft terminal failures. Over the past several decades, these phenomena, called \u0026ldquo;single-event effects,\u0026rdquo; have been well characterized for electrical systems. However, emerging interest of using optical communications systems (which function very differently than electrical systems) for space has raised the question: \u0026ldquo;Can\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eoptical\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;communications systems survive in the harsh, heavy-ion rich space environment?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile this question is far from being answered with certainty, and may vary from system to system, the work in Tzintzarov\u0026rsquo;s paper provided the first experimental confirmation of optical single-event transients (OSETs). Tzintzarov showed that OSETs perturb optical signals in a silicon waveguide. 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The symposium was held December 7-11 as a virtual event.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENguyen and Yilmaz graduated with their Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) this past summer, and they now work for companies in Atlanta. Nguyen works for Synopsys, and Yilmaz works for Aether Argus. They were co-advised by ECE Associate Professor Alenka Zajic and Milos Prvulovic, who is a professor in the School of Computer Science. 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Her work has been publicized locally and internationally through\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E, NSF Science 360, Voice of America,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E, and many other outlets. Zajic has served as an editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies\u003C\/em\u003E. She also served as the chair of the Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society\/Antennas and Propagation Society from 2015-2017, and during that time, the group received the IEEE Outstanding Chapter Award in 2016. She received the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award in 2019.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEqually devoted to teaching excellence and service, Zajic has developed or redesigned both undergraduate and graduate courses and has taught a flipped classroom version of ECE 3025\u0026ndash;Electromagnetics. For her efforts, she has received several teaching awards, including the Richard M. Bass\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Junior Teacher Award in 2016 and the LexisNexis Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence Award in 2016-2017. Zajic has also participated in the Center for Teaching and Learning\u0026rsquo;s Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars Program. She is an active member of the ECE and Georgia Tech community, currently serving as the director of the M.S. Cybersecurity degree program; a member of the ECE Statutory Advisory Committee;\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;member of the College of Engineering Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure committee;\u0026nbsp;and a member of a working group on the professional development of graduate students, an initiative coordinated from the Provost\u0026rsquo;s Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-10-02 15:50:11","changed_gmt":"2020-10-02 15:55:56","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639844":{"id":"639844","type":"image","title":"Alenka Zajic","body":null,"created":"1601654095","gmt_created":"2020-10-02 15:54:55","changed":"1601654095","gmt_changed":"2020-10-02 15:54:55","alt":"photograph of Alenka Zajic","file":{"fid":"243250","name":"18C10202-P10-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":446196,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg?itok=f69iSrYU"}}},"media_ids":["639844"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic","title":"Alenka Zajic"},{"url":"https:\/\/alenka.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11173","name":"Alenka Zajic"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"173154","name":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory"},{"id":"185969","name":"propagation"},{"id":"171622","name":"data security"},{"id":"180925","name":"vehicle-to-vehicle wireless radio communications"},{"id":"180926","name":"underwater acoustic communications"},{"id":"185970","name":"processor chips"},{"id":"185971","name":"electromagnetic (EM) side-channel emanations"},{"id":"1298","name":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"},{"id":"9595","name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society"},{"id":"180921","name":"IEEE Atlanta Section"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"1561","name":"undergraduate education"},{"id":"15156","name":"graduate education"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"638494":{"#nid":"638494","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech ECE Ph.D.s and Postdocs Accept Faculty Positions around the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETalk with any faculty member and he or she will say that interviewing and getting hired into an academic faculty position is a challenging experience, even in the best job markets. Since many universities froze hiring due to COVID-19 earlier this year, that process became even tougher.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ten current Ph.D. students, newly minted Ph.D. graduates, and postdoctoral fellows\/associates have been hired into faculty positions, despite these difficult circumstances. Seven have been hired by universities in the United States, while three have accepted positions in Saudi Arabia, Chile, and Turkey.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are extremely proud of our Ph.D. students, recent Ph.D. alumni, and postdocs and all of their accomplishments,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0026ldquo;We wish them all of the very best at their new university homes and in all that they choose to pursue in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a world that needs the expertise of engineering and science faculty more than ever, here are ten new additions to academia, all hailing from the Georgia Tech School of ECE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbdullah Alamri\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbdullah Alamri graduated with his Ph.D. in spring 2020 after working in the Power Systems Control and Automation Laboratory since 2015. He started working\u0026nbsp;this summer\u0026nbsp;as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Islamic University of Madinah, located in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Alamri\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Reliability Analysis Methods for Power Systems with Substantial Penetration of Renewable Generating Resources.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Focused on reliability and generation adequacy of present-day power systems, Alamri\u0026rsquo;s thesis developed reliability assessment models of power systems with wind farms and\/or solar farms. The models provide probabilistic descriptions of wind farm\/solar farm electric power output, and three different methods for computing the generated power probability distribution function of a wind farm or a solar farm were proposed and implemented.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlamri was advised by A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos, who holds the Georgia Power Distinguished Professorship in ECE. Meliopoulos said that\u0026nbsp;Alamri\u0026#39;s work is fundamental in understanding and quantifying the uncertainty associated with variable, or non-controllable, power generation, such as wind and solar. \u0026ldquo;As the penetration levels of wind and solar into modern power systems increase, the reliability and associated costs for maintaining a certain reliability level are greatly affected,\u0026rdquo; Meliopoulos said. \u0026ldquo;Mr. Alamri\u0026rsquo;s work provided rigorous mathematical models and computational procedures to quantify the reliability of the system and enable optimization of planning strategies for modern systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENingyuan Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENingyuan Cao graduated with his Ph.D. in summer 2020 after working in the Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Laboratory since 2015. In fall 2021, he will join the Department of ECE at George Washington University\u0026nbsp;as an assistant professor. The university is located in Washington, D.C.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Cao\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Circuit and Algorithm Design to Enable Edge Intelligence.\u0026rdquo; His work aims to bridge the gap between Internet of Things (IoT) intelligence and hardware constraints via technical innovations. In particular,\u0026nbsp;Cao aims to enhance intelligence, robustness, and trust of the human-IoT eco-system via circuit\/algorithm co-design. His research has been highlighted in a number of technical media articles including\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEE Times\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECao was advised by ECE Professor Arijit Raychowdhury, who said that Cao will be an excellent researcher and will succeed in academia. \u0026ldquo;Ningyuan is curious, eager to work on new problems, but doesn\u0026rsquo;t compromise on rigor,\u0026rdquo; Raychowdhury said. \u0026ldquo;He has been interfacing with a number of semiconductor companies as a part of his graduate work, and I am sure that it has taught him to be careful and successful in selecting problems that will have an impact.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam Charles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdam Charles graduated with his Ph.D. in ECE in 2015 and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University in New Jersey. He began working as an assistant professor this summer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, located in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Charles\u0026rsquo; thesis is \u0026ldquo;Dynamics and Correlations in Sparse Signal Acquisition.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Many advances in technology over the past few decades, such as in robotics, medical devices, and scientific analysis, have relied on the increasing ability to mathematically describe and exploit the intrinsic relationships that exist in data collection. This work bridges the gap between two important data relationships: sparsity and dynamics.\u0026nbsp;Sparsity is the concept that a large, complex dataset admits a simple mathematical representation with a small number of independent features, while dynamics is the smooth evolution of our world through time that creates regularities in sequential data-points. Charles\u0026rsquo; resulting algorithms and theory have broad usage in practical applications, including improving the resolution of airborne imaging systems, algorithmic advances that improved on the state-of-the-art for tracking objects in complex temporal data, and theoretical explorations on the computations that can be performed by ever-pervasive recurrent neural network models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECharles was advised by ECE Professor Christopher Rozell. He said that Charles\u0026nbsp;made innovative technical contributions, focused on activities to develop himself professionally, and invested in collaborative relationships with his colleagues to advance everyone\u0026rsquo;s work. \u0026ldquo;This foundation served Adam well as he broadened his skillset in his postdoc work to be uniquely positioned to address some of the most pressing problems at the intersection of neuroengineering and data science,\u0026rdquo; Rozell said. \u0026ldquo;It was no surprise that he was very successful on the job market and is embarking now to start his own lab in one of the best environments in the world for his research area. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be more proud of Adam, and I am excited to see the way he leads our field over the next generation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThinh Doan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThinh Doan recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with both ECE and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). Doan joined the Bradley Department of ECE at Virginia Tech this fall, where he is an assistant professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoan earned his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, and shortly afterwards, he came to Georgia Tech to do postdoctoral work on how multiple agents can collaboratively learn how to behave in their environment when communication between them is contained. This work is a mix of optimization, control, and communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoan was advised by Justin Romberg, the Schlumberger Professor of ECE, and by Siva Theja Maguluri and Ganghui (George) Lan, assistant professor and professor respectively in ISyE. Romberg said that Doan\u0026rsquo;s time at Georgia Tech was a fantastic success. \u0026ldquo;In his two years here, Thinh not only published many papers in top applied mathematics journals and computer science conferences, he was also a tremendous mentor to my graduate students in ECE,\u0026rdquo; Romberg said. \u0026ldquo;He will make an excellent faculty member.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFelipe A. Larrain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFelipe Larrain is graduating with his Ph.D. this summer after working in the Kippelen Research Group since 2014. This fall, he joined the Energy and Environmental Engineering Department as an assistant professor at the\u0026nbsp;Universidad Adolfo Ib\u0026aacute;\u0026ntilde;ez, located in Santiago, Chile.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Larrain\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Physics and Engineering of Organic Solar Cells: Electrical P-type Doping with Phosphomolybdic Acid.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;The objective of Larrain\u0026rsquo;s proposed research was to simplify the fabrication of organic solar cells and limit their environmental impact by optimizing a new electrical doping mechanism. The solution-based electrical doping technique leads to a dramatic simplification of the device architecture of organic solar cells, decreasing the device fabrication cost while keeping the promise for roll-to-roll, large-area, and high throughput manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELarrain was advised by Bernard Kippelen, who holds the Joseph M. Pettit Professorship in ECE. \u0026ldquo;I am extremely thankful to Felipe for his contributions to our research group during his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech and am delighted that he has decided to select an academic career and become a scholar,\u0026rdquo; Kippelen said. \u0026ldquo;I am convinced that he will have an incredible impact on future generations of students, especially Latino students.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarry Muldrey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBarry Muldrey graduated with his Ph.D. in summer 2019 after working in the Low-power, Adaptive, and Resilient Systems Laboratory and then conducted postdoctoral research in the Integrated Computational Electronics Laboratory. He joined the Department of ECE at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi this fall as an assistant professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Muldrey\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Algorithms for Post-Silicon Validation and Debug of Radio-Frequency, Analog, and Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems.\u0026rdquo; The problem of validating and verifying the correctness of analog\/RF circuits and systems is of critical importance due to their widespread deployment in sensing, control, and communication applications. Novel machine-learning assisted algorithms were developed for automatically modeling and validating behaviors of physical designs across the global space of possible excitations to such systems. A key contribution in Muldrey\u0026rsquo;s thesis was developing the ability to diagnose design inconsistencies (or \u0026ldquo;bugs\u0026rdquo;) down to individual modules to enable rapid design debug and yield ramp-up.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMuldrey was advised by ECE Professor Abhijit Chatterjee for his doctorate and collaborated with ECE Professor Jennifer Hasler on postdoctoral work in her lab. Between Hasler and Chatterjee, they have 11 Ph.D. graduates who are engineering faculty members.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Barry was always looking beyond horizons to push his abilities in so many domains; he is multi-faceted and multi-talented,\u0026rdquo; Chatterjee said. \u0026ldquo;It is a great accomplishment for him to get the academic position he always wanted. He is well-positioned to excel in so many areas, and I wish all the best to Barry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENader Sehatbaksh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENader Sehatbaksh is graduating with his Ph.D. this summer after working in the Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory since 2014. He joined the Department of ECE at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) this fall as an assistant professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Sehatbaksh\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Leveraging Side-Channel Signals for Security and Trust.\u0026rdquo; His research is focused on finding new methods to discover, model, and mitigate unintentional information leakage, known as side-channels, from modern computers. His work aims to leverage side-channel signals for useful purposes\u0026ndash;like profiling, intrusion detection, and establishing trust\u0026ndash;to improve the security and\/or performance of resource-constrained devices such as embedded and cyber-physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESehatbaksh was co-advised by ECE Associate Professor Alenka Zajic and Computer Science Professor Milos Prvulovic. Zajic noted that\u0026nbsp;faculty positions at schools like UCLA, a top 20 institution in the United States, are highly competitive even in regular years. \u0026ldquo;Such faculty positions were exceptionally scarce during\u0026nbsp;COVID-19, when most schools have frozen hiring,\u0026rdquo; Zajic said. \u0026ldquo;Securing this position is a testament to Nader\u0026rsquo;s exceptional research accomplishments and other academic achievements, and also to the great training he obtained at Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeren Semiz\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeren Semiz is graduating with her Ph.D. this summer after working in the Inan Research Lab since 2016. She begins her career as an assistant professor this fall in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Koc University, located in Istanbul, Turkey.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Semiz\u0026rsquo;s thesis is\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Digital Biomarker Discovery for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring with Acoustic and Vibration Signals.\u0026rdquo; There is a compelling need for novel modalities which can employ continuous and non-invasive health monitoring outside the physical confines of the clinic. Consequently, there is a new emerging class of biomarkers,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Edigital biomarkers\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, which are measures collected through connected digital tools, generally across multiple layers of hardware and software. Semiz\u0026rsquo;s work in this area proposes the use of wearable acoustic and vibration measurements to derive digital biomarkers, which can be used together with existing medical information to assist in clinical decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESemiz was advised by ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan, who said that being hired as an assistant professor at Koc University is impressive and demonstrates how highly her research activities and plans are regarded internationally. It is a leading Turkish university and was the highest ranked university in Turkey in 2018, according to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETimes Higher Education World University Rankings\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Beren has conducted highly innovative and exciting research while here in my group at Georgia Tech, bridging the disciplines of acoustics and vibration measurements from the body and digital health,\u0026rdquo; Inan said. \u0026ldquo;I am confident that she will be a successful independent PI at Koc, and will allow their Department of EEE and College of Engineering new opportunities to collaborate with medical schools and hospitals in Istanbul, addressing some of the most pressing health challenges facing the world today.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESahil Shah\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESahil Shah graduated with his Ph.D. in ECE in 2018 and is currently a postdoctoral associate at Caltech in Pasadena, California.\u0026nbsp;He will begin working as an assistant professor in spring 2021 in the Department of ECE at the University of Maryland at College Park.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Shah\u0026rsquo;s thesis is \u0026ldquo;Low-Power Computation using FPAA for Wearable Devices.\u0026rdquo; His thesis presented\u0026nbsp;foundational work demonstrating multiple low-energy system applications, particularly directions in embedded machine learning. The application of this work could potentially transform a number of portable and wearable devices, including medical devices. Shah\u0026rsquo;s work proved that these applications were shown to be robust to environmental factors, such as temperature fluctuations. He also developed techniques to self-repair these approaches as they were being used.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShah was advised by ECE Professor Jennifer Hasler, who said that Shah has a bright future ahead of him in academia and in his particular field. Nine of her Ph.D. graduates hold tenured engineering faculty positions, and Shah is now the tenth to enter academia from her group. \u0026ldquo;Sahil\u0026rsquo;s excellent accomplishments both in teaching and research will continue to enable him to make a great impact as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, particularly in the area of wearable personal and medical devices,\u0026rdquo; Hasler said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESwamit Tannu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwamit Tannu has worked in the Memory Systems Lab since 2014 and will graduate with his Ph.D. in ECE during fall 2020. In spring 2021, he will begin his career as an assistant professor in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Tannu\u0026rsquo;s thesis is\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Compiler and Runtime Support for Near-term Quantum Computers.\u0026rdquo; His thesis work looks at software techniques to improve the fidelity of near-term quantum computers. It also looks at cryogenic processor and cryogenic memory systems for designing scalable quantum computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETannu was advised by ECE Professor Moinuddin Qureshi, who said that Tannu is the third student from the Memory Systems Lab who is headed to academia. His past ECE advisees in academia are Jian Huang at the Department of ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Prashant Nair at the Department of ECE at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I am super proud of all of Swamit\u0026rsquo;s accomplishments, including him joining the University of Wisconsin, which is considered one of the strongest CS departments,\u0026rdquo; Qureshi said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Swamit has been an incredible student, who chartered his own path and made strong research contributions in the emerging area of Quantum Computing. 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Wang\u0026#39;s research group has pioneered a variety of novel circuit topologies and system\u0026nbsp;architectures that are agnostic to process technology platforms and can radically improve the bandwidth, energy-efficiency, and robustness of\u0026nbsp;RF\/mm-Wave circuits and systems.\u0026nbsp;Wang\u0026#39;s research has led to multiple papers in premier venues, including the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(JSSC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Wang leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-Systems (GEMS) Lab. 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His research focuses on inventing fundamental circuit topologies and system architectures that will lead to a new class of load modulation power amplifiers with an unprecedented combination of bandwidth, energy efficiency, output power, and linearity. These fundamental amplifier topologies will be agnostic to process technologies and will eventually enable true \u0026ldquo;common-module front-ends\u0026rdquo; for reconfigurable transmitters and MIMO systems with mm-Wave to THz \u0026ldquo;full-spectrum access\u0026rdquo; for wireless communication, radar, imaging, and spectrum sensing applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;DARPA has a long history of making pivot investment in breakthrough innovations, not only in game-changing defense capabilities but also foundational technologies for our modern civilian society, such as the internet and miniaturized GPS receivers,\u0026rdquo; says Wang. \u0026ldquo;It is a great honor to be recognized by DARPA for my team\u0026rsquo;s research. Our mission is to invent new circuits and systems by exploring fundamental topologies. When we remove the conventional boundaries between devices, circuits, and electromagnetics, and consider everything holistically, interesting innovations will happen.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty since 2012, Wang is currently an associate professor and leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab. He has received multiple prestigious academic awards, including the ECE Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship 2014-2018, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2017, Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2016, National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, Roger P. Webb ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2015, and Lockheed Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, as well as many best paper awards in the field of solid-state circuits, systems, and microwave engineering. 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They were formally recognized at CTL\u0026rsquo;s Celebrating Teaching Day, which was held on March 10, 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor this year, courses taught during the calendar year 2019 were considered. The criteria for selection for the award included a student response rate of 85% and above. CIOS scores were based on the sum of three scale items: (#16) instructor\u0026rsquo;s respect and concern for students; (#17) instructor\u0026rsquo;s level of enthusiasm about teaching the course; and (#18) instructor\u0026rsquo;s ability to stimulate interest in the subject matter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELim was recognized for his outstanding teaching in\u0026nbsp;ECE 6133: Physical Design Automation of VLSI Systems. He taught this course to 76 graduate students during spring 2019.\u0026nbsp;This course focuses on various design automation problems in the physical design process of VLSI circuits. It also covers issues such as logic partitioning, floorplanning, global routing, detailed routing, compaction, and performance-driven layout.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELim\u0026nbsp;is a professor and has been on the ECE faculty since 2001. He leads the Georgia Tech Computer-Aided Design Lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERozell was recognized for his outstanding teaching in ECE\u0026nbsp;8801: Are You\u0026nbsp;Thinking of Becoming a Academic? during fall 2019. He taught this course to 67 graduate students, combined from all four sections, during fall 2019. This course is cross-listed with the Schools of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), Industrial and Systems Engineering(ISyE), and Mechanical Engineering.\u0026nbsp;The course focuses on seeking positions at top tier research universities and covering topics such as\u0026nbsp;the application and interview process,\u0026nbsp;building and funding research groups, and mentorship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERozell is a professor and has been on the ECE faculty since 2008. He leads the Sensory Information Processing Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaltaformaggio was recognized for his outstanding teaching in\u0026nbsp;ECE 4894 A: Introduction to Malware Reverse Engineering. He taught this course to 49 students during spring 2019. This course couples the instruction of fundamental malware dissection principles with hands-on reverse engineering projects which investigate realistic malware samples and utilize cutting-edge technologies. The students follow\u0026nbsp;dedicated lab assignments which progressively introduce new and important challenges that a reverse engineer might encounter when analyzing modern malware \u0026ndash; an increasingly in-demand skill set for both graduate research or employment with private and government forensics labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaltaformaggio is an assistant professor and has been on the ECE faculty since 2017. He leads the Cyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory, also known as the CyFI Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic was also recognized for her outstanding teaching\u0026nbsp;in ECE 8801\/CHBE 8801\/ISYE 8811: Are You\u0026nbsp;Thinking of Becoming a Academic? during fall 2018. She taught this course to 32 graduate students from ChBE, ISyE, and ECE. 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The fellowships, which provide a three-year annual stipend of $34,000, along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance, are awarded to outstanding students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields who are pursuing research-based graduate degrees.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBelow is a list of the eight awardees and two honorable mentions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELouise Zhuang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an electrical engineering senior who is graduating this May, and she plans to go to Stanford University to pursue her Ph.D. this fall. 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His research advisors are Sonya Chernova, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and ECE Associate Professor Morris Cohen as part of the Vertically Integrated Projects Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert (Max) Dabagia\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a computer engineering senior who is graduating this May, and he\u0026nbsp;plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science at Georgia Tech. His research advisor is Eva Dyer, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoanne Truong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a first year ECE Ph.D. student in robotics, and she is co-advised by Sonia Chernova and Dhruv Batra, both associate professors in the School of Interactive Computing. Truong graduated magna cum laude in 2019 from Northeastern University with her bachelor of science degree in computer engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENelson Sepulveda\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a first year ECE Ph.D. student, and he is advised by ECE Professor John Cressler. Sepulveda graduated in 2019 with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAsim Gazi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a second year ECE Ph.D. student, and he is advised by ECE Associate Professor Omer Inan. Gazi graduated in 2018 with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Richardson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a second year ECE Ph.D. student, and he is advised by ECE Associate Professor Morris Cohen. 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Monahan, S. D. LaLumondiere, B. Lotshaw, J. D. Cressler, and D. McMorrow. Hales is also a Georgia Tech alumnus, where received his bachelor of science degree in Physics. After completing his Ph.D., he served as a principal research scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, where he worked in Joseph W. Perry\u0026rsquo;s research group. This work explores the use of pulsed lasers to emulate the effects of the space environment on electronic devices, circuits, and systems. 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Thus, pulsed lasers have emerged as a complementary tool to accelerator testing, as they are more accessible and can provide more information than is attainable through traditional accelerator test campaigns.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper introduces a novel optical approach to better emulate the effects of heavy ions on electronics using pulsed lasers. This approach uses a conical lens, known as an Axicon, in place of traditional spherical lenses to focus the laser beam. The result is a charge deposition profile that better approximates the one produced by an energized particle. 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Held November 3-6 in Nashville, Tennessee, the IEEE BCICTS is a major international forum for the presentation of advances in bipolar and compound semiconductor devices, circuits, and systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYing is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He works in the SiGe Devices and Circuits Group, where he is advised by\u0026nbsp;John D. Cressler, ECE\u0026rsquo;s Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYing\u0026#39;s award-winning paper, \u0026ldquo;DC and RF Variability of SiGe HBTs Operating Down to Deep Cryogenic Temperatures,\u0026rdquo; was co-authored with J.W. Teng, G.N. Tzintzarov, A.P. Omprakash, S.G. Rao, U. Raghunathan, A. Ildefonso, and S. Fernandez\u0026mdash;all students in the\u0026nbsp;SiGe Devices and Circuits Group\u0026ndash;and Cressler. 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They are Ph.D. students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award recognizes graduate students who are in the early portion of their graduate studies and who have shown exceptional achievements and promise in the general field of integrated circuits and systems. Garay and Nguyen will be presented with these awards at the 2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference, to be held February 17-21 in San Francisco, California. They are members of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab (GEMS), where they are advised by Hua Wang. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGaray\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research focuses on zero-power RF\/mm-wave signal processing, multi-functional digital transmitter systems for next-generation radar and 5G wireless communications, and power generation for THz Internet of Things devices. He joined the GEMS Lab in 2015. He graduated with his B.S. degree in physics in 2009 and his B.S.E.E. degree in 2010 from Florida International University and his M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Florida in 2013.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENguyen\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research focuses on innovating circuits and systems architectures to resolve the unmet challenges of next generation mm-wave\/THz technologies. He is working on addressing various emerging applications of this work to 5G, massive MIMO, radar, imaging, and spectroscopy. He joined the GEMS Lab in 2016. He graduated with his B.Eng. degree with First Class Honors from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;Edgar Garay and Huy Thong Nguyen have both been named recipients of the 2019 ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. students\u00a0Edgar Garay and Huy Thong Nguyen have both been named recipients of the 2019 ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-02-12 20:59:48","changed_gmt":"2019-02-13 13:58:51","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617743":{"id":"617743","type":"image","title":"Edgar Garay","body":null,"created":"1550066238","gmt_created":"2019-02-13 13:57:18","changed":"1550066238","gmt_changed":"2019-02-13 13:57:18","alt":"photograph of Edgar Garay","file":{"fid":"235142","name":"Edgar Garay.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Edgar%20Garay.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Edgar%20Garay.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":145266,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Edgar%20Garay.jpg?itok=ePE5504i"}},"617744":{"id":"617744","type":"image","title":"Huy Thong Nguyen","body":null,"created":"1550066290","gmt_created":"2019-02-13 13:58:10","changed":"1550066290","gmt_changed":"2019-02-13 13:58:10","alt":"photograph of Huy Thong Nguyen","file":{"fid":"235143","name":"Huy Thong Nguyen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Huy%20Thong%20Nguyen.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Huy%20Thong%20Nguyen.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":31404,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Huy%20Thong%20Nguyen.jpg?itok=nvtqNfSE"}}},"media_ids":["617743","617744"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gems.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"http:\/\/isscc.org","title":"2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172310","name":"Edgar Garay"},{"id":"180492","name":"Huy Thong Nguyen"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"180493","name":"2019 International Solid-State Circuits Conference"},{"id":"180494","name":"ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award"},{"id":"180495","name":"integrated circuits and systems"},{"id":"180496","name":"5G wireless communications"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"180497","name":"next-generation radar"},{"id":"180498","name":"terahertz technologies"},{"id":"180499","name":"massive MIMO"},{"id":"2621","name":"radar"},{"id":"987","name":"imaging"},{"id":"167397","name":"spectroscopy"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"616505":{"#nid":"616505","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Huang to Receive IEEE SSCS Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMin-Yu Huang has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award for 2018-19. This award is the highest honor that a Ph.D. student can receive from the IEEE SSCS. Huang will be presented with this honor at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), to be held February 17-21 in San Francisco, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab, Huang is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He conducts research for his Ph.D. thesis topic, \u0026quot;New MIMO System Architecture for Next-Generation (5G\/beyond) Ultra-Low Latency Communication.\u0026rdquo; His Ph.D. advisor is ECE Associate Professor Hua Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE SSCS Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award recognizes Huang\u0026#39;s major research achievements in the field of RF\/mm-Wave\/THz integrated circuits and next-generation low-latency systems. He is also involved with a collaboration with ECE Professor Gee-Kung Chang\u0026#39;s lab under the Fiber-Wireless Integration and Networking (FiWIN) Center for future low-latency fiber-wireless networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Min-Yu Huang has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award for 2018-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Min-Yu Huang has been selected for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award for 2018-19."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-01-16 15:19:02","changed_gmt":"2019-01-16 15:19:02","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616504":{"id":"616504","type":"image","title":"Min-Yu Huang","body":null,"created":"1547651533","gmt_created":"2019-01-16 15:12:13","changed":"1547651533","gmt_changed":"2019-01-16 15:12:13","alt":"photograph of Min-Yu Huang","file":{"fid":"234659","name":"Min-Yu_Huang_SSCS_Predoctoral_Award.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Min-Yu_Huang_SSCS_Predoctoral_Award.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Min-Yu_Huang_SSCS_Predoctoral_Award.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1036647,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Min-Yu_Huang_SSCS_Predoctoral_Award.jpg?itok=5RVBUeNp"}}},"media_ids":["616504"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gems.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/isscc.org","title":"IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference "}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172114","name":"Min-Yu Huang"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171546","name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"180095","name":"5G communications"},{"id":"180236","name":"RF\/mm-Wave\/THz integrated circuits"},{"id":"180237","name":"next-generation low-latency systems"},{"id":"172341","name":"Gee-Kung Chang"},{"id":"180238","name":"Fiber-Wireless Integration and Networking Center"},{"id":"180239","name":"low-latency fiber-wireless networks"},{"id":"176303","name":"MIMO"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"613204":{"#nid":"613204","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Chip Measures Multiple Cellular Responses to Speed Drug Discovery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFinding ways to improve the drug development process \u0026ndash; which is currently costly, time-consuming and has an astronomically high failure rate \u0026ndash; could have far-reaching benefits for health care and the economy. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a cellular interfacing array using low-cost electronics that measures multiple cellular properties and responses in real time. This could enable many more potential drugs to be comprehensively tested for efficacy and toxic effects much faster. That\u0026rsquo;s why Hua Wang, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, describes it as \u0026ldquo;helping us find the golden needle in the haystack.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPharmaceutical companies use cell-based assays, a combination of living cells and sensor electronics, to measure physiological changes in the cells. That data is used for high-throughput screening (HTS) during drug discovery. In this early phase of drug development, the goal is to identify target pathways and promising chemical compounds that could be developed further \u0026ndash; and to eliminate those that are ineffective or toxic \u0026ndash; by measuring the physiological responses of the cells to each compound.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPhenotypic testing of thousands of candidate compounds, with the majority \u0026ldquo;failing early,\u0026rdquo; allows only the most promising ones to be further developed into drugs and maybe eventually to undergo clinical trials, where drug failure is much more costly. But most existing cell-based assays use electronic sensors that can only measure one physiological property at a time and cannot obtain holistic cellular responses.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s where the new cellular sensing platform comes in. \u0026ldquo;The innovation of our technology is that we are able to leverage the advance of nano-electronic technologies to create cellular interfacing platforms with massively parallel pixels,\u0026rdquo; said Wang. \u0026ldquo;And within each pixel we can detect multiple physiological parameters from the same group of cells at the same time.\u0026rdquo; The experimental quad-modality chip features extracellular or intracellular potential recording, optical detection, cellular impedance measurement, and biphasic current stimulation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang said the new technology offers four advantages over existing platforms:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMultimodal sensing: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe chip\u0026rsquo;s ability to record multiple parameters on the same cellular sample gives researchers the ability to comprehensively monitor complex cellular responses, uncover the correlations among those parameters and investigate how they may respond together when exposed to drugs. \u0026ldquo;Living cells are small but highly complex systems. Drug administration often results in multiple physiological changes, but this cannot be detected using conventional single-modal sensing,\u0026rdquo; said Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELarge field of view:\u003C\/strong\u003E The platform allows researchers to examine the behavior of cells in a large aggregate to see how they respond collectively at the tissue level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmall spatial resolution:\u003C\/strong\u003E Not only can researchers look at cells at the tissue level, they could also examine them at single-cell or even sub-cellular resolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELow-cost platform: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe new array platform is built on standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies, which is also used to build computer chips, and can be easily scaled up for mass production.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u0026rsquo;s team worked closely with Hee Cheol Cho, associate professor and the Urowsky-Sahr Scholar in Pediatric Bioengineering, whose Heart Regeneration lab is part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University. They used neonatal rat ventricular myocytes and cardiac fibroblasts to illustrate the multi-parametric cell profiling ability of the array for drug screening. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlehtml\/2018\/lc\/c8lc00156a\u0022\u003EThe recent results\u003C\/a\u003E were published in the Royal Society of Chemistry\u0026rsquo;s journal \u003Cem\u003ELab on a Chip\u003C\/em\u003E on August 31, 2018.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMonitoring cellular responses in multi-physical domains and holistic multi-parametric cellular profiling should also prove beneficial in screening out chemical compounds that could have harmful effects on certain organs, said Jong Seok Park, a post-doctoral fellow in Wang\u0026rsquo;s lab and a leading author of the study. Many drugs have been withdrawn from the market after discoveries that they had toxic effects on the heart or liver, for example. This platform should enable researchers to comprehensively test for organ toxicity and other side effects at the initial phases of drug discovery. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe experimental chip may be useful for other applications, including personalized medicine \u0026ndash; for example, testing cancer cells from a particular patient. \u0026ldquo;Patient to patient variation is huge, even with the same type of drug,\u0026rdquo; said Wang. The cellular interface array could be used to see which combination of existing drugs would give the best response and to find the optimum dose that is most effective with minimum toxicity to healthy cells.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe chip is capable of actuation as well as sensing. In the future, Wang said that cellular data from the chip could be uploaded and processed, and based on that, commands for new actuation or data acquisition could be sent to the chip automatically and wirelessly. He envisions rooms and rooms containing culture chambers with millions of such chips in fully automated facilities, \u0026ldquo;just automatically doing new drug selection for us,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond these applications, Wang noted the scientific value of the research itself. Integrated circuits and nanoelectronics are some of the most sophisticated technology platforms created by humans. Living cells, on the other hand, are complex products produced through billions of years of natural selection and evolution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The central theme of our research is how we can leverage the best platform created by nature with the best platform created by humans,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Can we let them work together to create hybrid systems that achieve capabilities beyond biology only or electronics only systems? The fundamental scientific question we are addressing is how we can let inorganic electronics better interface with organic living cells.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThese researchers also participated in the related studies: Doohwan Jung, Adam Wang, Taiyun Chi, Sensen Li and Moez K. Aziz from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech; and Sandra I. Grijalva and Michael N. Sayegh from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. The research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and ECCS CCSS Program, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship grant numbers DGE-1148903 and DGE-1650044, Office of Naval Research, and Semiconductor Research Corporation SSB roadmap consortium. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION: \u003C\/strong\u003EJong Seok Park, et al., \u0026ldquo;Multi-parametric cell profiling with a CMOS quad-modality cellular interfacing array for label-free fully automated drug screening,\u0026rdquo; (\u003Cem\u003ELab Chip \u003C\/em\u003E2018). \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2018\/lc\/c8lc00156a#!divAbstract\u0022\u003EDOI: 10.1039\/c8lc00156a\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n177 North Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia \u0026nbsp;30332-0181 \u0026nbsp;USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;John Toon\u0026nbsp;(404-894-6986) (john.toon@comm.gatech.edu).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter\u003C\/strong\u003E: Kenna Simmons\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn electronic sensor platform that measures multi-physical cellular responses could reduce costs and cut time for new drug development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nano-electric technology may improve the drug development process."}],"uid":"34897","created_gmt":"2018-10-24 15:57:58","changed_gmt":"2018-12-10 21:39:00","author":"Kenna Simmons","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613200":{"id":"613200","type":"image","title":"Cellular Sensing Chip in Action","body":null,"created":"1540395621","gmt_created":"2018-10-24 15:40:21","changed":"1540395621","gmt_changed":"2018-10-24 15:40:21","alt":"Image of cellular sensing chip in operations in a lab","file":{"fid":"233446","name":"Cellular-Sensing_Chip_in_Action.crop_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cellular-Sensing_Chip_in_Action.crop_.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cellular-Sensing_Chip_in_Action.crop_.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":124582,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cellular-Sensing_Chip_in_Action.crop_.jpg?itok=TOlBEw4x"}},"613198":{"id":"613198","type":"image","title":"Cellular Sensing Array","body":null,"created":"1540395337","gmt_created":"2018-10-24 15:35:37","changed":"1540395337","gmt_changed":"2018-10-24 15:35:37","alt":"Cellular sensing array chip on a culture dish with the bottom removed","file":{"fid":"233444","name":"Cellular_Sensing_Array_Chip_Crop.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cellular_Sensing_Array_Chip_Crop.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cellular_Sensing_Array_Chip_Crop.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":123223,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cellular_Sensing_Array_Chip_Crop.jpg?itok=DBP8d8Tg"}}},"media_ids":["613200","613198"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179485","name":"cellular sensing array"},{"id":"5910","name":"Drug Discovery"},{"id":"173337","name":"drug screening"},{"id":"179484","name":"multi-modal sensing"},{"id":"179486","name":"cell-based assay"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["john.toon@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"609512":{"#nid":"609512","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Help Close Security Hole in Popular Encryption Software","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have helped close a security vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to steal encryption keys from a popular security package by briefly listening in on unintended \u0026ldquo;side channel\u0026rdquo; signals from smartphones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe attack, which was reported to software developers before it was publicized, took advantage of programming that was, ironically, designed to provide better security. The attack used intercepted electromagnetic signals from the phones that could have been analyzed using a small portable device costing less than a thousand dollars. Unlike earlier intercept attempts that required analyzing many logins, the \u0026ldquo;One \u0026amp; Done\u0026rdquo; attack was carried out by eavesdropping on just one decryption cycle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is something that could be done at an airport to steal people\u0026rsquo;s information without arousing suspicion and makes the so-called \u0026lsquo;coffee shop attack\u0026rsquo; much more realistic,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/milos-prvulovic\u0022\u003EMilos Prvulovic\u003C\/a\u003E, associate chair of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The designers of encryption software now have another issue that they need to take into account because continuous snooping over long periods of time would no longer be required to steal this information.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe side channel attack is believed to be the first to retrieve the secret exponent of an encryption key in a modern version of OpenSSL without relying on the cache organization and\/or timing. OpenSSL is a popular encryption program used for secure interactions on websites and for signature authentication. The attack showed that a single recording of a cryptography key trace was sufficient to break 2048 bits of a private RSA key.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResults of the research, which was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will be presented at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium August 16th in Baltimore.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter successfully attacking the phones and an embedded system board \u0026ndash; which all used ARM processors \u0026ndash; the researchers proposed a fix for the vulnerability, which was adopted in versions of the software made available in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESide channel attacks extract sensitive information from signals created by electronic activity within computing devices during normal operation. The signals include electromagnetic emanations created by current flows within the devices computational and power-delivery circuitry, variation in power consumption, and also sound, temperature and chassis potential variation. These emanations are very different from communications signals the devices are designed to produce.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn their demonstration, Prvulovic and collaborator \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic\u0022\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/a\u003E listened in on two different Android phones using probes located near, but not touching the devices. In a real attack, signals could be received from phones or other mobile devices by antennas located beneath tables or hidden in nearby furniture.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0026ldquo;One \u0026amp; Done\u0026rdquo; attack analyzed signals in a relatively narrow (40 MHz wide) band around the phones\u0026rsquo; processor clock frequencies, which are close to 1 GHz (1,000 MHz). The researchers took advantage of a uniformity in programming that had been designed to overcome earlier vulnerabilities involving variations in how the programs operate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Any variation is essentially leaking information about what the program is doing, but the constancy allowed us to pinpoint where we needed to look,\u0026rdquo; said Prvulovic. \u0026ldquo;Once we got the attack to work, we were able to suggest a fix for it fairly quickly. Programmers need to understand that portions of the code that are working on secret bits need to be written in a very particular way to avoid having them leak.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers are now looking at other software that may have similar vulnerabilities, and expect to develop a program that would allow automated analysis of security vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our goal is to automate this process so it can be used on any code,\u0026rdquo; said Zajic, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;d like to be able to identify portions of code that could be leaky and require a fix. Right now, finding these portions requires considerable expertise and manual examination.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESide channel attacks are still relatively rare, but Prvulovic says the success of \u0026ldquo;One \u0026amp; Done\u0026rdquo; demonstrates an unexpected vulnerability. The availability of low-cost signal processing devices small enough to use in coffee shops or airports could make the attacks more practical.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We now have relatively cheap and compact devices \u0026ndash; smaller than a USB drive \u0026ndash; that are capable of analyzing these signals,\u0026rdquo; said Prvulovic. \u0026ldquo;Ten years ago, the analysis of this signal would have taken days. Now it takes just seconds, and can be done anywhere \u0026ndash; not just in a lab setting.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProducers of mobile devices are becoming more aware of the need to protect electromagnetic signals of phones, tablets and laptops from interception by shielding their side channel emissions. Improving the software running on the devices is also important, but Prvulovic suggests that users of mobile devices must also play a security role.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is something that needs to be addressed at all levels,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;A combination of factors \u0026ndash; better hardware, better software and cautious computer hygiene \u0026ndash; make you safer. You should not be paranoid about using your devices in public locations, but you should be cautious about accessing banking systems or plugging your device into unprotected USB chargers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research involved Monjur M. Alam, Haider A. Khan, Moumita Dey, Nishith Sinha and Robert Callen, all of Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work has been supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation under grant 1563991 and by the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA LADS under contract FA8650-16-C-7620. The views and findings in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of NSF,\u0026nbsp;DARPA or the AFRL.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Monjur M. 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A Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), he received the award at the symposium, held on June 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE\u0026nbsp;RFIC\u0026nbsp;is the premier integrated circuits conference focused exclusively on the latest developments in RF, Microwave, and Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit technology and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi\u0026rsquo;s award-winning paper is entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;A 28GHz Packaged Chireix Transmitter with Direct On-Antenna Outphasing Load Modulation Achieving 56%\/38% PA Efficiency at Peak\/6dB Back-Off Output Power.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Joining Li as coauthors on the paper are present or past ECE Ph.D. students Taiyun Chi, Tzu-Yuan Huang, and Huy Thong Nguyen. ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang is also a co-author; he is the director of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Microsystem (GEMS) Lab and is the advisor for everyone on this research team.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this\u0026nbsp;paper,\u0026nbsp;the team proposed and demonstrated\u0026nbsp;a packaged 28GHz Chireix\u0026nbsp;outphasing transmitter (TX) for power amplifier (PA)\u0026nbsp;efficiency enhancement at peak and back-off output power\u0026nbsp;(PBO). It utilizes a novel, high-efficiency dual-feed loop antenna\u0026nbsp;(DLA)-based non-isolating power combiner to realize direct\u0026nbsp;on-antenna power combining, and more importantly,\u0026nbsp;outphasing active load modulation. The\u0026nbsp;proposed Chireix TX\u0026nbsp;contains two phase-shifted sub-TXs simultaneously driving a\u0026nbsp;DLA on package. 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The efficiency of most conventional transmitters is high only at the peak power but drops substantially at low power levels, resulting in low efficiency when amplifying complex spectrally efficient modulations. Moreover, conventional transmitters often add the outputs from multiple electronics using lossy power combiner circuits, exacerbating the efficiency degradation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are combining the output power though a dual-feed loop antenna, and by doing so with our innovation in the antenna and electronics, we can substantially improve the energy efficiency,\u0026rdquo; said Wang, who is the Demetrius T. 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That will enable transmission of a higher data rate within the fixed spectrum allocation that poses a significant challenge for 5G systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Within the same channel bandwidth, the proposed transmitter can transmit six to ten times higher data rate,\u0026rdquo; Wang said. \u0026ldquo;Integrating the antenna gives us more degrees of freedom to explore design innovation, something that could not be done before.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESensen Li, a Georgia Tech graduate research assistant who received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 RFIC symposium, said the innovation resulted from bringing together two disciplines that have traditionally worked separately.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are merging the technologies of electronics and antennas, bringing these two disciplines together to break through limits,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;These improvements could not be achieved by working on them independently. By taking advantage of this new co-design concept, we can further improve the performance of future wireless transmitters.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new designs have been implemented in 45-nanometer CMOS SOI IC devices and flip-chip packaged on high-frequency laminate boards, where testing has confirmed a minimum two-fold increase in energy efficiency, Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe antenna electronics co-design is enabled by exploring the unique nature of multi-feed antennas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;An antenna structure with multiple feeds allows us to use multiple electronics to drive the antenna concurrently. Different from conventional single-feed antennas, multi-feed antennas can serve not only as radiating elements, but they can also function as signal processing units that interface among multiple electronic circuits,\u0026rdquo; Wang explained. \u0026ldquo;This opens a completely new design paradigm to have different electronic circuits driving the antenna collectively with different but optimized signal conditions, achieving unprecedented energy efficiency, spectral efficiency and reconfigurability.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe cross-disciplinary co-design could also facilitate fabrication and operation of multiple transmitters and receivers on the same chip, allowing hundreds or even thousands of elements to work together as a whole system. \u0026ldquo;In massive MIMO systems, we need to have a lot of transmitters and receivers, so energy efficiency will become even more important,\u0026rdquo; Wang noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving large numbers of elements working together becomes more practical at millimeter wave frequencies because the wavelength reduction means elements can be placed closer together to achieve compact systems, he pointed out. These factors could pave the way for new types of beamforming that are essential in future millimeter wave 5G systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPower demands could drive adoption of the technology for battery-powered devices, but Wang says the technology could also be useful for grid-powered systems such as base stations or wireless connections to replace cables in large data centers. In those applications, expanding data rates and reducing cooling needs could make the new devices attractive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Higher energy efficiency also means less energy will be converted to heat that must be removed to satisfy the thermal management,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;In large data centers, even a small reduction in thermal load per device can add up. 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Previous ECE awardees include John Papapolymerou (2009), Manos Tentzeris (2006), and Joy Laskar (2003).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWang is the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor in ECE and leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) Lab. He is interested in innovating and engineering mixed-signal, RF, and millimeter-wave\/THz integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications, such as 5G mm-Wave MIMO communication and Augmented-Reality\/Virtual-Reality (AR\/VR) data transfer, mm-Wave\/THz hyperspectral imaging for food safety and security scanning, THz nano-radio Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and massively paralleled cell screening platforms for new drug development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2012, his graduate students have received 34 fellowships and awards from several different IEEE societies or best paper or designer awards from IEEE conferences, government agencies, and industry. Wang received the NSF CAREER Award, the Lockheed Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence in Teaching Award, Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, and the ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award, and he was elevated to IEEE Senior Member in 2015.\u0026nbsp;He is also the chair of the Atlanta section of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Circuits and Systems Societies. Wang\u0026rsquo;s group has published 89 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. His research has been supported by government agencies including NSF, ARO, ARL, ONR, AFRL, NIST, and DARPA, as well as multiple industry sponsors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;I am humbled to receive this prestigious MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, and I am deeply indebted to so many great people who have supported me,\u0026quot; Wang said. \u0026quot;With the surging interest in 5G communication, IoT, and security, there are many emerging applications and new challenges in the field of microwave engineering. 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St\u0026uuml;ber received the Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award for their paper, \u0026quot;Wideband MIMO Mobile-to-Mobile Channels: Geometry-Based Statistical Modeling with Experimental Verification,\u0026quot; published in the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology\u003C\/em\u003E, vol. 58, no. 2, February 2009. This award recognizes the best propagation paper published in the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology\u003C\/em\u003E during the past three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDrs. Zaji\u0107 and\u0026nbsp;St\u0026uuml;ber share this award with their colleagues Thomas Pratt, a research professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Son Nguyen, a researcher with the Army Research Laboratory. They will receive this honor at an awards luncheon during the 76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Conference, to be held September 3-6 in Quebec City, Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMobile-to-mobile communication systems have recently drawn great attention because they have the potential to improve convenience and safety of automobile transportation. For example, sensor-equipped cars that communicate via wireless links (and thus create ad-hoc networks) can be used to reduce traffic accidents and facilitate traffic flow. Mobile-to-mobile communication systems also find applications in intelligent transportation systems, relay-based cellular networks, and future combat systems. The design of highly reliable mobile-to-mobile wireless communication systems requires a detailed understanding of propagation among vehicles. 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(Manos) Tentzeris and his colleagues won the third place prize at the Nokia Bell Labs Prize Competition, held on December 14 in Murray Hill, New Jersey at the worldwide headquarters of the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris and his colleagues, Apostolos Georgiadis and George Goussetis, both faculty members at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, were recognized for their project, \u0026ldquo;3D\/Inkjet Printed Millimeter Wave Systems.\u0026rdquo; This is the first additive manufacturing approach combining 3D and inkjet printing up to 100 GHz that could be used in applications such as communications, sensing, energy transfer and harvesting, Internet of Things, autonomous cars, and smart skins. This technique would enable wireless operability in frequencies and data rates 10-40 times higher than that of previous state-of-the-art printed devices, while reducing the fabrication cost by 5-10 times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris is the Ken Byers Professor in Flexible Electronics at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he has been a faculty member since 1998. He also leads the ATHENA Lab, which is based in the School of ECE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo;s winners were selected from among seven finalists who were drawn from a total field of over 250 proposals from 41 countries. All of the prize winners demonstrated game-changing ideas in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics with the potential to improve the future of the human experience by ten-fold. 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Nasir and Park are Ph.D. students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and will receive their awards at the IEEE SSCS Conference, to be held February 5-9, 2017 in San Francisco, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award is the highest honor presented to Ph.D. students by the IEEE SSCS and recognizes unique contributions in advancing the state-of-the-art in circuit design. Nasir and Park are the second and third Georgia Tech students to receive this honor since its inception in 1983.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaad Bin Nasir\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA fourth year Ph.D. student, Nasir is the first Georgia Tech student working in the area of digital and mixed-signal design to win this award. He is a member of the Integrated Circuits and Systems Research Lab, where he is advised by ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury. Nasir is the author or co-author of over 15 peer-reviewed publications in premier conferences and journals in the areas of integrated circuits and systems. He received a Best in Session Award in the power management track at SRC TECHCON 2016, held on September 12-13 in Austin, Texas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award is recognition of Nasir\u0026rsquo;s research on fine-grained spatio-temporal power management on a chip. On-die power management continues to be a significant challenge in low power system on chips (SoCs) and microprocessors as digital systems undergo large changes in operating conditions across \u0026ldquo;dynamic voltage and frequency scaling\u0026rdquo; (DVFS) states.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENasir\u0026rsquo;s research has resulted in the design of novel digital and hybrid linear voltage regulators based on advanced control-theoretic laws and modeling. His work has enabled ultra-low voltage linear regulators with high gain and bandwidth. Silicon measurements on regulator topologies that utilize information from across the software stack have demonstrated best-in-class response times and energy efficiencies. These embedded linear voltage regulators have enabled unprecedented levels of power\/performance trade-off for mobile SoCs and server-class chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research has been funded by SRC, Intel, and Qualcomm. Nasir\u0026rsquo;s research outcomes have gained significant traction with both semiconductor companies and academia, and have already made it into industrial prototypes and test-chips.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJong Seok Park\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA fifth\u0026nbsp;year Ph.D. student, Park is a member of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab\u0026nbsp;(GEMS), led by ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang. This is the second consecutive year that a GEMS Lab student has won this award. Song Hu, who is also advised by Wang, received this award in 2015-2016 and was the first Georgia Tech student to receive this honor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPark is the\u0026nbsp;author or co-author of 26 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications,\u0026nbsp;all in the area of integrated circuits and systems. He has received multiple prestigious student awards and fellowships, including the\u0026nbsp;Doctoral Study Abroad Fellowship (The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies KFAS), the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in\u0026nbsp;2014, co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award (1st Place), leading author of the 2015 IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award (2nd Place), and the 2015 Catalyst Foundation\/IBM\/Intel IEEE CICC Student Scholarship Award. He was also the lead author of\u0026nbsp;the 2016 IEEE Sensors Conference\u0026nbsp;Best Live Demo Award (2nd Place).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp;SSCS\u0026nbsp;Predoctoral\u0026nbsp;Achievement\u0026nbsp;Award\u0026nbsp;is in recognition of\u0026nbsp;Park\u0026#39;s Ph.D. research on\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Multi-Modality Cellular Interface with Single-Cell Resolution and Tissue-Level Field-of-View (FoV).\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;The physiological responses of cells are widely used as powerful sensing tools in cell-based assays to characterize the potency and toxicity of new drugs, determine the patient-specific treatment in personalized medicine, and detect biohazards and pollutants in environmental monitoring.\u0026nbsp;However, cells are highly complex systems that often undergo concurrent multi-physics responses when subjected to external biochemical stimuli. Existing\u0026nbsp;electronic sensors are mostly of single-modality and each can only respond to one type of physiological signal, such as electrochemical or optical signals, from the cells. Such single-modality sensors fundamentally cannot capture the complex multi-physics cell physiology and largely limit our understanding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPark\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research explores and demonstrates a novel multi-modality cellular interfacing array platform with\u0026nbsp;joint sensing\/actuation capabilities using nano-electronic CMOS processes\u0026nbsp;to achieve\u0026nbsp;simultaneous monitoring of multiple orthogonal cellular physiological responses. This platform will potentially enable\u0026nbsp;holistic cellular characterization and impact many areas including drug screening, stem cell manufacturing, regenerative medicine, implantable bioelectronics, neural\/cognitive science, synthetic biology, and hybrid biotic\/abiotic (cells\/semiconductor) systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPark\u0026rsquo;s related research has been supported by NSF, SRC, ONR, and Intel, and has been published at several\u0026nbsp;premier conferences and journals, including the 2015 IEEE ISSCC. Live demonstrations of Jong Seok\u0026#39;s research were performed at the 2015 IEEE BioCAS and 2016 IEEE Sensors conferences and won the Best Live Demo Award (2nd Place) at the\u0026nbsp;2016 IEEE Sensors conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;Saad Bin Nasir and Jong Seok Park have been named as recipients of the 2016-2017 Predoctoral Achievement Awards, given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. students\u00a0Saad Bin Nasir and Jong Seok Park have been named as recipients of the 2016-2017 Predoctoral Achievement Awards, given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-12-13 20:01:59","changed_gmt":"2016-12-14 19:00:23","author":"Jackie 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Unlike past profiling approaches that rely on changing the application itself to record when certain parts of its code are executing, \u0026ldquo;spectral profiling\u0026rdquo; works without changing the profiled application in any way\u0026nbsp;by receiving and analyzing electromagnetic (EM) emanations unintentionally produced by the profiled system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough a two-phase implementation, the team\u0026rsquo;s method first trains the profiler with application\u0026nbsp;information that is already known.\u0026nbsp;This allows\u0026nbsp;the spectral profiler to learn which signals correspond to which part of the application. From there, the profiler can monitor the same application and precisely identify which part of the application is executing at any given time. 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Joining Park and Aziz as coauthors on the paper are ECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi who is also advised by Wang; Amy Su, a Ph.D. student advised by Styczynski; and Andrew Zhao, Cho\u0026#39;s former Ph.D. student.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper, the team presents a live demonstration of a CMOS multi-modality cellular biosensor array chip that can facilitate drug screening and cell-based assays. The multi-modality sensing functionality enables real-time measurements of multiple physiological parameters of biological cells and cell clusters, such as their electrical potential, impedance, optical opacity, and bioluminescent imaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompared with existing single-modality sensors, the team\u0026#39;s multi-modality sensor captures multi-physics cellular responses with a high spatiotemporal resolution, substantially expanding the capabilities of monitoring cellular states and understanding complex drug mechanistic effects. For the live demonstration, the team operated the CMOS sensor chip with testing various bio-samples, including on-chip cultured E. Coli bacteria colonies, to present its multi-modality sensing capability and clinical relevance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe demo may be viewed at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ieee-sensors2016.org\/demos\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ieee-sensors2016.org\/demos\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and is labeled as Demo 7. 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These signals are produced by semiconductors, capacitors, power supplies and other components, and can currently be measured up to a half-meter away from operating IoT devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy comparing these unintended side-channel emissions to a database of what the devices should be doing when they are operating normally, researchers can tell if malicious software has been installed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe will be looking at how the program is changing its behavior,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic\u0022\u003EAlenka Zajic\u003C\/a\u003E, the project\u2019s principal investigator and an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u201cIf an Internet of Things device is attacked, the insertion of malware will affect the program that is running, and we can detect that remotely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four-year project will also include two faculty members from Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E: Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/9736\/milos-prvulovics\u0022\u003EMilos Prvulovic\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/9739\/alessandro-orsos\u0022\u003EAlessandro Orso\u003C\/a\u003E. Also part of the project will be a research team from Northrop-Grumman, headed by Matthew Welborn. Details of an early prototype of the side-channel technique, called \u201cZero-Overhead Profiling\u201d because the monitoring doesn\u0027t affect the system being observed, were presented July 20th at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin the next four years, an estimated 30 billion IoT devices will be in operation, doing everything from controlling home heating and air conditioning to sensing and managing critical infrastructure. The devices are usually small with limited processor power and memory. Their limited computing capabilities means they can\u2019t run the kinds of malware protection software found on laptop computers, and they cannot use virtualization and other technology to protect the system software even when an application is taken over by an attacker. This means that once attackers compromise the internet-connected application, they typically \u201cown\u201d the entire IoT device and can even make it falsely respond to traditional queries about its own security status.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The main challenge from a security perspective is to make these devices secure so somebody can\u0027t take them over,\u0022 explained Zajic. \u0022There will be a lot of processing power out there that needs to be monitored, but you can\u0027t just put traditional security software on that processor because is doesn\u0027t have enough power for both the security software and the tasks the device is supposed to be doing.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZajic and Prvulovic pioneered research on measuring side-channel signals emitted from devices. These emissions differ from the signals the devices were intended to produce for communicating information across the Internet to other devices. 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The conference was held May 22-24 in San Francisco, California, and it is the premier integrated circuits conference focused exclusively on the latest developments in RF, microwave, and millimeter wave integrated circuit technology and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe title of the award winning paper is\u0026nbsp;\u0022A 5GHz All-Passive Negative Feedback Network for RF Front-End\u0026nbsp;Self-Steering Beam-Forming with Zero DC Power Consumption.\u201d Huang and Chi co-wrote this paper with their Ph.D. advisor Hua Wang, who leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and who holds the Demetrius T. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 4 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. 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This award recognizes a peer-reviewed technical article from the prior calendar year that provides the finest overview of the state-of-the-art in a given area of the IEEE MTT Society\u2019s field of interest. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award-winning paper, entitled \u201cThe Wireless Workhorse: Mixed-Signal Power Amplifiers Leverage Digital and Analog Techniques to Enhance Large-Signal RF Operations,\u201d is based on Wang\u2019s collaboration with Toshiba Corporation and was published in the September 2015 issue of \u003Cem\u003EMicrowave Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang is the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). His coauthors on the paper are Shouhei Kousai and Kohei Onizuka, collaborators from Toshiba, and Song Hu, an ECE Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab, which Wang directs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper reviews recently reported new architectures for\u0026nbsp;silicon-based\u0026nbsp;power amplifiers\u0026nbsp;(PAs)\u0026nbsp;that exploit mixed-signal (both analog and digital) techniques to substantially improve PA performance, such as PA back-off power\u0026nbsp;efficiency, in-band\/out-of-band linearity, and robustness against antenna load variations. 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This fellowship is the highest honor for graduate students in the IEEE MTT-S, and Chi is the first Georgia Tech student to receive this fellowship in medical applications since the program was established in 2008.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. student, Chi received this award for his proposed Ph.D. research entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Functional Cellular Thermal Actuation\/Sensing Array for Reconfigurable Localized Cell Heating, Ablation, and Manipulation.\u201d He is a member of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is advised by Hua Wang, the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor in ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, there has been increasing research interest in applying microwave engineering techniques in the fields of biology and medical engineering. 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The array will serve as a multi-modality cell actuation\/manipulation platform and facilitate a plethora of high-impact biomedical areas, such as cancer studies, neural network characterization, and large-scale cell-based assays for low-cost drug screening. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship also recognizes Chi\u2019s past research and educational achievements,\u0026nbsp;including the Guo Moruo Scholarship (highest undergraduate honor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China), the 2012 Georgia Tech Georgia Electronic Design Center Fellowship, the 2014\u0026nbsp;IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Student Paper Award Finalist, the 2014 Texas Instruments IEEE CICC Student Scholarship Award, and 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChi will be presented with the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship at the 2016 IEEE International Microwave Symposium, to be held May 22-27 in San Francisco, California.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Taiyun Chi has been named a recipient of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications. 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This work is based on a collaboration between the Georgia Tech GEMS Lab and Intel Labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is an increasing interest in developing mixed-signal power amplifiers\/transmitters in CMOS and employing them in next-generation wireless communication platforms. Such mixed-signal power amplifiers\/transmitters explore the unparalleled computation capabilities in CMOS and leverage them to enhance large-signal radio-frequency performance, such as peak efficiency, back-off efficiency, and linearity. Park\u0027s paper exploits this mixed-signal power amplifier\/transmitter design philosophy, and it proposes and demonstrates the world\u2019s first highly linear digital polar power amplifier in a standard 65nm bulk CMOS process. The power amplifier is capable of operating at dual-frequencies without any band-selection switch or tuning element. 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This professorship was previously held by Raghupathy Sivakumar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyazi joined the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty in 1999, where he leads the Integrated MEMS (IMEMS) Laboratory and the Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies. He and his team of 10\u0026nbsp;graduate students and three postdoctoral fellows work in the area of integrated micro and nano electro mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on micro and nano mechanical resonators and on mixed-signal interface circuits for MEMS and sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyazi has graduated 20 Ph.D. students and advised eight postdoctoral fellows, and he has published over 200 refereed journal and conference papers and seven parts of books with his students and faculty colleagues. 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An assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Wang is the director of the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is a member of the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper is entitled \u0022A +27.3dBm Transformer-Based Digital Doherty Polar Power Amplifier Fully Integrated in Bulk CMOS,\u0022 and the co-authors include Wang\u0027s Ph.D. students Song Hu and Jong Seok Park; Outmane Chlieh, a Ph.D. student advised by ECE Professor John Papapolymerou; and Shouhei Kousai, a senior design engineer at Toshiba Corporation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the paper, the team proposed a novel digital Doherty polar power amplifier (PA) circuit architecture and implemented it in a standard 65 nm CMOS process. This architecture leverages digital reconfigurability and achieves\u0026nbsp;optimum Doherty active load-modulation operation for maximum PA back-off efficiency enhancement and optimum AM-AM and AM-PM linearization. These desired properties enabled the wireless transmission of high data-rate with drastically enhanced efficiency, and extended battery life in mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the team demonstrated that this digital Doherty architecture can be reconfigured to achieve robust PA performance against antenna load variations. This aspect of the design opens the door for in-field transmitter reconfiguration to ensure optimum wireless transmission under different or even time-varying radiation environments. This digital Doherty PA circuit architecture can also be further extended to other integrated circuit processes to address defense-related applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work presented in this RFIC paper is sponsored by the Toshiba membership in the GEDC and by Toshiba\u0027s in-kind donations of CMOS multiproject wafer fabrication runs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E***********************\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPictured in the photo left to right are Hua Wang, Wang\u0027s Ph.D. students Jong Seok Park and Song Hu (first author), and Lawrence Kushner of BAE Systems. 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The competition is designed to give students the chance to communicate their science passions and why they matter socially to a large public audience.\u0026nbsp; Prize award is based on clarity of speech, relevance of speech to topic and personality and enthusiasm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechTalk\u2019s 2013 keynote speaker, Professor John Cressler, is the Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics in the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a specialist in the field of Microelectronics and Silicon-Germanium Devices. Professor Cressler is an accomplished author, with over 500 refereed journal papers as well as several books on electronic devices and two historical fiction works set in Moorish Spain.\u0026nbsp; Professor Cressler has himself presented at TEDx, giving a lecture entitled \u0022The Many Miracles of Micro Electronics\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe theme for this year\u2019s student lecture competition, \u201cWhy does society need science?\u201d, will be debated by Tessa Solomon-Lane, Neuroscience Ph.D. student at Georgia State University; Zev Greenberg, Materials Science and Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech; Natalie Schloeder, Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech; Mahdi Al Husseini, Biomedical Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech; and Nick Selby, Mechanical Engineering undergraduate at Georgia Tech. 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For more information on Professor Cressler, visit his research site: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/cressler\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/users.ece.gatech.edu\/cressler\/\u003C\/a\u003E or his official author\u2019s website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/johndcressler.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/johndcressler.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor of Microelectronics John Cressler will be the keynote speaker at this year\u2019s TechTalks competition on Monday March 24, 2014."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-03-11 10:02:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"282331":{"id":"282331","type":"image","title":"John Cressler with Wafer","body":null,"created":"1449244199","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:59","changed":"1475894971","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:31","alt":"John Cressler with Wafer","file":{"fid":"198959","name":"cressler_with_wafer.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":680826,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cressler_with_wafer_0.png?itok=ppfbdrQd"}}},"media_ids":["282331"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"66491","name":"Atlanta Science Festival"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"7763","name":"John Cressler"},{"id":"88681","name":"TechTalks"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["christa.ernst@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"276971":{"#nid":"276971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Silicon-Germanium Chip Sets New Speed Record","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the world\u0027s fastest silicon-based device to date. The investigators operated a silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor at 798 gigahertz (GHz) fMAX, exceeding the previous speed record for silicon-germanium chips by about 200 GHz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough these operating speeds were achieved at extremely cold temperatures, the research suggests that record speeds at room temperature aren\u0027t far off, said professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=123\u0022\u003EJohn D. Cressler\u003C\/a\u003E, who led the research for Georgia Tech. Information about the research was published in February 2014, by \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Electron Device Letters\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The transistor we tested was a conservative design, and the results indicate that there is significant potential to achieve similar speeds at room temperature \u2013 which would enable potentially world changing progress in high data rate wireless and wired communications, as well as signal processing, imaging, sensing and radar applications,\u0022 said Cressler, who hold the Schlumberger Chair in electronics in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022Moreover, I believe that these results also indicate that the goal of breaking the so called \u2018terahertz barrier\u2019 \u2013 meaning, achieving terahertz speeds in a robust and manufacturable silicon-germanium transistor \u2013 is within reach.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, Cressler added, the tested transistor itself could be practical as is for certain cold-temperature applications. In particular, it could be used in its present form for demanding electronics applications in outer space, where temperatures can be extremely low.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIHP, a research center funded by the German government, designed and fabricated the device, a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) made from a nanoscale SiGe alloy embedded within a silicon transistor. Cressler and his Georgia Tech team, including graduate students Partha S. Chakraborty, Adilson S. Cardoso and Brian R. Wier, performed the exacting work of analyzing, testing and evaluating the novel transistor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe record low temperature results show the potential for further increasing the transistor speed toward terahertz (THz) at room temperature. This could help enable applications of Si-based technologies in areas in which compound semiconductor technologies are dominant today. At IHP, B. Heinemann, H. R\u00fccker, and A. 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Cressler has been appointed to the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics, effective July 1. He has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cressler is interested in the understanding, development, and application of new types of silicon-based, bandgap-engineered microelectronic devices and circuits for high-speed electronics in emerging 21st century communications systems.\u0026nbsp;Widely recognized as one of the world\u0027s foremost experts in silicon-germanium (SiGe) technology,\u0026nbsp;he has\u0026nbsp;graduated 37 Ph.D. students (including 28 from Georgia Tech) and 37 M.S. students (including 28 from Georgia Tech).\u0026nbsp;Dr. Cressler\u2019s former students hold university faculty positions and occupy high-level management or principal engineering positions across the microelectronics industry. His\u0026nbsp;technical contributions have helped pave the foundation of a worldwide industry in SiGe transistor technology that generates multi-billion dollar sales globally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cressler and his team have published over 550 refereed journal and conference papers, 29 book chapters, and six books (including his debut historical novel,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra\u003C\/em\u003E). In serving his professional community, he is involved with four different IEEE professional societies and is currently editor-in-chief of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices\u003C\/em\u003E, the flagship journal of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He has previously served as associate editor for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn inspirational teacher and gifted mentor, Dr. Cressler was honored this spring with the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a faculty member at Georgia Tech. He has also received the 2011 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the 2010 Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award, the 2007 Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of GRAs Award, and the 1996 C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teacher Award (given by Eta Kappa Nu).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor John D. 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The goal of Intel\u2019s Fellowship Program is to advance innovation in key areas of technology, as well as develop a pipeline of world-class technical talent for Intel\u2019s future workforce and the global knowledge-based economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdvised by ECE Professor Emmanouil M. (Manos) Tenzeris, Mr. Cook is designing and characterizing a multi-layer printing process, which fills a crucial gap in inkjet printing as an industrial electronics fabrication technology. 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And then everyone reads the quote, which will be relevant to his story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy letting them know who I am, my students are comfortable letting me know who they are \u2014 which leads to them feeling more connected to the course,\u201d said Cressler, who received the 2013 Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd providing the quotes written on paper so that the students can keep them is key to the success of the activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe students really like to hold onto the quotes to share with friends and family or to keep for inspiration,\u201d he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead on to learn more about Cressler and his time at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDid you always want to be a teacher?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003EActually, no. I earned my bachelor\u2019s in physics here at Tech, and while working in the co-op program, I was able to work at IBM. From that point on, I thought I would be a research scientist at a company. And I was \u2014 until a friend suggested that I teach calculus as an adjunct at a college. I thought I would hate it. But the moment I stepped in front of the class, I had this overwhelming feeling that this is what I wanted to do. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did you arrive at Tech?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EI started teaching full-time at Auburn University in 1992. 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This program is offered to a small group of professors each year by the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program is designed for early career professionals who want to develop their full teaching potential. During this academic-year-long experience, the Teaching Fellows will explore various aspects of teaching and learning in weekly seminars, receive private assistance with teaching, and undertake a project to improve student learning in one of their courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wang joined the ECE faculty in January 2012, and he is a member of the electronic design and applications and the bioengineering technical interest groups. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate level electronics courses that have been enthusiastically received by ECE students. In the research arena, he is interested in developing mixed-signal, RF, and millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI believe the essence of teaching is more than passing the knowns to the next generation. It should also involve mentoring the students to\u0026nbsp;establish their independence, passion, and creativity to explore the unknowns in the future,\u201d Dr. Wang said. \u201cI believe this program is a perfect opportunity for me to develop a stronger foundation for teaching. 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A faculty member since 2002 with a research focus on nanoscale-engineering techniques that enable high-speed electronics, Dr. Cressler spends his spare time writing fiction. \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra\u003C\/em\u003E, his debut novel, and book one in the \u003Cem\u003EAnthems of al-Andalus\u003C\/em\u003E series, will be released in June 2013 by Sunbury Press.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E is historical fiction set in medieval Muslim Spain and deals with issues of tolerance, religious dialogue and interfaith love. The novel illustrates a time in history when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in harmony. Its themes of religious tolerance are of great significance in today\u2019s society and will resonate with a diverse audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cressler will present \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra\u003C\/em\u003E followed by a Q \u0026amp; A session and book signing at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gatech.bncollege.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/BNCBHomePage?storeId=15054\u0026amp;catalogId=10001\u0026amp;langId=-1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Barnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003C\/a\u003E on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the following interview with Dr. Cressler for additional insight on his writing process, motivations and future plans:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOne does not normally put the words \u2018engineering professor\u2019 and \u2018novelist\u2019 in the same sentence. How did \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra\u003C\/em\u003E come about?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENo argument there! I have always enjoyed writing, and while it has actually been a lifelong dream of mine to write a novel, somehow I never quite felt ready. Novel writing is an intimidating business! I have always been an avid reader, and after a high school\/college infatuation with science fiction and fantasy, I moved into more mainstream literary fiction and to this day that is pretty much all I read. With each new novel, I would find myself wondering what it would be like to try my hand at fiction. Interestingly, however, the opportunities for writing non-fiction books seemed to materialize naturally as a part of my career as a professor. And it is MUCH easier to get non-fiction published! When I finished my first book, a graduate-level textbook in my research field, I found the process deeply satisfying, and wanted more. My fourth non-fiction book, \u003Cem\u003ESilicon Earth\u003C\/em\u003E, was a little different in genre, in that it was for a general, non-specialist audience, and I got permission to use a nontraditional, breezy and fun narrative style. That worked so well that when I finished it, I decided it was finally time to explore whether I had a novel in me. The whole prospect was a little scary because the canvas is so large. What type of fiction should it be? I have a deep love of history and really enjoy well-executed historical fiction, so I took the plunge and started there. It was love at first sight!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow does writing non-fiction compare with writing fiction?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGood question. They are very different in many obvious ways: tone, narrative style, subject matter. I find that writing fiction requires much more contact with your material, an obsession of sorts. I think what I most enjoy about writing fiction are the nearly constant unanticipated discoveries in plot and character. The creative energy this produces is profound! Let me give you a feel for this. In writing \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E, I first mapped out the synopsis in a few pages, to bind the themes and characters and historical events that I wanted to address. Then I expanded that synopsis into a chapter-by-chapter draft, each of which was maybe a quarter page of what factually happens in that chapter. This allows me to make sure all the plot twists and timing angles gel properly with the overall story trajectory. I did this for the whole book before beginning my writing. Then, when it was time to compose, I took the first chapter summary and expanded it into the various chapter scenes, fleshing the chapter out to about a page, no more, so that I had a good sense of the story that would transpire. Then I set this aside and began composing. The magical part of the process is that inevitably the characters and plot threads begin to deviate from the plan, assuming a life of their own. I love this! Almost on a daily basis, as I was driving to work, thinking about my characters, it would jump into my head, \u201cWell, of course, she needs to do this!\u201d or \u201cObviously this needs to happen!\u201d Things I had never anticipated before actually doing the writing. That creative element is unique to fiction and I find it deeply satisfying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did you end up with medieval Muslim Spain as a setting for your novel?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWell, after I narrowed it down to historical fiction, I spent quite a bit of time on the web just exploring history. I have always loved European history, so one magical day I stumbled upon medieval Muslim Spain. The more I explored the more amazed I was, particularly since it is a period of history so rich in its message for our modern world and yet so little appreciated by most people. Imagine, a period of more than 300 years with Muslims, Jews and Christians living in harmony! An existence proof we owe it to the world to recall. I was quickly locked in on medieval Muslim Spain. At that point, I ordered a ton of books on medieval Iberia and began to immerse myself in the period, to learn the history. I was after a short span of years that was of pivotal importance, and yet contained the themes I was after. That led me to Granada, the Alhambra Palace, Sultan Muhammad V and Ibn al-Khatib, and the Castilian Civil War (1367-1369). I was set for historical backdrop. I knew I wanted to wrap the book around a love story between a Muslim and a Christian, and that fell right into place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about the Alhambra.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Alhambra\u2014what a magical place! The Alhambra is the best preserved medieval Islamic palace in the western world, perhaps in the whole world. It is located in Granada, in Andalusia (al-Andalus in Arabic), in extreme southern Spain. \u201cAlhambra\u201d refers to the entire walled fortress that clings to the long and narrow red-soiled ridge overlooking Granada. The red hill itself is the source of the palace\u2019s name (\u2018al-hamra\u2019 is Arabic for \u2018red\u2019). Unlike today, in the fourteenth century the towers and walls of the Alhambra would have been white-washed and the hill laid bare for defense, a stunning white on red contrast. The fortress is compact, as dictated by the terrain, about 100 yards wide and 700 yards long, and is nestled within the walled and garrisoned city of Granada. The Alhambra complex contained the Royal Palace of the Sultan, the complete functioning town that supported it, all of the judicial and administrative services required to run the Nasrid Kingdom, and a separately castled garrison. The Alhambra and the walled city of Granada itself were, for all intents and purposes, impregnable, and were never captured by force of arms, only surrendered (in 1492 to Isabel and Fernando, the \u201cCatholic Monarchs\u201d). The Alhambra\u2019s population in 1367 was roughly 2,000, including a garrison of perhaps 300 elite troops, compared to about 65,000 inhabitants in Granada proper, a very large city by fourteenth-century standards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about the background research you did for the book. Did you visit Spain?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI spent almost nine months on background research before laying pen to paper. The credenza in my office at home where I write is lined with over 10 feet of references on all things al-Andalus, which I digested. As I describe in my blog entry, in the fall of 2010 I spent two weeks in Spain doing on-site research: Seville, C\u00f3rdoba, Jaen and Granada. I had all I needed factually at that point, but I still needed to absorb the scenes, burn them into my mind\u2019s eye. See the sky, the landscape, the architecture, and most importantly close my eyes and bring the palace to life as it would have been 600 years ago. There is no substitute for this type of on-the-ground research. I virtually lived in the Alhambra for six days, and that proved invaluable when writing. Fortunately, the Royal Palace itself is mostly preserved in the same form it was when my story takes place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are your writing habits?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike most novelists, I find that I need significant \u201cface-time\u201d with my characters and story. I am a morning person, up at 5:15 a.m. during the work week. After prayer time, breakfast and the paper, I retreat to my office by 7:15 a.m. and work without interruption until about 9:30 a.m.-ish Monday through Friday. I do not write on the weekends, but instead prefer to do some mental mull over of my characters and story. Each morning when I start writing, I first re-read and tinker with my previous section or two, then I begin new material once I have found my groove. I repeatedly write, re-read and revise as I compose, so I manage only a few pages a day. I aim for a chapter a week. Slowly but surely the novel grows. I wrote \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E in about 15 months. When I close down each morning, I do a quick catch up on email, then off to campus. I still manage to beat all of my graduate students into the office!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about your prose style.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI utilize a third-person\/objective\/limited narrative scheme. The narrator sees all but does not know all. It is a very visual style. The reader stands with the narrator and is invited to observe and draw their own conclusions of what they see (the so-called camera-eye perspective). The action unfolds in the present tense, which I find lends dramatic weight to the story. I lean towards impressionistic descriptions of places, sights, sounds and smells. One of my major jobs in writing historical fiction is to create a well-developed sense of the time and place in the reader\u2019s mind, and I find this impressionistic approach works well. I also adopt a modest amount of magical realism, choosing to bring certain inanimate things to life\u2014in Emeralds, for instance, the constellations are participants in the story. My writing style is perhaps a bit unusual, but I think it works quite well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEmeralds of the Alhambra\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E is book one of a series called \u003Cem\u003EAnthems of al-Andalus\u003C\/em\u003E. What comes next? And when will book two be out?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYes, \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E is the first in a series of at least three novels dealing with medieval Muslim Spain. Book two is called \u003Cem\u003EShadows in the Shining City\u003C\/em\u003E and is set in late tenth-century C\u00f3rdoba, at the height of the Golden Age of the Umayyad Caliphate. A remarkable period of cultural and intellectual enlightenment. This period is also the pinnacle of convivencia (coexistence), the time when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in harmony. I also tell the story of how it all unraveled. So \u003Cem\u003EAnthems of al-Andalus\u003C\/em\u003E is not a trilogy in the traditional sense, with one book following the next chronologically. Book three will come back to Granada, but in the late fifteenth century at the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom. There will, however, be a linkage between all three books, so don\u2019t despair! I am presently 450 pages into \u003Cem\u003EShadows\u003C\/em\u003E, with a target delivery date of early fall. I expect it will be released in the summer of 2014. It is a fantastic story of epic proportions that I lifted straight out of history. Stay tuned! Will the series go beyond a trilogy? I suspect so. There is just too much to talk about in medieval Muslim Spain. I will say, however, that I am already getting very interested in medieval Muslim Sicily, which also has a fascinating history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAre all of your novels going to be centered on love stories?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbsolutely! The timelessness of love is the most riveting subject I can imagine writing about. Big, epic themes wrapped about love stories\u2014my life\u2019s blood!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWill you ever go back to writing non-fiction or is your heart now firmly entrenched in fiction?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGood question. From a technical perspective, I have published five books now in my field of study, including two for general audiences, so that is pretty much covered. To be honest, though, I find writing fiction to be one of the most creatively satisfying things I have ever done.\u0026nbsp; So, for the foreseeable future, novels it is!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat can you tell us about the underlying religious themes in the book? How are these themes reflected in your personal feelings about religion and conflict?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGreat question. While my principal goal with \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E was to create an engaging historical novel that folks enjoy, and that would also bring alive an important period of time now largely forgotten, my motives in writing the book actually had a deeper thrust. I wanted to remind folks that there was an existence proof from the pages of history, one that transpired over several hundred years, when Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in relative peace, sharing languages and customs, whispering words of love across religious boundaries, embracing a level of mutual acceptance and respect unimaginable today. Together, they launched one of the great intellectual and cultural flowerings of history. In my opinion, our modern world aches for a future graced with religious tolerance and peace. How do we best get there? Well, I would argue that first you need to recall that once upon a time it was in fact a reality. And if it existed once, it can exist again. Call me an idealist, but that is what I believe. We deserve a peaceful world. I chose to use interfaith love as a tool for breaking open this history, because love is the great universal. By that I mean love transcends cultural, religious and historical boundaries. It always has; it always will.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat do your colleagues and students think of your \u201c2nd career\u201d as a novelist?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI think the standard response I get from colleagues is \u201cHow on earth do you find the time?!\u201d Well, it is certainly true that I don\u2019t sleep much (who does?!), but to be candid, I have always made the time to do the things I am truly passionate about. And this is clearly one. I have found students to be exceptionally interested in the fact that their professor writes fiction. I talk about it in class. They ask questions about it. Hopefully, they will read it and like it, too! I strongly suspect they will.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho is your favorite character in \u003Cem\u003EEmeralds\u003C\/em\u003E? Why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMmmm\u2026 That\u2019s a tough one. As a writer, you put some of yourself in all of your characters. But, if I had to pick one\u2026well, I have had the great blessing in my life of being surrounded by very bright, strong-willed females (my wife, my two daughters and now my daughter-in-law, to name a few), and thus I would have to say that Layla is my favorite. And she\u2019s certainly the most fun to write about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/johndcressler.com\/emeralds-of-the-alhambra\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit Dr. Cressler\u2019s website for additional content.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. John Cressler, an ECE faculty member since 2002, will present his debut novel, Emeralds of the Alhambra, followed by a Q \u0026amp; A session and book signing at the Georgia Tech Barnes \u0026amp; Noble on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor John Cressler will present his debut novel at the Georgia Tech Barnes \u0026 Noble on June 25."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2013-05-24 14:05:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:20","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"214861":{"id":"214861","type":"image","title":"Dr. John Cressler","body":null,"created":"1449180096","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:36","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Dr. John Cressler","file":{"fid":"197030","name":"cressler_mercury.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_mercury_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cressler_mercury_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35038,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cressler_mercury_0.jpg?itok=IpvQGJGa"}},"214871":{"id":"214871","type":"image","title":"Emeralds of the Alhambra","body":null,"created":"1449180096","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:36","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Emeralds of the Alhambra","file":{"fid":"197031","name":"emeralds_cover_mercury.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/emeralds_cover_mercury_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/emeralds_cover_mercury_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40602,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/emeralds_cover_mercury_0.jpg?itok=LiRqMCVF"}}},"media_ids":["214861","214871"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/johndcressler.com\/","title":"John Cressler\u0027s Author Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/gatech.bncollege.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/BNCBHomePage?catalogId=10001\u0026langId=-1\u0026storeId=15054","title":"Georgia Tech Barnes \u0026 Noble"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3626","name":"Book signing"},{"id":"4765","name":"fiction"},{"id":"66891","name":"Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"7763","name":"John Cressler"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAshlee Gardner\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2911\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ashlee.gardner@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eashlee.gardner@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ashlee.gardner@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"194321":{"#nid":"194321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alenka Zajic Publishes New Textbook on Wireless Communications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic has published a new textbook, \u003Cem\u003EMobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channels\u003C\/em\u003E. Dr. Zajic joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor last fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPublished by Artec House last month, the book provides a detailed introduction to state-of-the-art mobile-to-mobile wireless propagation and offers professionals guidance for rapid implementation of these communication systems. It also offers engineers and students a thorough understanding of signal propagation and channel models for vehicle-to-vehicle, air-to-ground, and underwater vehicle-to-underwater vehicle communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first book published by Dr. Zajic, who also specializes in wireless communications, applied electromagnetics, electromagnetic security and compatibility, communications in computer systems, and underwater wireless channel modeling and measurements. 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The team was awarded $475,000, including the contributions from both SRC and the State of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHua Wang and Mark P. Styczynski, assistant professors in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, respectively, will investigate how to\u0026nbsp;fuse actual live cells or tissues with\u0026nbsp;CMOS electronics to form a hybrid bio-semiconductor system. This system would provide novel biosensors with high signal sensitivity and specificity while at a very low operating power. According to Wang, the major applications of this technology include low-cost drug development, fast chemical screening, and personalized medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn such a hybrid bio-semiconductor system, Wang envisions live cells or tissues serving as the \u0022Biological Front-End\u0022 to interface with the physical environment and the CMOS integrated circuits functioning as the \u0022Silicon Synthetic Back-End\u0022 to convert the cellular responses to electrical signals for information processing and storage. \u201cThis system will open the door for novel sensing, actuation, and even signal processing capabilities beyond existing silicon platforms,\u201d said Wang. \u201cIf I may draw an analogy between our hybrid biosensor and a radio-frequency receiver, these live cells in our sensors are actually functioning as \u2018biological\u2019 front-end filters and low noise amplifiers, which select and amplify the desired biochemical information.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by SRC\u2019s Global Research Collaboration, the SSB program concentrates on synergies between synthetic biology and semiconductor technology that can foster exploratory, multi-disciplinary, longer-term university research leading to novel, breakthrough solutions for a wide range of industries. Results from the university research, guided by semiconductor industry needs, should significantly enhance and accelerate opportunities for advancing properties, design and applications for future generations of integrated circuits. The Georgia Tech team was one of six U.S. university groups to receive funding from the SSB program, which is supporting exploratory projects in cytomorphic-semiconductor circuit design; bio-electric sensors, actuators, and energy sources; and molecular-precision additive fabrication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am very excited that our Georgia Tech team was selected as a winning team for this SRC program.\u201d Wang said. \u201cOur world-class infrastructure in electronics research and the strong interdisciplinary collaborations at Georgia Tech really helped us win this SRC opportunity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESemiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has awarded a Georgia Tech team with a three-year research contract to develop the next-generation of high-performance biosensors as part of SRC\u2019s new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) has awarded a Georgia Tech team with a three-year research contract to develop the next-generation of high-performance biosensors as part of SRC\u2019s new Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-11-06 11:26:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"251561":{"id":"251561","type":"image","title":"Hua Wang SRC Research Project","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1475894931","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:51","alt":"Hua Wang SRC Research Project","file":{"fid":"198122","name":"hua_wang-src.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang-src_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang-src_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":502754,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hua_wang-src_0.jpg?itok=DyyAj28j"}}},"media_ids":["251561"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.src.org\/","title":"Semiconductor Research Corporation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=169","title":"Hua Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/styczynski","title":"Mark Styczynski"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"79081","name":"Mark P. 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Most people who have visited a poultry farm will recall chicken vocalization \u2013 the technical term for clucking and squawking \u2013 as a memorable part of the experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers now believe that such avian expressiveness may be more than idle chatter. A collaborative project being conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia is investigating whether the birds\u2019 volubility can provide clues to how healthy and comfortable they are.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd that could be valuable information. Economically, chickens rule the roost in Georgia, where poultry is the top agricultural product with an estimated annual impact of nearly $20 billion statewide. There is industry concern about the welfare of the animals they raise; anything that helps growers reap a maximum return on every flock \u2013 while maintaining an environment conducive to their well-being \u2013 can translate to important dividends for the state\u2019s economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany poultry professionals swear they can walk into a grow-out house and tell whether a flock is happy or stressed just by listening to the birds vocalize,\u201d said Wayne Daley, a Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) principal research scientist who is leading the research. \u201cThe trouble is, it has proved hard for these pros to pinpoint for us exactly what it is that they\u0027re hearing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENevertheless, scientists are convinced that poultry farmers are detecting something real. Recent research at the University of Connecticut\u2019s Department of Animal Science indicates that it is indeed possible to differentiate how the birds react to various conditions based on their vocalizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe behavior of chickens is one of the best and most immediate indicators of their well-being,\u201d said Bruce Webster, a University of Georgia poultry science professor who is working on the project. \u201cChickens are vocal creatures and produce different types of vocalizations at different rates and loudness depending on their circumstances.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo the Georgia Tech\/University of Georgia team is working to identify and extract specific vocalization features that will bear out both the anecdotal observations and the previous scientific work. The researchers are performing stress-related experiments on small flocks, recording the birds\u2019 reactions on audio and video and analyzing the results. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGTRI is providing expertise in control-systems development and image processing, while Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is contributing audio signal-processing technology and the University of Georgia is providing research facilities as well as guidance in experimental design as they relate to animal behavior and welfare issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf what experienced farmers hear and sense can be defined and quantified, sensors to detect cues from the birds themselves could really make a difference in providing real-time information on house environment, bird health, and comfort,\u201d said Michael Lacy, head of the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work is funded by the Agricultural Technology Research Program, a state-supported effort to benefit the poultry and food-processing industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENaturally, said Daley, the poultry industry already has well-established guidelines covering optimal temperature, air quality and stocking density.\u0026nbsp; Nevertheless, costly problems can still crop up \u2013 control systems can malfunction, or presumably ideal levels can turn out to be problematic. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s where being able to judge the flock\u2019s behavior can be so important,\u201d Daley said. \u201cYour temperature sensors might say that things are fine, but the birds could be telling you that they think it\u0027s a bit too warm or other changes have occurred to make the conditions less than ideal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom a poultry professional\u2019s viewpoint, the flock\u2019s opinion is probably the definitive one. Chickens take only six weeks to go from hatching to finished weight; stressful conditions can retard their growth, reducing their value when they go to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cContract poultry producers are paid by the pound of birds sent to market. Improving the overall health and productivity of the birds will help to improve the bottom line for individual producers,\u201d said Casey Ritz, a University of Georgia associate professor of poultry science who is involved in the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team has conducted several experiments in which they have exposed flocks to mildly stressful environmental changes.\u0026nbsp; For example, temperature or ammonia levels might be increased from their initial settings for a few hours, then returned to the original level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have recorded the flocks\u2019 vocal reactions to the experiments, with video also collected in many instances.\u0026nbsp; To date, more than four terabytes of bird-vocalization audio has been gathered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlmost at once, the researchers encountered a knotty problem as they recorded bird sounds. They discovered that the large fans necessary for air circulation in a grow-out house can be considerably louder than the chickens, making it difficult to capture bird vocalizations effectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Anderson, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been working on the best methods for harvesting useable bird sounds from the noisy environment.\u0026nbsp; It\u2019s a classic audio signal-processing problem, he said, in which the signal of interest must separated from the noise that surrounds it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have several approaches for extracting poultry voicing from the others noises, and we\u0027ve been pretty successful in achieving that,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWhat makes this different from most other bird-song research is that we\u0027re not listening to individuals, we\u2019re listening to sounds in the aggregate. It\u2019s like trying to understand what people are saying in a restaurant, when all you hear are the murmurings of a hundred diners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo decode mass poultry vocalizing, Anderson is extracting particular features of the sound, such as speed, volume, pitch and other qualities. Then he\u2019s utilizing machine learning \u2013 in which computers recognize complex patterns in data and make decisions based on those patterns \u2013 to analyze the extracted features and determine which characteristics may convey specific meanings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are initial experiments, and we\u0027re going to have to test under a variety of conditions, but we\u2019ve had considerable success already,\u201d Anderson said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cBy listening to the flock we can accurately tell when the birds are experiencing particular kinds of stress, such as significant temperature changes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to ensuring high yield flocks, bird-vocalization analysis could save poultry growers money in equipment costs as well, Anderson suggested.\u0026nbsp; For instance, he said, currently available ammonia sensors are both expensive and short-lived.\u0026nbsp; If a system consisting of a few microphones and the right computer algorithms could take over ammonia-detection tasks, it would help reduce costs for the entire industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo date, video of the flocks hasn\u2019t produced results as useful as the sound recordings, said GTRI\u2019s Daley. But image processing of flock-reaction video continues, and could yield significant data down the road.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis multi-disciplinary, multi-institution project highlights the different skills necessary to tackle current problems,\u201d Daley said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThis approach will be valuable in years to come as we tackle a variety of problems to help the industry continue to be profitable and sustainable.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u0026nbsp; 30308\u0026nbsp; USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Assistance\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (404-894-6986)(\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E); 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Dr. Ayazi is a principal investigator\n for this project and serves as co-director for ECE\u0027s Center for MEMS \nand Microsystems Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman offers its customers more than 50 years of navigation \nexperience and produces navigation products utilizing a range of \ntechnologies including fiber-optic gyro-based systems, Northrop \nGrumman\u0027s exclusive hemispherical resonator gyro, unique ZLG\u2122 gyros, \nspinning mass gyros, ring laser gyros and \nmicro-electro-mechanical-system gyros.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E******************************************************************************************\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world\u0027s premier research universities. Ranked seventh among \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s\u003C\/em\u003E\n top public universities and the eighth\u0026nbsp;best engineering and information\n technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University\u0027s \nAcademic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech\u0027s more than 20,000 \nstudents are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, \nEngineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the \nnation\u0027s top producers of women and minority engineers.\u0026nbsp;The Institute \noffers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate \nstudents and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the \nGeorgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing \ninnovative systems, products and solutions in aerospace, electronics, \ninformation systems, and technical services to government and commercial\n customers worldwide. 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Cressler, Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is being honored with the 2011 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. IEEE is the world\u0027s largest professional association advancing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award, sponsored by the Leon K. 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The experience he gained in industry prior to starting his teaching career clearly influences his classroom style and philosophy. He has maintained close ties to both industry and government sponsors, ensuring that his students\u0027 research has timely impact on the ever-changing communications marketplace.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Cressler also serves as faculty mentor for Georgia Tech\u0027s SURE program, which brings top-notch minority undergraduates to the school and incorporates them into research teams for a taste of what graduate school is all about.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining Georgia Tech in 2002, Dr. Cressler worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and served on the ECE faculty at Auburn University. He is an IEEE Fellow and is a previous recipient of the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants Award (2007) and the Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. 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The EDS Ph.D. Fellowship Program was established to promote, recognize, and support graduate study and research within the Society\u0027s 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of ECE Professor John Cressler\u0027s Silicon-Heterostructure Devices and Circuits research team, Jiahui\u0027s 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. 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The five Georgia Tech faculty members promoted to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010, are David A. Bader, Ian T. Ferguson, Richard A. Hartlein, David C. Keezer, and Emmanouil M. Tentzeris. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChosen by the IEEE board of directors, the IEEE Fellows class of 2010 consists of 309 engineering professionals from around the world. IEEE is the world\u0027s leading professional association for the advancement of technology, and the IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred by the board of directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid A. Bader, executive director for High-Performance Computing and professor in the Computational Science and Engineering Division of the College of Computing, was elevated to Fellow \u0022for contributions to parallel algorithms for combinatorial problems and computational biology.\u0022 Bader serves as director of the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, which supports broadening the impact of the Cell Broadband Engine into multiple sectors and industries, including scientific computing, digital content creation, bioinformatics, finance, gaming, and entertainment. He serves on the Internet2 Research Advisory Council and is the general chair for the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, to be held April 19-23, 2010 in Atlanta. An associate editor for the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, IEEE DSOnline, and Parallel Computing, Bader has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and conferences and recently finished two consecutive terms as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He also served as chair of the IEEE Computer Society\u0027s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing from July 2003-June 2007.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIan T. Ferguson, an adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), was elected to Fellow \u0022for the development of semiconductor materials and devices for infrared and ultraviolet sensor applications.\u0022 Ferguson became chair of the Department of ECE at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in August 2009, after an eight-year tenure as a professor with the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on the development of wide band-gap materials and devices using gallium nitride and zinc oxide and using these materials for illumination, solar power, spintronic, and nuclear detection applications. While at Tech, Ferguson was named a Faculty Fellow in the Sam Nunn Security Program, based in the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, for his work in the Georgia Tech Focused Research Program in Pioneer Research in Nuclear Detection. He is the founder of the International Conference on Solid State Lighting and is the author of more than 240 refereed journal and conference publications. Ferguson is also a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERichard A. Hartlein, director and management board chair for the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC), was elected to Fellow \u0022for contributions to standards and analytical techniques for underground power cable systems.\u0022 Hartlein works with the NEETRAC team and over 30 NEETRAC industrial members that provide nearly 60 percent of the electricity used in the United States to solve problems in electric energy transmission and distribution. His research focuses on underground power cable systems, including the development of qualification test programs for distribution and transmission cable systems; design and evaluation of efficient, durable, and economical power cables; investigation of cable system failures; and cable systems operations under extreme conditions. Hartlein has served as chair of the IEEE Insulated Conductors Committee (ICC), and led various ICC working groups in the development of guides and standards related to the testing and evaluation of underground cable system components.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid C. Keezer, professor in the School of ECE, was elevated to Fellow \u0022for contributions to high-speed digital test technology.\u0022 His areas of research and educational interests are in test methods for high performance electronic systems, design of high speed logic systems, and advanced electronics packaging methods. Keezer leads the High-Speed Test Laboratory, where he and his team develop new high-performance automated test methods and instrumentation. The lab extends automated test capability above 10 Gbps by leveraging state-of-the-art field programmable gate arrays, microelectromechanical systems, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide technologies. An associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, Keezer served on the technical program committee for the IEEE International Test Conference for over 10 years and was the general and technical program chair for the IEEE GHz\/Gbps Test Workshop. He has published over 140 articles in refereed journals and conferences and is an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, an honor awarded to longstanding members who have provided outstanding service to the organization.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEmmanouil M. Tentzeris, professor in the School of ECE, was promoted to Fellow \u0022for contributions to three-dimensional conformal integrated devices for wireless communications and sensing.\u0022 Tentzeris currently serves as associate director for radio frequency identification (RFID)\/sensors research at the Georgia Electronic Design Center, which develops high-speed communications technologies, and was the associate director for RF research and RF alliance leader for the Microsystems Packaging Research Center from 2003-2006. The author of over 320 refereed journal and conference papers, three books, and 17 book chapters, Tentzeris founded and leads a new IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) technical committee on RFID technologies. He is an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-2012 and has held numerous leadership roles in several IEEE societies, conferences, and workshops. Tentzeris is the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and the International Journal on Antennas and Propagation. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech among Six U.S. Universities with Most IEEE Fellows Named to 2010 Class"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of only six U.S. universities to have five of its faculty members elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, the most at any academic institution in the United States. The five Georgia Tech faculty members promoted to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010, are David A. Bader, Ian T. Ferguson, Richard A. Hartlein, David C. Keezer, and Emmanouil M. Tentzeris. \n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EChosen by the IEEE board of directors, the IEEE Fellows class of 2010 consists of 309 engineering professionals from around the world. 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The IEEE NPSS is the premier professional association for the advancement of the nuclear and plasma sciences, sponsoring seven technical conferences and three peer-reviewed journals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELourenco is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is advised by John D. Cressler, Schlumberger Chair Professor in Electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELourenco received this award for his research contributions on radiation effects in silicon-based heterojunction integrated circuit platforms. His Ph.D. thesis research is focused on investigating the transient phenomena within silicon-germanium (SiGe) technologies using advanced laser techniques, aiding this understanding by using 3-D modeling techniques, and leveraging this research for the development of radiation-hardened systems intended for orbital and space environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research is supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, CFD Research Corporation, and NASA.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Nelson E. Lourenco has been honored with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Graduate Scholarship Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Nelson E. 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Paris Junior Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is a member of the Georgia Electronic Design Center. Wang is interested in innovating and engineering mixed-signal, RF, and millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFully understanding the physiological behaviors of cells is necessary to further advance the frontiers in bioscience. At this time, existing sensors and actuators can only process electrochemical signals from cells. However, cells are highly complex systems that have numerous molecules operating in hundreds of pathways to maintain proper functions and phenotypes. At this scale of complexity, cells often undergo multi-physics responses all at once, which cannot be explored by single-modality platforms. This constraint poses a fundamental limit on the communication link between the electronics and cells\/tissues. Many sensors and actuators also require exotic processing steps, limiting their cost, yield, and scalability in mass production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address these challenges, Wang\u2019s NSF CAREER project focuses on innovating sensor\/actuator technologies as large-scaled arrays with novel pixel-level multi-modality sensing\/actuation functionalities. These microelectronics interfaces allow interrogating and stimulating living cells\/tissues via multi-physics signaling at a high spatiotemporal resolution. Low-cost CMOS processes, widely used for manufacturing CPU and memory chips, will be employed to ensure high-integration, low-cost, and high-yield.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposed CMOS multi-modality cellular interfacing platform will lead to broad societal impacts. 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Alenka Zajic, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Milos Prvulovic, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science, are studying so-called \u0022side channel emissions\u0022--signals that could provide hackers with another way to see what your devices are doing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EView the Science Now video at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgs1WRseGtU%20\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgs1WRseGtU \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about Zajic\u0027s and Prvulovic\u0027s work, visit the Georgia Tech Research Horizons website \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/362191\/researchers-work-counter-new-class-coffee-shop-hackers\u0022\u003Eto view additional video and to read the entire news release\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis video features research conducted by Alenka Zajic, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Milos Prvulovic, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science. 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