{"523031":{"#nid":"523031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rodrigues Selected for Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award, which will be presented at the annual Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on April 21.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERodrigues is currently a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai was his master\u2019s thesis advisor and now serves as his Ph.D. advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERodrigues will be recognized for his M.S. thesis entitled \u201cEnhancing Chiroptical Signals from Metamaterials via Nonlinear Excitation.\u201d His groundbreaking research on metamaterials has led to two first-authored papers in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials\u003C\/em\u003E, several co-authored papers in journals like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, and two first-authored essays\/reviews in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Nanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERodrigues graduated with his M.S. degree in December 2015, and his research interests are focused on metamaterials, plasmonics, nonlinear optics, photonics, and microsystems. Rodrigues was also an NSF Graduate Research Fellow Program awardee and a Goizueta GoSTEM Fellow, and in January, he received an Intel scholarship at the annual FOCUS President\u2019s Dinner, which was part of diversity activities hosted over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE\u0027s Sean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE\u0027s Sean Rodrigues has been named the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi M.S. Thesis Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-04-08 13:53:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"523041":{"id":"523041","type":"image","title":"Sean Rodrigues","body":null,"created":"1460383200","gmt_created":"2016-04-11 14:00:00","changed":"1475895293","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:53","alt":"Sean Rodrigues","file":{"fid":"205397","name":"1-edited.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1-edited_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1-edited_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":515471,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1-edited_0.jpg?itok=NjH9m2dk"}}},"media_ids":["523041"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/sigmaxi.gatech.edu\/main1.htm","title":"Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi"},{"url":"http:\/\/cailab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Cai Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"366","name":"Graduate"},{"id":"2768","name":"optics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171904","name":"Sean Rodrigues"},{"id":"167556","name":"Sigma Xi"},{"id":"91661","name":"Wenshan Cai"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}