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A faculty member in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) since 1988, Ferri was the first female Ph.D. graduate in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech and was ECE\u0026rsquo;s first female faculty member. She has served as the School\u0026rsquo;s associate chair for undergraduate affairs since 2013 and was its associate chair for graduate affairs from 2006-2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFerri has introduced inexpensive, portable hands-on experiments into ECE courses, including core lecture-based courses that traditionally had no laboratory component. She has also redesigned the core circuits courses, taken by both ECE and non-ECE majors, to use innovative flipped and blended classroom techniques driven by course analytics. 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Approximately 3,000 students per year use these devices in ECE courses, taught by over 25 instructors. Over 700 K-12 students have also been exposed via camps, workshops, and tours of ECE facilities. Ferri has also been awarded an NSF grant with researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Tech, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Howard University, and Morgan State University. Their goal is to build a community of developers and users of these experiments that are not only centered on ECE topics, but can be expanded to other STEM fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFerri has been consistently involved in educational issues within the Georgia Tech community. She currently co-chairs the \u0026ldquo;Commission on Creating the Next in Education,\u0026rdquo; charged with making recommendations for the Institute to become a leader in innovative and effective education and co-curricular programs. 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The organization took care of their travel expenses and the conference registration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three-day event, which took place October 19 \u0026ndash; 21, 2016, provides female technologists from all over the world the chance to celebrate the achievements of women in the computing field. The event includes presentations by influential entrepreneurs, academics, and business leaders\u0026mdash;all in the fields of computing and technology. Also on offer are ample opportunities to network and socialize, professional development activities, and a career fair. Caitlyn Caggia describes it as the perfect way to transition from being a student to being a professional.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt first concerned that the conference would have too narrow of a focus on computing, the Georgia Tech women quickly learned that there were a variety of topics relevant to women in technology in all stages of their careers, from students to executives. In fact, being an electrical engineer had a decided advantage in terms of talking with recruiters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There were hundreds of companies recruiting from Google and Facebook to J.P. Morgan Chase to Hewlett-Packard. Being an electrical engineer came in handy as EEs were in short supply at the conference and it was a great talking point with many recruiters,\u0026rdquo; said Raju.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference was organized by thematic areas of interest called \u0026ldquo;Clusters\u0026rdquo; which included Technology, Products A to Z, Open Source World, Emerging Technology, Career, and Organization Transformation. Featured keynote speakers included Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM; Susan Cain, author of \u003Cem\u003EQuiet: How to Harness the Strength of Introverts to Transform How We Work, Lead, and Innovate\u003C\/em\u003E; Latanya Sweeney, professor at Harvard University and Editor-in-Chief of \u003Cem\u003ETechnology Science\u003C\/em\u003E; Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce; and Megan Smith, the United States Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Office of Science and\u0026nbsp;Technology Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne panel that was a favorite of the Georgia Tech students was \u003Cem\u003EInsights from the Top Companies Leadership Index\u003C\/em\u003E featuring senior technologists from Intel, Accenture, Allstate, and Bank of America. The four women who made up the panel described how they are increasing representation of women technologists in their companies through recruitment, retention, and advancement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There was some really genuine, encouraging feedback from executives about what they\u0026rsquo;ve done to inspire lasting change. One particularly memorable speaker was a woman from Intel. She discussed some best practices at Intel that really worked, and also went through some of their well-intentioned attempts that ended in complete failure. For example, forcing company-wide educational sessions was less effective than one-on-one mentoring type programs to increase exposure and awareness,\u0026rdquo; said Caggia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three-day trip also included multiple interviews with industry representatives and lots of useful tips for developing new skills and finding your dream job. In addition to gaining insight into what they may want to do after they graduate, Caggia, Raju, and Nergui appreciated the general sense of comradery, the high energy atmosphere, and the wisdom imparted by women who are paving the path for future generations of female technologists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE students Caitlyn Caggia, Lakshmi Raju, and Delgermaa Nergui, attended the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing in Houston, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE students Caitlyn Caggia, Lakshmi Raju, and Delgermaa Nergui, attended the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing in Houston, Texas."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2016-11-14 19:28:54","changed_gmt":"2016-11-15 20:15:10","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583855":{"id":"583855","type":"image","title":"Delgermaa Nergui, Caitlyn Caggia, and Lakshmi Raju","body":null,"created":"1479150488","gmt_created":"2016-11-14 19:08:08","changed":"1479150488","gmt_changed":"2016-11-14 19:08:08","alt":"ECE students Delgermaa Nergui, Caitlyn Caggia, and Lakshmi Raju attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October 2016. 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For device fabrication, an advanced liquid metal patterning method based on soft lithography is used to form interdigitated capacitors and integrate them with microfluidics. To highlight flexibility and stretchability, the electrical characteristics of the interdigitated capacitor are investigated subject to mechanical loading. Finally, VOC detection is demonstrated using the all-soft microfluidic sensing platform in both the liquid and gas phase.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThanks to its softness, lightweight, flexibility, and stretchability, the proposed chemical sensing platform is suited for wearable sensing\u0026nbsp;applications either on the skin or on clothing and for potential applications in next-generation sensing electronics for the Internet of\u0026nbsp;Things (IoT).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Min-gu Kim won the third place Oral Student Paper Award at IEEE Sensors 2016, held October 30-November 2 in Orlando, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Min-gu Kim won the third place Oral Student Paper Award at IEEE Sensors 2016, held October 30-November 2 in Orlando, Florida."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-11-10 15:58:04","changed_gmt":"2016-11-10 16:02:14","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583747":{"id":"583747","type":"image","title":"Min-gu Kim at IEEE Sensors 2016","body":null,"created":"1478793527","gmt_created":"2016-11-10 15:58:47","changed":"1478793527","gmt_changed":"2016-11-10 15:58:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222548","name":"Min-gu Kim.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Min-gu%20Kim.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Min-gu%20Kim.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1202256,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Min-gu%20Kim.jpg?itok=qQw6NbEK"}}},"media_ids":["583747"],"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:\/\/ieee-sensors2016.org","title":"IEEE Sensors 2016"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"172701","name":"Min-gu Kim"},{"id":"24241","name":"Oliver Brand"},{"id":"172702","name":"IEEE Sensors 2016"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"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\u003E404-894-2902\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"583699":{"#nid":"583699","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How the U.S. Can Reign during the Coming Robot Invasion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article appeared on Fortune.com on November 7, 2016.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile robots have the potential to be very intelligent, if there\u0026rsquo;s one thing that books, movies, and even our own experiences have shown, it\u0026rsquo;s that they also can be\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEjQMMhDkjU\u0022\u003Eremarkably dumb\u003C\/a\u003E. So one sure-fire way for the U.S. to continue leading the robotics world is by investing in education. Not only are these machines getting smarter every day, but so too are other countries, training the kind of workers required to operate robots that can\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/30\/gm-cloud-factory-robots-fanuc\/\u0022\u003Ecoat cars on assembly lines\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with paint and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/05\/25\/adidas-robot-speedfactories\/\u0022\u003Eproduce sneakers faster\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;than ever.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026rsquo;s one takeaway from a new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/contextualrobotics\/docs\/rm3-final-rs.pdf\u0022\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;released Monday by a group of 120 robotics experts. Intended to brief the U.S. government on the state of robotics so that the government can better plan for the future, the Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions like like Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech professors who helped write the report are Magnus Egerstedt and Ayanna Howard from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jaydev Desai and Charlie Kemp from the Georgia Tech\/Emory Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Sonia Chernova in the School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/07\/robot-roadmap-report-labor-jobs\/\u0022\u003ERead the rest of the Fortune article by Jonathan Vanian, published November 7, 2016\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Report urges U.S. to invest more in robotic and tech education to better compete internationally"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions llike Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Roadmap to Robotics report is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (as well as a few universities) and written by experts from the private sector as well as academic institutions, including Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-11-09 16:50:57","changed_gmt":"2016-11-09 16:56:12","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"3264","name":"Wallace H. 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Weitnauer Chair in the College of Engineering and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Rohatgi has published over 500 technical papers and has been issued a total of 41 patents, including 19 U.S. patents. He is the founder and CTO of Suniva, Inc., a Georgia Tech spin-off company that is the first silicon solar cell manufacturing company in the southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Suniva, Inc., a Georgia Tech spin-off founded by Rohatgi, was named as one of 21 projects funded by the Technology to Market Program. Suniva received a two-year $1.997 million contract from this SunShot Initiative, and Rohatgi is a subcontractor on the project. The company, which is the first silicon solar cell manufacturer in the southeast, will work on developing an advanced passivated emitter rear cell (PERC) structure that utilizes an aluminum grid on the back side instead of a conventional full-area aluminum structure. These bifacial cells will have lower stress and thus can be thinned down to save on silicon material costs. In addition, performance improvements are proposed that would lead to much finer silver gridlines to improve cell and module efficiency. These enhancements in the cell performance can feed directly into Suniva\u0026rsquo;s high-volume manufacturing line.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of SunShot\u0026rsquo;s goals is to drive down the levelized cost of utility-scale solar electricity to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour without incentives by 2020. 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The LF Radio Lab, led by Cohen, and its students are highly interdisciplinary, combining custom-built cutting edge radio detection hardware, advanced signal processing, and theoretical electromagnetic simulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECohen is an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He is a winner of the 2015 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and was also chosen for the 2014 Santimay Basu Prize, an award given once per three years to an under-35 scientist by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Morris B. 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Amir, Kim, and Kung are all current members of the Gigascale Reliable Energy Efficient Nanosystem (GREEN) Lab, which is led by Mukhopadhyay.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENeuro-inspired\u0026nbsp;deep\u0026nbsp;learning algorithms have emerged as a key\u0026nbsp;enabler for performing complex tasks such as feature extraction, classification, and recognition on\u0026nbsp;image\/video data. Currently, such complex processing is mainly performed at the back-end\u0026nbsp;machines. There is a\u0026nbsp;growing need to push\u0026nbsp;learning algorithms\u0026nbsp;into the sensor front-end to\u0026nbsp;facilitate\u0026nbsp;fast decision making and reduce the\u0026nbsp;demand on\u0026nbsp;communication\u0026nbsp;bandwidth. However, the size, weight, and power\u0026nbsp;constraints limit the ability to\u0026nbsp;perform complex processing\u0026nbsp;in the\u0026nbsp;sensor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper presents an\u0026nbsp;innovative system design\u0026nbsp;concept\u0026nbsp;to enable integration of\u0026nbsp;deep learning architecture\u0026nbsp;within a\u0026nbsp;image\u0026nbsp;sensor.\u0026nbsp;The device is known as the NeuroSensor \u0026ndash; a 3D stacked image sensor with an integrated neural network. The NeuroSensor performs on-chip neural computation for in-field decision making and classification, and thus reduces latency and energy consumption for data movement between the sensor and host.\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;design\u0026nbsp;and analysis presented in the paper creates a new research\u0026nbsp;direction on how to enable complex machine learning at the\u0026nbsp;sensor\u0026nbsp;front-end.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper is a key\u0026nbsp;milestone in the\u0026nbsp;research performed at the GREEN lab\u0026nbsp;on\u0026nbsp;intelligent and autonomous\u0026nbsp;image sensors.\u0026nbsp;This is also one of many key\u0026nbsp;publications, and\u0026nbsp;the second best paper award\u0026nbsp;received by GREEN Lab students in 2016\u0026nbsp;on this research topic. 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The program, started in May 2015, incentivizes researchers to identify and report potential security issues that could affect the company\u0026rsquo;s websites, apps, or online portals. Mileage awards can range in value based upon a qualifying bug\u0026rsquo;s potential impact to United or the airline\u0026rsquo;s customers. Since the program\u0026rsquo;s inception, Pickren has been the most successful participant, earning more than twice as many miles as any other participant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Ryan is an exceptionally talented researcher and a big reason why our program has been so successful,\u0026quot; said Arlan McMillan, United\u0026#39;s chief information security officer. \u0026quot;His creative submissions have helped strengthen our security environment, and we are grateful for his partnership and professionalism.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPickren was inspired to try the program after taking an \u0026ldquo;Introduction to Cybersecurity\u0026rdquo; course with Professor Raheem Beyah. Beyah mentioned the program to his students and Pickren was immediately intrigued.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInitially compelled by the possibility of free air travel, Pickren soon found that working the program had other benefits. \u0026ldquo;I took a look at the program and realized how fun it was. My main motivation to keep at it was that I found it fascinating,\u0026rdquo; said Pickren.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUpon realizing his success in the program, Pickren knew he wanted to give back to the Institute that taught him everything he knows about cybersecurity and computer bugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I wanted to help student organizations that help others by removing one hurdle they face in the funding game--air travel. With these miles, Tech\u0026rsquo;s student organizations that do charity work should be set for airfare for a long time,\u0026rdquo; said Pickren.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe gift is one of the largest in-kind donations made to the Institute by a current undergraduate student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We couldn\u0026rsquo;t be prouder of Ryan. We always enjoy seeing how our students apply the knowledge they gain in class to real-world challenges. Not only is he applying that in an incredibly\u0026nbsp;creative way,\u0026nbsp;he is sharing his success with current and\u0026nbsp;future Georgia Tech students. It is a generous, inspired, and\u0026nbsp;impressive legacy \u0026mdash; all while he is still a student. Wow!\u0026rdquo; said Steven W. McLaughlin, Steve W. 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Researchers reveal the \u0027lurking malice\u0027 in major services and say 10% have been compromised by hackers ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of repositories across nearly two dozen major cloud services are actively providing malware, including phishing, \u0026lsquo;drive-by downloads,\u0026rsquo; and fake sites, according to a new study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe list includes domains from Google, Amazon, and Yahoo, and according to the team, the malicious content can be difficult to spot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers say hackers could hide components of malware in separate locations in the cloud, allowing them to go untracked as individual items \u0026ndash; but, these seemingly innocent pieces can quickly be assembled to launch an attack.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of California Santa Barbara created a scanning tool called \u0026lsquo;BarFinder\u0026rsquo; to track down the unique features of bad repositories.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work was supported in part by the National Science\u0026nbsp;Foundation and involves ECE Professor Raheem Beyah and his Ph.D. student Xiaojing Liao.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3852358\/Is-data-safe-cloud-Researchers-reveal-lurking-malice-major-services-say-10-compromised-hackers.html#ixzz4NipjnZMO\u0022\u003ERead the entire article at The Daily Mail\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of repositories across nearly two dozen major cloud services are actively providing malware, including phishing, \u0026lsquo;drive-by downloads,\u0026rsquo; and fake sites, according to a new study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of California Santa Barbara created a scanning tool called \u0026lsquo;BarFinder\u0026rsquo; to track down the unique features of bad repositories.\u0026nbsp;ECE Professor Raheem Beyah and his Ph.D. student Xiaojing Liao are on this research team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the study, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of California Santa Barbara created a scanning tool called \u2018BarFinder\u2019 to track down the unique features of bad repositories."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-10-21 19:07:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-21 19:17:50","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"67741","name":"Raheem Beyah"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"172552","name":"cloud malware"},{"id":"2200","name":"Cyber Attack"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582945":{"#nid":"582945","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Do androids dream of eating sheep?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDo cyborgs really need to eat? Granted, there\u0026rsquo;s no practical way to answer this question at the moment,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hansonrobotics.com\/robot-gallery\/\u0022\u003Ebut with robotics technology improving rapidly each year\u003C\/a\u003E, the question of fuel sources is a fascinating one. Is organic fuel for cyborgs a necessity? Couldn\u0026rsquo;t they just power up throughout the day by plugging in a USB or a charger? Ayanna Howard was one of the scientists\u0026nbsp;game enough\u0026nbsp;to lend their knowledge and experience to speculate on this topic; she is the\u0026nbsp;Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/do-androids-dream-eating-sheep-243687\u0022\u003ERead the article at the A.V. 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Both appointments are effective September 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his role as associate chair, Romberg will oversee all aspects of the School\u2019s research enterprise and research program space-related issues. He will also work to integrate junior faculty members into ECE research activities and coordinate ECE responses to and participation in College- and Institute-level research initiatives, as well as other large-scale initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomberg joined the ECE faculty in 2006 and conducts research that is on the interface between signal processing, applied harmonic analysis, and optimization. He and his current team of six Ph.D. students are interested in both the mathematical theory and real-world implementation of algorithms to make difficult processing tasks much easier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA couple of examples of Romberg\u2019s work have been in the news recently, including a project with MIT colleagues where they have developed a computational imaging system that can correctly identify letters on the top nine sheets of paper in a book and that could be used to examine manuscripts that are too fragile to handle. He has also worked with ECE Associate Professor Arijit Raychowdhury to develop a low-power, always-on camera with gesture recognition that can watch for specific types of movement without draining batteries or running up electricity bills. These stories have appeared in media outlets such as \u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EYahoo! 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Romberg has also served on the review board for the Army Research Office, where he was part of the team that assessed a sector of the applied mathematics program, and on the technical advisory group for HRL, where he assessed their research programs in complex networks, sensor exploitation, and neural systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDedicated to high quality teaching and scholarship, Romberg has contributed to the Connexions Project at Rice University since he was a graduate student and is an author of signal processing modules that have been accessed over a million times. He has also developed an open database of probability questions now being used by multiple professors in ECE and at three other universities. At Georgia Tech, Romberg has created three courses from scratch\u2013ECE 3077 Introduction to Probability and Statistics; an advanced DSP graduate course that draws students from ECE, ISyE, and mathematics; and a graduate course on convex optimization. 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His work has resulted in 114 refereed or invited publications, and he has served as an associate editor or guest editor for several journals in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah has graduated six Ph.D. students and over 18 M.S. students, and his research group currently consists of five Ph.D. students and two M.S. students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently the chair of ECE\u2019s Computer Systems and Software (CSS) group, and he is leading the formation of ECE\u2019s new proposed M.S. Cyber Security degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah is a member of the Georgia Tech Sloan University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) committee and currently serves as director of the Georgia Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. Prior to becoming director of SURE, Beyah regularly served as a graduate student mentor and faculty advisor with the program. He is also a faculty advisor for the Georgia Tech Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program and is a regular participant in the Georgia Tech FOCUS Program, an annual graduate student recruitment event that takes place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Along with two faculty members in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Beyah co-founded the Academic and Research Leadership Network (ARLN). Supported by 17 engineering deans and the NSF, the mission of ARLN is to increase the representation of underrepresented groups in the academy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah is a member of the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s School of Information Sciences Board of Visitors and a member of MARTA\u2019s Cyber Security Advisory Board. 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She succeeds Douglas B. Williams, who served in this position since fall 2012 and who has been named as the associate dean for Administration and Finance in Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeitnauer joined the ECE faculty in 1989, after graduating with her bachelor\u0027s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and was the School\u2019s third female faculty member. She is the director of the Smart Antenna Research Laboratory, where she and her team apply both real and virtual multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures to wireless networks with emphases on WLAN, ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks, often with demonstration on networks of software defined radios. Weitnauer has graduated 26 Ph.D. and 2 M.S. students and currently advises three Ph.D. students. In addition, she has advised 56 M.S. special problems students, 38 undergraduate researchers, and 13 capstone design teams. 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He was among several faculty members who founded the Center for Signal and Image Processing (now known as the Center for Signal and Information Processing), considered one of the world\u2019s most preeminent groups of digital signal processing academic and research faculty. He is a founding father of the field of multidimensional signal processing, pioneering the development of the fundamental concepts, methodologies, and tools in sampling, representing, and processing digital signals of two and higher dimensions that are used in image and video processing. 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Hill has received the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award. He was honored for his dedicated support to developing IEEE PES Surge Protective Devices Committee (SPDC) standards in the role of Low Voltage Subcommittee Chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA senior research technologist at National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center, Hill has worked as the SPDC SC 3.6 chair since spring 2006. As chair, he oversees the operation of 12 working groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Hill initiated and maintains a master working group member and standards list for all of the subcommittee working groups. He was also responsible for the creation of and continued guidance of four new working groups addressing emerging technologies: Wind Power Facilities Surge Protection Guide Working Group, Surge Protection of Photovoltaic Facilities Working Group, Smart Grid Surge Protection Guide Working Group, and Electric Vehicle Service Equipment Surge Protection Guide Working Group.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERaymond C. Hill has received the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Technical Committee Distinguished Individual Service Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Raymond C. 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Verriest is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVerriest coauthored this presentation entitled \u201cReachability of a Cascade of Linear Systems with Communication Delays\u0022 with the late Uwe Helmke of the Institute of Mathematics at the Julius Maximilian University of W\u00fcrzburg in W\u00fcrzburg, Germany and Paul Fuhrmann of the Department of Mathematics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. The research is in the area of mathematical systems theory and was conducted while Verriest was on professional development leave in\u0026nbsp;W\u00fcrzburg\u0026nbsp;last fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVerriest and his colleagues derived necessary and sufficient conditions for a notion of \u0022restricted reachability,\u201d when only the states of certain subsystems in a cascade of systems need to be controllable. This is a more general formulation of a motivating problem when a string of robots communicate from one to the next, while the first in the chain receives the control signals. In this case, the states of the communication systems between the robots are of no concern, but the robots\u0027 states are. Similarly, the states of a river need to be controlled at certain geographic locations such as population centers, while not as much control is needed in the levels of intermediate floodplains. These conditions, cast in a polynomial systems theoretic framework, generalize the Necessary and Sufficient Condition for full reachability of a cascade, derived by Helmke and Fuhrmann in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor\u0026nbsp;Erik I. 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Williams takes over the position from Associate Professor John Leonard, who is departing Georgia Tech to assume the position of executive associate dean and professor, School of Engineering, at Virginia Commonwealth University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Williams is currently senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), a position he has held since 2012. He joined ECE in 1989 as an assistant professor, and he is affiliated with the Center for Signal and Image Processing. He received his bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in 1984, 1987, and 1989. Williams has previously served as interim ECE school chair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cI would like to personally thank Doug for agreeing to take on this important responsibility for the College,\u201d said May. \u201cPlease join me in lending Doug our support as he assumes this new role, which is vitally important to the well-being of the College. I would also like to thank John Leonard for his years of dedicated service in this position. John brought a high level of analytical and data support into CoE\u2019s financial administration, which became foundational for budgetary decision making.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering (CoE) dean and Southern Company chair Gary S. May has announced the appointment of Professor Douglas B. 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May has announced leadership changes that affect several units within the college.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobert J. Butera, professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named as interim associate dean for research and innovation in the College of Engineering (CoE) Dean\u2019s Office, effective July 1. Butera also holds a joint appointment in\u0026nbsp;the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). He previously served as director of the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program from 2005-2008 and as faculty director of Graduate Studies at Georgia Tech from 2009-2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA member of the ECE faculty since 1999, Butera was also co-director of the Grand Challenges Living Learning Community from 2012-2015. Since 2014, he has co-directed the Neural Engineering Research Center, which brings together neural engineering researchers from across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStephen P. 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Started as a mission after the 2010 earthquake, the non-profit organization \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.butgodministries.com\/\u0022\u003EBut God Ministries\u003C\/a\u003E sought to create a sustainable city for Haitians still living in tents. Home to approximately 6,000 people, the village has primitive housing, no running water, limited electricity, and no real industry to support its people. The mission, which is anchored by a health center built by But God Ministries, relies on volunteers to help improve the lives of the villagers through healthcare, education, and housing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn May 2016, Frank Lambert, principal research engineer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech, led a group of students from the Student Chapter of the IEEE Power \u0026amp; Energy Society (PES) on a trip to Thoman to provide one of the many resources the village desperately needed\u2014an inexpensive, reliable source of power. The team installed a solar-powered micro grid system in the health center, which now provides 24\/7 power and replaces a costly diesel generator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELambert, who has been going on mission trips to Haiti since 2013, also extended an opportunity to another student group from ECE\u2019s Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS) Program, which matches undergraduate students with a Ph.D. mentor and a research project. The \u201cThing in a Hut\u201d team, as they are fondly called by faculty advisor Ron Harley, was working on a prototype for a smaller solar-powered system that would provide LED light and phone charging for single family houses. These solutions, though small, can make a big impact on a community that typically has only kerosene lamps for light and often have to travel several miles to charge cell phones\u2014their only connection to the larger world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen the ORS team, which was made up of undergraduate students Edlawit \u201cJulie\u201d Bezabih, Elizabeth Robelo, Kyron Longwood,\u0026nbsp;Tshim Tshimanga, Wondewosen Kihinet, and Ph.D mentor Liyao Wu, embarked on this project, they had no idea they would have the chance to actually install their system and see it work. For some, it was the first time they had traveled outside the United States and the experience broadened their world view significantly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe trip was something that has left an imprint on me that will last for the rest of my life. Not only was it the first time that I was given an opportunity to travel outside of the United States and grab a taste of the world, but\u0026nbsp;I was also fortunate\u0026nbsp;enough to participate in social and humanitarian efforts that improved the livelihood of the Haitian people. The trip also made me realize how much first world countries take things for granted,\u201d said Longwood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter lengthy testing in Atlanta, the team\u2019s focus shifted to the installation of two identical prototypes. The first system was installed in the local pastor\u2019s house. Unsure of what type of houses they would be working on, they faced some unexpected challenges. They found that the installation kit they brought wasn\u2019t useful. The roof tops were weak, which meant only Bezabih and Robelo were light enough to perform the installation of the solar panels. In the case of the second house, which belonged to a woman and her children, the team had to create a new mount for the solar panels in order for them to be correctly positioned for maximum sun exposure. Luckily, the larger IEEE PES group was on hand to provide guidance and troubleshooting. While the first installation took three days, the second installation went more smoothly and took only one.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. mentor Wu explained that the end result consisted of a controller board that interfaced with the roof panels to charge LED lights and phones via USB ports. After each installation, the team showed the family how the system worked and how to use it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLiving in the US, we take electricity for granted; you do not think about whether a building will have it or not. It\u2019s incredible that our system can change a life so drastically. Now they will not have the inconvenience of traveling several miles just to charge their cell phones. They will no longer have to use kerosene lamps at night. It\u0027s a great feeling knowing that you\u0027ve given these people who have nothing one less thing to worry about it. The best part is knowing that as long as the sun is shining they will have electricity readily available,\u201d said Robelo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo houses are now outfitted with the system, but there are millions more that could benefit from the work that future ORS teams hope to do. Now the task at hand will involve improving the prototype to make it lighter, smaller, and more efficient. 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Pierre, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering this past spring from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, grew up in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, near the northern border with the Dominican Republic. He returned to his country right after graduation to put his education to practice, but not before taking a circuitous route that eventually brought his journey full circle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPierre didn\u2019t always want to be an electrical engineer. His talent in math actually led him down a different path. His first bachelor\u2019s degree was in economics from the State University of Haiti where he was the school\u2019s top student. He imagined that he would pursue a position in business management or possibly enter an MBA program with a scholarship offered by the Haitian government. In order to get ready for the next steps in his career, he attended a language institute at Georgia Tech in 2000 where he spent two semesters learning English. Upon his return to Haiti, he was devastated to learn that his scholarship for graduate study had evaporated due to political unrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiscouraged and unsure what to do next, he moved back to the United States where he had some family and hoped he could build a better life with more opportunities than he could find in Haiti. Pierre worked at a number of jobs in Florida and Massachusetts and eventually met his wife, who is also Haitian, in Boston. Life was stable, but something was still missing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI looked at how Haitian immigrants in the States lived. Most couldn\u2019t use their degrees and were working two or three jobs just to survive. They were never home; they never saw their kids,\u201d said Pierre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn order to provide the kind of life that he wanted for his family, Pierre realized that he needed to go back to school. He enrolled in Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, and essentially started over. He took calculus and physics courses and began studying for an associate\u2019s degree while working full-time. Toward the end of his program at Hillsborough, Pierre went back to Haiti for a visit. It was then that he had his \u201clight bulb moment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGrowing up, I remember studying by the light of a kerosene lamp. Going back in 2010, I saw the same struggles that I dealt with as a kid. Most homes still didn\u2019t have reliable access to electricity. People\u2019s quality of life hadn\u2019t really improved at all in the years since I was young,\u201d said Pierre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe path became clear to Pierre\u2014he would get a degree in electrical engineering so that he could do something to help countries like Haiti. While weighing his electrical engineering program options (he was considering both Georgia Tech and the University of South Florida), he saw something on the Georgia Tech website that cemented his decision. Following the devastating Haitian earthquake in January 2010, Pierre saw an announcement on Georgia Tech\u2019s website for a campus-wide vigil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI knew then\u2014those are my people, that will be my academic home,\u201d said Pierre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe years at Tech were tough, but Pierre\u2019s desire to earn a degree that could be used to help improve people\u2019s lives kept him going.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf it was just for me, I would probably have dropped out. But it was bigger than me. I got an EE degree to be a voice for people in countries like Haiti,\u201d said Pierre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFast forward to spring 2016 and Pierre was on the cusp of gaining his electrical engineering degree when a serendipitous opportunity presented itself. Teams of students in the IEEE Power and Energy Society and the Opportunity Research Scholars Program were traveling to Haiti to install solar-based microgrid systems in a remote village called Thoman. The systems would provide cheap, reliable power to people who either had none or relied on expensive diesel generators. Pierre knew he had to go.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHelping with the installation, as well as acting as an unofficial translator, Pierre was an oddity to some of the villagers, especially the children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe kids were really interested in all of the visiting engineers and would flock to us. Because I spoke Creole (the native language of Haiti) as well as English, they didn\u2019t know what to make of me. I overhead them asking each other, \u2018Is he one of us or one of them?\u2019 The adults in Thoman said it was the first time they had seen a Haitian come to help,\u201d said Pierre.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a few weeks, Pierre and his wife and daughter will move to Miami where he has a job waiting with Florida Power and Light. He hopes to continue the work that was started in Haiti and is open to the possibility of leading more projects there in the future. For now, he is satisfied with the way his Georgia Tech journey brought him back to his roots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI like to use an electrical engineering analogy to describe my experience. When you build a circuit, you always have to come back to close the loop if you want it to work. 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At least if things bode well for the engineers designing the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7105963\u0026amp;newsearch=true\u0026amp;queryText=hemodynamics%20variables\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eworld\u2019s first prototype of a patch that can monitor the heart\u2019s mechanics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in conjunction with user activity and environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn interdisciplinary team of clinicians and electrical, computer and biomedical engineers has been developing next-generation, at-home technology aimed at detecting heart issues\u2014and preventing related hospitalizations. 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Alam is a Ph.D. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine (GTL). He is advised by ECE Professor and GTL Director Abdallah Ougazzaden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlam received the award for his poster entitled \u201cInvestigation of p-contact performance for InGaN\/InGaN Multi Quantum Well (MQW) light emitting diodes emitting in blue to green region.\u201d His coauthors on the paper are Ougazzaden, Suresh Sundaram (GTL-CNRS), Xin Li (ECE, Atlanta campus), Youssef El Gmili (CNRS), Helge Haas (CEA-LETI Minatec Campus), Miryam Elouneg-Jamroz (CEA-LETI Minatec Campus), Ivan Christophe Robin (CEA-LETI Minatec Campus), Paul Voss (ECE, GTL campus), and Jean-Paul Salvestrini (University of Lorraine).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESolid state lighting has received much attention for its potential to reduce energy consumption up to 85 percent, compared to conventional lighting. GaN-based light emitting diodes (LEDs) have applications for solid state lighting because the tunable bandgap of InGaN\/GaN-based Multi Quantum Well (MQW) LEDs makes it possible to produce light across the entire visible spectral range.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo realize good quality white light with high Color Rendering Index (CRI), monolithic integration of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) is important. Though blue LED has fairly good performance and has been commercially successful, Green LED efficacy is less than 50 percent and still needs to improve to get high CRI white light by RGB combination for solid state lighting. Therefore, for structures with higher Indium (In) content in InGaN alloys like green LEDs, improvement from InGaN architecture to p-contact performance is still necessary, and to compete with conventional lighting, the extraction efficiency is yet to be improved, particularly in the \u201cgreen-gap\u201d regime.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEpitaxial growth of p-GaN for green LEDs must be done at a lower temperature than conventional GaN growth temperature to avoid phase segregation of In due to thermal load on MQW from temperature during p-GaN growth. Hence, the study of p-GaN growth temperature and contact performance for these devices is important for the success of solid state lighting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhoto caption:\u0026nbsp; Pictured with Saiful Alam (2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E from left) are Daniel Alquier, professor and deputy director of GREMAN project at the University of Tours; Yvon Cordier, CNRS research director, head of CRHEA-CNRS, and Konstantinos Zekentes, principal researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Saiful Alam won the Best Poster Award at the 2016 European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held May 2-6 in Lille, France.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Saiful Alam won the Best Poster Award at the 2016 European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, held May 2-6 in Lille, France."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-06-28 15:47:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"548861":{"id":"548861","type":"image","title":"Saiful Alam award presentation","body":null,"created":"1467316800","gmt_created":"2016-06-30 20:00:00","changed":"1475895343","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:43","alt":"Saiful Alam award presentation","file":{"fid":"92584","name":"saiful_alam_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saiful_alam_photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saiful_alam_photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51009,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/saiful_alam_photo.jpg?itok=-msH5TJR"}}},"media_ids":["548861"],"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:\/\/www.lorraine.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.european-mrs.com\/meetings\/2016-spring-meeting","title":"European Materials Research Society Spring 2016 Meeting"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"29771","name":"Abdallah Ougazzaden"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2908","name":"Georgia Tech Lorraine"},{"id":"14280","name":"LEDs"},{"id":"172168","name":"light emitting diodes"},{"id":"172169","name":"Saiful Alam"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"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":""}},"548881":{"#nid":"548881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Eric Pollmann Selected for IEEE EMC Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEric Pollmann has been named the recipient of the IEEE James C. 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He is also pursuing the undergraduate research option and is working on an undergraduate thesis entitled \u201cLocalization of EM Emanations from FPGAs\u201d with Zajic, who is an assistant professor in Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmartcards, cellphones, and laptops can be susceptible to side-channel attacks, which are the exploitation of low-power electronic signals that a wireless electronic device like a laptop emits as electromagnetic waves even when it is not connected to the Internet. With the trend towards internet-of-things (IoT) and millions of connected devices, defense against side-channel attacks becomes even more important. 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(Manos) Tentzeris has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the area of flexible electronics, effective June 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETentzeris joined the faculty of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in 1998 after graduating with his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He leads the ATHENA Research Group, where he currently advises one visiting research scientist, nine Ph.D. students, two master\u2019s students, and nine undergraduate researchers. 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This technology quantifies mechanical aspects of cardiovascular function by recording the movements of the body caused by the contraction of the heart and ejection of blood into the aorta, the body\u2019s main trunk of the arterial system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u201cThe ultimate goal of this research is to create an unobtrusive wearable system for continuously monitoring HF patients at home, automatically assessing their risk of experiencing a cardiac event, and providing feedback to caregivers and the patients themselves,\u201d said Omer Inan, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EAccording to Inan, the central innovation supporting these efforts is the proposed measurement of hemodynamic responses\u2013or forces involved in the circulation of blood\u2013to stressors experienced in normal activities of daily living, such as walking or climbing stairs. These responses will be measured by using wearable BCG. Inan and his colleagues will work on four specific areas with this research:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; clarify the underlying mechanisms involved in creating wearable BCG signals;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; develop novel predictive analytics algorithms for BCG signals measured from HF patients at home;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; design and implement a wearable sensing system for estimating cardiac output, blood pressure, and activity level from ambulatory patients; and\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; evaluate the wearable sensing system with both healthy and HF patients during cardiopulmonary stress testing and pilot the new system for a small population of patients at their homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EInan will supervise all engineering aspects of the project, including leading the Georgia Tech team in designing and building the weighing scale and wearable BCG sensing systems, and he will work with May Wang and James M. Rehg to analyze the measured data. Wang, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, will advise on the predictive algorithm development and data analytics aspects of the project. Rehg, a professor in Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, will work on the software implementation for the interactive computing aspects, leveraging the technology developed in the Mobile Sensor Data to Knowledge (MD2K) Center of Excellence, which he co-directs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003ECollaborating with the Georgia Tech team are UCSF and Northwestern colleagues. Liviu Klein and Teresa DeMarco, both heart failure cardiologists in the School of Medicine, will handle all clinical aspects of the project, including patient enrollment, and performing and interpreting the cardiac catheterization and cardiopulmonary stress tests. Shuvo Roy, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Mozziyar Etemadi, a recent M.D.\/Ph.D. graduate of Roy\u2019s lab and currently with the Department of Anesthesiology at Northwestern\u2019s Feinberg School of Medicine, will work with Inan and his lab on the embedded systems development and will work with the clinical team to deploy the sensing systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EThe first aim will build a strong foundation for better understanding the wearable BCG signal \u2013 a measurement of body vibrations in response to the heartbeat \u2013 and will inform the placement and modality of the sensor for optimizing the sensing, said Inan. The evaluation of this wearable prototype will include usability testing to assess comfort and robustness to practical challenges, such as the device rubbing on clothing and signal quality disruptions due to walking or other body movements. Based on the results, the design will be refined and improved.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003EWhile the team anticipates that the wearable BCG device will provide the best solution, the project risk is mitigated through the more mature, existing scale-based system that Inan developed previously in his graduate and post-doctoral work. These scale-based systems would also be usable in the home, but only for stationary measurements as compared to the continuous monitoring capability offered by wearable BCG systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u201cSuccessful completion of this project could ultimately reduce heart failure-related hospitalizations, which would improve quality of life for elderly Americans and reduce overall healthcare costs,\u201d said Liviu Klein of UCSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch reported in this publication was supported by the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01HL130619. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022left\u0022\u003E[1]\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; D. Mozaffarian, E. J. Benjamin, A. S. Go, D. K. Arnett, M. J. Blaha, M. Cushman, S. R. Das, S. de Ferranti, J.-P. Despr\u00e9s, H. J. Fullerton, V. J. Howard, M. D. Huffman, C. R. Isasi, M. C. Jim\u00e9nez, S. E. Judd, B. M. Kissela, J. H. Lichtman, L. D. Lisabeth, S. Liu, R. H. Mackey, D. J. Magid, D. K. McGuire, E. R. Mohler, C. S. Moy, P. Muntner, M. E. Mussolino, K. Nasir, R. W. Neumar, G. Nichol, L. Palaniappan, D. K. Pandey, M. J. Reeves, C. J. Rodriguez, W. Rosamond, P. D. Sorlie, J. Stein, A. Towfighi, T. N. Turan, S. S. Virani, D. Woo, R. W. Yeh, and M. B. 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During this academic-year-long program, the Teaching Fellows will explore various aspects of teaching and learning in weekly seminars, receive private assistance with teaching, and develop and pilot initiatives that can be used for the education component of major award applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInan joined the ECE faculty in 2013 and is a member of the bioengineering technical interest group. He teaches undergraduate courses in biomedical instrumentation, biosystems analysis, and the Introduction to ECE Design course for freshmen, and he has developed and taught an ECE graduate course, Biomedical Sensing Systems. 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Paris Junior Professorship in the School of ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper,\u0026nbsp;the team proposed and demonstrated an\u0026nbsp;all-passive\u0026nbsp;RF front-end\u0026nbsp;phased-array\u0026nbsp;beam-forming scheme that can\u0026nbsp;autonomously form a\u0026nbsp;receiver\u0026nbsp;beam and\u0026nbsp;track\u0026nbsp;the direction of an unknown\u0026nbsp;incident RF beam.\u0026nbsp;The beam-former only\u0026nbsp;consists of fully\u0026nbsp;integrated\u0026nbsp;passive\u0026nbsp;components and consumes zero DC power. More importantly, the proposed beam-former processes the signal\u0026nbsp;information in both phase and voltage domains, and the nonlinear conversions between the two\u0026nbsp;signal domains are exploited to achieve a negative feedback loop with a\u0026nbsp;large loop gain for high-accuracy phased-array\u0026nbsp;beam-forming and autonomous beam-tracking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;proof-of-concept, four-element self-steering beam-former\u0026nbsp;is implemented in a standard 130nm CMOS process\u0026nbsp;and occupies a tiny integrated circuit chip\u0026nbsp;area of 4.1mm2.\u0026nbsp;To the best of the team\u0027s\u0026nbsp;knowledge,\u0026nbsp;this is the first demonstration of an all-passive negative feedback\u0026nbsp;network capable of performing\u0026nbsp;front-end self-steering beam-forming with zero DC power. The\u0026nbsp;demonstration\u0026nbsp;of this\u0026nbsp;all-passive\u0026nbsp;scheme\u0026nbsp;outperforms any\u0026nbsp;reported active\u0026nbsp;self-steering beam-formers that often consume\u0026nbsp;hundreds of\u0026nbsp;milli-watt or watts\u0026nbsp;of power consumption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp;all-passive\u0026nbsp;RF front-end self-steering\u0026nbsp;phased-array\u0026nbsp;beam-forming scheme can be widely employed in energy-constrained, large-scaled phased-array or\u0026nbsp;MIMO\u0026nbsp;systems, such as 5G\u0026nbsp;communication and high-performance radars,\u0026nbsp;low-power\u0026nbsp;field-deployable sensors, and energy harvesting systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;Min-Yu Huang and Taiyun Chi won the 2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Best Student Paper Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. students Min-Yu Huang and Taiyun Chi won the 2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) Best Student Paper Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-06-09 11:10:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:53","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"543371":{"id":"543371","type":"image","title":"Min-Yu Huang, 2016 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award Winner","body":null,"created":"1465826400","gmt_created":"2016-06-13 14:00:00","changed":"1475895333","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:33","alt":"Min-Yu Huang, 2016 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award Winner","file":{"fid":"90818","name":"_tam0792-zf-10246-66325-1-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_tam0792-zf-10246-66325-1-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/_tam0792-zf-10246-66325-1-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":326365,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/_tam0792-zf-10246-66325-1-001.jpg?itok=oItMk13G"}}},"media_ids":["543371"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/rfic-ieee.org","title":"IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gems\/","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172113","name":"2016 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"172114","name":"Min-Yu Huang"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171703","name":"Taiyun Chi"}],"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\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"541021":{"#nid":"541021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cohen Joins Congressional Briefing on Geoscience and Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorris Cohen, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, participated in a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., concerning geoscience and its role in national security, on May 12, 2016. The briefing was sponsored by the American Geophysical Union, and by Congressmen Richard Hanna and Scott Peters. Dr. Cohen covered how research in Earth and space sciences advances new technologies and solutions to keep Americans safe. Cohen\u2019s research intersects pure science funded by the National Science Foundation with application-driven innovations for federal agencies such as DARPA and the Navy. He was chosen to present to members of Congress and Washington policy makers for this event. His presentation can be viewed below starting at 13:15.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fHewF6CX53Y\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVideo\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorris Cohen, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, participated in a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., concerning geoscience and its role in national security, on May 12, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Morris Cohen, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, participated in a congressional briefing in Washington, DC, concerning geoscience and its role in national security, on May 12, 2016."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2016-05-31 13:11:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:49","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"541201":{"id":"541201","type":"image","title":"Assistant Professor Morris Cohen","body":null,"created":"1464876000","gmt_created":"2016-06-02 14:00:00","changed":"1475895331","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:31","alt":"Assistant Professor Morris Cohen","file":{"fid":"89823","name":"morriscohencropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/morriscohencropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/morriscohencropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104655,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/morriscohencropped.jpg?itok=6AW7Il3M"}}},"media_ids":["541201"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sites.agu.org\/","title":"American Geophysical Union"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/lf\/","title":"Low Frequency Radio Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/","title":"National Science Foundation"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/","title":"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/","title":"Office of Naval Research"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"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\u003EAshlee Gardner\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnline Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\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":""}},"542591":{"#nid":"542591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two ECE Alumnae Tapped for Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellows Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, celebrated the State of Georgia\u2019s ongoing commitment to close the achievement gap and provide all students with high quality teachers, as the second class of Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellows was named on June 1, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESixty individuals \u2013 including five Georgia Tech alumni, two who are alumnae of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) \u2013 will be part of the second cohort of the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship program in the state, which will be offered at Columbus State University, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Mercer University, and Piedmont College during the 2016\u201317 academic year. The highly competitive program recruits both recent graduates and career changers with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math\u2014the STEM fields\u2014and prepares them specifically to teach in high-need secondary schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is about putting well-trained, committed educators in not only the fields of highest demand in our technology-driven age, but in the schools of highest need here in Georgia,\u201d said Deal. \u201cSTEM education plays a critical role in our state\u2019s competitiveness and future economic prosperity and the most important thing we can do for our students in this field is ensure they have effective teachers. This opportunity for teachers is leading to a brighter future for students as they prepare for the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century workforce.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two ECE alumnae who will participate in this program are Wanda Harding and Deidre Paris.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarding, who earned her master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering in 1993, will attend Piedmont College for her teacher training. She has served as technical director for the NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System and is a former senior mission manager for the NASA Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Station, including the 2011 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover. She has also worked as a systems engineer for the International Space Station Program with the Italian Space Agency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParis, who holds three graduate degrees from Georgia Tech, will attend Columbus State University for her teacher training. She earned an M.S. in computer engineering and power system planning in 1994, an M.S. in environmental and urban policy in 1996, and a Ph.D. in construction engineering management in 2002. She has worked as a college professor, teaching engineering and mathematics, and she has been an artificial intelligence researcher. She has collaborated with NASA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and the Army Environmental Policy Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three additional Georgia Tech alumni participating in the program are Sara Turmel, a 2016 bachelor\u2019s in materials science and engineering graduate who will attend Georgia State University; Michael Fusia, a 2006 bachelor\u2019s in physics graduate who will attend Kennesaw State University; and Jill Furstenau, a 1982 industrial engineering major who will attend Piedmont College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship focuses on preparing top-quality educators for many of Georgia\u2019s most underserved public schools.\u0026nbsp; Each Fellow receives $30,000 to complete a specially designed, cutting-edge master\u2019s degree program based on a yearlong classroom experience. In return, Fellows commit to teach for three years in the urban and rural Georgia schools that most need strong STEM teachers. Throughout the three-year commitment, Fellows receive ongoing support and mentoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnder Governor Deal\u2019s leadership, Georgia has demonstrated a strong commitment to identifying, recruiting, and preparing top candidates for STEM teaching careers throughout the state,\u201d Levine said. \u201cAcross the nation, we hear of struggles to get exemplary teachers, particularly those who teach subjects like science and math, to serve in high-need schools. Through the hard work of the governor, the legislature, partner universities, and local school districts, we are working together to ensure Georgia\u2019s urban and rural communities have the strong teachers our children need to learn and succeed in the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century. Together, we are committed to meeting the staffing needs of Georgia\u2019s high-need schools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the Teaching Fellowship program, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation will contribute to the University System of Georgia\u2019s initiative to produce 20,000 new teachers by 2020. Woodrow Wilson is administering the program, with in-state coordination by the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education and support from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. Current project funding is $9.36\u0026nbsp;million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe university partners, selected in a statewide review by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, have spent the past year and a half tailoring their teacher preparation programs to meet the Fellowship\u2019s standards for intensive clinical work and rigorous related coursework. All five participating universities received $400,000 matching grants to develop their teacher preparation programs based on standards set by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. For each of the program\u2019s three years, the participating Georgia colleges and universities will be able to enroll 12 Fellows, totaling 180 Fellows over that three-year period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Woodrow Wilson Foundation is also partnering with a wide range of school districts across the state on this effort, including Atlanta Public Schools, Banks County School System, Bibb County School District, Chattahoochee County School District, Athens-Clarke County School District, Cobb County School District, Dodge County Schools, Franklin County Schools, Fulton County Schools, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Habersham County Schools, Hall County Schools, Houston County Schools, Marietta City Schools, Marion County School System, Monroe County Schools, Muscogee County Schools, Paulding County School District, Stephens County School System, Union County Schools, Walton County Public Schools, and White County School District.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education is proud to serve as the in-state coordinating agency for this program that is delivering real, genuine results after only two short years,\u201d said GPEE President Steve Dolinger.\u0026nbsp;\u201cThroughout the Georgia Partnership\u2019s 24+ year history, we have consistently supported strategies to improve teacher effectiveness.\u201d\u0026nbsp;He added, \u201cThe Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellowship program is both enhancing the teacher training programs at five universities and producing highly qualified STEM teachers for the partnering school systems. This is a winning program for Georgia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio are currently Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship states. The Georgia program brings the Woodrow Wilson Foundation\u2019s total commitment to the Fellowship to more than $90 million nationally. More information on the national program can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/woodrow.org\/fellowships\/ww-teaching-fellowships\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/woodrow.org\/fellowships\/ww-teaching-fellowships\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPatrick Riccards is the contact and source for this press release originally issued by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program. 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Davenport was presented with the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award at the Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon, held on April 22 at the Student Center Ballroom.\u0026nbsp;Davenport is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince joining Georgia Tech in 2012, Davenport has taught courses ranging from introductory undergraduate courses in signal processing and in probability and statistics, to advanced graduate courses that he has developed on subjects like statistical machine learning and harmonic analysis. These courses have varied in size from 15-20 students to as many as 100 students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavenport teaches courses covering theoretical topics and which are known for being mathematically rigorous. These subjects are known for invoking anxiety, or even dread, in many students, yet he consistently achieves the extraordinary feat of receiving teaching ratings in the 4.8-5.0 range from his students, according to ECE Associate Professor Justin K. Romberg. Much of this success can be attributed to his incorporating in-class activities where students work together to solve problems and reflect on their own about what they have learned through writing assignments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing this \u201csemi-flipped\u201d classroom format allows students to get a deeper and quicker understanding of the material and provides Davenport with feedback about concepts with which the students are struggling. As a researcher, he uses the electronic platform used for these in-class problem sets to collect data that help him and colleagues in cognitive science to understand better how students learn and retain mathematical concepts, according to ECE Associate Professor Christopher J. Rozell.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd students heartily endorse these methods. They say that Davenport has a knack for breaking down a difficult concept into its simplest parts while still respecting the integrity of the problem, all while making difficult subjects fun and enjoyable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just his ability to simplify, but [his] using different approaches and methods to appeal to various learning types,\u201d said a student from ECE 3077\u2013Probability and Statistics for ECEs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe way the professor interacts with students is truly unique. [He is] very approachable and friendly. [He has] an exceptional ability to impart enthusiasm about the topic to students (like me who had no prior background in the area), and promote further learning,\u201d said a student from ECE 6254\u2013Statistical Signal Processing and Analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Davenport is very talented and made great efforts to adapt to what worked best for the students. He was fun and made a difficult subject enjoyable,\u201d said a student from ECE 2026\u2013Introduction to Signal Processing. \u201cFor instance, \u2018Fourier Analysis\u2019 sounded treacherous at first, but after his explanation, I was like \u2018Oh\u2026that\u2019s it?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavenport has already received multiple honors for his efforts, including the 2015 Lockheed Dean\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award. Also in 2015, he was awarded the Richard M. Bass\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award, which is determined by a majority vote of the ECE senior class. He was also selected to participate in the Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows Program in 2014. As a part of this program, Davenport studied a variety of strategies for effective teaching and worked to incorporate various forms of improved student feedback into the graduate courses he teaches at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond his classroom activities, Davenport advises six Ph.D. students and has worked with nine undergraduate students on independent research projects, including multiple President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Awards Program recipients. Many of these undergraduate researchers took his classes and sought out ways to work with him further. Davenport is also a faculty associate for the Georgia Tech Grand Challenges Program, where he mentors a larger group of students from various majors, and is involved with outreach initiatives with the East Lake Foundation and Atlanta\u2019s Charles R. 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Durgin has won the best paper award for IEEE RFID 2016, held May 3-5, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.\u0026nbsp;He is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDurgin\u2019s paper, entitled \u201cRF Thermoelectric Generation for Passive RFID,\u201d presents a new Georgia Tech invention \u2013 an RF Thermoelectric Generator (RFTG) \u2013 which can be used to convert very low levels of RF power into usable voltages for computation, sensing, and communication.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECounter-intuitively, a nano-scale RFTG can be shown to outperform conventional diode- and transistor-based RF harvesting circuitry, which have hit fundamental limits in recent years.\u0026nbsp;The paper projects that RFID and RF energy-harvesting sensors using RFTGs could operate without a power supply at distances exceeding 100m from readers and\/or radio transmission sources \u2013 a factor of 4 improvement over the state-of-the-art.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEEE RFID 2016 is the annual flagship international conference for the Council of RFID (CRFID), known for its long papers and low acceptance rates (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ieee-rfid.2016.org\/\u0022\u003Eieee-rfid.2016.org\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;CRFID was elevated to Council status within the IEEE last year \u2013 essentially a \u201csociety for societies,\u201d capable of engaging multi-disciplinary technologies.\u0026nbsp;Incidentally, Georgia Tech has been instrumental in the growth of CRFID, with ECE\u2019s own Manos Tentzeris and Gisele Bennett making formative contributions to the council.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the 2016 conference, ECE\u2019s Mary Ann Weitnauer also gave an invited talk entitled, \u201cReliable Sensor Communications with On Demand Network MIMO,\u201d that was extremely well-received as part of the conference\u2019s \u201chot topics\u201d session.\u0026nbsp;Qiongjie Lin, Huanyu Zhang, Hongxian Tian, Sean Nowlan, Gedeon Nyengele, Sajith Mohan Chakkedath, and Jim Stratigos were coauthors of this work.\u0026nbsp;The talk presented a new communications scheme for reliably reading RFID and low-powered, transmit-only wireless sensors that could enable numerous internet-of-things applications.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor\u0026nbsp;Gregory D. 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Without electric power even fundamental needs, such as safe\u0026nbsp;drinking water, sanitation, and\u0026nbsp;basic\u0026nbsp;health\u0026nbsp;care cannot be met. But in much of the developing world, electricity generation is non-existent, or at best unreliable. A group of Georgia Tech students aim to improve access to clean, reliable power at a remote health center in one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, using a solar-based microgrid.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMicrogrids are self-contained power systems that can draw electricity from the traditional grid when available, but can also disconnect and operate as an independent energy source for single businesses or a home. The systems are gaining popularity in the developing world as a means of providing power to areas that do not have stable access to the conventional electric power grid. Georgia Tech\u2019s IEEE Power \u0026amp; Energy Society (PES) Student Chapter, led by electrical engineering graduate students Jeremiah Deboever, Felipe Larrain, Szilard Liptak, and Ashley Stone, plans to install the microgrid system to support a newly-constructed health center in the remote mountain village of Thoman, Haiti. The health clinic, located about 50 miles east of the country\u2019s capital and largest city, Port-au-Prince, provides health and dental care for the more than 4,000 people living in Thoman and surrounding villages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti\u2019s power infrastructure and maximum generating capacity of 200 MW was insufficient to meet the country\u2019s peak power demand, said IEEE-PES Faculty Advisor Frank Lambert, a principal research engineer with Georgia Tech\u2019s National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome seven million people in Haiti are without power; only an estimated 25 percent of the population have access to electricity services,\u201d said Lambert. \u201cAnd in rural communities like Thoman where the majority of Haitians live, the problem is even more challenging because it can be difficult and expensive to reach grid power.\u201d \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPower distribution lines were extended last year to connect Thoman to Haiti\u2019s main power grid, but service is so erratic that the health clinic must operate almost exclusively from a diesel generator. Given the high cost and limited access to diesel fuel, the students wanted to develop a more affordable, reliable power solution to meet the health clinic\u2019s needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team evaluated several power generating units, including a standalone diesel generator (DG), photovoltaic (PV) panels with batteries, and the combination of PV panels with batteries and a DG to determine which options would provide the most power at the lowest cost. Each option was evaluated by several technical and economic criteria, such as daily energy production, maximum annual capacity shortage, and net present value. The team also incorporated other factors into their assessment: the system had to be easy to use, big enough to meet the clinic\u2019s future needs, and contain only off the shelf components that could be replaced. The team developed a hybrid microgrid system that included a 7.2 kW PV array and a battery bank to eliminate the need for the diesel generator in day-to-day operations. The diesel generator would only be used to provide backup power when needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA standalone diesel generator would have been cheaper to install than a solar system,\u201d said Liptak, one of the project\u2019s system designers. \u201cBut it consumes an incredible amount of fuel, and over the entire lifetime of the project, would have ended up being twice as expensive as the solar solution. An additional benefit of the solar-based system is that it\u2019s clean and maintenance is minimal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter nearly a year of design, basic and detailed engineering that included a site visit to Thoman to test and validate the solar design, the team will install the microgrid in Thoman in May. Students secured donations from corporate sponsors to fund 100 percent of the project. The microgrid\u2019s PV solar panels were provided by the Georgia Tech Research Institute; local companies Trojan Battery Company and Schneider Electronics provided the battery pack and the power electronics, respectively. The costs of shipping the microgrid components to Haiti were provided by But God Ministries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor system designer Larrain, a Ph.D. student specializing in organic solar technologies in Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, the project provided a real-world context for the work he does every day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs a Ph.D. student, my mind is typically focused on understanding the science behind the operation of these devices,\u201d said Larrain. \u201cI rarely see the customer side of solar energy-based solutions or get into the details of practical applications. 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Awarded each year to a member of the graduating senior class who has the most outstanding scholastic record of all members of the class, the $10,000 scholarship is provided by the Gay and Erskine Love Foundation. Students in all six of the Institute\u2019s colleges are considered for the award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETuck\u2019s stellar academic record, which boasts a 4.0 GPA, has been punctuated by a passion for research. He participated in two Opportunity Research Scholars (ORS) projects. During his first year with ORS, he was selected for an interdisciplinary team comprised of chemical and electrical engineering students. The group investigated the effects of\u0026nbsp;molecular weight and crosslinker functionality on dielectric films and was advised by Professor Paul Kohl. 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Butera received the Georgia Tech Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award at the Institute\u2019s Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon, held on April 22 at the Student Center Ballroom.\u0026nbsp;Butera is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), with a joint appointment in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince joining Georgia Tech in 1999, Butera has worked with 58 undergraduates in his laboratory on directed research projects. His research focuses on the development of novel techniques for nerve stimulation and recording and studying the dynamics of neuro-electrical activity. 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A lesser known sister organization to NAE called the National Office of Parochial Engineering (NOPE) issued 15 Semi-Grand Challenges to science and technology experts in early 2015. They include current hot-button issues such as the zombie apocalypse, alien abductions, human head transplants, teleportation, and Microsoft Edge. 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Such devices are essential in multiple applications of integrated nanophotonics, including information processing, communications and networking, sensing, and computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdibi was one of 176 researchers representing 96 research institutions that were announced as DURIP award recipients by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) earlier this month. The program supports the purchase of state\u2011of\u2011the\u2011art equipment that augments current university capabilities or develops new capabilities to perform cutting\u2011edge defense research and associated graduate student research training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awards are the result of a merit competition jointly conducted by three DoD research offices: the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. A highly competitive program, the three offices solicited proposals from university investigators conducting science and engineering research of importance to national defense. These areas include advances in materials, structures, and manufacturing science; quantum and nanosciences; computing and networks; electronics, electromagnetics, and electro\u2011optics; acoustics; neuroscience; fluid dynamics; robotics and autonomous systems; and ocean, environmental, and life sciences and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor\u0026nbsp; Ali Adibi has been chosen for a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award by the Army Research Office.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor  Ali Adibi has been chosen for a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award by the Army Research Office."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-03-23 14:46:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:09","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"265591":{"id":"265591","type":"image","title":"Ali Adibi","body":null,"created":"1449244039","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:47:19","changed":"1475894953","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:13","alt":"Ali Adibi","file":{"fid":"198498","name":"130729cr044.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/130729cr044_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/130729cr044_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7490930,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/130729cr044_0.jpg?itok=lTsyrsum"}}},"media_ids":["265591"],"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:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/ali-adibi","title":"Ali Adibi"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/photonics\/","title":"Photonics Research Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News-Article-View\/Article\/684740\/pentagon-announces-research-equipment-awards","title":"U.S. Department of Defense DURIP Awards announcement"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2769","name":"Ali Adibi"},{"id":"171847","name":"Army Research Office"},{"id":"8246","name":"Department of Defense"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"83301","name":"Photonics Research Group"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"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\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":""}},"517101":{"#nid":"517101","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Swaminathan Chosen for IEEE CPMT Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMadhavan Swaminathan has been chosen for a 2015 Best Paper Award from the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the category of Electrical Performance of Integrated Systems. Swaminathan is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he holds the John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics and leads the Mixed Signal Design Group. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESwaminathan shares this award with his coauthors KiJin Han, who is his former Ph.D. student and is now an assistant professor at UNIST in South Korea, and Jongwoo Jeong, who is Han\u2019s Ph.D. student at UNIST. They will be presented with this honor at the 66th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, to be held May 31-June 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe title of the award-winning paper is \u201cModeling of Through-Silicon Via (TSV) Interposer Considering Depletion Capacitance and Substrate Layer Thickness Effects.\u201d Extracting the parasitics of Through Silicon Vias in 3D integrated circuits is a challenging problem. These effects are affected by the bias voltage applied to the silicon substrate and finite substrate dimensions. Hence, analytical models that have been used in the past have significant error associated with them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this work, Swaminathan and his colleagues use the conduction mode basis functions originally derived to model current and charge and modify them by incorporating depletion capacitance. To account for the finite substrate dimensions, multi-layered Green\u2019s function with suitable approximations are used. The method developed has been applied to both simple examples to show accuracy and to TSV arrays to show computational efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor\u0026nbsp;Madhavan Swaminathan has been chosen for a 2015 Best Paper Award from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan has been chosen for a 2015 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-03-24 13:29:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:09","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"301341":{"id":"301341","type":"image","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan","body":null,"created":"1449244572","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:12","changed":"1475895004","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:04","alt":"Madhavan Swaminathan","file":{"fid":"199552","name":"madhavanswaminathan131021br459_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan131021br459_web_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan131021br459_web_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4110863,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madhavanswaminathan131021br459_web_0.jpg?itok=g8XTDiKC"}}},"media_ids":["301341"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/hppdl\/Epsilon2010\/index.html","title":"Georgia Tech Mixed Signal Design Group"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/madhavan-swaminathan","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5503870","title":"IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171850","name":"and Manutacturing Technology Society"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"128621","name":"IEEE Components"},{"id":"24251","name":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"id":"4187","name":"packaging"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171851","name":"through-silicon via interposer"}],"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\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":""}},"517231":{"#nid":"517231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Shoufeng Lan to Receive Chinese Government Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShoufeng Lan has been named as a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Lan will be presented with this award at the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas later this spring. He is advised by ECE Associate Professor Wenshan Cai.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis award encourages research excellence and recognizes top Chinese Ph.D. students across all fields of study throughout the world. 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All three are affiliated with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECharles\u2019 thesis, entitled \u201cDynamics and Correlations in Sparse Signal Acquisition,\u201d centers on developing algorithms to analyze time-varying high-dimensional data by exploiting the fact that the information of interest is generally low-dimensional. His work specifically advances algorithms for a particular kind of structure called \u0022sparsity\u0022 that has achieved state-of-the-art results in many signal\/image processing algorithms. As one example, Charles used his algorithms on a remote sensing task to show that he could take common multispectral imaging and improve the spectral resolution by an order of magnitude to a quality comparable to data from a (much more expensive) hyperspectral imager. In addition to engineering applications, Charles\u2019 work has also provided fundamental analysis of neural network structures for working memory that gives insight into the performance of both biological and machine learning systems.\u0026nbsp;Advised by ECE Associate Professor Christopher J. Rozell, Charles graduated in May 2015 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESodagar\u2019s thesis, entitled \u201cEnabling Integrated Nanophotonic Devices in Hybrid CMOS-Compatible Material Platforms for Optical Interconnection,\u201d\u0026nbsp;mainly focused on the design and development of a high-speed electro-optic modulator for silicon photonic platforms. Sodagar also demonstrated a\u0026nbsp;series of essential integrated photonic elements that are urgently needed for realization of complex integrated photonic systems.\u0026nbsp;The outcome of his research impacts the telecommunication industry. As an example, his work can be adopted for the next\u0026nbsp;generation of high-speed links within datacenters. Advised by ECE Professor Ali Adibi, Sodagar graduated in August 2015 and is now a senior engineer at Skorpios Technologies, Inc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrivedi\u2019s thesis, entitled\u0026nbsp;\u201cUltra-Low Power Non-Boolean Computing with Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors,\u201d demonstrated evolutionary and disruptive approaches of integrating Tunneling Field-Effect-Transistor (Tunnel FET) technology with non-Boolean computing. In the evolutionary approach, silicon channel Tunnel FETs were applied to Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs) for energy-efficient image processing and associative memory. In the disruptive approach, an atypical gate\/source-overlapped heterojunction Tunnel FET (SO-HTFET) was demonstrated to exhibit Gaussian-shaped I\u003Csub\u003EDS\u003C\/sub\u003E-V\u003Csub\u003EGS\u003C\/sub\u003E. 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And while fame and fortune are great, today\u2019s students realize that social good and success aren\u2019t mutually exclusive. Just look at engineering mastermind and creator of PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk. As undergraduate student Miller Tsao, who happens to admire Musk\u0027s committment to helping humanity, wisely states, \u201cMy main goal is to help as many people as possible. If I can support others, I know I\u2019ll be able to support my family.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELucky for Tsao and the other 13,000 engineering students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, there\u2019s now a concrete way to merge foundational knowledge and technical skills with social impact. The Engineering for Social Innovation (ESI) Center matches students with real-world projects for corporations and non-profit agencies. All projects aim to improve the lives of the under-privileged domestic population or people at the bottom of the pyramid in the developing world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Center started as a pilot in the summer of 2015 by Dr. Joyelle Harris, a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Center now boasts four different methods of engaging the student body. The first cohort participates for course credit and includes eight interdisciplinary teams made up of 35 students. As a co-curricular avenue, students can join the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/grandchallenge.coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGrand Challenges Scholars Program\u003C\/a\u003E. For extra-curricular options, students can participate in ESI organizations \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ewb.gtorg.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEngineers without Borders\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.en2em.org\/\u0022\u003EEnterprise-2-Empower\u003C\/a\u003E. For students who are interested in a work study option, the Center also sponsors ESI Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Harris, who is the director of ESI, was aware that many engineering students do not make the connection between what they learn in class and the impact they can make on society. She wanted to provide an opportunity for students to solve actual engineering challenges for non-profit and corporate organizations and see the positive results they can make in someone else\u2019s life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to mentoring several student teams, Harris also develops and nurtures relationships with the project sponsors. The main criteria when looking for projects and partnerships are: the partner must make a positive societal impact, the partner must have direct touch points with the people they serve, and the projects must have an engineering challenge that builds on Georgia Tech students\u2019 classroom learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program supports a variety of projects including a customized baby seat for orphanages in India, a smart wheelchair, an app for a children\u2019s nutrition bar, a water filter program for Tanzanian villages, and a temperature and light detection system for a summer camp that serves children with disabilities and terminal illnesses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want my students to make the connection between their engineering skills and their benefit to society. For example, customized seating for a child with a disability can cost over $1,000. My students built a chair for disabled children in low-resource regions for under $50. When my students see these kids use the chairs they designed, they know that they can use engineering to make a difference in this world,\u201d said Harris.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Harris makes more connections, the list of projects, and the need for students, will grow. Harris also hopes to add technology consulting to ESI\u2019s services in the future. She plans to train students to be technology consultants for non-profits, providing the organizations with expert advice on their technology questions and students with more real-world experience for their resumes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about some of ESI\u2019s current projects below. To get involved, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.esi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Evisit the ESI website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmart Wheelchair \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial engineering major Brooke Beisner has worked on two different projects under the program. Last semester, she worked on the Smart Wheelchair team in conjunction with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.catea.gatech.edu\/rearlab.php\u0022\u003EThe Rehabilitation Engineering and Applied Research (REAR) Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, headed by Professor Stephen Springle. Students outfitted a Quickie IRIS wheelchair with multiple sensors that measured knee, foot, and back rotation, as well as leg extension. The measurements will be used to analyze wheelchair usage in order to create economical smart wheelchairs that can adjust to the individual needs of users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Center for Nonprofits \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis semester, Beisner switched teams to work on a database project for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gcn.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Center for Nonprofits\u003C\/a\u003E. Her group is creating a system that automatically generates monthly capacity reports. Right now, the Center is creating them by hand, a tedious job. Phase two of the project will involve improving the backend data query interface to be more user friendly. Students automate the reports by using a suite of Google products.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvolv Bar \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller Tsao, a computer science major, and his teammate Christian Harris, a computer engineering major, are getting a chance to flex their application building skills for a non-profit called \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.evolvhealth.com\/\u0022\u003EThe Evolv Bar Project\u003C\/a\u003E, which produces complete nutrition bars that feed children in impoverished countries. The project has been a great learning opportunity. Not only have Tsao and Harris learned to design and develop a first generation iOS mobile app, but they have also learned about the process involved with getting it approved by the App Store.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETsao and Harris learned to code in AngularJS, HTML, and SASS for the project. They hope that the new application will help the organization advertise and sell up to 50% more bars, in addition to supporting testing of new products and services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPOON Foundation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.spoonfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EThe SPOON Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E works in orphanages, foster care, and low resource community settings around the world to improve feeding and nutrition for children with disabilities. The children are usually fed in ways that do not meet best practices for feeding. One of the most common feeding practices seen in these settings is improper positioning; for instance, children are often fed lying flat on their backs. Even when caregivers attempt to sit them up, they have no means to do so properly. The poor feeding practices contribute to malnutrition, illness, loss of dignity\/quality of life, and death. 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Made of clay, sawdust, and colloidal silver, the filters can last up to five years and cost only $40 USD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile thousands of filters have been delivered to rural and urban families, schools, and orphanages, the demand continues to grow. Right now, only 100 filters can be produced each month, and that\u2019s where ESI comes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree separate ESI teams are working to make Safe Water Now\u2019s process for creating the filters more efficient. One group is creating a test tube incubator that tests the water before and after it is filtered, by adding a bacterial agent and heating it to an exact temperature. A second group is building a drying tent for the filters that is made out of inexpensive, lightweight, readily available materials. To power the incubator and the drying tent, another team is developing a solar powered generator. With these three innovations in place, which are all still in the prototyping phase, students estimate that production can increase from 100 filters per month to 500.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project has been the biggest highlight of my college career. We all want to be able to help, but we don\u2019t always know how. ESI has made taking my skills and applying them to something meaningful an amazing, effortless, and natural process,\u201d said industrial engineering major and member of the SAFE Water Now incubator team, Meriem Guehaiz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImages: 1. Electrical engineering major Amanda Remus holds a leg brace from the Smart Wheelchair. 2. Dr. Joy Harris with electrical engineering major Allen Ndemera from the Camp Twin Lakes team. 3. Industrial engineering major Bryanna Land and electrical engineering major Kinsey Blackmore are part of the Camp Twin Lakes team. 4. 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All packages must be received by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMonday, February 29, 2016\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nominations are now open for the 2016 Roger P. Webb Awards, which recognize the excellence of the faculty, staff, and students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-02-03 14:58:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:35","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/awards.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"2016 Roger P. 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Cressler has released the second edition of his textbook, \u003Cem\u003ESilicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology\u003C\/em\u003E, published by CRC Press. Cressler is the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach fall, Cressler teaches CoE 3002, Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution, a popular course with no prerequisites and which is open to all Tech students. CoE 3002 serves the Technology and Management Program within the Scheller College of Business, as well as the Georgia Tech Honors Program. He wrote a book for that course,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESilicon Earth\u003C\/em\u003E, which is very non-conventional in both substance and narrative style and is intended for general audiences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESilicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Second Edition\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;introduces readers with little or no technical background to the marvels of microelectronics and nanotechnology, using straightforward language, an intuitive approach, minimal math, and a lot of pictures. The general scientific and engineering underpinnings of microelectronics and nanotechnology are described, as well as how this new technological revolution is transforming a broad array of interdisciplinary fields, and civilization as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecial \u201cwidget deconstruction\u201d chapters address the inner workings of ubiquitous micro\/nano-enabled pieces of technology, such as smartphones, flash drives, and digital cameras. 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A team from Nexidia received this honor on January 8, 2016 at the Technology and Engineering Emmy\u0026nbsp;Awards, held at the Bellagio Hotel in\u0026nbsp;Las Vegas, Nevada\u0026nbsp;during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the unique, patented speech technology behind Nexidia\u0027s products for media and entertainment \u2014 which focus on search, script-based editing, and caption verification and alignment \u2014 for its novel and creative approach to solving some of the industry\u0027s most challenging problems. Receiving the Emmy for the company, as well as individual awards, were Drew Lanham, senior vice president and general manager, Nexidia Media \u0026amp; Entertainment Division; Mark Clements and Peter Cardillo, founders of Nexidia\u0026nbsp;and inventors of the technology; and Jacob Garland and Ken Griggs, Georgia Tech College of Computing alumni who productized the technology. The core technology of phonetic indexing and related search was developed at Tech while Cardillo was still a graduate student and formed the basis for starting the company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClements is the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Cardillo is a Tech M.S.E.E. graduate who serves as Nexidia\u2019s director for Research and Development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe technology behind Nexidia Dialogue Search\u0026nbsp;software has enabled broadcasters and other media organizations to dive deeper into even the largest of media archives to find assets that would have otherwise gone undiscovered, thereby making it possible to repurpose or remonetize them. Nexidia Dialogue Search\u0026nbsp;is a software tool that searches for any combination of spoken words or phrases across workgroups or massive media libraries in seconds. The tool harnesses Nexidia\u0027s patented phonetic search technology to enable searches independent of logging, transcription, and\/or captions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Nexidia Illuminate\u0026nbsp;suite of software products uses the same technology to automate processes that until recently required human intervention \u2013 the most inefficient and expensive steps in the workflow. Nexidia Illuminate\u0026nbsp;software checks the validity of closed captions, spoken language, and video description, ensuring that they are not only present, but also correct within file-based program creation and broadcast compliance-monitoring applications. Likewise, Nexidia Align\u0026nbsp;software automates closed caption alignment by adjusting the timecodes in the caption file, ensuring the captions are properly aligned with the spoken words. The application then returns a new, accurately timed caption file that\u0027s ready for distribution. The speed and comprehensiveness provided by these solutions are critical advantages in the face of format proliferation, growing volumes of digital content, complex file-delivery requirements, and evolving Federal Communications Commission regulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Digital production has led to massive and ever-growing volumes of media footage being delivered and stored, which in turn has created real challenges for content producers, owners, and distributors when it comes to finding those assets and fulfilling multiple delivery requirements for format and for caption compliance,\u0022 said\u0026nbsp;Lanham. \u0022Over the 15 years it took to develop this technology, our company was driven by a singular vision \u2014 to be the first to solve some of the industry\u0027s biggest problems in an unprecedented way that\u0027s powerful, massively efficient, and delivers unparalleled ROI. We appreciate that NATAS has chosen to recognize these efforts and honor us with this award.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Nexidia technology has proven robust and flexible enough to span the gamut of use cases in a production-centric environment \u2014 from ad hoc search, search at scale, and script-based editing, to closed caption verification and alignment. Some of Nexidia\u0027s customers include CBS, CNN, Comcast, NBC Universal, PBS, Fox, Scripps, and Turner Studios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The National Academy\u0027s Technology and Engineering Achievement Committee is pleased to honor Nexidia and the companies and individuals whose innovation and vision have improved the television viewing experience and continue to set the standard for technological excellence in our industry,\u0022 said\u0026nbsp;Robert P. Seidel, vice president of CBS Engineering and Advanced Technology and Chairman, Engineering Achievement Committee, NATAS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto captions:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1) (L-R) Ken Griggs, Jacob Garland, Drew Lanham, Mark Clements, and Peter Cardillo were honored at the Technology and Engineering Emmy\u003Csup\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EAwards, held on January 8 at the Bellagio Hotel in\u0026nbsp;Las Vegas, Nevada\u0026nbsp;during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2) Mark Clements was among the representatives of Nexidia honored at the Technology and Engineering Emmy\u003Csup\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003EAwards, held on January 8 at the Bellagio Hotel in\u0026nbsp;Las Vegas, Nevada\u0026nbsp;during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENexidia Agency Contact (source for most of this article):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoe Commare\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWall Street Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETel: +1 (508) 981 4858\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmail:\u0026nbsp;joe@wallstcom.com\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENexidia Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrew Lanham\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESVP, GM, Media \u0026amp; Entertainment\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETel: +1 (650) 328 2585\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmail:\u0026nbsp;dlanham@nexidia.com\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENexidia, a leading developer of dialogue and audio analysis products and technologies, was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts \u0026amp; Sciences (NATAS) with a\u0026nbsp;Technology and Engineering Achievement Emmy\u0026nbsp;Award\u0026nbsp;for Phonetic Indexing and Timing. 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Presented with Serious Games Students\u2019 Choice Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Aditya Anupam and Ridhima Gupta received the Students\u0027 Choice Award at the Serious Games Competition, held November 30-December 4 during the Interservice\/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I\/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnupam and Gupta, an M.S. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and an M.S. student in the College of Computing (CoC)\/School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) respectively, received the award for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/learnqm.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EParticle in a Box\u003C\/a\u003E, their educational game on quantum mechanics, which they showcased at the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the past two years, supported in part by a GT-FIRE Award, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from ECE; LMC; CoC, and the College of 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First, he figured, he had to attract the right undergraduates, so he wrote a syllabus accordingly:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This course will gather together a diverse set of students who are serious about their spiritual lives,\u0026rdquo; it read, \u0026ldquo;and yet who are also studying hard to be Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s next cadre of world-class graduates.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is surely no other Tech class with similar prerequisites, because there is no similar class at all. And once the course \u0026mdash; Science, Engineering and Religion: An Interfaith Dialogue \u0026mdash; began this past spring, Cressler realized his students had been yearning for something like it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/class-notes-john-cressler\u0022\u003ERead the full story.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAn engineering puzzle: How do you assemble a class about religion at a place like Georgia Tech?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An engineering puzzle: How do you assemble a class about religion at a place like Georgia Tech? 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