{"619881":{"#nid":"619881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Zajic Selected for IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic has been selected for the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award. An associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Zajic will be presented with this award on April 18 at the IEEE Atlanta Section Banquet.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic was chosen for this honor for her sustained technical contributions to wireless chip-to-chip communications and electromagnetic compatibility. She joined the ECE faculty in 2012 and leads the Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Group.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic\u0026rsquo;s research is focused on studying propagation in challenging environments such as vehicle-to-vehicle wireless radio communications, underwater acoustic communications, and inside-a-processor-chip communications. Also a highly regarded teacher, she was chosen as the Richard M. Bass\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Junior Teacher Award, an honor determined by a majority vote of the ECE senior class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic has served as an editor for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and as an executive editor for Wiley\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETransactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies\u003C\/em\u003E. From 2015-2017, she served as chair of the Atlanta Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society\/Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. In 2016, under her leadership, the Atlanta Chapter of IEEE AP-S\/MTT-S received an Outstanding Chapter Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;Alenka Zajic has been selected for the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Associate Professor\u00a0Alenka Zajic has been selected for the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-04-01 14:29:53","changed_gmt":"2019-04-01 14:30:45","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"314571":{"id":"314571","type":"image","title":"Alenka Zajic","body":null,"created":"1449244929","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:02:09","changed":"1475895022","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:22","alt":"Alenka Zajic","file":{"fid":"199910","name":"alenka_zajic_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":589835,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg?itok=orEFZ7Nx"}}},"media_ids":["314571"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic","title":"Alenka Zajic"},{"url":"https:\/\/alenka.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"http:\/\/sites.ieee.org\/atlanta\/","title":"IEEE Atlanta Section"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11173","name":"Alenka Zajic"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"180921","name":"IEEE Atlanta Section"},{"id":"180922","name":"IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award"},{"id":"173153","name":"wireless communications"},{"id":"180923","name":"electromagnetic compatibility"},{"id":"180924","name":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Group"},{"id":"180925","name":"vehicle-to-vehicle wireless radio communications"},{"id":"180926","name":"underwater acoustic communications"},{"id":"180927","name":"inside-a-processor-chip communications"},{"id":"9595","name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society"},{"id":"1298","name":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}