{"630005":{"#nid":"630005","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ansari Tapped for NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAzadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Ansari holds the Sutterfield Family Junior Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of her award is \u0026quot;Radio Frequency Spectrum Sensing with a Fine-Tooth Nanomechanical Comb,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;and it will start on March 1, 2020 and end on February 28, 2025. The tremendous growth of wireless devices and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has placed a great strain on the radio frequency (RF) network infrastructures, congesting the channels and overcrowding the radio frequency spectrum.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBattery-operated smart devices, such as smartphones, wearable technologies such as\u0026nbsp;smartwatches and glasses, autonomous machines, personal radars, and other smart gadgets, all compete for bandwidth and require efficient spectrum utilization. To combat the looming RF scarcity,\u0026nbsp;a chip-scale, tunable multi-GHz nano-mechanical frequency comb generator is proposed that\u0026nbsp;utilizes the parallelism resulting from the multiplicity of the comb teeth to perform RF spectrum sensing in a fraction of the time, in a smaller form factor, using lower power, and with far fewer circuit components than the current state-of-the-art hardware solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnsari joined the ECE faculty in August 2017 after working as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics at Caltech. She is a member of\u0026nbsp;the nanotechnology and the electronic design and applications technical interest groups. Her research interests are in nano\/microelectromechanical systems (N\/MEMS), nonlinear mechanical frequency combs, radio frequency acoustic devices, and micro-robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnsari has published over 30 refereed journal and conference papers and has one published patent and three patent applications.\u0026nbsp;She was\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;Center for Teaching and Learning\u0026nbsp;Class of 1969 teaching fellow in Spring 2019.\u0026nbsp;Ansari is the director of the Center for Muscle-Inspired Actuators for Multi-scale Robotics, an\u0026nbsp;Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology-funded center for multi-disciplinary research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;Azadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor\u00a0Azadeh Ansari has been named as a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-12-12 22:07:37","changed_gmt":"2019-12-12 22:19:50","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595397":{"id":"595397","type":"image","title":"Azadeh Ansari","body":null,"created":"1504215500","gmt_created":"2017-08-31 21:38:20","changed":"1504215500","gmt_changed":"2017-08-31 21:38:20","alt":"Azadeh Ansari","file":{"fid":"226910","name":"Azadeh Ansari [ECE] headshot [N18C10407 DSC_8524.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Azadeh%20Ansari%20%5BECE%5D%20headshot%20%5BN18C10407%20DSC_8524.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Azadeh%20Ansari%20%5BECE%5D%20headshot%20%5BN18C10407%20DSC_8524.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":259679,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Azadeh%20Ansari%20%5BECE%5D%20headshot%20%5BN18C10407%20DSC_8524.jpg?itok=WFra6HqA"}}},"media_ids":["595397"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/azadeh-ansari","title":"Azadeh Ansari"},{"url":"https:\/\/aansari.ece.gatech.edu\/home\/","title":"Dr. Ansari\u0027s Academic and Research Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu","title":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu","title":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov","title":"National Science Foundation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175301","name":"Azadeh Ansari"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"174710","name":"National Science Foundation CAREER Award"},{"id":"183301","name":"Radio Frequency Spectrum Sensing"},{"id":"183302","name":"Nano-Mechanical Comb"},{"id":"183303","name":"wireless devices"},{"id":"183304","name":"IoT applications"},{"id":"183305","name":"RF spectrum"},{"id":"183306","name":"battery operated smart devices"},{"id":"168927","name":"smartphones"},{"id":"183307","name":"wearable technologies"},{"id":"183308","name":"smart glasses"},{"id":"173292","name":"Smartwatches"},{"id":"171742","name":"Autonomous Machines"},{"id":"183309","name":"personal radars"},{"id":"183310","name":"smart gadgets; 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