{"639842":{"#nid":"639842","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Zajic Appointed as a Ken Byers Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor, effective October 1, 2020. Zajic is a member of the faculty at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where she currently holds the rank of associate professor.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduating from Georgia Tech with her Ph.D. in 2008, Zajic spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory and two years as a visiting assistant professor in Tech\u0026#39;s School of Computer Science. In 2012, she joined ECE as an assistant professor, and in 2017, she was promoted to associate professor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic leads the Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory, where she advises 10 Ph.D. students and two postdoctoral fellows who work in the areas of propagation, enabling communication, and improving data security in challenging environments, such as vehicle-to-vehicle wireless radio communications, underwater acoustic communications, and communications inside a processor chip. To date, Zajic has graduated nine Ph.D. students and five M.S. students. She advises undergraduate students on individual projects and through the Opportunity Research Scholars Program. Zajic and her research group have received six best paper, poster, or demonstration awards since she joined ECE as a faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZajic\u0026rsquo;s specific research interests focus on understanding mechanisms that generate electromagnetic (EM) side-channel emanations in modern computers and on locating sources of information-carrying EM emanations in complex environments. She has received over $18 million in research funding as a PI or co-PI, mostly from NSF, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Zajic has published over 140 refereed journal and conference publications. She has\u0026nbsp;three\u0026nbsp;awarded patents and\u0026nbsp;five\u0026nbsp;patent applications pending. Her work has been publicized locally and internationally through\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E, NSF Science 360, Voice of America,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E, and many other outlets. Zajic has served as an editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies\u003C\/em\u003E. She also served as the chair of the Atlanta chapter of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society\/Antennas and Propagation Society from 2015-2017, and during that time, the group received the IEEE Outstanding Chapter Award in 2016. She received the IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award in 2019.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEqually devoted to teaching excellence and service, Zajic has developed or redesigned both undergraduate and graduate courses and has taught a flipped classroom version of ECE 3025\u0026ndash;Electromagnetics. For her efforts, she has received several teaching awards, including the Richard M. Bass\/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Junior Teacher Award in 2016 and the LexisNexis Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence Award in 2016-2017. Zajic has also participated in the Center for Teaching and Learning\u0026rsquo;s Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars Program. She is an active member of the ECE and Georgia Tech community, currently serving as the director of the M.S. Cybersecurity degree program; a member of the ECE Statutory Advisory Committee;\u0026nbsp;a\u0026nbsp;member of the College of Engineering Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure committee;\u0026nbsp;and a member of a working group on the professional development of graduate students, an initiative coordinated from the Provost\u0026rsquo;s Office.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alenka Zajic has been appointed as a Ken Byers Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, effective October 1, 2020."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-10-02 15:50:11","changed_gmt":"2020-10-02 15:55:56","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"639844":{"id":"639844","type":"image","title":"Alenka Zajic","body":null,"created":"1601654095","gmt_created":"2020-10-02 15:54:55","changed":"1601654095","gmt_changed":"2020-10-02 15:54:55","alt":"photograph of Alenka Zajic","file":{"fid":"243250","name":"18C10202-P10-001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":446196,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/18C10202-P10-001.jpg?itok=f69iSrYU"}}},"media_ids":["639844"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/alenka-zajic","title":"Alenka Zajic"},{"url":"https:\/\/alenka.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11173","name":"Alenka Zajic"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"173154","name":"Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing Laboratory"},{"id":"185969","name":"propagation"},{"id":"171622","name":"data security"},{"id":"180925","name":"vehicle-to-vehicle wireless radio communications"},{"id":"180926","name":"underwater acoustic communications"},{"id":"185970","name":"processor chips"},{"id":"185971","name":"electromagnetic (EM) side-channel emanations"},{"id":"1298","name":"IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society"},{"id":"9595","name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society"},{"id":"180921","name":"IEEE Atlanta Section"},{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"1561","name":"undergraduate education"},{"id":"15156","name":"graduate education"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}