{"642576":{"#nid":"642576","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Frounchi Tapped for IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMilad Frounchi has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, the highest honor for Ph.D. students from the IEEE SSCS.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrounchi is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is a member of the Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Group. He is advised by John Cressler, who holds the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics in the School of ECE.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis predoctoral achievement award is for Frounchi\u0026#39;s Ph.D. research on \u0026ldquo;Millimeter-Wave Quadrature Receivers for Atmospheric Sensing and Data Communications.\u0026rdquo; His designs take advantage of highly balanced quadrature signal generation techniques and novel integrations of front-end RF circuits to provide a low noise solution for CubeSat-based radiometry and next-generation communication applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrounchi received the bachelor\u0026#39;s degree (with honors) from the University of Tabriz, Iran, in 2012, and the master\u0026#39;s degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2014. He recently received the 2020 MTT-Sat Challenge Award, given by the\u0026nbsp;IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society,\u0026nbsp;and has published 22 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Milad Frounchi has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Milad Frounchi has been named as a recipient of the 2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-01-05 20:48:13","changed_gmt":"2021-01-05 20:48:13","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641376":{"id":"641376","type":"image","title":"Milad Frounchi","body":null,"created":"1605623030","gmt_created":"2020-11-17 14:23:50","changed":"1605623030","gmt_changed":"2020-11-17 14:23:50","alt":"photograph of Milad Frounchi","file":{"fid":"243728","name":"Milad Frounchi.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Milad%20Frounchi.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Milad%20Frounchi.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":339192,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Milad%20Frounchi.jpg?itok=xEVywnO4"}}},"media_ids":["641376"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/cressler.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/research.html","title":"Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Group"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"https:\/\/sscs.ieee.org","title":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186280","name":"Milad Frounchi"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171546","name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society"},{"id":"177989","name":"Silicon-Germanium Devices and Circuits Group"},{"id":"7763","name":"John Cressler"},{"id":"186587","name":"millimeter-wave quadrature receivers"},{"id":"186288","name":"atmospheric sensing"},{"id":"186588","name":"data communications"},{"id":"186589","name":"quadrature signal generation techniques"},{"id":"186590","name":"front-end RF circuits"},{"id":"186591","name":"CubeSat-based radiometry"},{"id":"186592","name":"next-generation communications"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"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\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}