{"64609":{"#nid":"64609","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Romberg Tapped for Rice Engineering Alumni Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJustin Romberg, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been chosen for the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award, which is given by the Rice Engineering Alumni Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award is given to the outstanding engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nalumnus from Rice University who is 40 years old or less and recognizes the exemplary achievements of that person. Dr. Romberg will receive this award on October 14 during the Rice Engineering Alumni Annual Open Meeting during Homecoming weekend.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA faculty member in ECE since 2006, Dr. Romberg holds three engineering degrees from Rice: his B.S.E.E. in 1997, Master\u0027s in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2003. His research focus is on the role that mathematical signal structure plays in making difficult processing tasks much easier. Recently, he has studied how sparse representations can make signal acquisition smarter and more flexible. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the last two years, Dr. Romberg has received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and a Packard Fellowship. \u0022All of these honors recognize Justin\u0027s impact in the technical details of research, as well as his reputation for leadership in research and education, and bring great distinction to himself, ECE, and Georgia Tech,\u0022 said Gary May, professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0022I am thrilled that Justin has been chosen for this special honor from his alma mater and am proud that he is our colleague.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Justin Romberg has been chosen for the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award, which is given by the Rice Engineering Alumni Association.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Justin Romberg will receive a top alumni award from Rice Univers"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2010-06-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64610":{"id":"64610","type":"image","title":"photo of Justin Romberg","body":null,"created":"1449176753","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:53","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"photo of Justin Romberg","file":{"fid":"192046","name":"tqc50347.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqc50347_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqc50347_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6853,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqc50347_0.jpg?itok=AWvmTtXc"}}},"media_ids":["64610"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=149","title":"Justin Romberg"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/alumni.rice.edu\/rea\/rea_news.html","title":"Rice Engineering Alumni"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"7037","name":"Justin Romberg"},{"id":"12110","name":"Rice Engineering Alumni Association"},{"id":"12109","name":"Rice University"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}