{"73256":{"#nid":"73256","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five ECE Faculty Members Elected as IEEE Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive faculty members in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IEEE grade of Fellow is\nconferred by the board of directors upon a person with an extraordinary record\nof accomplishments in any IEEE field of interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ECE faculty members and their citations are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/strong\u003E, professsor specializing in systems and controls, \u0022for contributions to hybrid and networked control, with applications in robotics.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Richards\u003C\/strong\u003E, principal research engineer specializing in digital signal processing, \u0022for contributions in radar signal processing education.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EErik Verriest\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor specializing in systems and controls, \u0022for contributions to delay systems and modeling time varying and nonlinear systems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuotong Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor specializing in digital signal processing and bioengineering, \u0022for contributions to the analysis of nonlinear signals and systems.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYucel Altunbasak\u003C\/strong\u003E, adjunct professor who became the president of TUBITAK in Turkey earlier this fall, \u0022for contributions to super-resolution imaging, color filter array interpolation, and error-resilient video communications.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo more faculty members with Georgia Tech connections were also elected as IEEE Fellows. They include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, \u0022for contributions to computer vision and graphics.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYogendra Joshi\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the George W. Woodruff School in Mechanical Engineering, \u0022for contributions to microfabricated cooling devices.\u0022 Dr. Joshi also holds a joint faculty appointment in ECE.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive ECE faculty members\u2013Magnus Egerstedt, Mark Richards, Erik Verriest, Tong Zhou, and Yucel Altunbasak\u2013have been elected as IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2012. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2011-11-29 18:58:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:42","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/ieee.org\/","title":"IEEE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15217","name":"Erik Verriest"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"15215","name":"Guotong Zhou"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"11528","name":"Magnus Egerstedt"},{"id":"15216","name":"Mark Richards"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"15214","name":"Yucel Altunbasak"}],"core_research_areas":[],"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\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}