{"158631":{"#nid":"158631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Doug Williams Appointed ECE Senior Associate Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDouglas B. Williams has been named senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective October 1. Joseph L.A. Hughes will also continue in his current role as senior associate chair until the end of fall semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Williams joined Georgia Tech in 1989 as an assistant professor in ECE. He most recently served as the School\u2019s interim chair from July 2011-August 2012 and as its associate chair for undergraduate affairs from 2003-2011. He has also served on Georgia Tech\u2019s Executive Board, chaired the International Plan Committee, and been Georgia Tech\u2019s advocate to the University System of Georgia\u2019s Faculty Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA long-time member of the Center for Signal and Information Processing, Dr. Williams is active within the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Within that Society, he has been a member-at-large on the Board of Governors, an area editor for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Signal Processing Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E, and a member of the technical committees for Signal Processing Theory \u0026amp; Methods and Signal Processing Education. Dr. Williams also represents IEEE as an ABET Program Evaluator for electrical engineering and computer engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019d personally like to thank Doug for agreeing to take on this important responsibility for the School of ECE,\u201d said Steven W. McLaughlin, professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair. \u201cPlease join me in lending your support to him as he assumes this new role and in thanking Joe Hughes for his years of dedicated service in this position.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDouglas B. Williams has been named senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective October 1. Joseph L.A. Hughes will also continue in his current role as senior associate chair until the end of fall semester.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Douglas B. Williams has been named senior associate chair for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective October 1."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2012-10-02 16:20:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:54","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66406":{"id":"66406","type":"image","title":"Douglas B. Williams","body":null,"created":"1449177169","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:12:49","changed":"1475894589","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:09","alt":"Douglas B. Williams","file":{"fid":"192530","name":"doug_williams.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/doug_williams_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/doug_williams_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1550763,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/doug_williams_0.jpg?itok=S3_OZAiw"}}},"media_ids":["66406"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13336","name":"Douglas B. Williams"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"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":"\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\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}