Most people would marvel at the 1970s television show "The Bionic Woman" and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine.

Not a young Ayanna MacCalla Howard. "I said, 'I can build The Bionic Woman,'" she says with a laugh.

But it formed the foundation for a now stellar career in engineering and robotics for Dr. Howard, an associate professor in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech.

Howard focuses on the area of humanized intelligence and robotics. According to her Georgia Tech biography, this area of research centers on the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. She says this doesn't mean building robots that will become human.

"I'm designing robotic technology

The award winning paper is entitled "Power Combining Multiplier Using HBV Diodes at 260 GHz." The goal of this research is to develop low cost THz (>200 GHz) circuits, including signal sources, mixers, filters, and antennas by using wafer-level silicon micromachining techniques. It is expected that low-cost THz systems will be used in radio astronomy, remote sensing of the environment, and ultra-wideband communications. They could also be used in biological and chemical applications, such as anti-terrorism devices and detection of chemical/biological agents.

Dr. Papapolymerou specializes in the electromagnetics and electronic design and application areas, and he leads the Microwave Circuit Technology Group (MCTG). Paper co-authors include Peter Kirby, a Ph.D. graduate from the MCTG, and Yuan Li, a current Ph.D. student in the group. Jeffrey Hesler and Qun Xiao are from the Department of ECE at the University of Virginia and Virginia Diodes, Inc.

SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular. Dr. Ferguson is being recognized specifically for his pioneering contributions to the development of III-V materials and devices for solid state lighting, detectors, and solar cell applications.

During his career, he has held many conference leadership roles with SPIE and the Materials Research Society. Dr. Ferguson is also the founder of the International Conference in Solid State Lighting, which has been held for the last eight years.

A member of the ECE faculty since 2001, Dr. Ferguson specializes in microsystems, in addition to optics and photonics.

Given the increasing emphasis on multicore computing, concurrency management will likely be one of the key techniques used to unleash the power of multicore processors. In this work, Dr. Hong aims to optimize thread-level concurrency, investigate architecture features for efficient shared data accesses, and use those features to dynamically control the advancement of concurrent threads and the allocation of CPU resources.

Results from Dr. Hong's research are expected to significantly improve the performance of multicore computing and expand the range of applications that can benefit from such processor platforms. This work is expected to facilitate efficient multicore processing for computation-demanding applications in science, engineering, and business.

Dr. Hong is based at Georgia Tech Savannah and is the second ECE faculty member at that campus to receive an NSF CAREER Award. He came to Georgia Tech in September 2008, after spending three years as an assistant professor with the ECE Department at Drexel University.

A senior majoring in electrical engineering, Ms. Trippe will be working on X-band RF amplifiers integrated in an organic-based platform. Potential applications for this research include communication, radar, and sensing systems.

Ms. Trippe works in the Microwave Circuit Technology Group, which is led by Associate Professor John Papapolymerou, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Dr. Papapolymerou has been on the ECE faculty since 2001 and specializes in electromagnetics and electronic design and applications.

Ms. Trippe is the second student from the Microwave Circuit Technology Group to receive this MTT-S scholarship; Diana Fuertes received the same honor in 2008.

Dr. Papapolymerou is specifically being recognized "for contributions in reconfigurable and multifunctional circuits and systems on a package operating in microwave, millimeter, and submillimeter-wave frequencies." He will receive this award at the 2009 IEEE International Microwave Symposium, scheduled for June 6-12 in Boston.

A member of the Georgia Tech ECE faculty since 2001, Dr. Papapolymerou specializes in the electromagnetics and electronic design and applications areas. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was on the faculty at the University of Arizona for two years. Dr. Papapolymerou is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Michigan.

In Dr. Doolittle's talk, he presented data showing a factor of 20-40 times higher improvement in GaN hole concentration, as compared to the previously accepted perceived "limit." This accomplishment will potentially lead to higher brightness light emitting diodes, laser diodes used in display and data storage applications, and possibly in the future, high power heterojunction bipolar transistors useful for wideband RF and microwave applications.

An associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Doolittle is an associate professor in the microsystems and optics and photonics technical interest areas.

The Envention Award is given to a new product developed by an Atlanta company or an individual who exhibits outstanding environmental or green benefits. Dr. Rohatgi and Suniva were honored for his trailblazing efforts in the field of solar energy. Founded in 2007 by Dr. Rohatgi, Suniva is an Advanced Technology Development Center start-up company that is based in Norcross.

The company's success is built on Dr. Rohatgi's 24-year career at Georgia Tech, where he has been dedicated to making solar energy more efficient and cost-effective. In October, the company completed installation of its first production line, the ARTisun solar cells, which it’s already shipping to solar panel manufacturers around the world. The ARTisun solar cells have about 17 percent to 18 percent efficiency, and Suniva is currently working on a cell that would have an efficiency of 20 percent.

Dr. Rohatgi is a Regents' Professor and a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is the director of the University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics Research and Education, which has been funded continuously by the U.S. Department of Energy since 1992.

ECE alumni John Melonakos and James Malcolm, current ECE Ph.D. student Tauseef ur Rehman, and current College of Computing Ph.D student Gallagher Pryor are all affiliated with the Minerva Research Group, which is led by ECE Professor Allen Tannenbaum. Team members also include David Silver, an MBA graduate of Georgia Tech, and Emory University law students Matt Nesbitt and Chris Meeks.

AccelerEyes members participate in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER®) program, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Emory Law School that is nationally recognized for its success at developing the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Link to article: Read more in the May 4, 2009 Atlanta Business Chronicle Daily Report.

Chosen by the IEEE board of directors, the IEEE Fellows class of 2010 consists of 309 engineering professionals from around the world. IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, and the IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred by the board of directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

David A. Bader, executive director for High-Performance Computing and professor in the Computational Science and Engineering Division of the College of Computing, was elevated to Fellow "for contributions to parallel algorithms for combinatorial problems and computational biology." Bader serves as director of the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, which supports broadening the impact of the Cell Broadband Engine into multiple sectors and industries, including scientific computing, digital content creation, bioinformatics, finance, gaming, and entertainment. He serves on the Internet2 Research Advisory Council and is the general chair for the 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, to be held April 19-23, 2010 in Atlanta. An associate editor for the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, IEEE DSOnline, and Parallel Computing, Bader has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and conferences and recently finished two consecutive terms as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He also served as chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing from July 2003-June 2007.

Ian T. Ferguson, an adjunct professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), was elected to Fellow "for the development of semiconductor materials and devices for infrared and ultraviolet sensor applications." Ferguson became chair of the Department of ECE at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in August 2009, after an eight-year tenure as a professor with the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. His research focuses on the development of wide band-gap materials and devices using gallium nitride and zinc oxide and using these materials for illumination, solar power, spintronic, and nuclear detection applications. While at Tech, Ferguson was named a Faculty Fellow in the Sam Nunn Security Program, based in the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy, for his work in the Georgia Tech Focused Research Program in Pioneer Research in Nuclear Detection. He is the founder of the International Conference on Solid State Lighting and is the author of more than 240 refereed journal and conference publications. Ferguson is also a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Richard A. Hartlein, director and management board chair for the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC), was elected to Fellow "for contributions to standards and analytical techniques for underground power cable systems." Hartlein works with the NEETRAC team and over 30 NEETRAC industrial members that provide nearly 60 percent of the electricity used in the United States to solve problems in electric energy transmission and distribution. His research focuses on underground power cable systems, including the development of qualification test programs for distribution and transmission cable systems; design and evaluation of efficient, durable, and economical power cables; investigation of cable system failures; and cable systems operations under extreme conditions. Hartlein has served as chair of the IEEE Insulated Conductors Committee (ICC), and led various ICC working groups in the development of guides and standards related to the testing and evaluation of underground cable system components.

David C. Keezer, professor in the School of ECE, was elevated to Fellow "for contributions to high-speed digital test technology." His areas of research and educational interests are in test methods for high performance electronic systems, design of high speed logic systems, and advanced electronics packaging methods. Keezer leads the High-Speed Test Laboratory, where he and his team develop new high-performance automated test methods and instrumentation. The lab extends automated test capability above 10 Gbps by leveraging state-of-the-art field programmable gate arrays, microelectromechanical systems, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide technologies. An associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, Keezer served on the technical program committee for the IEEE International Test Conference for over 10 years and was the general and technical program chair for the IEEE GHz/Gbps Test Workshop. He has published over 140 articles in refereed journals and conferences and is an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, an honor awarded to longstanding members who have provided outstanding service to the organization.

Emmanouil M. Tentzeris, professor in the School of ECE, was promoted to Fellow "for contributions to three-dimensional conformal integrated devices for wireless communications and sensing." Tentzeris currently serves as associate director for radio frequency identification (RFID)/sensors research at the Georgia Electronic Design Center, which develops high-speed communications technologies, and was the associate director for RF research and RF alliance leader for the Microsystems Packaging Research Center from 2003-2006. The author of over 320 refereed journal and conference papers, three books, and 17 book chapters, Tentzeris founded and leads a new IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) technical committee on RFID technologies. He is an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-2012 and has held numerous leadership roles in several IEEE societies, conferences, and workshops. Tentzeris is the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and the International Journal on Antennas and Propagation.

Or do they?

No instant replays. On-screen statistics are confined to the JumboTron. Sharing excitement and opinions on the game is often limited to chatting with surrounding strangers.

Yet these amenities, once reserved for the comfort of your living-room couch, will soon be tailored for experience in the stadium via your smartphone.

rofessor Ed Coyle, director of the Arbutus Center for the Integration of Research and Education, is unveiling a new application that allows fans sitting in the stands of an athletic event to access video replays, up-to-the-second statistics, player bios, play-by-play analysis and a wealth of other information designed to enhance the thrill of the game.

Dubbed "eStadium," the application first began as a project in 2001 when Coyle was on the faculty at Purdue University. Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), the precursor to the contemporary smartphone, were still a rare breed at the time and the potential for usage was limited.

Now, with iPhones, Blackberrys and other intelligent devices lining the pockets of millions-and bandwidth evolving to support dense information delivery-the time is ideal to unveil eStadium to Georgia Tech fans hungry for details about the game they're viewing from the stands.

The goal is to go live with the Georgia Tech eStadium at the Wake Forest University-Tech football game on November 7.

"Even if you're in the stands, sometimes you can't figure out what just happened," Coyle said. “This allows you to look at a play as many times as you want."

In addition to the background information and video access, Coyle strongly hints that such future features as user commentary and social networking will allow users to post their thoughts and even find fellow fans in the stands, including former classmates.

"We can develop anything anyone asks us to develop," he said.

The eStadium project has evolved into a joint project with Purdue and is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant along with a gift from Texas Instruments. Purdue's version of the eStadium has been live since 2003.

Georgia Tech's app, though, will be a far snazzier and detailed presentation.

"This is our phase-one deployment," Coyle said. "Phase two will include more wireless (access) in the stadium and a sensor network that will be able to monitor lines at concession stands and outside restrooms."

Coyle recruited a group of 28 students to help complete the project. Four of these students have been in the announcer's booth during games compiling video, statistics and other information for the mobile site. Access is restricted in certain ways: only those present in the stadium can view video, and 3G networks could possibly get bogged down when many fans clamor for a connection. Plans are under way to add Wi-Fi capabilities and employ 4G networks to ensure the experience is smooth.

"You need a code to watch video, and that will be shared with the people in the stadium," Coyle said.

eStadium will be live for both the November 7 game and the highly anticipated University of Georgia game on November 28. There is also a strong possibility the application will be employed during spring basketball season.

"Eventually, we should be able to do something like this for any sporting event," Coyle said. "Each sport has its own pace, so we'll try to customize it for each."

Coyle and his team have been working closely with Georgia Tech Athletics for more than a year to develop and refine the eStadium. The partnership has been encouraging for all parties.

"I think this is a really fascinating collaboration between athletics and academics," said Wayne Hogan, associate athletic director for Georgia Tech. "These students are bright and we like having them around. It's been a great relationship and something we think will be really well-received by our fans."

Once live, the site will be accessible from any Internet-enabled device, but the eStadium team is also tailoring it for one of today's most popular devices. The iPhone, he said, offers the best user experience, so plans are under way for an app version for that platform.

"This is just the beginning," he said. "The sky's the limit."

An assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) since 2007, Dr. Ghovanloo was recognized for his tireless efforts in promoting the Tongue Drive System, an assistive device for severely disabled people which was recently validated through its first clinical trials at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.

The Tongue Drive System story has placed in hundreds of media outlets around the globe, and Dr. Ghovanloo and his students have conducted dozens of print, radio, and television interviews about the project. He has received inquiries from individuals all over the world who have read about the Tongue Drive System and who understand the hope that it represents for themselves or their loved ones.

In the event program, it was noted that Dr. Ghovanloo had reached out to people in need of the technology, and the result of his collaboration with the communications staff at Georgia Tech demonstrates the ultimate goal of engineering and technology

Dr. Butera will work with the office to find ways of improving the efficiency, quality, and delivery of graduate programs on campus. The majority of his time will be spent on issues such as fellowships and training grant administration, information technology infrastructure for graduate
programs, and campus-wide policies for graduate degrees. These issues cross many administrative units, such as the Registrar's Office, the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, and the Office of Sponsored Programs. He will work with all of these units to develop best practices for providing high quality, efficient delivery of services to all Georgia Tech graduate students.

While Dr. Butera's new position is 25 percent of his time and is effective immediately, he will continue with his research and teaching activities
as an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech and with the Laboratory for Neuroengineering. He has been a member of the ECE faculty since 1998.

A professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, Dr. Begovic will join Noel N. Schulz (president-elect) and Christopher E. Root (secretary) as officers of IEEE-PES beginning in 2010. Among the over 300,000 known IEEE members in 2008, around 23,000 are members of PES.

Dr. Begovic has been on the Georgia Tech ECE faculty since 1989, where he specializes in the analysis, monitoring, and control of voltage stability in electrical energy systems. He is heavily involved with activities at the National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center, one of the largest testing centers of its kind in the world.

A Ph.D. graduate in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dr. Begovic earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Belgrade University (Yugoslavia).

Suniva evolved from the work of Dr. Rohatgi at the University Center for Excellence in Photovoltaics Research and Education at Georgia Tech. He is a Regents' Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor.

Read the article, Here Comes the Sun, in the June 2009 issue of Georgia Trend magazine.

Two projects are supported by the NEETRAC Cable Diagnostic Focused Initiative, and a third presentation is supported by the NEETRAC Baseline Program.

"Withstand Measurements: More Than Meets the Eye" was written by Josh Perkel with Nigel Hampton, Jean Carlos Hernandez, Miroslav Begovic, John Hans, Ron Riley, Pete Tyschenko, Frank Doherty, George Murray, and Leeman Hong. This paper was the result of collaborative work with a number of NEETRAC member utilities. The industry has tended to view
withstand tests as simply pass/fail with little ability to predict future performance. This work has shown that there is much more information in these tests when the results are coupled with typical utility system data.

"Measurement of Cable System Loss Using Time Domain and VLF Techniques" was written by Jean Francois Drapeau with Jean Carlos Hernandez. Mr. Drapeau is a researcher with Hydro Quebec who spent two research sabbaticals at NEETRAC. During this period, Messrs. Drapeau and Hernandez conducted the first study to compare the performance of two different diagnostic techniques. Prior to this work, it had been assumed that these techniques did not give the same findings; this work showed that they are in fact very comparable.

A third presentation supported by the NEETRAC Baseline Program also won a Best Conference Paper Award. The paper entitled "Superhydrophobicity in Power Applications" was written by Nigel Hampton and Frank Lambert; it described the practical applications of coating to extend the life of insulating components.

Fellowship of the IET is awarded to members who have demonstrated superior individual responsibility, sustained achievement, and significant professionalism during their careers.

Dr. Rincon-Mora was elected for this honor because of his work in power and energy integrated circuits. He is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he is the administrator of the Analog Undergraduate Outreach Program, and specializes in electrical energy and electronic design and applications.

One of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, the IET has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering, and technology in the world.

This awards program enables qualified academic and industrial researchers who reside outside of Ireland to carry out research projects of their own choice during their stay in Ireland.

Dr. Tentzeris is conducting research at Georgia Tech Ireland this summer, where he will develop environmentally-friendly paper-based technology platforms for “green” RFIDs. He will also work on developing sensors with “enhanced wireless intelligence” and renewable energy scavenging capabilities.

An associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, Dr. Tentzeris is the head of the ATHENA Research Group and is the associate director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center.

Georgia Tech Ireland (GTI) is an applied research facility of the Georgia Tech Research Institute that partners and collaborates with Irish corporations, universities and research centers, the Georgia Tech research community, and U.S. companies.

An assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Dr. Ma was chosen for her excellence in teaching, involvement and impact with her students, intellectual integrity and scholarship, and impact on postgraduate success of her students. Candidates for this recognition are untenured junior faculty members from aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, in addition to ECE.

Dr. Ma specializes in digital signal processing, with specific research interests in signal processing for communications and networks, signal estimation algorithms, coding theory, wireless communication theory, and sensor and ad hoc networks. She has been with ECE since 2005 and is a member of the Center for Signal and Image Processing.

The Creating Energy Options (CEO) Program at Georgia Tech funds seed grants for one year and are intended to stimulate innovative research endeavors that have the potential to create near-term solutions for energy-related concerns. An associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Doolittle received this award for his proposal to create a "Novel Oxide Photo-electrolytic Hydrogen Generator."

Dr. Doolittle's project proposes to use a Georgia Tech-developed oxide semiconductor to make photo-electrolytic hydrogen generator cells. This novel material possesses superb semiconducting properties, including record high p-type conductivity and optimal solar matched energy relationships never before observed in this class of materials. These properties may eliminate the durability and efficiency impediments to widespread adoption of solar hydrogen generation. If this simple process is successful, the distribution of hydrogen could be revolutionized by facilitating hydrogen “on-the-spot” production wherever a water and sunlight source can be found.

Dr. Romberg is among 100 recipients of this award, who were named by President Barack Obama on July 9. The honorees will receive their awards this fall at a White House ceremony.

Established in 1996, PECASE honors the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields. Nine federal departments and agencies join together annually to nominate the most meritorious young science and engineering researchers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for strengthening America's leadership in science and technology while contributing to the awarding agencies' missions.

"I am truly honored to receive this award," Dr. Romberg said. “I feel blessed for the education and mentoring I received at Rice University and Caltech and for the support which Georgia Tech has given me as a faculty member."

Awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award last summer, Dr. Romberg was nominated for the PECASE award by the U.S. Department of Defense. He was one of 27 investigators selected for the ONR Young Investigator Awards last year from a group of more than 200 applicants. Funding for his ONR award lasts for three years and will fund his project, "Compressive Sampling for Next-Generation Data Acquisition."

Dr. Romberg's research focuses on the mathematics of data acquisition. In particular, he is interested in ways in which randomness can actually help in data acquisition, potentially reducing both the cost and the computational complexity of high-resolution sensing systems. This work will influence the design of next-generation analog-to-digital converters, radar imaging platforms and MRI systems.

Dr. Romberg becomes the sixth PECASE winner from ECE, joining PECASE alumni Elliot Moore, Ali Adibi, David Anderson, David Citrin and Steve McLaughlin.

Dr. Harley is a prolific contributor to the field of power electronics, electric machines, and power systems throughout his long and very distinguished career in academia. Before his arrival at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999 as the Duke Power Distinguished Professor, he was widely recognized as one of the very top researchers in electrical engineering in South Africa.

During his 40-year career, Dr. Harley has published more than 400 publications

Dr. Mukhopadhyay's work is a cross-disciplinary effort spanning signal/image processing, VLSI design, and computer architecture. He is exploring methods for characterization of global thermal field and management of maximum value and spatiotemporal uniformity of temperature in many-core processors. The thermal field management principle and hardware platform developed through this research will improve reliability, energy-efficiency, and cooling-efficiency of future many-core microprocessors.

An assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Mukhopadhyay has been on the faculty since September 2007. His research and teaching interests are primarily focused on VLSI circuit and system design. He earned his Ph.D. in ECE from Purdue University in 2006 and his B.E. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Jadavpur University in India in 2000.

The IBM Faculty Awards is an annual, competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations. The awards program also promotes courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.

In practical applications, sensor data is often filtered or passed to an observer, both of which provide a smoothed version of the noisy sensor signal. While computer vision algorithms are increasingly being used for feedback purposes, many of the algorithms do not temporally filter the signal from the computer vision algorithm in a manner consistent with the signal's mathematical structure.

With funding from the CAREER Award, Dr. Vela seeks to derive such algorithms and develop practical applications to problems that rely on a clean interpretation of an imaged scene. His specific areas of focus will be on workforce tracking for safety in heavily mechanized environments, cellular tracking, and human-robot gesture-based communication.

Dr. Vela has been on the ECE faculty since August 2005. He is a past recipient of the HENAAC Most Promising Engineer Award and is currently the faculty advisor for the Georgia Tech chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

IEEE Distinguished Lecturers are engineering professionals who help lead their fields in new technical developments that shape the global community. In this new role, Dr. Tentzeris is making presentations to various technical and regional groups in the areas of RFIDs, "green" RF electronics, paper-based RF components, inkjet-printed antennas and wireless sensors, power scavenging, and cognitive intelligence technologies.

An ECE faculty member since 1998, Dr. Tentzeris is the associate director for RFID/sensors research at the Georgia Electronic Design Center. He is a magna cum laude graduate in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

With this award, Dr. Zhang will establish a theoretical foundation for battery supported cyber-physical systems. These systems play vital roles in real-time controlled applications across multiple disciplines such as sensor networks, robotics, and transportation systems, where limited computing resources and energy budgets pose major constraints. This effort will advance control theory to understand and adjust the behaviors of control tasks supported by embedded computing devices and batteries.

An ECE faculty member since 2007, Dr. Zhang was previously a lecturer and postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Maryland at College Park, where he also worked for the Institute for Systems Research. His B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, are from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

The group received the S.C. Sun Best Student Paper Award from the 2008 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference, which was held in San Francisco, Calif. last June. The award winning paper, "A 3D-IC technology with integrated microchannel cooling," was written by D. Sekar, C. King, B. Dang, T. Spencer, H. Thacker, P. Joseph, M. Bakir, and J. Meindl and was published in the Proc. IEEE Int. Interconnect Technol. Conf., pp. 13-15 in 2008.

The paper described compact physical modeling and wafer-level batch fabrication technologies of advanced cooling technologies for 3D stack of high-performance chips. In particular, this paper reports, for the first time, the integration of electrical through-silicon vias with monolithic microchannel heat sink in 3D stack. The demonstrated technologies enable the liquid cooling of each chip in the stack. The reduced thermal resistance offered by microchannel cooling enables substantial improvement of clock frequency as well as reduced power dissipation for each chip in the 3D stack.

Dr. Meindl's group also received the winning paper award of the Motorola Electronic Packaging Fellowship from the 2008 Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC). The conference was held in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The award winning paper, "3D stacking of chips with electrical and microfluidic I/O interconnects," was written by C. King, D. Sekar, M. Bakir, B. Dang, J. Pikarsky, and J. Meindl and was published in the Proc. Electronic Components and Technol. Conf., pp. 1-7 in 2008.

This paper described low-cost chip input/output interconnect and assembly technologies to enable the "routing" of electrical and fluidic networks in a 3D stack of chips. This is important because it enables, for the first time, the ability to deliver
a coolant from the system motherboard directly to each silicon die in the stack to reject heat. These technologies offer significant cost, form factor, and performance benefits over "typical" fluidic delivery methods.

Dr. Jayant was cited for his illustrious research and leadership spanning four decades. He gave a guest talk entitled "Signal Compression: 1958-2008++," during which he recounted the fundamentals of the field, as well as its creation of life-changing applications such as the cell phone, MP3, digital camera, and HDTV on Demand, with significant new impact expected in fields as diverse as Television-Gaming Convergence, Multimedia Data Mining, and Medical Informatics.

A member of the ECE faculty since 1998, Dr. Jayant is the executive director for the Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology and the director of the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute. He holds the John Pippin Chair in Wireless Systems and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He specializes in telecommunications and computer engineering.

As one of 11 distinguished lecturers appointed by IEEE-CASS for this upcoming year, Dr. Rincon-Mora will deliver lectures on power management integrated circuits. He specializes in the areas of electrical energy and electronic design and applications.

An ECE faculty member since 2001, Dr. Rincon-Mora is a past director of the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium and is the founder and administrator of the Analog Undergraduate Outreach Program. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he held several technical positions at Texas Instruments.

The mission of the Distinguished Lecturer Program is to serve the needs of the members of the CASS to enhance their professional knowledge and vitality by keeping them informed of the latest research results and their practical applications.