{"57054":{"#nid":"57054","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nikil Jayant Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Nikil Jayant was honored with an Indian Institute of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award in December. As India\u0027s premier campus for graduate studies and research in science and technology, IISc at Bangalore celebrated its 100th anniversary, with addresses by several world leaders, including three Nobel laureates. As part of the festivities, 16 of its alumni were named recipients of the IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award on December 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jayant was cited for his illustrious research and leadership spanning four decades. He gave a guest talk entitled \u0022Signal Compression: 1958-2008++,\u0022 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA 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. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"ECE Professor Nikil Jayant was honored with an Indian Institute of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award in December. As India\u0027s premier campus for graduate studies and research in science and technology, IISc at Bangalore celebrated its 100th anniversary, with addresses by several world leaders, including three Nobel laureates.  As part of the festivities, 16 of its alumni were named recipients of the IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award on December 12.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nikil Jayant Receives IISc Distinguished Alumnus Award"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2009-01-28 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:34","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57055":{"id":"57055","type":"image","title":"photo of Nikil Jayant","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894380","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:40","alt":"photo of Nikil Jayant","file":{"fid":"190529","name":"taj51869.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/taj51869_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/taj51869_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10825,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/taj51869_0.jpg?itok=WWzxjd00"}}},"media_ids":["57055"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=53","title":"Nikil Jayant"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/tigs\/info.php?id=10","title":"Telecommunications"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/tigs\/info.php?id=2","title":"Computer Engineering"}],"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":"1464","name":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"id":"1465","name":"Georgia Tech Broadband Institute"},{"id":"1462","name":"Nikil Jayant"},{"id":"1463","name":"Telecommunications"}],"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=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jn7\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":""}}}