Bernard Kippelen

Kippelen Group

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Biobased Materials

Biochemicals

Biorefining

Biotechnology

Flexible Electronics

Miniaturization & Integration

Optics & Photonics

Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Manufacturing

Additional Research:
Photovoltaics; Organic Photonics and Electronics; Integrated Photonics; Flexible Electronics; Optical Materials; Nanocellulose Applications; Films & Coatings; Sustainable Manufacturing; Biomaterials

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alenka.zajic@ece.gatech.edu

Alenka Zajić

Ken Byers Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alenka Zajic is currently the Ken Byers Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2008. Before joining Georgia Tech as an assistant professor, Zajic was a post-doctoral fellow in the Naval Research Laboratory and visiting faculty in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Zajic is the recipient of the following awards: IEEE Atlanta Section Outstanding Engineer Award (2019), The Best Poster Award at the IEEE International Conference on RFID (2018), NSF CAREER Award (2017), Best Paper Award at the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (2016), the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics (2014), Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award (2012), the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Telecommunications (2008), the Best Student Paper Award at the Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (2007), IEEE Outstanding Chapter Award as a Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies (2016), LexisNexis Dean's Excellence Award (2016), and Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award (2016). She was an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2012-2017 and an executive editor for Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies 2011-2016 .

404.556.7149

Office Location:
TSRB 415

Electromagnetic Measurements in Communications and Computing (EMC^2)

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Autonomy

Cyber Technology

Miniaturization & Integration

Additional Research:

On-Chip and Off-Chip Interconnects and Communication in Computer Systems; Mobile-to-Mobile Wireless Channel Modeling and Measurements; Underwater Wireless Channel Modeling and Measurements; Electromagnetic Security and Compatibility; Applied Electromagnetics; Wireless Communications

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Santiago Grijalva

Professor; Associate Director for Electricity Strategic Energy Institute (SEI); Georgia Power Distinguished Professor

Dr. Grijalva joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in the summer of 2009 as Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the Director of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory, where he conducts research on real-time power system control, informatics, and economics, and renewable energy integration in power. From 2012-2015, Dr. Grijalva served as the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) Associate Director for Electricity Systems, responsible for coordinating large efforts on electricity research and policy at Georgia Tech. Dr. Grijalva received the Electrical Engineer degree from EPN-Ecuador in 1994, the M.S. Certificate in Information Systems from ESPE-Ecuador in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Power and Energy Systems at the University of Illinois from 2003 to 2004. From 1995 to 1997, he was with the Ecuadorian National Center for Energy Control (CENACE) as engineer and manager of the Real-Time EMS Software Department. From 2002 to 2009, he was with PowerWorld Corporation as a senior software architect and developer of innovative real-time and optimization applications used today by utilities, control centers, and universities in more than 60 countries. Dr. Grijalva is a leading researcher on ultra-reliable architectures for critical energy infrastructures. He has pioneered work on de-centralized and autonomous power system control, renewable energy integration in power, and unified network models and applications. He is currently the principal investigator of various future electricity grid research projects for the US Department of Energy, ARPA-E, EPRI, PSERC as well as other Government organizations, research consortia, and industrial sponsors. Research interests: Power system and smart grid computation De-centralized and autonomous power control architectures Ultra-reliable electricity internetworks Seamless integration of large-scale renewable energy Electricity markets design and power system economics

sgrijalva@ece.gatech.edu

(404) 894-2974

Office Location:
VL E284

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Cyber-Physical Systems

Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution

Additional Research:
Electrical Grid; Energy Storage; System Design & Optimization

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Steven W. McLaughlin

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Steven W. McLaughlin is the provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

McLaughlin first joined Georgia Tech as a member of the faculty in 1996. From 2017-2020, he served as the dean and Southern Company Chair of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering, the largest engineering college in the country. Prior roles include the Steve Chaddick School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2012-2017, and the vice provost for International Initiatives and Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement from 2007-2012.

In 2014 he co-founded CREATE-X, a campus-wide effort to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and help them launch companies. The program has successfully launched 225 student-led companies and engaged more than 4,000 students in the principles and practice of evidence-based entrepreneurship.

In 2011 he was awarded the honor Chevalier dans l`Ordre Nationale de Merite, (Knight of the French National Order of Merit), the second highest civilian award given by Republic of France. He was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) where he was cited by President Clinton "for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats." He is a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has published in the areas of forward error correction and equalization in wireless communications, magnetic/optical data storage, data security, and privacy. He has advised more than 50 students and postdocs. His group has published more than 250 papers in journals and conferences and holds 36 U.S. patents.

He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Northwestern University, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan.

swm@ece.gatech.edu

404.894.2902

Office Location:
VL W215

Website

Office of the Provost

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Cyber-Physical Systems

Additional Research:
Communication Systems; Data Security & Privacy; Mobile & Wireless Communications

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Vidya Muthukumar

Assistant Professor

Vidya Muthukumar is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Muthukumar’s broad interests are in game theory, online and statistical learning. She is particularly interested in designing learning algorithms that provably adapt in strategic environments, fundamental properties of overparameterized models, and the foundations of multi-agent decision-making.

Dr. Muthukumar received the B.Tech (with honors) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. She interned at IBM Research in the summer of 2018 as a Science for Social Good fellow. Before joining Georgia Tech, she spent a semester at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as a research fellow for the program “Theory of Reinforcement Learning.” She is the recipient of an Amazon Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, Adobe Data Science Research Award, Simons-Berkeley Google Research Fellowship, and the UC Berkeley EECS Outstanding Course Development and Teaching Award.

Dr. Muthukumar has served/is serving as an Area Chair for COLT (2021-2024), NeurIPS (2023 and 2024), ALT 2024 and UAI 2024. She also co-organizes several mentorship workshops as part of the Learning Theory Alliance team, and organized the ITALT symposium in 2024.

vmuthukumar8@gatech.edu

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University, College, and School/Department

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering

Research Focus Areas:

Machine Learning

Additional Research:

Statistical signal processingGame theorySequential decision-making

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Divya Mahajan

Assistant Professor

Divya is an Assistant Professor in School of ECE and Computer Science. Divya received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and Master’s from UT Austin. She obtained her Bachelor’s from IIT Ropar where she was conferred the Presidents of India Gold Medal, the highest academic honor in IITs.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Divya was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure since September 2019. Her research has been published in top-tier venues such as ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, NeurIPS, and VLDB. Her dissertation has been recognized with the NCWIT Collegiate Award 2017 and distinguished paper award at High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2016.

Currently, she leads the Systems Infrastructure and Architecture Research Lab at Georgia Tech. Her research team is devising next-generation sustainable compute platforms targeting end-to-end data pipeline for large scale AI and machine learning. The work draws insights from a broad set of disciplines such as, computer architecture, systems, and databases.

divya.mahajan@gatech.edu

Personal Website

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Computing > School of Computer Science

University, College, and School/Department

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus Areas:

Machine Learning

System Design & Optimization

Additional Research:

Computer ArchitectureSystems for Machine LearningLarge Scale Infrastructure for AI and Data Storage

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Pan Li

Assistant Professor

Pan Li joined Georgia Tech in 2023 Spring. Before that, Pan Li worked at the Purdue Computer Science Department as an assistant professor from the 2020 fall to the 2023 Spring. Before joining Purdue, Pan worked as a postdoc at Stanford Computer Science Department from 2019 to 2020. Pan did his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Pan Li has got the NSF CAREER award, the Best Paper award from the Learning on Graph Conference, Sony Faculty Innovation Award, JPMorgan Faculty Award.

panli@gatech.edu

Office Location:
CODA Number S1219

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Machine Learning

Additional Research:

Develop and analyze more expressive, generalizable, robust machine learning algorithms with graph and geometric data, using e.g., Graph neural networks, geometric deep learning, and equivariant models. Build scalable analysis and learning tools for large-scale graph data, such as graph and hypergraph clustering algorithms, and large-scale graph machine learning. Artificial Intelligence for Science: Interpretable and trustworthy graph machine learning for physics.

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Tushar Krishna

ON Semiconductor Junior Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tushar Krishna is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He also holds the ON Semiconductor Junior Professorship. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2014), a M.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2009), and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (2007). Before joining Georgia Tech in 2015, Krishna spent a year as a researcher at the VSSAD group at Intel, Massachusetts.

Krishna’s research spans computer architecture, interconnection networks, networks-on-chip (NoC) and deep learning accelerators – with a focus on optimizing data movement in modern computing systems. Three of his papers have been selected for IEEE Micro’s Top Picks from Computer Architecture, one more received an honorable mention, and three have won best paper awards. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CRII award in 2018, a Google Faculty Award in 2019, and a Facebook Faculty Award in 2019 and 2020.

tushar@ece.gatech.edu

404.894.9483

Office Location:
Klaus 2318

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Computer Engineering

Gigatechnology

High Performance Computing

Machine Learning

Micro and Nano Device Engineering

Miniaturization & Integration

System Design & Optimization

Additional Research:

Networks-on-Chip (NoC)Interconnection NetworksReconfigurable Computing and FPGAsHeterogeneous ArchitecturesDeep Learning Accelerators

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Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Maryam Saeedifard

Professor

Maryam Saeedifard received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2008, all in electrical engineering.

From 2007 to 2008, she was with ABB Corporate Research Center, Dattwil-Baden, Switzerland, working in the power electronic systems group. She joined Purdue University in January 2010, where she served as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since January 2014, she has been on the ECE faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Her main research focus has been in the area of Power Electronics and Applications of Power Electronics in Power Systems and Transportation Systems. She has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), and IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON). She is an editor for IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, and IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.

maryam@ece.gatech.edu

(404) 894-4834

Office Location:
VL E168

Website

University, College, and School/Department

Research Focus Areas:

Delivery & Storage

Use & Conservation

Additional Research:
Electric Vehicles; Electrical Grid; Electronics

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joyelle.harris@ece.gatech.edu

Joyelle "Joy" Harris, Ph.D.

Joyelle Harris

Director, Women in Engineering

Dr. Joy Harris has a diverse career within the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech). Through her primary appointment as a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), she serves as a teacher, mentor, and research advisor to undergraduate students. Within ECE, Dr. Harris focuses on lowering barriers and increasing access to all opportunities within the department. She also serves as faculty director for the Engineering for Social Innovation (ESI) Center, where she creates the space for students to use their technical skills for positive social impact.

As ESI director, she leads undergraduate service breaks to developing countries; she operates a graduate leadership and development program; and she helps her students increase the operating capacity of non-profit organizations. Dr. Harris formerly served as faculty director of the Global Leadership Living and Learning Community (LLC), where she taught a course in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and she helped her first-year LLC students to successfully integrate into the GA Tech community. Dr. Harris also served as one of the Associate Directors for the CREATE-X entrepreneurship initiative. In this capacity, she helped students increase their entrepreneurial confidence through designing their own career paths and by launching startups. Through all her roles on campus, Dr. Harris enjoys teaching and serving thousands of students throughout the academic year.

Joy’s educational background includes a bachelor's in mathematics from Spelman College and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. She earned her master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton University and an MBA at Georgia Tech in 2017.

404.894.8365

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University, College, and School/Department

Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Focus Areas:

Social & Environmental Impacts

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Energy > Faculty Council