Posted May 10, 2012 Atlanta, GA
Eight faculty members in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech have been recommended to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents for promotion and/or tenure. These appointments will be effective July 1, 2012.
David V. Anderson – promotion to professor
W. Alan Doolittle – promotion to professor
Maysam Ghovanloo – tenure
Ayanna Howard – promotion to professor
Linda S. Milor – promotion to professor
Saibal Mukhopadhyay – promotion to associate professor with tenure
George F. Riley – promotion to professor
Gabriel A. Rincon-Mora – promotion to professor
“The actions of granting promotion and tenure are very carefully considered in ECE and at Georgia Tech,” said Interim ECE School Chair Douglas B. Williams. “These faculty members have worked very hard to reach these milestones in their careers and deserve not only our congratulations, but also many thanks for what they contribute to our research and educational programs and to the profession as a whole.”
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
