Hang Chen

Hang Chen
hang.chen@ien.gatech.edu
Cleanroom Process and Instructional Support Manger
Phone
404.894.3360
IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Research Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering

Abhijit Chatterjee

Abhijit Chatterjee
abhijit.chatterjee@ece.gatech.edu

Abhijit Chatterjee is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and a Fellow of the IEEE. He received his Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Chatterjee received the NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993 and the NSF CAREER Award in 1995. He has received six Best Paper Awards and three Best Paper Award nominations. His work on self-healing chips was featured as one of General Electric 's key technical achievements in 1992 and was cited by the Wall Street Journal. In 1995, he was named a Collaborating Partner in NASA's New Millennium project. In 1996, he received the Outstanding Faculty for Research Award from the Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center, and in 2000, he received the Outstanding Faculty for Technology Transfer Award, also given by the Packaging Research Center. In 2007, his group received the Margarida Jacome Award for work on VIZOR: Virtually Zero Margin Adaptive RF from the Berkeley Gigascale Research Center (GSRC). Chatterjee has authored over 400 papers in refereed journals and meetings and has 20 patents. He is a co-founder of Ardext Technologies Inc., a mixed-signal test solutions company and served as chairman and chief scientist from 2000-2002. He is currently directing research in mixed-signal/RF design and test funded by NSF, SRC, MARCO-DARPA, and industry, and he served as chair of the VLSI Technical Interest Group at Georgia Tech from 2010-2012. He co-leads the Samsung Center of Excellence in High-Speed Test, established at Georgia Tech in 2011.

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.894.1880
Office
Klaus 1352
Additional Research

VLSI and mixed-signal testingFault tolerant computingLow power circuit designComputer algorithmsDigital automation

University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Christopher E. Carr

Christopher E. Carr
cecarr@gatech.edu

Christopher E. Carr is an engineer/scientist with training in aero/astro, electrical engineering, medical physics, and molecular biology. At Georgia Tech he is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a secondary appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a member of the Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL) and runs the Planetary eXploration Lab (PXL). He serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) or Science PI for several life detection instrument and/or astrobiology/space biology projects, and is broadly interested in searching for and expanding the presence of life beyond Earth while enabling a sustainable human future. He previously served as a Research Scientist at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Molecular Biology. He serves as a Scott M. Johnson Fellow in the U.S. Japan Leadership Program.

Assistant Professor
School of Aerospace Engineering
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Phone
617-216-5012
Office
ESM 107B
IRI and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Sciences > School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Billyde Brown

Billyde Brown
billyde.brown@gatech.edu

Billyde Brown is a Senior Research Engineer, and External User Outreach Manager, of the Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Brown is currently recruiting new external users from industry (startups, SMEs and large corporations) and academia to take advantage of world-class nano-/microfabrication and materials characterization facilities currently available at Georgia Tech's IMS facilities. Please message me if you want to learn more about Georgia Tech fabrication and characterization capabilities or become a new user.

Brown is also an active researcher with over 20 peer-reviewed publications and earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. His research expertise areas include thin-film additive manufacturing, nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, and biosensors.

External User Outreach Manager
Senior Research Engineer
Additional Research
  • Nanomaterials
  • Sensors
  • Nano-bio interfaces
  • Small Business/Startup Partnerships
IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Research Faculty
Matter and Systems > Administrative Staff
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Built Environment Technologies

Devin Brown

Devin Brown
devin.brown@ien.gatech.edu
E-Beam Support Lead
Principal Research Engineer
Phone
404.385.5370
IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Research Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering

Matthieu Bloch

Matthieu Bloch
matthieu.bloch@ece.gatech.edu

Matthieu R. Bloch is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Engineering degree from Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2003, the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. In 2008-2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Since July 2009, Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and from 2009 to 2013 Bloch was based at Georgia Tech Lorraine. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, error-control coding, wireless communications, and cryptography. Bloch has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences; he was the chair of the Online Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2011 to 2014, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2016 to 2019, and he has been on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society since 2016 and currently serves as the 2nd Vice-President. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security since 2019. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society 2011 Joint Paper Award and the co-author of the textbook Physical-Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.

Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.385.4825
Office
Cent 5164
Additional Research

Communications and information theoryError-control codingWireless communicationsPhysical-layer security

University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb
nazanin.bassirigharb@me.gatech.edu

Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb joined Georgia Tech in summer 2007 as an assistant professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to this, she was a senior engineer in the materials and device R&D group of MEMS Research and Innovation Center at QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc. Her work included characterization and optimization of optical and electric response of IMOD displays and research on novel materials for improved processing and reliability of IMOD. Bassiri-Gharb's research interests are in smart and energy-related materials (e.g. ferroelectric and multiferroic materials) and their application to nano- and micro-electromechanical systems. Her research projects integrate novel micro and nanofabrication techniques and processes and study of the fundamental science of these materials at the nanoscale, at the interface of physical and electrochemical phenomena.

Harris Saunders, Jr. Chair and Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
Phone
404.385.0667
Office
Love 315
Additional Research

Ferroelectronic Materials; Functional Materials; In-Situ Characterization; Piezoelectronic Materials; Multiscale Modeling; Organic Electronics

IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Muhannad S. Bakir

Muhannad S. Bakir
muhannad.bakir@mirc.gatech.edu

Muhannad S. Bakir is the Dan Fielder Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He and his research group have received more than thirty paper and presentation awards including six from the IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), four from the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC), and one from the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). Bakir’s group was awarded 2014 and 2017 Best Papers of the IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT). He is the recipient of the 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Award, 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2011 IEEE CPMT Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award, and was an Invited Participant in the 2012 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Bakir is the co-recipient of the 2018 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Exceptional Technical Achievement Award "for contributions to 2.5D and 3D IC heterogeneous integration, with focus on interconnect technologies." He is also the co-recipient of the 2018 McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards. In 2020, Bakir was the recipient of the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.  
 
Bakir serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT) and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED). Dr. Bakir serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE EPS. 

Dan Fielder Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, 3D Systems Packaging Research Center
Phone
404.385.6276
Office
Marcus 4135
Additional Research

Advanced cooling and power delivery for emerging system architecturesBiosensor technologies and their integration with CMOSElectrical and photonic interconnect technologiesHeterogeneous microsystem design and integration, including 2.5D and 3D ICs and packagingNanofabrication technologies

IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Farrokh Ayazi

Farrokh Ayazi
farrokh.ayazi@ece.gatech.edu

Farrokh Ayazi is the Ken Byers Professor of Microsystems in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. His main research interest lies in the area of Integrated Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS and NEMS), with a focus on micro and nano mechanical resonators, and mixed-signal interface circuits for MEMS and sensors. 

Ayazi is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and a past editor for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. He is a 2004 recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award and the Richard M. Bass/Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Teacher Award from the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. The author of over 200 refereed technical and scientific articles, Ayazi and his students have received several best paper awards at International conferences including MEMS, Transducers, Sensors, and Frequency Control Symposium. He served on the technical program committee of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) for six years (2004-2009). He was the chairman of the Display, Sensors and MEMS (DSM) sub-committee at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2011). 

In 2008, he co-founded and became the CTO of Qualtré, a spinout company of his research lab that develops bulk acoustic wave gyroscopes and motion sensors for personal navigation systems. Ayazi is a fellow of IEEE and holds 50 patents in the area of MEMS and Microsystems. He was the general chair of the IEEE Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) conference in 2014, held in San Francisco, CA. 

Ken Byers Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Georgia Tech Analog Consortium
Phone
404.894.9496
Office
TSRB 448
Additional Research

Integrated Micro & Nano Electromechanical ResonatorsRF MEMSVLSI Analog Integrated CircuitsMEMS Inertial Sensors (Integrated Gyroscopes and Accelerometers)Micro and nanofabrication technologies

IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Azadeh Ansari

Azadeh Ansari
azadeh.ansari@ece.gatech.edu

Azadeh Ansari received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2010. She earned the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2013 and 2016 respectively, focusing upon III-V piezoelectric semiconductor materials and MEMS devices and microsystems for RF applications. Prior to joining the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Physics Department at Caltech from 2016 to 2017. Ansari is the recipient of a 2017 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan for her research on "Gallium Nitride integrated microsystems for RF applications." She received the University of Michigan Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research in 2016. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Sensor's young professional committee and serves as a technical program committee member of IEEE IFCS 2018.

Sutterfield Family Early Career Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.385.5994
Office
TSRB 544
Additional Research

Sensors and actuatorsMEMS and NEMSIII-V Semiconductor devices

IRI and Role
Robotics > Core
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Robotics
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies