Justin Romberg

Justin Romberg
jrom@ece.gateach.edu
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Dr. Justin Romberg is the Schlumberger Professor and the Associate Chair for Research in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Associate Director for the Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech.

Dr. Romberg received the B.S.E.E. (1997), M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees from Rice University in Houston, Texas. From Fall 2003 until Fall 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He spent the Summer of 2000 as a researcher at Xerox PARC, the Fall of 2003 as a visitor at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions in Paris, and the Fall of 2004 as a Fellow at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the Georgia Tech ECE faculty. In 2008 he received an ONR Young Investigator Award, in 2009 he received a PECASE award and a Packard Fellowship, and in 2010 he was named a Rice University Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus. He is currently on the editorial board for the SIAM Journal on the Mathematics of Data Science, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

His research interests lie on the intersection of signal processing, machine learning, optimization, and applied probability.

Schlumberger Professor
Additional Research

Data Mining

IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > TRIAD Leadership
Data Engineering and Science
Artificial Intelligence > ITAB
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

Ajeet Rohatgi

Ajeet Rohatgi
ajeet.rohatgi@ece.gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

Ajeet Rohatgi received the B.S. (E.E.) degree from Indian Institute of Technology in 1971, the M.S. (Materials Engineering) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1973, and the Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Lehigh University in 1977. He joined the Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1977 and became a Westinghouse Fellow while working on the science and technology of photovoltaic and microelectronic devices. Rohatgi joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech in 1985 and started a program on photovoltaics, which has become one of the best in the country. He has become an internationally recognized leader in photovoltaics. He is the founding director of the first university-based DOE Center of Excellence in Photovoltaic Research and Education. He is the author of more than 300 publications and holds 10 U.S. patents. Rohatgi has received numerous awards and distinctions from professional societies and Georgia Tech. He is the founder and CTO for Suniva.

Regents Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair, College of Engineering
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Phone
404.894.7692
Office
VL W121
Additional Research

silicon devices; solar cells; dielectrics; Compund Semiconductors; solar energy

IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Google Scholar
Related Websites
University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Built Environment Technologies

Gabriel Rincon-Mora

Gabriel Rincon-Mora
rincon-mora@gatech.edu
Departmental Bio
Professor
Phone
(404) 385-2768
Additional Research
Electronics; Electrical Grid
IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Arijit Raychowdhury

Arijit Raychowdhury
arijit.raychowdhury@ece.gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

Arijit Raychowdhury is currently an Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he joined in January, 2013. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University (2007) and his B.E. in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India (2001). His industry experience includes five years as a Staff Scientist in the Circuits Research Lab, Intel Corporation, and a year as an Analog Circuit Designer with Texas Instruments Inc. His research interests include low power digital and mixed-signal circuit design, design of power converters, sensors and exploring interactions of circuits with device technologies. Raychowdhury holds more than 25 U.S. and international patents and has published over 80 articles in journals and refereed conferences. He serves on the Technical Program Committees of DAC, ICCAD, VLSI Conference, and ISQED and has been a guest associate-editor for JETC. He has also taught many short courses and invited tutorials at multiple conferences, workshops and universities. He is the winner of the Intel Labs Technical Contribution Award, 2011; Dimitris N. Chorafas Award for outstanding doctoral research, 2007; the Best Thesis Award, College of Engineering, Purdue University, 2007; Best Paper Awards at the International Symposium on Low Power Electronic Design (ISLPED) 2012, 2006; IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, 2003; SRC Technical Excellence Award, 2005; Intel Foundation Fellowship, 2006; NASA INAC Fellowship, 2004; M.P. Birla Smarak Kosh (SOUTH POINT) Award for Higher Studies, 2002; and the Meissner Fellowship 2002. Raychowdhury is a Senior Member of the IEEE

Chair, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ON Semiconductor Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.894.1789
Office
Klaus 2362
Additional Research

Design of low power digital circuits with emphasis on adaptability and resiliencyDesign of voltage regulators, adaptive clocking, and power managementDevice-circuit interactions for logic and storageAlternative compute architectures

IRI and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Related Websites
Integrated Circuits & Systems Research Lab
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Stephen E. Ralph

Stephen E. Ralph
stephen.ralph@ece.gatech.edu
Georgia Electronic Design Center

Stephen E. Ralph is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received the BEE degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1988 for his work on highly nonequilibrium carrier transport in semiconductor devices. He is currently the director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, a cross-disciplinary electronics and photonics research center focused on the synergistic development of high-speed electronic components and signal processing to enable revolutionary system performance. He is also the founder and director of the new Terabit Optical Networking Consortium, an industry led communications and information technology consortium. Prior to Georgia Tech he held a postdoctoral position at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a visiting scientist with the Optical Sciences Laboratory at the IBM T. J. Watson research center. He has widely published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and holds more than 10 patents in the fields of optical communications, optical devices and signal processing. His current research focuses on high-speed optical communications systems including modulation formats, coherent receivers, microwave photonics, integrated photonics and signal processing. Ralph is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Georgia Electronic Design Center
Glen Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.894.5268
Office
TSRB 505
Additional Research

Integrated photonicsMachine learning and signal processingPhotonics in aerospace applicationsUltra high capacity optical communication systemsSimulation and modeling of communication systems

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
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Related Websites
ECE Profile Page
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Salvador Palafox

Salvador Palafox
salvador.palafox@neetrac.gatech.edu
Departmental Bio
Director – NEETRAC
Principal Research Engineer
IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abdallah Ougazzaden

Abdallah Ougazzaden
abdallah.ougazzaden@ece.gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

Abdallah Ougazzaden received his masters and doctoral degrees in materials sciences and his HDR "Accreditation to Supervise Research" degree from the University of Paris VII Paris (France) in 1986, 1990 and 1996, respectively. From 1999 to 2003, he worked as a Technical Manager in the Materials Growth and Characterisations group at Bell-Labs Lucent Technologies, and with its ICs/Optoelectronics spin-off Agere Systems. From here, Ougazzaden worked for TriQuint Optoelectronics (formerly Agere Systems/Optoelectronics). Prior to joining Bell-Labs he led the MOCVD group at CNET/ France Telecom for more than 8 years and spent a year at Optoplus/Alcatel. From 2003 to 2005 he was a professor at the University of Metz and Deputy Director of Materials, Optics, Photonics and Systems (MOPS) laboratory, a joint lab of the High Engineering School SUPELEC and CNRS in Metz, France. He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 as professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, Ougazzaden was appointed to the position of Director of the International Joint Research Unit GT-CNRS at GTL in France and in 2010 he was appointed to the position of director of Georgia Tech-Lorraine. He is co-founder and co-president of the Lafayette Institute, Platform of Technology Transfer, created in 2012. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 international scientific papers and holds 23 patents.

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Georgia Tech-Lorraine
Director, International Joint Research Unit "UMI 2958 GT-CNRS"
Co-President, Lafayette Institute
Phone
+33 (0) 38720.3923
Additional Research

Epitaxial Growth; Optical Materials; III-V Semiconductor devices; Advanced Characterization; Fabrication of nanostructures; Materials characterizations

University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Google Scholar
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INSTITUT LAFAYETTE

Azad Naeemi

Azad Naeemi
azad@gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

Azad Naeemi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran in 1994, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

Prior to his graduate studies (from 1994 to 1999), he was a design engineer with Partban and Afratab Companies, both located in Tehran, Iran. He worked as a research engineer in the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech from 2004 to 2008 and joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech in fall 2008.

His research crosses the boundaries of materials, devices, circuits, and systems investigating integrated circuits based on conventional and emerging nanoelectronic and spintronic devices and interconnects. He is the recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper that appeared in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2007. He is also the first recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society James D. Meindl Innovators Award (2022). He has received an NSF CAREER Award, an SRC Inventor Recognition Award, and several best paper awards at international conferences.

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.894.4829
Office
Pettit/MiRC 216
Additional Research

Emerging nanoelectronic devices and circuitsSpintronic devices and interconnectsCarbon nanotube and graphene devices and interconnectsCircuit and system implications of emerging devicesDesign and optimization for nanoscale 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
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Related Websites
Nanoelectronics Research Lab
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Vidya Muthukumar

Vidya Muthukumar
vmuthukumar8@gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

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.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research

Statistical signal processingGame theorySequential decision-making

IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Google Scholar
Related Websites
Personal Website

Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Saibal Mukhopadhyay
saibal.mukhopadhyay@ece.gatech.edu
ECE Profile Page

Saibal Mukhopadhyay received the bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in August 2006. He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in September 2007. Mukhopadhyay worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. as research staff member from August 2006 to September 2007 and as an intern in summers of 2003, 2004, and 2005. At IBM, his research primarily focused on technology-circuit co-design methodologies for low-power and variation tolerant static random access memory (SRAM) in sub-65nm silicon technologies. Mukhopadhyay has (co)-authored over 90 papers in reputed conferences and journals and filed seven United States patents

Joseph M. Pettit Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone
404.894.2688
Office
KL 2356
Additional Research

Low-power, variation tolerant, and reliable VLSI systemsDevice/circuit level modeling/estimation of power, yield, and reliabilityTechnology-circuit co-design methodologiesSelf-adaptive systems with on-chip sensing and repair techniqueMemory design for VLSI applicationsUltra-low power and fault-tolerant nanoelectronics: technology, circuit, and computing platforms

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
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Related Websites
Gigascale Reliable Energy-Efficient Nanosystem (GREEN) Lab
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies
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