ASIM GAZI MAKES HISTORY AS GEORGIA TECH’S FIRST SCHMIDT SCIENCE FELLOW
The Schmidt Science Fellows program, which provides a $100,000 stipend per year to postdoctoral scholars to solve the world’s most pressing issues, named Asim Gazi as Georgia Tech’s first Fellow. The Schmidt Science Fellows program seeks to identify the brightest minds in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computing.
Fellows are placed in a full-time, 12–24-month postdoctoral Fellowship in a laboratory anywhere in the world where they conduct research in an area different from their Ph.D. This pivot in discipline is central to the program’s aim to foster greater interdisciplinary research.
Gazi, who received his Ph.D. ECE in July, was advised by Professors Omer Inan and Christopher Rozell.
WEST AWARDED GEORGIA TECH UNIVERSITY CENTER OF EXEMPLARY MENTORING PH.D. FELLOWSHIP
Amanda West, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a Georgia Tech UCEM (University Center of Exemplary Mentoring) Ph.D. Fellowship. West is a member of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory directed by Professor Santiago Grijalva.
The UCEM Fellowship aims to increase the number of outstanding engineering, science, and computing Ph.D. students from under- served populations.
The Fellowship provides three years of support for students who have recently completed the Ph.D.
West’s research seeks to develop a framework to design stable clustered community microgrids (CCM) to increase energy equity, economic development, and resilience within under-resourced communities
PENG’S WORK ON OPEN- SOURCED NEUROSIM SERIES RECOGNIZED
Xiaochen Peng (right) received the prestigious Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award in Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD) for her research on compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators.
Co-authored with Professor Shimeng Yu, their work presents an end-to-end
benchmark framework for CIM accelerators, offering open-sourced NeuroSim series tools. This series, known for its versatility, has gained traction among industry giants like Intel, TSMC, IBM, Samsung, and SK Hynix, as well as global academia.
Peng, currently a principal engineer at TSMC Corporate Research, also earned the 2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) for her NeuroSim series work.