Dr. Morris Cohen
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: mcohen@gatech.edu
Office: Van Leer 511
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Morris Cohen received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2010, respectively, and served as a research scientist there until August 2013. From September 2012 until August 2013, Dr. Cohen was appointed as AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation. In Fall 2013, he joined the faculty in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech, where he is now Professor, and Associate Director of the Center for Space Technology and Research. He was selected for the NSF CAREER award in 2017 and received the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2015. He is the winner of the 2014 Santimay Basu Prize by the International Union of Radio Science, an award given once per three years to an early career scientist. He is an author of more than 100 journal publications and 240 conference presentations. He served as an Associate Editor for Radio Science and as President of the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section of the American Geophysical Union. He utilizes a “flipped classroom” model for teaching, which increases student engagement and peer interaction, and won Georgia Tech’s CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2018. He enjoys hiking, cooking, traveling, and building pizza ovens.

Kevin Whitmore
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Kevin began as an undergraduate student on the VIP team `Lightning from the Edge of Space’ in Spring 2017. He stayed at Georgia Tech for his MS degree, graduating in 2019, and then joined the LF Radio Lab as a full-time research engineer. He manages the group’s field site operations, and his research interests are in novel time varying antenna technology and demonstrations.

Evan Worthington
PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Spring 2015
Evan works full-time at GTRI while completing his PhD dissertation on transionospheric VLF propagation and ionospheric remote sensing.

Nathan Opalinski
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2015
Nathan investigates VLF-radio based imaging and detection inside shielded/metallic boxes.

Roderick Gray
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Summer 2019
Roderick’s research interest is power grid remote sensing and situational awareness with non-contact VLF measurements.

Liam Smith
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PhD Student, ML-ECE
Joined: Fall 2020
Liam is a PhD student from Rochester, NY. He received his BS degrees in Computational Mathematics and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics as well as his MS in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Signal Processing at RIT. His current research focuses on applying physics-supported machine learning techniques to improve ionospheric forecasting, specifically in regards to electron density.

Jeremiah Lightner
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2022
Jeremy is a Ph.D. student from Lilburn, GA. He received his BSEE from Georgia Tech. After his undergrad, he was a Radar/RF Research Engineer in ATAS (Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory) at the GTRI primarily working with high-power vacuum tube amplifiers and antennas. His current research interest is in VLF and HF emissions and scattering from lightning.

Matthew Strong
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2023
Matthew is developing D-region ionopsheric diagnostics using VLF data streams.

Augustus Richter
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2024
Gus is a Draper Scholars Fellow, studying denoising and separation algorithms for VLF data

Mel Tamhane
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2024
Mel is studying ionospheric diagnostics with VLF, and the impacts of geophysical phenomena on the lower ionosphere.

Felipe Sandoval
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Fall 2024
Felipe is building and applying new ionospheric remote sensing instrumentation

Reed Campbell
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PhD Student, ECE
Joined: Summer 2025
Reed is improving our ionospheric tomography algorithms