DSP PhD and postdoc alum Christopher Rozell has been named the Julian T. Hightower Chair at Georgia Tech. Chris has had a storied career so far. For his research, he has received the NSF CAREER Award and Sigma Xi Young Faculty Research Award and been named one of six international recipients of the James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative Scholar Award. For his teaching, he has received the Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award and the CTL/BP America Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Previously, Chris held the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship. Chris's research interests lie at the intersection of computational neuroscience and signal processing and aim to understand how neural systems organize and process sensory information.