The Virgina Tech Board of Visitors has announced that Prof Joseph Baker has been awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. Jo arrived at Virginia Tech in 2008 from a research position at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He and Prof. Mike Ruohoniemi have built a research team consisting of engineers and graduate students; the first three doctoral students co-advised by Jo graduated in the 2013-2014 academic year. Prof. Baker has been recognized for his outstanding teaching and is a recepient of the Steven O. Lane award from Virginia Tech. He is also an NSF CAREER grant awardee.

Congratulatons, Jo!