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6:30-9PM 吃饭与看电影（提供免费的Pizza）

 

Welcome to Chinese Christian Fellowship!

This week, we’ll be watching the movie “Prince of Egypt.”

You are invited to join us as we learn about the story of God’s chosen people and witness His amazing works!

Schedule

6:30–9:00 PM — Dinner & Movie (Free pizza provided)

Water Memory (Jala Smirti) was awarded the Antinori Foundation Grand Prize in the 96-Hour Opera Project in June 2024.

Written by Kitty Brazelton and Vaibu Mohan, Water Memory (Jala Smirti) is based on a provided prompt of integrating AI into a creative work. The two were paired by the 96-Hour Opera Project team and the match was serendipitous.

Both composer Kitty Brazelton and librettist Vaibu Mohan shared the experience of witnessing the decline of a beloved older woman in their family due to dementia. For this creative team, Water Memory (Jala Smirti) has become a deeply personal story about the power of memory, family, and connection.

Composer: Kitty Brazelton
Librettist: Vaibu Mohan
World Premiere Performance
Performance runtime: approximately 65 minutes—with no intermission

Event Agenda 

• 12:00 – 12:45 PM | Arrival, Lunch, and Networking
• 12:45 – 1:15 PM | Welcome and IRIM Updates - Executive Director Greg Sawicki (Q&A to follow)
• 1:15 – 1:30 PM Break
• 1:30 – 2:45 PM | Research Neighborhood & Research Initiative Updates + All Hands Q&A
• 1:30 – 1:45 PM – Human-Robot Collaborative Teaming | Speaker: Ye Zhao
• 1:45 – 2:00 PM – Agricultural Robotics | Speaker: Colin Usher
• 2:00 – 2:15 PM – Household Robotics | Speaker: Sonia Chernova
• 2:15 – 2:30 PM – Construction Robotics | Speaker: Edvard Bruun
• 2:45 – 4:00 PM  | Poster Session (Atrium) 

REGISTRATION LINK

This seminar presents a synthesis of research focused on leveraging these data sources for infectious disease prediction, spanning from classical statistical approaches to modern AI architectures.

Key Areas of Discussion:

• Statistical Methodologies: The presentation covers a family of models that combine autoregressive time series structure with penalized regression on Google search data. This includes extensions to spatial-temporal modeling, multi-disease settings, and COVID-19 adaptation.
• AI Architectures: Recent work on attention-based transformer architectures for time series forecasting will be discussed, highlighting methods for multivariate dependency modeling, in-context learning, and efficient linear attention.
• Practical Application: Drawing from ongoing participation in the CDC FluSight forecasting initiative, the session compares the strengths and limitations of both paradigms and shares practical lessons learned from real-time deployment.

The talk aims to offer perspective on when and how statistical rigor and deep learning flexibility each contribute to reliable disease forecasting.

About the Speaker

Dr. Shihao Yang is a Harold E. Smalley Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He completed his PhD in statistics and post-doc in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on data science, with special interest in time series, dynamical systems, and applications in infectious disease transmission forecasting.

To attend, please register online via Zoom.

Explore how expertise is evolving in the age of AI. Dr. Gichoya will share insights from four years of the HITI Lab Datathon, highlighting lessons on data science, training, and real-world applications of AI in healthcare.

BIO
Dr. Gichoya is the William and Kay Casarella Professor of Radiology at Emory University and leads the HITI (Healthcare AI Innovation and Translational Informatics) lab. Her work is centered around using data science to study health equity. Her group works in 4 areas - building diverse datasets for machine learning (for example the Emory Breast dataset); evaluating AI for bias and fairness; validating AI in the real world setting and training the next generation of data scientists (both clinical and technical students) through hive learning and village mentoring. She serves as the program director for radiology: AI trainee editorial board and the Emory University medical students machine learning elective. She has mentored over 60 students across the world (now successful faculty, post doc, PHD, and industry employees) from several institutions around the world. She has received several awards including the most influential radiology researcher in 2022 and is a 2023 Emerging Scholar at the National Academy of Medicine.

Relax with complementary beverages and come paint a succulent planter with a plant to go with it - pots, plants, and paints provided! 

Spots are limited so sign up to reserve yours: https://gatech.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=2259

Patents provide valuable and cutting-edge information for innovators and researchers. This workshop will begin with a brief introduction to intellectual property and then will focus on patents. The presenter will demonstrate how to conduct preliminary patent searches using publicly accessible patent tools. Attendees will have an opportunity to participate in hands-on learning activities.

We will also be providing additional information about sign-ups for STEM Connect.
Event will run from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at Instructional Center 211.

📍 Sign up now: bit.ly/AshaSpringRun2026

#RunForEducation #AshaForEducation #SpringRun #GeorgiaTech"

Featured Speakers

Sam Bolton, Keynote - Sam is a fourth-year Scheller Business student with a concentration in marketing and a minor in leadership and social justice. Sam will discuss how getting lost – whether literally and physically, or metaphorically lost in passions, hobbies, dreams - is a means to finding where you belong in the world, on campus, and most importantly, where you belong internally.

Mike Jones, Guest Speaker - Mike is an administrative professional with Georgia Tech Human Resources. Mike’s talk centers on the idea that presence is something we actively choose. Presence is a choice, and how you choose to show up can shape your opportunities, relationships, and sense of belonging.

Samiksha Digambar, Guest Speaker - Samiksha is a first-year undergraduate student in the College of Engineering. Samiksha reflects on her journey thus far on how to be present despite the fear of others’ judgment and self-doubt. Using her own personal stories, she describes how shifting the focus away from yourself and toward helping others has transformed the way she uses her voice.

Please RSVP on Engage if interested in attending!

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

Colleges will host individual Graduation Celebrations for master's students following the Institute ceremony. 

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates from the College of Computing and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates in select College of Engineering majors: Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering (CE), Nuclear and Radioactive Engineering (NRE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Aerospace Engineering (AE), Computer Engineering (CMPE), Environmental Engineering (ENVE), Industrial Engineering (IE), and Materals Science Engineering (MSE).

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates from the College of Design, Scheller College of Business, College of Sciences, College of Lifetime Learning, and Select College of Engineering Majors (CHBE and BMED)

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

Written by Kitty Brazelton and Vaibu Mohan, Water Memory is based on a provided prompt of integrating AI into a creative work. The two were paired by the 96-Hour Opera Project team and the match was serendipitous.

Both composer Kitty Brazelton and librettist Vaibu Mohan shared the experience of witnessing the decline of a beloved older woman in their family due to dementia. For this creative team, Water Memory has become a deeply personal story about the power of memory, family, and connection.

Composer: Kitty Brazelton
Librettist: Vaibu Mohan
World Premiere Performance
Performance runtime: approximately 65 minutes—with no intermission

 About the event: The April 29th event marks the next milestone in our collaborative journey and builds momentum from our convening last fall. This professionally facilitated event will kickstart interdisciplinary research ideas and pave a path for competitive formal funding submissions. $$ CAPHI will provide research support and funding for follow-up professional grant writing services to teams formed during our Spring event. $$ 

This gathering is about aligning technical strengths and building essential relationships among participants. By connecting on both the capabilities and interpersonal levels, and by engaging in open dialogue, sharing perspectives, and fostering collaboration, we set the stage for meaningful impact and ensure that our collective efforts are both visionary and actionable. We look forward to seeing you there!

• When: April 29th 2026, from 10:00 am to 3:45 pm
• Where: Dalney 180 Conference Room (926 Dalney Street NW, Atlanta GA 30318; Dalney 180 | Office of Sponsored Programs)
• Parking: W22 Dalney Parking Deck (Directions and Parking | Office of Sponsored Programs)
• Registration: Community & Population Health Initiative (CAPHI)  Spring 2026 Convening – Fill out form
• CAPHI Researcher Database: CAPHI Researcher Database – Fill out form

Speaker:  Ilias Diakonikolas, Professor, The University of Wisconsin–Madison

Abstract:

Robustness is a basic requirement for trustworthy machine learning, yet achieving it efficiently in high dimensions has long been a fundamental challenge. For decades, the prevailing view was that learning algorithms with strong robustness guarantees necessarily come with prohibitive computational cost, creating a sharp tension between statistical guarantees and algorithmic tractability. This talk describes a research program aimed at overcoming this barrier through an algorithmic theory of robust learning. 

 I will describe two interconnected threads within this research program. The first develops a unified framework for efficient robust high-dimensional estimation, including the first polynomial-time algorithms for several fundamental unsupervised learning tasks under adversarial corruption. The second studies supervised learning under noisy labels, with an emphasis on learning predictors with low-dimensional latent representations. I will conclude by discussing future directions, including robustness beyond worst-case corruption and the efficient learning of richer nonlinear representations.

Bio:

lias Diakonikolas is the Lubar Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW Madison. He obtained a Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University where he was advised by Mihalis Yannakakis. Before moving to UW, he was an Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair at USC and a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that, he was the Simons postdoctoral fellow in theoretical computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is on the algorithmic foundations of massive data sets, in particular on designing efficient algorithms for fundamental problems in machine learning. He is a recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award, a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Romnes Faculty Fellowship, a Google Faculty Research Award, a Marie Curie Fellowship, best paper awards at NeurIPS and COLT, the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award, and an honorable mention in the George Nicholson competition from the INFORMS society. Ilias wrote with Daniel Kane the textbook "Algorithmic High-dimensional Robust Statistics" published by Cambridge University Press.

Participants will be introduced to generative AI fundamentals, prompt engineering, and practical applications such as automated inventory systems, predictive maintenance, and route optimization. The workshop will also cover ethical AI use, good and bad uses of generative AI (GenAI), and rapidly emerging use cases. By the end of the session, participants will have a better understanding of how to begin applying AI to enhance supply chain processes and drive success within their organizations.

Event includes networking, presentation, light bites, beverages, and Q&A.

Featuring Chris Gaffney, Managing Director of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL), Academic Program Director for Georgia Tech Professional Education, and Edenfield Executive-in-Residence and a Professor of the Practice in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Register via Eventbrite to attend the event taking place at the Georgia Tech Atrium (147 Technology Parkway Northwest, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092), the first-of-its-kind professional, academic, and research innovation space within Curiosity Lab’s state-of-the-art Innovation Center.

Register Online to Attend

This event will take place on Wednesday, April 29 from 12 - 1 p.m. at the Beth Cabrera Reflection Space and Multicultural Lounge (John Lewis Student Center). If interested in attending, please RSVP on Engage.

Atrium’s managing director, Stephen Harmon, will share how Atrium connects visitors with resources and networks and offers programs that provide access to opportunities beyond the Tech campus. You will also hear from Jonna Lee and Eric Sembrat of the College of Lifetime Learning research team about their work applying personas, AI, and digital credentials to better serve learners. Additionally, Curiosity Lab’s Executive Director, Emily Heintz, will discuss the four sectors it serves and how they support inventors and entrepreneurs.

The program will conclude with a social hour for connecting with fellow attendees and speakers. Light refreshments will be served.

Please register by Thursday, May 7.

Register now

This online session counts as one contact hour towards the in-person training requirement of the RCR Compliance Policy. For more information about the RCR training requirements, refer to the Compliance Training Matrix.

Georgia Tech Students, Staff, Faculty, can pre-register to help ensure RCR credit here: https://gatech.geniussis.com/Registration.aspx?aid=1891

Probing Charge Carriers in Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conducting Polymers

Abstract:

Conjugated polymers continue to emerge as next-generation electronic materials for mixed ionic-electronic conduction applications, ranging from biomedical sensing to energy storage. However, their development is hampered by a lack of rational design principles due to missing fundamental knowledge about how ion-charge interactions and dynamic polymer nanostructure influence charge transport and storage along polymer chains. In this talk, I will first discuss how we are exploiting the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers to provide details on their nanoscale environment and trapping behavior. Then I will show how in situ electronic and vibrational spectroscopy of polymer electrodes can be used to track their complex nanoscale dynamics during charging, revealing insights into nanostructures that support the formation of mobile carriers.

Bio:

Dr. Chris Grieco is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Auburn University, where his research group develops laser spectroscopy methods to probe charge carriers in conducting polymers used in electrochemical applications ranging from bioelectronics to batteries. Prior to Auburn, Chris earned a PhD in Chemistry at Penn State University where he worked with Prof. John Asbury studying how to improve exciton and charge carrier dynamics in organic molecules and polymers for solar cells. Chris then worked with Prof. Bern Kohler as a postdoctoral scholar at the Ohio State University, where he developed ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy methods for probing the elusive structure and photochemistry of the eumelanin biopigment.

Recent Awards:

• NSF CAREER Award, 2025
• Norman Edmund Inspiration Award, Edmund Optics, 2024
• Ultrafast Education Award - Bronze, Edmund Optics, 2024
• Gerhard Closs Postdoctoral Award, Inter-American Photochemical Society, 2023

This year, our theme is Bloom 🌸💮🪻, and the dress code is business professional and Spring-inspired attire. Tickets are available now, and all sales go to each student chapter as we prepare for competition this upcoming fall.

Location: Haworth Atlanta Showroom

383 17th St NW, Suite 120

Atlanta, GA 30363

Tickets (purchase here):

NOMAS Members: Free Entry (request a ticket)

Students: $15.00

Faculty: $30.00

Professionals: $30.00

Don't have time to play games? Feel free to drop in anytime between 2-7 PM to fuel for your next final. We will have food and refreshments for attendees!

Whether you’re new to campus or back for another term, come take a break, grab a s’more, and meet other transfer students in a relaxed, welcoming space.

We know summer can feel a little quieter—and finding your people isn’t always easy. That’s why TSA is hosting this bonfire to help you connect, unwind, and start the semester with some friendly faces.

Stop by anytime between 7–9 PM on May 22nd—we’d love to meet you!

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.

Location: Coda, Room 114 (Google Maps link)

Lunch provided!

Title: Safety Alignment of Generative Foundation Models

Abstract: Modern LLMs are safety-aligned through supervised finetuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to mitigate harmful, undesirable, or disallowed outputs. Despite ongoing progress, LLMs still exhibit critical safety gaps: models can be jailbroken into revealing harmful content, often overrefuse benign queries, and fail to maintain safety under adversarial scenarios. My dissertation research advances the safety alignment of generative foundation models by developing principled tools, architectures, and training methods that strengthen their robustness and reliability at scale. Specifically, this thesis focuses on three complementary thrusts: a) Understanding and shaping the safety landscape of LLMs, b) Internalizing safety in agentic reasoning intelligence, and c) Grounding safety and robustness in multimodal perception.

Bio: Anthony is a CS Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech working with Polo Chau. His thesis research has elevated foundational AI efforts at Nvidia, Meta, IBM, Intel, and ADP via internships and collaborations, and has resulted in several first-author publications and awards at NeurIPS, ACL, ICCV, EMNLP, CVPR, and BMVC. His research has contributed to the AI foundation of multiple funded industry research grants totaling over $1.4M. Learn more about him at shengyun-peng.github.io.

About HotCSE

HotCSE is an academic seminar series to bring Ph.D. students in Computational Science and Engineering together to discuss interesting topics. The topics consist of high-performance computing, machine learning, data analysis, simulation, computational sustainability, medical informatics, etc.

The talks have always been enjoyable and have ranged from quite informal to formal conference style talks. Either chalks or slides can be used to help people understand your talk. It is also a great forum to practice conference talks and bounce around new ideas.

Currently the talks are sponsored by the School of Computational Science and Engineering. The goal of CSE is slightly broader than that of these talks - we want to bring more people outside CSE to discuss their related work here.

The goal of the National Safety Council's DDC is to provide drivers with knowledge and safe driving techniques to prevent accidents and violations. This course focuses on accident prevention through hazard recognition and application of accident-avoidance techniques. In addition, the course addresses common driving violations that result in accidents and how to change driving habits to eliminate moving violations.

Throughout the 6-hour course, participants learn how to recognize both potential and immediate hazards, how to avoid accidents in a variety of driving conditions and how to choose safe and legal driving behaviors. The emphasis is on identifying and choosing safe and legal behind-the-wheel behaviors and actions.

In order to attend this course you must have a valid state driver license.

You are entitled to a discount on your auto insurance in Georgia after the completion of this course.

To Register:

1. Go to Genius LMS and use your GT Login
2. Click "View Course Catalog"
3. Search for "defensive"
4. Click "Register" for your preferred date
5. Click "Proceed to Checkout" and follow the instructions

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE REGISTERING, or IF YOU DON'T GET AN EMAIL IMMEDIATELY AFTER REGISTERING, please contact ors@ors.gatech.edu.

Who Should Attend?:

All current Georgia Tech employees and students. Individuals who drive vans to transport 15 or more people must take the Van Safety course. To register for Van Safety, email generalsafety@ehs.gatech.edu.

Register Online to Attend

Abstract

Civil society organizations (CSOs) operate at the frontline of civic engagement, often navigating complex political, social, and economic environments. In East Africa, CSOs face several challenges, ranging from a shrinking civic space, to increasingly disengaged populations to shrinking funding. CSO programming has also been ineffective in many cases leading to wasted resources, poor feedback loops and sub-par outcomes. This talk draws on practical experience working with CSOs in the region to unpack the behavioral barriers that limit civic participation as well as effective CSO programming. It explores how behavioral science has been applied through experimentation, co-design and communications to redesign engagement strategies, influence policy, improve public service delivery and improve government responsiveness to citizens' voices. This talk will also highlight key lessons on what works, what doesn’t, and why, offering a grounded perspective on how to design more effective, context-sensitive civic engagement programs.

Abstract

The internet has fundamentally changed small businesses in the United States. Social media and e-commerce platforms have enabled new business models, many of which can be operated from home offices and basements. Entrepreneurs are less dependent on brick-and-mortar presences than ever. We argue that this shift has dramatic effects on small business owners’ political behaviors and identity. The small-business-owner-as-civic-leader archetype that features so heavily in American civic and political life is not inherent to entrepreneurial activity, but is rather the product of interactions that are specific to brick-and-mortar businesses, especially when co-located with other brick-and-mortar businesses. Brick-and-mortarness, we argue, exposes business owners to a plethora of routine interactions with the government (via parking, construction, building permits, etc.) that catalyzes (sometimes collective) political actions. These mundane political actions teach small business owners how local politics works, but also socialize them to see themselves as political beings, with long term and broad impacts on how they relate to local politics and civic life. We test this using data from a statewide survey on Minnesota small business owners and through a new dataset of small business owners’ participation in the January 23, 2026 anti-ICE strike in Minnesota. We find consistent support for our theory. An implication of this is that the technological innovations of the  internet suppresses the political socialization of business owners into individual and collective political actors.

With more than nine years of experience in early-stage venture investing, including prior roles in the Bay Area and at Toyota Ventures’ frontier tech fund, Erin brings a seasoned investor’s perspective to innovation, commercialization, and startup growth. In this conversation, she will share insights into venture investing, Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the role GTF Ventures plays in supporting innovation emerging from campus. 

Attendees will gain a better understanding of fund operations, capital raising, and what investors look for in early-stage opportunities. This session will be especially valuable for innovators, founders, and anyone interested in the intersection of research, entrepreneurship, and investment at Georgia Tech.

About Erin Keller

Erin Keller is Venture Fund Lead at the Georgia Tech Foundation, where she leads diligence, investment recommendations, and post-deal support. She previously spent more than six years in the Bay Area investing in early-stage companies, most recently at Toyota Ventures’ frontier tech fund. Erin began her career at a Medtech Venture Studio in Atlanta and holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

IDEaS-affiliated students and staff are also welcome.

If you do not have access to Coda, near the beginning of the event we will have a staff member or student waiting by the reception desk near the elevators to escort people up.

For questions please contact Ashley.edwards@gatech.edu

Book giveaway and refreshments from 6:00–6:25 PM for the first 100 students: Dr. Kate Marvel’s Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet.

*Refreshments: 7:30-8:30 PM (East Arch Courtyard)

Whether you’re grinding for an exam, finishing up a paper, or just coming to hang out, everyone is welcome! We’ll have Coffee, Melon Soda, and Japanese Pudding on the menu to keep you fueled!

Event Details

• Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• Location: Kendeda 210
• Note: Supplies are limited, so make sure to show up early to grab your treats!

Come eat, breathe, and take a few minutes to understand what's happening, what led here, and what you can actually do about it. Breakfast is on us. The rest is on all of us.

If you live and breathe sport and are serious about telling stories that inform, challenge, and engage audiences, this intensive one-week Sports Journalism Bootcamp is designed for you. 

Delivered by CNN Academy in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, this immersive programm is built for students with a strong interest in journalism, reporting, and sports media. This one-of-a-kind program will allow you to attend masterclasses, workshop with industry professionals, learn how to use mobile reporting software, and participate in a fast-paced, real-world sports journalism simulation. Parking, lunches, program merch, CNN Academy completion micro credentials, and all applicable bootcamp fees are included. The new format also provides more flexibility for students looking to complete internships, take classes, and/or study abroad this summer. 

The cost for Georgia Tech students to attend the full week is $200. Registration is open now through April 17. Reach out to CNNAcademy@gatech.edu with any questions or concerns.

Digital technologies are reshaping our work and our lives at unprecedented speed. This presentation examines three forces driving this Fourth Industrial Revolution: exponentiality, convergence, and ubiquity, and their implications for higher education and adult learning. Dr. Schatz explores critical questions: How do we leverage AI-enabled personalization to support careers when 40% of worker skills become obsolete every five years? How do we design learning ecosystems that scale adaptive support across institutional boundaries? How do we use data to inform lifelong learning while respecting individuals’ data sovereignty? Drawing on cognitive science and learning engineering research, this presentation offers actionable strategies for implementing AI-augmented adult learning systems that move from pilot projects to institutional practice.

Biosketch

Sae (pronounced like “say”) works at the intersection of cognition, technology, and data. She specializes in bridging the gap between scientific principles and human-centered practice, and her unique approach to “strategic storytelling” (translating complex topics into memorable messages) has garnered professional awards and seen her work translated into multiple languages. 

In 2023, Sae launched the Knowledge Forge LLC, a boutique consultancy offering keynotes, professional development workshops, and strategic services. Her clients include government agencies, academic institutions, and businesses. Recently, for example, she delivered keynotes at the UK Special Forces Club (Knightsbridge), Prometric board meeting, and Innovations in Testing annual conference. She’s published works in TD Magazine, Defense Dossier, and the Journal of Military Learning, and she helped to produce the Learning Engineering Toolkit (2022), authored Engines of Engagement: A Curious Book About Generative AI (2023), and contributed to the U.S. National Academies’ report on Adult Learning in the Military Context (2024). 

From 2015 to 2022, Sae served as the director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, a U.S. Department of Defense program for research, development, and policy stewardship. She also co-chaired the NATO Training Group (NTG) Individual Training and Educational Developments task group. Under her leadership, the U.S. ADL Initiative sparked the international community’s pursuit of the lifelong “digital learning ecosystem,” in part with her popular book Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem. Her efforts were also formally recognized as “a pathfinder for enterprise data services” by then–DoD Chief Data Officer David L. Spirk. 

Before joining the civil service, Sae worked as an applied human-systems scientist in both business and academia. From 2011 to 2014, she was the chief scientist at MESH Solutions (a defense contractor), where she led the U.S. Marine Corps’ Making Good Instructors Great project and the U.S. Joint Staff’s award-winning Blended Learning–Training effort. Prior to that, she held an assistant professorship with the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training. Sae is a prolific writer and professional presenter as well as a graphic designer who often uses those skills to enhance books, presentations, and infographics. 

She holds a doctorate in Modeling and Simulation (M&S), with an emphasis on human systems.

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

Attend the office hours via Zoom at https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92237994579 

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

Attend the office hours via Zoom at https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92237994579 

Register to attend the general session and breakout sessions covering various finance and compensation topics.  

Register here!

Abstract: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, generative artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly from conversational tools to autonomous systems that reason, act, and learn independently. This represents a fundamental shift from AI as a classroom presence to educational infrastructure. Neuroscience now confirms what learning designers have long known: scaffolding, sequence, and cognitive friction are not optional features of learning—they are its foundations. General-purpose AI, deployed without pedagogical alignment, risks removing that friction, accumulating “cognitive debt” rather than foundational understanding.

In this talk, Pratschke introduces Generativism, her design approach for creating generative learning in a world where humans learn and work in partnership with AI, and the three integrated frameworks that operationalize it: (1) a Contextual Framework identifying four essential dimensions—cognitive, learner, pedagogical, and technical; (2) TPAIK, which reimagines the established TPACK framework to define the intelligences required of AI systems; and (3) the Agentic Community of Inquiry (ACoI), an adaptation of the Community of Inquiry model that provides a structure for multi-agent learning environments.

As AI moves from language to experience—from agentic systems to world models that generate entire simulated environments—the stakes for pedagogical design only increase. These frameworks provide the foundations for designing learning that takes place not just with AI, but inside the worlds it creates. The role of the educator is shifting—from consumer of AI tools to designer and creator of AI systems—and these frameworks serve as a guide.

Biography: Mairéad Pratschke is a researcher, strategist, and advisor who has worked at the intersection of digital technology and education for more than 25 years. She is the author of Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design (Springer, 2024), and her work focuses on moving institutions from passive AI adoption to intentional pedagogical system design. She is a visiting professor at the LSE Data Science Institute and sits on the External Advisory Board of AI-ALOE at Georgia Tech.

• Website: https://maireadpratschke.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maireadpratschke/

Join us for lunch to learn how to better leverage the incredible resources available via your IBB Core Facilities! Lunch provided for registered attendees. 

Register to attend 

 

Register Here! Complimentary registration required for all attendees. 

Rapid-fire and poster presentation submission deadline April 29

Registration (without abstract submission) is open through May 14.

Conference Agenda

• 8:00 a.m. - Registration/Breakfast
• 9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks
• 9:15 a.m. - Abigail Wojtowicz, Medical Director, US Medical Strategy, Takeda
• 10:00 a.m. - Tina Dorr, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg Law
• 10:30 a.m. - Poster Session
• 11:45 a.m. - Cherry Wan, Senior Manager, Chemical Science, Alcon
• 12:15 p.m. - Lunch
• 1:15 p.m. - Bruno Marques, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Morphocell Technologies
• 2:00 p.m. - Rapid Fire Talks
• 3:00 p.m - Rapid Fire Presentations
• 4:00 p.m. - Career Panel Discussion
• 5:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks
• 5:10 p.m. - Reception and Award Ceremony
• 7:00 p.m. - Adjourn

• Resources for finding credible journals in your field
• Library databases for journal impact measures
• Tools for measuring citation counts and tracing citations
• Options for managing your scholarly identity and visibility
• Resources for open access publishing

Take a break and relax with registered therapy dogs from CAREing Paws! Volunteers will be at the Library to offer the community a chance to spend relaxing downtime with furry friends. This semester the fun will happen Wednesday, April 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Grove Level of Price Gilbert, next to INFODesk. 

Sign up to take the karaoke stage or send pictures of yourself in the 90's to terri.sapp@rbi.gatech.edu for a fun slide show! If you have any questions, be a total Betty and email them to Terri Sapp.

See you at Exhibition Hall between 11:30 am - 1:30 pm on Thursday, May 14. Bring your GT ID for check-in. 

Hosted by your Georgia Tech Staff Council.

Join faculty from across the Georgia CTSA for an energetic and dynamic virtual networking session!

About our organization: SKY

SKY Campus Happiness is a comprehensive well-being and resilience program designed to help students, faculty and staff achieve their fullest potential. In this 40-minute live interactive session, we will share:

• How to overcome mind wandering
• a powerful breathing technique
• a guided meditation

We would love to see you in this workshop and grow on the self care journey together! If you have any questions please write to us at yesplusgt@gmail.com.

Our inspiration

We are an open space to drop in and find calm. Knowing the benefits of breath-work and meditation, we love to share these tools with more people.

A 2020 study at Yale that explored mental wellness interventions with surprising results. Discover how SKY Breath Meditation/ SKY Happiness Retreat created significant improvements in stress, anxiety, depression, mental health, social connectedness, mindfulness, and positive emotions for Yale students.

Yale press release