{"692454":{"#nid":"692454","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Launches New Minor in Health Systems, Open to Undergraduates Across Georgia Tech ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E is launching a new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/catalog.gatech.edu\/programs\/minor-health-systems\/#requirementstext\u0022\u003EMinor in Health Systems\u003C\/a\u003E this fall. The 15-credit-hour minor is listed in the 2026-2027 catalog and is open to undergraduates in every major.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe minor is designed to equip students to address complex challenges across healthcare delivery, public health, and health-related decision-making. Through coursework in analytics, optimization, policy, and systems engineering, students will learn how to improve access to care, strengthen healthcare operations, and make better use of limited resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA hospital decides how many operating rooms to staff on a specific day. A vaccine that works in a trial fails to reach the population that needs it. A single manufacturer\u2019s plant shuts down due to a hurricane and a routine medical supply becomes unavailable nationwide. A public health agency has to decide whether limited resources will have greater impact through a screening program or a housing intervention.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThese are the types of real-world challenges students in the Health Systems minor will learn to address. They are not purely medical questions. They are systems questions, and they are the kinds of challenges industrial and systems engineers are equipped to solve.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022Many of today\u2019s health challenges are fundamentally systems challenges,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and professor in ISyE. \u201cImproving health requires not only advances in medicine, but also better systems for prevention, access, care delivery, and decision-making.\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe minor was developed by Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/turgay-ayer\u0022\u003ETurgay Ayer\u003C\/a\u003E, ISyE\u2019s Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair and professor, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/nicoleta-serban\u0022\u003ENicoleta Serban\u003C\/a\u003E, an ISyE professor, working with faculty across ISyE\u0027s health systems area.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cHealth systems problems are complex because decisions made in one part of the system often have consequences elsewhere,\u201d said Ayer. \u201cWe developed this minor to give students a systems-level understanding of healthcare systems, while equipping them with practical analytical and decision-making tools. Our goal is for students to leave the program prepared to translate data into better decisions and, ultimately, better health outcomes.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThis minor grew out of years of health systems research and teaching across ISyE,\u201d added Serban. \u201cThrough my work in health analytics, Medicaid policy, healthcare access, and health system complexity, and through teaching Public Health Systems, I saw both the breadth of faculty expertise in this area and strong student interest in engaging with it. The minor brings those strengths together in one pathway that enables students from across Georgia Tech to understand health systems and develop the analytical tools to improve them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat students take\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe minor is 15 credit hours: a statistics foundation, two required health systems courses, and at least two electives.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EStudents begin with a statistics course, choosing from seven options across campus: ISYE 3770, ISYE 3030, BME 2400, ECE 3077, ECON 2250, MGT 2250, or PUBP 3120. This flexibility allows students from a variety of academic disciplines to enter the health systems core with a shared quantitative foundation.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETwo ISyE courses form the core. Public Health Systems (ISYE 4510), designed by Serban and Keskinocak, works at the population scale. Many health challenges are shaped long before patients enter a hospital. The course examines factors that influence access to care, prevention, and population health, and explores how engineering and data-driven approaches can improve outcomes.\u003Cbr\u003EStudents study healthcare access: how to measure it, how geography shapes it, and what epidemiology and spatial analysis reveal about who a system reaches.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe course also spends three weeks on prevention and wellbeing across infectious and non-infectious disease. The organizing theme is what Serban calls the three E\u0027s: equity, efficiency, and effectiveness, and the trade-offs among them when resources are finite. Students leave able to identify where quantitative methods can improve public health decision-making.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIntelligent Healthcare Delivery Systems (ISYE 4515) launches alongside the minor. The course was originally designed by Ayer and is being adapted for this minor by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/dima-nazzal\u0022\u003EDima Nazzal\u003C\/a\u003E, ISyE\u2019s associate chair for academic administration, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/lauren-steimle\u0022\u003ELauren Steimle\u003C\/a\u003E, the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor and assistant professor in ISyE. The course focuses on healthcare delivery: how patients move through clinics and hospitals, where care transitions break, and how to map a process well enough to identify where to change it. Students learn to evaluate a health system\u0027s performance and model improvements through process design and resource allocation, such as bed allocation, operating room block scheduling, and nurse staffing. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cJust as doctors diagnose and treat disease when patients present with symptoms, students in this class will learn engineering tools to diagnose and solve process problems that lead to symptoms such as delays in care, shortages of medical supplies, and provider burnout,\u201d said Steimle. \u201cWith these skills, students will be prepared to help healthcare systems deliver the right care to the right people, in the right place, at the right time.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe remaining six credit hours come from a slate of more than 25 electives in five categories: health systems analytics and modeling; health policy, economics, and management; environmental, public health, and bio-inspired systems; health systems modeling and optimization; and machine learning and data science for health. The courses come from Biomedical Engineering, the College of Computing, the Scheller College of Business, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, the College of Design, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as ISyE. Students are encouraged to choose from more than one category.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022A student can come into this from computing, from policy, from business, from design,\u0022 said Nazzal. \u0022We built the electives so that whatever quantitative preparation a student already has counts for something, and so that nobody has to leave their major behind to work on health. Health systems problems don\u0027t get solved by one discipline, and the curriculum shouldn\u0027t pretend otherwise.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EStudents may also complete an optional experiential component through a health-focused Senior Design capstone, undergraduate research, a Vertically Integrated Project, or a Serve-Learn-Sustain project. Students whose primary project isn\u0027t health-related complete a structured addendum connecting the work to health systems challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFor most students, courses count toward both major and minor requirements. Prerequisites and full requirements are in the catalog, and students should check them against their own program before declaring.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EISyE: A leader in health systems engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech is well known for health research. Less well known is the role industrial and systems engineering has played in advancing health systems research for decades.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EISyE\u0027s health systems footprint spans different kinds of problems. In healthcare operations, faculty and students work on patient flow, scheduling, capacity, and care coordination inside hospitals and clinics. In health systems and supply chains, they study how care, drugs, vaccines, and medical equipment move across networks of providers and suppliers. In AI and analytics for health, they address medical decision-making, disease modeling, and the role of algorithms in healthcare. In public health systems, they examine access, equity, and population-level resource allocation.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThat work runs through a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/academics\/masters\/degrees\/ms-health-systems\u0022\u003EMaster of Science in Health Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chhs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health and Humanitarian Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, and Senior Design \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/capstone.isye.gatech.edu\/?field_category_target_id=6419\u0026amp;combine=\u0022\u003Eprojects\u003C\/a\u003E that have been going into Georgia\u2019s health systems for years. Research collaborators include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, and the Georgia Department of Public Health among many others. Senior Design sponsors have included Emory Healthcare, Wellstar, Grady Health System, Piedmont Healthcare, and Northside Hospital. These projects are not case studies: student teams work on real challenges brought by sponsors and deliver decision-support tools and other design solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMore than twenty ISyE faculty work in health and humanitarian systems, spanning patient-centered decision support, clinician guidance, healthcare operations, health network design, and policy evaluation.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022ISyE has been a leader in health systems research, education, and practice for decades,\u201d said Keskinocak. \u201cThis minor creates a clear pathway for undergraduate students from across Georgia Tech to apply analytics, AI, optimization, and systems thinking to some of society\u0027s most important challenges in healthcare and public health.\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFull requirements are in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/catalog.gatech.edu\/programs\/minor-health-systems\/#requirementstext\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Catalog\u003C\/a\u003E and on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/degrees\/minor-health-systems\u0022\u003EISyE Health Systems minor page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOpen to all Georgia Tech undergraduates, ISyE\u0027s new Health Systems minor equips students to improve healthcare through analytics, optimization, policy, and systems thinking.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Open to all Georgia Tech undergraduates, ISyE\u0027s new Health Systems minor equips students to improve healthcare through analytics, optimization, policy, and systems thinking."}],"uid":"35874","created_gmt":"2026-09-09 12:41:22","changed_gmt":"2026-09-15 19:19:10","author":"Anna Akins","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681100":{"id":"681100","type":"image","title":"ISyE faculty leading the new Health Systems minor include (top row, left to right) Dima Nazzal, Pinar Keskinocak, and Turgay Ayer; and (bottom row, left to right) Lauren Steimle and Nicoleta Serban.","body":null,"created":"1788957700","gmt_created":"2026-09-09 12:41:40","changed":"1788957700","gmt_changed":"2026-09-09 12:41:40","alt":"ISyE faculty leading the new Health Systems minor include (top row, left to right) Dima Nazzal, Pinar Keskinocak, and Turgay Ayer; and (bottom row, left to right) Lauren Steimle and Nicoleta Serban.","file":{"fid":"265455","name":"Health-Systems-Minor-collage.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Health-Systems-Minor-collage.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Health-Systems-Minor-collage.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1376403,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/09\/Health-Systems-Minor-collage.png?itok=6EZ9wDu4"}},"681101":{"id":"681101","type":"image","title":"ISyE researchers are addressing critical healthcare challenges through data-driven health systems research. 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The Colorado Springs Field Office currently has forty GTRI personnel on staff. \u0026nbsp;The arrangement reflects a growing conviction inside the defense community that the pace of modern threats requires a closer, faster collaboration between researchers and the warfighters they support.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe won\u2019t have to go through layers of translation because the government people with technology needs will be sitting next to the GTRI engineers offering solutions. It makes for a very close interaction that we expect to continue for many years to come\u201d said John Bunnell, GTRI\u2019s Director of Space Program Development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/gtri-opens-secure-facility-work-directly-space-force \u0022\u003ERead the entire article\u003C\/a\u003E on the GTRI News page\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) engineers, scientists, and staff along with members of Colorado\u0027s congressional delegation gathered to cut the ribbon on a facility built for a single purpose: to let the nation\u0027s top technologists and its newest military branch solve hard problems in the same room.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The new space puts Georgia Tech engineers and scientists side by side with military teams as Colorado Springs cements its role as a hub for space defense."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2026-09-15 17:55:13","changed_gmt":"2026-09-15 17:59:46","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681155":{"id":"681155","type":"image","title":"Congressman Crank cuts the ribbon on GTRI\u2019s new secure facility ","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECongressman Crank cuts the ribbon on GTRI\u2019s new secure facility where researchers will work next to U.S. Space Force teams. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1789494003","gmt_created":"2026-09-15 17:40:03","changed":"1789494231","gmt_changed":"2026-09-15 17:43:51","alt":"Congressman cuts ribbon for GTRI facility","file":{"fid":"265516","name":"4-ribbon-cutting-crank.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/15\/4-ribbon-cutting-crank.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/15\/4-ribbon-cutting-crank.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2910375,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/15\/4-ribbon-cutting-crank.jpg?itok=Nor26BtW"}}},"media_ids":["681155"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193653","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["gtri.media@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692596":{"#nid":"692596","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Internship Connects Supercomputing with National Priorities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENational laboratories play a critical role in advancing science, developing energy technologies, and ensuring national security. This summer, Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tage-burnett-537549221\/\u0022\u003ETage Burnett\u003C\/a\u003E contributed to that mission firsthand during an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe internship provided Burnett valuable insight into national laboratory research and reinforced skills he developed through his studies at Georgia Tech. When he returned to campus, we asked Burnett to share more about his internship and what he learned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent:\u003C\/strong\u003E Tage Burnett\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Interests:\u003C\/strong\u003E Fusion energy, computational plasma physics, high-performance computing, and structure-preserving machine learning\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDegree Program:\u003C\/strong\u003E Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Advisor\u003C\/strong\u003E: School of CSE Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tangqi.github.io\/\u0022\u003EQi Tang\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2026 Internship\u003C\/strong\u003E: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMany people are unfamiliar with national laboratories, like ORNL. Could you explain the purpose of these institutions and why they are important?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories are responsible for moving forward science and technology in the United States and solving high-consequence challenges in science, energy, and national security. They work on both applied and theoretical research with both short-term and long-term returns. ORNL has eight core research areas: biology and environment, energy science, fusion and fission, isotopes, physical sciences, national security, neutron science, and supercomputing. I was an intern in the supercomputing division.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow well did coursework and experience at Georgia Tech prepare you for your ORNL internship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy coursework at Georgia Tech was vital in my preparation for this internship. I wrote highly parallel code where I leaned heavily on what I learned in \u003Cem\u003ECSE 6220: High-Performance Computing\u003C\/em\u003E. I also worked on numerical methods which required an understanding of partial differential equations and numerical linear algebra which I also learned at Georgia Tech from classes like \u003Cem\u003ECSE 6643: Numerical Linear Algebra\u003C\/em\u003E and a space plasma physics course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat did you work on while interning at ORNL?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt ORNL, I was a developer on the Adaptive Sparse Grid Discretization (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/joss.theoj.org\/papers\/10.21105\/joss.06766\u0022\u003EASGarD\u003C\/a\u003E) codebase. The code uses adaptive sparse grids and the Discontinuous Galerkin method to beat the curse of dimensionality and solve high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/openjournals\/joss-reviews\/issues\/6766\u0022\u003EThe code\u003C\/a\u003E is designed to simulate fully kinetic plasmas in up to 6-dimensional phase space. My project was to implement an iterative method to solve the efficiently solve the Poisson equation within the codebase. This project gave me hands on experience with linear algebra, numerical PDEs, parallel computing and software engineering which was invaluable to my development as a CSE researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you have a favorite memory or remarkable achievement from your internship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy favorite memory from my internship was spending time with the other ORNL interns outside of work. There was an amazing group of interns at ORNL, and it was great getting to know them. One particularly good memory was when we went out to a restaurant with live music and played laser tag during our last week of the internship to celebrate our time at ORNL. The achievement I am most proud of was getting a working, highly efficient version of the Poisson solver into ASGarD. The ASGarD codebase is open source, so I hope other plasma physics researchers will use the code and find it helpful for their research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhile interning, you were selected for a GEM Fellowship, which Georgia Tech and ORNL nominated you for. What does this fellowship mean to you and is there anything you would like to say to your supporters?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo me, receiving the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gemfellowship.org\/gem-fellowship-program\/#a\u0022\u003EGEM Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E indicates that other people recognize the hard work I am doing, and they believe in my ability to meaningfully contribute to the field. Having this support from GEM, ORNL, and Georgia Tech gives me greater confidence in myself and my potential and inspires me to put my all into my work. I would like all my supporters to know that I am so grateful for the opportunity you have given me to be a part of the excellent community of researchers within GEM, ORNL, and Georgia Tech. I will do my very best to make your support worthwhile!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverall, how helpful was this internship toward your studies at Georgia Tech and career as an aspiring researcher?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe internship was extremely important to both my studies at Georgia Tech and my career as a researcher. The hands-on experience I gained is irreplaceable and it helped me to apply all the skills I have developed throughout my education. I am also optimistic that the internship will open doors for me when I am seeking a job post-graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENational laboratories play a critical role in advancing science, developing energy technologies, and ensuring national security. This summer, Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ETage Burnett\u003C\/strong\u003E contributed to that mission firsthand during an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe internship provided Burnett valuable insight into national laboratory research and reinforced skills he developed through his studies at Georgia Tech. When he returned to campus, we asked Burnett to share more about his internship and what he learned.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"National laboratories play a critical role in advancing science, developing energy technologies, and ensuring national security. 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A new study watched them move, settle, and survive in a living human tissue model, revealing a surprisingly dynamic world that could reshape how scientists think about immunity, aging, cancer, and vaccine protection.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor decades, immunologists have known that the body\u0027s most durable defenses depend on plasma cells, the antibody-producing cells responsible for long-term immune memory. Long after an infection has passed or a vaccine has been administered, these cells continue releasing protective antibodies, sometimes for decades.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet one of immunology\u0027s enduring mysteries has remained unsolved: scientists understand what plasma cells do, but not how they interact with their environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge is simple. Plasma cells reside deep within bone marrow, one of the most difficult tissues in the human body to study. Encased in bone and inaccessible to direct live imaging, it has largely remained a black box. As a result, much of what scientists know comes from mouse studies or simplified laboratory systems that capture only fragments of the human environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt University have opened an unprecedented window into this hidden world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a study \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz3976\u0022\u003Epublished in \u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the team developed a human bone marrow-on-a-chip with channels of the size of human hair that allowed fluids to flow through it. This enabled them to directly observe human antibody-secreting cells as they migrated, interacted, and settled within a three-dimensional tissue environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe platform recreates not only the cellular complexity of bone marrow but also its vascular architecture and specialized microenvironments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we found was far more dynamic than the textbook view of plasma cells simply taking up residence and staying put,\u201d said study co-senior author Ankur Singh, Carl Ring Family professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Singh is also Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/immunoengineering.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Immunoengineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EBuilding a Human Bone Marrow Model\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than creating a conventional cell culture, the researchers engineered a living microenvironment containing two major bone marrow neighborhoods: areas surrounding blood vessels, known as the perivascular niche, and a bone-like region lining internal bone surfaces, known as the endosteal niche.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team then introduced human antibody-secreting cells generated from engineered lymphoid organoids, which are miniature immune tissues capable of producing large numbers of cells that develop into plasma.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat happened next surprised them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of dispersing throughout the tissue, the cells traveled through the vascular network and accumulated around blood vessels.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese cellular gatherings were not random traffic jams,\u201d said co-senior author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/bio\/krishnendu-roy\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKrishnendu Roy\u003C\/a\u003E, the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering University Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University. \u201cThe cells appeared to congregate in regions rich in survival signals, suggesting that specialized perivascular neighborhoods serve as safe harbors for long-term immune memory.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe collaboration between Roy and Singh began while Roy was a faculty member at Georgia Tech, where much of the work was initially conceived and launched. The Roy lab pioneered the bone marrow chip while the Singh lab pioneered the lymphoid organoids. Their joint findings provide strong evidence that human plasma cells actively seek supportive environments rather than simply becoming trapped where they are, as previously believed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ENot as Stationary as Once Believed\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps the most striking discovery emerged when researchers tracked individual cells over time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than remaining fixed in place, a subset displayed a distinctive \u0022stop-and-go\u0022 migration pattern.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cClassic immunology has often viewed plasma cells as largely sedentary,\u201d said Singh. \u201cWe found that many cells paused for extended periods, moved, stopped again, and continued exploring their surroundings.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe behavior suggests that plasma cells actively sample their environment, searching for the combinations of signals and support needed for long-term survival.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EA Tale of Two Niches\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study also revealed that bone marrow\u0027s two major compartments perform distinct but complementary functions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe perivascular niche attracts cells and provides key survival signals, while the neighboring endosteal niche influences how they migrate, persist and are retained.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, these compartments form a cooperative ecosystem that shapes plasma cell fate, challenging the idea of bone marrow as a single, uniform environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhy It Matters\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe implications extend far beyond understanding where plasma cells live.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBone marrow niches support the cells responsible for long-term antibody protection, placing them at the center of vaccine durability, immune aging, autoimmune disease, chronic infection, blood cancers, and cancer metastasis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new platform allows researchers to systematically manipulate components of the human bone marrow environment and observe the consequences in real time. It may help explain why immunity wanes with age, why some vaccines provide longer-lasting protection than others, and how disease disrupts the biological foundations of immune memory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost importantly, it offers a rare glimpse into one of the immune system\u0027s most inaccessible habitats. Though there is still much more to learn, their secrets are no longer quite so hidden.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt Scientists Use Human Bone Marrow-on-a-Chip to Reveal the Secrets of Antibody-Producing Cells "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe cells that keep vaccines working for decades have long remained a mystery deep within human bone marrow. 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Antibody-producing cells (blue) move through this landscape, finding the signals they need to survive and keep making antibodies.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1789149330","gmt_created":"2026-09-11 17:55:30","changed":"1789149330","gmt_changed":"2026-09-11 17:55:30","alt":"A microscopic image shows lab grown bone marrow and blood vessels highlighted in gray and green weaving through a network of supportive cells and proteins highlighted in magenta.","file":{"fid":"265499","name":"bone-marrow-on-chip.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/11\/bone-marrow-on-chip.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/11\/bone-marrow-on-chip.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":573015,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/11\/bone-marrow-on-chip.jpg?itok=-LhFSLBJ"}}},"media_ids":["681139"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Solving the turbulence problem could lead to advances in areas ranging from sustainable energy to training a smarter workforce for the era of artificial intelligence (AI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo advance understanding of turbulence, the National Science Foundation is establishing a new, $30 million Science and Technology Center (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/nsf-launches-three-new-science-technology-centers-90m\u0022\u003ESTC\u003C\/a\u003E) at Michigan State University. Georgia Tech is among eight universities supporting the center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tangqi.github.io\/\u0022\u003EQi Tang\u003C\/a\u003E will join the STC for Transformative Explorations in Multi-Physics and Engineering of Scientific Turbulence (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tempest-stc.msu.edu\/\u0022\u003ETEMPEST\u003C\/a\u003E). TEMPEST, launching on Sept. 1, aims to build trustworthy, predictive models of real-world turbulence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang will lead TEMPEST\u2019s modeling and scientific machine learning (ML) efforts. NSF will fund Tang and Georgia Tech with over $1 million from the center\u2019s five-year, $30 million award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy understanding and predicting turbulence, TEMPEST can unlock new applications, with a focus on fusion energy and national security. The center will also generate long-term research projects with applications in air and space flight, manufacturing, chemistry, and broaden science education and AI fluency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTurbulence has resisted prediction for a century,\u201d said Tang, a faculty member in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSTC TEMPEST aims to develop a unified, predictive science that advances fusion energy, improves hypersonic technologies, and deepens our understanding of how stars created the elements that make up our world and ourselves. For everyday people, the center points toward abundant clean energy and faster, more efficient flight.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETurbulence is the motion of a fluid characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and speed. Turbulent flows can occur across all scales, from interactions between subatomic particles to astrophysical scales, including supernovas, black holes, and cosmic rays.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile turbulent flows are common and occur naturally, scientists still do not fully understand them. Small changes in a turbulent flow can produce dramatically different outcomes. Combined with the countless interactions across multiple scales of time and space, this makes turbulence extraordinarily difficult to predict.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRather than studying individual pieces of this enormously complex problem in isolation, we are bringing together theory, experimentation, computation and artificial intelligence to develop a deeper understanding of turbulence across scales,\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2026\/08\/nsf-grant-turbulence-research-center\u0022\u003Esaid Michael Murillo\u003C\/a\u003E, an MSU professor and the director of TEMPEST.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur goal is not simply to understand turbulence better, but to make it predictable and controllable in ways that will enable new technologies and scientific discoveries.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF TEMPEST award supports students and researchers at Michigan State University,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wire.auburn.edu\/content\/cosam\/2026\/08\/261600-nsf-turbulence-center.php?utm_source=auburn-today\u0026amp;utm_medium=web\u0022\u003EAuburn University\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.web.baylor.edu\/news\/story\/2026\/baylor-astrophysicists-among-partners-30-million-nsf-grant-establish-turbulence\u0022\u003EBaylor University\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blogs.sjsu.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/sjsu-researchers-join-30m-nsf-science-and-technology-center-to-tackle-turbulence\/\u0022\u003ESan Jos\u00e9 State University\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tamucc.edu\/news\/2026\/08\/images\/tamu-cc-researcher-to-be-part-of-nsf-funded-turbulence-research-center.php\u0022\u003ETexas A\u0026amp;M University-Corpus Christi\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/nsf-funded-tempest-turbulence-research-center-716372\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Rochester\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2026\/08\/28\/tempest-collaboration-will-take-turbulence\u0022\u003EYale University\u003C\/a\u003E to combine theory, computation, AI techniques, and experimentation to build trustworthy predictive models of real-world turbulence for high-consequence applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditional partners include Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pacific Fusion, and General Atomics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, TEMPEST researchers will build more accurate and reliable physics-grounded models. The center will test new ideas against real-world observations, then use those results to refine the models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang contributes expertise in ML, scientific computing, and plasma physics to STC TEMPEST.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Tang received an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/department-energy-award-power-nuclear-research-machine-learning\u0022\u003EEarly Career Research award\u003C\/a\u003E from the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Science. He is using the award to build ML and data science tools that help scientists analyze massive datasets from fusion experiments and simulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis interdisciplinary approach is intended to move science from understanding why turbulence behaves as it does to predicting how it will behave. Through prediction and simulation, scientists could eventually engineer solutions to control turbulence in real-world scenarios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe center will make its data and software broadly available and engage the public through museum exhibitions, immersive media, and educational programs that are expected to reach more than 10,000 K-12 students annually. TEMPEST will also help train an AI-fluent scientific workforce prepared to tackle complex problems across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne reason I am excited to work in TEMPEST is because it aligns perfectly with our School of CSE mission. 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Georgia Tech is among eight universities supporting the center."}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2026-09-01 16:21:43","changed_gmt":"2026-09-10 19:00:07","author":"Bryant Wine","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681026":{"id":"681026","type":"image","title":"TEMPEST-Head-Image.png","body":null,"created":"1788279712","gmt_created":"2026-09-01 16:21:52","changed":"1788279712","gmt_changed":"2026-09-01 16:21:52","alt":"TEMPEST Supernova","file":{"fid":"265373","name":"TEMPEST-Head-Image.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/TEMPEST-Head-Image.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/TEMPEST-Head-Image.png","mime":"image\/png","size":900620,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/01\/TEMPEST-Head-Image.png?itok=SqyzW4L4"}},"681027":{"id":"681027","type":"image","title":"Collapsing-Star.png","body":null,"created":"1788281400","gmt_created":"2026-09-01 16:50:00","changed":"1788281400","gmt_changed":"2026-09-01 16:50:00","alt":"TEMPEST Collapsing Star","file":{"fid":"265375","name":"Collapsing-Star.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/Collapsing-Star.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/Collapsing-Star.png","mime":"image\/png","size":169940,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/01\/Collapsing-Star.png?itok=GAu9n5Pu"}}},"media_ids":["681026","681027"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"194685","name":"Manufacturing"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"194610","name":"National Interests\/National Security"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"181991","name":"Georgia Tech News Center"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"170447","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"195119","name":"applied physics"},{"id":"4079","name":"astrophysics"},{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"193657","name":"Space Research Initiative"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBryant Wine, Communications Officer\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bryant.wine@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebryant.wine@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692466":{"#nid":"692466","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Supporting Community-Led Flood Resilience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA new research project aims to empower coastal communities. Using advanced AI-based flood modeling, residents will be able to compare flood mitigation strategies and identify the potential solutions that best meet their needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe CHORUS (Community Hubs for Optimizing Resilience) project will collaborate with coastal communities in Georgia and New York and will be split into two pieces: technology development and community engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re not just building a simulator and hoping it fits the needs of coastal residents,\u201d explains \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Robel, \u003C\/strong\u003Eproject leader and Jean \u201cChris\u201d Purvis Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. \u0022By collaborating with community partners from the very beginning, we can ensure that what we ultimately develop will be effective because the people who will be using it are helping design it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPutting Flood Modeling in Residents\u0027 Hands\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe technology development component will include faculty from the College of Sciences and the College of Computing. The College of Sciences team will develop an AI-based flood simulator and the College of Computing team led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah Hester\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;associate professor and Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early Career Professor, will create a web platform that allows users to visualize potential flood impacts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETraditional flood models can take hours or days to generate results and often require specialized expertise and expensive computing resources. The CHORUS platform will be designed to provide easy-to-understand results in seconds, producing building-scale flood maps that show how water moves through streets, yards, and structures during a range of flooding scenarios. Researchers will use the model to test how specific interventions, such as seawalls, restored marshes, or improved stormwater infrastructure, could affect flooding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEventually, users will be able to test their own scenarios through the browser-based tool, enabling them to explore how different decisions could change flood impacts in their communities:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cUsers will be able to go into a web browser and indicate where a sea wall could go or change a parking lot into a porous vegetated landscape, then click simulate. Within a few seconds, they\u2019ll have a new flood map showing the impacts of these interventions,\u201d says Robel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Community-Driven Approach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA collaborative effort with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nyclimateexchange.org\/climate-data\u0022\u003ENew York Climate Exchange\u003C\/a\u003E, the project will be funded by\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gacoast.uga.edu\/research\/biennial-funding\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Sea Grant\u003C\/a\u003E and IBM, with support from\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sciences.gatech.edu\/georgias-tomorrow\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech for Georgia\u2019s Tomorrow\u003C\/a\u003E (GT2),\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Coastal Equity and Resilience (CEAR) Hub\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eand the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/seagrant.noaa.gov\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;National Sea Grant College Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The CHORUS project is an initiative of the New York Climate Exchange, where Georgia Tech is a core partner institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECommunity engagement in Georgia is being led by CEAR and the Pin Point Betterment Association, which represents descendants of the historic Gullah Geechee community near Savannah. In New York, the project team is partnering with the New York Climate Exchange and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/waterfrontalliance.org\/\u0022\u003EWaterfront Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E to work with communities surrounding Jamaica Bay.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhat makes this partnership meaningful is that it puts community voices at the center,\u201d says\u003Cstrong\u003E Jasmine Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E, president of the Pin Point Betterment Association.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cToo often, decisions are made to \u2018better\u2019 communities without actually involving the people who live there. We hope this partnership can serve as a blueprint for how communities are included in future sustainability projects from the very beginning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe project includes community advisory boards and technical advisory boards in both locations. Community members will help identify priority assets, select flood scenarios for analysis, and shape the design of the web-based tool. They\u2019ll also test and offer feedback. Technical advisory boards made up of local officials, planners, and other experts will help evaluate the feasibility of proposed solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe aim is to blend information from both groups without allowing the technical perspective to override community priorities,\u201d says Robel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAccording to Robel, giving communities direct access to flood modeling tools can help close the gap between public input and infrastructure planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are putting decision making in the hands of the community. With a tool like this, the community can say: \u2018We want to prevent flooding at this community center, this school, or this road,\u2019\u201d says Robel. \u201cThey can run the model, produce data, and present it to local governments or the Army Corps of Engineers\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u2014 advocating\u0026nbsp;for potential solutions themselves rather than relying on outside experts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ERobel sees this project as just the beginning:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cFunded by two-year grants, CHORUS is meant to be a pilot for how this kind of community-centered project can be done. Once we understand some of the challenges and opportunities involved, it will hopefully make it easier for us to scale this work to additional community partners.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Community-Engaged Research at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech is actively working to foster more projects that foster community engagement. Collaborative groups at Georgia Tech involved in the CHORUS project include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 data-list-item-id=\u0022e24ad42d08ff5aaeb8f0e7892a7ae22cc\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe CEAR Hub\u003C\/strong\u003E, part of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), and housed at the Georgia Tech Savannah campus, advances community-engaged research and planning throughout coastal Georgia, helping communities build resilience to environmental and climate challenges.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scre.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 data-list-item-id=\u0022e37deda0b2f16b9d512f523a8c923dc46\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scre.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education\u003C\/a\u003E (SCoRE) trains faculty, students, and staff in best practices for conducting community-engaged research as well as facilitating connections directly with communities.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 data-list-item-id=\u0022e79895753719bd77cdf19df0d35438ceb\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS)\u003C\/a\u003E houses SCoRE and is Georgia Tech\u2019s point of contact to the New York Climate Exchange. BBISS forms partnerships like these to fulfill its mission to expand the reach and impact of Georgia Tech\u2019s sustainability research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe CHORUS research project will combine advanced flood modeling, artificial intelligence, and community partnerships to help coastal residents in Georgia and New York evaluate flooding solutions and shape resilience planning.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The CHORUS research project will combine advanced flood modeling, artificial intelligence, and community partnerships to help coastal residents in Georgia and New York evaluate flooding solutions and shape resilience planning."}],"uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2026-09-09 17:30:40","changed_gmt":"2026-09-10 15:49:22","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681109":{"id":"681109","type":"image","title":"Alex Robel","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAlex Robel\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1788975052","gmt_created":"2026-09-09 17:30:52","changed":"1788975052","gmt_changed":"2026-09-09 17:30:52","alt":"Headshot of a smiling man","file":{"fid":"265466","name":"Robel55224553122_c82a2500b1_k.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Robel55224553122_c82a2500b1_k.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Robel55224553122_c82a2500b1_k.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":775472,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/09\/Robel55224553122_c82a2500b1_k.jpg?itok=LQ3vrmCk"}},"681110":{"id":"681110","type":"image","title":"Jill Gambill, executive director and senior research associate of the CEAR Hub, demonstrates a tide gate engineered to maintain storm sewer outflow capacity amidst rising sea levels to Georgia Tech students.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJill Gambill, executive director and senior research associate of the CEAR Hub, demonstrates a tide gate engineered to maintain storm sewer outflow capacity amidst rising sea levels to Georgia Tech students.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1788975321","gmt_created":"2026-09-09 17:35:21","changed":"1788975321","gmt_changed":"2026-09-09 17:35:21","alt":"Students view a tide gate to prevent flooding in a marshy area.","file":{"fid":"265467","name":"Jillbafkreic4slfm5vvdcatjamaxofnzvz7emg6fmxa4zmomgejdunhsb4vzoy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Jillbafkreic4slfm5vvdcatjamaxofnzvz7emg6fmxa4zmomgejdunhsb4vzoy_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Jillbafkreic4slfm5vvdcatjamaxofnzvz7emg6fmxa4zmomgejdunhsb4vzoy_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1357639,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/09\/Jillbafkreic4slfm5vvdcatjamaxofnzvz7emg6fmxa4zmomgejdunhsb4vzoy_0.png?itok=pd_MVOtp"}}},"media_ids":["681109","681110"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sciences.gatech.edu\/news\/rare-nasa-satellite-data-reveals-major-limits-flood-models","title":"Rare NASA Satellite Data Reveals Major Limits in Flood Models"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/13\/bringing-classroom-coast","title":"Bringing the Classroom to the Coast"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"194611","name":"State Impact"},{"id":"194836","name":"Sustainability"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181662","name":"Coastal Flooding"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"194631","name":"cos-georgia"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura S. 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Cloud computing does have latency issues, but this is typically not perceptible to people. However, in situation-awareness applications, such as virtual reality or autonomous vehicles, this latency becomes a barrier. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCloud computing is not appropriate for these latency-sensitive applications where events occur at computational perception speeds as opposed to human perception speeds. And this is the reason that edge computing became important,\u201d Ramachandran said. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than using the cloud, edge computing brings computation closer to the data source. This method reduces latency and backhaul bandwidth consumption. Beyond latency reduction, edge computing offers other advantages over the cloud. Businesses and organizations that handle confidential data may not want to store their records in the public cloud, and edge computing offers a more secure alternative. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awarded paper proposed a new programming model, \u003Cem\u003EFoglets,\u003C\/em\u003E that enables domain experts with limited knowledge of edge computing to run their applications on the geographically distributed edge infrastructure. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe showed that with edge compute you can actually do some of the things that you need for situation awareness applications,\u201d Ramachandran said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of these students that I worked with on this paper have graduated and moved on to industry and academia and are doing great things, so it\u2019s a nice honor to see something we did 10 years back get recognition.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech research team was recently recognized for an influential paper that helped define how applications could run efficiently outside the cloud.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team received the 10-Year Test of Time Award at the 20th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2026) in July.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech research team was recently recognized for an influential paper that helped define how applications could run efficiently outside the cloud."}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2026-09-09 20:09:20","changed_gmt":"2026-09-09 20:13:52","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681111":{"id":"681111","type":"image","title":"Kishore.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1788984791","gmt_created":"2026-09-09 20:13:11","changed":"1788984791","gmt_changed":"2026-09-09 20:13:11","alt":"A man standing in a courtyard in front of buildings","file":{"fid":"265470","name":"Kishore.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Kishore.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/Kishore.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":120176,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/09\/Kishore.jpeg?itok=N9_9SkJI"}}},"media_ids":["681111"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175470","name":"edge computing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Usry, Communications Officer, School of Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692462":{"#nid":"692462","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Warming Climate Could Actually Increase Physical Activity, Georgia Tech Economist Finds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHardly anyone loves exercising in the festering crucible of a brutal summer heatwave. So it stands to reason that as global temperatures rise, the kind of physical activity that\u2019s so crucial for our health and economic productivity could fall.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0047272726000745?via%3Dihub\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Erecent research\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003ESchool of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts suggests adding an asterisk to earlier research that makes that conclusion, saying previous studies failed to account for one simple fact: people adapt.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech economist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/889222ee-d2fd-599b-9140-79d7dc30afeb\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBobby Harris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E used a massive database of Fitbit step count data to measure how temperature shapes physical activity and found that extreme heat cuts step counts by 6% when compared to ideal weather. And while residents of the warmest regions cut their activity by an average of only 354 steps on days over 100 degrees, those living in the coldest regions cut theirs by 1,081, according to Harris\u2019 analysis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo be fair, cold bites, too. On days that stay below freezing, people take roughly 1,000 fewer steps. That\u2019s a 12% drop, enough to pack on a pound over the course of a typical Madison, Wisconsin winter, Harris found.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut as the climate grows warmer, how humanity will respond to warmer temperatures remains a significant concern. In fact, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/392\/bmj.s514\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Eearlier research\u003C\/a\u003E projected that, by 2050, temperature-driven declines in physical activity could contribute to 500,000 premature deaths a year worldwide and annual productivity losses topping $2.4 billion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProjections like those typically assume everyone responds to heat the same way, with no capacity to adapt, Harris said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/09\/climate-change-physical-activity-adaptation\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the IAC News Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef65b166366f6499d63005112fb785d6f\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Finding\u003C\/strong\u003E: A study led by economist Bobby Harris at Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts reveals climate change could increase average U.S. physical activity by 893 steps per day by 2099 as people adapt to rising temperatures.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e89b00ae19f9597ec785b646581c9fc95\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBy the Numbers\u003C\/strong\u003E: Fitbit data used in Harris\u2019 study show that warm-climate residents are \u003Cstrong\u003E50% less sensitive\u003C\/strong\u003E to heat extremes than northern neighbors, \u003Cstrong\u003Ecutting 354 steps on hot days\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003Ecompared to 1,081 in cooler regions\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb7df64a5e9dccfd5ae6f4af39678e1e6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExpert Insight\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0022There are still significant dangers to rising temperatures, but we must better factor adaptive capacity into conversations about climate change,\u201d Harris said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" study led by economist Bobby Harris at Georgia Tech\u0027s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts reveals climate change could increase average U.S. physical activity by 893 steps per day by 2099 as people adapt to rising temperatures. "}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-09-09 16:23:47","changed_gmt":"2026-09-09 16:25:50","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681107":{"id":"681107","type":"image","title":"climate-and-activity-paper-harris--1-.jpg","body":null,"created":"1788971073","gmt_created":"2026-09-09 16:24:33","changed":"1788971073","gmt_changed":"2026-09-09 16:24:33","alt":"Person holding a water bottle in their left hand wearing a smart watch and a towel on his shoulder appearing to be after a workout","file":{"fid":"265463","name":"climate-and-activity-paper-harris--1-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/climate-and-activity-paper-harris--1-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/09\/climate-and-activity-paper-harris--1-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59696,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/09\/climate-and-activity-paper-harris--1-.jpg?itok=jVZ4yMKf"}}},"media_ids":["681107"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/09\/climate-change-physical-activity-adaptation","title":"Read Full Story on IAC News Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692429":{"#nid":"692429","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (August 2026 v2)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (August 15-31\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EAugust 15-31, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, August 2026 v2"}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-09-08 15:57:55","changed_gmt":"2026-09-08 16:01:47","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-09\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_August2026-v2.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (August 2026 v2)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692319":{"#nid":"692319","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Associate Professor Sees Research Becoming More Human-Centered","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJesse Thomason has seen his research evolve over the last decade.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt began with a focus on helping computer systems incorporate human language into their perception of the world. Could a robot tell humans that a heavy object is straining its arm? Does it know that a container makes a sound when it is picked up or dropped?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, Thomason\u2019s research has become more human-centered, which is one reason he feels at home as he joins the faculty at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing as an associate professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomason comes to Georgia Tech after spending five years as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California\u2019s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe will move his Grounding Language in Actions, Multimodal Observation, and Robots (GLAMOR) lab to Tech. The lab explores methods for connecting natural language processing to robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile pursuing his computer science Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Thomason researched early NLP systems before large-language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini were introduced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomason then expanded into robotics to explore how roboticists can create new ways to communicate with robots using computational representations of language.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea was you could do something that looked like robot programming without as much engineering work if you used one of these coding modules to create a language-code interface,\u201d Thomason said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen OpenAI and Google released their commercial LLMs in 2022, Thomason felt a seismic shift.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat area of NLP and robotics became more crowded and accessible with the advent of (LLMs),\u201d Thomason said. \u201cIt created a huge inroad to roboticists being able to plug and play language technologies in a way they couldn\u2019t before. Robotics hardware has also become much cheaper and more standardized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut as LLMs became universal tools accessible to everyone, Thomason said he started thinking more about how he could improve optimization for users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI became most interested in how language interfaces, starting in 2022, were suddenly everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody had a chatbot on their phone. I wanted to see what we could do as researchers to make the interaction between an AI system like a language model and a person smoother and more beneficial.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomason said he felt he needed a new environment where end users were at the center of the technology design process. He was drawn to the School of Interactive Computing for its reputation in human-computer interaction research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat was a big factor in my decision to move to the School of Interactive Computing, where you value that kind of human-centered computing,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith the strong HCI researchers here, I have an opportunity to learn more from my colleagues about how to run high-quality human-subject studies, conduct participatory design, and identify actual users of a potential system and talk to them about what would be helpful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJesse Thomason comes to Georgia Tech after spending five years as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California\u2019s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jesse Thomason comes to Georgia Tech after spending five years as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California\u2019s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-09-04 13:14:34","changed_gmt":"2026-09-04 13:16:02","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681069":{"id":"681069","type":"image","title":"Jesse-Thomason_86A6990-copy.jpg","body":null,"created":"1788527693","gmt_created":"2026-09-04 13:14:53","changed":"1788527693","gmt_changed":"2026-09-04 13:14:53","alt":"Jesse Thomason","file":{"fid":"265421","name":"Jesse-Thomason_86A6990-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/04\/Jesse-Thomason_86A6990-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/04\/Jesse-Thomason_86A6990-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":122256,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/04\/Jesse-Thomason_86A6990-copy.jpg?itok=7bxT6Bs5"}}},"media_ids":["681069"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692299":{"#nid":"692299","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Share AI Cyber Challenge Lessons at USENIX Security 2026","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat can artificial intelligence (AI) do to protect software from cyberattacks?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/winningaixcc\/\u0022\u003Espent two years\u003C\/a\u003E helping to answer that question through \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/research\/programs\/ai-cyber\u0022\u003EDARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E (AIxCC), a competition designed to test whether AI could identify and fix security vulnerabilities in real-world software.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, they are sharing what they learned with the cybersecurity community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/usenixsecurity26-zhang-cen.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESoK: DARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC): Competition Design, Architectures, and Lessons Learned\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, was presented at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\u0022\u003EUSENIX Security 2026,\u003C\/a\u003E one of the world\u0027s leading cybersecurity conferences. The paper was selected as a runner-up for the conference\u2019s distinguished paper award, placing it among 36 recognized papers from 362 accepted papers out of 3,028 submissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper examines how the seven finalist teams approached the competition and what the results reveal about the future of AI-powered cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EPutting AI to the Test\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIxCC challenged teams to build Cyber Reasoning Systems (CRSs) that could operate with minimal human assistance to identify software vulnerabilities, develop fixes, and determine whether security alerts were real threats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe teams had 143 hours to analyze 53 software projects during the final competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/team-atlanta.github.io\/\u0022\u003ETeam Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, which won the competition, used an approach that combined multiple AI agents with traditional security tools. Other teams used different approaches, including applying AI for specific tasks or building highly autonomous AI agents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe variety of systems provided researchers with a rare opportunity to compare different approaches to AI-powered cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ELesson from the Competition\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the biggest lessons was that reliability matters as much as intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome systems were highly capable but struggled to remain operational while analyzing large, complicated software projects. The strongest systems were often those that could work reliably throughout the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also found that AI and traditional security tools have different strengths. Traditional tools were still effective at finding common bugs, while AI performed better at reasoning through more complex problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, AI-generated fixes remain a major challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers found that 38% to 46% of AI-generated patches were semantically incorrect. This means a patch might stop a security problem but also break a feature or create another problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results show that AI can play an important role in cybersecurity, but human experts are still needed to verify the safety of AI-generated fixes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ESharing the Lessons\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECen\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EZhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, the paper\u2019s first author, said the research offers a unique look at the competition by combining lessons from the finalist teams, organizers, and DARPA\u2019s data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis paper provides a unique angle on how AIxCC was designed, the techniques teams used, and what the scores reveal and conceal,\u201d Zhang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiho\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EKim\u003C\/strong\u003E presented the paper at USENIX Security 2026. He said the presentation was an opportunity to share lessons from two years of work with the broader cybersecurity community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSeeing the strong interest and thoughtful questions from the audience made the experience particularly rewarding,\u201d Kim said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers say they hope the lessons from AIxCC will help guide the next generation of cybersecurity tools.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat can artificial intelligence (AI) do to protect software from cyberattacks?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers spent two years helping to answer that question through DARPA\u2019s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a competition designed to test whether AI could identify and fix security vulnerabilities in real-world software.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, they are sharing what they learned with the cybersecurity community.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers spent two years helping to answer the question: What can artificial intelligence (AI) do to protect software from cyberattacks?"}],"uid":"36253","created_gmt":"2026-09-03 19:03:58","changed_gmt":"2026-09-03 19:20:31","author":"John Popham","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681067":{"id":"681067","type":"image","title":"USENIX-AIxCC-Paper-web-copy.jpg","body":null,"created":"1788463126","gmt_created":"2026-09-03 19:18:46","changed":"1788463126","gmt_changed":"2026-09-03 19:18:46","alt":"A dark room with a man presenting from a slideshow","file":{"fid":"265418","name":"USENIX-AIxCC-Paper-web-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/03\/USENIX-AIxCC-Paper-web-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/03\/USENIX-AIxCC-Paper-web-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1074015,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/03\/USENIX-AIxCC-Paper-web-copy.jpg?itok=473Fyfwp"}}},"media_ids":["681067"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"660406","name":"School of Cybersecurity \u0026 Privacy"},{"id":"660367","name":"School of Cybersecurity and Privacy"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"193158","name":"Student Competition Winners (academic, innovation, and research)"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Popham\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer for the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpopham3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692273":{"#nid":"692273","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mahajan Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) named Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/divya-mahajan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDivya Mahajan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CAREER Award is NSF\u2019s most prestigious honor for early-career faculty, recognizing researchers who demonstrate the potential to become leaders in both research and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMahajan received the award for her research on designing energy-efficient, adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) datacenters through a cyber-physical approach that jointly considers AI software, computing hardware, and the physical state of the underlying infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs AI models continue to grow in scale and complexity, they place increasing demands on every layer of datacenter infrastructure\u2014from accelerators, memory, and networking to power delivery, cooling, and security. Yet these systems are often designed and optimized one layer at a time, limiting overall efficiency and adaptability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMahajan\u2019s research reimagines AI datacenters as cyber-physical systems in which software, hardware, and physical operating conditions continuously inform one another.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI infrastructure should be designed around the real-time condition of the hardware, not just its specifications,\u201d Mahajan said. \u201cBy making AI systems aware of the physical state of the infrastructure, we can build datacenters that are more efficient, adaptive, and resilient at scale.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/08\/mahajan-receives-nsf-career-award\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the ECE News Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) named Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/divya-mahajan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDivya Mahajan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CAREER Award is NSF\u2019s most prestigious honor for early-career faculty, recognizing researchers who demonstrate the potential to become leaders in both research and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMahajan received the award for her research on designing energy-efficient, adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) datacenters through a cyber-physical approach that jointly considers AI software, computing hardware, and the physical state of the underlying infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor Divya Mahajan a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-09-03 17:39:24","changed_gmt":"2026-09-03 17:42:37","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681065":{"id":"681065","type":"image","title":"Mahajan-NSF-CAREER.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor Divya Mahajan\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1788457252","gmt_created":"2026-09-03 17:40:52","changed":"1788457252","gmt_changed":"2026-09-03 17:40:52","alt":" Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Assistant Professor Divya Mahajan","file":{"fid":"265416","name":"Mahajan-NSF-CAREER.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/03\/Mahajan-NSF-CAREER.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/03\/Mahajan-NSF-CAREER.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":347352,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/03\/Mahajan-NSF-CAREER.jpeg?itok=5j8pWANd"}}},"media_ids":["681065"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/08\/mahajan-receives-nsf-career-award","title":"Full Story on the ECE News Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692258":{"#nid":"692258","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Isbell, Stamps Fellowships Advance Minority-led Research in School of IC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESherilyn Francis\u003C\/strong\u003E enters her final semester of her Ph.D. at Georgia Tech with extra motivation after being named the first recipient of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/2023-isbells-visionary-impact-pushed-beyond-boundaries\u0022\u003ECharles Isbell Jr. Graduate Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new fellowship award was announced in 2023 and named after Isbell, who served as dean for the Georgia Tech College of Computing from 2019 to 2023.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIsbell joined Georgia Tech as a faculty member in 2002. He was instrumental in developing the College\u2019s innovative Threads curriculum and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new fellowship is given to graduate students from underrepresented groups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrancis is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in human-centered computing (HCC) working toward the improvement of black women\u2019s maternal health. She is advised by Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wtl.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrea Parker\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m humbled and grateful that my body of work was compelling enough to be awarded,\u201d Francis said. \u201cReceiving this fellowship in Dr. Isbell\u2019s name is encouraging, and I want to do my best work in my last semester to honor his legacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis fellowship secures funding to complete my Ph.D. and continue equity-centered work and champion voices of marginalized or under-resourced populations. This fellowship is directly making this work possible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrancis\u2019s work drew attention early in her Ph.D. when she started assisting Parker in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/centerformaternalhealth-equity.org\/programs\/3103-2\/\u0022\u003EPreventing Maternal Mortality Using Mobile Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (PM3) study led by the Morehouse School of Medicine\u2019s Center for Maternal Health Equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project aimed toward designing an app that reduces maternal mortality among Black postpartum women by getting them care on their phones. The app featured real-time health monitoring, educational resources, social support groups, and personalized care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoogle recognized Francis\u2019s work through its Fitbit Health Equity Research initiative in 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrancis entered the HCC Ph.D. program with a background in public health. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in public health education and promotion from Georgia Southern University and master\u2019s degrees in public health and biotechnology from Morehouse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI felt overwhelmed at first because I thought I had made the wrong choice pursuing a computing Ph.D. coming from a public health background,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter steeping myself in the literature and applying myself, I found that I can be a leader and innovator in this space.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrancis said the fellowship will allow her to continue her research in clinical artificial intelligence (AI) for black women\u2019s health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent Enters Ph.D. Program as Stamps Fellow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Francis gets set for her final semester, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rachelbakerramos.com\/\u0022\u003ERachel Baker-Ramos\u003C\/a\u003E is beginning the first semester of her Ph.D. as a recipient of the Stamps Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaker-Ramos is part of the second cohort of the Stamps Fellows, which was implemented by Georgia Tech in 2025. The Stamps Fellowship is the highest merit-based doctoral fellowship offered by Georgia Tech and given to exceptional scholars positioned to advance technology that improves the human condition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is the second student from the School of Interactive Computing to be named a Stamps Fellow. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/prestigious-fellows-bring-industry-experience-school-ic\u0022\u003EAdya Danaditya\u003C\/a\u003E was a member of the first cohort last year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaker-Ramos completed her master\u2019s in human-computer interaction in 2024 under Georgia Tech\u2019s MSHCI program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe spent two years as a research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kamoamoa.com\/\u0022\u003EKa Moamoa Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, led by SIC associate professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/josiahhester.com\/\u0022\u003EJosiah Hester\u003C\/a\u003E. In 2025, she received the College of Computing\u2019s Outstanding Research Scientist Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe will continue her Ph.D. research with Hester as her advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBaker-Ramos has assisted Hester, a native Hawaiian, on several Hawaii-based projects centered on sustainability and indigenous STEM education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a master\u2019s student, Baker-Ramos led the design of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kumuconnect.com\/\u0022\u003EKumu Connect\u003C\/a\u003E, a STEM lesson plan generator that creates culturally relevant lessons co-designed with Hawaiian immersion language teachers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHester and his lab received a Google Academic Research Award for their work on Kumu Connect and recognition from the 2025 MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship. Baker-Ramos was also first author on a paper about the project that earned best paper honorable mention recognition at the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I first came to Tech, I was seeking out something with the Hispanic community because we are underrepresented in STEM, but it became this partnership with my advisor,\u201d Baker-Ramos said. \u201cIt\u2019s been interesting as a researcher from an underrepresented community working with another community that has some experiences that are parallel and some that are different.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs she thinks about what her Ph.D. research will look like, she is interested in how AI is impacting indigenous cultures. She plans to start research in that area in Hawaii and then expand to other communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re talking with Hawaiian educators about what AI should look like if it were grounded in principles of caring for the land,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to look at what\u2019s appropriate with these tools, and what should be their limitations with data sovereignty, community agency, sustainable impacts, and how they\u2019re localized to each community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRight now, my work is mostly in Hawaiian spaces, but there\u2019s a lot of nuance between different communities. 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He researches how natural language processing can benefit humanities scholars, including analyzing historical texts to make new discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli, a native of Greece, is an architectural historian and joint lecturer in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;. She conducted early research on how computational methods can help reconstruct historical architectural remains while earning her Ph.D. in architecture from Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli is one of hundreds of researchers who spend their summers each year studying archaeological sites and monuments in Greece or Italy. She is among a select few working at the Ancient Agora in Athens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Agora is where the political buildings of Athens emerged, and democracy was born, so it\u2019s one of the most important sites in the classical world,\u201d said Mamoli.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHaving been excavated by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for almost 100 years, it\u2019s the most well-funded, systematically explored, and most digitally well-documented site.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 180,000 artifacts have been uncovered at the Ancient Agora.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe physical structures that have survived for thousands of years, along with recorded data and references in ancient texts, are the primary sources scholars rely on to determine what buildings might have looked like in antiquity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli said identifying and studying all comparable structures and formulating hypotheses about them takes years. Every discovery made at the Agora since 1933 has a digitized record, leaving a massive amount of data to sort through.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI can comb through it in a matter of moments and help researchers fill the gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnything I want to look at, I can access it online, but the process of going through and connecting the dots and identifying certain design principles like proportions and material is tedious. Imagine if we could feed this data into an AI model that would automatically discover the connections.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli said architecture has its own \u201clanguage\u201d that can be analyzed as a shape grammar. This visual, rule-based mathematical concept is used to generate designs in that language. Each architectural style has its own shape grammar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli\u2019s work as a Ph.D. student involved manually computing this information to generate 2D visualizations. Now, she hopes Goyal\u2019s models will enable the instant conversion of data into more subjective and accurate visualizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou encode these design principles and then apply them recursively, and you come up with various possible reconstructions,\u201d she said. \u201cMaking these rules is time-consuming, so we hope with AI, a whole fresh approach can happen where AI can discover the rules by looking at the data at scale.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoyal has already used similar methods to analyze early modern English printed books and identify their printing origins. When Mamoli approached him about collaborating with her, he believed the same process could be applied to reconstructing classical buildings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAncient texts and historical architecture records can help us fill in the blanks,\u201d Goyal said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese systems can automatically infer patterns from the fragmentary plans described in various texts. To automatically generate a proposed reconstruction, we are deploying machine learning techniques. They make the model not just think about producing tokens or pixels, but also about the aesthetic and geometric features.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGoyal said he\u2019s aware some humanities scholars have expressed concern that AI could compromise scholarly integrity. Large-language models, for example, can struggle to account for cultural nuances and often inject biased hallucinations into their output.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is reflected in many problems in the humanities that I\u2019m working on \u2014 the need for AI systems to be more transparent and more easily modifiable,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we run these models blindly, we risk incorporating undetected bias.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMamoli said it\u2019s important to limit the scope of AI and think of it as a tool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI strongly believe that AI should not replace the human brain,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t see it replacing the scholarly work that is being done. I see it as assisting it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor archaeologists, it may be necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith so many sites being excavated, it could be the best way to keep track of hundreds of thousands of artifacts and use them to gain a clearer historical understanding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRight now, I am working in the Section Iota in the Agora of Athens,\u201d said Mamoli.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a disturbed site with artifacts from all over the Agora because people have moved them for secondary uses. 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The researchers call this genome-wide landscape of DNA-embedded ribonucleotides the human nuclear \u201cribome.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRibonucleotides embedded in DNA have traditionally been viewed mainly as mistakes that need to be removed,\u201d Storici said. \u201cOur findings suggest a different perspective: they can influence the physical properties of DNA and may have biological functions that we are only beginning to understand.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team discovered that these embedded RNA building blocks are especially common near the starting points of active genes, where cells begin reading genetic instructions to make RNA. Their abundance also increases with gene activity. These regions experience physical stress as DNA is repeatedly accessed and used. 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A key idea behind Saeed\u2019s proposal is to develop an integrated view of these operations to improve efficiency without requiring additional hardware.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen performing operations jointly, you can maximize performance and completely eliminate the chances of conflict,\u201d Saeed said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother driver of the project is what Saeed calls the \u201csingle queue fallacy.\u201d This occurs when data center load controllers assume that all incoming requests to a server wait in a single queue to be processed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn reality, servers are much more complex than this and can handle multiple queues at the same time. Modern workloads have heterogeneous load requirements, meaning that different requests end up landing in different queues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis single queue fallacy can lead to severe underutilization of these servers,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecent research by Saeed shows that a server\u2019s throughput can be doubled by avoiding the single-queue fallacy. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe potential benefits of this project are wide-ranging and impactful. Maximizing server efficiency would reduce costs and energy use. With fewer resources needed, the project could contribute to more sustainable computing infrastructure. 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Participants can also attend online. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc95PhC-tyb2V63iEtp7Dto6P8odbePLJl7Ok26cffsGegNtg\/viewform\u0022\u003ERegistration\u003C\/a\u003E for the workshop is open through Sept. 11.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u0027re very excited and grateful for the opportunity to have this workshop at Georgia Tech,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.llnl.gov\/kolev1\u0022\u003ETzanio Kolev\u003C\/a\u003E, a computational mathematician at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has a great reputation in our field, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/computing.llnl.gov\/about\/newsroom\/mfem-workshop-2025\u0022\u003Ehosting at universities\u003C\/a\u003E is a great way to connect with students. We see students as our future colleagues who will improve MFEM for generations to come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMFEM is an open-source software library for solving equations in computational models. Scientists and engineers use it to build and test virtual designs on some of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers before creating real-world prototypes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, MFEM powered a tsunami early-warning model that ran on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/news\/highlights\/el-capitan-high-performance-computing\u0022\u003EEl Capitan\u003C\/a\u003E, the world\u2019s second-fastest supercomputer. The framework completed a simulation in a fraction of a second, 10 billion times faster than conventional algorithms. 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The first traditional residence hall constructed on campus since 1969, Bud and Val Peterson Residence Hall features collaborative learning areas, an esports lounge, a fitness room, community lounges, a kitchen on the first floor of each wing, and a 24\/7 cashierless market.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe opening of the new residence hall allows Tech to keep pace with enrollment as the Institute continues to grow. This fall, over \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/admission.gatech.edu\/images\/pdf\/2026\/undergraduate-admission-year-in-review-2026.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E4,100 first-year students will enroll at the Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, along with 1,400 transfer students in the fall and spring. With growth comes the need for new infrastructure, as Georgia Tech President \u00c1ngel Cabrera said during Thursday\u2019s ribbon-cutting ceremony.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt turns out that more unbelievable students from every county in Georgia, from every corner of our country and countries around the world, want to have the learning experience here. It\u2019s our duty to figure out creative solutions, not just to house them, but to provide them with a transformative experience,\u201d he said. \u201cThe transformation of our students happens right here. It happens in the residence halls. It happens in the friendships that you make, the study groups, the activities, and when you\u2019re learning to be independent and to grow up. This is not just a dorm where you come to sleep.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe residence hall is named in honor of Georgia Tech\u2019s 11th president and first lady. During Peterson\u2019s tenure from 2009 to 2019, Tech enhanced student programs and grew enrollment; increased collaboration and built strategic partnerships in Atlanta and Georgia; expanded its global reach, with a focus on innovation; executed Campaign Georgia Tech, which raised $1.8 billion for the Institute; and more than doubled new research awards, exceeding $1 billion for the first time in 2019. As president, Peterson launched the Online Master of Science in Computer Science program, which has since become a global model for accessible education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has remained involved with the Institute as president emeritus, a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/peterson\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERegents\u2019 Professor\u003C\/a\u003E in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the steering committee for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/transformingtomorrow.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn his remarks, Peterson recounted his first time visiting Tech, the feeling he got when he was on campus, and his path to eventually becoming Tech\u2019s next president, succeeding President Emeritus G. Wayne Clough, who was in attendance at the ceremony.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecoming a candidate for the job of president was \u201cone of the most important decisions I\u2019ve made in my professional career,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThis is a remarkable place with remarkable people doing remarkable things. Val and I are enormously honored to be recognized in this fashion.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs first lady, Val Peterson was a dedicated presence on campus and an ardent supporter of students and faculty. She served as the chief spokesperson for the Tech Ends Suicide Together initiative when it launched in 2016 and mentored students and campus organizations. Val Peterson holds two bachelor\u2019s degrees and a teaching certificate from Kansas State University and a master\u2019s degree from Texas A\u0026amp;M. She has been recognized as an honorary alumna by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association for her devotion to the greater good of the Institute. Nicknamed the \u201cQueen Bee\u201d of Georgia Tech, she found it \u201cquite fitting\u201d that the new hall bears the couple\u2019s names, because they lived together in a dorm room at KSU when they were first married.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s where it all began. Those two towers, like us, together forever,\u201d she said. \u201cMy hope for the students who live in Peterson Hall is that their experience parallels our paths, not only in school but in life.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach space in the new residence hall is designed to encourage students to interact and develop shared experiences, a mindset that Kasey Helton, associate vice president of Campus Services, says was fostered during Peterson\u2019s tenure.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe weren\u0027t trying to create 860 places to sleep. 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That combination prepares them to solve real-world problems in innovative ways.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the national average for double majoring across all undergraduate disciplines sits at roughly 11%, Tech students are charting their own distinct paths. Among recent computer science graduates, \u003Cstrong\u003E17.5% (596 students)\u003C\/strong\u003E successfully completed at least one minor, and \u003Cstrong\u003E3.8% (131 students)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Egraduated with a full double major.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOverall, interdisciplinary interest is high, especially in areas like math, robotics, and economics,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EBethany Mason\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of computing enrollment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Snapshot of Interdisciplinary Paths\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile mathematics remains the most common pairing, computing students combine their studies with other fields in a wide range of ways. 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His CS background now gives him a software foundation to apply to hardware and engineering projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/691811\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (CS and Biochemistry, Spring 2027), the path to a second major was influenced in part by his parents, both physicians. He has since combined his interests through research in medical labs, where computational methods are increasingly central to the life sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELooking Ahead\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe success of these students highlights a clear mandate for the College of Computing: to support and expand these impactful pathways even further.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur role is to support those pathways with curricula and advising that make it feasible for students to meaningfully integrate rigorous computing preparation with study across other fields, so they graduate prepared for a wide range of careers and graduate programs,\u201d Omojokun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving forward, the College is actively exploring how to broaden and formalize more of these interdisciplinary tracks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe don\u0027t want students to just manually piece together a double major; we want to build structured frameworks that seamlessly blend disciplines from day one,\u201d Omojokun said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve already proven it can be done. For years, the immense student demand for combining mathematics and computer science led directly to the creation of our formal, joint \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mathcomputing.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emathematics and computing major\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELooking to the future, the College will use that successful blueprint to design even more formalized joint degrees, helping the next generation of Yellow Jackets change the world through the exponential power of computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing leaders often talk about a concept that defines the field\u2019s future: \u201cX to the Power of Computing.\u201d It is the idea that computing acts as a force multiplier, exponentially amplifying every discipline or industry it touches.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the College of Computing, leaders often talk about a concept that defines the future of the field: \u201cX to the Power of Computing.\u201d It is the idea that computing acts as a force multiplier, exponentially amplifying every discipline it touches."}],"uid":"36613","created_gmt":"2026-08-19 16:32:06","changed_gmt":"2026-09-01 15:33:45","author":"Emily Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680926":{"id":"680926","type":"image","title":"gradcap1.jpg","body":null,"created":"1787157319","gmt_created":"2026-08-19 16:35:19","changed":"1787157319","gmt_changed":"2026-08-19 16:35:19","alt":"graduation","file":{"fid":"265259","name":"gradcap1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/19\/gradcap1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/19\/gradcap1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3067193,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/19\/gradcap1.jpg?itok=jwtewVSL"}}},"media_ids":["680926"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"660374","name":"School of Computing Instruction"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"193866","name":"school of computing instruction"},{"id":"189662","name":"double major"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"167089","name":"Scheller College of Business"},{"id":"919","name":"Biochemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["emily.smith@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692151":{"#nid":"692151","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Emeritus Named Distinguished Educator by ACM SIGGRAPH","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Jim Foley attended his 50th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in 2023, he expected it to be his last one.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESIGGRAPH, however, gave him another reason to return for its 2026 conference in Los Angeles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFoley accepted the organization\u2019s Distinguished Educator Award, presented annually since 2019.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI guess it wasn\u2019t my last one after all,\u201d Foley said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes SIGGRAPH members who have made impactful contributions to computer graphics in educational environments. Foley has a strong pedigree in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe co-authored the 1982 textbook \u003Cem\u003EFundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics\u003C\/em\u003E, which was renamed in its second edition as \u003Cem\u003EComputer Graphics: Principles and Practice\u003C\/em\u003E. With over 1,100 pages, it is widely regarded as the foundational text of modern computer graphics and animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome people called it \u2018the bible\u2019 of computer graphics, though I think there were some other good graphics textbooks,\u201d Foley said. \u201cWe covered many different aspects of computer graphics, from hardware to algorithms to software systems to user interface and design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt stands out as an all-encompassing textbook, whereas current books are targeted at specific aspects of computer graphics rather than a broad introduction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFoley co-authored the first edition with Andries Van Dam, a professor who co-founded Brown University\u2019s Department of Computer Science. Van Dam was the first to receive the Distinguished Educator Award in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had people thanking me for the book while I was at the conference and telling me it was the first book they learned computer graphics from,\u201d Foley said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFoley came to Georgia Tech in 1991 and founded the Graphics, Visualization, \u0026amp; Usability (GVU) Center, which merged with Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) in 2023. GVU faculty helped establish Georgia Tech\u2019s prestigious reputation in computer graphics, and GVU students became highly sought after by video game and film animation studios, including Disney and Pixar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFoley and other GVU faculty were also at the forefront of the emerging field of human-computer interaction (HCI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFoley said he enjoyed teaching in the classroom as much as anything and preferred practical approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was always big on learning by doing, so I always had projects in my class that made students apply what I was talking about and not just regurgitate stuff on exams,\u201d he said. \u201cI think students enjoy having that hands-on experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, teaching was something he had to learn.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wasn\u2019t good at it at first, but I think writing the book helped with that,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you write a book, you discover how much you don\u2019t know about something because you\u2019re trying to carefully explain it so other people can understand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt makes you do more thinking, work through the explanations so that it makes sense to you and the reader.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech established the James D. Foley Endowment in 2007 to honor his achievements. Since then, annual fellowships in his name have been awarded to outstanding graduate students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2026 Foley Scholar Awards will be announced in November.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Foley accepted the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award, presented annually since 2019. The award recognizes SIGGRAPH members who have made impactful contributions to computer graphics in educational environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jim Foley received the ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Distinguished Educator Award"}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-09-01 13:47:50","changed_gmt":"2026-09-01 13:49:20","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681024":{"id":"681024","type":"image","title":"08C1214-P4-033-copy.jpg","body":null,"created":"1788270478","gmt_created":"2026-09-01 13:47:58","changed":"1788270478","gmt_changed":"2026-09-01 13:47:58","alt":"Jim Foley","file":{"fid":"265372","name":"08C1214-P4-033-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/08C1214-P4-033-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/09\/01\/08C1214-P4-033-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":164066,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/09\/01\/08C1214-P4-033-copy.jpg?itok=EBXVU7bq"}}},"media_ids":["681024"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181886","name":"computer graphics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692070":{"#nid":"692070","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Leadership Transition Comes as School Continues Rapid Growth","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) has undergone remarkable expansion in recent years, doubling its faculty, broadening its programs and curriculum, and strengthening its reputation as a leading research hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, as Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~echow\/\u0022\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/a\u003E prepares to teach at Georgia Tech-Europe for the 2026-2027 academic year, Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E is stepping into the role of associate chair to help guide the School\u2019s next phase of growth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir leadership transition comes at a time when demand for expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, and high-performance computing accelerates across industry, government, and academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn behalf of the students, faculty, and staff of CSE, I extend our heartfelt gratitude to Edmond for his years of dedicated service as associate chair,\u201d said School of CSE Regents\u2019 Professor and Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~hpark\/\u0022\u003EHaesun Park\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPolo is a respected leader, an accomplished scholar, and a passionate advocate for our community. I am confident he will build on Edmond\u2019s strong foundation to guide the School\u0027s continued success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe School of CSE associate chair helps lead faculty development, academic planning, and new initiatives. These responsibilities include course scheduling, teaching assignments, and reviewing proposals for new courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERapid growth defined Chow\u2019s tenure as associate chair, which started in summer 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs associate chair, Chow led CSE\u2019s faculty recruiting committee. The School hired 15 new professors during his term, doubling the faculty in that span.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow\u2019s relationship with new hires didn\u2019t end with recruiting. Each new professor needed support to onboard smoothly, which he helped facilitate by pairing new hires with faculty mentors in the School.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow helped new and veteran faculty alike design courses centered on their expertise and the field\u0027s emerging needs. As a result, he broadened and enriched the CSE curriculum at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow led CSE\u2019s effort to secure space in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/coda\u0022\u003ECoda Building\u003C\/a\u003E to accommodate so many new faculty and students. With his help, the School added the east wing of the 13th floor and space for four labs on the fifth floor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/europe.gatech.edu\/en\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-Europe\u003C\/a\u003E, Chow will teach \u003Cem\u003ECS 7545: Machine Learning Theory\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ECS 1371: Computing for Engineers\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/\u0022\u003ESIAM\u003C\/a\u003E). Like CSE, the professional society recognized Chow\u2019s leadership and administrative talents, selecting him for several roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith his associate chair responsibilities concluded, Chow will focus more on his role as SIAM\u2019s vice president for programs. He also co-chairs the organizing committee for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences-events\/siam-conferences\/cse27\/\u0022\u003ESIAM Conference on CSE\u003C\/a\u003E, to be held Feb. 22-26, 2027, in Pittsburgh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Chow served as vice chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/get-involved\/connect-with-a-community\/activity-groups\/computational-science-and-engineering\/\u0022\u003ESIAM Activity Group on CSE\u003C\/a\u003E from 2025 to 2026. He co-chaired the organizing committee for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences-events\/past-event-archive\/an22\/\u0022\u003ESIAM\u2019s 2022 annual meeting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It has been an honor to serve CSE,\u201d Chow said. \u201cI am also inspired to have worked alongside others, including Haesun, who care so much for the School.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince joining Georgia Tech in 2012, Chau has distinguished himself as a leading expert in data science and AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChau\u2019s research combines machine learning and visualization to create scalable, interactive tools. His lab has developed applications for studying massive datasets, interpreting complex AI models, and solving real-world problems in cybersecurity, human-centered AI, graph visualization and mining, and social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChau has taught CSE \u003Cem\u003E4242\/6242: Data and Visual Analytics\u003C\/em\u003E since 2013. The course has grown into the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/#cse6242\u0022\u003Eworld\u0027s largest semester-long university class on the subject\u003C\/a\u003E. More than 19,600 students have taken the course throughout its history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlongside his research and teaching, Chau has held several leadership roles at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 2014, Chau has served as associate director of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.analytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EM.S. Analytics program\u003C\/a\u003E. The program celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024, when he received the Innovator Award for his leadership and pioneering approaches to analytics education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2019, Chau accepted roles as director of industry relations for the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIDEaS\u003C\/a\u003E) and as associate director of corporate relations for the Machine Learning Center (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EML@GT\u003C\/a\u003E). Chau recently stepped down from his leadership positions with IDEaS and ML@GT to accommodate his responsibilities as CSE\u2019s associate chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI enjoy building deep connections with people, and this role provides a lot of opportunities to do that,\u201d Chau said. \u201cFaculty development helps my colleagues build the careers that they want, and collectively shape CSE\u2019s future. That\u2019s what I look forward to the most.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) has undergone remarkable expansion in recent years, doubling its faculty, broadening its programs and curriculum, and strengthening its reputation as a leading research hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, as Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~echow\/\u0022\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/a\u003E prepares to teach at Georgia Tech-Europe for the 2026-2027 academic year, Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E is stepping into the role of associate chair to help guide the School\u2019s next phase of growth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir leadership transition comes at a time when demand for expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), data science and 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users under 13 and stricter enforcement of teenager-specific settings for users under 18, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-bonta-secures-transformative-17-billion-settlement-meta\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eamong other measures\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMore Work To Be Done\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe settlement has been celebrated by the 47 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/law.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2026-08-26\/carr-announces-largest-big-tech-settlement-history\u0022\u003Eattorneys general\u003C\/a\u003E of the represented states as a transformative moment in the oversight of social media. While she believes it is a step in the right direction, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/munmun-de-choudhury-social-and-computer-science-expert\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, says the work cannot stop with the changes proposed in the settlement.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury\u2019s research has pioneered the computational use of social media data for mental health. In 2023, she co-authored a consensus report for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the connection between \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/read\/27396\/chapter\/1\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esocial media and adolescent health\u003C\/a\u003E. Several of the recommendations in the report are reflected in the Meta settlement, but De Choudhury sees areas that still need to be addressed at the root of social media\u2019s effects on mental health.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it\u0027s a reasonable start. It was necessary, but if you look at the research literature, whether restricting screen time actually improves mental health is not a settled question,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to look at the context, which means not just how much time they\u0027re spending on these platforms but also how they\u0027re spending that time.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe $17 billion will be distributed among the states and territories involved in the lawsuit, and, according to De Choudhury, the funds will be a critical part of the settlement achieving its intended outcomes.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe grassroots portion of this is asking: How do we empower young people and their families with information so that they can make the right decisions for themselves? This money can be used to provide social media literacy efforts and to train parents and teachers to better guide kids. We often hear that adults want to help, but parents and teachers didn\u2019t grow up in the social media era, and given how fast it changes, they don\u2019t always have the right answers,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGetting Others on Board\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECertain portions of the settlement, such as financial penalties and exact time restrictions, are contingent upon Meta\u2019s competitors, TikTok and YouTube, adopting similar measures. De Choudhury says research shows that when one platform becomes more restrictive, users will migrate to another.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe kids who want to access social media between midnight and 6 a.m., when these platforms won\u0027t be available, will go to TikTok or they\u0027ll go somewhere else,\u201d she said. \u201cThis means that what we end up doing is not mitigating the harm but shifting it elsewhere. And that doesn\u0027t help anyone. So, this is welcome if it means the scope of this implementation can be broadened, and it would go a long way.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESocial Media in the AI Age\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury implores regulators to consider additional measures to protect children in the future, particularly those that safeguard their data in the age of artificial intelligence.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of our data is getting used to train these AI models. This is especially true for a company like Meta, which has its own AI models. We are talking about minors. They can\u0027t meaningfully consent to the use of their data to build AI models. So we need to expand the scope of harm here, which is not just the mental health harm that can happen but the impacts of these companies storing and using children\u2019s data,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA federal \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d that allows individuals to request deletion of their data from social media sites and other online profiles is a step De Choudhury recommends, mirroring the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gdpr.eu\/right-to-be-forgotten\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEuropean Union\u2019s policy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProtecting the Vulnerable\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdults aren\u2019t immune to the dangers of social media, De Choudhury explained, but teenagers are more susceptible to triggers based on their stage of brain development. She hopes the recent settlement sets a precedent for active oversight.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have seen lawsuits in the past where specific school systems sued a social media company. We have seen some individual states taking action as well, but the scale of this settlement is something we haven\u0027t seen before,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe changes to the platforms will take effect over the next 12 months, but should Meta fail to do so, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/liu_j\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJerry Liu\u003C\/a\u003E, lecturer in the Scheller College of Business and teacher of legal and ethical aspects of business, says states would not need to relitigate the case, in which Meta did not admit wrongdoing. Rather, they could ask the court to seek enforcement with contempt remedies, like additional financial penalties or sanctions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Meta case has drawn comparisons to lawsuits against big tobacco in the 1990s. Liu says both cases invoke similar questions surrounding legality and ethics in business.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a broader, ethical issue with this case, which is drawing the line between making an engaging product versus deliberately designing the product around human vulnerabilities to make a product addictive, particularly for children, and concealing harmful consequences,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith big tobacco, the problem wasn\u0027t simply that cigarettes were addictive. It was the allegation that the industry knew about the addictive nature of cigarettes, manipulated nicotine levels, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.factualamerica.com\/behind-the-screenplay\/blowing-the-whistle-the-true-story-behind-the-insider\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Econcealed or minimized that knowledge\u003C\/a\u003E. Similarly, as with Meta and social media, the question is whether the social media companies know that particular design features or algorithmic tools can create unhealthy or compulsive behavior, particularly in children, and whether they have an ethical obligation to disclose that knowledge and redesign the product accordingly.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice retain federal enforcement authority in this case, but Liu said that individuals (including class-action suits) can potentially pursue separate state-law or other claims against Meta.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The social media giant will make changes to its platforms to address allegations of consumer protection law violations and the targeting of teenagers through addictive features.\u00a0 "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe social media giant will make changes to its platforms to address allegations of consumer protection law violations and the targeting of teenagers through addictive features.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The social media giant will make changes to its platforms to address allegations of consumer protection law violations and the targeting of teenagers through addictive features.\u00a0 "}],"uid":"36418","created_gmt":"2026-09-01 01:02:42","changed_gmt":"2026-09-01 01:31:29","author":"sgagliano3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681023":{"id":"681023","type":"image","title":"Meta","body":null,"created":"1788226037","gmt_created":"2026-09-01 01:27:17","changed":"1788226037","gmt_changed":"2026-09-01 01:27:17","alt":"Meta","file":{"fid":"265371","name":"AdobeStock_479759140_Editorial_Use_Only.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/31\/AdobeStock_479759140_Editorial_Use_Only.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/31\/AdobeStock_479759140_Editorial_Use_Only.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4211015,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/31\/AdobeStock_479759140_Editorial_Use_Only.jpeg?itok=O7dBUsbM"}}},"media_ids":["681023"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"10343","name":"mental health"},{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"37031","name":"Instagram"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Steven.gagliano@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESteven Gagliano\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013\u0026nbsp;Institute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"692137":{"#nid":"692137","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Incoming Professor Envisions World of Humans and Robots Working Together","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Siddharth Karamcheti watches robot demonstration videos, he pays attention to how close humans are to the robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti said there are times when he doesn\u2019t see any humans at all. Those instances reinforce the perception that robots are replacing humans rather than assisting them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou have humanoid robots doing things like folding laundry, and you see videos of it on social media,\u201d Karamcheti said. \u201cIt bothers me that in all these videos, I see the robot doing these tasks alone without a single person around them. True human-robot collaboration is missing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs he joins the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing as an assistant professor, Karamcheti seeks to improve human-robot collaboration and maximize output through his research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti comes to Tech after earning his Ph.D. in computer science (CS) from Stanford University. He also holds bachelor\u2019s degrees in CS and literary arts from Brown University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to human-robot interaction, he has conducted research on fine-tuning vision-language-action (VLA) models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVLAs are artificial intelligence (AI) systems typically built by fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) or large language models (LLMs). They use visual perception, natural language, and physical action to perform tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have a high-level vision of what I think robotics should be, but there are many winding paths I like to take along the way as I try to understand why something works the way it does,\u201d Karamcheti said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti said his vision was inspired by the movie \u003Cem\u003EIron Man\u003C\/em\u003E and by how the main character, Tony Stark, interacts with robots in his lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t want a robot that replaces all the work I\u2019m doing in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI want a robot that\u2019s embedded in my life like my laptop or smartphone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re making it possible for me to do more things. I also want to make it so that robots start doing more and learning more when I leave the room.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti said the School of IC is a \u201cdream\u201d job for him because of its renowned faculty in human-robot interaction. It\u2019s the ideal place to keep humans at the center of his research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe must design models around interaction and the idea that there\u2019s going to be a person in the room. Robots don\u2019t need to be perfect at any one thing. They just need to be able to ask for help when it\u2019s needed and learn from those teaching interactions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramecheti said many robotics researchers are pursuing robots that are as close to perfect as possible so they can operate without human oversight. However, the amount\u0026nbsp;of money and data needed to get there is substantial.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think you see diminishing returns with scale. If a robot performs tasks correctly 90% of the time, the data required to go from 90% to 95% is much less than that required to go from 95% to 99%. Many robotics companies and labs are investing to reach a 99% success rate,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti added that the pursuit of perfection shouldn\u2019t prevent a robot from being deployed. They could be deployed at 95% and increase their success rate by working with and learning from humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOnce I have a robot that\u2019s 95% capable, I understand that 5% of failures will occur for a specific task. If I know a human is always going to be near the robot, I can design a system that sequences tasks and anticipates human intervention.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti is recruiting students to join his lab who bring new perspectives to robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m looking for students who aren\u2019t afraid to challenge common assumptions and who enjoy hacking and building,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to work with students who have strong opinions about how robotics should look.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs he joins the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing as an assistant professor, Karamcheti seeks to improve human-robot collaboration and maximize output through his research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaramcheti comes to Tech after earning his Ph.D. in computer science (CS) from Stanford University. 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Scientists can recreate many of these biological building blocks in the lab, but controlling how they organize themselves into larger assemblies remains one of the most fundamental challenges in soft materials research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/itamar-kolvin\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EItamar Kolvin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is aiming to solve that problem using molecular motors powered by tiny chemical reactions, giving researchers a new way to guide how fibers assemble into larger structures in the lab. The work could open the door to advances in wound healing, artificial tissues, and organ repair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENow, Kolvin, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, has been\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/show-award?AWD_ID=2541531\u0022\u003Eawarded a $747,000 CAREER grant\u003C\/a\u003E from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support this research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program is a five-year grant designed to help promising researchers establish a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in their field. Known as CAREER awards, the grants are NSF\u2019s most prestigious funding for early-career faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe CAREER award is a crucial opportunity to push this research forward,\u201d says Kolvin. \u201cNSF plays a critical role in advancing science, and we wouldn\u2019t be able to do our work without their support.\u0026nbsp;I\u2019m incredibly grateful for their commitment to advancing science.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMicroscopic Motorboats\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWhile the body naturally assembles these fibers, their small size makes protein filaments difficult to control in a lab setting. Without guidance, the materials grow randomly, creating weak and disorganized structures. But Kolvin has found that exposing the filaments to controlled fluid flows can help them grow in predictable ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThat\u2019s where Kolvin\u2019s molecular motors come in. He attaches the motors to rod-shaped particles called microtubules, transforming the otherwise inert particles into microscopic motorboats. Powered by chemical reactions, the microtubules move through the fluid and generate tiny currents. Those currents guide the suspended protein filaments, directing how they align and assemble.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELike sticks in a stream, the current helps the protein filaments align with the flow around them. When millions of filaments interact in this way, they can form bundles, clusters, and large-scale networks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cHow do these rods align, when do they tangle, and when do they form networks?\u201d Kolvin asks. \u201cI\u2019m interested in learning how we may be able to predict and ultimately control that behavior in order to direct the ways these structures can grow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlexible Filaments\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EKolvin\u2019s earlier work has already shown success with actin, the filaments responsible for building muscles. When suspended in fluid, the molecular motors helped actin fibers bundle together and form a membrane-like structure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWhile that work demonstrated that molecular motors could influence assembly, Kolvin now aims to create a more dynamic, tunable system. Actin is limited, he explains, because of its simple rod-like shape, lack of rigidity, and because its bonds become permanent once the fibers bundle together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHe believes the more rigid, helix-shaped flagella in this new work will offer a wider range of opportunities. \u201cThe shape and rigidity of flagella expand the variety of patterns they can form,\u201d he explains. \u201cThese new structures could have different applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EToward Tunable Materials\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThrough molecular engineering, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/ikolvinlab\/\u0022\u003EKolvin Lab\u003C\/a\u003E creates flagella that are temperature-sensitive, meaning that they can make and unmake bonds at different temperatures. This property might be key in creating a system that could be assembled and disassembled on demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis could make it possible to tune materials in real-time by warming or cooling the system,\u0022 Kolvin explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy combining molecular motors with temperature-sensitive protein fibers, Kolvin aims to create systems that can be predictably shaped, assembled, and disassembled on demand, opening the door to new possibilities for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe work could also help answer long-standing problems in physics about active matter and collective behavior, revealing how flow and shape influence the way millions of microscopic building blocks align, pack, and assemble into complex materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis CAREER award provides an exciting opportunity to pursue new ideas and tackle difficult, far-reaching questions,\u201d Kolvin says. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing where this research leads in the years ahead.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EThe grant will support Kolvin\u2019s research using molecular motors powered by chemical reactions to direct how protein fibers assemble into larger structures in the lab. 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According to the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nigms.nih.gov\/Research\/mechanisms\/MIRA\/Pages\/default\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;MIRA website\u003C\/a\u003E, the awards provide investigators with long-term, flexible funding to pursue ambitious research programs and explore promising new directions as discoveries emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpeare plans to use the funding to build on her lab\u2019s previous finding that\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/news\/tiny-predatory-bacteria-help-protect-endangered-caribbean-corals?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Tiny%20Predatory%20Bacteria%20Help%20Protect%20Endangered%20Corals\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20Aug.%206%2C%202026\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;naturally occurring predatory bacteria can reduce disease severity in threatened staghorn corals by defending them against harmful bacteria.\u003C\/a\u003E Her new research will move beyond direct predator-prey interactions to better understand how bacterial predators influence the broader microbial communities living on corals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe know bacterial predators can alter disease outcomes in corals,\u201d explains Speare. \u201cWhat we don\u2019t yet comprehend is what predation actually does to a complex microbiome inside a living animal. Does a predator simply remove particular bacteria, or can those interactions ripple through the entire microbiome and ultimately affect the host?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EUnderstanding those changes could reveal why some corals are better able to resist disease and recover from environmental stress than others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Steps\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpeare and researchers from the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.spearelab.com\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Speare Marine Microbial Ecology Lab\u003C\/a\u003E will investigate microbial predation outside the laboratory in a whole-community context.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMost of what we know about microbial interactions comes from studying one or two populations in a test tube,\u201d says Speare. \u201cBut microbes can behave very differently in a living host. We want to understand those interactions where they are actually happening.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHer research will use staghorn corals as a model for observing these interactions over time. Because corals are made up of colonies of genetically identical animal polyps, scientists can repeatedly sample the same colony and track how its microbial communities change. This approach offers a unique window into how microbiomes evolve within an animal host, something that is much more difficult to study\u0026nbsp; in many other animals used in research\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022One of the really powerful things about corals as a model is that we can repeatedly observe what is happening within the same host,\u0022 says Speare. \u0022Instead of taking a single snapshot of a microbiome, we can follow how interactions unfold through time and explore how those changes ultimately affect the animal.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpeare hopes the research will uncover how bacteria interact within coral microbiomes and whether those interactions can help corals stay healthy and resist disease.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s unusual to have a model system where fundamental questions about microbial ecology can have such immediate relevance to conservation,\u201d says Speare. \u201cIf we learn something that can improve coral health or restoration efforts, we can communicate those findings directly to the practitioners who are actively working to restore these populations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeed Grant Support\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpeare credits two prior grants for providing preliminary data for the MIRA award. A NOAA Ruth D. Gates Coral Restoration Innovation Grant helped her develop disease models and investigate the potential health applications of predatory bacteria in corals. A Georgia Tech\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/research\/seed-grants\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Sustainability Next Seed Grant\u003C\/a\u003E filled a critical knowledge gap in the research by testing how these bacterial predators interact with healthy corals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cBefore we could ask what microbial predation does within a complex microbiome, we needed to establish that these predators could persist within corals without negatively affecting the host,\u201d says Speare. \u201cThat work gave us the foundation to start asking much bigger ecological questions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Sustainability Next Seed Grant, administered by the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, also supported workshops and collaboration-building efforts that strengthened partnerships with the University of Miami\u2019s Lirman Lab and Rescue a Reef which provide corals and expertise for ongoing restoration-focused research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELooking Ahead\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe flexibility that comes with this funding is incredibly exciting,\u201d says Speare. \u201cWe have five years to follow the biology wherever it leads us. If we discover an unexpected interaction or mechanism, we have the freedom to pursue it rather than being constrained by a single predefined project. That gives us the opportunity to build a much broader understanding of how microbial predation influences coral health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESupport Acknowledgement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EResearch reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 1R35GM165598.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe award will support funding aimed at uncovering new insights that could support future coral restoration and disease management efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The award will support funding aimed at uncovering new insights that could support future coral restoration and disease management efforts."}],"uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2026-08-26 18:29:49","changed_gmt":"2026-08-27 13:56:33","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680992":{"id":"680992","type":"image","title":"Lauren Speare","body":"\u003Cp\u003EHeadshot\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1787769048","gmt_created":"2026-08-26 18:30:48","changed":"1787769048","gmt_changed":"2026-08-26 18:30:48","alt":"Headshot of a woman","file":{"fid":"265336","name":"55472992335_5e2145b021_k--1-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/26\/55472992335_5e2145b021_k--1-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/26\/55472992335_5e2145b021_k--1-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":963283,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/26\/55472992335_5e2145b021_k--1-.jpg?itok=Dim63k4S"}}},"media_ids":["680992"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/news\/tiny-predatory-bacteria-help-protect-endangered-caribbean-corals?utm_source=newsletter\u0026utm_medium=email\u0026utm_content=Tiny%20Predatory%20Bacteria%20Help%20Protect%20Endangered%20Corals\u0026utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20Aug.%206%2C%202026","title":"Tiny Predatory Bacteria Help Protect Endangered Caribbean Corals"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"180325","name":"coral conservation"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"8057","name":"faculty research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura S. 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His role gives him current visibility into the contractors now being asked to rapidly scale production of munitions and interceptors after a season of heavy use. I knew from his hands-on background he would have a point of view that would validate or challenge my perceptions. What I got instead was a conversation any plant manager would recognize and was quite familiar with my food and beverage experience. In sophisticated and automated operations, it still comes down to having qualified people who are engaged in a process-disciplined culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe described operations that depend on specific people more than solely on documented processes. Sequencing steps marked with tape on the tooling. Machine settings carried on a folded sheet of paper in an operator\u0027s back pocket. Tools modified by hand over the years, with the changes never finding their way back into the work instructions. He walked through the standard surge playbook familiar to me, adding a third or fourth shift and moving the most experienced operators to nights to anchor it. Then he smiled and said that third shift is where the magic happens. He meant it with affection and a wince at the same time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENone of this was foreign to me. I spent my early career in plant and distribution operations at Frito-Lay and then 25 years in the Coca-Cola system, and I have seen every one of these patterns. So I tested the conversation with several people in my network, most of them Coca-Cola alumni, plant managers and continuous improvement leaders, and one with a deep project management background. They all landed in the same place. The complexity is real. The people dealing with it deserve empathy rather than criticism, because they are being asked to do something genuinely hard: rebuild years of inventory in months, with supply chains built for a different era, often without the contracts that would let them invest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EHow We Got Here, Honestly\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe defense industrial base did not get fragile through negligence. It got fragile through rational decisions, made year after year, that optimized for a demand pattern that had been reduced across a long timeframe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsider the Tomahawk cruise missile. CSIS reports that orders averaged 86 missiles a year over the past decade, so recent production ran under 200 a year even though the manufacturer\u0027s capacity goal exceeds 1,000. Nobody sized that production schedule and capacity plan incorrectly. It was sized to the order book. The same logic explains the single sourcing that is common in the defense industry. Peacetime volumes could not sustain two qualified suppliers of anything specialized, so awarding the work to one kept one alive. Lean and just-in-time practices, imported from those of us in commercial industry, minimized carrying costs exactly as designed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECSIS estimates it will take three or more years to restore inventories of the interceptors and missiles most heavily used in recent operations. When the National Defense Industrial Association surveyed its members about barriers to surging capacity, the top answer was not machines or floor space. Fifty-six percent said they had no contract vehicle to justify expansion, and 41 percent pointed to the technical workforce. Suppliers have been burned before, and the deeper tiers reach into global sources, including China, for materials and components most of us would assume were made here.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of the gaps are genuinely surprising. The United States has not produced its own TNT since 1986. The primary explosive fill for artillery shells has come entirely from overseas for nearly four decades. A new plant is finally under construction in Kentucky, fully funded and politically championed, and its estimated completion is early 2029, roughly four and a half years after the contract was signed. Meanwhile, seven of the most heavily consumed missiles trace back to two prime contractors and essentially one solid rocket motor industrial base, with several programs drawing on the same small labor markets in places like Camden, Arkansas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EReasons for Optimism, and Lessons from Other Ramps\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is a challenging situation, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Since January the Pentagon has signed multiyear framework agreements intended to lift Patriot PAC-3 production from roughly 600 to 2,000 interceptors a year over seven years, THAAD from 96 to 400, and Tomahawk toward more than 1,000. Congress carved out dedicated funding for the solid rocket motor base. And the Army\u0027s 155mm artillery ramp, while short of its goal, has proven something useful: spreading production across several smaller facilities has delivered, with new propellant plants opening ahead of schedule, while the single large facility built on untested equipment has struggled. Spreading the wealth to additional producers has started to build resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy friends pushed the conversation toward a question I think holds the real value: where have other industries ramped capacity under pressure, and what did they learn? Three cases stand out to me, and together they carry one message.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou can\u0027t build sustainable capacity without committed demand.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe largest domestic surgical mask maker offered in January 2020 to reactivate four mothballed N95 lines, and the federal government showed little interest. They were able to ramp up production a few months later when the Texas National Guard helped staff them to 24-hour operation. Rational suppliers do not build capacity against urgency alone. Operation Warp Speed proved the other side of the same coin: advance purchase agreements signed before vaccine trials even finished, priority ratings on materials, government staff embedded at manufacturing sites, and regulatory steps run in parallel rather than in sequence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen there is UPS, a story from our own industry. After the 2013 peak season failure left an estimated two million packages undelivered on Christmas Eve, UPS spent half a billion dollars on trucks, sorting capacity, and people. Delivery performance recovered, and earnings cratered when forecast volumes failed to appear. The lasting fix took years: disciplined demand shaping with retailers, collaborative forecasting, and automated capacity that was still coming online in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEfficiency won\u0027t get you there.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESurge capacity is a different investment from efficient operations, and even a company with money, urgency, and full control of its own network bought it in years, not quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat is the common denominator across every case, and it was the project manager in the group who put a fine point on it. The schedule is set by the slowest constraint, whether that is a chemical plant, a qualification test, a hiring funnel, or a training curve. The solutions that actually work are the ones that buy time back: demand certainty that starts the clock sooner, doing in parallel what tradition does in sequence, and managing demand honestly while capacity catches up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat We Would Do: It Still Comes Down to People\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnderneath the contracts and the chemistry, the constraint I keep coming back to is the one my friend led with that matched our experience at Coca-Cola. These are person-centric operations, and the surge playbook puts them at risk at the worst possible moment. We learned at Coca-Cola that around-the-clock operations do not add capacity in a straight line, especially in less automated environments. The research agrees, showing night shifts running measurably behind days in manual work while highly automated lines show little difference. Moving your best operators to third shift while handing first shift to trainees stretches your thinnest asset, which is experienced judgment, exactly when quality margins are tightest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo before adding a shift, I would count the operations that only one person can run to spec. Most plants I worked with never thought to do this math. I would treat the ramp itself as the opportunity because your best people are demonstrating everything they know every day while they train others. Put cameras on the setups and build the digital work instructions now, not after the veterans retire. I would open a no-fault \u201clibrary book amnesty\u201d window for operators to bring the taped sequences and pocket settings into the documented process, because those informal practices are the real process, and punishing their discovery only keeps them hidden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd I would hold one line firmly: no single person should ever be the sole verifier of safety-critical test results. I have seen what happens when one person\u0027s \u201cread\u201d of a gauge becomes the only record that a batch was in spec. The mistake does not surface until the product is already in the market, and by then it is not a documentation problem anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, we as supply chain professionals should give contractors some flexibility. Defense suppliers are heavily audited, and their quality image is deserved, but specs for specs\u0027 sake are a genuine bottleneck. The pharmaceutical industry figured this out: classify which parameters actually carry the product\u0027s reliability and protect those absolutely, then flex what is merely habit. Do that classification with the senior operators in the room, because they know which settings matter and which ones are folklore.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERequirements that carry reliability are sacred. Requirements that carry only tradition are negotiable, and a surge is the right time to know the difference. That classification should produce something durable, not a conversation everyone forgets by the next shift: a change-controlled, plant-floor document, owned by the senior operators who built it, that travels with the work instructions and gets revisited every time the line changes hands.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe people inside these plants are not the problem. They are the asset, and in many cases they are the process. If we respect that, preserve what they know, and give them the certainty and the flexibility to do their jobs, a rapid ramp-up can succeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA final question: \u003C\/strong\u003EDo you understand your process dependencies on key players and single operators? If you aren\u0027t comfortable with a single-source supplier, why would you be comfortable with your business continuity hinging on a single individual?\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmerica\u0027s defense manufacturers are being asked to rebuild critical inventories at unprecedented speed, but the biggest challenges aren\u0027t always what you\u0027d expect. This month\u0027s SCL Spotlight examines the supply chain realities behind defense production ramps and the lessons every industry can learn about workforce knowledge, capacity planning, and resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Discover the insights that can help you adapt, build resilience, and keep your organization moving."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2026-08-24 17:23:50","changed_gmt":"2026-08-26 18:15:29","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680979":{"id":"680979","type":"image","title":"The Hardest Ramp-Up in America: A Supply Chain View of the Defense Industrial Base","body":null,"created":"1787672277","gmt_created":"2026-08-25 15:37:57","changed":"1787672277","gmt_changed":"2026-08-25 15:37:57","alt":"Editorial illustration depicting the challenge of rapidly increasing U.S. defense manufacturing capacity. The image combines a connected national supply chain network map, large circular icons representing workforce, manufacturing, logistics, and quality assurance, an industrial chemical processing facility, a missile launch, a naval defense vessel at sea, skilled factory workers assembling munitions on a production line, and finished artillery rounds in the foreground.","file":{"fid":"265322","name":"spotlight-newsletter_SCThinRedLine_1254x1254px.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/25\/spotlight-newsletter_SCThinRedLine_1254x1254px.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/25\/spotlight-newsletter_SCThinRedLine_1254x1254px.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":223781,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/25\/spotlight-newsletter_SCThinRedLine_1254x1254px.jpg?itok=L5aJVpO_"}},"674087":{"id":"674087","type":"image","title":"Chris Gaffney","body":"\u003Cp\u003EChris Gaffney\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1717067903","gmt_created":"2024-05-30 11:18:23","changed":"1771883375","gmt_changed":"2026-02-23 21:49:35","alt":"Chris Gaffney, Managing Director, Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute","file":{"fid":"257557","name":"chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":129544,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg?itok=_M0fOBTF"}}},"media_ids":["680979","674087"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/news-events\/newsletters","title":"View past SCL newsletters and join our mailing list"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"194489","name":"scl-spot"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"187190","name":"-go-gtmi"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691898":{"#nid":"691898","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Statewide Hub to Build Aerospace Technical Talent","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is leading a new NASA-supported workforce development initiative designed to expand aerospace education and strengthen Georgia\u0027s pipeline of skilled technical talent needed for future space missions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-establishes-state-hubs-to-grow-technical-aerospace-workforce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Gen STEM (NGS) NASA Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce Hubs (NAS_Hub) grant award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech will play a central role in addressing a critical labor shortage in the booming aerospace industry and enhance the state\u2019s role as an aerospace industry leader in the global space economy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeginning this fall, the three-year, $1.5 million award will establish the Southeast Space Technology \u0026amp; Aerospace Readiness Skills (SE-STARS) Hub. The hub will expand opportunities for training and workforce readiness in high-demand technical careers in aerospace.\u003Cbr\u003EThe SE-STARS Hub includes the Georgia Space Grant Consortium (GSGC), Georgia Tech\u2019s Space Research Institute (SRI), the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI), the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), Georgia Southern University, Georgia College and Career Academies, Georgia Aerospace \u0026amp; Defense Alliance (GADA), and select Georgia aerospace employers to support the growing aerospace industry and NASA missions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace products are Georgia\u2019s No. 1 export and the state has more than 800 companies supporting aviation, manufacturing, research, maintenance, repair, and operations.\u0026nbsp; Many aerospace and engineering positions rely on skilled technical workers whose training pathways do not require a four-year, or advanced degree. There are significant gaps in technical roles such as machinists, electronics technicians, test operators, and systems integrators. These shortages are driven by an aging workforce and a projected national shortfall of at least one million skilled technical workers by 2030. (National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, 2025). The gap also stems from the rapid pace of technological advancement, where even current skills can quickly become obsolete if not constantly renewed.\u0026nbsp; All this combines to create an urgent need for training to support new and sustainable aerospace career pathways.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Ruffin\u003C\/strong\u003E, interim chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and GSGC director will serve as the principal investigator (PI).\u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EJud Ready\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of SRI; \u003Cstrong\u003ELori Skillings\u003C\/strong\u003E, GSGC; \u003Cstrong\u003EHossein Taheri\u003C\/strong\u003E, Georgia Southern University; and \u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Ferguson\u003C\/strong\u003E, GTMI, will serve as co-PIs.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeffrey McNabb\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research engineer in Georgia Tech\u2019s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), will serve as the program manager, leading day-to-day operations and coordinating the project team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This initiative strengthens Georgia\u0027s position as a leader in aerospace innovation and manufacturing while providing new opportunities for students and industries across the state,\u0022 said\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ERuffin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoordination between public education systems, industry, and workforce agencies can sometimes be limited. SE-STARS will act as a \u0022hub\u0022 to bridge these gaps, connecting Georgia Tech and its specialized research institutes with TCSG\u2019s 22 colleges and 88 campuses to provide statewide access to training.\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cAnother advantage of the program is the stronger network it creates,\u201d said Ruffin. \u201cEach organization in the SE-STARS team has unique capabilities but together we will strengthen the technical workforce pipeline across Georgia and the broader Southeast.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SE-STARS team will collaborate with industry partners to develop curriculum aligned with workforce needs. \u201cThe easily ported curricula we develop will be tailored for other institutions to adopt directly, creating a consistent foundation of skills and competencies that employers can universally expect from program graduates across Georgia,\u201d Ready said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents will access training through a statewide network of technical colleges serving as regional instructional nodes, which offer flexible online options and hands-on paid apprenticeships to ensure broad geographic reach.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program also reaches K-12 and adult learners through career academies and specialized STEM labs, creating a structured, sustainable transition from early education to high-demand aerospace credentials.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EGTMI will support this work through its Advanced Manufacturing Pathways Program, which connects industry-informed training with pathways into high-demand advanced manufacturing careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia\u0027s expanding aerospace and space sectors are creating high-paying jobs and driving economic growth,\u201d said Ruffin. \u201cThis program will help develop the skilled workforce needed to support that growth and Georgia\u2019s competitiveness in the space economy.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EFollowing NASA\u0027s announcement, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/nasa-taps-georgia-tech-for-10-5-million-push-to-build-the-space-workforce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECBS News Atlanta featured Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVideo courtesy of CBS News Atlanta.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"A $1.5 million NASA award will support aerospace education, workforce development, and entrepreneurship programs across Georgia."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EGeorgia Tech is leading a new statewide workforce development initiative funded by a three-year, $1.5 million NASA award to strengthen aerospace education and address critical shortages of skilled technical workers across Georgia. The Southeast Space Technology \u0026amp; Aerospace Readiness Skills (SE-STARS) Hub will bring together Georgia Tech, the Technical College System of Georgia, universities, industry partners, and workforce organizations to create training programs, apprenticeships, and career pathways in high-demand aerospace fields. 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He is a senior leader at a large global company with a well-regarded supply chain organization. His team had been through a lot since we last talked. Port closures. Tariff escalations. Freight volatility. Inventory repositioning. The kinds of disruptions that used to arrive once in a cycle had become an avalanche, and this was before Hormuz!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis people had responded well. They had adapted. But now he was thinking about something harder to solve: \u0026nbsp;what it would take to keep them in the game longer term. The experience his team had gained came at a cost and he worried some would look for roles that were not on the \u201cfiring line\u201d. He also wondered whether he could still attract the best and brightest in the next generation of talent who would be looking at this field and asking whether the complexity was worth it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat conversation has stayed with me. Supply chain and logistics has always been a field of cycles \u2014 demanding, but navigable. What has changed is that the field has moved from cyclical difficulty to something more structural: a persistent state of volatility where the curveballs do not stop coming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat conversation was in the back of my mind as I developed a recent talk on logistics trends from 2026 to 2030 for GT SCL Industry Partner Manhattan\u2019s annual Momentum conference. The brief was to look ahead and be a bit provocative. What follows builds on that talk, but with a broader point in view: if the curveballs keep coming, leaders need a clearer sense of which shifts matter most and what they should do about them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe New Operating Environment\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELogistics has entered a structurally more volatile era, not a groundbreaking insight given the last four years. Several things changed at roughly the same time, and they have not changed back:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeveral shifts hit the industry at once, and none of them have meaningfully reversed. Geopolitics is now a supply chain design variable, not something to catch up on in a podcast. Strategic decoupling between China and the United States, instability in the Middle East, and the long shadow of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have pushed energy, sourcing, and network design into the same conversation. What once sat in the news feed now needs to be in the nominal scenario during business planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, customer expectations have permanently shifted. Amazon reset the standard for visibility, precision, and speed, and that standard now applies even more as Amazon is emerging as an open source 3PL. Labor and energy costs have also changed the economics of physical logistics in ways that will not self-correct. Demographic pressure, wage inflation, and energy volatility have altered the baseline cost structure calling into question existing network locations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, AI and automation have moved out of the experimental category and into the realm of near-term value creation. The tools are real, and organizations that understand where to apply them are making materially better decisions than those that do not. That matters because networks now have to optimize for two things at once: cost and recovery. Efficiency still matters, but a network that performs well in steady state and fails under disruption no longer meets the standard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is also a macro pattern worth calling out: the industry is in a longer-duration rebalancing cycle than many executives expected. We examined the Hormuz disruption and its downstream effects in a recent SCL Spotlight piece. The short version is that energy pass-through effects, freight volatility, and extended planning uncertainty will impact costs and capacity well into 2027. Executives planning around a near-term return to normal are making a strategic error.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe next decade will reward adaptable logistics networks more than simply optimized ones.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Benchmark Has Changed \u2014 For Everyone\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmazon\u0027s logistics operation is not just something to amaze us as packages arrive at our doorstep consistently with compressed lead times. It is a capability demonstration that has redefined what customers consider normal \u2014 same-day expectations, ETA precision, real-time visibility, low-friction returns. The important implication is not that every organization needs to replicate Amazon\u0027s infrastructure. It is that Amazon-shaped expectations are now the standard against which every supply chain is measured, whether or not Amazon is a direct competitor. Amazon\u2019s recent announcement that it is making its capabilities available to all only raises the bar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganizations that understand this have shifted their strategic question from \u0022how do we improve our operations\u0022 to \u0022where will we compete, where will we leverage others\u0027 capabilities, and where will we differentiate on something Amazon cannot replicate.\u0022 The benchmark is no longer functional excellence alone. It is well oiled end-to-end execution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Real Automation Story: Error-Proofing Over Spectacle\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a version of the automation conversation that focuses on \u0026nbsp;\u201cwow\u201d demos \u2014 autonomous vehicles, lights-out warehouses, robotics showcases. That version makes for compelling conference content. It is also not where most of the real value is being created today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe highest-value wins tend to be quieter: fewer errors, fewer touches, fewer injuries, fewer claims. Computer vision that catches a loading error before a truck leaves the dock. Sensor verification that eliminates a reconciliation step. An alert from a Machine Learning model that prevents a cascading service failure. These are error-proofing stories, and they are compelling because the ROI is measurable in terms operations leaders understand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe reason automation is scaling in these areas is not novelty \u2014 it is because the math finally works, driven by labor scarcity, safety pressure, and the compounding cost of variability. My own view informed by industry contacts and academic researchers is that computer vision may become one of the most quietly transformative technologies of this decade, not because it is the most advanced, but because it applies to so many high-variability, human-intensive touchpoints across logistics operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat said, a high percentage of large-scale automation efforts still fail. \u0026nbsp;Many of the reasons are well known and tackling this issue is critical for those who do not yet have a model for success.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe next margin pool may come more from consistency and reliability than from flashy robotics demonstrations.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis theme generated significant discussion at the Manhattan Associates\u0027 Momentum conference this spring \u2014 enough that we are dedicating our July SCL webinar to it directly. If your organization is navigating automation decisions, the session is worth your time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAutonomy: Watch the Middle Mile Before the Long Haul\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAutonomous vehicle technology has generated significant hype and its share of missed timelines. A more realistic view is emerging. Autonomy scales first where variability is lowest, economics are clearest, and environments are most constrained \u2014 yard operations, middle-mile freight on repetitive lanes, internal shuttles, port drayage, and warehouse orchestration. This amounts to millions of miles and load counts that are increasing daily.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe organizations watching this most carefully are not asking when full autonomy will arrive. They are asking which specific lanes and operations have the cost structure where autonomy pays out today. One dynamic worth watching: the scaling of urban robotaxi operations is building safety data, insurance frameworks, and regulatory precedent that may indirectly accelerate confidence in middle-mile freight and warehouse applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe shift that matters is not from no autonomy to full autonomy. It is from technology demonstrations to lane economics \u2014 and that is the transition that creates real operating decisions for logistics leaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAI Is Real \u2014 But Workflow Discipline Matters More Than Tool Selection\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe common reality in most logistics organizations today includes AI copilots, workflow assistance tools, exception management support, improved ETA prediction, and document automation. These are useful. They are also early.\u003Cbr\u003EWhat is still uncommon: autonomous execution, fully integrated AI decisioning across functions, self-optimizing networks, and end-to-end agentic orchestration. Those capabilities exist in pilots and in forward-leaning early adopters. They are not yet standard operating practice in most organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe framing that I keep coming back to is this: start with a broken logistics workflow, then apply the lightest AI capable of clearing a hard ROI threshold. I got a text from a mentee today that showed a picture of a Microsoft Co-pilot Studio agent he built that automates a daily inventory check on a critical SKU. Organizations that start by selecting the most impressive tool and then look for a process to apply it to are making the investment in the wrong order.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is another structural shift worth highlighting. The industry has moved out of data scarcity and is living in decision overload. The challenge is not access to information \u2014 it is building the discipline to convert that information into insight and informed decisions at the right time to impact action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELogistics first, AI second. Start with the broken workflow. Then apply the lightest tool that clears a hard ROI threshold.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Rising Value of Human Judgment\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBack to the conversation I opened with. The concern was not that my friend\u2019s team lacked technical skills \u2014 it was sustaining engagement and attracting talent to a field that had become genuinely exhausting. That challenge is real, and it is connected to something missed in the automation conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs AI automates more routine work \u2014 reporting, documentation, tracking, reconciliation \u2014 the work that remains becomes more demanding in different ways. The value shifts toward judgment: escalation management, cross-functional orchestration, interpreting second-order consequences, maintaining trust when the data is ambiguous. The organizations that will attract and retain the strongest professionals are not necessarily those with the most advanced tools. They are the ones that create conditions where smart people make consequential decisions and continue to grow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs AI capabilities become more democratized across the industry, the differentiating capabilities will increasingly be leadership, communication, collaboration, and the kind of critical thinking that no tool can fully replicate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EPredictions Leaders Should Keep an Eye On\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are the shifts I believe deserve more attention than they are getting in most leadership conversations:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb3990583ba42d892b8c0da99a5b8b02c\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Next Major Logistics Disruption May Come From Energy, Not Freight\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EGrid strain, electrification demand, AI compute infrastructure buildout, and charging capacity constraints are converging in ways that could reshape logistics economics faster than expected. Power availability is not yet a front-burner strategic issue for most logistics leaders. It should be.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef437499f47298f3ed4f1703bea6703d9\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmazon, Walmart, and Chinese Platforms May Become Competing Logistics Operating Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECompetition is shifting from retailer vs. retailer to ecosystem vs. ecosystem. The organizations that do not think clearly about which ecosystems they are part of, and on what terms, may find themselves structurally disadvantaged.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb276d917f66951b5152b3a81b772f51b\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECyber Attacks on Physical Supply Chains Will Become a Defining Executive Risk\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAs logistics networks become more connected, more automated, and more AI-dependent, your exposure grows. The distinction between cyber risk and operational risk is collapsing. This belongs on the executive agenda as a strategic issue, not just an IT issue.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e50bc6a738d71eec2c18b650738e464af\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrusted Operational Data May Become the Most Valuable Logistics Asset\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOrganizations with clean, well-governed operational data will be able to move fast on AI adoption. Organizations with fragmented, inconsistent data will face a structural disadvantage that no AI investment can overcome. Data discipline is a strategic investment, not a cleanup project.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e6313c2ad5ac7b88704dd03357ed8a40e\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInsurance Companies May Quietly Become Gatekeepers of Automation Adoption\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EScaling autonomy and connected logistics infrastructure depends as much on insurability, liability frameworks, and safety validation as on technical capability. Insurance market dynamics will shape the adoption curve for autonomous operations in ways that are not yet widely discussed in logistics circles.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ef08414480855d8814fc8a6671baff198\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Industry May Shift From \u0022Lowest Cost\u0022 to \u0022Fastest Recovery\u0022 as the Defining Competitive Dimensio\u003C\/strong\u003En\u003Cbr\u003EPure cost optimization as a primary network design principle may increasingly underperform against resilience and recovery speed as the basis of competition. The organizations that have already internalized this are building different networks than those still optimizing for cost alone.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat Staying Current Actually Requires\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI want to close by coming back to my colleague\u0027s concern \u2014 and to the question he was really asking: how do we help our people process all of this and remain effective?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere is my honest answer. The field is not going to slow down. \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat staying current requires is not reading every article or attending every conference. It requires developing a point of view on the shifts that matter most for your specific context, and then actively deciding how you will act and adjust\u003C\/strong\u003E. Passive awareness is not enough. The question is not whether you know what is changing. It is what you have decided to do about it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor organizations, that means investing in conditions that allow talented people to keep learning. For individuals, it means resisting the temptation to treat busyness as a substitute for development. The professionals who remain most valuable will be those who continue to understand what is changing and develop the judgment to translate that understanding into better decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou cannot sit still. The question is not whether you know what is changing. It is what you have decided to do about it.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Opportunity on the Other Side\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI want to end where I began \u2014 with empathy for everyone in this field who is carrying a lot right now. Fatigue is real. The complexity is real. The ongoing intensity is real.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd so is the opportunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELogistics is no longer just moving product. It is becoming a resilience system, a customer experience system, a technology system, an energy system, and a real-time decision system simultaneously. The professionals who learn to navigate that complexity \u2014 who develop both technical fluency and human judgment \u2014 will be among the most valuable people in any organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe future arrives not as one dramatic breakthrough, but as a sequence of operational readthroughs: decisions made well, workflows redesigned thoughtfully, capabilities built deliberately. That is hard work. It is also genuinely exciting work. And I believe the best of it is still ahead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ERelated Upcoming SCL Webinar 7\/2\/2026\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/2117803348049\/WN_528KNX2LRFWvO3bZXYaYtg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Do So Many Automation Projects Fail?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAutomation in logistics is accelerating \u2014 but so is the gap between what is promised and what is delivered. Systems get sized on optimistic assumptions. Hidden dependencies become single points of failure. Technology that shines in the demo struggles under real operating conditions.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ELeaders from Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute join industry practitioners to dig into the root causes of automation underperformance \u2014 and the design, evaluation, and implementation practices that build more resilient, effective operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/2117803348049\/WN_528KNX2LRFWvO3bZXYaYtg\u0022\u003ERegister Online to attend via Zoom\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECan\u0027t attend live? Register anyway, and we\u0027ll send you the recording afterward\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELogistics isn\u0027t just changing \u2014 it\u2019s being redefined by constant disruption, rising expectations, and new technology. This SCL Spotlight breaks down the biggest shifts shaping the next decade and what leaders must do to stay ahead. Discover the insights that can help you adapt, build resilience, and keep your organization moving.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Discover the insights that can help you adapt, build resilience, and keep your organization moving."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2026-06-22 21:33:45","changed_gmt":"2026-08-25 15:56:39","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680492":{"id":"680492","type":"image","title":"Logistics in Transition","body":null,"created":"1782163725","gmt_created":"2026-06-22 21:28:45","changed":"1782163725","gmt_changed":"2026-06-22 21:28:45","alt":"Promotional graphic titled \u2018SCL Spotlight: Logistics in Transition: What to Know, What to Watch, and How to Keep Moving,\u2019 featuring a global supply chain scene with a cargo ship at port, a truck on a highway, a warehouse robot, and an airplane overhead, overlaid with digital icons for visibility, resilience, and adaptability.","file":{"fid":"264762","name":"spotlight-newsletter_LogInTransition_202606.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/22\/spotlight-newsletter_LogInTransition_202606.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/22\/spotlight-newsletter_LogInTransition_202606.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":167439,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/22\/spotlight-newsletter_LogInTransition_202606.jpg?itok=i2cx834H"}},"674087":{"id":"674087","type":"image","title":"Chris Gaffney","body":"\u003Cp\u003EChris Gaffney\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1717067903","gmt_created":"2024-05-30 11:18:23","changed":"1771883375","gmt_changed":"2026-02-23 21:49:35","alt":"Chris Gaffney, Managing Director, Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute","file":{"fid":"257557","name":"chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":129544,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/05\/30\/chris-gaffney_scl.jpg?itok=_M0fOBTF"}}},"media_ids":["680492","674087"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/2117803348049\/WN_528KNX2LRFWvO3bZXYaYtg","title":"Related SCL webinar 7\/2\/2026 \u0022Why Do So Many Automation Projects Fail?\u0022"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/news-events\/newsletters","title":"View past SCL newsletters and join our mailing list"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"194489","name":"scl-spot"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"187190","name":"-go-gtmi"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691311":{"#nid":"691311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hope Among the Pines: A Field Tour in Southeast Georgia Presents Carbon Exchange as Solution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe people of Georgia depend on forests for clean air, water quality, wildlife abundance, and a multitude of products consumed in our everyday lives. Our forests are also a sustainable and natural resource that can deliver climate benefits,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/clay\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELucas Clay\u003C\/a\u003E, extension professional at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERay C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. This message was a main takeaway from a field tour held January 29-30, 2026, across working forests in Southeast Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganized by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gffgrow.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Forestry Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(GFF) in partnership with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022\u003ERay\u0026nbsp;C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Scheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/\u0022\u003EClemson University\u003C\/a\u003E, and the University of Georgia (UGA) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/warnell.uga.edu\/\u0022\u003EWarnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources\u003C\/a\u003E, the trip brought together university researchers, foresters, potential carbon credit buyers, and family landowners.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia is the number one forestry state in the country, with more than 22\u0026nbsp;million\u0026nbsp;of its\u0026nbsp;roughly 24\u0026nbsp;million forested acres held in private hands. According to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/southernforests.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SGSF_Fact-Sheet-1.pdf\u0022\u003ESouthern Group of State Foresters\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;forests and the forest products industry in the Southern U.S. provide for more than 18% of the world\u2019s pulpwood for paper and paper-related products and 7% of the world\u2019s industrial roundwood.\u0026nbsp;The timber industry also supports thousands of rural livelihoods and\u0026nbsp;sequesters\u0026nbsp;enormous amounts of carbon. Yet today, Georgia forests are under pressure due to natural disasters and market changes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe field tour promoted a Georgia-specific carbon exchange that has the potential to save forests, help companies\u0026nbsp;purchase\u0026nbsp;high quality\u0026nbsp;carbon credits, and provide co-benefits for the entire state.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EPressure Points: Helene\u2019s Wake and Market Headwinds\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcross pine-forested Southeast Georgia, the devastation left by Hurricane Helene\u0026nbsp;remains\u0026nbsp;impossible to miss. A year and a half later, the cleanup \u2013 which is slow, expensive, and disheartening \u2013 is still ongoing across thousands of acres. Downed timber, too old to be sold for profit, lies in heaps. Throughout the field tour, landowners and foresters shared personal narratives that made it easy to feel the weight of what has been lost.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHelene only worsened troubles that were already underway. The markets for timber and pulpwood have been weakening. Demand for paper products has fallen sharply, taking pulpwood prices with it. In the last year alone, three mills have closed in Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDo I bother to replant?\u0026nbsp;If I plant, will someone actually buy my timber in 20 years?\u0026nbsp;These are the questions landowners across Georgia are wrestling with. Landowners\u2019 decisions today can lead to a future with fewer forested acres, less healthy forests, and forests converted to development \u2013 a loss that is permanent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe pressing question throughout the field tour was:\u0026nbsp;What happens next?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EStorytelling Matters: The Power of the Personal\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the benefits of a field tour is the chance to hear\u0026nbsp;firsthand,\u0026nbsp;personal accounts from the people whose livelihoods depend on forests.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tour began in Emanuel County at the Willie Hodges Family Farm Estate. Herbert Hodges welcomed the group to the 600-acre property his family has stewarded for four generations. Hodges shows his respect for the land through thoughtful stewardship \u2013 for which he was honored when he was named\u0026nbsp;2025 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2025\/09\/celebrating-landowner-mentor-herbert-hodges-2025-conservationist-of-the-year\/\u0022\u003EConservationist of the Year\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by the Georgia Association of Conservation Districts. However, Hodges worries whether the fifth generation will keep the land, and he wants to\u0026nbsp;demonstrate\u0026nbsp;to his heirs that the land is worth holding onto. He remembers his father telling him, \u201cNever get rid of the land.\u0026nbsp;As long as\u0026nbsp;you keep it, you have somewhere to live, somewhere to go.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jmhestad\/\u0022\u003EMatt Hestad\u003C\/a\u003E, senior vice president of GFF, said, \u201cMr. Hodges has to identify new opportunities for his property not only to keep his family engaged but also to prove the land is economically valuable, both today and into the future.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe carbon exchange, if built well, could be exactly that kind of new opportunity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EBuilding a Georgia Carbon Exchange\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative to develop a Georgia Carbon Exchange,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/georgia-tech-and-partners-to-establish-state-specific-forest-carbon-exchange.html\u0022\u003Elaunched in 2025\u003C\/a\u003E, is being led collaboratively by the organizers of the field tour.\u0026nbsp;It\u2019s\u0026nbsp;designed to create a voluntary carbon credit marketplace specifically tailored to Georgia\u2019s forest landscape, Georgia\u2019s landowners, and companies that are interested in\u0026nbsp;purchasing\u0026nbsp;high quality\u0026nbsp;carbon credits.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/staff\/eady\/index.html\u0022\u003EDavid Eady\u003C\/a\u003E, director of industry engagement at the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, described the vision: \u201cWe\u0027re looking at creating a marketplace for companies doing business in Georgia or headquartered in Georgia, so they can\u0026nbsp;acquire\u0026nbsp;credits that specifically\u0026nbsp;benefit\u0026nbsp;local communities and ecosystems. We want to make sure that we can continue to manage our valuable forest resources that make up well over half of the land in Georgia.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCompanies are concerned about sustainability because their customers are \u2013 and one of the things that that\u0027s manifested is a market for carbon credits,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/warnell.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/leslie-boby\u0022\u003ELeslie Boby\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the UGA Southern Regional Extension Forestry. \u201cBeing in forestry, we have the original carbon sequestration system: trees. And we have a lot of trees in Georgia.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe foundation for the Georgia Carbon Exchange already exists, waiting to be built on.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EAll the Players at the Table\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe January tour was a pilot that can be replicated for other groups of potential carbon buyers, policymakers, and stakeholders who need to understand what is at stake in Georgia\u2019s forests before they can meaningfully invest in their future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHestad described what made this first tour valuable: \u201cWe need all the players at the table: academics, buyers, and landowners. I feel like\u0026nbsp;we\u2019ve\u0026nbsp;learned from a variety of people about forest management \u2013 from a private family landowner about intergenerational challenges, from a recreation-focused landowner about wildlife management, and from landowners who have been\u0026nbsp;impacted\u0026nbsp;by Hurricane Helene.\u0026nbsp;We\u2019ve\u0026nbsp;been provided with context for how a carbon exchange could serve those different sectors of landowners.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor industry representatives on the tour, the experience was eye-opening. They joined the tour to learn more about recovery efforts, community support, and the mechanics of a carbon exchange. At the end of the tour, they said they had a clearer sense of both\u0026nbsp;the urgency\u0026nbsp;and the opportunity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClay said, \u201cLandowners are focused on the economics of forestry, and buyers are looking for quality credits. I think there\u0027s a lot of opportunity for both of these things to happen.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA successful carbon exchange requires trust, understanding, and shared\u0026nbsp;purpose\u0026nbsp;to be cultivated deliberately. Tours like this one are part of that cultivation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EA Common Goal in Focus\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia has everything it needs to make a carbon exchange work: the forests, the science, the institutions, and the will. What it needs now is exactly what the field tour was designed to build: awareness, connection, and shared commitment among the people and organizations whose decisions will shape the future of the state\u2019s forests.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zach-johnson-19096918\/\u0022\u003EZach Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E, procurement\u0026nbsp;manager\u0026nbsp;at Beasley Timber Management, LLC, told the group: \u201cWith every one green ton of tree growth, you sequester approximately one metric ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\u0026nbsp;Let\u2019s\u0026nbsp;find a way to certify this wonderful resource we have and prop up these jobs in Georgia \u2013 before\u0026nbsp;it\u2019s\u0026nbsp;too late.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaintaining\u0026nbsp;Georgia\u2019s forests is not only about carbon. Well-managed forests filter water, support native wildlife, improve air quality, protect public health, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation. These are co-benefits that a carbon credit does not fully capture but that are very much part of the value proposition for\u0026nbsp;maintaining\u0026nbsp;Georgia\u2019s private forests. As stated by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/warnell.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/dr-yanshu-li\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EYanshu Li\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of forest economics at UGA: \u201cIf we take care of our forests, our forests will take care of us.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the pines of Southeast Georgia, a common goal came into focus. The forests are worth saving. 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She Found Time Instead.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFew neuroscientists would dispute that the brain relies on prediction. From houseflies evading swatters to humans catching baseballs, living things are constantly anticipating what comes next. Understanding how the brain generates those predictions could help explain one of neuroscience\u0027s most enduring questions: how the brain builds internal models of the world that allow us to learn, adapt, and anticipate what comes next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWithout actively predicting the world, we cannot survive,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/farzaneh-najafi\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFarzaneh Najafi\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and a faculty affiliate of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThere is quite some sensory-motor delay in the processing. We can\u2019t just sit there, wait for the brain to process our environment, and then react.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of the puzzle may lie in signals known as neural ramps. Almost like a drumroll leading up to a big reveal, neurons in some areas of the brain have shown gradual increases in activity immediately before a stimulus appears. For decades, researchers have interpreted this ramping activity as a neural signature of prediction, reflecting anticipation of an upcoming event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently published in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aed6417\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a new study from Najafi\u2019s lab reveals these signals may not be \u201cpredictions\u201d at all, but instead a way neurons track elapsed time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSurprisingly,\u201d says Najafi, \u201cthe very first study from my lab called the Predictive Processing Lab showed that no, these are not prediction signals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finding challenges a long-standing interpretation of one of neuroscience\u0027s most studied signals and reveals that the search for predictive neurons may lead to different circuits \u2014 or require different experiments to uncover.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Problem with Prediction\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a challenge in separating simple time tracking from active prediction. Just because numbers on a stopwatch are increasing doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s counting up to a specific event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo tease the problem apart, the team designed a series of experiments that progressively stripped prediction out of the equation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking with mice, the researchers presented audio and visual cues at carefully controlled intervals. Some appeared at regular, hence predictable, times, while others arrived unpredictably. If neurons are making predictions, their activity should look different when events are predictable versus when they are not.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut that\u2019s not what they found. Even when the researchers introduced errors into those predictable patterns, activity remained largely the same.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was in the first year of collecting data in my newly established lab that my student, Yicong Huang, started showing me the data and I was shocked: how come we are not seeing a difference between the expected case and the unexpected case?\u201d Najafi recalls. \u201cBecause the entire theory is that there is a difference.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team found even more definitive evidence by monitoring \u201cnaive\u201d mice that had never seen the stimuli before. The brain must learn a pattern before it can anticipate it, yet they found that these neural ramps were present even in the first few trials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDrumroll, Please\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf these signals aren\u2019t predictions, then what\u2019s happening?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we are seeing are pure sensory signals,\u201d she says. \u201cThey are not about predicting the timing of the upcoming stimulus. They\u0027re about encoding the time that is elapsed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENajafi thinks that what neuroscientists have long interpreted as an anticipatory \u201cbuildup\u201d to a future event is actually a \u201crelaxation\u201d from the past. Rather than a drummer rolling up to a specific event, imagine one who is always rolling. Each stimulus briefly interrupts the performance before the rhythm gradually returns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut they found that not every neuron behaves like a drummer. While \u201cdrummers\u201d recover their interrupted rhythm after a stimulus, other neurons operate more like a reverberating gong, firing strongly after a stimulus before gradually quieting down.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe beautiful part of this story is that neurons don\u0027t all do the same thing,\u201d Najafi says. \u201cOne neuron ramps up quickly, another more slowly, another with a completely different time course. When you put that heterogeneous population together, you get a very robust readout of time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finding may also have implications for how neuroscientists think the brain represents time itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur findings support the theory that time representation in the brain is an intrinsic property of neurons,\u201d says Najafi. Because the signals appeared even in na\u00efve mice and in sensory brain regions, the results suggest that timing may emerge from the properties of neurons themselves, rather than from a specialized timing system elsewhere in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Najafi, the study doesn\u0027t close the case on predictive processing. Time, after all, is an important variable to track if you want to make predictions. Instead, it opens more questions about when and where those signals emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMaybe we didn\u0027t find them because this was a passive perception task, meaning mice just passively received stimuli without being instructed to attend to them. Maybe we need active perception or an active movement task, and that\u0027s when we can extract these predictive signals from the brain. Alternatively, we may need to search other brain areas to find neural signatures of temporal predictions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDo I believe now that the brain is not doing predictive processing? Absolutely not,\u201d Najafi says. \u201cBut before we say we\u0027ve found evidence for a theory, we really need to do multiple carefully designed experiments. We need to attack this from many different angles.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: This research was supported by the Whitehall Foundation, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.aed6417\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech study challenges a decades-old explanation for one of neuroscience\u0027s most famous signals, revealing an intrinsic neural code for tracking time.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech study challenges a decades-old explanation for one of neuroscience\u0027s most famous signals, revealing an intrinsic neural code for tracking time."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2026-08-24 19:39:14","changed_gmt":"2026-08-24 19:50:13","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680972":{"id":"680972","type":"image","title":"Najafi-SciAdv.jpeg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003EGeorgia Tech neuroscientist Farzaneh Najafi studies how the brain predicts future events. 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A new hire may need to learn dozens of assembly steps and complete them in sync with a fast-moving production line from the first day on the job. The demanding pace can make it difficult for new employees to adjust and gain confidence before entering the production environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETo help prepare workers for the realities of automotive manufacturing, researchers at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E partnered with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kiageorgia.com\/\u0022\u003EKia Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E to develop a gamified virtual reality (VR) training platform that allows workers to learn, practice and make mistakes before stepping onto the production floor.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThe need for this technology is clear,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/mohsen-moghaddam\u0022\u003EMohsen Moghaddam\u003C\/a\u003E, the Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor in ISyE and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, who leads the research team behind this project. \u201cNew hires are placed in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, where there is little room for error or on-the-line learning. For many workers, that transition can feel overwhelming.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe project began in 2025 through a collaboration involving Kia Georgia in West Point, Georgia; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/georgiaaim.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing (Georgia AIM)\u003C\/a\u003E, a statewide effort advancing AI and manufacturing education across Georgia\u0027s industrial ecosystem; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiaquickstart.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Quick Start\u003C\/a\u003E, the state\u2019s workforce training program operated through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tcsg.edu\/\u0022\u003ETechnical College System of Georgia (TCSG)\u003C\/a\u003E; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.spelman.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpelman College\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022What makes Georgia one of the top states for business is that we collaborate and work together to solve some of the biggest challenges manufacturers face,\u0022 said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/people\/steven-ferguson\u0022\u003ESteven Ferguson\u003C\/a\u003E, managing director of Georgia AIM and deputy director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtmi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThis project brought together collaborators across industry, workforce development, and higher education to build a solution that would have been difficult to achieve alone.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EISyE researchers were tasked with developing a VR training solution for Kia\u2019s door assembly line, one of the many stations workers must master before beginning work in the plant.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhile Kia already provides hands-on training through Georgia Quick Start, certain aspects of the production environment are difficult to replicate outside the factory floor. Researchers saw an opportunity to better prepare workers for the pace and pressure of assembly line work before their first day on the factory floor. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThrough site visits, demonstrations and conversations with workers and trainers, the research team gained a deeper understanding of the challenges new employees face on the production floor and a greater appreciation for the demands of the work.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cI didn\u2019t have any idea how hard or how fast-paced this type of work was before starting this project,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pantea-habibi\u0022\u003EPantea Habibi\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral researcher within ISyE and member of the project team. \u201cIt\u2019s mentally and physically challenging for workers, and I like that our VR system can reduce a little bit of their struggle so that they learn faster and better.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe team\u2019s gamified VR platform guides users through a series of progressively challenging learning stages. Trainees first observe a task being performed and then mirror an expert\u2019s actions before practicing independently with increasing levels of responsibility.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe training platform follows an apprenticeship-inspired progression. Trainees first watch an expert perform each task through the platform\u2019s \u201cghost hands,\u201d then practice with guidance from audio prompts and other on-screen cues. As they gain confidence and proficiency, that support gradually fades, allowing them to perform tasks independently.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOne of the platform\u2019s key advantages is its ability to simulate the movement and pace of an active assembly line \u2013 conditions that would be difficult and costly to recreate in a traditional training environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022In the virtual world, there\u0027s no material fatigue,\u201d Ferguson added. \u201cBeing able to create an experience where trainees can practice over and over without worrying about wear and tear or damaging components creates a lot of value.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe team recently delivered a beta version of the platform and demonstrated it to Kia leadership, including the president and CEO of Kia Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0022This project demonstrates what\u0027s possible when industry, higher education, and workforce development partners work together toward a common goal,\u201d said Stuart Countess, Kia Georgia\u2019s President and CEO. \u201cWe appreciate the collaboration of Georgia Tech and Georgia Quick Start in helping prepare the next generation of Kia Georgia team members for success and generating excitement about careers in advanced manufacturing.\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhile the current version focuses on a single door assembly station, discussions are already underway to expand the technology to additional stations within the plant.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFor Moghaddam, the project represents ISyE\u2019s human-centered approach to engineering by designing technologies that help people succeed.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThrough this project and many others, the main question we seek to solve is how can we develop assistive technologies at the intersection of AI, robotics and extended reality (XR) that augment human capabilities rather than replace them,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe H. 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Ozdemir demonstrated the technique by taking a piece of paper with a small Waldo-shaped hole cut out and placing it over the page. The demonstration confirms that Waldo is on the page without revealing his location or other details and is a simple example of a concept called a zero-knowledge proof.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn computer science, zero-knowledge proofs allow one person to prove that something is true without revealing the information that makes it true.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese types of problems sit at the center of Ozdemir\u2019s work. As a computer scientist and cryptographer, he studies ways to use mathematics and computer programs to protect information. But his work goes beyond creating new methods for keeping data secret. He is interested in connecting those methods to the computer systems that use them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI get excited about what no one else is working on,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m excited about now is how you relate the security of a computer system to a crypto scheme.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo recent papers published at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\u0022\u003EUSENIX Security\u003C\/a\u003E show how Ozdemir is applying this approach to real-world privacy and security problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of these problems is how to handle sensitive information without revealing it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImagine two organizations want to combine or analyze information, but neither wants to share its private data with the other. Cryptography can make this possible, but some of these privacy protections can be slow and difficult to use with large amounts of information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOzdemir and his collaborators developed a new system called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eprint.iacr.org\/2026\/672\u0022\u003EFLOSS\u003C\/a\u003E (Fast Linear Online Secret-Shared Shuffling) to make one of these tasks much faster.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFLOSS allows two parties to mix a set of private information without either party seeing the original data or learning the final order. This process, known as shuffling, is useful in privacy-preserving applications such as data analysis, anonymous messaging, and private advertising.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn tests, FLOSS shuffled more than one million items in less than half a second, making it more than 800 times faster than previous leading methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFLOSS achieves much of this speed by doing some of the hard mathematical work in advance, before the actual data is available. When the data arrives, the system can complete the shuffle quickly, with very little communication between the two computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system is designed to protect against cheating. If one of the parties tries to manipulate the process or access information it shouldn\u2019t, FLOSS can detect the problem and stop the computation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also used FLOSS to create a faster way to sort private information. Sorting is a basic computer task but doing it while keeping the information secret can be expensive. Making that process faster could allow privacy-preserving tools to handle much larger amounts of data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOzdemir tackled another problem through a project called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eprint.iacr.org\/2026\/213\u0022\u003EOrbit\u003C\/a\u003E: How can computers perform useful work on information that remains encrypted?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, is a form of encryption that allows computers to perform calculations on protected data without first decrypting it. For example, a hospital could send encrypted medical information to a cloud service for analysis without the service seeing the patients\u0027 records.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe challenge is that this type of computing can be extremely slow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrbit is a computing tool called a compiler that helps make these encrypted calculations more efficient. A compiler takes computer code and turns it into instructions that a computer can run. Orbit examines an entire computation and identifies more efficient ways to handle some of the most expensive steps in fully homomorphic encryption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than treating those steps separately, Orbit looks at how they work together and identifies opportunities to reduce the amount of work the computer must do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn tests, Orbit was between 1.19 and 1.73 times faster than previous leading systems on the workloads studied, including complex tasks such as running artificial intelligence models. The calculations also remained within 0.3% of the accuracy of those performed on unencrypted data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Ozdemir, projects like FLOSS and Orbit are part of a broader goal: making advanced cryptography practical enough to use with the computer systems people use every day.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E (SCP), Ozdemir is recruiting Ph.D. students from across the computing stack to work with him. He was drawn to Georgia Tech in part for its multidisciplinary approach to security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI also just love being around universities,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt SCP, Ozdemir plans to continue exploring programmable cryptography across the computing stack, integrating cryptography, compilers, and automated reasoning to address security problems from multiple angles. 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Together, the projects reflect Ozdemir\u2019s broader goal of connecting the security guarantees of cryptography with the computer systems that use them. At Georgia Tech, he plans to continue this work while recruiting students to explore programmable cryptography across the computing stack.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Alex Ozdemir is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to cryptography at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. 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Her work examines technology-facilitated risks and abuse. She uses research and innovative design approaches to understand digital safety risks and develop tools that better protect people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne area she is exploring through her recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/07\/27\/incoming-scp-faculty-member-selected-cra-trustworthy-ai-research-fellowship\u0022\u003EComputing Research Association Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship for Early Career Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E is the design of safe AI tools for labor unions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnions are developing AI tools to sort through complaints,\u201d she said. \u201cMany of these are built with proprietary AI models, which leads us to ask what the risks are of sharing personal information through these tools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERivera wants to give unions more control over how workers\u2019 data is collected and used. One way she plans to explore this is through a workshop at the upcoming ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, where union leaders and technical experts collaborate to develop a secure reporting tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research will build on Rivera\u2019s recent work focusing on platform-based gig workers. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vrivera2017.github.io\/docs\/SOUPS26_DWN.pdf\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E she published this year at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security examined how freelance workers often use secretive \u0022digital whisper networks,\u0022 informal online communities where people warn one another about workplace abuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERivera and her team found that these workers often avoided formal reporting channels when they experienced wage theft, discrimination, health and safety violations, or sexual misconduct. The study highlighted the need for secure channels that allow workers to report abuse and organize without further endangering themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere needs to be a way to report this abuse,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cBut how you do that in a safe and secure way is something we don\u2019t yet have answers for.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERivera is also expanding her research beyond the workplace to examine technology-based threats and abuse in romantic relationships. As a new assistant professor at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E, she plans to study how AI can blur the line between technology and intimacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsider a person who creates an AI chatbot that imitates someone they know, turning that person\u2019s likeness, personality, or private information into a virtual romantic partner without their consent. If that happens, Rivera asks, what protections does the person have? How can the chatbot be reported and removed?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExisting policies and reporting systems may not adequately address situations like these. In fact, they can pose new challenges for people whose identities or personal information are used without their permission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother project Rivera would like to explore is how platforms handle abuse involving romantic chatbots. Rivera has reviewed Reddit discussions in which users expressed concerns about reporting abusive behavior and about what happens to the intimate information they share with their chatbots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a lot of confusion on what these platforms know about their users\u2019 intimate details based on their chats,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is also a lot that isn\u2019t known on the back-end of abuse reporting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERivera has identified a need to design safer reporting features so people feel comfortable reporting abuse while also knowing their personal information will remain private.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe plans to cover these topics and more this fall in her new course that explores sociotechnical security. 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This includes looking at bacteria and conditions in Atlanta\u2019s Chattahoochee River.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoin Georgia Tech undergraduate Harrison Burnside on this latest episode of Engineered at Tech as he tours Katherine Graham\u0027s lab and discovers how to track pathogens in the Chattahoochee River. The goal is to help local agencies pinpoint sources of pollution in rivers and reservoirs to protect public health.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Environmental engineer Katherine Graham is developing new methods to pinpoint pathogens in water to help local agencies make rivers and reservoirs cleaner. 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This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (August 1-14\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EAugust 1-14, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, August 2026."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-08-14 21:55:35","changed_gmt":"2026-08-14 22:00:29","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-08\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_August2026.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (August 2026)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691698":{"#nid":"691698","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society Names Simon Sponberg Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E (INNS) has appointed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/simon-sponberg\u0022\u003ESimon Sponberg\u003C\/a\u003E as associate director for Interdisciplinary Research, where he will help foster collaborations, support emerging research initiatives, and advance interdisciplinary neuroscience research across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched in 2025, INNS serves as a hub for neuroscience and neurotechnology research, connecting researchers across disciplines to advance discovery, innovation, and societal impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA core part of INNS\u0027s mission is helping people find one another, connect around shared interests, and build something bigger than they could accomplish alone,\u201d says Executive Director \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/christopher-rozell\u0022\u003EChristopher Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cSimon has spent his career bringing together people, perspectives, and disciplines to tackle complex challenges. I can\u0027t think of a better person to help lead our interdisciplinary research efforts and support the next generation of collaborative neuroscience research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA longtime leader in Georgia Tech\u0027s neuroscience community, Sponberg helped shape the institute\u0027s early foundations through the Neuro Next Initiative, which evolved into INNS. As associate director, he will help guide research strategy, foster new collaborations, and support interdisciplinary work across the neuroscience ecosystem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNeuro-related research touches so many fields that we inevitably have a problem of finding all the potential right people and opportunities to tap into,\u201d he said. \u201cA core responsibility of this role is helping catalyze the ideas of new teams of talented researchers, educators, and trainees from inception to realization.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponberg is the Glen Robinson Professor in Complex Systems with appointments in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, where he directs the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sponberg.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAgile Systems Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. His work also connects him to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E (IBB) and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E (IRIM), underscoring the cross-disciplinary approach that defines both his research and leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince joining Georgia Tech in 2014, he has built a highly collaborative research program spanning neuroscience, biology, physics, engineering, and robotics while helping foster interdisciplinary connections across campus. He currently leads a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/18\/mathematics-physics-use-moths-and-origami-structures-innovative-defense-research\u0022\u003EMultidisciplinary University Research Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E (MURI) that brings together neuroscientists and engineers from five universities to understand how brains achieve fast, flexible perception and decision-making in complex sensory environments. He also co-leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-partners-15m-nsf-grant-explore-muscle-dynamics\u0022\u003EIntegrative Movement Sciences Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, an NSF Biological Integration Institute focused on understanding movement and muscle function across scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis contributions have been recognized through numerous honors, including a Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Neuroethology, a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in the Neurosciences, and the Leddy Family Dean\u2019s Faculty Excellence Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs associate director, Sponberg will focus on helping researchers identify new opportunities for connection and collaboration. In addition to overseeing seed funding programs, he hopes to create pathways for researchers to build teams, access support resources, pursue ambitious interdisciplinary research ideas, and team with Georgia Tech\u2019s undergraduate and graduate neuroscience degree programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI look forward to being a resource for our community when people are looking for help in building teams or finding opportunities to support their ideas,\u201d he said. \u201cBring your best ideas and please reach out if you want to talk about ideas in the interdisciplinary neuro space that you want to see realized.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researcher and longtime neuroscience community leader will help catalyze new collaborations and research opportunities across the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech researcher and longtime neuroscience community leader will help catalyze new collaborations and research opportunities across the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS)."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2026-08-14 20:32:01","changed_gmt":"2026-08-14 20:50:42","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680883":{"id":"680883","type":"image","title":"Simon-Headshot.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his new leadership role at INNS, Simon Sponberg leads a multidisciplinary research program spanning neuroscience, biology, physics, engineering, and robotics.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1786739533","gmt_created":"2026-08-14 20:32:13","changed":"1786739533","gmt_changed":"2026-08-14 20:32:13","alt":"Simon Sponberg smiling in front of a whiteboard.","file":{"fid":"265215","name":"Simon-Headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/14\/Simon-Headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/14\/Simon-Headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2798844,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/14\/Simon-Headshot.jpg?itok=7P3QbQBX"}}},"media_ids":["680883"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/lab-life-inside-institute-neuroscience-neurotechnology-and-society","title":"From Lab to Life: Inside the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society"},{"url":"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/18\/mathematics-physics-use-moths-and-origami-structures-innovative-defense-research","title":"Mathematics, Physics Use Moths and Origami Structures for Innovative Defense Research"},{"url":"https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-partners-15m-nsf-grant-explore-muscle-dynamics","title":"Georgia Tech Partners on $15M NSF Grant to Explore Muscle Dynamics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"},{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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The $652,965 grant, for \u201cNanoscale Quantum Sensing and Imaging of Topological Magnets,\u201d will provide funding for the next three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDu, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chunhui-du\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, studies quantum materials at very small scales. This project will leverage state-of-the-art quantum sensing and imaging techniques developed in her lab to study the properties of topological magnets at the nanoscale \u2014 and create a quantum microscopy platform, which she hopes will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the fundamental properties of these materials, as dictated by quantum mechanics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTopological magnets serve as a novel, cutting-edge material system, which is promising for developing next-generation, transformative quantum information technologies,\u201d says Du.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCurrently, magnetic and charge properties of topological materials are mainly characterized by bulk measurements,\u201d she explains. 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As these sensors \u201cread\u201d the unique behaviors of subatomic particles, they also dramatically improve scientists\u2019 ability to measure and detect changes in our wider environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMonitoring these tiny changes results in a wide range of applications \u2014\u0026nbsp;from improving navigation and natural disaster forecasting, to smarter medical imaging and detection of biomarkers of disease, gravitational wave detection, and even better quantum communication for secure data sharing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech physicists are pioneering new quantum sensing platforms to aid in these efforts. The research team\u2019s latest study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adk8495\u0022\u003ESensing Spin Wave Excitations by Spin Defects in Few-Layer Thick Hexagonal Boron Nitride\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d was published in \u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E this week.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team includes \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EChunhui (Rita) Du\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EHailong Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E (corresponding authors) alongside fellow Georgia Tech researchers \u003Cstrong\u003EJingcheng Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMengqi Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EFaris Al-matouq\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJiu Chang\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EDziga Djugba\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EZhigang Jiang\u003C\/strong\u003E and their collaborators.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAn ultra-sensitive platform\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new research investigates quantum sensing by leveraging color centers \u2014 small defects within crystals (Du\u2019s team uses diamonds and other 2D layered materials) that allow light to be absorbed and emitted, which also give the crystal unique electronic properties.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy embedding these color centers into a material called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), the team hoped to create an extremely sensitive quantum sensor \u2014 a new resource for developing next-generation, transformative sensing devices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor its part, hBN is particularly attractive for quantum sensing and computing because it could contain defects that can be manipulated with light \u2014 also known as \u0022optically active spin qubits.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe quantum spin defects in hBN are also very magnetically sensitive, and allow scientists to \u201csee\u201d or \u201csense\u201d in more detail than other conventional techniques. In addition, the sheet-like structure of hBN is compatible with ultra-sensitive tools like nanodevices, making it a particularly intriguing resource for investigation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s research has resulted in a critical breakthrough in sensing spin waves, Du says, explaining that \u201cin this study, we were able to detect spin excitations that were simply unattainable in previous studies.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetecting spin waves is a fundamental component of quantum sensing, because these phenomena can travel for long distances, making them an ideal candidate for energy-efficient information control, communication, and processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe future of quantum\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor the first time, we experimentally demonstrated two-dimensional van der Waals quantum sensing \u2014 using few-layer thick hBN in a real-world environment,\u201d Du explains, underscoring the potential the material holds for precise quantum sensing. \u201cFurther research could make it possible to sense electromagnetic features at the atomic scale using color centers in thin layers of hBN.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDu also emphasizes the collaborative nature of the research, highlighting the diverse skill sets and resources of researchers within Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWithin the School of Physics, Professor Zhigang Jiang\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/zhigang-jiang\u0022\u003Eresearch group\u003C\/a\u003E provided the team with high-quality hBN crystals. Jingcheng Zhou,\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ewho is a member of both Professor Hailong Wang\u2019s and my research teams, performed the cutting-edge quantum sensing measurements,\u201d she says. \u201cMany incredible students also helped with this project.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDu is a leading scientist in the field of quantum sensing \u2014 this year, she received \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/news\/chunhui-du-awarded-doe-grant-quantum-sensing-research\u0022\u003Ea new grant from the U.S. Department of Energy\u003C\/a\u003E, along with a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/news\/sciences-faculty-awarded-sloan-research-fellowships\u0022\u003ESloan Research Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E for her pioneering work on developing state-of-the-art quantum sensing techniques for quantum information technology applications. The prestigious Sloan award recognizes researchers whose \u201ccreativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next-generation of leaders in the fields.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adk8495\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.adk8495\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work is supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under award No. DMR-2342569, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award No. FA9550-20-1-0319 and its Young Investigator Program under award No. FA9550-21-1-0125, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under grant No. N00014-23-1-2146, NASA-REVEALS SSERVI (CAN No. NNA17BF68A), and NASA-CLEVER SSERVI (CAN No. 80NSSC23M0229).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech physicists are investigating quantum sensing and leveraging cutting-edge techniques \u2014 embedding color centers in a 2D layered material called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). 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Sherrill holds joint appointments with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt is an honor to join this prestigious scientific organization,\u201d says Sherrill, who also serves as associate director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe members are the very top experts in quantum chemistry from around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESherrill\u2019s research is at the intersection of chemistry, algorithms, and data science. His research group leverages advances in machine learning to develop tools for modeling data from quantum mechanical computations. These tools can be applied to chemical problems like drug discovery and crystal engineering. The research group makes its methods and algorithms publicly available through the open-source quantum chemistry program\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psicode.org\/\u0022\u003EPsi4\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESherrill received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and joined Georgia Tech in 1999 after having served as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous distinctions throughout his career and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. Sherrill has been associate editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Chemical Physics\u003C\/em\u003E since 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELearn more about Sherrill\u2019s research\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEstablished in Menton, France in 1967, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iaqms.org\/index.php\u0022\u003EIAQMS\u003C\/a\u003E is an international scientific society that covers the application of quantum theory, including chemistry and chemical physics. It is composed of scientists from around the world who have contributed to the advancement of quantum molecular science. 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This method constitutes a breakthrough that has potentially transformative consequences for the future of photonics-based quantum computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur results point to the possibility of building quantum computers using light by taking advantage of this entanglement,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chandra-raman\u0022\u003EChandra Raman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuantum computers have the potential to outperform their conventional counterparts, becoming the fastest programmable machines in existence. Entanglement is the key resource for building these quantum computers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELight has always been seen as ideal for quantum computing,\u0026nbsp;but it presents challenges. Photons don\u2019t interact with each other. \u201cIf I have two or more photons, it\u0027s extremely difficult to make them interact; they fly right by each other,\u201d said postdoctoral researcher Aniruddha Bhattacharya. \u201cThe key discovery here is we can entangle photons in a useful, controllable, and deterministic way.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers devised a protocol to create entanglement consistently. Their protocol makes use of a mathematical geometric structure known as non-Abelian quantum holonomy, which can entangle photons without requiring quantum measurements. Holonomy can be implemented with on-chip photonic devices, suggesting this protocol could be used to create scalable and integrable photonic quantum computers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research\u2019s implications are staggering for the future of quantum computing. Photonic quantum computers work well at room temperature, are portable, and are more easily integrated with existent quantum communication systems and links. Quantum computing is the future of not just computing but innovation, and photons could unlock new frontiers. This research was published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.080201\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has discovered how photons could be deterministically entangled for quantum computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has discovered how photons could be deterministically entangled for quantum computing. "}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2025-03-20 16:16:33","changed_gmt":"2026-08-13 20:06:11","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676619":{"id":"676619","type":"image","title":"Aniruddha_Bhattacharya_Picture.JPG","body":null,"created":"1742487426","gmt_created":"2025-03-20 16:17:06","changed":"1742487426","gmt_changed":"2025-03-20 16:17:06","alt":"Aniruddha Bhattacharya","file":{"fid":"260428","name":"Aniruddha_Bhattacharya_Picture.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/20\/Aniruddha_Bhattacharya_Picture.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/20\/Aniruddha_Bhattacharya_Picture.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":187682,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/20\/Aniruddha_Bhattacharya_Picture.JPG?itok=M6-Rrh0J"}}},"media_ids":["676619"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"660410","name":"Quantum"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Senior Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"687534":{"#nid":"687534","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Cryogenic Vacuum Chamber Cuts Noise for Quantum Ion Trapping","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEven very slight environmental noise, such as microscopic vibrations or magnetic field fluctuations a hundred times smaller than the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, can be catastrophic for quantum computing experiments with trapped ions.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address that challenge, researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed an improved cryogenic vacuum chamber that helps reduce some common noise sources by isolating ions from vibrations and shielding them from magnetic field fluctuations. The new chamber also incorporates an improved imaging system and a radio frequency (RF) coil that can be used to drive ion transitions from within the chamber.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of excitement around quantum computing today, and trapped ions are just one of the research platforms available, each with their own benefits and drawbacks,\u201d explained Darian Hartsell, a GTRI research scientist who leads the project. \u201cWe are trying to mitigate multiple sources of noise in this chamber and make other improvements with one robust new design.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe chamber design is described in a paper published January 20, 2026 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EApplied Physics Letters\u003C\/em\u003E. Some of the technical improvements developed for the project are already being applied at GTRI and collaborating organizations. This work was done in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the vibration isolation is to reduce the laser amplitude and phase noise when addressing the ions, increasing operation fidelity. The goal of the magnetic field noise reduction is to preserve the coherence of qubits for longer periods of time so researchers can use them for more complex algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/new-cryogenic-vacuum-chamber-cuts-noise-quantum-ion-trapping\u0022\u003ESee the complete article on the GTRI news site\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Chamber also incorporates improved imaging"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have developed an improved vacuum chamber that reduces noise for quantum ion trapping research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers have developed an improved vacuum chamber that reduces noise for quantum ion trapping research."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2026-01-21 15:56:39","changed_gmt":"2026-08-13 20:05:30","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679046":{"id":"679046","type":"image","title":"Researcher tests improved vacuum chamber for ion trapping","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGTRI Research Scientist Darian Hartsell makes adjustments to an improved cryogenic vacuum chamber that helps reduce some common noise sources by isolating ions from vibrations and shielding them from magnetic field fluctuations. 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To reach those goals, companies from around the world are pursuing a variety of approaches aimed at developing large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe approaches of over a dozen quantum computing companies are now being evaluated through the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a project of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). According to the agency, QBI \u201caims to rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation \u2013 meaning its computational value exceeds its cost \u2013 by the year 2033.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupporting the effort, a 40-person interdisciplinary research team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has joined the test and evaluation component of QBI, providing unbiased subject-matter experts to work with 13 other research organizations in evaluating the R\u0026amp;D plans of participating quantum computer companies. Through this collaboration, the GTRI team is working with more than 400 other third-party experts on the project.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/gtri-supports-initiative-assess-quantum-computing-efforts\u0022\u003ERead the complete article on the GTRI news site\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe approaches of over a dozen quantum computing companies are now being evaluated through the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), a project of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). GTRI researchers are supporting the initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers are supporting a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiative to evaluate different approaches to quantum computing."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2026-04-03 17:29:16","changed_gmt":"2026-08-13 20:05:05","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679845":{"id":"679845","type":"image","title":"Quantum computing could enable revolutionary advances in numerous technology areas","body":"\u003Cp\u003EQuantum computers may one day enable revolutionary advances in fluid dynamics, drug discovery, development of better agricultural fertilizers, improved materials design and other technical areas. (Credit: Tim Hynes)\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1775236418","gmt_created":"2026-04-03 17:13:38","changed":"1775236825","gmt_changed":"2026-04-03 17:20:25","alt":"Quantum research and potential benefits","file":{"fid":"264053","name":"Quantum_banner_03B_03-web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/03\/Quantum_banner_03B_03-web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/03\/Quantum_banner_03B_03-web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":839777,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/03\/Quantum_banner_03B_03-web.jpg?itok=QRIkBs4z"}}},"media_ids":["679845"],"groups":[{"id":"660410","name":"Quantum"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193653","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["gtri.media@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691631":{"#nid":"691631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect the Economy?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWildfires in the United States are getting bigger and the season is getting longer, fueled by hotter and drier weather from climate change. Even when fires are hundreds of miles away, the wildfire smoke can still harm people\u0027s health and create economic costs through air pollution, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.caseyjwichman.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003ECasey Wichman,\u003C\/a\u003E an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Economics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Air Quality Index (AQI) measures how clean or polluted the air is. A healthy AQI is between zero and 50, but when wildfire smoke blows in and settles over cities, the AQI can reach levels of 500 or more. Poor air quality changes where and how people spend their time and money, reduces productivity (even for those working indoors), and increases healthcare costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEnvironmental regulations like the Clean Air Act dramatically improved our air quality over the past 40 years, but as wildfire season becomes the new normal, wildfire smoke is eroding those gains,\u201d Wichman said. According to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06522-6\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Erecent research,\u003C\/a\u003E wildfire smoke has erased about a quarter of the progress made over previous decades, and more than half in many western states.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/08\/wildfire-smoke-affect-economy\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the IAC News Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWildfires in the United States are getting bigger and the season is getting longer, fueled by hotter and drier weather from climate change. Even when fires are hundreds of miles away, the wildfire smoke can still harm people\u0027s health and create economic costs through air pollution, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.caseyjwichman.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003ECasey Wichman,\u003C\/a\u003E an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Economics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Air Quality Index (AQI) measures how clean or polluted the air is. A healthy AQI is between zero and 50, but when wildfire smoke blows in and settles over cities, the AQI can reach levels of 500 or more. Poor air quality changes where and how people spend their time and money, reduces productivity (even for those working indoors), and increases healthcare costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEnvironmental regulations like the Clean Air Act dramatically improved our air quality over the past 40 years, but as wildfire season becomes the new normal, wildfire smoke is eroding those gains,\u201d Wichman said. According to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06522-6\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Erecent research,\u003C\/a\u003E wildfire smoke has erased about a quarter of the progress made over previous decades, and more than half in many western states.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech economist Casey Wichman explains how increased wildfire smoke from climate change affects spending, productivity, and healthcare costs."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-08-12 19:02:31","changed_gmt":"2026-08-12 19:06:07","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680847":{"id":"680847","type":"image","title":"CaseyWichmanSQUARE--40-.png","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECasey Wichman, Associate Professor, Georgia Tech School of Economics.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1786561359","gmt_created":"2026-08-12 19:02:39","changed":"1786561359","gmt_changed":"2026-08-12 19:02:39","alt":"Casey Wichman, Associate Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Economics.","file":{"fid":"265174","name":"CaseyWichmanSQUARE--40-.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/12\/CaseyWichmanSQUARE--40-.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/12\/CaseyWichmanSQUARE--40-.png","mime":"image\/png","size":448644,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/12\/CaseyWichmanSQUARE--40-.png?itok=GxjiNJf0"}}},"media_ids":["680847"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2026\/08\/wildfire-smoke-affect-economy","title":"Read Full Story on IAC News Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691627":{"#nid":"691627","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Model Teaches Workplace AI to Read More Like Humans","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EModern artificial intelligence (AI) platforms can summarize reports, analyze documents, and answer questions in seconds. But when information is spread across dozens of slides, charts, and tables, even advanced models can miss important details.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs many organizations and businesses are turning to AI to improve workplace efficiency, risk remains high. Between overlooked footnotes and misread graphics, small mistakes can have expensive consequences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, researchers from Georgia Tech and J.P. Morgan developed SlideAgent. The new framework helps large language models (LLMs) better understand complex visual documents like presentation slide decks, brochures, and reports.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.26615\u0022\u003ESlideAgent\u003C\/a\u003E works by breaking documents into multiple levels, allowing the model to analyze both the big picture and the fine details. This human-inspired approach leads to more accurate and reliable interpretation than existing systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond improving workplace tools, SlideAgent also points to a broader shift in AI. Instead of building only larger and more powerful models, the work shows how smarter design and more efficient reasoning can improve performance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMultimodal LLMs such as GPT, Gemini, and Claude, can save people time and reduce the mental effort required to understand these documents, but they remain imperfect,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ahren09.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYiqiao (Ahren) Jin\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. candidate in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn high-stakes fields such as finance, for example, misreading a number, overlooking a footnote, or making an incorrect comparison across pages could affect reporting, risk assessment, or strategic decisions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested SlideAgent on a wide range of real-world documents, including financial presentations, technical slides, and visual question-answering datasets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system consistently outperformed leading commercial models and open-source tools throughout the evaluation. In some cases, it improved accuracy by up to 10%. The gains were especially strong on more complex tasks, such as comparing information across slides or understanding how visuals relate to each other on a page.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found the results very encouraging. SlideAgent reaches an improvement of 7.9% over its proprietary base model and 9.8% over the evaluated open-source base models,\u201d said Jin, the project\u2019s lead researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are meaningful gains given the strength of the underlying multimodal models and the difficulty of the tasks.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECurrent multimodal AI systems often process entire pages at once. This approach can lead to mistakes, such as miscounting items in a chart or overlooking important details in dense visuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESlideAgent addresses this by mimicking how people read documents. Instead of treating each page as a single unit, the system looks at information at three levels: the full document, individual pages, and specific elements like charts, tables, and text blocks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA network of agents, each specialized for a specific level, divides and coordinates analysis. Then, SlideAgent combines outputs to build a structured understanding of the overall document. This allows it to answer questions more accurately and reason across multiple pages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe central inspiration was how people naturally read a long presentation,\u201d Jin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe first develop an understanding of the overall narrative, then identify the relevant pages or sections, and finally zoom in on individual charts, tables, or text blocks when precise evidence is needed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work highlights a growing challenge with AI. As systems become more popular and more powerful, users increasingly discover the technology\u2019s limitations. This is especially true for real-world tasks that require structured reasoning and contextual understanding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESlideAgent shows that better performance does not always come from building bigger models. Instead, it points to smarter ways of organizing how AI processes information that can lead to improvement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) accepted SlideAgent for presentation at its annual meeting. The 64th \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2026.aclweb.org\/\u0022\u003EACL 2026 meeting\u003C\/a\u003E took place July 2-7 in San Diego.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EACL is a scientific and professional organization for researchers in natural language processing (NLP). Its namesake conference is one of the world\u2019s leading venues for presenting NLP research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EACL 2026 followed a year after Jin completed an internship at J.P. Morgan AI Research, where he worked on SlideAgent. He interned under \u003Cstrong\u003ERachneet Kaur\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EZhen Zeng\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ESumitra Ganesh\u003C\/strong\u003E, all co-authors of the paper. School of CSE Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/\u0022\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E advises Jin at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with SlideAgent, Jin authored two other papers accepted at ACL 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cConferences such as ACL are valuable not only for sharing results, but also for refining future project ideas with the broader community. Discussions across institutions and research areas can reveal limitations, suggest new evaluations, and spark collaborations that are difficult to develop in isolation,\u201d Jin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor SlideAgent, I was particularly interested in feedback on how we can make the framework more computationally efficient without sacrificing accuracy or interpretability.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EModern artificial intelligence (AI) platforms can summarize reports, analyze documents, and answer questions in seconds. But when information is spread across dozens of slides, charts, and tables, even advanced models can miss important details.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs many organizations and businesses are turning to AI to improve workplace efficiency, risk remains high. 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These devices automate critical infrastructure, including water treatment facilities, power grids, manufacturing plants, and transportation systems. The lab\u2019s work has revealed widespread internet exposure and software vulnerabilities that leave many industrial control systems vulnerable to cyberattacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Out of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors defined by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/topics\/critical-infrastructure-security-and-resilience\/critical-infrastructure-sectors\u0022\u003ECybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u003C\/a\u003E, four are considered lifelines,\u0022 Zonouz said. \u0022Of those four, communications, energy, transportation, and water, the water sector is the most vulnerable, which is why it is so often targeted.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPLCs serve as the brains of industrial operations, monitoring sensors and controlling equipment that keep essential services operational.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Imagine you have a thermostat that controls the temperature of your house. 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Their research has found that many controllers contain vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit once they gain access.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Not only can the attackers see the house they want to rob, but the doors are also left unlocked,\u0022 Zonouz said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2024, Zonouz and his collaborators presented \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3658644.3690195\u0022\u003EPLCHound\u003C\/a\u003E at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), introducing an automated system that identifies internet-connected PLCs hidden within massive internet-scale datasets collected by services such as Shodan and Censys. The work was led by Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Pickren\u003C\/strong\u003E. Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs \u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Li\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EAnimesh Chhotaray\u003C\/strong\u003E are co-authors of the study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than relying on traditional scanning techniques, PLCHound identifies subtle network signatures that reveal industrial devices that prior methods often missed. Using the system, the researchers conducted one of the largest studies of publicly reachable PLCs from major manufacturers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir findings showed that previous estimates undercounted the number of internet-accessible industrial controllers by as much as 37 times. Even more concerning, nearly 96% of the identified devices exposed protocols linked to recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers did more than document the problem. After identifying exposed devices, the team launched a large-scale notification campaign, contacting more than 7,000 industrial operators to alert them that their systems appeared vulnerable. The effort enabled many organizations to investigate and address security issues before they could be exploited.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe recent attacks on municipal water systems reinforce concerns researchers have raised for years: many critical infrastructure operators continue to rely on operational technology designed primarily for reliability and performance rather than for cybersecurity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImproving those defenses, Zonouz said, will require more than simply patching individual vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers cite the energy sector as a model. 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They can stretch hundreds of pages and combine legal language, financial data, and visuals like charts and infographics. Even experienced analysts struggle to read them end to end, leaving many everyday investors relying on headlines or summaries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENew research from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fintech.gatech.edu\/#\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Financial Services Innovation Lab\u003C\/a\u003E reveals how artificial intelligence can make these critical documents more accessible and reveals where AI still has room for improvement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPO-Mine: A Toolkit and Dataset for Section-Structured Analysis of Long, Multimodal IPO Documents\u201d authors include Michael Galarnyk, Siddharth Lohani, Vidhyakshaya Kannan, Sagnik Nandi, Aman Patel, Liqin Ye, Arnav Hiray, Rutwik Routu, Prasun Banerjee, Siddhartha Somani, and Sudheer Chava.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaking the Complex Understandable\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe authors developed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2605.28714\u0022\u003EIPO-Mine\u003C\/a\u003E, an open-source toolkit and dataset designed to break IPO filings into manageable pieces. Instead of treating filings as a single document, IPO-Mine separates them into structured sections and extracts visuals like charts for analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPO filings are important public documents, but they are very difficult to work with at scale,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/siddharthlohani\/\u0022\u003ESiddharth Lohani\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech computer science major \u201926, software engineer at Bloomberg, and co-first author of the study. \u201cWe wanted to make these filings easier to analyze systematically.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy IPO Filings Matter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIPO filings offer investors a detailed look at how a company operates before it goes public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPO filings give investors a clearer look at how a company makes money, what risks it faces, and how it positions itself before entering the public market,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/arnav-hiray\/\u0022\u003EArnav Hiray\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech machine learning doctoral student in the Financial Services Innovation Lab, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/teams\/entry\/1279\/\u0022\u003EAI for Financial Markets VIP instructor\u003C\/a\u003E, \u0026nbsp;and co-author. \u201cEven if everyday investors don\u2019t read the full filing, these documents can help them better understand a company\u2019s prospects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor retail investors, that insight can help cut through marketing hype and offer a clearer sense of a company\u2019s underlying strengths and risks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI\u2019s Strengths\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch shows that large language models and multimodal AI models can use their speed, scale, and pattern-recognition capabilities to offer significant advantages when analyzing IPO filings, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e80105b07d5b0d11faf071ba4a653dbdf\u0022\u003EProcessing massive documents: IPO filings can exceed hundreds of thousands of words, making manual review difficult. IPO-Mine structures the filings into sections and extracts visuals for analysis.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ea54b334a7c419b3f02b3b99341559ff8\u0022\u003EStructuring unorganized data: IPO-Mine standardizes inconsistent sections across filings, making comparisons easier across companies and industries.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e081b77f8c34f03026ea81d13df00e0de\u0022\u003EAnalyzing text and visuals together: By extracting charts and images, AI can evaluate not just what companies say, but how they present information visually.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eee168697d8050bf1cac161d049fa1ff2\u0022\u003EIdentifying trends at scale: Researchers can analyze patterns in disclosure practices across decades, industries, and thousands of companies.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, these capabilities could help democratize financial analysis, giving more investors access to insights that were once limited to professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Key Finding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the study\u2019s most striking findings is that IPO filings are evolving in two different directions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat stood out was that the text and visuals appear to be moving in different directions,\u201d Lohani said. \u201cInvestors and researchers need to pay attention to both.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research shows that written sections are becoming more standardized, while visual elements such as charts and infographics are becoming more complex and varied.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs text becomes more standardized, more of a company\u2019s distinctive story shifts into its visuals,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vidhyakshayakannan\/\u0022\u003EVidhyakshaya Kannan\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab intern and co-author. \u201cBecause boilerplate language often looks the same across filings, charts and infographics are increasingly where companies differentiate themselves and make their case to investors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor investors, that means understanding a company requires studying the visuals as carefully as the text; figures can\u2019t simply be skimmed or skipped over.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere AI Struggles\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite its promise, AI is not yet a perfect solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e16599de6b5ed90a37957219cfb129f7a\u0022\u003EIPO filings are long: longer documents can reduce model performance, making it difficult for AI to maintain accuracy across an entire filing.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eafdf1a735bfeac1eef2b40a946cd2d14\u0022\u003EIPO filings are visual: AI tools struggle to interpret visual data correctly.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e939c27f235f13b396533231783d65cd6\u0022\u003EIPO filings are multimodal: filings combine text, tables, and visuals in inconsistent formats. This makes them difficult for AI models to process reliably.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur results show that even strong multimodal models can disagree with expert human judgments on financial charts, especially when they are misleading,\u201d Kannan said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Future of Financial Transparency\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI can accelerate analysis and uncover patterns, but human judgment remains essential for interpreting the visuals companies increasingly use to tell their story. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E is playing a key role in a nearly $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF)\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/08\/03\/georgia-tech-lead-national-cloud-laboratory-advanced-manufacturing-and-materials\u0022\u003E award\u003C\/a\u003E received by Georgia Tech that will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and advanced manufacturing technologies and facilities to accelerate scientific discovery. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech received the $18.1 million award through \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/tip\/updates\/nsf-announces-400m-investment-new-national-network-ai\u0022\u003ENSF\u0027s Programmable Cloud Laboratories initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, a national effort to create AI-enabled automated laboratories that researchers can access remotely. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE\u2019s contribution is led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pascal-van-hentenryck\u0022\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck\u003C\/a\u003E, the A. 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The broader multidisciplinary effort is co-led by Van Hentenryck, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/aaron-stebner\u0022\u003EAaron Stebner\u003C\/a\u003E, associate director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtmi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)\u003C\/a\u003E, Eugene C. Gwaltney Jr. Chair, James R. and Sarah R. Borders Faculty Fellow, and professor in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E School of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtmi.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-kurfess\u0022\u003ETom Kurfess,\u003C\/a\u003E GTMI executive director and HUSCO\/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cManufacturing is moving toward intelligent, autonomous, and interconnected systems that can learn, adapt, and accelerate innovation,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of ISyE. \u201cThis award positions ISyE and Georgia Tech at the forefront of that transformation. By combining ISyE\u2019s strengths in AI and systems engineering with interdisciplinary collaboration and state-of-the-art facilities, this initiative will accelerate scientific discovery and autonomous manufacturing, and create new opportunities to tackle complex challenges in engineering and manufacturing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the center of Georgia Tech\u2019s contribution is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ampf.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAdvanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF)\u003C\/a\u003E, operated through GTMI. 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She first attended I-SIM\u0027s flagship Winter Simulation Conference as a first-year Ph.D. student in 2013 and has participated ever since. After joining the faculty ranks in 2017 \u2013 first at Penn State University between 2017 and 2022, then at ISyE where she joined in 2022 as an assistant professor \u2013 she became increasingly involved in service and leadership activities within the society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs vice president\/president-elect, which is a two-year term that began in July, Song will help guide the organization\u2019s priorities and support initiatives that advance simulation research while identifying emerging areas of focus for the field.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m honored to help the society think about the most relevant and emerging areas in simulation,\u201d Song said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond its research mission, Song said the simulation community has played a key role in shaping her professional journey through mentorship, collaboration and service.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I-SIM is a very tight-knit community, and I have received so much advice and mentorship from previous and current members,\u201d Song said. \u201cBy the time it\u2019s your turn to lead, everyone is happy to step up. 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Held on April 2, the full-day event focused on space research guiding discovery and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs during previous editions, this year\u2019s conference featured more than two dozen scientists, engineers, policy experts, and thought leaders from Georgia Tech and beyond, illustrating how collaboration across fields \u2013 from science and engineering to public policy and international affairs \u2013 helps to advance strategic research priorities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cFrontiers is about discovery and connections across disciplines and generations,\u201d says\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lozier.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, dean of the College of Sciences and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair. \u201cThis edition provided an inspiring glimpse into the future of space exploration and the many ways Georgia Tech is contributing to research and missions seeking answers to what lies beyond our planet.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommitment to Space\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpace research is a key institutional priority at Georgia Tech, which is home to numerous academic and research programs in planetary sciences, robotics, mission design, space policy, and other areas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe recently established\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/space.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESpace Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SRI) serves as the central hub connecting the broad range of space-related research across campus. Led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/node\/2885\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJud Ready\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who also serves as principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, SRI has expanded support for space research and commercialization through initiatives such as the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/02\/26\/new-space-startups-take-georgia-tech\u0022\u003ECreationsVC Space Fellows Program\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2025\/12\/10\/georgia-techs-space-research-institute-announces-inaugural-seed-grant-awardees\u0022\u003ECenters, Programs, and Initiatives seed grant program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESRI\u2019s efforts are in line with Georgia Tech\u2019s long-standing contribution to space exploration. Hundreds of Yellow Jacket alumni work in the space sector, including several graduates who are playing key roles in the Artemis program. To date, more than a dozen Georgia Tech alumni have traveled to space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExploring the Final Frontier\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe conference featured a series of panels and discussions led by faculty and researchers from the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering as well as the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESessions explored how researchers are studying the processes and conditions that support planetary habitability, seeking to answer one of humanity\u2019s greatest questions: Does life exist beyond Earth? Speakers also examined how analog fieldwork in Earth\u2019s extreme environments can inform space exploration, and how space research, in turn, can deepen our understanding of our own world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAdditional conversations centered on building better space missions through improved understanding of team and individual resilience, data collection, navigation, and the development of advanced technologies like the robots developed through the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/good-dog-lassie-spirit-learns-walk-moon\u0022\u003ENASA LASSIE Project\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFrontiers also highlighted Georgia Tech\u2019s commitment to preparing the next generation of space scientists, engineers, and leaders. Student training and engagement were recurring themes throughout the day, with speakers emphasizing opportunities for student-led and student-run missions and research. A panel of Georgia Tech alumni shared their own STEM career journeys, challenging the idea of \u201cone right path\u201d to success \u2014 and acknowledging the resources and opportunities available at the Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA highlight of the conference was a fireside chat with Atlanta-native, retired U.S. Army Colonel and NASA Astronaut\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kimbrough-rs.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ER. Shane Kimbrough\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. Operations Research 1998). Kimbrough, who spent a total of 388 days in space and performed nine spacewalks across three missions, reflected on his career and the evolution of spaceflight. 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This year, the event returns Aug. 14 with even more opportunities to explore the people, ideas, and organizations driving the momentum.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresented by Avant South during ATL Tech Week, Tech Square Tech Hop transforms Tech Square into a walkable showcase of startups, research, and entrepreneurship, inviting the public to experience firsthand the people, ideas, and technologies shaping Atlanta\u0027s future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than an event, Tech Hop reflects Georgia Tech\u0027s broader commitment to strengthening Atlanta\u0027s innovation ecosystem by bringing together founders, researchers, students, corporate partners, investors, and community organizations in one of the country\u0027s most dynamic innovation districts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAttendees can explore live startup demonstrations, interactive exhibits, research showcases, food and beverage experiences from local entrepreneurs, and the organizations moving ideas from the lab to the marketplace.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech continues to work with the City of Atlanta, higher education institutions, industry leaders, startups, and community partners to advance Atlanta\u0027s vision of becoming one of the nation\u0027s premier technology hubs. Through these partnerships, the Institute is creating new pathways for commercialization, startup growth, workforce development, and economic opportunity. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSustaining a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem takes an intentional, holistic approach,\u0022 said Michael \u0022Dixon\u0022 Dixon, senior director of Strategic Initiatives and Operations. \u201cAtlanta has all the right ingredients. Our role is to connect the dots, bring the right people to the table, and help move bold ideas into action. 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Lee\u2019s latest company, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.huxleymed.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHuxley Medical\u003C\/a\u003E, aims to change those numbers with one simple patch.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you look at sleep apnea, it\u0027s probably the highest diagnostic opportunity there is in healthcare that can lead to the most impactful outcome in terms of reducing heart disease,\u201d Lee said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company\u2019s point-of-care device, called SANSA, measures nine physiological channels, enabling it to help doctors diagnose sleep apnea and related cardiovascular disease simultaneously. The device can be shipped directly to the patient\u2019s home, adheres to the chest like a Band-aid, and uploads data to a cloud-based system automatically.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re able to detect diseases faster in a very consumer-friendly manner,\u201d Lee said. \u201cMore or less, you just wear it and you\u2019re done.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESANSA has already been tested by more than 30,000 patients, with plans to expand exponentially by the end of the year. For Lee, that growing number is the most important of all.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI can\u2019t think of a higher calling than coming up with innovations that can improve the health or extend the life of people around the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u0027s why it\u0027s important to understand how to bring what you\u0027re working on in the lab to the masses because, at least for me personally, there\u0027s no higher calling in life than to be able to do that.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ETurning Ideas into Innovation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaking his research to market was always the goal for Lee, and something he learned how to do through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/tiger\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETI:GER program\u003C\/a\u003E during his time at Georgia Tech. TI:GER, which stands for Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results, is housed in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E. It connects Ph.D. students from the colleges of Engineering, Computing, and Sciences with MBA students to form teams that turn entrepreneurial ideas into technological innovation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELee, who joined the program in 2010 while still a trainee in IBB, was drawn to TI:GER because of the safe space it provided to develop his skills.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would say TI:GER was a big part of why I chose this career path. I really enjoyed research, but the aspect I always liked was the potential for translation of that research,\u201d Lee said. \u201cTI:GER gives you direct insight, resources, mentorship, and a network to be able to do that.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe network that Lee developed through the program has been a constant throughout his career. After earning his Ph.D., he joined his program mentor, Kurt Jacobus, working at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/enovis.com\/medshape\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMedshape\u003C\/a\u003E, a startup that Jacobus founded. After that company was acquired, the two co-founded another medtech business together, Vertera, which was also later \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.globusmedical.com\/healthcare-professionals\/advanced-materials-science\/cohere\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eacquired\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, Jacobus sits on the board of Huxley Medical, and the connections don\u2019t stop there. The company\u2019s two co-founders \u2014 Brett Klosterhoff, Chief Business Officer; and Brennan Torstrick, Chief Scientific Officer \u2014 are also alumni of the TI:GER program and worked as trainees at IBB. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it\u0027s the network that\u0027s probably the most surprising,\u201d Lee said. \u201cSomeone that I met at TI:GER when I completed that program 16 years ago, he\u0027s still someone that I work with on a regular basis and he\u0027s still an advisor as we continue to scale our businesses together. I would say that is probably the most valuable thing for me about the program.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the business-minded researcher, all the data, numbers, and statistics boil down to the human connection. More important than technology and innovation are the problems that they solve for patients, and Lee encourages young researchers to meet those problems with creativity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u0027s never one set path to figuring out how to translate research or starting a business or making an impact toward healthcare,\u201d he said. \u201cBut Georgia Tech can give you the tools that you can use to build your own path.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Chris Lee, numbers are more than just data \u2014 they\u2019re people. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31300334\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOne in four\u003C\/a\u003E adults have sleep apnea. Up to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31300334\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eeighty percent\u003C\/a\u003E go undiagnosed. And those who are untreated are \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC2542952\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efive times\u003C\/a\u003E more likely to die of heart disease. Lee\u2019s latest company, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.huxleymed.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHuxley Medical\u003C\/a\u003E, aims to change those numbers with one simple patch.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alumnus and serial entrepreneur Chris Lee is using research from his latest company, Huxley Medical, to improve the diagnosis of sleep apnea and related cardiovascular disease with a simple wearable device."}],"uid":"36479","created_gmt":"2026-08-05 19:08:38","changed_gmt":"2026-08-06 17:15:14","author":"abowman41","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680798":{"id":"680798","type":"image","title":"_0000_SANSA-2111.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EFrom left, Brett Klosterhoff (cofounder and chief business officer), Brennan Torstrick (cofounder and chief scientific officer), and Chris Lee (cofounder and CEO) of Huxley Medical. All three men are graduates of Georgia Tech and worked as trainees in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1785956927","gmt_created":"2026-08-05 19:08:47","changed":"1785956927","gmt_changed":"2026-08-05 19:08:47","alt":"Three men who co-founded and lead Huxley Medical stand together on the field of a baseball stadium, smiling at the camera. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAshlie Bowman | Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691121":{"#nid":"691121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"She Lost Her Mother. She Found Her Purpose.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMeghna Iyer came to Georgia Tech determined to understand the disease that was slowly taking her mother\u0027s life. Working with researchers in the Georgia Tech Laboratory for Pathology Dynamics, she helped use AI to analyze 36 million biomedical research papers, uncovering biological connections among ALS, Alzheimer\u0027s disease, and frontotemporal dementia. After losing her mother, Meghna returned to the lab with an even stronger resolve to continue the work, earning first-author publication on the study and helping create a tool that could accelerate future research for families facing these devastating diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/feature\/neurodegenerative-diseases\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more \u00bb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Meghna Iyer came to Georgia Tech trying to understand her mother\u2019s illness. 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"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2026-07-14 16:53:19","changed_gmt":"2026-08-06 14:39:21","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680604":{"id":"680604","type":"image","title":"als-thumb.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech student, Meghna Iyer, transformed her search to understand her mother\u0027s ALS into AI-driven research that could reshape how scientists study neurodegenerative diseases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1784048017","gmt_created":"2026-07-14 16:53:37","changed":"1784048017","gmt_changed":"2026-07-14 16:53:37","alt":"Two smiling researchers wearing jackets sit on rocks at a sunny beach with shoreline homes and the ocean in the background.","file":{"fid":"264887","name":"als-thumb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/14\/als-thumb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/14\/als-thumb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2526212,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/07\/14\/als-thumb.jpg?itok=glNqw-cB"}}},"media_ids":["680604"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/feature\/neurodegenerative-diseases","title":"Read the Full Feature"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"195203","name":"go-noshow"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"193656","name":"Neuro Next Initiative"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691149":{"#nid":"691149","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (July 2026)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (July 1-15\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJuly 1-15, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, July 2026."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-07-16 18:28:00","changed_gmt":"2026-08-06 14:09:08","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-07\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_July-2026.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (July 2026)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691516":{"#nid":"691516","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (July 2026 v2)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (July 16-31\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJuly 16-31, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, July 2026 v2."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-08-06 14:06:12","changed_gmt":"2026-08-06 14:08:37","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-08\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_July-2026-v2.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (July 2026 v2)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691436":{"#nid":"691436","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Your Immune Cells Are Tired. Georgia Tech Researchers Found a Way to Wake Them Up.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe immune system naturally weakens with age, leaving older adults more vulnerable to infections, cancer, and poor vaccine responses. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer Ankur Singh and his team have developed a technique that restores aging immune cells by delivering new genetic instructions directly into exhausted T cells using microscopic silicon nanowires. The treatment rejuvenated immune cells from healthy older adults, cancer survivors, and patients with cancer, helping them behave more like younger cells without damaging them. 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The treatment rejuvenated immune cells from healthy older adults, cancer survivors, and patients with cancer, helping them behave more like younger cells without damaging them. Although the research is still in its early stages, it opens the door to therapies that could strengthen aging immune systems and improve the body\u0027s ability to fight disease.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers developed a way to rejuvenate aging immune cells, potentially restoring the body\u2019s ability to better fight cancer, infection, and other diseases. "}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2026-08-04 18:19:51","changed_gmt":"2026-08-05 18:04:27","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680796":{"id":"680796","type":"image","title":"ankur-thumb-image.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers developed a way to rejuvenate aging immune cells, potentially restoring the body\u0027s ability to better fight cancer, infection, and other diseases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1785941556","gmt_created":"2026-08-05 14:52:36","changed":"1785941556","gmt_changed":"2026-08-05 14:52:36","alt":"Two researchers in a laboratory examine a blue-green silicon wafer. One, wearing a lab coat, safety goggles, and a blue glove, holds the wafer up for inspection while the other stands beside them. 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At Georgia Tech\u2019s Daedalus Lab, assistant professor, National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient, and Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Faculty Fellow Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and engineers by rethinking how materials are tested for their fracture characteristics. Their article in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeh0456\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E details a new testing protocol that reduces cost, increases speed, and simulates real-world conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaterials shape nearly every part of modern life, from packaging and consumer products to bridges and medical devices. Choosing the right material involves balancing durability, cost, manufacturability, and environmental impact. Yet those decisions are not always guided by a clear understanding of how materials age and fail under real-world conditions, especially for recycled materials like plastics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne way that materials frequently fail is by cracking. A small crack can begin almost invisibly. Over time, it can spread from regular wear and tear and exposure to common environmental factors like moisture, temperature fluctuations, or even dirt. Eventually, the crack expands, and the part fails. Engineers have studied fracture for more than a century, but connecting the science of cracking to practical decisions about sustainability remains a major challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe characteristics of recycled plastics often vary from those of the same material in unrecycled, or virgin, form. Products made from recycled plastics may be sold with sustainability claims under the assumption that they will perform as if they were made with virgin material. However, premature failure requiring repair or replacement can quickly change the sustainability equation as well as the acceptance of recycled materials by manufacturers and consumers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Conventional Fracture Testing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaterials rarely fail due to a single factor. They may be exposed to several factors simultaneously, such as mechanical loading, chemical environments, temperature changes, moisture, and time. Traditional fracture protocols test one specimen at a time under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, which bear little resemblance to the real world. To move beyond this limitation, Sun developed an in-situ, high-throughput platform capable of studying how materials degrade and fail under more realistic conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe platform changes conventional fracture testing in three important ways. First, it can test multiple specimens simultaneously rather than one at a time. By monitoring samples in parallel, testing time can be reduced by more than 60%. Second, it allows materials to be tested in realistic environments. In this study, researchers examined virgin and recycled plastics in alkaline environments that resemble conditions encountered in applications like landfill liner membranes and geotextiles. Third, the platform incorporates an imaging technique known as photoelasticity, which reveals the formation of stress fields that form around the origin of a newly developing crack. This allows researchers to see cracks develop earlier than before, giving them a clearer picture of the forces that drive crack growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers have made the technology available for licensing through Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Technology Licensing. \u201cOur goal was to make fracture testing not only faster but also more informative,\u201d Sun said. \u201cBy combining high-throughput testing, realistic environments, and full-field stress imaging, we can better understand how materials fail under conditions closer to real-world applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAn Honest View of Sustainability\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecycled plastics are often viewed as a greener choice. But according to the study, it\u2019s not always so straightforward. If a recycled product fails prematurely and needs to be replaced frequently, its environmental and economic costs can increase despite its recycled content. As Athanasiou puts it, \u201cFailing materials don\u2019t just break products. They can break sustainability promises.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, comparing virgin polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with recycled PET (rPET) in applications such as landfill geotextiles, the researchers discovered that rPET showed lower resistance to environmental stressors, particularly in alkaline conditions over a pH of 9. In this application, specifying rPET over virgin PET would likely eliminate all of the presumed economic and environmental advantages of using a recycled material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRecycling is essential, but recycled content alone does not tell the full story. If a material fails too soon, the environmental benefits can disappear,\u201d Athanasiou said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Cracks to Circularity\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the researchers, the significance of the work extends beyond recycled plastics. The broader goal is to provide a fast, affordable, and realistic platform for evaluating the sustainability of any material choice. Because current testing protocols are costly, not widely available, and limited in the information they yield, engineers, manufacturers, and policymakers often have little choice but to continue to specify non-recycled materials because they will perform as expected. Having cheap and accurate data on recycled materials will help to accelerate their adoption because matching the engineering properties of recycled materials to their most appropriate applications will become more obvious.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also hope to expand the platform to simulate even more complex environments and apply it to a wider range of materials. Because the system generates large amounts of detailed data, it may enable opportunities to use computational modeling or artificial intelligence to digitally simulate mechanical testing, driving down costs and expanding availability even more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe larger vision is a future in which sustainability is judged not by labels or assumptions, but by evidence for how a material performs, how long it lasts, how it fails, and what it costs society and the environment over its full lifetime.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlease visit the Daedalus Lab YouTube channel to see an explainer video about this new testing protocol: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmRhiRIiAkQ\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=zmRhiRIiAkQ\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the paper here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeh0456\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeh0456\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award No. 2338508.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChoosing the right materials for manufacturing products involves balancing durability, cost, manufacturability, and environmental impact. 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But a new multi-agent conversational system developed at Georgia Tech is taking much of the guesswork out of gardening for beginners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECultivAgents is a three-agent system that fields gardening questions and creates tailored plans based on a user\u2019s gardening skill level, climate and environment, and cultural background.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experience agent, environmental agent, and ethnobotanical agent inform one another and work together to guide users through the gardening process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMulti-agent systems provide multi-faceted support,\u201d said Diana Wang, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing who created CultivAgents. \u201cMy interest was in how we could provide more personalized and aligned support to individuals trying to grow food themselves while facing unique environmental or cultural factors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGardening is a hobby that many people start but give up because of the time and effort it requires to be successful. Ryan Pemberton, a horticulturist at Georgia Tech\u2019s community garden, said the two biggest mistakes he sees novice gardeners make are starting too big and overwatering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you\u2019ve never gardened before, trying to manage a large plot could be overwhelming,\u201d Pemberton said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can start small. You don\u2019t have to have a big garden right away. You can start with one tomato plant and grow from there. See how well you can keep that one plant alive and then expand as you feel comfortable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from the built-in health benefits of growing fresh food and working outdoors, Pemberton said gardening can lower your grocery bill and reduce carbon emissions by minimizing food transportation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt can also be a great way for international students at Tech to grow foods native to their homelands. He said a tool like CultivAgents could be useful for determining whether Atlanta\u2019s climate is suitable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople might want to grow a lot of different vegetables in their garden, but if you go too far south of here, it gets a little too hot to grow things like broccoli and strawberries,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA little north of here, it gets a little too cold to grow some species of peppers. Having something tell you what grows well in your region means you\u2019re not having to pick and choose or guess.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s one of the reasons Wang designed CultivAgents to feature multiple agents that consider unique environmental and cultural contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMultiple agents help distribute specific types of support as opposed to the generic support you often get from a single chatbot,\u201d Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnother advantage is that they tend to build on each other. The environmental agent builds on the experience agent\u2019s detailed steps. This allows the system to tell you how to grow bush beans, for example, within a specific local community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang said she surveyed and interviewed new and experienced gardeners who use Tech\u2019s community garden to learn what they would want from a conversational agent. She found that many wanted step-by-step instructions and guidance on what to plant, how to plant it, and a schedule for upkeep.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of our users told us they view gardening as something that\u2019s long term, so they wanted this platform to be able to facilitate that kind of relationship,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe community garden is a shared space with nine garden beds. Pemberton said it\u2019s a great place for new gardeners to learn to grow food before starting their own gardens. Much of the food grown there is donated to Klemis Kitchen, Georgia Tech\u2019s on-campus food bank.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the community garden and how to get involved, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainability.campusservices.gatech.edu\/community-garden\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/sustainability.campusservices.gatech.edu\/community-garden\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo see a live demo of CultivAgents, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cultivagents.onrender.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cultivagents.onrender.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECultivAgents is a three-agent system that fields gardening questions and creates tailored plans based on a user\u2019s gardening skill level, climate and environment, and cultural background.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new multi-agent conversational system is helping people start and maintain gardens."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-08-05 14:45:34","changed_gmt":"2026-08-05 15:15:00","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680797":{"id":"680797","type":"image","title":"26-R10410-P12-001-copy.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1785942231","gmt_created":"2026-08-05 15:03:51","changed":"1785942231","gmt_changed":"2026-08-05 15:03:51","alt":"Community Garden","file":{"fid":"265117","name":"26-R10410-P12-001-copy.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/05\/26-R10410-P12-001-copy.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/08\/05\/26-R10410-P12-001-copy.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":194413,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/08\/05\/26-R10410-P12-001-copy.jpeg?itok=O9WBm4sw"}}},"media_ids":["680797"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"194836","name":"Sustainability"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"48501","name":"gardening"},{"id":"47791","name":"community garden"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691421":{"#nid":"691421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SRNL, Georgia Tech Announce Facundo M. Fern\u00e1ndez\u0027s Joint Faculty Appointment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis press release is \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.srnl.gov\/news-releases\/srnl-georgia-tech-announce-joint-appointment\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eshared jointly\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E with the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) newsroom. Georgia Tech faculty \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/martha-grover\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMartha Grover\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E and \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/margaret-e-kosal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMaggie Kosal\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E also serve as SRNL Joint Appointees.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.srnl.gov\u0022\u003ESavannah River National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E announced the joint appointment of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/facundo-m-fernandez\u0022\u003EFacundo M. Fern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/a\u003E to collaborate in research around mass spectrometry, an analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions for research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur partnership with Facundo will deepen SRNL\u2019s innovative research in mass spectrometry and its groundbreaking applications,\u201d said Tammy Taylor, SRNL\u2019s deputy director of Science and Technology. \u201cHis expertise and collaboration will undoubtedly accelerate our lab\u2019s drive for scientific excellence and impactful discoveries.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFern\u00e1ndez is renowned internationally for his work in bioanalytical chemistry. His research focuses on developing tools to analyze small-volume samples, tissues and single cells, with applications in understanding diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease. He has published 234 peer-reviewed papers, given over 230 invited lectures, and supervised 35 doctoral and master\u2019s degree students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also directs the Systems Mass Spectrometry Core (SyMS-C) at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E, managing more than 15 mass spectrometers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing appointed as a joint faculty member with SRNL opens many new opportunities for collaborative research at the intersection of biology, chemistry and engineering,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cThis type of collaborative research is what Georgia Tech is renowned for. We aim to address societal questions with global impact. I have been incredibly impressed with the quality of science at SRNL, and I look forward to many joint discoveries in the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFern\u00e1ndez is a Regents\u2019 Professor and the Vasser-Woolley Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. He earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees (Licenciatura) in chemistry from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, in 1995, and his doctorate in analytical chemistry from the same university in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University\u2019s Department of Chemistry. He served as a senior postdoctoral researcher and later as a research scientist between 2002 and 2003 with a research group at the University of Arizona.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Fern\u00e1ndez is a renowned expert in the field of mass spectrometry, and it has been a privilege to already have him as a collaborator involved in our Laboratory Directed Research and Development program,\u201d said SRNL\u2019s Christopher Orton, division director for Nuclear Nonproliferation. \u201cThis joint appointment will strengthen the relationship between SRNL and Georgia Tech as we continue to work together to improve our understanding of the environmental fate of chemical contaminants in complex matrices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESRNL\u2019s Joint Appointment Program provides university faculty opportunities to engage in research and development addressing the nation\u2019s energy related challenges.\u0026nbsp;SRNL staff and joint appointees help ensure America\u2019s security and prosperity through transformative science and technology solutions, and joint appointees serve as a bridge between their university and SRNL researchers to deliver the future workforce for the Department of Energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESavannah River National Laboratory is a multi-program federally funded research and development center managed and\u202foperated\u202fby Battelle Savannah River Alliance for the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Environmental Management.\u0026nbsp;EM transforms the nation\u2019s environmental liabilities into opportunities for innovation, job creation, and economic growth, while ensuring safe,\u0026nbsp;secure\u0026nbsp;and prosperous communities across America. 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They are also essential to the nation\u2019s energy future, manufacturing competitiveness, and national security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/cmei\/articles\/does-office-critical-minerals-and-energy-innovation-launches-regional-consortia\u0022\u003Emajor investment\u003C\/a\u003E from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Georgia Tech is helping accelerate the development of domestic critical minerals from unconventional and secondary resources. The $7.5 million award positions the Institute to advance supply chain solutions that span resource discovery, processing, recycling, and circular materials management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESelected by DOE\u2019s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, Georgia Tech will lead the Critical Minerals in the Atlantic Seaboard Plain (CM-MAP) project. The regional effort builds on DOE\u2019s Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) initiative and will examine potential resources across the Atlantic coastal plain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CM-MAP project will focus on sedimentary deposits, including kaolin, bauxite, heavy mineral sands, and phosphates, as well as legacy mining residues, coal combustion byproducts, and other unconventional and secondary resources that could support future recycling and circular economy opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on existing infrastructure, regional assets, industry bases, and scientific expertise, CM-MAP will establish a regional innovation ecosystem that supports domestic critical mineral production, recycling, and advanced manufacturing, while fostering new economic opportunities throughout the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a powerful example of how Georgia Tech brings together leading research capabilities and partnerships from industry, government, nonprofits, and national labs to address complex national challenges,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/leadership\u0022\u003ETim Lieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E, executive vice president for Research. \u201cBy identifying and domestically sourcing critical minerals, we are helping secure essential supply chains, while enabling the next generation of energy and materials technologies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe DOE award builds on a growing network of research, industry, regional, and international partnerships led by Georgia Tech to translate scientific discovery into real-world supply chain solutions, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ea149f3a1369a08e50ecd550f254e4fc6\u0022\u003EResearch leadership \u2014 Founded in 2024, Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minerals.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Critical Mineral Solutions\u003C\/a\u003E serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research and technology development across the Institute.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3525757baf2e98febb34b5a40cf084bc\u0022\u003ERegional partnerships \u2014Through the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gems.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Partnership for Essential Materials\u003C\/a\u003E, a flagship regional collaboration platform, Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and the Georgia Mining Association convene stakeholders from across the critical minerals sector. The partnership brings together industry, nonprofit organizations, regional economic development agencies, national labs, universities, and technical colleges to connect, collaborate, and stay engaged in the latest developments.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ebccf1688cc8ca7d30f05f3e54fb5b005\u0022\u003EInternational engagement \u2014 A\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/04\/13\/georgia-universities-and-uk-partners-strengthen-collaboration-critical-minerals-gems-4\u0022\u003EU.K.-U.S. working group\u003C\/a\u003E extends partnerships across the Southeastern United States and Southwest United Kingdom, connecting researchers, industry leaders, and government agencies working to strengthen global supply chains.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1647f02ab83f892d6c95813afcbe8a2e\u0022\u003EGeorgia Critical Mineral Supply Chain Manufacturing Demonstration Center \u2014 Supported through\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/buddycarter.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=16085\u0022\u003Econgressional funding\u003C\/a\u003E, the center is developing capabilities and regional supply chain demonstrations that connect resource development, materials processing, recycling, and advanced manufacturing.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of CM-MAP, researchers will analyze materials collected from natural deposits and industrial sites throughout the Southeast to identify their critical mineral content. The resulting large datasets will be combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to better understand and predict where resources exist, optimize extraction pathways, and inform future recovery and recycling strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project brings together a highly collaborative team from Georgia Tech, national labs, industry partners, and research institutions across the region,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/people\/yuanzhi-tang\u0022\u003EYuanzhi Tang\u003C\/a\u003E, the principal investigator and Georgia Power Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, with a courtesy appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang is also the founding director of the Center for Critical Mineral Solutions and executive director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough this award, we are working to build secure and resilient critical materials supply chains, from resource discovery and characterization to processing, recovery, recycling, and advanced manufacturing, while also developing the skilled workforce needed to support these emerging industries,\u201d Tang said. \u201cOur vision is to create a regional innovation ecosystem that embraces both unconventional resources and circular economy approaches to maximize the value of materials already in use.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about critical materials research and workforce development efforts at Georgia Tech by visiting the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minerals.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Critical Mineral Solutions\u003C\/a\u003E webpage.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESelected by DOE\u2019s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, Georgia Tech will lead the Critical Minerals in the Atlantic Seaboard Plain (CM-MAP) project. 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We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang was recognized for her contributions to environmental chemistry, biogeochemistry, and energy-related research, as well as for her leadership and service to the chemical sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Given her exceptionally energetic research program, which spans topics ranging from the basic understanding of chemical cycling on Earth to creative solutions to recover rare elements from wastes, this honor is richly deserved and completely unsurprising,\u0022 said Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. \u0022We are lucky to have Yuanzhi as part of EAS.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs SEI executive director, Tang leads Institute-wide efforts to strengthen Georgia Tech\u0027s energy research enterprise by connecting expertise across disciplines and fostering partnerships with industry, government, and national laboratories. She also maintains an internationally recognized research program focused on understanding the chemical and biological processes that shape natural and engineered environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 2008, the ACS Fellows Program honors a distinguished group of scientists who have made exceptional contributions to chemistry and related fields while also demonstrating dedicated service to the society. With this election, Tang joins 17 Georgia Tech ACS Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u2019m deeply honored,\u0022 Tang said. \u0022This recognition reflects the contributions of many outstanding students, postdoctoral researchers, colleagues, collaborators, and mentors throughout my career. I am grateful for the opportunity to work alongside such talented people to advance scientific discovery and build interdisciplinary partnerships that address critical energy and environmental challenges.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1876, the American Chemical Society represents more than 170,000 members worldwide and is a leading source of scientific information through its journals, conferences, and educational programs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYuanzhi Tang, executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI) and Georgia Power Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, has been named an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acs.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Chemical Society\u003C\/a\u003E (ACS) Fellow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ACS is one of the world\u2019s largest scientific societies, and its Fellows Program recognizes outstanding achievements in scientific research, education, leadership, and service to the chemical profession and honors a select group of members each year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Election as an ACS Fellow is a significant honor that recognizes not only scientific excellence but also leadership and service to the profession,\u0022 said Julia Kubanek, Georgia Tech\u0027s vice president for Interdisciplinary Research. \u0022Yuanzhi\u0027s pioneering research, her leadership within ACS and the Strategic Energy Institute, and her commitment to advancing interdisciplinary collaboration have strengthened Georgia Tech\u0027s impact in chemistry, energy, and environmental research. 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The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/ligo\/people\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-LIGO research group\u003C\/a\u003E includes\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/laura-cadonati\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELaura Cadonati\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Assistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/surabhi-sachdev\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESurabhi Sachdev\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/margaret-millhouse\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMargaret Millhouse\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Postdoctoral Scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPrathamesh Joshi\u003C\/strong\u003E, eight graduate students, and multiple undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe LVK network detects gravitational waves when a massive cosmic event \u2014 like the collision of two black holes \u2014 creates invisible ripples in the fabric of space-time. Waves ripple out at the speed of light, and millions of years after the events that first created them, they reach the LVK detectors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBut detecting gravitational waves does not simply mean capturing a signal \u2014 clues first need to be untangled from background noise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIdentifying gravitational-wave signals requires carefully separating real astrophysical events from random fluctuations in the data,\u201d says School of Physics graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/urja-shah\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUrja Shah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, whose work to quickly identify phenomena supports rapid follow-up by the broader astronomical community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo support the identification of phenomena, School of Physics graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/megan-arogeti\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMegan Arogeti\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E conducts consistency tests between waveforms, checking results to find unexpected or unusual features. \u201cTests like this give us confidence in our models as we continue to observe gravitational waves with increasing sensitivity,\u201d she explains. \u201cThey support new observations and help identify exciting new physics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThese efforts help ensure that gravitational-wave signals are robustly identified and accurately characterized, turning each detection into a precise measurement,\u201d adds Shah. \u201cIn turn, these measurements deepen our understanding of some of the most massive and dense objects in the universe and the fundamental laws governing the cosmos.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAstrocalibration Autotune\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWhen a sensor detects a gravitational wave, it produces a distinctive response, says School of Physics graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/shobhit-ranjan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShobhit Ranjan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThose signals encode a wealth of information we can analyze to learn about their sources \u2014 their masses, spins, distance, and location.\u201d But in order to detect these chirps, the detectors must be carefully calibrated, and if calibration is not optimal, the signals can be compromised.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENow,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ligo.org\/gravitational-wave-detectors-can-now-autotune-their-signals\/\u0022\u003Ea new tool\u003C\/a\u003E is helping the LVK collaboration recalibrate less optimal signals.\u0026nbsp;The technique is already showing promise: In\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/10.1103\/gzrj-mwv3\u0022\u003Ean article recently accepted in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, LVK researchers successfully applied it to two interesting signals. The first signal served as a testing opportunity for the method. The team used astrocalibration to recover the data and check it against secondary independent calibration data that was available. They then put the technique to use, recovering information from a second event where no secondary calibration data were available.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cLike autotune in the music industry, the new research shows that theoretical models can be used as guides, similar to how sheet music can help a studio shift off-key music to its correct tone,\u201d Ranjan explains. \u201cThese theoretical models suggest the shape of the signal, and together with data from other detectors, we can adjust the data and read it correctly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe fact that these detectors can now not only sense cosmic events, but leverage them to improve the data being collected marks a new era in gravitational wave science,\u201d he adds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA Record-Setting Dataset\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe LVK Collaboration also\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/news\/ligo20260526\u0022\u003Epublished their fifth catalog of gravitational wave events\u003C\/a\u003E this spring. The findings include an updated estimate of how fast the universe is expanding, evidence for the existence of second-generation black holes, the most precise sky localization ever achieved for a gravitational wave source, and the first measurement of three vibrational modes of a black hole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cOur group helped enable 140 detections out of the 161 reported in this catalog,\u201d says Joshi, who contributed to one of the flagship searches and designed a specialized search focused on detecting especially heavy black hole mergers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJoshi also worked on determining precise locations of where the gravitational waves originated from in the universe \u2014 research that he says will allow astronomers around the world to perform long-term follow-up observations of interesting events.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOne record-setting detection showed two black holes that had violently collided more than 3 billion light-years from Earth. Researchers were able to pinpoint its location in the sky more precisely than any other gravitational wave event observed before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EImprovements in the LVK network\u2019s ability to localize events along with the large number of detections allowed for a better estimate of the Hubble constant, which measures the rate at which the universe is expanding. The new measurement is over 25% more precise than previous estimates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe new catalog also includes the \u201cclearest\u201d gravitational wave signal ever detected. The clarity of the signal led to the most accurate test of general relativity ever performed and confirmation of Stephen Hawking\u2019s black hole area theorem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis catalog provides not just the largest number of black hole detections, it marks a new era of rapid progress,\u201d Sachdev says. \u201cThis is just the beginning of what these observations will allow us to uncover.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrom new calibration tools to a record-breaking catalog of detections, the LIGO\u2013Virgo\u2013KAGRA (LVK) detector network is leading the way in gravitational wave science.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"From new calibration tools to a record-breaking catalog of detections, the LIGO\u2013Virgo\u2013KAGRA (LVK) detector network is leading the way in gravitational wave science."}],"uid":"35599","created_gmt":"2026-07-29 18:01:53","changed_gmt":"2026-07-31 14:45:16","author":"sperrin6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680716":{"id":"680716","type":"image","title":"An artist\u0027s concept showing a black hole. 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Researchers say it\u0027s beginning to help doctors make clinical decisions, identify mental health risks earlier, expand care through smartphones and wearable devices, and extend healthcare to people who might otherwise go without it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile adoption varies across healthcare systems, Georgia Tech researchers say AI is becoming increasingly integrated into medicine. At the same time, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789240037403\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Equestions about privacy, trust, equity, and human oversight\u003C\/a\u003E remain central to how the technology will be used in the years ahead.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMedicine has clearly embraced the human-AI fusion approach,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/jon-duke\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJon Duke\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/about\/research-facilities\/center-health-analytics-informatics-chai\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Health Analytics \u0026amp; Informatics\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. \u201cThe use of AI is encouraged, but reliance on AI is not.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Clinical Workflows to Decision Support\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of healthcare\u0027s earliest AI applications focused on reducing administrative burdens. Today, researchers say the technology is increasingly helping clinicians access and interpret information.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuke points to the growing use of clinical AI tools such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.openevidence.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOpenEvidence,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ewhich provide healthcare professionals with AI-generated, source-backed answers to medical questions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI is moving beyond administrative tasks and beginning to play a meaningful role in clinical decision support,\u201d Duke said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin electronic health records, AI is being used to generate clinical notes from patient-provider conversations and summarize complex patient charts. While healthcare systems have moved most quickly on efficiency-focused applications, Duke said AI is steadily becoming part of everyday clinical practice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, he believes human oversight will remain essential.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the biggest long-term questions is whether physicians trained alongside AI will develop the same level of independent clinical judgment as previous generations,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExpanding Access Beyond the Doctor\u0027s Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers also see AI creating new opportunities outside hospitals and clinics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/munmun-de-choudhury\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computin\u003C\/a\u003Eg, said AI is helping public health systems \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/pcd\/issues\/2024\/24_0245.htm\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eidentify emerging mental health concerns\u003C\/a\u003E by analyzing digital and clinical data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI is enabling public health systems to move from reactive to more proactive approaches by identifying emerging mental health concerns from diverse digital and clinical data sources,\u201d De Choudhury said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose insights may create opportunities for earlier intervention.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI has the potential to identify subtle behavioral changes that precede worsening mental health, creating opportunities for earlier support before someone reaches a crisis,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/alexander-t-adams\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAlexander Adams\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, studies wearable sensing systems, remote patient monitoring technologies, and point-of-care health tools. He said advances in AI are accelerating innovation in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical imaging, simulation, and biomarker discovery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe biggest changes I am seeing are the increased productivity in pharmaceuticals, medical imaging, simulation, and biomarker discovery,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThat has a downstream impact on what we can measure at the point of care.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Adams, smartphones and wearable devices have become increasingly important healthcare tools because of the amount of data they collect.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo stand-alone medical devices generate nearly as much data as smartphones and smartwatches, making them a natural place for modern AI,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also sees significant potential for AI-enabled technologies to improve access in rural and underserved communities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese technologies are especially important for underserved and rural populations that often have less access to care and face higher risks of complications,\u201d Adams said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBalancing Innovation and Human Connection\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite growing interest in AI, researchers caution that adoption is not without challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe real opportunity lies not in building more autonomous AI, but in designing systems that strengthen human judgment, clinical expertise, and community care,\u201d De Choudhury said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough AI has advanced rapidly, its impact on chronic disease management has remained limited, said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/rosa-arriaga\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERosa Arriaga\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI holds a lot of promise but hasn\u0027t delivered much in the way of real-world applications,\u201d Arriaga said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also raised concerns about how increased reliance on data-driven tools could affect interactions between clinicians and patients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe fear is that clinicians become \u2018data checkers\u2019 and have even less interaction with patients,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, Arriaga said AI is having its greatest impact in the mental wellness space.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are now randomized controlled trials showing that some people are willing to receive \u2018therapy\u2019 from an AI agent and that this intervention is beneficial,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, she cautioned that those developments should be considered alongside potential risks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGreater interactions with AI may lead to greater isolation, and parasocial relationships with AI may erode the social fabric,\u201d Arriaga said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShaping the Next Era of Healthcare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite differing views on the opportunities and challenges, the researchers see AI becoming a lasting part of healthcare.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI is accelerating everything,\u201d Adams said. \u201cEven through rapid iteration and simulation alone, it will accelerate medical devices and point-of-care technologies.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs healthcare organizations continue to explore where AI can improve care, researchers say the future of medicine will depend not only on technological advances but also on how effectively those tools support the people who deliver and receive care.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EFrom AI-powered clinical support tools and digital mental health applications to wearable devices and remote monitoring, artificial intelligence is influencing how healthcare is delivered. 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That is where I first got close to one of the stranger flows in global food: chicken feet, frozen solid and shipped across oceans to markets where they are a delicacy, not a byproduct. Nobody in that business thinks twice about it. But the whole model rests on one thing. You can hold protein at a precise temperature, without a break, across a plant, a port, a vessel, and the final mile. Lose the temperature for a few hours and you do not have a shipment. You have a claim. And nobody in the food trading business wants that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo when my wife handed me \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nicolatwilley.com\/frostbite\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFrostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, she knew exactly what she was doing. She knows how much I geek out on this stuff. Nicola Twilley\u0027s history of the cold chain won the James Beard Award, and it reads like a beach read because it is built on stories and real characters, not jargon. I kept recognizing the plot. I have spent a career around protein, juice, and global cold chains, and this book is the long version of how that world got built.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EHow We Got Here\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwilley starts before refrigeration existed at all. For most of human history, the only way to keep food past its natural life was to change it. Salt it, smoke it, pickle it, ferment it. Flavor was not a bonus. It was the cost of survival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen she introduces Frederic Tudor, a Boston merchant who in the early 1800s decided he could ship frozen lake ice to the Caribbean. He failed, over and over, before it worked. Once it did, an entire industry grew up around cutting, storing, and moving naturally occurring ice, decades before anyone could manufacture cold on demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat sequence matters. Ice in a rail car was brute force. It proved there was demand to move perishable food across distance and time. But brute force was not the real innovation. It demonstrated the demand and created the bridge to mechanical refrigeration. The real one was mobile mechanical refrigeration, and it is worth knowing who delivered it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Innovators Rarely Get the Spoils\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the harder lessons in this history is that the people who create the breakthrough are often not the ones who receive the recognition. The people who invent the breakthrough idea often are not the ones who get celebrated for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrederick McKinley Jones built the first practical mobile refrigeration unit in the late 1930s. His work is the reason a refrigerated truck, rail car, ship, and eventually a reefer container with a genset became possible. He held more than sixty patents and co-founded the company that became Thermo King. And yet the recognition came a generation late. He was the first African American admitted to the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers, in 1944. He received the National Medal of Technology in 1991, thirty years after he died. The medal went to his widow at a Rose Garden ceremony. The man who rewired the global food supply spent most of his life uncelebrated relative to what he changed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was not the only one. John Gorrie, a physician, patented mechanical ice making in the 1850s, was ridiculed, could not raise the capital, and died broke and largely forgotten. Different men, same lesson. The breakthrough and the reward do not always land on the same person.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor anyone teaching or leading in this field, that is worth sitting with. We celebrate the optimization. We rarely trace it back to the engineer who made it possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhere the Supply Chain Lessons Live\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the part of the book I would put in front of every student. Twilley keeps making one point from a dozen angles. Refrigeration did not just preserve food. It redesigned the network.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Chicago stockyards are the clearest case. Once you can refrigerate a rail car, you no longer ship a live animal to the city and slaughter it there. You slaughter near the source and ship only the parts people eat. That one change collapsed cost, concentrated an entire industry into a few cities, and pulled population with it. The local butcher who knew the farmer and the animal gave way to a centralized, disassembly line model. Long haul trucking did the same thing again at a different scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlobalization did it a third time. Each time, the breakthrough did not just lower cost. It moved where the value was created and who captured it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe smaller examples hit just as close to home, and they carry a lesson most readers will recognize from their own grocery cart. Refrigeration lets a business separate when food is harvested from when it is sold. That is postponement, and where you hold the inventory is a network design decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWatch how differently three products solve it. Oranges and apples are stored close to harvest, because the fruit is stable once it is cooled and the freight is cheaper after processing. I have stood in the juice tank farm in Auburndale, Florida, and the sheer scale was hard to describe. It looked like the final scene in \u003Cem\u003ERaiders of the Lost Ark\u003C\/em\u003E, the government warehouse that just goes on forever. That is what it takes to make a glass of orange juice taste the same in January as it does in June, in a country where oranges grow in two states.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBananas go the other way. They are picked green, moved green, and held in ripening rooms close to the consumer, where the gas mixture is tuned to the purchase and consumption occasion. Same physics, opposite network. The decoupling point moved because the product and the customer demanded it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe postharvest science behind that is just as striking. Twilley notes that two apples from opposite sides of the same tree can need different cooling and atmosphere to stay sellable ten months after picking. The supply chain was no longer simply reacting to time and perishability. It could begin to optimize around these variables.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat the Network Bought Us, and What It Cost\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere is where the book earns its subtitle, and where I would add a note of caution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERefrigeration bought us scale, lower cost, and food access no generation before us has had. It also bought us sameness. The same design choices that put apples in your store in July narrowed what gets grown. It is hard to contemplate that there are varieties of bananas and apples most of us will never taste, and tomatoes bred to survive a truck rather than to taste like anything. In many cases, we traded flavor and variety for availability and consistency, often without recognizing the tradeoff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt bought us concentration risk, as production rolled up into fewer regions and fewer hands. It bought us rural decline, as people followed the rail line and the warehouse instead of the farm. And it carried a human cost, paid largely by the workers, many of them women and minorities, who staffed the packing houses and the cold docks and rarely got named in the story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd there is the newest cost. The global cold chain is now one of the largest contributors to climate change, through the energy it consumes and the refrigerant gases that leak from it. As the developing world races to build the same system we built a century ago, Twilley asks the question our field should be asking too. Not just whether we can keep scaling this, but whether we should, and at what point the efficiency stops being worth the hidden cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe Monday Morning Takeaway\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you work in supply chain, here is what I would want you to carry out of this book.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENetwork design is real work, and it is roughly half the opportunity. Where you put plants, warehouses, and lanes sets the cost structure everything else lives inside. Get it right and you win for years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut that design is not durable. \u003Cem\u003EFrostbite\u003C\/em\u003E makes that point at scale, over and over. The refrigerated rail car did not improve the meatpacking network. It rebuilt it and moved an industry to different cities. Mechanical refrigeration did not improve the ice trade. It made it obsolete inside a generation. Every optimized network in this book was eventually reset by an innovation in processing, storage, or logistics that changed cost, quality, and service all at once, and usually faster than the incumbents expected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo design your network as well as you can. Then assume it has a shelf life. The next breakthrough is already being built by someone who is not waiting for you to catch up. The job is not to declare the network finished. It is to keep watching for the technology or capability that will change the economics and force the next design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPick up \u003Cem\u003EFrostbite\u003C\/em\u003E as you head out on your next break. It reads like a story because it is one. 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Georgia Tech researchers found that tiny predatory bacteria can halt the spread of a destructive coral disease by hunting and consuming pathogens responsible for the infection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECaused by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVibrio coralliilyticus\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Epathogen, the infection is one of the most notorious causes of tissue loss and death in stony corals. In the study, all untreated corals bleached within 48 hours. But corals exposed to the predatory bacteria fared much better: more than half showed no signs of bleaching beyond the infection site \u2014 and disease progression was effectively halted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cDisease is a major driver of death for these corals, and with sea surface temperatures continuing to rise globally, we anticipate that rates of disease will only increase. It\u2019s part of a deadly synergy profoundly threatening Caribbean coral reefs,\u201d says lead author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/lauren%20speare\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELauren Speare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u201cPredatory bacteria function like a living probiotic, fighting coral disease without harsh side effects. This could be a targeted way to protect and treat our most vulnerable coral reefs.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ismej\/article\/19\/1\/wraf270\/8376498\u0022\u003EHalobacteriovorax Halts Disease Progression in Endangered Caribbean Corals\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d was published in The\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EISME Journal\u003C\/em\u003E. In addition to Speare, the research team included Georgia Tech master\u0027s student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChloe Manley\u003C\/strong\u003E and postdoctoral scholar\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMacey Coppinger\u003C\/strong\u003E; University of California, Santa Barbara graduate students\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESunni Patton\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEddie Fuques\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eemb.ucsb.edu\/people\/faculty\/vega-thurber\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Vega Thurber\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the UCSB Marine Science Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENatural Defenders\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESpeare became interested in the research while completing her postdoctoral training with Thurber. \u201cDr. Thurber discovered that predatory bacteria are present in many coral microbiomes,\u201d Speare recalls. \u201cWe theorized that they might be contributing to what keeps the ecosystem healthy, balancing it through predation.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAt the time, the theory was hard to test. Marine predatory bacteria are difficult to preserve long-term, making experiments challenging. The bacteria are also extremely scarce, with populations increasing during a coral infection and rapidly declining after. Catching them while their populations are high is a matter of timing, Speare says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022It\u0027s a bit like trying to catch a mountain lion in the act of hunting a deer. If we aren\u2019t looking at the right time, we might miss it entirely,\u201d Speare says. \u201cI knew that if I wanted to study these bacteria in more detail, I would need to carefully design my experiments and timing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETesting the Treatment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo test their theory, the team spent six weeks conducting experiments at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mote.org\/location\/summerland-key-lab\/\u0022\u003EMote\u2019s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration (IC2R3)\u003C\/a\u003E in Summerland Key, Florida, a facility that maintains lab-grown living corals in seawater aquariums.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cFirst, we had to make our corals sick,\u201d Speare says. \u201cBut there wasn\u2019t an established way to reliably create these infections in this species in a laboratory setting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAfter weeks of experimenting, Speare developed a \u201cpathogen-sticker,\u201d a small agar patch containing the disease-causing pathogens. When placed at the coral\u2019s base, it mimics how infections spread in the wild.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThen,\u0026nbsp;at the first sign of infection, the team treated the coral with the \u003Cem\u003EHalobacteriovorax \u003C\/em\u003Epredatory bacteria\u003Cem\u003E. \u003C\/em\u003E\u201cSurprisingly, the most effective method was to pour the bacteria directly into the sick coral\u2019s tank,\u201d Speare says. \u201cThe bacteria are tiny, so we were able to create a concentrated liquid of them by using a filter small enough that only they can pass through.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHalobacteriovorax\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eare among the fastest-known predatory bacteria, and quickly navigate to their food source \u2013 presumably the pathogen causing the infection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Aquariums to Oceans\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBecause of the straightforward delivery method, Speare believes the team\u2019s methods could be readily adapted for coral restoration efforts, offering a simple way to deliver treatment on natural reefs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThere are several approaches to treating corals and mitigating stress, but these techniques don\u2019t work for all situations and all species,\u201d she explains. \u201cCorals are complex, and there is no single cure-all, so we need as many tools as possible to help corals survive.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor Speare, the next step will be to move from lab-based work to reef environments.\u0026nbsp; She\u2019s particularly curious as to why the predatory bacteria aren\u2019t already moderating illness on natural reefs. \u201cIf this is such an effective way to control pathogens, why isn\u2019t this system preventing disease outbreaks on reefs already?\u0022 she says. \u0022We need to understand what\u0027s limiting this natural defense system \u2013 and that\u2019s what we\u2019re digging into next.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding:\u0026nbsp;Lauren Speare was supported as a Simons Foundation Awardee of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. 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The event attracted over 100 participants from units across Georgia Tech and GTRI.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/john-tien\u0022\u003EJohn Tien\u003C\/a\u003E, SEI distinguished external fellow, professor of the practice, and former deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, along with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tom-fanning-06780a122\/\u0022\u003ETom Fanning\u003C\/a\u003E, former CEO at Southern Company, kicked off the workshop with a discussion on the role of energy in national security and the opportunities for Georgia Tech to align its research with this critical topic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event concluded with the announcement of two rounds of seed funding, offering up to $500,000 annually for three years. The first round,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sei-and-gtri-announced-awardees-seed-funding-energy-and-national-security-workshop\u0022\u003Eannounced\u003C\/a\u003E in September 2024, provided planning grants to six teams to support their initiatives in the fall. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecipients of the second phase of seed funding have now been announced. This phase will provide research support in the spring, with an option for additional funding through the 2025-26 academic year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis seed funding initiative by SEI and GTRI is a significant step toward advancing national security through innovative energy solutions. We believe this support will empower the funded teams to explore critical intersections between energy infrastructure and security, fostering groundbreaking advancements for a safer energy future,\u201d said Christine Conwell, SEI\u2019s interim executive director.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeven interdisciplinary projects by team members from Georgia Tech and GTRI have been selected for the second phase, also known as Category B (Table 1).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe seed grant initiative is supporting energy and national security collaboration among researchers from multiple units across the Georgia Tech campus,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/people\/william-h-robinson\u0022\u003EWilliam H. 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It\u2019s not trendy. In fact, it\u2019s downright grubby. But the work that a Georgia Tech researcher and his students are doing is improving campus sustainability, one pound of food waste at a time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/node\/2820\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, gave his senior-level biology class this semester a unique assignment: Feed food waste to black soldier fly larvae, collect the organic byproduct (called \u201cfrass\u201d), and analyze the results. What they\u2019ve found so far is a composting method with the potential to dramatically reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions while producing a nutrient-dense fertilizer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s something special about these grubs,\u201d said Hu, who is also a faculty member within the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThey smell, and they\u2019re kind of ugly, but they process food extremely efficiently. When we feed them, they eat twice their body weight, finish that in five hours, and you can do it again the next day. Traditional composting could never be that fast.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing a unique closed-loop system pioneered by private-industry partner and early-stage startup \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biotechnicausa.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBiotechnica\u003C\/a\u003E, the larvae eat their way through more than 300 pounds of food in one semester, creating valuable frass that students harvest. When the larvae mature into adults, they fly into a shared chamber to reproduce, make more grubs, and start the process over again.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can get a turnaround from food waste to frass in a day or two, and then from the raw frass to our ground-up frass that we use for our plants,\u201d said Mikkelle Peters, a fourth-year biology major in Hu\u2019s class. \u201cIt\u2019s just a much quicker process to get rid of the food waste.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeeding and studying an army of larvae that can eat more than 10 gallons of food a day keeps Hu\u2019s students busy. The solution? Divide and conquer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first group in the process gathers and grinds food scraps to feed the grubs, then collects the frass they produce. The next group mixes the frass with soil and analyzes its chemical makeup, comparing its nutrient density to commercial fertilizers. A third group uses the fertilized soil to grow vegetables like arugula and radishes that are measured against plants grown using synthetic fertilizer. The final two groups observe the environmental conditions that affect productivity and analyze the grubs\u2019 digestion to uncover the secrets to their success.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore testing will need to be done on outdoor farms to provide rigorous results. Data over the past few semesters were, at times, inconsistent. But the students\u2019 projects reveal a lot of promise for future experiments. Despite limitations to the study, including a small sample size and minor instrument malfunction, the students have been able to find helpful nutrients in their product and grow certain crops more successfully with frass than with commercial fertilizer. Unlike chemically based products or some traditional composts that need to be specially treated, black soldier fly frass is organic and easily processed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of fertilizers can cause harmful runoff, and they can change soil balances over time,\u201d Peters said. \u201cFrass is a natural product, has more fibrous material, and has a lot more organic compounds.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the science that the students are exposed to, Hu said it is also eye-opening for them to see the work of sustainability. The project is an excellent case study for how a small group can make a big impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe students have learned a lot,\u201d Hu said. \u201cFor one of the activities, we had them bring in their own food waste from home to feed the composter. They realized that a person makes pounds of waste per day.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of Sustainability\u003C\/a\u003E, the campus produces about 400 tons of food waste per year. Although Georgia Tech boasts \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/11\/07\/new-composter-enhance-campus-waste-reduction\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eone of the largest commercial composters\u003C\/a\u003E on an urban campus in the Southeast, the machine can only process 175 tons per year. That leaves a gap that Hu said his research might one day be able to fill.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRight now, it\u2019s working,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to expand and see if it can work some more. The big issue is visibility, getting people to know that what we\u2019re doing is good. Because in some ways, saving the planet takes energy.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the main energy sources for the experimental composter is something Hu hopes to reduce: manpower. With a campus the size of Georgia Tech\u2019s, it\u2019s a very labor-intensive process for students to collect food waste from campus partners. Hu hopes that more community members will volunteer, not only to collect food, but also to improve the system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe need people power \u2014 people willing to volunteer to move, because right now, campus produces a lot of waste in different places,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we also need biologists and engineers and computer scientists. We need people to make this system more well-engineered.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the current black soldier fly composter still has some flaws, Hu said his goal is to create an affordable, climate-friendly food waste recycling system that can scale up to support U.S. agriculture. By solving problems at the local level, his research is potentially removing economic and operational barriers to sustainability. But, according to Hu, the final step to long-term success is community involvement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the end, we need people who care,\u201d Hu said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take that much effort to do a little bit, and a little bit can go a long way.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech researcher and his students are using experimental composting to reduce campus food waste and support agriculture. Using a unique closed-loop system, black soldier fly larvae eat their way through more than 300 pounds of food in one semester, creating valuable frass that students harvest. 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Researchers at Georgia Tech offer solutions for not only surviving \u2014 but also benefiting from \u2014 fire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/43519\u0022\u003ERead more \u00bb\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers monitor wildfires and their impact on air quality and the climate system."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, depleted crops, and destroyed buildings are the hallmark of wildfire devastation. Another is the effect on air quality and even the entire climate system. 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His research examines the intersection of computing education, STEM learning, and AI, focusing on student preparedness, professional development, and the hidden curriculum- which he explains as the implicit skills and expectations that shape students\u0027 academic and career success.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda says his perspective is shaped by years of work in computing education. During his master\u0027s studies in systems and computing engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, he explored ways to expand access to computing education through interactive programming environments. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in human-centered computing from the University of Florida, where he focused his research on computing education and human-centered AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI is transforming how we learn, work, communicate, make decisions, and interact with one another,\u0022 Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda said. \u0022As educators, we need to prepare students not only with technical competencies, but also with critical thinking, ethical reasoning, collaboration, and the ability to adapt.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPreparing Students for the Professions of Tomorrow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than viewing AI as a challenge for higher education, Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda sees it as an opportunity for universities to rethink how they prepare students for an evolving workforce. He believes educators should help students develop the judgment to know when AI can enhance their work and when independent reasoning and human expertise are essential.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The conversation should not revolve around whether AI belongs in education, but rather how we integrate it responsibly and intentionally,\u0022 Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also hopes students begin to think of AI not only as artificial intelligence, but as augmented intelligence. \u0022The goal should not be to replace human thinking, but to enhance it,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda emphasized that AI should augment human capabilities rather than replace human judgment. Preparing students for an AI-driven workforce requires helping them understand when AI can support their work and when human reasoning, creativity, and expertise are essential.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrengthening U.S.\u2013Colombia Collaboration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe summit reinforced the value of collaboration among scholars, educators, policymakers, and industry leaders in advancing research and education. Earlier this year, Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda participated in another Fulbright Colombia event focused on strengthening scientific collaboration between Colombia and the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fulbrightspecialist.worldlearning.org\/the-fulbright-program\u0022\u003EFulbright Program\u003C\/a\u003E, which operates in more than 160 countries worldwide, is the United States government\u2019s flagship international academic exchange program to support peaceful relations between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. Fulbright Colombia, the binational commission for educational exchange between the U.S. and Colombia, has supported academic and scientific collaboration between the two countries since 1957.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda\u2019s academic journey reflects the impact of these collaborations. 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The technology helping organizations improve efficiency also enables cybercriminals to identify vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and launch attacks at unprecedented speed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) say the greatest concern is not that AI is creating entirely new forms of cyberattacks. Instead, it is accelerating activities that attackers already perform, making existing threats quicker, cheaper, and harder to stop.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI is dramatically speeding up cyberattacks,\u0022 said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/saltaformaggio.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBrendan Saltaformaggio\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the SCP and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). \u0022AI can identify vulnerabilities far faster than humans and often in places humans wouldn\u0027t think to look.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHackers Are Moving Faster\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost cyberattacks include several stages: finding vulnerabilities, developing ways to exploit them, gaining access to systems, and pursuing a goal such as stealing information or disrupting operations. According to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/frank-li\u0022\u003EFrank Li\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the SCP and ECE, AI is having its biggest impact on the early phases of that process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI can help attackers explore potential decisions and implement attacks faster than in the past, whether it\u0027s identifying software bugs or constructing social engineering hooks,\u0022 Li said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe pace of attacks has already changed dramatically.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/swire\/index.html\u0022\u003EPeter Swire\u003C\/a\u003E, J.Z. Liang Chair in the SCP and professor of law and ethics in the Scheller College of Business, says attackers are moving from vulnerability discovery to exploitation much faster than in the past.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The average time until an exploit is detected even a couple of years ago was measured in months,\u0022 Swire said. \u0022Now it is measured in hours.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat compressed timeline is forcing organizations to rethink how quickly they identify, prioritize, and patch vulnerabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Risk Reaches Everyone\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHealthcare systems, critical infrastructure providers, government agencies, and small businesses remain attractive targets because they often manage sensitive information or essential services while relying on legacy technology. But experts emphasize that no organization is immune.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Unfortunately, everyone is at risk,\u0022 Saltaformaggio said. \u0022AI is not creating new victims; AI is making attackers faster and more effective at targeting the same organizations they have always pursued.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganizations with outdated systems or limited cybersecurity resources face particular challenges because AI allows attackers to identify weaknesses in less time and at lower cost than ever before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFighting AI With AI\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECybersecurity defenders also have access to the same technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperts say AI can strengthen defenses before, during, and after a cyberattack. Defenders can use AI to identify and patch vulnerabilities more quickly, reducing opportunities for attackers to gain access. AI can also detect subtle signs of intrusion by correlating activity across networks and recognizing patterns that would be difficult for humans to spot in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce an attack occurs, AI can support rapid investigation and response by analyzing how the compromise happened, identifying root causes, and helping deploy targeted protections.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI can help defenders in every step of stopping a cyberattack,\u0022 Saltaformaggio said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are already demonstrating AI\u0027s defensive potential. Saltaformaggio pointed to Georgia Tech\u0027s recent success in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA)\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/georgia-tech-makes-history-wins-darpa-challenge\u0022\u003EArtificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E, which highlighted how AI systems can autonomously discover and reason about software vulnerabilities at large scale. Swire also noted that a Georgia Tech team led by Professor Taesoo Kim won a $4 million DARPA prize for developing advanced AI-based cybersecurity defenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeed Is the New Defense\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite the promise of AI-powered security, significant challenges remain. Security teams need AI tools they can trust, ones that explain how they reached conclusions and provide evidence that analysts can verify. Attackers may also attempt to manipulate AI systems, creating new risks for organizations that rely heavily on automated tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELi says organizations cannot rely on traditional, human-paced security processes to keep up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI\u0027s primary impact on cyberattacks is enhancing speed and scale,\u0022 Li said. \u0022Organizations need to adapt to more agile defenses and processes that account for this, in many cases relying on AI as well to help speed up defensive actions.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganizations also need to rethink how they respond to vulnerabilities. Swire argues that traditional patch management is no longer fast enough in a world where exploits can emerge within hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The entire process for patching systems will have to be re-engineered,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe cybersecurity landscape has always been an arms race between attackers and defenders. AI hasn\u0027t changed that reality. It has simply accelerated it. The organizations that will be best positioned are those that adopt AI as quickly as the adversaries they are trying to stop.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArtificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity by accelerating how quickly cybercriminals can identify vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and launch attacks. Georgia Tech cybersecurity experts warn that AI is not creating entirely new threats but making existing cyberattacks faster, cheaper, and more difficult to stop. 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He also will teach and mentor students through engineering design and experiential learning courses, helping connect classroom instruction with project-based experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRichard brings a unique combination of industry experience, research leadership, and deep commitment to student success,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/user\/1078\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarolyn Seepersad\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair. \u201cAs an accomplished engineer and a Georgia Tech alumnus, he understands the value of experiential learning and is well-positioned to lead the Student Competition Center.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimmons, ME 1993, joined Georgia Tech in 2016 after spending the first 20 years of his career leading research, technology, and business development initiatives in the automotive industry, energy sector, and federal government. After graduating from Tech, he earned his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from Purdue University and later became a licensed professional engineer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past decade, Simmons has held several leadership and research positions within Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, including founding director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnergy Policy and Innovation Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and, most recently, director of Research and Studies. 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The activity encouraged students to think like engineers, iteratively testing and refining their designs to improve results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEngineering Optimization and Tradeoffs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESimilar problem-solving skills were put to the test during an RC car optimization challenge. Equipped with a battery-powered vehicle and energy-monitoring systems, students were tasked with completing a driving course while maximizing their score by balancing speed, energy consumption, safety, and cargo capacity. Participants had the option to add weights and tennis balls to increase potential points, but doing so increased the risk of penalties from dropped cargo, missed obstacles, or vehicle rollovers. 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How do power plants operate?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrivia, Demos, and Scavenger Hunts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAdditional activities throughout the week included energy-themed trivia competitions, a steam engine demonstration, a solar microgrid exercise, and a campus scavenger hunt. Together, they reinforced classroom concepts through interactive learning and encouraged students to connect technical principles with practical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EField Trips to Power Plants\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhile these activities taught foundational concepts,\u0026nbsp;a highlight of the camp was a series of field trips that allowed students to observe large-scale energy infrastructure in operation. Participants toured the Georgia Power McDonough-Atkinson Plant, where they learned how combined-cycle power plants generate electricity using both gas and steam turbines to improve efficiency. Students also visited the Morgan Falls hydroelectric facility, getting an up-close view of the massive generators and equipment used to convert the energy of flowing water into electricity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECampus Tours\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn addition to exploring regional energy infrastructure, students were introduced to Georgia Tech\u2019s innovation ecosystem through visits to campus makerspaces and research facilities, including the Flowers Invention Studio and The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. Students explored one of the nation\u2019s most advanced examples of sustainable building design during a guided tour of The Kendeda Building, which generates 200% of the energy it consumes. 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That bartender analogy has, in part, justified laws passed in twenty-five US states \u2014 comprising more than 40% of Americans \u2014 mandating the use of digital age verification to gate access across social media and adult content online. Further regulation, targeting social media sites, is currently in process in a number of states.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mikespecter.com\/assets\/pdf\/AgeVerification.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Enew research\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) reveals that the reality of online age verification is far from ideal.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study found that the vast majority of sites covered by these laws do not appear to enforce age verification at all. When sites \u003Cem\u003Edo \u003C\/em\u003Ecomply, they often route users through third party age verification services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that one such third party, Yoti, a London-based company used by Meta, OnlyFans, Sony PlayStation, and TikTok, provides services for an estimated 60% of websites deploying age verification services.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDepending on the verification method, a verification attempt via Yoti may transmit a user\u2019s IP address and\/or OS and browser metadata sufficient to uniquely identify and track devices. Some of the IP, OS, and browser metadata may be sent to credit card companies and IP geolocation services, while ID information may be sent to a known \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/data-broker\/registration\/186885\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edata broker\u003C\/a\u003E, or another verification service.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere have been laws passed and court cases settled on the promise that these companies are incentivized to keep users\u2019 data private,\u201d said Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mikespecter.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael A. Specter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. \u201cWe found that reality is starkly different.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from privacy concerns, researchers note that differing state policies could lead to what they call the \u201cBalkanization of the U.S. web.\u201d In other words, users may have access to different parts of the internet depending on the state they are in\u2014potentially limiting the free exchange of ideas and information.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/hoppenheimer\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHarry Oppenheimer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E, users are already accustomed to experiencing the internet differently across countries. However, this may signal the beginning of similar fragmentation within the United States.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are going to start seeing comparable differences between U.S. states,\u201d said Oppenheimer. \u201cUsers in some states will now have to go through additional steps to access information. Close your laptop in New York before a flight to Dallas and try to load the same web page\u2014now you see two different results.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe also observed age verification deployed on websites accessed from New York, which has no law requiring verification,\u201d said Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pearce.prof\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eof UC Irvine\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.ics.uci.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDepartment of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe don\u2019t know why these sites are deploying such verification\u2014it could be a move to limit liability or simplify operations. Regardless, it points to an emerging threat for the open Internet where restrictive laws from some states could impact the entire country and beyond.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study, \u003Cem\u003EPapers Please: A First Look at Age Verification on the Web,\u003C\/em\u003E was led by Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Shreyas Minocha, undergraduate Isaac Sheridan, and professors Oppenheimer, Pearce, and Specter. It is part of the proceedings of the 47th \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sp2026.ieee-security.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E and was presented in San Francisco on May 20th, and featured in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Ftech-policy%2F2026%2F03%2Fafter-discord-fiasco-age-check-tech-promises-privacy-by-running-locally-does-it-work%2F\u0026amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjohn.popham%40cc.gatech.edu%7C9618dbf4c61140338f5508deb7673edd%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C1%7C0%7C639149851249813372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\u0026amp;sdata=WDS9aMmP8UCwjQdFIuZh73PMNG%2Be4Ks949IjaeUZv%2FI%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EArs Technica\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECORRECTION: A previous version of this article, posted in error, included statements that were not part of the researchers\u2019 findings or intent. 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The team will present its findings at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\u0022\u003E35th USENIX Security Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E in August.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research addresses a growing safety challenge as drones are increasingly used for deliveries, infrastructure inspections, and agriculture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs drones rely more on machine learning to navigate and make decisions, they also become vulnerable to model poisoning attacks. In these attacks, adversaries manipulate an AI system during its learning phase, embedding hidden triggers that can cause failures under specific conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMachine learning drones are making more decisions in flight, which makes ML a safety-critical component of these systems,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYizhi Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student and lead researcher on the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen something goes wrong, investigators need a way to ask whether the model was responsible, but the model is the part of the system that no one can examine after a crash.\u0026nbsp;FIRA\u0026nbsp;gives investigators a way to investigate these cases by reconstructing what the model was doing during the crash. As more drones run with ML, this kind of forensic capability can help drones be used more effectively and safely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen a drone crashes, investigators must determine whether the cause was malicious interference, weather, or mechanical failure. Without reliable forensic tools, accountability is difficult to establish, and safety standards are harder to enforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFIRA identifies how drone components interact with machine learning models and monitors those interactions in real time, even with limited bandwidth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system functions like a flight recorder, capturing key system activity and reconstructing a timeline after a crash. It then analyzes the model\u2019s behavior to determine whether a malicious trigger was introduced via poisoned ML training data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn tests across multiple drone platforms and crash scenarios, FIRA identified failure causes and distinguished cyberattacks from environmental or mechanical issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system does not require access to a drone\u2019s source code, making it practical for real-world investigations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs commercial drone use expands, tools like FIRA could help improve accountability and trust in AI-powered systems operating in public airspace,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Huang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\/sec26_prepub_huang-yizhi.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFIRA: Enabling Automatic Forensic Investigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was led by Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyfi.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECyber Forensics Innovation Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in cooperation with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Earlier this year, the startup earned \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/teams-cs-students-capture-2026-georgia-tech-inventure-prize-win-laurels-peoples-choice-award\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe People\u2019s Choice Award at Georgia Tech\u2019s InVenture Prize competition\u003C\/a\u003E for its approach to combating dynamic pricing and improving access to live events.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Problem\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhether fans are trying to attend a sporting event or a concert, the team says that securing tickets often means navigating fluctuating prices, limited inventory, hidden fees, and the risk of scams.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBuying tickets today can feel like entering a maze with a timer running,\u201d Saxena said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPrices change, listings disappear, fees show up late, and fans often feel like they need to be experts just to get into the event they care about.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow DoorTix Works\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoorTix was built from that frustration. Instead of requiring users to constantly monitor multiple ticket marketplaces, the platform tracks listings across sites and automatically purchases tickets when they meet a user\u2019s target price.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system is designed to respond to dynamic pricing and automated purchasing bots that can cause ticket costs to shift rapidly across platforms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat gives fans fair and predictable access without the guesswork,\u201d Saxena said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe wanted to build something that brings the human side back into ticketing, something that feels less like fighting an algorithm and more like having someone in your corner.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe World Cup: A Global Test Case\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe World Cup tournament is a high-profile example of the problem DoorTix is designed to solve. With global demand and limited availability, the tournament reflects the same challenges seen across major live events.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen fans are trying to attend something as massive as the World Cup, the stakes are higher. The excitement is higher. The confusion is also higher,\u201d Saxena said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat is exactly where DoorTix can be useful. The World Cup gives us a real, high-pressure use case for what we are building.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Idea to Startup\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for DoorTix began with a simple observation: buying tickets often creates more stress than excitement.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a computer science student, Saxena has helped translate that idea into a working product, balancing technical development with user experience design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cA lot of the work is not just \u2018write code and ship it.\u2019 It\u2019s asking what the user needs, where they\u2019re confused, and how we can make a complex process feel simple.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s CREATE-X Startup Launch program\u003C\/a\u003E, the team has tested assumptions, gathered customer feedback, and refined its business model as it develops the product.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019ve already seen real customer demand, and now the focus is on improving the experience and making it more scalable. 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Winning papers are those which have demonstrated \u201cthe most impact on the field (in terms of research, development, products or ideas) during the intervening years.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe awarded paper, \u003Cem\u003EAdaptive Insertion Policies for High-Performance Caching\u003C\/em\u003E, has been highly influential in cache replacement research. As a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin, Qureshi co-authored the paper with his advisor Yale Patt and collaborators from Intel, including Aamer Jaleel, Simon Steely, and Joel Emer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve been working on memory systems for 20 years and if I had to pick one favorite paper, it would be this one,\u201d Qureshi said. \u201cBoth because of the simplicity of the solution and for the impact it had.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen the paper was published at ISCA 2007, on-chip cache sizes were growing but still managed almost exclusively by the\u0026nbsp;Least Recently Used (LRU) replacement policy.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper showed that more than half of the lines in cache were discarded before they could be used under LRU policy and that this happened because the workloads being run were larger than the cache size. The team came up with a simple solution of modifying the \u201cInsertion Policy\u201d, such that the incoming lines were inserted at the LRU position instead of the MRU position, thus protecting the cache from thrashing patterns. The problem was that some workloads benefited from this policy while others were hurt by it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of applying one policy across the whole cache, their solution dynamically tested two small segments against each other, each running a different policy. Whichever policy had fewer cache misses was applied to the entire cache. They named this technique Set Dueling.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQureshi clearly remembers the moment he knew this paper would be important. He was up late working on the project when he ran the final simulation with the solution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was so excited that I just didn\u2019t sleep that night. 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They are flat and wide, which is common in Spain but not in Portugal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECasapu, a master\u2019s student in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of City and Regional Planning, correctly reasons that the picture of a road he\u2019s looking at is in Galicia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGive Casapu a photo, and he will likely be able to tell you where it was taken.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI start with infrastructure clues that are specific to a country, region, state or province,\u201d Casapu said. \u201cThey include roads or electricity poles, which often remain consistent throughout a country. Once you narrow down the country, you can use more specific factors like vegetation, specific landscapes, or architecture, because these are very nuanced. It\u2019s a top-down approach.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is why Casapu is the reigning\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/23\/georgia-tech-graduate-student-wins-geoguessr-world-championship\u0022\u003EGeoGussr World Champion\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 and the ideal expert to test vision-language models (VLMs) on how good they are at geolocation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeoGuessr is a geography browser game launched in 2013 that invites players to guess the location of random Google Street View images. Casapu was already known as one of the top players in the world before he won the third annual GeoGussr World Championship in September.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the beginning of the spring 2025 semester, School of Interactive Computing professor James Hays reached out to Casapu and invited him to collaborate on a new project. Hays was looking to create a dataset to evaluate VLMs\u0027 geolocation ability and reasoning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cVLMs are surprisingly good at geolocation right out of the box, even when they\u2019re not trained to be good at it,\u201d Hays said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHays and his colleagues, associate professors Alan Ritter and Wei Xu, took issue with many AI companies claiming that the VLMs they were releasing were not good at geolocation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen Open AI released GPT 4 Vision, there were privacy concerns about the model\u2019s ability to geolocate someone based on photos they\u2019ve shared on the internet,\u201d Ritter said. \u201cOpen AI said this wasn\u2019t a concern and claimed the model wasn\u2019t good at geolocation beyond being able to recognize a city or famous monument. We found that wasn\u2019t the case. These VLMs are state-of-the-art at image geolocation tasks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShow Your Work\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHays and Ritter enlisted a team of some of the world\u2019s top geolocators. It consisted of Casapu, Joshua Diao, a master\u2019s student in computer science, and Tejas Santanam, a Ph.D. student in industrial engineering. They each received 500 images to geolocate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam members recorded their reasons for each of their answers. The result was GeoRC, the first benchmark for VLM geolocation performance, consisting of 800 \u201cground truth\u201d reasoning chains.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHays and Ritter gave the same images to GPT 5, Gemini, Llama, and Qwen. The highest-performing model geolocated with 90% accuracy \u2014 not far off from the team\u2019s 96% score.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, a major distinction showed up in the reasoning chains. While Casapu and Diao provided clear explanations for how they deduce each location, the VLMs either couldn\u2019t provide reasoning for their guesses or were vague in their answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe research community has been demanding explanations from these models,\u201d Hays said. \u201cFor example, how do they know the location is in Italy?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHays has been researching this subject for almost 20 years. As a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008, he was the first researcher to take a machine learning approach to geolocation. He introduced a new algorithm that could estimate a geographic location from a single image.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen experts have audited these reasoning chains, we\u2019ve noted many suspicious or hallucinated attributes,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they hallucinate a geographic property, why is it so often consistent with the correct guess?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI believe they\u2019re not revealing the true reasoning pathway that they used to determine the image was Italy. They\u2019re just implicitly recognizing that it was Italy for many reasons, then hunting for evidence to support that. Some of the things they say are true and supported by the image, and some are fabrications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPractice Partner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECasapu said there may be only a handful of GeoGuessr players who can currently outperform some top-tier VLMs in geolocation, and it may not be long before no one can.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think it could be more difficult playing against these models than playing against another human because a human has the possibility of making mistakes at the top level,\u201d Casapu said. \u201cIf a well-trained model has that level of consistency, that is far beyond a normal person, and it would be much more difficult to beat.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe added that working with Hays and competing against a machine improved his skill level and provided valuable practice ahead of the world championship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt helps to take a step back and see why you\u2019re making the guesses that you are,\u201d he said. \u201cSince then, I\u2019ve taken a more methodical approach to how I practice. Writing these things down is a great way to see what you know and see why you make the guesses that you do. It\u2019s been a great training tool.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECasapu will defend his title at the 2026 GeoGussr World Championship in September.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHays, Ritter, Xu, Casapu, Diao, and Santanm are all co-authors of a paper on GeoRC along with lead author Mohit Talrej and Ph.D. students Ethan Mendes and Jim Thannikary. The paper will be presented next week at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in San Diego.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers James Hays, Alan Ritter, and Wei Xu partnered with reigning GeoGuessr World Champion Radu Casapu and other top players to build GeoRC, the first benchmark evaluating how well vision-language models (VLMs) can geolocate images. 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Petit Center for AI-Driven Health Innovation, a new research center that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict, treat, and prevent disease.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Petit Center is made possible by a transformational commitment from technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Georgia Tech alumnus Parker H. \u0022Pete\u0022 Petit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 1980, Petit has provided significant philanthropic support across campus, including the naming of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.petitinstitute.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)\u003C\/a\u003E, one of Georgia Tech\u2019s 11 Interdisciplinary Research Institutes. IBB is an interdisciplinary hub for transforming biological discovery into real-world health impact, bringing together engineers, scientists, and clinicians to accelerate innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, and biomanufacturing. With more than 300 interdisciplinary faculty researchers, 13 research centers, and 1,300 trainees making unprecedented discoveries and generating innovative technologies, IBB is a catalyst for innovative bioengineering and bioscience research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe success of IBB led Petit to make his latest investment, which will build on Georgia Tech\u2019s broader commitment to medical innovation: applying engineering, computing, AI, biosciences, and systems thinking to health challenges that require more than any one field can solve. The Petit Center\u2019s work will strengthen the tools, partnerships, and research pathways needed to help more discoveries move from the lab toward real-world patient care.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA key goal of the Petit Center will be to use AI to build more precise models of how disease works in the body. Its first research initiative will focus on creating virtual models of human cells. Led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/jeff-skolnick\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor and Mary and\u0026nbsp;Maisie Gibson Chair\u0026nbsp;and GRA Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology\u0026nbsp;in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers will use those models to study how diseases progress and to identify treatments that may work best for individual patients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy modeling disease at the cellular level, researchers can test ideas faster, uncover links among different diseases, and focus on therapies most likely to help patients based on their unique biology. The work could expedite the discovery of new therapies for some of the hardest-to-treat diseases, including pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMedical innovation is one of the fastest-growing areas in Georgia Tech\u2019s research, and Pete Petit\u2019s commitment will help us further shape the future of medicine,\u0022 said \u00c1ngel Cabrera, president of Georgia Tech. \u201cThis new research center will find new ways to harness the power of AI to accelerate critical medical discoveries and move them into clinical settings so patients can get the care they need. We\u2019re deeply grateful for Pete\u0027s support, and we\u2019re excited to get started.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Parker H. Petit Center for AI-Driven Health Innovation will operate under the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E (IDEaS) and bring together researchers from across Georgia Tech to advance AI-driven approaches to human health. Researchers affiliated with the Petit Center will work across fields and with clinical and healthcare organizations to help close the gap between discovery and practical use. Over time and with additional investments, the Petit Center\u2019s work will expand into areas such as cancer biomarker discovery, healthy aging, advanced cellular therapies, and AI-supported healthcare systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech has the expertise to redefine what is possible in healthcare through AI,\u0022 said Skolnick. \u0022By combining advanced computational methods with biological and medical insights, we can create powerful new approaches to predicting disease, identifying treatments, and improving patient outcomes.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPetit\u2019s commitment will support advanced computing infrastructure, graduate and postdoctoral fellowships, seed research grants, and annual programs that will bring together leading researchers from around the world working at the intersection of AI and health.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPetit hopes this investment will inspire others to support interdisciplinary research at the Institute. \u0022Georgia Tech has long demonstrated its ability to solve complex challenges,\u0022 said Petit. \u0022I believe artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape healthcare, and I am excited to support a center that can help accelerate discoveries to improve and save lives.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis transformative commitment is included in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/transformingtomorrow.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and is propelling the comprehensive campaign\u2019s success.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EAbout Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation\u2019s leading public research universities, developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. Through education, research, and innovation, Georgia Tech creates solutions that improve lives and drive economic opportunity in Georgia and around the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EParker H. Petit\u2019s commitment will launch a research hub focused on using artificial intelligence to model diseases, identify treatment paths, and move discoveries closer to patient care.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Parker H. Petit\u2019s commitment will launch a research hub focused on using artificial intelligence to model diseases, identify treatment paths, and move discoveries closer to patient care. 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They will support the executive director, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/david-sherrill\u0022\u003EDavid Sherrill\u003C\/a\u003E, in creating research and upskilling opportunities for the campus community in fundamental and applied machine learning and AI for research and by identifying promising new research collaborations and potential funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/ghassan-alregib\u0022\u003EGhassan AlRegib \u003C\/a\u003Ewill serve as associate director for Research and Education, seeking large-scale funding opportunities, creating upskilling workshops, coordinating efforts with relevant student groups, and fostering thought leadership in areas relevant to IDEaS\u2019 mission: data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlRegib is the John and Marilu McCarty Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. His group, the Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science (OLIVES), conducts machine learning research aimed at shifting learning systems from data-centric to human-centric, with an emphasis on robustness, uncertainty, human-AI interaction, and explainability. His team\u2019s research is applied to vision, subsurface imaging, autonomous systems, healthcare intelligence, and education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vijay-ganesh\u0022\u003EVijay\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Ganesh \u003C\/a\u003Ehas been appointed associate director for Research, after serving in this role on an interim basis since 2025. He will support the development of new strategic research initiatives, work closely with faculty, research staff, and industry partners to create and strengthen interdisciplinary teams, and help IDEaS seek large-scale funding opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGanesh is a professor of computer science, and he served as co-director of the AI Institute at the University of Waterloo before moving to Georgia Tech in 2023. He is a co-founder and a steering committee member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/centres\/centre-mathematical-ai\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECentre for Mathematical AI\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFields Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/balsillieschool.ca\/people\/vijay-ganesh\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAI Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/balsillieschool.ca\/\u0022\u003EBalsillie School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m delighted that Vijay Ganesh has agreed to continue in the role of associate director of Research; his expertise in AI and formal verification methods has been central to our formulation of new research initiatives,\u201d said Sherrill. \u201cI\u2019m also thrilled that Ghassan AlRegib is joining our leadership team. He is a longtime key IDEaS faculty member, and he has led multiple centers at Georgia Tech. His recent experience hosting a planning grant for his Accessible Healthcare Through AI-Augmented Decisions perfectly positions him to help lead IDEaS\u2019 AI for Health initiative, and his experience in developing AI courses and educational tools makes him the right person to lead our AI upskilling workshops.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am thrilled to join IDEaS,\u201d AlRegib said. \u201cData science, machine learning, and AI are no longer specialized disciplines; they are foundational tools on which nearly every research enterprise on campus depends. IDEaS\u0027 greatest value is not to be the place where AI happens, but to be the connective tissue that makes AI impactful and accessible for everyone else. This is the kind of work I care deeply about, helping connect faculty curiosity with collaborative teams, emerging methods with usable skills, and student interest with real AI capability. The best measure of our success will be what every other unit at Georgia Tech is able to accomplish because IDEaS exists.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am delighted and honored to be reappointed as IDEaS\u0027 associate director for Research. AI is a paradigm-shifting technology that is transforming research across every discipline, and IDEaS is at the forefront of enabling that transformation at Georgia Tech,\u201d Ganesh said. \u201cMy vision for this role centers on advancing the research on campus in both the foundations of AI and its applications to mathematics, science, and engineering. 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I studied elephants, lemurs, gorillas, and golden lion tamarins, both in the zoo and in the wild in Brazil and Africa,\u201d says Stoinski.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe appreciates how Georgia Tech prepared her for the challenges of her career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe rigor of a Georgia Tech education is something you need as a scientist,\u201d she says. \u201cI also had the opportunity to do a lot of public speaking and teaching, which are huge parts of my job now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeading Global Conservation Efforts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAfter earning her Ph.D., Stoinski spent 14 years with Zoo Atlanta while also working with the Atlanta-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. She became CEO in 2014 and now oversees conservation and research programs in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EUnder her leadership, the Fossey Fund has expanded its footprint, including opening its Ellen DeGeneres Campus in 2022, a 12-acre research and education center in Rwanda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe site includes labs, classrooms, and a restored landscape, where roughly 250,000 plants from 110 species have been planted to reestablish native ecosystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe host hundreds of students \u2014 including groups from Georgia Tech, and support dozens of graduate and postdoctoral researchers, from countries all over the world including many from Africa,\u201d she explains. \u201cSeeing their excitement and commitment gives me lots of hope for the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScientific Storytelling\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Gorilla Story\u003C\/em\u003E follows the Pablo family of mountain gorillas living on the slopes of Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe Pablo group goes back to Dian Fossey\u2019s time,\u201d explains Stoinski. \u201cIt\u2019s the largest group of gorillas ever recorded, at one point reaching 65 individuals. An average gorilla family is about 10.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDue to Rwandan regulations, filming could take place for just one hour each day. Filmmakers and scientists would often have to hike for five to six hours to reach the gorillas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBecause Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund researchers have followed these gorilla families for decades, they were already familiar with the individual gorillas, including six generations of family history, which \u201cmakes the story incredibly rich,\u201d says Stoinski.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cYou see grief, relationships, alliances \u2014 all of it,\u201d she says. \u201cUltimately, I hope that connection leads people to care and to take action.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaborative Conservation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EStoinski\u2019s career is all about taking action \u2014 and inspiring others to do the same.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe need people on the ground doing this work, but we also need people outside of our field to support and be aware of what\u2019s happening to gorillas and the planet\u2019s biodiversity,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe encourages Tech students to stay informed:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cEven if you\u2019re not going into conservation, take a class, listen, learn,\u201d she says. \u201cUnfortunately, there are real challenges facing the next generation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe frequently points out that by helping gorillas, we\u2019re saving ourselves, sharing that gorillas live in the Congo Basin, one of the most important ecosystems on Earth. By dispersing seeds and maintaining forest structure, they help sustain environments critical for climate stability and planetary health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cProtecting gorillas means\u0026nbsp;protecting\u0026nbsp;those ecosystems, which ultimately support human survival.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Lasting Georgia Tech Connection\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EStoinski maintains strong ties to Georgia Tech through research collaborations and student engagement. Projects over the years have included helping to establish the Center for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing at the University of Rwanda, geospatial mapping, and architectural design and planning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe invites alumni and students to engage with the work firsthand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI encourage more Georgia Tech alumni and students to work with us or come see us. And if you want to meet with a Georgia Tech grad, I lead tours: we can put on our Tech gear and take a photo with the gorillas!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith a career rooted in science, alumna Tara Stoinski is shaping the future of wildlife conservation and gorilla preservation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"With a career rooted in science, alumna Tara Stoinski is shaping the future of wildlife conservation and gorilla preservation. 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Who Benefits?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArtificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses operate and driving a historic surge in data center construction across the United States. These sprawling facilities, sometimes spanning more than 1,000 acres, represent one of the largest waves of capital investment in American history.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor communities across the country, this growth hits close to home, and not without controversy. What do data centers actually deliver for the local economies that host them?\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6497238\u0022\u003ENew research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/yue\/index.html?_gl=1*22ff1a*_up*MQ..*_ga*NjU1MDU4NDM5LjE3ODM2MTc4Nzg.*_ga_8XJDVR2ZKP*czE3ODM2MTc4NzckbzEkZzEkdDE3ODM2MTc4ODEkajU2JGwwJGgxNzkwMjU1NjAy\u0022\u003EDaniel Yue\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of Information Technology Management at Georgia Tech\u2019s Scheller College of Business, and his co-author,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/zeng\/index.html?_gl=1*1771i5w*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTM1MDIxNjE3NC4xNzgzNjE4MTk5*_ga_8XJDVR2ZKP*czE3ODM2MTgxOTkkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODM2MTgxOTkkajYwJGwwJGgxMTY0MTA2MjA4\u0022\u003EYiyang Zeng\u003C\/a\u003E, examines how data center openings affect local jobs, wages, business activity, and electricity prices. Their findings suggest that geography plays a decisive role in whether communities see meaningful economic gains.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEnormous amounts of capital are flowing into specific communities, much of it tied to new construction, while rigorous evidence on the local benefits of these facilities has been thin,\u201d said Yue. \u201cCommunity pushback has organized rapidly across the country. Our paper begins to fill that gap by providing new evidence using detailed, facility-level data paired with county-level economic indicators.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Historic Investment Wave\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are more than 2,500 data centers, either active or under construction, across the United States. Individual hyperscale facilities often cost more than $1 billion to construct and can consume as much electricity as a small city. Is it all worth it?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn average, Yue and Zeng found that when a data center opens, the host county sees a measurable lift: Employment rises by about 3.5%, wages by 5%, business establishments by nearly 5%, and household income by about 2%. Building permits also increase sharply, reflecting construction activity tied to new facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are real, economically meaningful gains. But Yue and Zeng discovered that these gains are much smaller than what might be expected from a large investment. And they\u2019re not evenly distributed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Metro Areas Benefit More\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers\u2019 clearest finding is that metropolitan areas capture most of the economic benefits from data centers, while rural areas see far fewer spillover effects. While metro counties saw increases in employment and new business growth, non-metro counties saw no measurable gains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe reason comes down to what economists call \u201cagglomeration,\u201d or economic density.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData centers don\u2019t operate in isolation. They rely on construction contractors, engineers, equipment suppliers, professional services, and a skilled workforce. Those connections are far easier to build in places that already have deep labor markets and established business networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMetropolitan areas are well-positioned to absorb the indirect spending that data centers generate. High-wage technical employees support restaurants, retail, and local services. Suppliers and contractors can scale up quickly. These spillover effects amplify the impact of the initial investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn rural areas, that amplification is much harder to achieve. Facilities tend to employ relatively few permanent workers \u2014 often fewer than 100 \u2014 and many specialized services are imported from outside the county. As a result, the broader economic ripple never materializes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat doesn\u2019t mean rural communities see no benefit at all. The research finds a small but real drop in unemployment rates in non-metro counties, and local governments may still gain tax revenue or infrastructure investments. But the sweeping job and wage growth often promised during local recruitment efforts will not likely arrive on its own.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLocation, not facility size, determines whether the local benefits show up,\u201d Yue said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Hidden Cost: Electricity Prices\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYue and Zeng\u2019s research also uncovers an important trade-off. Data centers use a lot of electricity. A single large facility can use as much power as roughly 80,000 homes. In areas where the researchers can cleanly measure price effects, electricity prices rise by about 5% after a data center enters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen the benefits to communities are small, even downsides like higher electricity prices that strain infrastructure will be felt by locals,\u201d Yue shared.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWho pays for the increased cost of electricity isn\u2019t straightforward. Yue and Zeng\u2019s research suggests communities should ask specific questions about who pays for new infrastructure and how those costs will be distributed. Local utility companies divide costs differently among homeowners, businesses, and large industrial users, including data centers. Because cost-sharing systems vary by state, each data center development is unique.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Communities Should Consider\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs states and cities work to attract or push back against data center construction, Yue and Zeng hope their research will encourage more evidence-based decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor metro areas with strong labor markets and dense business ecosystems, data centers can deliver meaningful, though not transformative, economic gains. For rural communities, the positive impact is more complicated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn 10 years, communities will likely wish they had pressed harder on the quality of the decision itself, including whether the debate was evidence-based, whether their local economy was equipped to capture the gains, and whether the fine print aligned with residents\u0027 long-term interests,\u201d Yue said. \u201cIt\u2019s vital that communities look past flashy, headline incentive packages and focus on the details: tax abatement structures, electricity tariff arrangements, and who ultimately pays for infrastructure upgrades.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs data centers continue to dot the American landscape, understanding where they create shared value \u2014 and where they don\u2019t \u2014 will be critical for community leaders and policymakers alike.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6497238\u0022\u003ERead More: The Local Economic Effects of Data Center Entry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs data centers expand across the U.S., new research by Daniel Yue, assistant professor of IT management, and his co-author, Yiyang Zeng, reveals that their economic benefits are real but uneven, shaped largely by local economic conditions and geography.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Data centers continue to expand across the U.S. Do the communities nearby really benefit?"}],"uid":"36730","created_gmt":"2026-07-09 17:25:59","changed_gmt":"2026-07-15 13:27:47","author":"klowe36","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680584":{"id":"680584","type":"image","title":"The economic impact of data centers","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELead story image for Scheller News story \u0022Data Centers Are Booming. Who Benefits?\u0022 A hazy photo of an electronic board, possibly an internal image of a data center.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1783617674","gmt_created":"2026-07-09 17:21:14","changed":"1783617834","gmt_changed":"2026-07-09 17:23:54","alt":"A hazy photo of an electronic board, possibly an internal image of a data center.","file":{"fid":"264862","name":"data-center.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/09\/data-center.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/09\/data-center.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":117567,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/07\/09\/data-center.jpg?itok=hj8qj4-z"}}},"media_ids":["680584"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/data-centers-are-booming-who-benefits.html?_gl=1*3nsm4t*_up*MQ..*_ga*NjU1MDU4NDM5LjE3ODM2MTc4Nzg.*_ga_8XJDVR2ZKP*czE3ODM2MTc4NzckbzEkZzEkdDE3ODM2MTc4ODAkajU3JGwwJGgxNzkwMjU1NjAy","title":"Read More"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"168537","name":"Data Center"},{"id":"110561","name":"data centers"},{"id":"336","name":"information technology"},{"id":"602","name":"economics"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kristin.lowe@scheller.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691105":{"#nid":"691105","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Lightning Mapping Array Helps Protect World Cup Visitors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs soccer enthusiasts from around the globe made their way to World Cup matches and visited outdoor FIFA Fan Festival events in Atlanta, a lightning tracking system operated by the Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) was providing weather forecasters information that could help protect the fans.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array (NGLMA) uses specialized detection equipment to generate detailed maps of the lightning that occurs in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Through a collaboration between GTRI and the National Weather Service (NWS), the array provided continuous lightning information to agencies responsible for visitor safety.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array is providing decision-support information to agencies responsible for protecting events in Atlanta related to the World Cup,\u201d said Michael Peterson, director of the GTRI Severe Storms Research Center (SSRC). \u201cThe system has been up and running and gave us excellent measurements of the thunderstorms that occurred in mid-June. It complements the other sources of weather information that the agencies have available.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/georgia-tech-lightning-mapping-array-helps-protect-world-cup-visitors\u0022\u003ERead the full article\u003C\/a\u003E on the Georgia Tech Research Institute news page\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The Severe Storms Research Center provides early warning of approaching storms"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs soccer enthusiasts from around the globe made their way to World Cup matches and events in Atlanta, a lightning tracking system operated by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) was providing weather forecasters information that could help protect the fans.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech lightning mapping array is helping authorities protect World Cup visitors from severe weather."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2026-07-13 18:31:56","changed_gmt":"2026-07-13 18:35:10","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680601":{"id":"680601","type":"image","title":"Setting up a lightning mapping array unit near Atlanta","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGTRI researchers set up a lightning mapping array unit at a location near Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1783966872","gmt_created":"2026-07-13 18:21:12","changed":"1783967144","gmt_changed":"2026-07-13 18:25:44","alt":"Researchers set up a lightning mapping array unit at a location near Atlanta","file":{"fid":"264884","name":"weather-monitoring-lg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/13\/weather-monitoring-lg.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/13\/weather-monitoring-lg.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5455243,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/07\/13\/weather-monitoring-lg.jpg?itok=kZf_h_cy"}}},"media_ids":["680601"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193653","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"691066":{"#nid":"691066","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Creating Synthetic Life in a Lab? SpudCell Falls Short of the Goal, But Raises Even More Useful Questions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to forests, coral reefs and human life also produces infections, cancer, genetic disease, crop blights and toxins. Natural processes can heal, sustain and inspire, but they can also destroy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat dichotomy is part of what drives the field of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/synthetic-biology-promised-to-rewrite-life-with-the-death-of-its-pioneer-j-craig-venter-how-close-are-scientists-281963\u0022\u003Esynthetic biology\u003C\/a\u003E: where scientists apply engineering principles to learn from and carefully adapt nature\u2019s biological systems to address human problems. By understanding biological systems, scientists can carefully redirect them when natural processes cause harm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis principle has shaped my work \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Xe78w-wAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003Eas a biomedical engineer\u003C\/a\u003E for over two decades. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/deanslab\/\u0022\u003EMy lab\u003C\/a\u003E studies how to program cells in order to better understand their behavior and ultimately use them as medicine. The goal is not to discard or replace nature, but to learn from biological principles and use that knowledge to responsibly help society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers announced on July 2, 2026, that they had created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.64898\/2026.07.01.735724\u0022\u003Efirst synthetic cell\u003C\/a\u003E built from purified, nonliving components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lab\u2019s cell-like system, dubbed SpudCell, raises key questions: What does it take to build a cell from scratch? If scientists assemble something that feeds, grows, copies genetic material and divides, have they created life?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to Create Cells From Scratch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENatural cells are \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/cells-have-more-mini-organs-than-researchers-thought-unbound-by-membranes-these-rogue-organelles-challenge-biologys-fundamentals-239558\u0022\u003Eastonishingly complicated\u003C\/a\u003E. Researchers want to use synthetic cells to learn more about how life works, and they are doing this by rebuilding some of life\u2019s basic features in a simpler, more understandable form.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier designs of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-06288-x\u0022\u003Eminimal cells\u003C\/a\u003E, used to test which components are necessary for lifelike behavior, began with existing living cells and reduced the size of their genomes. A minimal cell is useful because it is simple, but that simplicity comes at a cost. It may reveal which parts are needed for lifelike behavior, but it usually lacks the autonomy, resilience, metabolism and evolutionary capacity of natural cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead, synthetic cells are built through a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.1211701\u0022\u003Ebottom-up engineering\u003C\/a\u003E approach. Scientists start with a simplified compartment \u2013 a kind of biological \u201cbox\u201d \u2013 and ask what must be added for it to behave more like a living cell. A membrane separates the inside from the outside. Genetic material stores instructions. Molecular machinery reads those instructions to make molecules. Energy sources power reactions. Other components can allow growth, division and adaptation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/746476\/original\/file-20260707-57-jrf0t9.png?ixlib=rb-4.1.0\u0026amp;q=45\u0026amp;auto=format\u0026amp;w=1000\u0026amp;fit=clip\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/746476\/original\/file-20260707-57-jrf0t9.png?ixlib=rb-4.1.0\u0026amp;q=45\u0026amp;auto=format\u0026amp;w=754\u0026amp;fit=clip\u0022 alt=\u0022Diagram showing a few membrane-bound components of an animal cell and a eurakyotic cell\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA useful way to think about synthetic cells is to compare them with technologies society already depends on. The radio wasn\u2019t invented all at once. Engineers learned how to combine an antenna, tuner, amplifier, power source and speaker to convert invisible electromagnetic waves into sound. A car is not just a metal shell; it becomes transportation only when a frame is connected to wheels, brakes, steering, an engine, and transmission and control systems. A computer began with switches and strings of ones and zeros that could be assembled into circuits capable of storing and processing information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilarly, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.64898\/2026.07.01.735724\u0022\u003ESpudCell was assembled\u003C\/a\u003E from the bottom up with purified, nonliving parts. Researchers used lipid molecules to create a cell-like membrane, DNA molecules to store genetic instructions, purified enzymes to copy and read those instructions, and other molecular machinery to help build proteins and other molecules from small chemical building blocks, such as amino acids and nucleotides.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpudCell is exciting scientists because it appears to bring several features of life together in one system. The researchers describe it as capable of feeding, growth, genome replication, genetically encoded division and something close to evolution. These features resemble a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK26869\/\u0022\u003Ebiological cell cycle\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClose to Life, But Not Quite\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile SpudCell is an important milestone in the field, it \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.zwa8dvz\u0022\u003Estops short\u003C\/a\u003E of being a fully synthetic living cell. A membrane-bound compartment containing DNA is not automatically a living cell, just as a pile of car parts is not a car.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpudCell can carry out several life-like processes, but it is not independent. It still relies on carefully controlled laboratory conditions and on researchers to supply its molecular machinery. It doesn\u2019t reliably pass on its genetic material or spontaneously evolve the way natural cells do.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo approach life, a synthetic cell must coordinate many processes at once. NASA describes life as a \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/research\/life-detection\/about\/\u0022\u003Eself-sustaining chemical system\u003C\/a\u003E capable of Darwinian evolution,\u201d meaning it must independently use energy, copy information, grow, divide, respond to its surroundings and persist over time. Natural cells do this with extraordinary reliability because they are the products of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/rain-may-have-helped-form-the-first-cells-kick-starting-life-as-we-know-it-238291\u0022\u003Ebillions of years of evolution\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/746474\/original\/file-20260707-57-an09wq.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0\u0026amp;q=45\u0026amp;auto=format\u0026amp;w=1000\u0026amp;fit=clip\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/746474\/original\/file-20260707-57-an09wq.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0\u0026amp;q=45\u0026amp;auto=format\u0026amp;w=754\u0026amp;fit=clip\u0022 alt=\u0022Microscopy image of a green sphere dividing into two\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpudCell still \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.zwa8dvz\u0022\u003Efalls short of that standard\u003C\/a\u003E. It depends on researchers to continuously supply it with the molecular machinery to function and to physically help it divide. It also cannot reproduce indefinitely outside a carefully controlled laboratory environment. In other words, SpudCell may have been built rather than born, but it is not yet autonomous life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat limitation does not make the achievement unimportant. In fact, it is scientifically valuable precisely because it exposes what is still missing to create life. Which parts are essential? Which processes must be coordinated? How much complexity is necessary before chemistry begins to look like biology?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Create Synthetic Cells?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose questions have practical importance. Answering them can help scientists and engineers design safer biological systems for a wide range of industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESynthetic cells allow scientists to more cleanly test how the surrounding membrane separates the inside of a cell from its environment, how genetic instructions are read, how energy is used, and how growth and division are coordinated. These cell-like systems could eventually become \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/blogs\/taking-measure\/promise-synthetic-cells-revolutionary-new-drugs-outer-space-explorers-and\u0022\u003Esimplified test beds\u003C\/a\u003E for studying biological circuits, disease mechanisms and the origins of life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey could also help scientists \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/projects\/DELS-BLS-22-12\u0022\u003Ebuild safer systems\u003C\/a\u003E for making medicines, fuels or materials, detecting environmental toxins, or delivering therapies without relying on fully living organisms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore broadly, synthetic biology connects medicine and biotechnology: Viruses can be redesigned \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-puzzle-of-viral-vector-vaccines-was-solved-leading-to-todays-covid-19-shots-167341\u0022\u003Einto vaccines\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-in-toddlers-and-teenagers-born-with-congenital-deafness-new-research-258112\u0022\u003Egene therapy\u003C\/a\u003E, immune cells can be reprogrammed to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/anti-cancer-car-t-therapy-reengineers-t-cells-to-kill-tumors-and-researchers-are-expanding-the-limited-types-of-cancer-it-can-target-196471\u0022\u003Erecognize cancer\u003C\/a\u003E, and microbes can be engineered to make useful molecules, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/insulin-injections-could-one-day-be-replaced-with-rock-music-new-research-in-mice-216787\u0022\u003Esuch as insulin\u003C\/a\u003E, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/genetically-engineered-bacteria-make-living-materials-for-self-repairing-walls-and-cleaning-up-pollution-191411\u0022\u003Edetect pollutants\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimilarly, researchers could use synthetic cells to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/biobots-arise-from-the-cells-of-dead-organisms-pushing-the-boundaries-of-life-death-and-medicine-238176\u0022\u003Edeliver a drug\u003C\/a\u003E only to diseased tissue, or create microbial systems that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13036-023-00379-z\u0022\u003Edetect toxins or pathogens\u003C\/a\u003E in water. They can also act as simplified biological factories that can \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/helping-cells-become-better-protein-factories-could-improve-gene-therapies-and-other-treatments-a-new-technique-shows-how-187515\u0022\u003Emake medicines\u003C\/a\u003E without requiring a fully living organism, or as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0016292\u0022\u003Ebiosensors providing early warning\u003C\/a\u003E of dangerous threats, such as bioweapons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating Life Responsibly\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe philosophical question \u201cIs SpudCell alive?\u201d may not have a simple yes or no answer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDepending on whether your definition of life emphasizes metabolism, reproduction, evolution, autonomy or cellular organization, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/biobots-arise-from-the-cells-of-dead-organisms-pushing-the-boundaries-of-life-death-and-medicine-238176\u0022\u003Eboundary between living and nonliving\u003C\/a\u003E can look very different.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELife is not defined by one property alone. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-viruses-blur-the-boundaries-of-life-230802\u0022\u003EViruses\u003C\/a\u003E contain genetic information but depend on host cells to reproduce. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/mitochondria-can-sense-bacteria-and-trigger-your-immune-system-to-trap-them-revealing-new-ways-to-treat-infections-and-autoimmunity-255939\u0022\u003EMitochondria\u003C\/a\u003E perform essential metabolism but cannot live independently outside of cells. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/svalbard-global-seed-vault-evokes-epic-imagery-and-controversy-because-of-the-symbolic-value-of-seeds-240086\u0022\u003Eseed can remain dormant\u003C\/a\u003E for years before resuming growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen synthetic biology is guided by a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssynbio.1c00129\u0022\u003Estrong sense of responsibility\u003C\/a\u003E, scientists can learn how to redirect harmful processes, build safer tools and help society. This requires not only asking whether biological systems can be built, but also whether their creation should be controlled, where they should function and what safeguards are needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past two decades, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nchembio.1979\u0022\u003Escientists have built\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2007.05.045\u0022\u003Emany kinds of\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41564-024-01913-5\u0022\u003Ebiological kill switches\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 that is, genetic circuits that can shut down engineered cells under specific conditions. Some researchers have made cells dependent on a specific nutrient. Others have created cells that can survive only in a particular environment or activate self-destructive pathways when conditions change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKill switches are not magic off buttons and do not replace careful regulation, physical containment or public oversight. But they are an important example of synthetic biology\u2019s moral compass: to not only build useful biological tools, but to build them with safety, accountability and humility in mind.\u003C!-- Below is The Conversation\u0027s page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. --\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/counter.theconversation.com\/content\/286762\/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\u0022 alt=\u0022The Conversation\u0022 width=\u00221\u0022 height=\u00221\u0022\u003E\u003C!-- End of code. If you don\u0027t see any code above, please get new code from the Advanced tab after you click the republish button. The page counter does not collect any personal data. 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The lab\u2019s cell-like system, dubbed SpudCell, raises key questions: What does it take to build a cell from scratch? 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"188776","name":"go-research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EAuthor:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETara Deans, associate professor, Wallace H. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E (IBB) is pleased to announce new leadership and membership for its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/about\/people\/advisory-board\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExternal Advisory Board\u003C\/a\u003E, which provides strategic guidance to help advance the institute\u0027s mission of accelerating interdisciplinary research and innovation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EErin Dasher has been appointed chair of the External Advisory Board, and Vincent Ling will serve as vice chair. Dasher is founder and CEO of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/glui-io\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGlui Inc.\u003C\/a\u003E, a global advertising company creating engagement experiences across digital platforms. A seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and attorney, she brings more than 25 years of experience in venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions. Ling is chief business officer at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.morphocell.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMorphocell Technologies\u003C\/a\u003E, where he leads commercialization of regenerative medicine technologies. He has more than 30 years of biotechnology leadership experience spanning cell therapies, protein engineering, and biopharmaceutical innovation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIBB extends its sincere appreciation to outgoing board chair Chris Gemmiti for his outstanding leadership and service to the institute. The institute also thanks Linda Griffith for her valued contributions as a member of the External Advisory Board. Their expertise and commitment have helped shape IBB\u0027s continued growth and impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe institute is also pleased to welcome six new members to the External Advisory Board:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e72dedd6483cf827667bb2b4886fe7098\u0022\u003EChristopher Cashman, chief executive and advisor in the medical device, biologics, and advanced manufacturing sectors, with extensive leadership experience in public and private companies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e9e41324bd99f6430583f947df7ec5102\u0022\u003ERachel Cassidy, senior go-to-market and ecosystem executive with more than 30 years of experience building global innovation partnerships across the technology industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ec11b998f2145affcc30e3e61c9178cea\u0022\u003EShawn P. Davis, CEO of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.liberatebio.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELiberate Bio\u003C\/a\u003E, where he leads the development of next-generation delivery technologies for genetic medicines and brings more than two decades of biotechnology and pharmaceutical leadership.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ed491b31155c6316632e305391c679866\u0022\u003ECharles A. Gersbach, director of the Duke Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies and the John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.duke.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDuke University\u003C\/a\u003E, internationally recognized for his work in genome editing and gene therapy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ed1bf1c75dec04ba844fa62cd2b3aa163\u0022\u003ETodd McDevitt, vice president and head of Cell Therapy Research at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gene.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGenentech\u003C\/a\u003E, who leads development of cell-based therapies and previously founded Georgia Tech\u0027s Stem Cell Engineering Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e0aec0ac2886d7c9ba45553a081356ea7\u0022\u003ERidhi Tariyal, co-founder and CEO of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nextgenjane.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENextGen Jane\u003C\/a\u003E, whose work combines biotechnology, data science, and women\u0027s health to advance molecular understanding of uterine biology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022IBB is fortunate to have an exceptional group of leaders whose expertise spans biotechnology, medicine, entrepreneurship, engineering, and innovation,\u0022 said Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, Regents\u2019 Professor in the\u202f\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u202fand\u202fIBB\u2019s Executive Director. \u0022We are grateful to our outgoing members for their dedicated service and look forward to working with our new leadership and board members as we continue to advance transformative bioengineering and bioscience research.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe External Advisory Board brings together leaders from industry, academia, and entrepreneurship to provide strategic guidance that supports IBB\u0027s research, education, commercialization, and partnerships.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe External Advisory Board brings together leaders from industry, academia, and entrepreneurship to provide strategic guidance that supports IBB\u0027s research, education, commercialization, and partnerships. Erin Dasher has been appointed chair of the External Advisory Board, and Vincent Ling will serve as vice chair. IBB extends its sincere appreciation to outgoing board chair Chris Gemmiti for his outstanding leadership and service to the institute. The institute also thanks Linda Griffith for her valued contributions as a member of the External Advisory Board.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IBB is pleased to announce new leadership and membership for its EAB, which provides strategic guidance to help advance the institute\u0027s mission of accelerating interdisciplinary research and innovation. 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However, since this material comes from animal tissue, it\u2019s unpredictable, difficult to control, and limits medical applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new study conducted by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.edu\/node\/1\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E researchers and partners from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChildren\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003C\/a\u003E offers a promising alternative.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work includes contributions from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/andres-j-garcia\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAndr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and Executive Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E, whose research focuses on how engineered materials can guide cell behavior. Instead of relying on a biological mixture with hundreds of variable components, the team created a fully synthetic gel designed to give intestinal stem cells exactly what they need to grow and organize into healthy tissue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo build it, the researchers analyzed the genetic signals of human intestinal cells to understand what kind of environment they naturally prefer. They found that these cells latch onto collagen\u2011like structures and reshape their surroundings as they expand. Using that information, the team engineered a customizable gel that mimics those cues, without using any animal\u2011derived ingredients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results were striking. Human intestinal cells grown in the synthetic gel formed realistic, well\u2011organized small-scale digestive tract models that closely match those grown in the traditional animal\u2011derived material. They maintained the same cell types, developed the same structures, and preserved patient\u2011specific features.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe implications reach far beyond the lab bench.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA fully synthetic, precisely defined gel means researchers can grow small-scale organs more consistently and ethically, reducing reliance on animal tissue and improving reproducibility. It also opens the door to future medical applications, from personalized drug testing to regenerative therapies, where animal\u2011based materials simply can\u2019t be used.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u0022Reproducible, well-defined culture conditions are essential to generating reliable data from patient-derived organoids in human disease research, and we were glad to contribute to work that brings the field a real synthetic alternative to Matrigel,\u201d said Kathryn Hamilton, a co-author of the study. Hamilton is an associate professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003C\/a\u003E and a primary investigator at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChildren\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy replacing one of the biggest barriers in organoid science, this work moves the field closer to a future where patient\u2011specific tissues can be grown safely, reliably, and at scale.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are excited about engineering this synthetic matrix as an alternative to natural materials and expect that it will accelerate human organoid research and clinical applications,\u201d Garc\u00eda said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new study conducted by Georgia Tech researchers and partners offers a promising alternative to gel derived from animal tissue that is currently used to grow organ models. 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Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and designer of the torch for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, passed away on June 20, 2026.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColleagues and friends remember Shelton as a dedicated mentor, collaborator, and educator, whose curiosity, generosity, and sense of humor left a lasting impression on students and peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSam exemplified the very best of Georgia Tech, and his legacy will continue to inspire generations of engineers and educators,\u201d said Tim Lieuwen, executive vice president for Research at Georgia Tech. \u201cI am deeply grateful for his friendship, mentorship, and leadership. My heartfelt condolences go to his family, and to the many students, colleagues, and friends whose lives he touched.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA nationally recognized leader in energy systems, Shelton founded SEI as an interdisciplinary organization that brought together engineers, researchers, policy experts, and industry leaders to advance high-impact energy solutions. That vision remains central to SEI\u2019s mission and continues to guide its work today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSam was the quintessential engineer and innovator, whose vision was always accompanied by the development and demonstration of actual products instead of leaving them as promising concepts,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/garimella\u0022\u003ESrinivas Garimella\u003C\/a\u003E, Hightower Chair in the College of Engineering and professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u201cHe had the rare ability to see through nebulous ideas and claims and get to the fundamental engineering truths. I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to seek his advice, which he freely gave. I will miss his friendship and counsel very much.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring a career of more than 35 years, Shelton made lasting contributions to sustainable energy and engineering innovation. His work spanned combustion research, solar energy technologies, and offshore wind systems. He secured more than $30 million in research funding, held eight patents, founded two energy-focused companies, and helped translate research into real-world energy solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his research, Shelton was deeply committed to education. During his academic career, he developed undergraduate and graduate courses in energy technology, teaching both in person and online. His\u0026nbsp;Energy 101 course reached tens of thousands of learners through a massive open online course platform, covering topics such as energy supply, independence, economics, and society\u2019s energy demands.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I first started at SEI in 2016, Sam and I would meet for lunch to discuss the latest research, consider how far we\u0027ve come since the Carter administration, and grapple over the world\u2019s energy problems,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/people\/richard-simmons\u0022\u003ERich Simmons\u003C\/a\u003E, SEI\u2019s director of Research and Studies.\u0026nbsp;\u201cSam was genuine and objective, not working backward from a preconceived notion, but working forward with an open mind to understand, appreciate, and apply the first and second law. He was also colorful and witty! We are all privileged to pay these lessons forward to future energy students.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond academia, Shelton\u2019s engineering expertise reached a global stage as the designer of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/2016\/07\/20th-anniversary-atlanta-games\u0022\u003EOlympic torch for the 1996 Atlanta Games\u003C\/a\u003E, an enduring symbol of innovation recognized worldwide. \u201cThe Olympics represented world peace, mankind coming together, and overcoming adversity. It was an amazing event to think about, to witness, to live through, and be a part of helping to create it,\u201d Shelton said in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WyuWSPeGTXk\u0022\u003E2016 interview\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShelton is survived by his\u0026nbsp;daughters, Suzie and Stacy, three granddaughters,\u0026nbsp;and a wide network of students, colleagues, and collaborators. His legacy continues through the programs he built, partnerships he fostered, and the people he helped.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/atlanta\/name\/samuel-shelton-obituary?id=61831858\u0022\u003Ememorial service\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E celebrating Shelton\u2019s life will be held Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. at The 57th Fighter Group Restaurant in Atlanta. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, memorial gifts be directed to Roll Call, Georgia Tech\u2019s Fund for Excellence.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Donations may be made at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/giving.gatech.edu\/campaigns\/63028\/donations\/new?\u0026amp;utm_source=ALMR26Q40NY1BU02KUD\u0022\u003Egtalumni.org\/SamShelton\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/sam-shelton\u0022\u003ESam Shelton\u003C\/a\u003E, founding director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI), longtime professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. 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As a professor, author, and urbanist, Dunham-Jones built her work around a reality many cities are still catching up to: the future of urban design is not just about building new places, but transforming existing ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat question came full circle in Spring Semester 2026, with her final class at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EA Career Focused on Transformation\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDunham-Jones is widely recognized as a leading authority on suburban redevelopment. Her work has centered on what happens when aging infrastructure, from shopping malls to office parks, no longer serves the communities around them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, she helped define a movement. The book documented how underperforming, car-dominated spaces could be reimagined into walkable, resilient, and socially connected environments. It went on to receive a PROSE Award and helped push suburban retrofits into mainstream planning conversations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver time, her research expanded into a growing database of more than 2,500 retrofit projects. These case studies explored how design can address public health, climate resilience, economic development, and equity, all through the lens of reuse rather than expansion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work has been featured widely, from national media outlets to a TED talk viewed hundreds of thousands of times. She has served in leadership roles with the Congress for the New Urbanism and earned recognition as one of the most influential urbanists working today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, she brought that perspective directly into the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ETeaching Cities as Systems\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDunham-Jones\u2019 courses attracted students from across disciplines. Architecture, city planning, real estate, and public policy students all worked together to examine real-world challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer studios often partnered with communities, asking students to propose ambitious redevelopment strategies grounded in local needs. Her seminars pushed them to think critically about how cities evolve over time, and how design decisions ripple across systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat systems thinking has become increasingly important as new technologies begin to reshape urban life.\u003Cbr\u003EIn her final class, the conversation turned to one of the biggest unknowns facing cities today: artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe Final Conversation\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than a lecture, Dunham-Jones opened the floor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents debated how AI is already influencing design, from rendering tools to logistics optimization. Some saw it as a powerful assistant. Others questioned its limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI is only as good as its user,\u201d one student noted, pointing to the role of designers in guiding outcomes.\u003Cbr\u003EDunham-Jones pushed the conversation further. She challenged students to look beyond aesthetics and ask whether AI-generated designs actually function in the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s very good at producing an attractive rendering,\u201d she said. \u201cBut from an operations perspective, is it functional?\u201d Her skepticism was not about rejecting technology. It was about understanding its limits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing from her own research, she pointed out that even simple historical queries can produce incorrect results, especially when AI prioritizes recent information over accurate context.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discussion quickly expanded to cities. Students explored how AI could reshape mobility, particularly through autonomous vehicles. The potential benefits were clear. Increased efficiency, optimized traffic flows, and new forms of transit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the risks were just as significant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWould autonomous systems reduce congestion or double it? Would they make cities more equitable or deepen existing divides? Could they lead to more walkable communities or accelerate suburban sprawl? Dunham-Jones framed the question in familiar terms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECities, she reminded them, have always been shaped by the technologies that move people. From animals to trains to cars, each shift has redefined urban form. AI may be the next shift, but its outcome is far from certain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIs it going to result in a more equitable, more sustainable, more delightful city,\u201d she asked, \u201cor something more congested, more car-oriented, less walkable?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere was no consensus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome students imagined autonomous vehicles communicating with each other, reducing human error and improving efficiency. Others pointed to new challenges, from infrastructure costs to the possibility of increased privatization of public space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conversation reflected a core theme that has defined Dunham-Jones\u2019 work. There are no purely technological solutions. Every innovation comes with trade-offs, and every design decision has consequences.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDesigning for Uncertainty\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her career, Dunham-Jones has focused on helping communities adapt to change. Whether that change comes from economic shifts, environmental pressures, or new technologies, her approach remains consistent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStart with what exists. Understand how systems work. Anticipate unintended consequences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat mindset was evident in her final class. Rather than offering answers, she left students with questions. Who benefits from new technologies? Who is left out? How do we design cities that remain flexible as conditions change?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is the same framework that has guided her research, her teaching, and her impact on the field. As she steps away from the classroom, those questions remain. They now belong to the students she taught and the cities they will help shape.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd if her career has shown anything, it is this: the future of cities is not predetermined. It is designed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEllen Dunham-Jones has spent a career asking a deceptively simple question: what do we do with the places we already have?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor decades, the answer has shaped how cities across the United States rethink growth, sustainability, and community. 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Developing staff culture has been a priority for Hayes since she started at SCP in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/external-news\/not-built-day-cybersecurity-and-privacy-school-increases-staff-five-fold\u0022\u003EJanuary 2024\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese types of events build trust and remove perceptions,\u201d she said. \u201cIt brings together leadership and employees to show that we are all rowing the boat together.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESoon after she was hired, Hayes attended a meeting to help shape SCP\u0027s culture. The fledgling school and its new staff had yet to develop a culture of their own, and Hayes saw an opportunity to draw on her experience planning staff outings to bring people together early on.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt started with a staff retreat over lunch in 2024. Hayes built a playlist based on the staff\u2019s favorite songs, and the group played icebreakers. From that point forward, SCP staff outings included ceramic pumpkin painting contests, holiday ornament decoration, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe school also sponsors a welcome breakfast each fall for SCP students and, more recently, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/scp-food-drive\u0022\u003Ehosted a food drive\u003C\/a\u003E. Both organized by Hayes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMary Helen has the rare talent to bring process improvements to life while bringing people together, creating lasting improvements that benefit SCP, the College of Computing, and the Institute,\u201d said School Administrative Officer \u003Cstrong\u003EJan Morian\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile staff culture has become one of Hayes\u0027 most visible contributions, it is only part of her impact on SCP. In her two and a half years at the school, she has launched training on research proposals, travel, and expenses. She has also established regular meetings among faculty, administrative, and finance staff and created methods to expedite undergraduate hiring and research proposal intake.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have been at Georgia Tech for about 15 years now, and I looked back on my experience when coming up with new processes for the school,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining SCP, Hayes was a financial manager and administrator at several Georgia Tech departments. In 2024 she was hired by SCP as the assistant director for financial operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow as director of research operations, Hayes supports 26 school faculty and oversees a team of four research administrators. She oversees all financial operations for the school including proposal development, sponsor compliance, post-award administration, financial reporting, and award closeout activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHayes runs a tight ship, a fact she will freely admit to. Her department is organized down to the filing system to keep everyone on the same page. Her team of four staff each bring their own strengths to the school\u2019s finances, and Hayes has made sure they are cross trained so there is coverage if someone is out.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want to make sure my team can rely on each other,\u201d she said. \u201cI want them to be able to ask questions and admit if they don\u2019t know something.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJust as dedicated to the culture of her own team as she is with the overall, Hayes encourages her colleagues to engage in career development conferences and courses. She also was vocal\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ein the job families effort to ensure her staff receive job titles that reflect their day-to-day responsibilities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo develop her own career further, Hayes is currently enrolled in the MBA program at Georgia Southern University through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/benefits.usg.edu\/work-life\/tuition-assistance-program\u0022\u003ETuition Assistance Program\u003C\/a\u003E (TAP) offered to full-time employees by the University System of Georgia. She also received the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/cybersecurity-school-takes-home-multiple-awards\u0022\u003EOutstanding Staff Leadership Award\u003C\/a\u003E from the College of Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than waiting for challenges to arise, Hayes looks for opportunities to improve workflows before they become obstacles. 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The atmospheric and vacuum distillation processes used in refineries worldwide consume more than 1,100 terawatt-hours of energy annually \u2014 roughly enough to power 100 million U.S. homes for a year \u2014 while generating millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESix years after demonstrating that membranes could separate crude oil at the molecular level, Georgia Tech researcher Ryan Lively is part of an international team that has taken the concept a significant step further.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team, including investigators at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), discovered that a membrane material widely believed to be non-selective for molecules as small as those found in crude can in fact selectively separate crude oil into lighter and heavier fractions in a way researchers did not expect.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPublished in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10677-3\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Etheir findings\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E suggest that using membranes to separate crude oil before distillation could significantly reduce the energy, water, and carbon footprint of petroleum refining.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lively.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELively\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the Thomas C. 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The work helped establish membrane-based crude oil fractionation as a promising alternative for reducing energy use in refining.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This work grew directly out of the challenges we identified in our original findings in the 2020 article,\u0022 Lively said. \u0022One of the key challenges that the KAIST team set out to tackle was the very low oil productivities of the membrane units, which has limited the ability of this concept to leave the lab. Along the way, we not only increased the productivities, but we also uncovered a surprising new mechanism that could make membrane-based crude oil separations even more practical.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new study built on that foundation. The researchers investigated polyacrylonitrile (PAN) membranes, a material commonly used as a non-selective support layer in filtration systems. 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The deposits effectively transformed larger pores into stable transport pathways measuring less than two nanometers across, they deduced based on available experimental evidence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe membrane maintained consistent separation performance during four weeks of continuous operation, suggesting the filtration pathways remained stable over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe findings challenge traditional assumptions about membrane fouling and may offer new opportunities for designing industrial separation systems that take advantage of similar behavior,\u201d Lively said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPotential Impact on Refining\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday\u0027s refineries heat entire streams of crude oil to separate them into useful products. 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After working as an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, she joined Georgia Tech in 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cReceiving this award is an honor and a responsibility,\u201d says Shi. \u201cThis international recognition of my early work encourages me to keep pushing the scientific boundaries of my field and to continue pursuing research that creates meaningful and lasting real-world impacts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFoundational Methodology Development\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs a quantitative methodologist, Shi develops statistical and computational models that focus on reducing dimensionality (the number of attributes, features, or independent directions needed to describe an object, dataset, or mathematical space); improving classification; and enabling technology-based, real-time adaptive assessment in psychological, brain, biomedical, and health-related research. Specifically, her research transforms complex brain imaging outputs (such as MRIs and EEGs), real-time ecological assessments, and multi-sensor wearable streams into compact, information-rich representations, and she designs personalized, adaptive intervention systems to deliver context-aware and dynamically updated support for individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShi\u2019s work has been funded by federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security. 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Popular culture often frames this tension as a struggle between two minds \u2014 a \u201cmore evolved\u201d rational layer built atop an ancient \u201clizard brain\u201d driven by primal instincts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis battle of the brains has also been playing out over the course of evolution, but not as a simple clash between old and new.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere was a theory proposed in the \u201850s that the brain evolved in layers starting with basic bodily functions, to emotions in the reptilian brain, leading up to sophisticated reasoning in humans,\u201d explains \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/nabil-imam\u0022\u003ENabil Imam\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and a faculty member with Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E (INNS). \u201cThis is not how an evolutionary biologist would think about the problem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of a \u201cnew\u201d brain layered over an \u201cancient\u201d one \u2014 or even a logical brain versus an emotional one \u2014 research published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/sciadv.aec6112\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience Advances\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E reveals that brain evolution may come down to wiring.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy studying the architecture of both biological and artificial brains, Imam\u2019s team found that brain evolution is a strategic allocation of limited real estate. They propose a computational tug-of-war between two fundamentally different types of internal wiring \u2014 ones established even before birth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis new understanding not only helps resolve a longstanding mystery in brain evolution but could also help us design more efficient AI systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Problem With the \u201cLizard Brain\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen we refer to our \u201clogical\u201d or \u201clizard\u201d brains, we\u2019re really talking about different groups of brain regions. The logical brain is known as the neocortex, the brain\u2019s outer layer responsible for vision, perception, reasoning, and other higher-level functions. For the lizard brain, the story gets a bit complicated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe limbic system, sometimes called the \u2018reptilian brain,\u2019 controls emotion broadly speaking \u2014 but it also has other components with distinct functions,\u201d explains Imam. The system has separate regions for memory, smell, and navigation in addition to emotional regulation. \u201cWhy do people group all these different regions into one big system? There hasn\u2019t been a good theory for what is common between these different circuits.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo investigate, Imam\u2019s team looked beyond individual regions to examine how these systems scale across species. Instead of comparing single areas based on function, the team analyzed how the limbic system and the neocortex change together across evolutionary history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe result was remarkably consistent. When one component of the limbic system was larger, the others were also larger, while the neocortex was consistently smaller. These regions don\u2019t vary independently. \u201cRather,\u201d says Imam, \u201cit\u2019s a coordinated expansion of these regions across species.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis reveals something new: The limbic system behaves not as a loose collection of functions, but as a unified network that expands and contracts as a group across evolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut what is driving this coordinated push and pull?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaps Versus Barcodes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImam argues that it comes down to how these different parts of the brain are wired before birth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the neocortex, neural circuits are organized as spatial maps. Areas that process touch in nearby parts of your body, like your index finger and thumb, are physically close to each other in the brain. The same is true for sight and sound.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWires in the limbic system, however, are not spatially organized. They function more like a bar code, firing in unique, distributed patterns to represent specific scents or complex memories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo test whether this was an innate trait or acquired through experience, the team developed AI models for different senses. They found that when they pre-wired an AI with localized, spatial connectivity, the network was naturally very good at processing vision, sound, and touch information. Conversely, distributed, \u201cbarcode-style\u201d networks were essential for the AI to excel at scent recognition and memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Evolutionary Tug-of-War\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final piece of the puzzle explains how the size of brain components changes predictably across species. Because resources like space and energy are limited, natural selection chooses which system to prioritize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team simulated evolution by creating a multimodal network where the spatial and distributed domains competed for \u201creal estate.\u201d When the environment rewarded smell, all areas of the distributed system expanded and the neocortex shrank. When vision was rewarded, the opposite occurred.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis explains why the nine-banded armadillo, which relies on scent, has a massive limbic system, while the highly visual squirrel monkey is dominated by its neocortex. Across the 182 species studied, the research shows that brain evolution is not about adding new layers of \u0022logic,\u0022 but about strategically reallocating space between different wiring systems to support survival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy translating this biological architecture to AI systems, engineers could create machines that learn as efficiently as the human brain, requiring far less data and energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cToday\u0027s artificial neural networks are trained by vast amounts data \u2014 it\u2019s about nurture,\u201d says Imam. \u201cBut the brain is not a blank slate that gets trained by experience. It is a mix of nature and nurture, and the nature is that pre-wired architecture.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe could translate that architecture to AI systems to make it more brain-like, or make it learn or function as efficiently as the brain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was a collaboration with Cornell University and was supported by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.aec6112\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Edoi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.aec6112\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new study from Georgia Tech examines how different brain systems scale together across species, offering a new perspective on brain organization \u2014 and its potential applications in artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new study from Georgia Tech examines how different brain systems scale together across species, offering a new perspective on brain organization \u2014 and its potential applications in artificial intelligence."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2026-06-29 18:27:57","changed_gmt":"2026-07-02 14:56:41","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680528":{"id":"680528","type":"image","title":"brain-halves.jpeg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003EResearchers found that coordinated changes across brain systems may be explained by two distinct wiring strategies \u2014 spatially organized circuits and distributed networks \u2014 that expand and contract together over evolution.\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1782757701","gmt_created":"2026-06-29 18:28:21","changed":"1782757701","gmt_changed":"2026-06-29 18:28:21","alt":"Digital illustration of a brain surrounded by two distinct visual patterns. One side is composed of structured blue connections resembling an organized network map, while the other features colorful, dispersed light patterns, representing distributed neural activity. The image symbolizes competing brain architectures explored in the study.","file":{"fid":"264802","name":"brain-halves.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/29\/brain-halves.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/29\/brain-halves.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5350147,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/29\/brain-halves.jpeg?itok=7doQLT23"}},"680530":{"id":"680530","type":"image","title":"Fig2.png","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003EA conceptual illustration of the two wiring strategies identified in the study. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a five-year, research grant from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener nofollow noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBreakthrough T1D\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, to support pioneering work aimed at improving therapies for T1D. The award will support Vlahos\u2019 project, \u003Cem\u003E\u201cRewiring Cellular Microenvironments with Synthetic Circuits for Subcutaneous Islet Transplantation,\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E through the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ET1D is caused by the autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells, requiring individuals to manage their blood glucose levels through lifelong insulin therapy. Transplanting pancreatic islets has long been investigated as a potential curative treatment, but long-lasting success in extrahepatic sites has been limited\u2014particularly when islets are transplanted beneath the skin\u2014due to poor blood vessel formation, immune rejection, and cellular stress following transplantation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVlahos\u2019 research addresses these limitations by combining synthetic biology\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eand tissue engineering\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ein a new way: engineering cells to actively reshape their local environment after transplantation to make it more hospitable for the graft. Rather than relying solely on biomaterials or porous structures to support transplanted cells, the project focuses on programming the cells themselves to sense stress and respond dynamically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/news\/new-research-seeks-help-transplanted-cells-thrive-type-1-diabetes-treatment\u0022\u003ERead the full story.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe award will support Vlahos\u2019 project, \u003Cem\u003E\u201cRewiring Cellular Microenvironments with Synthetic Circuits for Subcutaneous Islet Transplantation,\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E through the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Transplanting pancreatic islets has long been investigated as a potential curative treatment, but long-lasting success in extrahepatic sites has been limited. Vlahos\u2019 research addresses existing limitations by combining synthetic biology\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eand tissue engineering\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ein a new way: engineering cells to actively reshape their local environment after transplantation to make it more hospitable for the graft.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alexander Vlahos has been awarded a five-year, research grant to support pioneering work aimed at improving therapies for T1D."}],"uid":"36479","created_gmt":"2026-07-01 17:34:15","changed_gmt":"2026-07-01 17:39:38","author":"abowman41","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680543":{"id":"680543","type":"image","title":"_0000_Vlahos-Blood-Glucose.jpg","body":null,"created":"1782927261","gmt_created":"2026-07-01 17:34:21","changed":"1782927261","gmt_changed":"2026-07-01 17:34:21","alt":"A medical worker wearing latex gloves uses a device to test a patient\u0027s blood sugar.","file":{"fid":"264817","name":"_0000_Vlahos-Blood-Glucose.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/01\/_0000_Vlahos-Blood-Glucose.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/07\/01\/_0000_Vlahos-Blood-Glucose.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76893,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/07\/01\/_0000_Vlahos-Blood-Glucose.jpg?itok=MSzUqn6I"}}},"media_ids":["680543"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJune 16-30, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, June 2026 v2."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-07-01 14:09:11","changed_gmt":"2026-07-01 14:12:16","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-07\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_June2026-v2.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (June 2026 v2)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690752":{"#nid":"690752","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (June 2026)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (June 1-15\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJune 1-15, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, June 2026."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-06-15 17:12:31","changed_gmt":"2026-07-01 14:11:43","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-06\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_June2026.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (June 2026)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684913":{"#nid":"684913","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth\u2019s Carbon Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBetween a third and half of all soil carbon on Earth is stored in peatlands, says\u0026nbsp;Tom and Marie Patton Distinguished Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. These wetlands \u2014 formed from layers and layers of decaying plant matter \u2014 span from the Arctic to the tropics, supporting biodiversity and regulating global climate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cPeatlands are essential carbon stores, but as temperatures warm, this carbon is in danger of being released as carbon dioxide and methane,\u201d says Kostka, who is also the\u0026nbsp;associate chair for Research in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the director of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/04\/college-sciences-launches-new-center-georgia-tech-georgias-tomorrow\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech for Georgia\u2019s Tomorrow\u003C\/a\u003E. 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In this paper, we take a critical step towards discovering why \u2014 and describing the mechanisms that determine which gases are released and in what amounts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMethane mystery\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe subdued methane production in peatlands has been a long-standing mystery. In water-saturated wetlands, oxygen is scarce, but microbes still need to respire \u2014 a type of \u2018breathing\u2019 that allows them to produce energy for metabolic function. Without oxygen, microbes use nitrate, sulfate, or metals to respire \u2014 still releasing carbon dioxide in the process. However, if these ingredients aren\u2019t present, microbes \u2018breathe\u2019 in a way that releases methane.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESince nitrate, sulfate, and metals are relatively rare in peatlands, methane production should be the most likely pathway, but surprisingly, observations show the opposite. \u201cIn both fieldwork and lab experiments, peatlands produce much more carbon dioxide than methane,\u201d Kostka explains. \u201cIt\u2019s puzzling because the soil conditions should help methane production dominate.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo solve this mystery, the team leveraged a suite of cutting-edge genetic tools called \u201comics\u201d \u2014\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;metagenomics (studying DNA), metatranscriptomics (studying RNA), and metabolomics (a technique used to study the \u201cleftovers\u201d of metabolism), providing a detailed look under the hood of the microbial \u201cengine\u201d that cycles organic matter in wetlands. It also gave a new window into the diversity of soil microbes in wetlands: 80 percent of the organisms identified in the study were new at the genus level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u2018Omics\u2019 innovations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOver the course of several years, the team collected samples from a peatland enclosed in an experimental chamber that was slowly warmed, then analyzed the samples using omics to see how they changed. Initially, they hypothesized that warming the soil would cause microbial communities to change quickly. \u201cMicrobes can evolve and grow rapidly,\u201d Kostka says. \u201cBut that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe DNA-based methods showed that while the microbial communities stayed largely stable, the bog did release more greenhouse gasses as it warmed. To assess the metabolic potential of the microbes, Duchesneau and Aldeguer-Riquelme constructed microbial genomes, investigating how they were decomposing the organic matter in peatlands and cycling carbon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe found that microbial activity increases with warming, but the growth response of microbial communities lags behind these changes in physiological or metabolic activity,\u201d Kostka says.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EHe cautions that this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that wetland communities won\u2019t change as climates warm\u0026nbsp;\u2014 just that these shifts might come behind metabolic ones.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA diversity of discoveries\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAnd the methane? The team believes that microbes may be breaking down organic matter to access the key ingredients for producing carbon dioxide \u2014 nitrate, sulfate, and metals \u2014 though more research is currently underway to investigate this.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cDoing this type of integrated omics research in soil systems is still incredibly difficult,\u201d Kostka says. The challenge is multifaceted: the research leverages years of experiments, long-term datasets, advanced laboratory techniques, and fieldwork innovations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAt SPRUCE, experimental chambers are about 1,000 square feet. 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href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EYuhang Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and his team studied the factors affecting SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;and sulfate concentrations during winter and summer in the \u201cRust Belt\u201d \u2014 from New York through the Midwest \u2014 and the Southeast regions of the U.S. over two decades (2004 to 2023). Supported by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u003C\/a\u003E, the team also developed an ensemble machine learning approach to project seasonal patterns until 2050.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPower plants, particularly those burning coal and oil, are a major source of SO\u2082 emissions in these regions,\u201d says Wang, who co-authored, with Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EFanghe Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EShengjun Xi\u003C\/strong\u003E, the study recently published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.5c00731\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEnvironmental Science \u0026amp; Technology Letters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeasonal differences in atmospheric chemistry\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the U.S., the chemistry in the atmosphere varies among the seasons. During summer, solar radiation from ample sunlight activates oxidant reactions that produce hydrogen peroxide (H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E) in the atmosphere. The supply of H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E is determined by the amount of emitted air pollution, and once in the atmosphere, H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E can oxidize SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;quickly into sulfate aerosols in the aqueous phase.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESulfate aerosols from the oxidation of SO\u2082 contribute to the formation of particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5). Particulate sulfate poses significant environmental and public health risks, including air pollution, acid rain, and circulatory and respiratory issues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe supply of H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in summer is eight times greater than in winter \u2014 a huge difference \u2014 which means sulfate concentrations are generally higher in summer and a reduction in SO\u2082 emissions leads to a proportional decrease in sulfate concentrations,\u201d explains Wang. \u201cWhen SO\u2082 emissions exceed the available supply of H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E in winter, the reduction in sulfate concentrations can be much smaller because of a \u2018chemical damping\u2019 effect that causes sulfate levels to decline more slowly than SO\u2082 emissions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENarrowing the disparities between seasonal sulfate levels\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study\u2019s two-decade observations revealed distinct patterns in the reduction of SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions and sulfate concentrations during winter and summer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions significantly decreased in both seasons\u00ad over time \u2014 primarily from the Clean Air Act and more power plants transitioning from coal to natural gas \u2014 the reduction of sulfate concentrations initially showed large seasonal differences. However, over the past decade, the disparity between winter and summer sulfate levels narrowed as SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions decreased.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Wang, the seasonal disparity of sulfate was caused by changing chemical regimes in winter over time. Although the lower supply of H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E remained stable in winter, SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;wintertime emissions were higher from 2004 to 2013, then dropped below the level of H\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003EO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;after 2013 \u2014 reaching parity with the levels of reduced SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions in the summer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you have this complexity of atmospheric chemistry, there is a non-linear effect in winter \u2014 as SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions decreased, sulfate aerosol production efficiency increased until 2013, then flattened as of today. The reduction in sulfate aerosols initially lagged behind the decrease in SO\u2082 emissions but eventually caught up as a result of sustained air quality control efforts,\u201d says Wang. \u201cConversely, there is a simple, linear effect in summer \u2014 the more SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emissions, the more sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere \u2014 and if you reduce one, the other is reduced by the same proportion.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDecades-long full impact\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom now until 2050, the researchers\u2019 machine learning projections indicate a continuing decrease of winter and summer sulfate levels, which are currently around 20 percent, as SO\u2082\u0026nbsp;emission controls achieve comparable efficacy across the seasons.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re now seeing the full impact from the Clean Air Act,\u201d concludes Wang, \u201cand the nation\u2019s sustained effort in pollution reduction is key to improving air quality and health outcomes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO\u2082 and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers analyze seasonal differences of SO\u2082 and sulfate concentrations in the atmosphere over decades to determine the long-term impact of sustained air quality control efforts."}],"uid":"27465","created_gmt":"2025-09-25 21:44:42","changed_gmt":"2026-06-30 16:45:09","author":"Annette Filliat","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678151":{"id":"678151","type":"image","title":"NOAA Iridescent Clouds","body":"\u003Cp\u003EIridescent clouds before sunset \/ Source: NOAA\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1758842239","gmt_created":"2025-09-25 23:17:19","changed":"1758842239","gmt_changed":"2025-09-25 23:17:19","alt":"NOAA Iridescent Clouds","file":{"fid":"262138","name":"NOAA-North-Carolina-Clouds.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/25\/NOAA-North-Carolina-Clouds.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/25\/NOAA-North-Carolina-Clouds.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3019658,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/25\/NOAA-North-Carolina-Clouds.png?itok=aC8m6MF-"}},"678152":{"id":"678152","type":"image","title":"Yuhang Wang ","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Yuhang Wang and his team co-authored the study, \u201cChemically Induced Decline in Wintertime SO\u003Cem\u003E\u2082\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Emission Control Efficacy,\u201d which was published in \u003Cem\u003EEnvironmental Science \u0026amp; 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It\u2019s a first-of-it\u2019s-kind tool that is already improving climate models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMelt lakes play an important role in ice sheet stability, but previously, there were no constraints on what we would expect their maximum size to be in Antarctica,\u201d says study lead\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/grau-danielle-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDanielle Grau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cI was intrigued by the idea of quantifying how much of a role we could expect them to play in the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe paper, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-61798-8\u0022\u003EPredicting mean depth and area fraction of Antarctic supraglacial melt lakes with physics-based parameterizations\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d was published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E. In addition to Grau, the research team includes School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/robel-alexander\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Robel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is Grau\u2019s advisor, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAzeez Hussain\u003C\/strong\u003E (PHYS 2025).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETheir predictions show that the majority of these lakes will be less than a meter deep and span up to 40% of the ice sheet surface area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMany models don\u2019t include any data about lakes on the surface of ice sheets, while others simulate these melt lakes growing until the ice collapses,\u201d Robel says. \u201cOur results show that the reality is somewhere in between \u2014 and that the maximum size of these lakes can be predicted using these new equations. This gives us real, concrete numbers to use in climate models.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom summer project to satellite discovery\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGrau\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Efirst\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Estarted working on the project as an undergraduate student when she applied for a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/easreu.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESummer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program\u003C\/a\u003E hosted by the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EInspired by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2016GL071378\u0022\u003Eterrestrial lake research\u003C\/a\u003E, Grau and Robel investigated the \u201cself-affinity\u201d of the Antarctic ice sheet \u2014 a property associated with surface roughness across various scales. For example, a landscape like Badlands National Park, with many rolling hills of a wide range of sizes, would have a different self-affinity than a flat prairie with three large volcanoes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cA previous study had used this property to predict the size of terrestrial lakes and ponds, and we were curious if we could use a similar approach for supraglacial lakes in Antarctica,\u201d Grau says. \u201cEstablishing that the Antarctic ice sheet also has this property was the first step in pursuing this research in more depth.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe mathematics of melt\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGrau continued the investigation as a Ph.D. student in Robel\u2019s lab. Together, they unraveled the physics of how meltwater moves across the ice surface, designing a \u2018glacier in a computer\u2019 that mimics meltwater accumulation and movement across various topographies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe designed an algorithm and integrated it into a model that the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iceclimate.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGT Ice \u0026amp; Climate Group\u003C\/a\u003E has used in the past,\u201d Grau says. \u201cFrom that, we were able to see how lakes would form on different surfaces across thousands of scenarios. This was the foundation for the mathematical equations I developed, which can predict the lake depth and lake surface area based on the self-affinity property.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo check their results, Grau enlisted the help of Hussain \u2014 then an undergraduate in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 to examine satellite data from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003ELandsat satellite program\u003C\/a\u003E (which captures detailed photography of the Earth\u2019s surface from space) to measure existing supraglacial lakes and surface topography.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt was exciting to see how our predictions lined up with what we were seeing in the satellite imagery,\u201d Robel explains. \u201cThis shows that our solution is a concrete avenue for climate models to realistically incorporate supraglacial lakes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGrau is already working to incorporate the team\u2019s equations into an atmospheric model used by NASA in addition to an ice sheet model developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dartmouth College.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cBy turning complicated models and satellite data into simple predictive equations, we\u2019re giving climate models a new lens to see the future,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a small piece of the puzzle,\u0026nbsp; but one that helps us understand how ice sheets respond to a warming world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-61798-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-61798-8\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESimple equations are revealing how topography controls supraglacial lake size in Antarctica \u2014 and why it matters for climate predictions.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Simple equations are revealing how topography controls supraglacial lake size in Antarctica \u2014 and why it matters for climate predictions."}],"uid":"35599","created_gmt":"2025-10-01 16:43:29","changed_gmt":"2026-06-30 16:44:12","author":"sperrin6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678235":{"id":"678235","type":"image","title":"A view of Greenland\u0027s ice sheet from the NASA\/USGS Landsat 8 satellite showing meltwater lakes on a glacier. 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Hosted by Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coco.psych.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter of Excellence in Computational Cognition (CoCo)\u003C\/a\u003E on March 13, the conference allowed researchers from Georgia Tech and beyond working at the intersection of the mind and advanced computing to gain insights into both human cognition and artificial intelligence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoCo itself is \u201ca hub for research, education, and community\u201d housed within the Georgia Tech School of Psychology says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/robert-wilson\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERobert Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in Psychology and director of CoCo. Launched in 2023, the center is home to more than 50 affiliate faculty and 100 trainees across Georgia Tech, Atlanta, and beyond using computational methods to study the mind. Through chalk talks, educational programs, and conferences like CoCo Con, the center aims to rethink how we approach the study of the mind.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conference featured multidisciplinary talks spanning the full breadth of computation cognition \u2014 from exploration and avoidance in anxiety, what makes music memorable, the theory of mind in humans and machines, dynamic drift diffusion modeling, and the structure of memory for narratives \u2014 overall highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the day featured a robust poster session highlighting work by the eight inaugural \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coco.psych.gatech.edu\/coco-pilot-grants\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECoCo Pilot Grant recipients\u003C\/a\u003E as well as other postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates doing computational cognition research at Atlanta-based institutions. In total, there were 20 posters ranging from the physics of cognition to naturalistic decision making and beyond.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA running theme throughout the conference was the growing influence of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence \u2014 and how researchers are preparing for the ethical, social and practical challenges that they bring. \u201cThe next operating system won\u2019t run on your phone,\u201d said DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, senior academic professional in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E and one of the conference speakers. \u201cIt will run on your brain.\u201d With such rapidly advancing technology and the growing reach of computational cognition research, institutions like CoCo are looking to rethink the current practices of studying brain data in a modern light.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnding the conference was a panel discussion with researchers from across psychology, anthropology, and related fields to reflect on the future of brain research. Together, they explored what it means to do computational cognition research through the central question: What should be in the CoCo canon?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discussion emphasized that understanding what we are studying \u2014 and how we study it \u2014 is particularly important in an interdisciplinary field. While the narrative or canon of a field is defined by shared knowledge, skills, and history, computational cognition blurs those boundaries. 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Davidson\u003Cbr\u003EResearch Communications Program Manager\u003Cbr\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["audra.davidson@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690736":{"#nid":"690736","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor, Student Lead Pioneering Research in Women\u2019s Health ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt affects up to one-third of the human population and can create symptoms severe enough to lead to hospitalization, yet much about what causes it remains a mystery. It\u2019s rarely discussed in public, often goes undiagnosed, and remains a consistently \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d41586-023-01475-2\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eunderfunded\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/news\/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eunderstudied\u003C\/a\u003E area of science.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat is this mystery condition? Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), which can cause severe pain, anemia, fatigue, and may even require some women to get blood transfusions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScience has historically \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/time.com\/7171341\/gender-gap-medical-research\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eoverlooked\u003C\/a\u003E diseases and conditions such as HMB that predominantly affect women, but one Georgia Tech researcher and his doctoral student are working to change that.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAbout 30 percent of women have heavy menstrual, and that can cause them to become anemic,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/david-ku\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavid Ku\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents\u2019 Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThere are a lot of lost days where there\u0027s fatigue and embarrassment from bleeding too much, and the causes of that bleeding are poorly understood.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKu, a faculty member in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E, has received initial funding from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wellcomeleap.org\/the-missed-vital-sign\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWellcome Leap\u003C\/a\u003E to study whether clotting disorders contribute to HMB. The condition is most often attributed to hormone imbalances, leading many patients to receive treatments such as hormonal therapies that help manage symptoms. But in some cases, these treatments may treat symptoms while leaving an underlying bleeding disorder undiagnosed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf a woman goes on the pill, it supposedly regulates the hormones and masks if there\u0027s a blood clotting problem,\u201d Ku said. \u201cIf she has a clotting problem and doesn\u2019t know it, she could run into other clotting problems if she has an injury or some type of trauma in the future. By diagnosing it properly, we can fix it properly.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the study, Ku and his team of Chris Bresette, Minki Kang, and Raphaelle Dodart, are using a microfluidic blood-clotting test developed in the Ku laboratory to investigate whether clotting dysfunction contributes to heavy menstrual bleeding. This handheld instrument \u2014 which runs blood through a microfluidic tube about the width of a human hair \u2014 measures the speed of blood clotting and may open up possibilities for more personalized patient care.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to develop a point of care device that could allow gynecologists to diagnose the problem while the patient is visiting, as opposed to sending the blood off to the lab,\u201d Ku said. \u201cCurrently, there is no good test for that. We\u2019ve simplified the microscope system so that you can directly see whether the blood is clotting by going through that small tube.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDodart, who was studying the mechanics of clotting and hypothesized the prevalence in HMB, is recruiting volunteers for the study. She is currently working with women who exhibit symptoms of HMB and are willing to give a small amount of blood to be tested through the diagnostic device. If her hypothesis around blood clotting is proven true, the study can expand further into the realm of treatment options.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe main goal now is that we identify a cause,\u201d Dodart said. \u201cIn the future, hopefully we can focus on finding some solutions, some non-hormonal treatments, because we are looking for a treatable dysfunction.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough women\u2019s health remains a largely underfunded area of science, the landscape is beginning to shift thanks to researchers like Ku and Dodart.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a widespread problem that not too many people have studied,\u201d Ku said. \u201cWhat we are studying is one of the treatable causes for heavy menstrual bleeding that we could actually change the outcome of right now.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Study Could Eventually Result in Improved Diagnostic Tool and Treatments for Common Disorder "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHeavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) affects up to one-third of the human population and can create symptoms severe enough to lead to hospitalization, yet much about what causes it remains a mystery. David Ku, a faculty member in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E, has received initial funding from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wellcomeleap.org\/the-missed-vital-sign\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWellcome Leap\u003C\/a\u003E to study whether clotting disorders contribute to HMB.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Science has historically overlooked diseases and conditions that predominantly affect women, but one Georgia Tech researcher and his doctoral student are working to change that. "}],"uid":"36479","created_gmt":"2026-06-12 13:12:55","changed_gmt":"2026-06-25 15:52:30","author":"abowman41","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680456":{"id":"680456","type":"image","title":"HMB---Raphaelle-1.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDoctoral student Raphaelle Dodart looks through a microscope at a small sample of clotted blood contained in a microfluidic chip.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1781269982","gmt_created":"2026-06-12 13:13:02","changed":"1781269982","gmt_changed":"2026-06-12 13:13:02","alt":"A woman in a laboratory wearing a white lab coat looks through a microscope on a benchtop. Petri dishes and a digital scale sit nearby, with lab supplies and equipment arranged on shelves and counters. 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I\u0027m excited to help build the partnerships that enable Georgia Tech\u0027s research to create impact at scale,\u0022 Weinelt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBruce brings more than two decades of senior executive experience at the intersection of global partnerships, institutional growth, and cross-sector collaboration spanning academia, philanthropy, government, and industry. Most recently, he served as senior expert and strategic advisor to the C-Suite at Conservation International on AI-enabled sustainability innovation. Before Conservation International, Weinelt served as Vice President of Global Growth at Schmidt Futures, where he founded the Global Growth function and served as chair of the Quad Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier, Weinelt spent a decade at the World Economic Forum, most recently as co-head of Partner Development for North America and Europe and a member of the North America Executive Team. He also led the Forum\u0027s multiyear Digital Transformation initiative, advising six national governments on digital readiness. In addition, he served as head of the Global Future Council on Space, shaping global space governance through frameworks such as the Space Sustainability Rating. He is a regular speaker and contributor to global media and convenings and has contributed to publications including Klaus Schwab\u0027s \u003Cem\u003EThe Fourth Industrial Revolution\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBruce is a rare hire for an academic institution,\u201d said\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EBeril Toktay, executive director of BBISS, Regents\u2019 Professor, and Brady Family Chair in the Scheller College of Business. \u0022He has built and scaled global partnerships at the highest levels of philanthropy, multilateral diplomacy, and the private sector. His combination of strategic experience, fundraising track record, and convening power across sectors is exactly what BBISS needs as we move into our next chapter.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeinelt holds MBAs from the Mason School of Business at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary and IESE Universidad de Navarra. 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The success of a tournament that large will rely heavily on technology, affecting everything from the players on the pitch, all the way to viewers at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn top of the state-of-the-art technology used at many large events, this World Cup will also see the debut of new technology. At the center of much of it will be electrical and computer engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperts from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) weigh in on how the field is enabling the technology behind the world\u2019s largest sporting event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/what-it-takes-deliver-tech-heavy-world-cup\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the ECE News Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWith hundreds of thousands of people attending the 104 World Cup games over the next 39 days and billions more watching at home, an immense amount of technology will be needed to ensure a seamless, safe, and enjoyable experience. 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The team will present its findings at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\u0022\u003E35th USENIX Security Symposium\u003C\/a\u003E in August.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research addresses a growing safety challenge as drones are increasingly used for deliveries, infrastructure inspections, and agriculture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs drones rely more on machine learning to navigate and make decisions, they also become vulnerable to model poisoning attacks. In these attacks, adversaries manipulate an AI system during its learning phase, embedding hidden triggers that can cause failures under specific conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMachine learning drones are making more decisions in flight, which makes ML a safety-critical component of these systems,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYizhi Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student and lead researcher on the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen something goes wrong, investigators need a way to ask whether the model was responsible, but the model is the part of the system that no one can examine after a crash.\u0026nbsp;FIRA\u0026nbsp;gives investigators a way to investigate these cases by reconstructing what the model was doing during the crash. As more drones run with ML, this kind of forensic capability can help drones be used more effectively and safely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen a drone crashes, investigators must determine whether the cause was malicious interference, weather, or mechanical failure. Without reliable forensic tools, accountability is difficult to establish, and safety standards are harder to enforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFIRA identifies how drone components interact with machine learning models and monitors those interactions in real time, even with limited bandwidth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system functions like a flight recorder, capturing key system activity and reconstructing a timeline after a crash. It then analyzes the model\u2019s behavior to determine whether a malicious trigger was introduced via poisoned ML training data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn tests across multiple drone platforms and crash scenarios, FIRA identified failure causes and distinguished cyberattacks from environmental or mechanical issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system does not require access to a drone\u2019s source code, making it practical for real-world investigations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs commercial drone use expands, tools like FIRA could help improve accountability and trust in AI-powered systems operating in public airspace,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Huang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/usenixsecurity26\/sec26_prepub_huang-yizhi.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFIRA: Enabling Automatic Forensic Investigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was led by Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyfi.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECyber Forensics Innovation Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in cooperation with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. These labs reside in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computing Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA drone powered by artificial intelligence crashes in a remote field, destroying its onboard computer and leaving investigators without the data needed to determine whether a cyberattack caused the failure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech say they have developed a system to help answer that question.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech say they have developed a system to determine whether a cyberattack caused drone crashes."}],"uid":"36253","created_gmt":"2026-06-18 17:32:32","changed_gmt":"2026-06-24 20:39:30","author":"John Popham","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"660599":{"id":"660599","type":"image","title":"CyFI Lab Sign","body":null,"created":"1661532564","gmt_created":"2022-08-26 16:49:24","changed":"1661532564","gmt_changed":"2022-08-26 16:49:24","alt":"Sign reading Cyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory The CyFI Lab","file":{"fid":"250302","name":"SCP August 2022-66.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SCP%20August%202022-66.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SCP%20August%202022-66.png","mime":"image\/png","size":9087261,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SCP%20August%202022-66.png?itok=7KS9Gbz_"}}},"media_ids":["660599"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Popham\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer II at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpopham3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690884":{"#nid":"690884","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ICSFlux: Using Physics to Uncover Cyberthreats ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe factories, water utilities, and power systems that keep daily life running rest on the assumption that as long as no one breaks into the computers that run the equipment, the equipment stays safe.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELogically this makes sense and has been backed up by past security research. However, researchers at Georgia Tech have found hidden paths in cyber-physical systems that attackers can use to disrupt or even destroy them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo find these hidden paths before an attacker does, the researchers built a testing tool called ICSFlux. This new tool leans on the physics used by the industrial process and maps out the system to find new threats that were once thought impossible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EICSFlux was deployed across 11 different programmable logic controllers in six industrial sectors, including chemical manufacturing, water treatment, power grids, aircraft, desalination, and waste processing. The process uncovered twenty genuine safety violations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn one case drawn from a chemical-plant simulation, an attack path uncovered by the tool drove a reactor past its safe pressure limit and into a simulated explosion. By using nothing but valid operator commands, the team took the reactor from a completely normal and stable state to critical territory.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause the method relies only on the physics of a process and not on the details of any one controller, the same tool worked across all six sectors without being rebuilt, and it reduced the search space by roughly 50%.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sahinburak.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBurak Sahin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech and the study\u0027s lead author, found that by sending a series of perfectly normal, fully authorized commands, intruders can slowly nudge a physical process toward a dangerous state.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese systems are usually judged safe as long as nobody hacks into them,\u0027\u0027 Sahin said. \u201cWhat we found is that an attacker who can send everyday commands, the same ones a normal operator sends, can patiently steer the process toward a failure. No single command looks wrong, which is exactly why the usual defenses miss it.\u0027\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost existing tools assume an attacker can rewire the controller or change the software inside it. In the real world, those controllers are locked down and cannot be touched. ICSFlux takes the opposite and more realistic view. It treats the controller as a sealed box that cannot be opened and works only with the commands an operator is normally allowed to send.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than measuring how much of a controller\u0027s software it has exercised, the usual yardstick for this kind of testing, ICSFlux measures how close the physical system is getting to an unsafe limit and steers its testing in that direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTwo different sensor readings can run through the exact same code and still send a reactor in completely different directions,\u0027\u0027 Sahin said. \u201cLooking only at the software tells you nothing about whether the physical system is safe. We had to follow the physics, not the code.\u0027\u0027\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the study\u0027s most important takeaways emerged when the researchers tightened the safety margins to see whether caution alone would help. Even when every command stayed within approved limits, the way the controller reacted to a steady stream of small adjustments could still cause pressure to overshoot and the reactor to fail. In other words, staying inside the rules was not always enough.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll of the team\u0027s experiments were carried out on secured, controlled test beds. The work was conducted with Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Systems Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, whose research spans the security of cyber-physical systems from industrial programmable logic controllers to marine, automotive, and drone platforms. Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyfi.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, a team of researchers who work together to further the investigation of advanced cyber crimes and the analysis and prevention of next-generation malware attacks, also contributed to the paper.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe labs are a collaboration between the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFuzzing the Physical Space: Physics-Aware Testing of Black-Box Industrial Control Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u0027 was accepted to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sp2026.ieee-security.org\/\u0022\u003E2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E. 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For many, this was their first exposure to advanced manufacturing tools and processes, and a glimpse into high-skill, high-wage careers within reach for their students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany of these teachers have never been exposed to any advanced manufacturing,\u201d said Sean Mulvanity, a program manager for STEM@GTRI and project lead for this workshop. \u201cBy the time they walk out of here, they\u2019ve actually created and manufactured physical items they can take back to their students.\u201d Unlike traditional professional development, the workshop places teachers directly in the machine shop, working on heavy equipment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor AMP program leaders, this pilot was a way to build momentum for school districts that may add advanced manufacturing courses and to make the machine shop feel less intimidating in the process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions about modern manufacturing is that it is inaccessible or limited to specialized factory environments,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtmi.gatech.edu\/people\/steven-ferguson\u0022\u003EGTMI Deputy Director Steven Ferguson\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cToday\u2019s manufacturing combines hands-on skills, digital technologies, AI, and problem-solving in ways that are relevant to students across many career pathways. By giving teachers direct experience in the machine shop, we help them bring that excitement back to their classrooms and show students that they can design, build, and innovate in their own communities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EFrom the Shop Floor to the Classroom\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the workshop participants is James Beveridge, who teaches computer science for grades 6-12 in the Chattahoochee County School District, a small, rural district south of Columbus. He has participated in multiple Georgia Tech-led training programs, and he runs a full computer science pathway for 450 middle and high school students. 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The medal is considered one of the most prestigious awards presented by ASME.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel deeply honored to be listed alongside distinguished scholars in the field of thermodynamics research and education, including some of my own teachers and mentors,\u201d Zhang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EASME recognized Zhang for his \u201cpioneering study of radiative thermal power generation and electroluminescent refrigeration, especially on the application of second-law analysis to these systems while accounting for photon entropy and chemical potential.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/news\/zhuomin-zhang-receives-asme-2026-james-harry-potter-gold-medal\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the ME Newspage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/zhang\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZhuomin Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, J. 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The medal is considered one of the most prestigious awards presented by ASME.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel deeply honored to be listed alongside distinguished scholars in the field of thermodynamics research and education, including some of my own teachers and mentors,\u201d Zhang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EASME recognized Zhang for his \u201cpioneering study of radiative thermal power generation and electroluminescent refrigeration, especially on the application of second-law analysis to these systems while accounting for photon entropy and chemical potential.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Zhuomin Zhang, J. Erskine Love, Jr. Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded the 2026 James Harry Potter Gold Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 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The 2026 cohort includes 28 early-career scientists based in the United States who are changing the world with their work.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous honor to be recognized alongside such an inspiring group of scientists,\u201d Manafzadeh says. \u201cI\u2019ve always been motivated by big, fundamental questions, and it\u2019s exciting to see that kind of curiosity-driven research celebrated.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EManafzadeh will join Georgia Tech in August 2026 as an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Her research investigates how joints function and how they evolved, using advanced technology to create animations of moving skeletons with sub-millimeter precision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMy research is aimed at understanding how joints work and where they come from,\u201d she explains. \u201cPhysicians can repair ACL injuries and perform hip replacements, but we still don\u2019t fully understand joint mechanics at a fundamental level.\u201d Because joints are a shared feature of virtually all vertebrates, she adds, nearly all movement \u2014 from slithering to sprinting to soaring \u2014 depends on them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EManafzadeh first applied these methods to pterodactyls, \u201creanimating\u201d the extinct animals to study how they flew. 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Zinn Combustion Lab","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe combustion lab had the pleasure of touring visiting scholars from several neighboring universities on Wednesday, May 27. The combustion lab tour was part of a larger campus visit centered on the topic of carbon management. On the tour, students learned about combustion research activities in fuel flexibility and advanced propulsion concepts. A description of the larger campus visit follows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Summer Carbon Management Fellows Program launched with an in-person kickoff at Georgia Tech, giving students an opportunity to connect with one another, learn more about the program, and begin exploring the role of carbon management in energy, sustainability, and industry innovation. The student group included Georgia Tech Graduate Assistants and students from Kentucky State University, Tennessee State University, Florida A\u0026amp;M University, North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, Tuskegee University, Southern University Law Center, and Southern University and A\u0026amp;M College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/comblab.gatech.edu\/node\/335\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the Ben T. Zinn Lab News page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe combustion lab had the pleasure of touring visiting scholars from several neighboring universities on Wednesday, May 27. The combustion lab tour was part of a larger campus visit centered on the topic of carbon management. On the tour, students learned about combustion research activities in fuel flexibility and advanced propulsion concepts. A description of the larger campus visit follows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Summer Carbon Management Fellows Program launched with an in-person kickoff at Georgia Tech, giving students an opportunity to connect with one another, learn more about the program, and begin exploring the role of carbon management in energy, sustainability, and industry innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The combustion lab had the pleasure of touring visiting scholars from several neighboring universities on Wednesday, May 27. The combustion lab tour was part of a larger campus visit centered on the topic of carbon management. 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What once appeared to be ordinary industrial waste became the focal point for her work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a postdoctoral researcher in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ethe School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, Tripathi, along with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chuang.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EChing-Hua Huang, Turnipseed Family Chair and Professor\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/xing-xie\u0022\u003EXing Xie, Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor\u003C\/a\u003E, both in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, developed a method to recover rare earth elements from coal fly ash.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERare earth elements (REEs) help power electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, MRI machines, smartphones, and defense systems because of their unusually strong magnetic and electrical properties. Despite the name, most REEs are not actually rare in quantity. They\u2019re rare in concentration. REEs are scattered through the Earth\u2019s crust in amounts too small to mine easily, and much of their global supply chain remains concentrated outside of the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat imbalance has turned REEs into both an economic and national security concern. Countries are competing for the materials sustaining advanced manufacturing, energy systems, and military technologies, increasing pressure to find domestic sources. That urgency has pushed researchers like Tripathi, Huang, and Xie to look at coal fly ash differently: not just as industrial waste but as a potential source of materials that modern technology depends on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoal naturally contains trace amounts of rare earth elements. Burning the coal concentrates those elements in the ash left behind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETripathi developed a method for extracting rare earth elements that avoids the corrosive chemicals used in conventional extraction. The same ash that once coated her rooftop could now become a secondary domestic source of critical materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMining What Was Left Behind\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoal fly ash already exists in enormous quantities across the United States. About 2 billion tons are stored in impoundments, such as storage ponds and landfills, according to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-04\/Coal%20Factsheet_4.18.24.pdf\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose sites require long-term monitoring because coal fly ash can release contaminants into soil and groundwater. Major storms can also damage storage sites and spread the material into surrounding communities and waterways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInside that ash, REEs are dispersed in tiny concentrations. Recovering them is a challenge; recovering them cleanly is an even greater one. Many existing recovery methods rely on concentrated acids, large amounts of water, or extreme heat during extraction. Some techniques require temperatures high enough to rival industrial furnaces. Others create additional waste streams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETripathi and her team wanted a different approach.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey built the system around a recyclable ionic liquid, a salt-based substance stable enough to operate under conditions that would break down water-based systems. The liquid pulls rare earth elements away from the ash. An applied electrical current then causes the recovered elements to collect onto a surface where they can be removed. Afterward, the liquid can be cleaned and reused.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThe beauty of this system is that it works beyond the limits of water,\u201d Tripathi said.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThe ionic liquid allows us to recover rare earth elements under conditions that water-based systems just can\u2019t handle.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe process also changes depending on the voltage applied. At lower voltages, the system selectively recovers neodymium, an REE used in high-strength permanent magnets found in electric vehicles, wind turbines, and defense systems. At higher voltages, it recovers a broader mixture. The system recovered nearly half of the available neodymium during testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EBeyond Coal Ash\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETripathi has shown that the chemistry works in small batches. The next challenge is scale: whether the system can recover enough rare earth elements efficiently enough to make the process commercially practical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same approach could extend beyond coal fly ash. Batteries, discarded electronics, and medical waste all contain valuable metals that often end up buried in landfills or destroyed during disposal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Tripathi, the idea began at home, where fly ash would settle on her terrace. What once seemed like an ordinary nuisance could help reshape how critical materials are recovered from waste.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETripathi\u2019s research is published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.est.5c16688\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEnvironmental Science and Technology.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIt was supported by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/\u0022\u003EU.S. Department of Energy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers turn a widespread waste product into materials that power modern technology."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researcher Anuja Tripathi developed a method to recover rare earth elements from coal ash using a recyclable ionic liquid and electricity. 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That brief loss of pressure can be enough to throw off your balance entirely.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor most, that heart-pounding uncertainty ends the moment the foot finds solid ground. But for many individuals living with conditions like stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI), that sense of disconnect is a permanent reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese conditions of course have a huge effect on our ability to move around and be independent \u2014 but the other side of it is the sensory feedback that we lose,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/matthew-t-flavin\u0022\u003EMatthew Flavin\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Most rehabilitation treatments primarily focus on restoring movement, but \u201ceven if you have motor control, if you can\u2019t feel when your foot\u0027s touching the ground it can be really hard for you to move around safely.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a new study published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2536577123\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Flavin and an interdisciplinary team of researchers introduce a way to bridge this gap: a wearable \u201csensory substitution\u201d system that translates foot pressure into high-tech patterns of heat and vibration they can feel elsewhere.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system uses high-resolution pressure-sensing insoles designed by the team, which are placed inside a user\u0027s shoes to record how their weight shifts in real-time. This data is streamed via Bluetooth to a flexible, skin-conformable array of haptic receivers worn on the forearms, a part of the body that often retains sensation in SCI. The receivers give quick pressure feedback through vibration, while also alerting the user to longer-term pressure \u201chotspots\u201d through heat.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the limitations of a lot of approaches in haptics is that you\u0027re having to map a missing sense onto a completely different sense,\u201d says Flavin. \u201cWe\u2019re keeping the type of information that we\u0027re missing, which is the distribution of pressure, and we\u0027re just basically putting it on a different part of their body.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERerouting the lost sensation was key to making the device intuitive to learn. Participants were able to correctly identify the \u201cfeel\u201d of the ground through their arms with high accuracy within a mere two-hour session. When tested with a small group of participants with stroke or SCI, the wearable significantly improved standing balance and led to steadier walking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat\u2019s encouraging about these early results is that participants appeared to use the feedback in ways that supported balance and walking,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mccormick.northwestern.edu\/research-faculty\/directory\/profiles\/rogers-john.html\u0022\u003EJohn Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E, a materials science and engineering professor at Northwestern University who collaborated on this study. \u201cOur study suggests that providing pressure information through another part of the body could be a practical path for helping people compensate for lost sensation.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile vibration provides immediate feedback for walking and balance, the team views the thermal feedback as a tool for long-term health. Heat is a slower, low-frequency signal that could alert patients to pressure hotspots, potentially preventing diabetic foot ulcers or pressure injuries for those who are bedridden or use wheelchairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe small, lightweight system is completely untethered, making it suitable for use during daily activities in and outside the clinic. It\u2019s also highly adaptable to different injury types, which is ideal for conditions as variable as stroke, SCI, and diabetic neuropathy. Placement of the haptic receivers can be adjusted based on where a patient has the most sensation, and the sensitivity of the insoles can be tailored to each patient.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of several of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/interdisciplinary-research-institutes\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Research Institutes\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/robotics\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EParker H. 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The 1996 Olympics reshaped Atlanta\u2019s physical landscape and helped position the city as a global destination. Thirty years later, the World Cup arrives at a very different moment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are similarities,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/emily-barrett\u0022\u003EEmily Barrett\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of City and Regional Planning. \u201cLike the Olympics, the World Cup is an accelerator for infrastructure upgrades and public and private investment alike.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta is seeing significant public investment in transportation improvements and billions of dollars in private development downtown. But today\u2019s Atlanta is very different from Atlanta in the 1990s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAtlanta is no longer a city seeking recognition on the world stage,\u201d Barrett said. \u201cWe are a thriving and growing city.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat shifts the conversation from visibility to value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe open question is whether hosting mega-events makes the city work better for the people who live here,\u201d Barrett added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Economics Behind the Headlines\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssessing that value becomes more complicated when economic forecasts enter the conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELarge projections often dominate headlines, but\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/8e6ac738-7497-5f94-ab1a-0c3fd32d15a7\u0022\u003EDeclan Abernethy\u003C\/a\u003E, lecturer in the School of History and Sociology, cautions that economic impact estimates rarely tell the whole story.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is far easier to put out an economic impact projection compared to the difficulty of measuring impact,\u201d Abernethy said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile visitors will spend money on hotels, restaurants, transportation, and entertainment, he notes that much of that spending may not reach the community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we look closely at that spending, we can see that much of the profit will be taken in by large corporations or FIFA in the immediate vicinity of Mercedes-Benz Stadium and not as much by Atlanta residents or small businesses,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Barrett, economic studies often overlook a critical question: What could alternative investments have accomplished?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEconomic studies rarely account for displacement costs, or whether the same public dollars could have generated similar or better outcomes if invested elsewhere,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPressure Points Across the City\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe World Cup\u2019s impact extends beyond economics; it will also test Atlanta\u2019s infrastructure at a scale few events can match.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/michael-p-hunter\u0022\u003EMichael Hunter\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the biggest challenge may be the volume of people moving through the city.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere will be a number of pressure points. However, one of the most significant will be just the number of people,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cThis event will attract significant crowds.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta\u2019s transportation agencies have spent years preparing, drawing on lessons learned from events including the Super Bowl, World Series, and major concerts. Still, capacity limits are unavoidable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is only so much traffic that MARTA or any transit agency can handle,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cPeople need to understand that there will be congestion and longer wait times. The key is to be patient.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe concern is whether those investments result in lasting improvements or merely support a few weeks of activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbernethy argues that the World Cup should be viewed as part of a broader vision for Atlanta rather than a standalone catalyst.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are seeing the World Cup as a part of a longer-running and more cohesive vision for sport and economic development downtown,\u201d he said. \u201cAtlanta may not be repeating the same cycle nor cracking downtown\u2019s development problem with the World Cup itself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBehind the Scenes: Food and Logistics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInfrastructure challenges extend beyond transportation. Feeding hundreds of thousands of visitors while minimizing waste requires its own network of logistics, coordination, and planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/nicole-kennard\u0022\u003ENicole Kennard\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist at Georgia Tech\u2019s Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, views the tournament as an opportunity to strengthen how food moves throughout the city.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese large events are a really big opportunity for us to coordinate and test our infrastructure,\u201d Kennard said. \u201cWe have to think critically about how to improve the infrastructure and ensure its resilience and efficiency.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking with organizations such as Second Helpings Atlanta,\u0026nbsp;the official food rescue partner for the World Cup, Georgia Tech researchers\u0026nbsp;are building technologies and tools to improve coordination among food rescue groups.\u0026nbsp;The effort aims to\u0026nbsp;keep surplus food out of landfills by quickly moving it from stadiums and vendors to local food organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s really a logistics problem, a data problem, and a coordination problem,\u201d Kennard said. \u201cThe faster you can move food from the point of surplus directly to a pantry, the more likely it is to reach people who need it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Legacy Looks Like\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, Atlanta\u2019s World Cup legacy may not be measured by attendance figures or visitor spending alone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow we evaluate success depends on what we choose to measure, and too often we focus on headline numbers instead of who actually benefits,\u201d said Abernethy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKennard sees the tournament as a chance to build systems that outlast the event itself. \u201cWhat we build for the World Cup could become critical infrastructure for future emergencies and disasters,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta already knows how to host a global event. Whether the investments, partnerships, and infrastructure created for the World Cup leave the city stronger after the crowds leave remains to be seen.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta already has global credibility, so the real question surrounding the 2026 FIFA World Cup is not exposure but lasting impact. Georgia Tech experts warn that big economic projections often obscure who actually benefits, with much of the revenue likely flowing to large corporations and FIFA rather than local businesses and residents. Transportation infrastructure will face significant strain, and whether World Cup investments produce permanent improvements or simply support a few weeks of activity remains uncertain. 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At Georgia Tech, Katherine Graham, assistant professor of environmental engineering and Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Faculty Fellow, is working at exactly that nexus, using viruses, bacteria, and advanced analytics to understand how water reuse and cooling systems can support data center growth without compromising community health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Data centers are important, and so are their cooling needs. I don\u0027t think they\u0027re going away,\u0022 she said. \u0022But there needs to be a lot of investigation to develop guidelines for operating these facilities based on how microbes behave so that we can get the economic benefit and protect the communities where they operate.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETracing Viruses Across Georgia\u0027s Water Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough a Sustainability Next Seed Grant project administered by the BBISS, Graham\u0027s lab focuses on water reuse safety, particularly in Georgia communities facing water stress. Her team works with municipal reuse facilities, where, she said, \u201cWe look at what comes out of wastewater treatment plants, what exists in the natural waters they discharge treated water into, and what comes into downstream drinking water plants at their intake.\u0022 Her team is especially interested in pathogens such as viruses and phages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhages \u2014 viruses that infect bacteria rather than humans \u2014 pose no direct human hazard. Still, because they travel through water systems similarly to viruses that can harm people, they serve as powerful ecological markers. \u0022They can be good surrogates for human viruses,\u0022 she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis work builds on Graham\u0027s wastewater surveillance experience dating to 2018, which became central during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her lab helped develop actionable public health guidelines to show how wastewater can be used to monitor for mpox outbreaks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Cooling Towers to Data Centers: A Proactive Public Health Lens\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile Graham\u0027s Sustainability Next Seed Grant project isn\u0027t exclusively about data centers, the connection to their cooling systems is direct. Data centers need to dissipate massive quantities of heat \u2014 typically with water-hungry cooling towers \u2014 and are increasingly turning to treated wastewater as a supply.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Reuse can supply more water of sufficient quality for these cooling systems,\u0022 Graham said. But beyond the quantity issue lies an underexplored dimension: microbial risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECooling towers have long been linked to Legionnaires\u0027 disease, with documented outbreaks occurring miles downwind of a source. \u0022For most healthy people, it may not be a problem,\u0022 Graham noted, \u0022but for the immunocompromised and elderly, it can be a really big problem.\u0022 What makes this especially concerning is how little is known. \u0022It\u0027s not well quantified. It\u0027s not well characterized,\u0022 she said. \u0022There\u0027s been no national study collecting cooling-tower waters and looking at the prevalence of these bacteria.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is currently no systematic, national effort to characterize the prevalence of Legionella and other opportunistic pathogens in any cooling towers \u2014 let alone the potential additional risk of building more cooling systems to accommodate the needs of hyperscale data centers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBBISS has been central to sharpening her focus here. Exposing Graham to colleagues working on energy and water quantity challenges helped her connect the microbiology dots. \u0022A lot of the data center ideas I\u0027ve started to think about have been generated by BBISS faculty presenting their own work,\u0022 she said. \u0022Given that cooling towers are already a problem in pre-AI settings, it seems like a good proactive idea to be aware of the problem going into the age of AI.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraham is now writing proposals to study microbial communities in cooling towers, analyzing water, air, and biofilms under different operating conditions. Her call to industry is direct: Partner early. \u0022I would be extremely happy to collaborate with anyone interested in this problem. Industry buy-in would be critical \u2014 and so helpful \u2014 to get it done.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHeat Waves, Infrastructure, and Legionella\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraham\u0027s lab also examines how climate-driven extreme heat affects drinking water systems. Working with utilities in the Southwest, her team studies how prolonged heat waves warm distribution-system water, accelerate disinfectant loss, and shape the persistence of microorganisms in drinking water distribution systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We were able to see temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit) \u2014 with a maximum of 52 (126 degrees Fahrenheit) \u2014 which is very warm,\u0022 she said. \u0022Most of the literature refers to testing conducted at much lower temperatures, like room temperature.\u0022 Such elevated temperatures, combined with nutrients and stagnation, can allow opportunistic pathogens to thrive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeaching and Outreach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGraham teaches undergraduate environmental engineering and graduate courses in quantitative microbial risk assessment and public health microbiology. She serves as associate editor for \u003Cem\u003EWater Research\u003C\/em\u003E and has hosted a microbiology outreach workshop for K-12 students through Georgia Tech\u2019s \u0026nbsp;Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe through line across her work is consistent: science that anticipates risk and informs action. \u0022As we expand this data center infrastructure, a proactive approach should be taken to understanding concerns that, maybe, haven\u0027t been fully addressed yet.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a region and a world betting big on AI, her research offers a timely reminder: Progress depends not just on computing power, but on ensuring that the water that keeps these systems from melting down remains safe for the communities living alongside them.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough a Sustainability Next Seed Grant project administered by the BBISS, Graham\u0027s lab focuses on water reuse safety, particularly in Georgia communities facing water stress.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Metro Atlanta has become a magnet for hyperscale data centers and securing enough cooling water with wastewater reuse has unknown public health risks."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2026-05-27 18:20:24","changed_gmt":"2026-06-15 17:12:50","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680362":{"id":"680362","type":"image","title":"Katherine_Graham_portrait.jpg","body":null,"created":"1779906452","gmt_created":"2026-05-27 18:27:32","changed":"1779906576","gmt_changed":"2026-05-27 18:29:36","alt":"Portrait of an individual photographed outdoors, shown from the shoulders up and wearing a dark red top. 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The Institute has maintained this ranking every year since the category was first introduced in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-named-top-ranked-public-university-energy\u0022\u003Econtinued recognition\u003C\/a\u003E highlights Georgia Tech\u2019s research leadership in advancing energy solutions across technology, science, policy, and economics and in delivering technically advanced solutions that is scalable, secure, and sustainable for the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe scale and integration of our energy ecosystem is among Georgia Tech\u2019s great strengths,\u201d said Executive Vice President for Research\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/leadership\u0022\u003ETim Lieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cA defining part of that ecosystem is the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI), our interdisciplinary research institute that brings together the talents of researchers from across disciplines to accelerate energy innovation and deliver real-world solutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESEI integrates energy activities at Georgia Tech by connecting more than 1,000 researchers across the entire energy value chain and enabling collaboration with industry, government, communities, and nonprofits.\u0026nbsp;SEI is deeply engaged in building community, developing resources, promoting thought leadership, and marshaling the full resources of Georgia Tech around tackling the tough energy and environmental problems and opportunities society faces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s energy leadership is built on the depth of our research and the breadth of our collaborations,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/people\/yuanzhi-tang\u0022\u003EYuanzhi Tang\u003C\/a\u003E, SEI\u2019s executive director. \u201cBy connecting expertise across the full energy value chain, we are advancing solutions that enhance affordability, reliability, security, and sustainability.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E evaluates the academic research performance of universities in 51 subject areas using indicators such as publications, citations, and global and regional research reputation. Georgia Tech was assessed among 292 institutions in the U.S. and\u0026nbsp;continues its strong\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/best-colleges\/georgia-institute-of-technology-1569\/overall-rankings\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Estanding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the rankings, claiming the No. 32 spot overall in the nation and No. 9 among public universities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-global-universities\/united-states\/energy-fuels\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has named\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech the top-ranked public university in energy and fuels research (No. 3 nationally). The Institute has maintained this ranking every year since the category was first introduced in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-named-top-ranked-public-university-energy\u0022\u003Econtinued recognition\u003C\/a\u003E highlights Georgia Tech\u2019s research leadership in advancing energy solutions across technology, science, policy, and economics and in delivering technically advanced solutions that is scalable, secure, and sustainable for the future.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"U.S. News \u0026 World Report has named Georgia Tech the top-ranked public university in energy and fuels research (No. 3 nationally). 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She is\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/news\/jenny-mcguire-named-teasley-professor\u0022\u003EHarry and Anna Teasley Professor in Ecology\u003C\/a\u003E and Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) faculty fellow. She is currently on faculty development leave in Copenhagen where she is sharpening her work with fresh perspectives from European conservation practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcGuire, winner of the National Science Foundation\u2019s prestigious \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/news\/jenny-mcguire-lutz-warnke-receive-nsf-career-awards-0\u0022\u003EFaculty Early Career Development Award\u003C\/a\u003E, describes herself as a\u0026nbsp;spatial or landscape ecologist, rather than a traditional wildlife biologist. She currently leads Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab, whose motto is\u0026nbsp;\u201clearning from the past how to conserve the future.\u201d\u0026nbsp;She uses modern, historical, and paleontological specimens\u0026nbsp;to identify how communities of plants and animals move across landscapes over long time scales in response to past climate shifts. Her goal is to identify\u0026nbsp;strategies to conserve as much biodiversity as possible\u0026nbsp;in the face of an increasingly volatile climate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwice awarded\u0026nbsp;with Sustainability Next Seed Grants by BBISS, most recently in 2025, McGuire is using that support to knit together scientists, conservation groups, agencies, and students to understand how plants and animals are moving in response to both climate and land-use change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to pivot to a more regional approach toward this work,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cThe Southeast, and especially the Atlanta region, is really critical because we sit at this \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.maps.tnc.org\/migrations-in-motion\/#3\/19\/-78\u0022\u003Eimportant geographic point\u003C\/a\u003E where southern Appalachia and the Piedmont come together.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs species track cooler temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, many are expected to move upslope into the\u0026nbsp;southern Appalachians, even as Atlanta\u2019s urban and suburban footprint continues to expand northward. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of competing stressors on the regional environment,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a Regional Conservation Community\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of McGuire\u2019s Sustainability Next Seed Grants, in collaboration with Nicole Kennard, BBISS Assistant Director for Community Engaged Research, supports a partnership with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rootsdownregen.com\/\u0022\u003ERoots Down\u003C\/a\u003E, an innovative urban land-use nonprofit working with the cities of Avondale Estates and Atlanta to understand how\u0026nbsp;native plant restoration\u0026nbsp;affects ecosystem health. Georgia Tech students established protocols to survey sites before and after restoration to track changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other seed grant McGuire received enabled her to convene a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mcguire.gatech.edu\/wildlife-conservation-conference\/\u0022\u003Econference\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ethat brought together nonprofit conservation organizations, government agencies such as Georgia\u2019s Department of Natural Resources, and academics from across the Southeast. The group formalized their collaboration as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mcguire.gatech.edu\/wepa\/\u0022\u003EWildlife Ecology in the Piedmont and Appalachia (WEPA) coalition\u003C\/a\u003E. They agreed to survey the resources, such as data,\u0026nbsp; projects, and people, that would support a regional wildlife conservation effort. Over the past semester, her team compiled those resources and shared results back with partners in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mcguire.gatech.edu\/wepa-workshop\/\u0022\u003Esecond virtual conference\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarly indications from this survey show a strong focus on mammals in urban Atlanta, including 11 camera-trap projects. Two of these projects follow transects from urban cores to suburbs to see how animals move across the city. This group has conducted extensive studies on how wildlife use roadside drainage structures, such as culverts, to move beneath roadways, and how animals are shifting to more nocturnal activity to avoid traffic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaking connections among current and ongoing studies reveals knowledge gaps where both contemporary and historical data are sparse. Although historical records are held by regional museums, including the Georgia Museum of Natural History, many collections across the broader region remain undigitized. \u201cThose historic distributions exist somewhere, but they\u2019re really difficult to access,\u201d McGuire said. Identifying these data sets is \u201ccritical to establish a baseline of where things lived in the past so we can understand how human landscapes and climate change are affecting things today and into the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019s also working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/12\/04\/college-sciences-launches-new-center-georgia-tech-georgias-tomorrow\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech for Georgia\u2019s Tomorrow (GT\u00b2)\u003C\/a\u003E, a new College of Sciences initiative focused on regional impact. The program is hiring a postdoctoral fellow whom McGuire will supervise to jumpstart a collaborative research agenda around biodiversity dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcGuire\u2019s work is increasingly collaborative, drawing on expertise across Georgia Tech and partner institutions like Atlanta\u2019s Fernbank Museum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBenjamin Freeman, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences, focuses on bird ecology to detect shifts in diversity and species ranges. In a new North Georgia Bird Project, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, he is resurveying bird communities across 13 mountain ridges, concentrating on about 40 forest bird species. His research tests projections that a rapidly warming climate could leave Georgia with very different plant and animal communities within a few human generations. \u201cThere\u2019s no substitute for going out there and seeing what is actually changing,\u201d says Freeman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a May 2026\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44358-026-00167-9\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENature Reviews Biodiversity\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;paper\u003C\/a\u003E co-authored with McGuire, he combines his field-based bird surveys with her paleo-ecological analysis of fossil and pollen records. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe make models that predict how species and biological communities will respond to warming, then we go into nature to test those predictions, and finally refine our models when reality doesn\u2019t match what we expected,\u201d he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother Georgia Tech faculty member, Steve Mussman, assistant professor in the College of Computing, brings a different skill set to the project. \u201cI\u2019m a computer and data scientist. I can help with the technical modeling aspects to make the analyses valid and useful,\u201d he says.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the ways he does this is to identify \u201csampling bias\u201d in\u0026nbsp;camera-trap and citizen science data, which may not be uniformly sampled from the animal population. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to bring machine learning and statistics to a very practical problem,\u201d he adds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, these collaborations support WEPA\u2019s overarching goal: to integrate past and present data into tools that help decision-makers prioritize conservation actions under climate uncertainty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELessons From Denmark\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the past nine months, McGuire has been on faculty development leave in\u0026nbsp;Copenhagen, using the time to think deeply about habitat connectivity and how species move across altered landscapes. There, she found a natural comparison point.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe entire country of Denmark is about the same geographic size as the region we\u2019re interested in,\u201d she noted. \u201cAnd population-wise, it\u2019s smaller than the Atlanta metro area.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat struck her most was how thoroughly human activity has reshaped Denmark. \u201cThere\u2019s no part of the entire country that hasn\u2019t been very heavily modified by humans,\u201d she said. \u201cAt this point, all conservation is gardening.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy contrast, she sees the Southeast as having retained a foundation of the historical ecology. Forests in the Appalachians have been heavily affected, \u201cbut not nearly for as long, or to the same extent, as in Europe,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of nice to think about how we still have a slightly more natural landscape to start with that we can then maintain moving forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Denmark, McGuire has been learning from conservation biologists who are developing\u0026nbsp;tiered metrics\u0026nbsp;to assess restoration success, from basic, low-cost measures such as tree diameter and understory volume to more advanced tools like genomic analyses. She hopes to adapt similar frameworks to help southeastern land managers and communities assess ecosystem health under tight budgets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Appalachia to Berkeley to Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcGuire grew up in\u0026nbsp;southern Virginia, where her love for biodiversity and the southern Appalachians first took root. She went on to earn her\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she deepened her focus on how species and ecosystems respond to environmental change over long time scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe then completed postdoctoral research at the\u0026nbsp;National Evolutionary Synthesis Center\u0026nbsp;and at the\u0026nbsp;University of Washington, where she expanded her quantitative and interdisciplinary toolkit \u2014 experience that now underpins her work at Georgia Tech, bridging ecology, paleontology, data science, and conservation planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom my perspective, there\u2019s an ethical imperative to maintain the world around us,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing in nature and recognizing that we\u2019re being good neighbors and good partners to the other species on the planet is just incredibly rewarding. We must leave the next generation a planet that is at least as healthy as the one we inherited.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELife Beyond the Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond research and mentoring, McGuire enjoys hiking and biking. Much of her free time during her Copenhagen sabbatical has revolved around her young daughter, who turns 4 this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcGuire looks forward to the occasion, which follows a cherished Danish school tradition: The child circles a picture of the sun once for each year of their life, holding a small Earth, while a parent holds up photos and tells a story from each year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReturning Home\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs she prepares to return to Georgia Tech in August after a year away, McGuire will resume her fieldwork and continue her conservation initiatives throughout the Southeast. She hopes to draw in collaborators from all across Georgia Tech to help build a truly regional, interdisciplinary effort around biodiversity and climate resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWithin WEPA, we\u2019re really excited to bring more people into this work. For anyone interested in conservation modeling, sensors and AI, policy, or how nature supports communities,\u201d she said, \u201cthere\u2019s a place in this regional effort to understand and protect biodiversity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMcGuire leads Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab, whose motto is\u0026nbsp;\u201clearning from the past how to conserve the future.\u201d\u0026nbsp;She uses modern, historical, and paleontological specimens\u0026nbsp;to identify how communities of plants and animals move across landscapes over long time scales in response to past climate shifts.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jenny McGuire is refining tools and partnerships that help protect biodiversity, from Atlanta\u2019s urban canopy to the southern Appalachians."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2026-06-11 18:44:58","changed_gmt":"2026-06-11 19:05:42","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"660288":{"id":"660288","type":"image","title":"Jenny McGuire, Ph.D.","body":null,"created":"1660770880","gmt_created":"2022-08-17 21:14:40","changed":"1660770880","gmt_changed":"2022-08-17 21:14:40","alt":"","file":{"fid":"250228","name":"mcguire_jenny.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mcguire_jenny.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mcguire_jenny.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1120755,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mcguire_jenny.jpg?itok=ni8-bYdD"}}},"media_ids":["660288"],"related_files":{"264714":{"fid":null,"name":"McGuire_Copenhagen_2026","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/11\/McGuire_Daughter_Copenhagen.jpg","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/11\/McGuire_Daughter_Copenhagen.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":131099,"description":null}},"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"},{"id":"660398","name":"Sustainability Hub"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"194836","name":"Sustainability"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"168746","name":"Jenny McGuire"},{"id":"195175","name":"species migration"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"194566","name":"Sustainable Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Communications Program Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690118":{"#nid":"690118","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2026 Sustainability Next Seed Grants Awarded","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe most recent round of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/sustainability-next-plan\/\u0022\u003ESustainability Next\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Research Seed Grants has been awarded to 15 transdisciplinary teams featuring 36 collaborators from across Georgia Tech and beyond. The teams span 21 units from six of Georgia Tech\u2019s seven Colleges, including Schools, research centers, and Interdisciplinary Research Institutes, as well as organizations external to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe seed grant program, administered by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), reaches faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the funds provided by the Sustainability Next committee. This year\u2019s partners are\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe\u0026nbsp;College of Design\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBBISS,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/renewablebioproducts.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ethe\u0026nbsp;Renewable Bioproducts Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the program is to nurture promising research areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and\/or high-impact outreach; to provide mid-career faculty with leadership and community-building opportunities; and to broaden and strengthen the Georgia Tech sustainability community as a whole. The call for proposals was modeled after the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Moving Teams Forward and Forming Teams programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s seed grant awards align with the four main thematic areas in which BBISS aims to enhance Georgia Tech\u2019s research to address some of our most pressing sustainability challenges:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eb093cfb5ae8a6b6a3830c19ddc0e62f9\u0022\u003EAI and Sustainability, and the Sustainability of AI Infrastructure.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ee5eed9c59345c67cf16a2095a3c1ca59\u0022\u003EClimate Science, Technology, and Solutions.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eeff06928324490ae6ab7715e8e5a1716\u0022\u003EHealthy Environments and Sustainable Resource Use.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022eeaef417908461d165bb4284022466f40\u0022\u003EResilience and Regeneration.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe 2026 Sustainability Next Seed Grant awards are:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EForming Teams:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e25f6df467676a7c1cc7e3a56d4c134de\u0022\u003EActualize Shallow Geothermal Systems for Decentralized Heating.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EPrincipal Investigator (PI):\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/sheng-c-dai\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESheng Dai\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1d482fbc517458d8123f6d8c5b4b2674\u0022\u003EBuilding Community University Research Capacity for PFAS Testing and Treatment. 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Georgia Tech economists and public policy experts break down what Americans need to know right now.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. You\u2019re paying more at the pump, and it\u2019s not going away anytime soon.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGas prices are the most visible sign of the crisis, and the increases are already significant. National average retail gasoline prices are more than $1.20 higher than they were in February, before the conflict escalated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEven though U.S. petroleum production often exceeds our consumption, we are not insulated from disruptions in global oil supply because oil is a globally traded commodity,\u201d says director of the Energy Policy and Innovation Center,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/laura-taylor\u0022\u003ELaura Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cIf supply is restricted anywhere in the world, prices will rise everywhere, including in the U.S.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarkets expect some relief by fall, with future prices pointing lower than today\u2019s levels. But\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/tony-harding\u0022\u003ETony Harding\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy, cautions, \u201cPrices are likely to remain above pre-conflict levels for the foreseeable future, and temporary relief measures, such as Georgia\u2019s motor fuel tax suspension, will not last forever.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaylor puts it plainly: \u201cWages are not rising faster than prices, so people are feeling the pinch and will continue to do so.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u003Cstrong\u003EYour summer plans just got more expensive.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe impact does not stop at the gas station. For Americans planning summer travel, the timing of this conflict could not be worse.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/matthew-oliver\u0022\u003EMatthew Oliver\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Economics, points to commercial air travel as one of the most exposed sectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cJet fuel prices have roughly doubled in the wake of the current oil price spike, putting immediate upward pressure on airfares,\u201d says Oliver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ripple effects extend far beyond travel.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOil is an input into the supply chain of nearly every good at some point,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/889222ee-d2fd-599b-9140-79d7dc30afeb\u0022\u003EBobby Harris\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Economics. \u201cWhen input costs go up, prices go up.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. Expect to pay more at the grocery store.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe connection between Middle East tensions and the American dinner table is more direct than many realize, because petrochemicals are a key feedstock for fertilizer production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHigher oil prices lead to higher fertilizer prices, which lead to higher food prices,\u201d says Oliver.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECombined with existing tariff pressures and tight supply chains, the strain on household budgets is coming from multiple directions at once.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf the crisis persists, there will be upward pressure on the prices of nearly every physical good,\u201d Oliver adds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4. The government\u2019s options are limited, and the clock is ticking.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWashington has tools to respond, but none are silver bullets. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently holds around 400 million barrels and can release about 4 million barrels per day, roughly 20% of U.S. daily demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI see the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a tool to buy time during a crisis,\u201d says public policy professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/daniel-matisoff\u0022\u003EDan Matisoff\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cBut if the conflict drags on, we will ultimately be in a more vulnerable position.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuick fixes like price caps or demand subsidies carry trade-offs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSubsidies can mitigate the impact of price shocks, but they can also mask important market signals that help balance supply and demand,\u201d says Harding, using Europe\u2019s 2022 energy crisis as a cautionary example.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E5. The smartest thing Americans can do right now is think about efficiency.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople in general tend to undervalue energy efficiency,\u201d says Matisoff. \u201cThink of energy efficiency investments as a sort of hedge or insurance against volatile energy prices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat means considering fuel efficiency when buying a car, and looking at heat pumps, electric vehicles, and home energy upgrades when the time is right.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHigher energy prices increase the value of investing in energy efficiency upgrades to your home and adopting technologies that are less dependent on fossil fuels,\u201d says Harding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor families navigating uncertainty, both economists and policy experts point to the same practical advice: Reduce your exposure to fossil fuel price swings before the next crisis hits.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EEscalating tensions in the Middle East are fueling global oil price volatility and driving up costs for U.S. consumers, from gas and airfare to groceries. Georgia Tech experts explain that because oil is traded globally, supply disruptions anywhere raise prices everywhere, keeping fuel costs elevated above pre-conflict levels. Higher oil prices are also increasing transportation and supply chain expenses, while rising fertilizer costs are pushing food prices higher. Although the federal government can deploy short-term measures such as tapping reserves, experts note these solutions are limited and temporary. 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Wysocki\u2019s lab at Georgia Tech conducted native mass spectrometry and mass photometry, using light to measure masses of protein-DNA complexes. The results showed that the ancestral protein Mgm101 assembled from a single copy of itself into a large multi-unit ring composed of 19 copies of the protein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis ring is essentially a template,\u201d Wysocki explains. \u201cThe first strand of DNA can come down, and then the second strand comes on and starts being annealed to the first strand.\u201d Annealing occurs when two single strands of DNA come together to form the characteristic double helix structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe findings were supported by what Bell\u2019s lab determined using cryogenic electron microscopy, observing structures floating in solution and frozen in a thin layer of ice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cRAD52 high-resolution structures have been determined with single-stranded DNA, but not with the two DNAs that it\u2019s trying to anneal,\u201d Bell says. \u201cIts job is to bind single-stranded DNA and anneal it to its complement sequence. It\u2019s been captured structurally, but only in a few states relevant to the reaction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cHere, we have more of the states along the full pathway from substrate, to intermediate and product. And the duplex intermediate is a conformation that\u2019s never been seen before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPreviously, researchers were unsure if this DNA repair process used one protein ring or two rings working together, the team says. Their findings show that just one ring is used\u0026nbsp;\u2014 and that\u0026nbsp;this is likely consistent across different species.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaths to Treatment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENext, the team plans to try capturing the same phases of the DNA repair process with RAD52 from humans. A clearer understanding of how this family of proteins binds to DNA strands and coaxes them back together after a break provides insights for drug targets that could halt the process in cancer cells empowered by mutated BRCA genes, they say.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s still a proposed mechanism: Just because we see these snapshots of the process doesn\u2019t mean we know all the details, but we do have the best snapshots for any protein that does this single-strand annealing,\u201d says Bell. \u201cThis focuses our strategies for drug development.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/nar\/gkag320\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/nar\/gkag320\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. 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Grajczak brings nearly 15 years of deep expertise at the intersection of procurement, supply chain logistics, and private equity value creation to the role.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrajczak currently serves as a Managing Director in Accenture\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Engineering practice. He is a leader in the firm\u0027s Private Equity practice, where he advises operating partners on developing and executing high-impact value creation plans across their investment portfolios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are thrilled to welcome Conrad to our Industry Advisory Board,\u0022 said SCL Managing Director Chris Gaffney. \u0022His extensive background as a management consultant specializing in margin improvement and cost reduction for private equity-backed companies will be invaluable. We look forward to leveraging his insights to drive our strategic initiatives forward.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EA Proven Track Record in Value Creation\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout his career, Grajczak has partnered closely with Private Equity Operating Partners to deliver bottom-line value through strategic sourcing. He routinely leads pre-purchase and post-acquisition initiatives to establish a value creation roadmap and implement transformative cost programs across Consumer, Industrial, and Healthcare clients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Accenture, Grajczak was part of Insight Sourcing for 11 years and promoted to Partner. \u0026nbsp;Insight Sourcing was a boutique procurement consulting firm where he focused on Private Equity. \u0026nbsp;Insight Sourcing was acquired by Accenture in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore consulting, Grajczak started his career out at Merck \u0026amp; Co. in Vaccine Manufacturing Science and Commercialization. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EAcademic Credentials\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA proud Georgia Tech alumnus, Grajczak earned his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a minor in Business through the Technology \u0026amp; Management Program. He also holds an MBA from Emory University\u2019s Goizueta Business School.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMr. Grajczak brings nearly 15 years of deep expertise at the intersection of procurement, supply chain logistics, and private equity value creation to the role.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mr. Grajczak brings nearly 15 years of deep expertise at the intersection of procurement, supply chain logistics, and private equity value creation to the role."}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2026-06-01 20:12:09","changed_gmt":"2026-06-05 12:27:25","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680397":{"id":"680397","type":"image","title":"Conrad Grajczak","body":null,"created":"1780345464","gmt_created":"2026-06-01 20:24:24","changed":"1780345464","gmt_changed":"2026-06-01 20:24:24","alt":"Conrad Grajczak","file":{"fid":"264653","name":"ConradGrajczak.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/ConradGrajczak.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/ConradGrajczak.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":81370,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/01\/ConradGrajczak.jpg?itok=bgEL7oiz"}}},"media_ids":["680397"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/people\/industry-advisory-board","title":"SCL Industry Advisory Board Members"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/news-events\/newsletters","title":"View past SCL newsletters and join our mailing list"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126331","name":"Advisory Board Member"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["info@scl.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690639":{"#nid":"690639","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Steven Ferguson Builds Better On-Ramps to Georgia Manufacturing, Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Steven Ferguson, deputy director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/engage\/manufacturing-40-consortium\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium\u003C\/a\u003E, advancing Georgia\u2019s manufacturing industry and its workforce is personal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was Ferguson\u2019s own first manufacturing industry job at Glidden Paint in high school that tipped a row of dominoes, clearing his way out of poverty. Following next in the Hall County native\u2019s\u0026nbsp;favor was his receiving the Pell Grant and HOPE Grant, which led to his associate\u2019s degree and first job in education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince then, Ferguson has spent the better part of three decades advancing workforce preparation and education access in Georgia, first as chief information officer for the Technical College System of Georgia, and now through his current roles at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAccess to higher education changed the trajectory of my life. The question now is how we build systems that create those same opportunities for others \u2014 whether someone starts their career right out of high school, earns credentials while working, or returns later to pursue advanced technical education or engineering. We need to create flexible pathways that develop talent at every stage of life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Ferguson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EForged in Manufacturing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFerguson was born into a family of \u201cmakers,\u201d who got by on odd jobs and money from their small bait and tackle shop on Lake Lanier and later peddling a variety of goods. At a young age, Ferguson learned salesmanship and picked up the tinkering spirit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy dad was always entrepreneurial, and I think you might even consider us manufacturers, always making fishing equipment or other things,\u201d said Ferguson. \u201cFrom a very young age, I was out making jig heads, tying flies, and bagging hooks or sinkers. It was definitely in my blood.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen he was in 10th grade, a teacher nominated Ferguson for a new youth apprenticeship program. That opportunity ultimately led to his role as an information technology apprentice at Glidden Paint, which became Ferguson\u2019s first job in the manufacturing industry. The job was a perfect fit for Ferguson, who enjoyed learning more about the manufacturing process and the practical outlet for his computing knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe continued working there until he began studying computer science at North Georgia College and State University. Later, he transferred to Gainesville College (GC) to participate in a joint enrollment program designed to lead to eventual enrollment for a bachelor\u2019s degree at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, before Ferguson completed his time at GC, he had an \u003Ca\u003Eassociate\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E degree and, more importantly, a job offer. GC wanted him to train others for careers in information technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.em.gatech.edu\/2026\/05\/27\/access-steven-ferguson-manufacturing-education\/\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the Enrollment Management News Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Steven Ferguson, deputy director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/engage\/manufacturing-40-consortium\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium\u003C\/a\u003E, advancing Georgia\u2019s manufacturing industry and its workforce is personal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was Ferguson\u2019s own first manufacturing industry job at Glidden Paint in high school that tipped a row of dominoes, clearing his way out of poverty. Following next in the Hall County native\u2019s\u0026nbsp;favor was his receiving the Pell Grant and HOPE Grant, which led to his associate\u2019s degree and first job in education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince then, Ferguson has spent the better part of three decades advancing workforce preparation and education access in Georgia, first as chief information officer for the Technical College System of Georgia, and now through his current roles at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For Steven Ferguson, deputy director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium, advancing Georgia\u2019s manufacturing industry and its workforce is personal."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-06-04 14:17:03","changed_gmt":"2026-06-04 14:21:17","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680416":{"id":"680416","type":"image","title":"StevenFerguson-IMG_5862.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESteven Ferguson, deputy director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/manufacturing.gatech.edu\/engage\/manufacturing-40-consortium\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1780582672","gmt_created":"2026-06-04 14:17:52","changed":"1780582713","gmt_changed":"2026-06-04 14:18:33","alt":"Steven Ferguson","file":{"fid":"264673","name":"StevenFerguson-IMG_5862.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/04\/StevenFerguson-IMG_5862.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/04\/StevenFerguson-IMG_5862.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":176331,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/04\/StevenFerguson-IMG_5862.jpg?itok=xDe8xlwi"}}},"media_ids":["680416"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/news.em.gatech.edu\/2026\/05\/27\/access-steven-ferguson-manufacturing-education\/","title":"Full Story on the Enrollment Management News Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"194685","name":"Manufacturing"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"194612","name":"Workforce Development"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amanda.budd@ssc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmanda Budd\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["amanda.budd@ssc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667608":{"#nid":"667608","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Addressing the Nation\u2019s Call for Semiconductors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESemiconductors, or microchips, are vital to life in the modern world. They\u2019re used in the microwave you heated your breakfast in this morning, the car you drove to work, the mobile phone you shouldn\u2019t use while driving, the bank ATM you visited, and the screened device you\u2019re reading this story on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019re in our TVs, refrigerators, and washing machines, helping us live comfortable lives. They also help us stay alive as part of the medical network, used in pacemakers, blood pressure monitors, and MRI machines, among other things. Also, our national economic and defense systems rely on them. Basically, semiconductors control and manage the flow of information in the machinery that keeps the world going.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd right now, at Georgia Tech, researchers are working to innovate chip technology to ensure that U.S. semiconductor development is globally competitive, reliable, sustainable, and resilient, today and in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you look at semiconductors, or the whole area of computing, it spans across Georgia Tech \u2014 across many different schools and disciplines,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022\u003EArijit Raychudhury\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Steve W. Chaddick Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cStarting with physics and chemistry, where we essentially learn how different types of materials will react, to materials science and engineering, to electrical engineering and computer engineering, to computer science.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s a diverse, multidisciplinary enterprise from bottom to top, Raychudhury noted. And there is still plenty of room at the bottom, as theoretical physicist Richard P. Feynman famously said more than 60 years ago, predicting that one day we\u2019d be making things at the atomic level. We are. It\u2019s a familiar realm to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/people\/victor-fung\u0022\u003EVictor Fung\u003C\/a\u003E and his lab, where they are designing new materials for semiconductors from the ground up, atom by atom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are interested in exploring how to translate the latest advances in AI and machine learning to aid in accelerating computational materials simulations and materials discovery,\u201d said Fung, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe\u2019ve been developing methods which can accurately predict a wide range of materials\u2019 properties, to greatly facilitate high-throughput materials screening.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fung-group.org\/\u0022\u003EFung\u2019s lab\u003C\/a\u003E is using AI to discover previously unstudied materials with the electronic properties to build into chips. This approach to creating \u201cdesigner\u201d semiconductors would be significantly faster and cover more of the materials space than current methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImproving the Landscape\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmaller, more efficient, and more powerful are all part of the constantly evolving landscape in semiconductor research and development. It\u2019s a very expensive landscape. While many chips are about the size of a fingernail, they are among the most complex human-made objects on Earth. Just building a semiconductor fabrication factory costs billions of dollars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a chemical engineer like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-filler\u0022\u003EMichael Filler\u003C\/a\u003E, that sounds like opportunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChemical engineers think about how we produce products on a massive scale,\u201d said Filler, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and associate director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/nano\u0022\u003EInstitute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFiller, whose research involves the growing of semiconductor components, like transistors, from seed particles, is aiming to help democratize the process of chip development, bringing down the cost substantially while maintaining performance. In a not too distant future, that could mean an individual at home printing a chip on a machine similar to a 3D printer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cImagine a laser printer that can literally spit out custom electronics in a matter of minutes,\u201d Filler said. \u201cWe\u2019re big believers in the individual\u2019s ability to be creative and know what they want to build for their applications. Ultimately, we\u2019re interested in giving makers and prototypers opportunities to customize electronics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s in the right place for the far-reaching research he has in mind, adding, \u201cWe are so blessed with great facilities at Georgia Tech. It would be hard to imagine working somewhere else, because very few places have the diversity and quality of tooling we have here.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEN, which facilitates much of the semiconductor research at Georgia Tech, is based in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, with its state-of-the-art micro\/nano fabrication facilities such as the shared cleanroom space and a laser machine lab for micromachining.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut it is the range of expertise and creativity among faculty and students who are making IEN and Georgia Tech a thought leader in semiconductor research. This is evidenced by Tech\u2019s recent grant of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-receives-65-million-grant-semiconductor-research-corporation-jump-20-centers\u0022\u003E$65.7 million from the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Defense Research Projects Agency to launch two new interdisciplinary research centers.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvents like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/nano\/GT-chips-day\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Chip Day\u003C\/a\u003E (May 2) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nanowireweek2023.info\/\u0022\u003ENanowire Week\u003C\/a\u003E, an international gathering happening in Atlanta in October, also speak to Tech\u2019s growing influence in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnswering the Call\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Covid-19 pandemic clarified just how difficult it can be to make more chips. A shortage of semiconductors affected the supply of phones, computers, and other commonly used items during the global shutdown. Increased demand, depleted reserves, and too few manufacturing plants and workers significantly crippled the supply chain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe high degree of geographic concentration in certain parts of the semiconductor supply chain has recently created a heightened risk of supply interruptions,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/chelsea-white\u0022\u003EChip White\u003C\/a\u003E, Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. 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The goal is to identify vulnerabilities and risk mitigation procedures to design and operate next generation supply chains for critical industries such as the semiconductor industry, to improve global competitiveness and strike a balance between market forces and national security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn an effort to address and feed the next generation demand for chips, the Biden administration recently launched a massive effort to outcompete China in semiconductor manufacturing, offering $39 billion in funding incentives for companies seeking to build plants in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother related area of importance in the ongoing development of semiconductors is growing the workforce of the future, and that includes a new wave of researchers. This is a role that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/jennifer-olson-hasler\u0022\u003EJennifer Hasler \u003C\/a\u003Etakes seriously.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have a strong interest and belief in mentoring,\u201d said Hasler, ECE professor and founder of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hasler.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIntegrated Computational Electronics lab\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. She\u2019s proven, theoretically at least, that the technology already exists to build a silicon-based version of the human cerebral cortex (which would cost billions of dollars to design and build), but one of her favorite roles is working with new, young faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a personal thing for me, but it\u2019s one of the coolest things I\u2019m involved in,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen they come to Georgia Tech, they see how big this place is, bigger than a company. I like to say to them, \u2018Let\u2019s calm down, take a breath, you\u2019re good, so let\u2019s go make some cool stuff. Let\u2019s get some momentum going.\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Raychowdhury, director of the new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.src.org\/program\/jump2\/cocosys\/#:~:text=COCOSYS%20aims%20to%20enable%20the,and%20collective%20and%20collaborative%20intelligence.\u0022\u003ECenter for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems\u003C\/a\u003E (part of the JUMP 2.0 program), developing the skilled workforce of the future means answering the call of the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is one of the largest ECE departments in the country, with many, many talented students,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd given the need and shortage of skilled professionals in this particular area, I think it\u2019s critical for us to create that kind of pipeline.\u201d Last year, ECE undergraduate students started taking a new, two-semester course, sponsored by Apple, in which they actually build microprocessors from scratch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is completely new,\u201d Raychowdhury said. \u201cIt\u2019s expensive to offer this course, but we plan to keep doing it and we\u2019re in conversations with other companies that want to invest in workforce development. 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As systems scale, they increasingly become harder to measure, compare, and fix, particularly within proprietary environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team led by Georgia Tech, working with collaborators across industry, has developed a new approached called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlcommons.org\/working-groups\/research\/chakra\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChakra\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to bring greater clarity to complex AI systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cImagine a room where everyone is trying to collaborate, but each person speaks a different language,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is leading the effort. \u201cThat\u2019s a bit like today\u2019s AI ecosystem. The internet worked because it was built on shared practices and protocols. In AI, we\u2019re still building that kind of common foundation.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work, which Krishna leads through the nonprofit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlcommons.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMLCommons\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, was released \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2605.11333\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ealongside a paper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlsys.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2026 Conference on Machine Learning and Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E(MLSys) in Bellevue, Wash.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding Systems Without Exposing Them\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECloud companies, chip designers, software developers, and infrastructure providers all describe their systems differently, relying largely on internal, proprietary approaches that are not publicly shared.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis slows innovation, reduces efficiency, and increases the cost of running AI at scale.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChakra, named after the Sanskrit word for \u201cwheel\u201d to reflect a continuous cycle of improvement, is designed around that reality. Its release is not a single finished system, but a set of shared tools and building blocks.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers are making available a standardized format for representing AI workloads, along with tools for collecting and analyzing data from what\u2019s known as an execution trace.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAn execution trace is essentially a recording of how an AI system behaves,\u201d Krishna said. \u201cRather than focusing only on outcomes like speed or accuracy, it captures what computations happened, when machines needed to communicate, and where delays or bottlenecks occurred.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose traces don\u2019t expose the underlying code or data. Instead, they reflect patterns of behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose traces don\u2019t expose the underlying code or data. Instead, they reflect patterns of behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a bit like sharing a map of traffic patterns in a city, instead of handing over the blueprints for every building,\u201d Krishna said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe approach can also be used to explore how future systems might behave, giving researchers a way to test ideas and identify potential bottlenecks before those systems are built.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of this dramatically lowers the barrier to participating in AI systems innovation,\u201d Krishna said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a Shared Standard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Chakra project began in 2023 as a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Meta, building on parallel efforts to better understand how AI workloads behave across production systems and simulation environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of that work built on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/astra-sim.github.io\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EASTRA-sim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an open-source distributed AI system simulator developed and maintained by Krishna\u2019s group, which models how large-scale AI systems perform across hardware and software.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe knew that for AI to scale responsibly, we needed better ways to understand what\u2019s happening under the hood,\u201d Krishna said. \u201cCompanies struggle to compare systems fairly or reproduce why something worked well\u2014or failed\u2014because everyone uses different tools and proprietary setups.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe early collaboration expanded into a broader effort called the Chakra Working Group (CWG) within MLCommons, a consortium that brings together companies and researchers to develop shared benchmarks and standards for AI systems, including widely used efforts like MLPerf.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Kanter, co-founder of MLCommons and head of MLPerf, has praised the group for \u201cdefining an industry roadmap for AI workload tracing support and benchmarking.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, CWG includes industry partners such as NVIDIA, AMD, Meta, HPE, and Keysight, along with contributions from multiple Georgia Tech faculty, students, and alumni (seven of whom are now working across partner organizations).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChakra is a fantastic showcase of the role ECE and Georgia Tech play in connecting academic research with real-world systems,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArijit Raychowdhury\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u201cWe can bring together expertise spanning the full AI stack in really the only way that makes complex work like this possible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat level of collaboration is essential to developing something that can be used across the broader AI ecosystem, according to Winston Liu, a chief architect at Keysight Technologies and a member of CWG.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat the Chakra community has built is meaningful, but the collaboration model that produced it is worth recognizing just as much,\u201d he said. \u201cThat combination\u2014early enough to shape the spec together and open enough that the output belongs to everyone\u2014is genuinely rare.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Real-world Testbed at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the team\u2019s work has depended on access to infrastructure capable of running AI systems at a realistic scale. Georgia Tech has built that capability through its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/academics\/ai-for-engineering\/ai-makerspace\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI Makerspace\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, one of the largest computing clusters in the world dedicated to supporting student-driven AI workloads while also serving as a real-world testbed for large-scale systems research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pace.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPartnership for an Advanced Computing Environment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (PACE), CWG researchers utilized the AI Makerspace to run workloads across 128 advanced GPUs and collect execution traces from systems operating under real conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe AI Makerspace was built on a simple belief: AI should be accessible to as many as possible,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/matthieu-bloch-phd\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthieu Bloch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate dean in the College of Engineering. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see our colleagues using it to amplify impact and give back to the broader community.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat level of access allowed the work behind Chakra to move beyond theory and into environments where performance challenges actually emerge.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn one case study, Chakra helped identify a hidden communication bottleneck that only appeared under realistic conditions when different types of workloads were running at the same time. More simplified tests failed to surface the issue.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Comes Next\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the Chakra tools and standards are released, the focus now turns to how they will be adopted and extended.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKrishna sees the current moment less as a finish line and more as a starting point for broader participation across the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFive years from now, Chakra will help make AI systems development dramatically more reproducible and accessible,\u201d he said. \u201cResearchers could test ideas against realistic workloads without needing access to massive datacenters, and companies could identify problems much earlier in the design process.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs AI infrastructure grows more costly, the ability to model new system designs allows researchers and companies to make informed decisions before committing to large-scale investments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLonger term, it could move us toward a \u2018digital twin\u2019 of AI infrastructure,\u201d Krishna said. \u201cA way to model and optimize systems before they\u2019re ever built.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELike the internet before it, AI systems need shared standards to work together. 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"}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2026-06-03 14:33:16","changed_gmt":"2026-06-03 14:37:18","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680409":{"id":"680409","type":"image","title":"DSC05583.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Tushar Krishna (center) and members of his research team \u2014 William Won (recently graduated, now at AMD), Changhai Man, Hanjiang Wu, and Jinsun Yoo \u2014 have announced Chakra, a new shared platform for understanding and improving complex AI systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1780497224","gmt_created":"2026-06-03 14:33:44","changed":"1780497224","gmt_changed":"2026-06-03 14:33:44","alt":"Associate Professor Tushar Krishna (center) and members of his research team \u2014 William Won (recently graduated, now at AMD), Changhai Man, Hanjiang Wu, and Jinsun Yoo \u2014 have announced Chakra, a new shared platform for understanding and improving complex AI systems.","file":{"fid":"264665","name":"DSC05583.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/03\/DSC05583.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/03\/DSC05583.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1141078,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/03\/DSC05583.jpg?itok=Y0JL6Acd"}}},"media_ids":["680409"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"194609","name":"Industry"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"195159","name":"Chakra"},{"id":"173453","name":"Tushar Krishna"},{"id":"193101","name":"MLCommons"},{"id":"195160","name":"AI systems"},{"id":"11444","name":"benchmarking"},{"id":"195161","name":"execution trace"},{"id":"170894","name":"standards"},{"id":"185447","name":"ASTRA-sim"},{"id":"195162","name":"AI Makerspace"},{"id":"139771","name":"Arijit Raychowdhury"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Watson\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dwatson71@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690590":{"#nid":"690590","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineering Safer Skies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the skies grow more congested, from low Earth orbit to downtown airspace, the need for smarter autonomous systems has never been greater. Collisions in space have become an expensive problem, and urban air mobility is an option worth exploring given the increasing traffic problems plaguing major cities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EManaging these complexities is a mathematical challenge and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/c3uae\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EControl, Coordination, and Competition under Uncertainty (C3U) Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is tackling it head-on. Led by Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/sarah-hq-li\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESarah H.Q. Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the lab develops algorithms to help satellites make decisions to avoid orbital conflicts. She\u2018s developed an algorithm that allows a servicing satellite to assist other satellites that find themselves spinning out of control. Li is exploring airspace management for urban mobility, as well. She specializes in multi-agent systems and in interactive decision-making among autonomous vehicles, humans, and aircraft.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPreventing Debris from Derailing the Mission\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColliding with debris can end a satellite\u2019s mission in an instant, causing significant damage or sending the spacecraft into an uncontrollable spin. With growing congestion in low Earth orbit, other objects in space can put satellites at risk, and a poorly timed maneuver, to avoid space debris or another spacecraft, can be just as dangerous as not maneuvering at all. Li\u2019s research helps autonomous satellites reason through these encounters, coordinate with servicing satellites when needed, and decide when it\u2019s safest to move or hold position.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSatellite operators haven\u2019t established methods to automate collision\u2011avoidance maneuvers,\u201d Li said. \u201cA major challenge is the significant uncertainty that space operators must manage. Uncertainty in space exceeds what ground\u2011based autonomous systems encounter.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn Earth, autonomous vehicles generally know their precise location, so the problem becomes determining how far or in which direction to move. In space, position estimates can span hundreds of kilometers. Often, operators on the ground simply cannot determine whether two objects will collide. To move or not to move becomes a critical question, especially with large differences in fuel costs. \u0026nbsp;Frequent moves can quickly deplete a satellite\u2019s limited fuel. Li\u2019s algorithm incorporates guidance used for ground\u2011based autonomous systems that\u2019s modified to account for these challenges. Li\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2508.05876\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epaper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E presented at the\u0026nbsp;American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Astrodynamics Specialist 2025 Conference detailing this work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond collision avoidance, satellites must also survive an impact. When a satellite is hit by debris or accumulates momentum over time, it can begin spinning unpredictably. Once that happens, stabilizing the satellite becomes extremely complicated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent AIAA SciTech Forum \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2514\/6.2026-0407\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epaper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ELi and her team demonstrated a momentum\u2011balanced contact strategy that enables a servicing satellite to safely approach and stabilize a free\u2011spinning object. They simulated a it equipped with a robotic arm that approaches the spinning object and matches its rotation. Once the two are synchronized, the robotic arm extends and grabs the spinning object and stabilizes its orientation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019re approaching this research in multiple stages. The core algorithm is already functional, so the team is building a higher\u2011fidelity simulation environment to validate their approach. Once they validate the algorithm through additional experiments, they will transition to physical tests using drones.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENavigating City Skyways\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, C3U is focused on urban mobility issues with shared air space. As traffic negatively impacts major cities, and supply and demand for goods increases, the airways become a major consideration for transportation in urban areas. Once more urban airways are open, much like highways, there must be a system to avoid collision and confusion.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;In shared airspace, multiple drones, each traveling to their own destination, must navigate potential conflicts as they cross one another\u2019s paths. To manage this, Li applies principles from auction theory. In this framework, drones \u201cbid\u201d for access to specific portions of the airspace based on vehicle-specific preferences like specific altitudes, routes and visibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAn auctioneer\u2011like mechanism, similar to an air traffic controller, evaluates these bids and assigns routes accordingly, sometimes granting a preferred path, and other times determining that no safe route is available. The system is designed to encourage each drone to bid truthfully according to its actual needs, preventing both overbidding and underbidding,\u201d Li explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy ensuring truthful participation, the mechanism can allocate airspace efficiently and fairly, allowing individually optimal decisions to produce coordinated, system\u2011wide safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEconomic models typically assume a direct link between price and reward, but engineering doesn\u2019t work that way,\u201d Li said. \u201cIn our world, everything depends on dynamics\u2014how vehicles move, how routes connect, and how safety constraints interact in real time. Our inputs are acceleration vectors to the drone, which controls how the drone moves through space, and the outputs are where it ends up. Only after that can we determine the true \u2018reward.\u2019 Engineering forces us to account for complex physical behavior. Part of my work is figuring out how to bridge those two worlds.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI Anticipating Human Intent\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EC3U is also exploring how large language models (LLMs), advanced systems designed to understand and generate human language, can help autonomous aircraft understand human pilots. They are developing an LLM\u2011enabled system that can listen to real\u2011time radio communications and interpret pilot intentions, allowing autonomous aircraft to anticipate pilot in unpredictable environments rather than simply reacting to it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.14063\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epaper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E Li co-authored, she examined how LLMs can predict and improve landings at airports without a control tower.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cWe are looking at using LLMs to process information so autonomous systems can infer what pilots are planning,\u201d Li explained. \u201cBy converting unstructured audio into structured content, the system allows autonomous aircraft to plan more safely.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Li, the project represents another step toward a future where autonomous vehicles can navigate complex, uncertain 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flip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERAI calls the bicycle robot an ultra-mobility vehicle (UMV). It can reach a height of 3 feet and can jump from the floor onto a platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe contributions of a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student helped make these feats possible through a robot control policy he developed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeonghwan Kim, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in robotics under the advisement of Associate Professor Sehoon Ha, spent two semesters interning at RAI. His task was to design a policy to teach the UMV to land after a flip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe result was iterative motion imitation (IMI), a novel method that imitates flip trajectories generated from prior examples. Kim said the robot bases its flip on a demonstration, and human engineers reconstruct and refine the flip path through simulation to fill in the gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo guide the robot to flip, we started with an imperfect trajectory generated by a motor-based controller and then ran simulations,\u201d Kim said. \u201cIt\u2019s an unstable trajectory, but we use it as a guide to train a single policy that can track it as it lands and tries to balance itself.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESticking the Landing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKim interned under the supervision of Shamel Fahmi, a research scientist at the RAI Institute. RAI has been developing the UMV for nearly three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe wanted to work on a different robot morphology that wasn\u2019t legs or legs with wheels,\u201d Fahmi said. \u201cThat\u2019s when we thought of working with bikes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to merge the athleticism of (Boston Dynamics\u2019) Atlas with the mobility of a bike. We wanted a robot that can go anywhere, do parkour, and acrobatics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFahmi said that before Kim arrived, the research team had trouble getting the UMV to land consistently without breaking or falling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe UMV has two joints \u2014 an upper and a lower. The upper joint contains the motors and pulls the lower joint along as it propels into the air. The problem is getting the lighter lower joint to absorb the impact of landing without being crushed by the heavier upper joint.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s what brings reinforcement learning into the equation,\u201d Fahmi said. \u201cWe teach the robot to minimize its impact on the ground to land gracefully.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFahmi said that Kim proved the imitation examples the robot learns from don\u2019t have to be perfect. The process takes some time, but all it needs is a rough idea to get started.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can have an imperfect sketch and then constantly refine it,\u201d Fahmi said. \u201cThe first time, it\u2019s not going to go well.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe don\u2019t care about torque or power limits as long as it does the motion. Then we\u2019ll have a slightly better reference, repeat it, and imitate it again. In every iteration, we can add more parameters.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUp Against the Clock\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKim said he felt the pressure of time constraints during his two semesters with RAI as he worked to achieve consistent, successful landings. Even though he had multiple UMVs to experiment with, they broke down dozens of times. Each time one broke, a hardware team at RAI had to repair it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere was a lot of pressure to not only get this working before my internship ended, but also knowing there are costs behind every failed attempt, and every time the robot breaks, it takes time to repair it,\u201d Kim said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt took almost five months for it to land without breaking. Then we needed two more months for it to stay balanced after the landing. It requires a lot of engineering effort to achieve a robust control policy for a safe flip.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy the time Kim left RAI, the IMI policy had achieved consistent, seamless landings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe jump right now is what we call the visitor demo,\u201d Fahmi said. \u201cIf there are guests coming over to see it, we want to show them something that is extremely impressive, but also, more importantly, extremely reliable. It never fails.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was only possible because of the huge effort we put into designing, maintaining, and continuously improving the robot.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKim authored a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/imi-umv.github.io\/\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E on his framework and will present it at this week\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2026.ieee-icra.org\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/a\u003E (ICRA) in Vienna.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the UMV project, please visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rai-inst.com\/resources\/blog\/designing-wheeled-robotic-systems\/\u0022\u003ERAI blog\u003C\/a\u003E or watch their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cjaZUFMZWOY\u0026amp;t=95s\u0022\u003Evideo\u003C\/a\u003E on YouTube.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA bicycle robot from the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) in Cambridge, Mass., has become the first to perform an unassisted acrobatic front flip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJeonghwan Kim, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in robotics under the advisement of Associate Professor Sehoon Ha, spent two semesters interning at RAI. 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The BBISS Demystifying Data Centers Insights Series on March 27 focused on this issue, bringing together perspectives from engineering, utilities, and infrastructure planning. Moderated by Ameet Pinto, BBISS faculty director for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration, the discussion highlighted the water impacts of data centers and the need for systems thinking and collaboration across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Systems Thinking Matters\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recurring theme was the mismatch between AI infrastructure and water systems. AI services are ubiquitous and scalable, while water resources are local, physically constrained, and managed by regionally fragmented utility systems. Data centers can be deployed rapidly, but water infrastructure evolves slowly. These differences complicate how impacts are measured and managed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWater usage is more complex than it appears. While discussions often focus on water used directly for cooling, this represents only part of the total footprint. Significant water is used indirectly through electricity generation and the manufacturing of the computing hardware and cooling systems installed in data centers. As noted by Akanksha Menon, \u0026nbsp;assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, distinguishing between direct, indirect, and embodied water use shows that impacts extend far beyond individual facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese complexities make isolated solutions insufficient. Reducing water use in one location doesn\u2019t necessarily reduce overall demand. For example, Douglas County\u2019s collaboration with Google, as presented by Brian Keel, deputy director of Engineering for Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority, has invested in alternative water sources, such as treating wastewater from the Sweetwater Creek facility for non-potable cooling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet the growing energy and water demands driven by accelerating AI use remain a major challenge. In particular, managing water as a finite resource becomes increasingly important because energy can be generated through different methods, but water cannot simply be created. Such complexity highlights the need for a systems approach to navigate overlapping and conflicting issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Collaboration Is Essential\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe session also underscored that no single discipline or entity can fully address these challenges. Douglas County\u2019s partnership with Google highlights not only collaboration between local agencies and industry, but also the need for coordination beyond individual jurisdictions, as water used for power generation or sourced outside the immediate region can create indirect pressures elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn Ikeda, chief mission officer for the Water Environment Federation, discussed governance challenges associated with data center water use. Ikeda underlined the challenges in measurement and governance, noting that water impacts can be counterintuitive. While efforts that appear water-saving, such as avoiding on-site water use, can increase indirect water demand through additional electricity use, water-based cooling may reduce total systemwide demand. These complexities reveal the limits of single metrics and the need for frameworks that account for direct, indirect, and life-cycle impacts. Governance challenges can arise from complex practical issues, including rural communities\u2019 limited experience working with industrial partners and broader social resistance to AI and AI infrastructure, which once again calls for large-scale collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe broader takeaway is that the challenges linking AI and water are deeply tied to structural mismatches between digital AI infrastructure and physical water systems: ubiquitous AI services versus physically constrained water resources; rapid data center growth versus the slower development of water infrastructure; and global digital demand versus regionally concentrated environmental impacts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs these gaps complicate measurement, planning, and governance, the discussion highlighted the need for broader, systems-level perspectives and collaboration across disciplines and sectors, including engineering, computing, utilities, policy, and community stakeholders. 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The research will evaluate plant growth, stress tolerance, and field performance to identify practical, scalable strategies for supporting coastal ecosystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESelected projects are intended to \u201cadvance the understanding, management, and strategic use of Georgia\u2019s coastal and marine resources,\u201d while producing results that address coastal management needs and remain accessible to communities, according to an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gacoast.uga.edu\/marine-extension-georgia-sea-grant-funds-coastal-research\/\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E from Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. In addition to faculty from Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;the 2026 research awards will support investigators from Georgia Southern University and Savannah State University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKostka\u2019s project will advance marsh restoration along Georgia\u2019s coast through applied research and local collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kostka\u2019s project will advance marsh restoration along Georgia\u2019s coast through applied research and local collaboration."}],"uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2026-06-01 13:22:21","changed_gmt":"2026-06-01 16:52:36","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680387":{"id":"680387","type":"image","title":"Joel Kostka","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1780320216","gmt_created":"2026-06-01 13:23:36","changed":"1780320216","gmt_changed":"2026-06-01 13:23:36","alt":"man in front of Georgia Tech campus","file":{"fid":"264643","name":"GT-COS-Joel-Kostka-copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/GT-COS-Joel-Kostka-copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/GT-COS-Joel-Kostka-copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":4153062,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/01\/GT-COS-Joel-Kostka-copy.png?itok=hbURNwYJ"}},"680388":{"id":"680388","type":"image","title":"Native Spartina grasses anchor Georgia\u2019s coastal marshes, the focus of a new study exploring how plants and root microbes can improve restoration success.","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003ENative Spartina grasses anchor Georgia\u2019s coastal marshes, the focus of a new study exploring how plants and root microbes can improve restoration success.\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1780320655","gmt_created":"2026-06-01 13:30:55","changed":"1780321156","gmt_changed":"2026-06-01 13:39:16","alt":"A marsh surrounded by grass","file":{"fid":"264644","name":"kostka_saltmarsh_2-copy.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/kostka_saltmarsh_2-copy.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/06\/01\/kostka_saltmarsh_2-copy.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":970227,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/06\/01\/kostka_saltmarsh_2-copy.jpeg?itok=gYOJ3jKP"}}},"media_ids":["680387","680388"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/news\/18\/georgias-tomorrow-awarded-national-climate-resilience-grant","title":"Georgia\u2019s Tomorrow Awarded National Climate Resilience Grant"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"194611","name":"State Impact"}],"keywords":[{"id":"194631","name":"cos-georgia"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"193679","name":"coastal salt marshes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura S. Smith\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.smith@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690574":{"#nid":"690574","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (May 2026 v2)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (May 16-31\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EMay 16-31, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, May 2026 v2."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-06-01 16:07:42","changed_gmt":"2026-06-01 16:10:11","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-06\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_May2026-v2.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (May 2026 v2)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690188":{"#nid":"690188","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What\u2019s in the Price of a Gallon of Gas?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Energy Information Administration expects nationwide retail gasoline prices to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/steo\/\u0022\u003Eaverage near $4.30 a gallon\u003C\/a\u003E for April 2026 \u2013 the highest monthly average of the year. The political response has been familiar. Georgia has \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.multistate.us\/insider\/2026\/4\/6\/lawmakers-push-fuel-tax-relief-amid-rising-gas-costs\u0022\u003Esuspended its state gas tax\u003C\/a\u003E, other states are weighing their own tax holidays, and the White House has issued a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2026\/03\/19\/waiving-the-jones-act-will-boost-the-number-of-ships-available-to-transport-oil-in-the-us\u0022\u003Etemporary waiver of a law known as the Jones Act\u003C\/a\u003E in hopes of moving more domestic fuel to East Coast ports.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=jjvorcAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;oi=ao\u0022\u003Eenergy economist\u003C\/a\u003E, I am often asked about what contributes to gas prices and what different policies can do to affect them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe price of a retail gallon of gas is the sum of four things: the cost of crude oil, refining, distribution and marketing, and taxes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn nationwide figures from January 2026, crude oil accounted for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/gasdiesel\/\u0022\u003Eabout 51% of the pump price\u003C\/a\u003E, refining roughly 20%, distribution and marketing about 11% and taxes about 18%. That mix shifts with conditions: When crude oil prices spike, that can drive more than 60% of the price; when the price drops, taxes and logistics are larger shares of the cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECrude Oil is the Biggest Ingredient\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause the price of crude oil is the largest element, most of the price at the pump is derived from the global oil market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThis site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\u0022\u003EPrivacy Policy\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\u0022\u003ETerms of Service\u003C\/a\u003E apply.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsually, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/aer.99.3.1053\u0022\u003Ebig swings in crude prices\u003C\/a\u003E come mainly from shifts in global demand and expectations \u2013 not from supply disruptions, according to widely cited research in 2009 by the economist Lutz Kilian.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut what is happening in early 2026 with the war in Iran is one of the exceptions: a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us-is-less-prone-to-oil-price-shocks-than-in-past-decades-277709\u0022\u003Eclassic supply shock\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/oil-market-report-april-2026\u0022\u003ESevere disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz\u003C\/a\u003E and attacks on Middle East oil infrastructure have taken millions of barrels a day off the global market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost drivers generally can\u2019t quickly reduce how much they drive or how much gas they use when prices rise, so \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/research\/economics\/2020\/0616\u0022\u003Egasoline demand doesn\u2019t change much in the short run\u003C\/a\u003E. That means a jump in crude costs tends to result in people paying more rather than driving less.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERefining, Regulations, and the California Puzzle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERefining turns crude into gasoline at industrial scale. The U.S. doesn\u2019t have a single gasoline market, though. Roughly \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/gasoline-standards\/reformulated-gasoline\u0022\u003Ea quarter of U.S. gasoline\u003C\/a\u003E is a cleaner-burning blend of petroleum-derived chemicals called \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/gasoline-standards\/reformulated-gasoline\u0022\u003Ereformulated gasoline\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d which is required in urban areas across 17 states and the District of Columbia to reduce smog.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalifornia uses an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/our-work\/programs\/fuels-enforcment-program\/california-reformulated-gasoline\u0022\u003Eeven stricter formulation\u003C\/a\u003E that few out-of-state refineries make. California is also geographically isolated: No pipelines bring gasoline in from other U.S. refining regions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalifornia\u2019s gasoline prices have long run above the national average, explained in part by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=65184\u0022\u003Ehigher state taxes\u003C\/a\u003E and stricter environmental rules. But since a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.csb.gov\/exxonmobil-torrance-refinery-explosion-\/\u0022\u003Erefinery fire in Torrance, California, in 2015\u003C\/a\u003E reduced production capacity, the state\u2019s prices have been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/energy-institute\/about\/in-the-media\/mystery-gasoline-surcharge\/\u0022\u003Eabout 20 to 30 cents a gallon\u003C\/a\u003E higher than what those factors would indicate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnergy economist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Severin Borenstein has called this the \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/energy-institute\/about\/in-the-media\/mystery-gasoline-surcharge\/\u0022\u003Emystery gasoline surcharge\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d and attributes it to the fact that there isn\u2019t as much competition between refineries or gas stations in California as in other states. California\u2019s own Division of Petroleum Market Oversight says the surcharge cost the state\u2019s drivers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/publications\/2025\/division-petroleum-market-oversight-2024-annual-report\u0022\u003Eabout $59 billion from 2015 to 2024\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u2019s not exactly clear who is getting that money, but it could be \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyathaas.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/09\/whats-the-matter-with-californias-gasoline-prices\/\u0022\u003Egas stations themselves or refineries\u003C\/a\u003E, through complex contracts with gas stations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGetting the Gas Into Your Car\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe distribution and marketing category covers the costs of everything involved in getting the gasoline from the refinery gate to your tank.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGasoline moves by pipeline, ship, rail and truck to wholesale terminals, and then by local delivery truck to service stations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the retailer\u2019s end, the key factors are station rent and labor, the cost to buy gasoline in bulk to be able to sell it, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nerdwallet.com\/credit-cards\/learn\/what-are-credit-card-interchange-fees\u0022\u003Ecredit card fees\u003C\/a\u003E of as much as 6 to 10 cents a gallon at current prices, and franchise fees paid to the national brand, such as Sunoco or ExxonMobil, for permission to put their branding on the gas station.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost gas station operators net \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.convenience.org\/Media\/conveniencecorner\/Who-Makes-Money-Selling-Gas\u0022\u003Eonly a few cents per gallon\u003C\/a\u003E on fuel itself \u2013 which is why many gas stations are really convenience stores with pumps out front. Borenstein and some of his collaborators have also documented that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/003355397555118\u0022\u003Eretail gas prices rise quickly\u003C\/a\u003E when wholesale costs climb but fall slowly when wholesale costs drop.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Question of Gas Tax Holidays\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe federal government charges a tax on fuel, of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=10\u0026amp;t=5\u0022\u003E18.4 cents a gallon for gasoline\u003C\/a\u003E and 24.3 cents a gallon for diesel. States charge their own taxes, ranging from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/data\/all\/state\/gas-taxes-state\/\u0022\u003E70.9 cents a gallon for gas\u003C\/a\u003E in California to 8.95 cents in Alaska.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen gas prices rise, many politicians start talking about temporarily suspending their state\u2019s gas tax. That does reduce prices, but not as much as politicians \u2013 or consumers \u2013 might hope. Research on past gas tax holidays has found that consumers get \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu\/issues\/2022\/6\/15\/effects-of-a-state-gasoline-tax-holiday\u0022\u003Eabout 79% of the reduction\u003C\/a\u003E in gas taxes. That means oil companies and fuel retailers keep about one-fifth of the tax cut for themselves rather than passing that savings to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGas tax holidays also reduce funding for what the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.turbotax.intuit.com\/tax-deductions-and-credits-2\/the-highs-and-lows-of-gasoline-tax-15098\/\u0022\u003Etaxes are designed to pay for\u003C\/a\u003E, typically roads and bridges. That pushes road and bridge upkeep costs onto future drivers and general taxpayers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is an additional problem, too: Taxes on gasoline are supposed to charge drivers for some of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w14685\u0022\u003Ecosts their driving imposes on everyone else\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 carbon emissions, local air pollution, congestion and crashes. But Borenstein has found that U.S. fuel tax levels are already \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyathaas.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/28\/cut-the-electricity-tax-not-the-gas-tax\/\u0022\u003Efar below the true cost to society\u003C\/a\u003E. Removing the tax on drivers effectively raises the costs for everyone else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Jones Act: A Small Number That Adds Up\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/soaring-gas-prices-prompt-trump-to-ease-oil-tanker-rules-how-waiving-the-jones-act-affects-what-you-pay-at-the-pump-278387\u0022\u003E1920 Jones Act\u003C\/a\u003E is a federal law that requires cargo moving between U.S. ports to travel on vessels built and registered in the U.S., owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed primarily by U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Of the world\u2019s 7,500 oil tankers, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/03\/18\/jones-act-suspended-shipping-oil\/\u0022\u003Eonly 54 meet this requirement\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/jones-act-forces-us-gasoline-take-long-way-home\u0022\u003EOnly 43 of these\u003C\/a\u003E can transport refined fuels such as gasoline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, despite significant refining capacity on the Gulf Coast, some U.S. gasoline is exported overseas even as the Northeast imports fuel, in part reflecting the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/analysis\/transportationfuels\/padd1n3\/\u0022\u003Erelatively high cost of moving fuel\u003C\/a\u003E between U.S. ports.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEconomists Ryan Kellogg and Rich Sweeney estimate that the law \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w31938\u0022\u003Eraises East Coast gasoline prices by about a penny and a half per gallon\u003C\/a\u003E on average, costing drivers roughly $770 million a year. In light of the war\u2019s effect on gas prices, the Trump administration has \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/soaring-gas-prices-prompt-trump-to-ease-oil-tanker-rules-how-waiving-the-jones-act-affects-what-you-pay-at-the-pump-278387\u0022\u003Etemporarily suspended the Jones Act requirements\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 an action more commonly taken when \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/september-2017-jones-act-waivers\u0022\u003Ehurricanes knock out Gulf Coast refineries and pipeline networks\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Moves the Number\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe result of all these factors is that the price that drivers see at the pump mostly reflects the global price of crude, plus a stack of domestic costs, only some of which are inefficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETax holidays give a partial, short-lived rebate. Jones Act waivers trim pennies, though permanent repeal may cause more fundamental changes, such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/policy-analysis\/jones-act-burden-america-can-no-longer-bear\u0022\u003Ereduced rail and truck transport of all goods\u003C\/a\u003E, which could lower costs, emissions and infrastructure damage associated with cargo transportation. Harmonizing fuel blends across states and seasons may lower prices somewhat, but likely at the expense of increased emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the best protection against oil price shocks is a more efficient gas-burning vehicle, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/02\/evs-autos-energy-oil-iran-war-electric-transport-fossil-fuels.html\u0022\u003Eone that doesn\u2019t burn gasoline\u003C\/a\u003E at all. In the meantime, the best I can offer as an economist is clarity about what that $4.30 actually buys.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article is republished from \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E under a Creative Commons license. Read the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/whats-in-the-price-of-a-gallon-of-gas-281494\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eoriginal article\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech energy economist Bobby Harris said U.S. gasoline prices are driven mainly by crude oil costs, with refining, distribution and taxes accounting for a smaller and shifting share of what consumers pay at the pump.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech energy economist Bobby Harris said U.S. gasoline prices are driven mainly by crude oil costs, with refining, distribution and taxes accounting for a smaller and shifting share of what consumers pay at the pump. "}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-05-07 13:46:11","changed_gmt":"2026-06-01 14:59:37","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680213":{"id":"680213","type":"image","title":"What-s-inthepriceofagallonofgas.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGas prices were well over $4 a gallon on April 28, 2026, in Brooklyn, N.Y. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/fuel-prices-are-displayed-at-a-brooklyn-gas-station-on-news-photo\/2273575764\u0022\u003ESpencer Platt\/Getty Images\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778162898","gmt_created":"2026-05-07 14:08:18","changed":"1778162898","gmt_changed":"2026-05-07 14:08:18","alt":"A person filling gas in his car with the gas prices shown in the foreground","file":{"fid":"264457","name":"What-s-inthepriceofagallonofgas.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/What-s-inthepriceofagallonofgas.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/What-s-inthepriceofagallonofgas.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":243115,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/07\/What-s-inthepriceofagallonofgas.jpeg?itok=ROlYqpjU"}},"680212":{"id":"680212","type":"image","title":"the-cost-of-crude-oil-is-a-key-driver-of-gas-and-diesel-prices.png","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAs of January 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EChart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/gasdiesel\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EU.S. Energy Information Administration\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022javascript:void(0)\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EGet the data\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/CnmrT\/1\/#embed\u0022\u003EEmbed\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/CnmrT\/full.png\u0022\u003EDownload image\u003C\/a\u003E Created with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.datawrapper.de\/_\/CnmrT\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDatawrapper\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1778162088","gmt_created":"2026-05-07 13:54:48","changed":"1778162088","gmt_changed":"2026-05-07 13:54:48","alt":"Chart showing cost distribution of crude oil, refining, marketing and distribution and taxes for gas and diesel","file":{"fid":"264456","name":"the-cost-of-crude-oil-is-a-key-driver-of-gas-and-diesel-prices.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/the-cost-of-crude-oil-is-a-key-driver-of-gas-and-diesel-prices_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/the-cost-of-crude-oil-is-a-key-driver-of-gas-and-diesel-prices_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":81655,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/07\/the-cost-of-crude-oil-is-a-key-driver-of-gas-and-diesel-prices_0.png?itok=p_-8Gzh1"}},"680210":{"id":"680210","type":"image","title":"BobbyHarris-file-20260429-57-ux2drz.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA tanker truck delivers fuel to a gas station. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/IranUSOil\/aa65c07d8aa34344acfa1aa5bcfda39c\/photo\u0022\u003EAP Photo\/Erin Hooley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778161952","gmt_created":"2026-05-07 13:52:32","changed":"1778161952","gmt_changed":"2026-05-07 13:52:32","alt":"A tanker truck delivers fuel to a gas station. AP Photo\/Erin Hooley","file":{"fid":"264454","name":"BobbyHarris-file-20260429-57-ux2drz.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260429-57-ux2drz.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260429-57-ux2drz.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":101295,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260429-57-ux2drz.jpeg?itok=SkqSopUw"}},"680211":{"id":"680211","type":"image","title":"BobbyHarris-file-20260318-71-tw0cca.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESuspending the Jones Act allows foreign-based oil tankers to sail between U.S. ports. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/OilPrices\/773825116ccd4cf8943c40836038be54\/photo?vs=false\u0026amp;currentItemNo=25\u0026amp;startingItemNo=0\u0022\u003EAP Photo\/Eric Gay\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778161998","gmt_created":"2026-05-07 13:53:18","changed":"1778161998","gmt_changed":"2026-05-07 13:53:18","alt":"An oil tanker ship with the sun in the background and a man with a cap with a fishing poll in the foreground","file":{"fid":"264455","name":"BobbyHarris-file-20260318-71-tw0cca.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260318-71-tw0cca.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260318-71-tw0cca.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":127210,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/07\/BobbyHarris-file-20260318-71-tw0cca.jpeg?itok=1ZUJVvv4"}}},"media_ids":["680213","680212","680210","680211"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/whats-in-the-price-of-a-gallon-of-gas-281494","title":"Original Article on The Conversation"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ch5\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/robert-i-harris-2669057\u0022 rel=\u0022author\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert I. Harris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003EMedia Contact:\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shelley.wunder-smith@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EDirector of Research Communications\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690553":{"#nid":"690553","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New App Allows Anyone to Operate a Robot From Their Phone","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESomeone with no computing experience may soon be able to remotely control a robot from anywhere on the planet using a smartphone, thanks to new technology developed by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technology is also set to revolutionize the scale of policy training data collection, which is essential to advancing robotic capabilities and meeting growing production demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cobalt-teleop.github.io\/\u0022\u003ECOBALT\u003C\/a\u003E is a mobile app that turns smartphones into controllers for robot arms. With a secure Wi-Fi connection to a server, users can move their phones in any direction, and the robot arm will mirror the motion \u2014 from anywhere in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAyush Agarwal, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing who leads a research team developing COBALT, said it works like the games people play on smartphones. Users can press a button to have the arm grasp an object, move it, and release it with another button.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAgarwal conducted several user studies with participants in nine countries who remotely operated robot arms inside Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pair.toronto.edu\/\u0022\u003EPeople, AI \u0026amp; Robotics (PAIR) Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. The lab is directed by Assistant Professor Animesh Garg, who advises Agarwal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe built an entire distribution system for remote teleoperation scaled to where we had people from Indonesia, India, and Pakistan operating for us,\u201d Agarwal said. \u201cThey were novice operators who had never done it before. By collecting data from these new users, we showed that we can train policies to automate certain tasks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarg envisions a world where data collection for policy training is done through crowdsourcing. He began working toward this goal 10 years ago as a postdoc at Stanford University, when he developed\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/roboturk.stanford.edu\/\u0022\u003ERoboTurk\u003C\/a\u003E, an earlier version of COBALT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a large-scale data collection requirement for mass robot production to be possible, and it will not be solved purely through simulation,\u201d Garg said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur idea was, what if we could get almost every person on the planet to be a passive source for data collection? There are almost five billion people who have smartphones and know how to use them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEducation and Economy Impact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother major implication of COBALT could be expanded access to CS and robotics education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents can learn to operate a robot remotely in any classroom. In fact, Garg and his lab recently hosted students from Midtown High School in Atlanta to demonstrate COBALT and let them control robot arms from a phone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarg also sees the possibility of a \u201cgig economy\u201d in which people pay remote operators to control assistive robots in their homes and complete household chores for them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt could be Uber for robots,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople who want to log onto the platform can do so at their convenience and for as long as they want.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECompanies with robot-dependent labor tasks could also use the platform to enable human oversight.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf I deploy a robot in a factory that achieves high autonomy for most tasks, but there are still times it needs help, a human could operate the robot from anywhere in the world,\u201d Garg said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding a Network\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAgarwal\u2019s studies showed that people prefer to interact with and control a robot using a smartphone rather than virtual reality (VR) headsets, controllers, keyboards, mice, or other devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe phone is a more intuitive interface and can provide data quality that\u2019s on par with other commonly used devices,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAgarwal also said there is minimal latency in the video feed sent back to operators on the other side of the world. That\u2019s because the amount of data being processed is small.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe data is carried over Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), the same technology used by many streaming services and web conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a connection from your phone to the teleoperation server, which is connected to the robots,\u201d Agarwal said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThen there\u2019s another connection from the teleoperation server back to the user, which allows for a video stream. We need low latency on both because you don\u2019t want the user to move their phone and wait 10 seconds to see the visual feed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAgarwal is the co-lead author of a paper on COBALT that is being presented at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2026.ieee-icra.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/a\u003E this week in Vienna. He said the paper stands out because it has moved from theory to the implementation of an entire distribution network.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe real novelty of our paper is the systems that we build around it to actually support the scaling of remote operation and data collection at a global level,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith a secure Wi-Fi connection to a server, users can move their phones in any direction, and the robot arm will mirror the motion \u2014 from anywhere in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new mobile app turns smartphones into controllers for robot arms. 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Arthur, a faculty affiliate of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E (INNS), and Smith will study \u201cmusical imagery\u201d \u2014 the experience of hearing music internally without external sound \u2014 using electroencephalography (EEG) to better understand how people recall and navigate musical structure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir project, \u003Cem\u003EThe Music Within: Neural Markers of Imagined Sound and Memory\u003C\/em\u003E, brings together cognitive science and musical improvisation to compare brain activity across listening, silence, and imagination. The work has the potential to inform new approaches in health, accessibility, and imagery-based therapies, particularly for individuals with limited ability to produce music physically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdministered by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuroartsblueprint.org\/\u0022\u003ENeuroArts Blueprint Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, the award supports interdisciplinary collaborations at the intersection of science and the arts to better understand how aesthetic experiences shape brain function and wellbeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/feature\/arthur-and-smith-map-imagined-sound-neuroarts\u0022\u003ERead the full story here \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo School of Music faculty have received a national neuroarts award to study how the brain perceives and navigates imagined music.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two School of Music faculty have received a national neuroarts award to study how the brain perceives and navigates imagined music."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2026-05-29 13:50:38","changed_gmt":"2026-05-29 13:58:06","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680371":{"id":"680371","type":"image","title":"feature.ClaireArthurAlexandriaSmith_1.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EClaire Arthur and Alexandria Smith\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1780062648","gmt_created":"2026-05-29 13:50:48","changed":"1780062648","gmt_changed":"2026-05-29 13:50:48","alt":"Claire Arthur and Alexandria Smith","file":{"fid":"264627","name":"feature.ClaireArthurAlexandriaSmith_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/29\/feature.ClaireArthurAlexandriaSmith_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/29\/feature.ClaireArthurAlexandriaSmith_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":309860,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/29\/feature.ClaireArthurAlexandriaSmith_1.jpg?itok=8QcT59JL"}}},"media_ids":["680371"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/feature\/arthur-and-smith-map-imagined-sound-neuroarts?utm_source=newsletter\u0026utm_medium=email\u0026utm_content=Musical%20Imagery%3A%20Faculty%20Receive%20Award%20to%20Map%20Imagined%20Sound\u0026utm_campaign=may_2026_research_horizons","title":"Arthur and Smith Map Imagined Sound with Neuroarts"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.org\/news\/renee-fleming-neuroarts-investigator-awards-2026\/","title":"Announcing 10 Ren\u00e9e Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards"}],"groups":[{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"194568","name":"Arts and Performance"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193656","name":"Neuro Next Initiative"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:audra.davidson@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAudra Davidson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EResearch Program Communications Manager\u003Cbr\u003EInstitute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"641905":{"#nid":"641905","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hydrogel Could Open New Path for Glaucoma Treatment Without Drugs or Surgery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have developed a potential new treatment for the eye disease glaucoma that could replace daily eyedrops and surgery with a twice-a-year injection to control the buildup of pressure in the eye. The researchers envision the injection being done as an office procedure that could be part of regular patient visits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe possible treatment, which could become the first non-drug, non-surgical, long-acting therapy for glaucoma, uses the injection of a natural and biodegradable material to create a viscous hydrogel \u2014 a water-absorbing crosslinked polymer structure \u2014 that opens an alternate pathway for excess fluid to leave the eye.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe holy grail for glaucoma is an efficient way to lower the pressure that doesn\u2019t rely on the patient putting drops in their eyes every day, doesn\u2019t require a complicated surgery, has minimal side effects, and has a good safety profile,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/C.%20Ross-Ethier\u0022\u003ERoss Ethier\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Eminent Scholar in Bioengineering in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cI am excited about this technique, which could be a game-changer for the treatment of glaucoma.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, which was supported by the National Eye Institute and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gra.org\u0022\u003EGeorgia Research Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E, was published Dec. 7 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Science\u003C\/em\u003E. The research was conducted in animals, and shows that the approach significantly lowered the intraocular pressure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs many as 75 million people worldwide have glaucoma, which is the leading cause of irreversible blindness. Glaucoma damage is caused by excess pressure in the eye that injures the optic nerve. Current treatments attempt to reduce this intraocular pressure through the daily application of eyedrops, or through surgery or implantation of medical devices, but these treatments are often unsuccessful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo provide an alternative, Ethier teamed up with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-r-prausnitz\u0022\u003EMark Prausnitz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and J. Erskine Love Jr. Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, to use a tiny hollow needle to inject a polymer preparation into a structure just below the surface of the eye called the suprachoroidal space (SCS). Inside the eye, the material chemically crosslinks to form the hydrogel, which holds open a channel in the SCS that allows aqueous humor from within the eye to drain out of the eye through the alternative pathway.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are normally two pathways for the aqueous humor fluid to leave the eye. The dominant path is through a structure known as the trabecular meshwork, which is located at the front of the eye. The lesser pathway is through the SCS, which normally has only a very small gap. In glaucoma, the dominant pathway is blocked, so to lessen pressure, treatments are created to open the lesser pathway enough to let the aqueous humor flow out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this research, the hydrogel props open the SCS path. A hollow microneedle less than a millimeter long is used to inject a droplet (about 50 microliters) of the hydrogel-precursor material. That gel structure can keep the SCS pathway open for a period of months.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe inject a viscous material and keep it at the site of the injection at the interface between the back of the eye and the front of the eye where the suprachoroidal space begins,\u201d Prausnitz said. \u201cBy opening up that space, we tap a pathway that would not otherwise be utilized efficiently to remove liquid from the eye.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe injection would take just a few minutes, and would involve a doctor making a small injection just below the surface of the eye in combination with numbing and cleaning the injection site. In the study, the researchers, including veterinary ophthalmologist and first author J. Jeremy Chae, did not observe significant inflammation resulting from the procedure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe pressure reduction was sustained for four months. The researchers are now working to extend that time by modifying the polymer material \u2014 hyaluronic acid \u2014 with a goal of providing treatment benefits for at least six months. That would coincide with the office visit schedule of many patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we can get to a twice-a-year treatment, we would not disrupt the current clinical process,\u201d Prausnitz said. \u201cWe believe the injection could be done as an office procedure during routine exams that the patients are already getting. Patients may not need to do anything to treat their glaucoma until their next office visit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond extending the time between treatments, the researchers will need to demonstrate that the injection can be repeated without harming the eye. The procedure will also have to be tested in other animals before moving into human trials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea of having a \u2018one-and-done\u2019 treatment that lasts for six months would be particularly helpful for those whose access to healthcare is non-optimal,\u201d Ethier said. \u201cHaving a long-acting therapy would have an additional advantage during times of pandemic or other disruption when access to healthcare is more difficult.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by a grant from the National Eye Institute (R01 EY025286) and by the Georgia Research Alliance. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMark Prausnitz serves as a consultant to companies, is a founding shareholder of companies, and is an inventor on patents licensed to companies developing microneedle-based products (Clearside Biomedical). These potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed and are being managed by Georgia Tech. J. Jeremy Chae, Jae Hwan Jung, Ethier, and Prausnitz are listed as co-inventors on an IP filing related to this study.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: J. 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Ryan\u2019s method could give these devices a heads-up and make the user experience more seamless.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt allows an AR system to anticipate what the person will interact with next and where they\u2019re going to look next so it can proactively render the experience,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan is the lead author of the paper \u003Cem\u003EForecasting 3D Scanpaths in Egocentric Video,\u003C\/em\u003E which she will present next week at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cvpr.thecvf.com\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\u003C\/a\u003E (CVPR) in Denver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile there is existing research on predicting user gaze from 2D still images, her work is the first to address the issue through a 3D framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBecause we live in a 3D world and people are dynamically moving around from multiple points of view, we need to predict gaze in 3D rather than 2D,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is a path of the person\u2019s attention in 3D through space. Our paper is the first to attempt to model this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan conducted most of the research while interning at Meta, where she used data from Meta\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.projectaria.com\/datasets\/adt\/\u0022\u003EAria Digital Twin dataset\u003C\/a\u003E. The dataset contains first-person video footage of users interacting with objects in an apartment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe chose that dataset because it has a high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of a full environment, which helps us get a ground-truth 3D gaze,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can trace eye movement and see how it intersects with the environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA video demonstration of Ryan\u2019s work shows her software tracking a user\u2019s path toward a table with a cup on it. Once the user picks up the cup, the software correctly predicts the direction the user will turn next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we look at a scene, we don\u2019t take in everything in full detail all at once,\u201d she said. \u201cWe fixate on certain areas, and our gaze is a sequence of fixations, which might depend on what we\u2019re trying to do. If we want to pick up a cup, we might look toward that and then the next step would be looking at where we\u2019re going to put it down.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan said the software can predict, on average, up to three seconds into the future \u2014 and as far as 10 seconds in some cases. That\u2019s enough time for the AR system to proactively render a more enhanced environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re not looking that far into the future right now, but it would be interesting to explore longer forecasting windows,\u201d she said. \u201cI think potential futures would diverge pretty quickly, so we\u2019re trying to explore what can reasonably be predicted from a short segment of a person looking and moving through space.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan said her paper served as a proof-of-concept, and that there is still much future work to be done. She already has some ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think future models can include different scenarios to help narrow down possibilities. Sometimes a person\u2019s gaze stays on one thing for a long time. If we know what someone is trying to do, we\u2019ll have a better idea of the likely path their attention might go.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere could also be future implications for her work in robotics research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt could potentially be used for training algorithms for robots to emulate active human perception. If we can understand what a person looks at as they perform a task, we could use that to facilitate a robot learning to do that same task.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Fiona Ryan has created a new framework for tracking and predicting user gaze in Augmented Reality devices. 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Ryan\u2019s method could give these devices a heads-up and make the user experience more seamless.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt allows an AR system to anticipate what the person will interact with next and where they\u2019re going to look next so it can proactively render the experience,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan is the lead author of the paper \u003Cem\u003EForecasting 3D Scanpaths in Egocentric Video,\u003C\/em\u003E which she will present next week at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cvpr.thecvf.com\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\u003C\/a\u003E (CVPR) in Denver.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile there is existing research on predicting user gaze from 2D still images, her work is the first to address the issue through a 3D framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBecause we live in a 3D world and people are dynamically moving around from multiple points of view, we need to predict gaze in 3D rather than 2D,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is a path of the person\u2019s attention in 3D through space. Our paper is the first to attempt to model this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan conducted most of the research while interning at Meta, where she used data from Meta\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.projectaria.com\/datasets\/adt\/\u0022\u003EAria Digital Twin dataset\u003C\/a\u003E. The dataset contains first-person video footage of users interacting with objects in an apartment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe chose that dataset because it has a high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of a full environment, which helps us get a ground-truth 3D gaze,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can trace eye movement and see how it intersects with the environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA video demonstration of Ryan\u2019s work shows her software tracking a user\u2019s path toward a table with a cup on it. Once the user picks up the cup, the software correctly predicts the direction the user will turn next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we look at a scene, we don\u2019t take in everything in full detail all at once,\u201d she said. \u201cWe fixate on certain areas, and our gaze is a sequence of fixations, which might depend on what we\u2019re trying to do. If we want to pick up a cup, we might look toward that and then the next step would be looking at where we\u2019re going to put it down.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan said the software can predict, on average, up to three seconds into the future \u2014 and as far as 10 seconds in some cases. That\u2019s enough time for the AR system to proactively render a more enhanced environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re not looking that far into the future right now, but it would be interesting to explore longer forecasting windows,\u201d she said. \u201cI think potential futures would diverge pretty quickly, so we\u2019re trying to explore what can reasonably be predicted from a short segment of a person looking and moving through space.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERyan said her paper served as a proof-of-concept, and that there is still much future work to be done. She already has some ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think future models can include different scenarios to help narrow down possibilities. Sometimes a person\u2019s gaze stays on one thing for a long time. 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Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/andres-j-garcia\u0022\u003EAndr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Executive Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E. Singh and Garc\u00eda are collaborating to develop functional human antibodies against some of the most difficult-to-treat diseases. While antibody therapies already benefit an estimated 20 million patients worldwide, fewer than 10 percent of discovery efforts ultimately yield candidates suitable for clinical use.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis shortfall spans major disease areas \u2014 from oncology and autoimmune disorders to heart and metabolism-related conditions and neurological and infectious diseases \u2014 limiting therapeutic options for patients. The challenge lies not only in identifying candidate antibodies, but in engineering them to function reliably in the human body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe I\u0026amp;E program exists to bridge the gap between a discovery that works in the lab and one that can anchor a company,\u201d said Justin Burns, Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at GRA. \u201cSingh and Garc\u00eda are tackling a problem the field has faced for decades: A significant fraction of drug targets remains inaccessible to antibody-based therapies. Our goal is to help move bold, high-potential science toward real-world impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGRA\u2019s model targets a well-known bottleneck in translation. While university labs generate promising technologies, many stall before reaching the marketplace due to a lack of validation and early-stage development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESingh and Garc\u00eda aim to overcome this barrier by using a proprietary antibody-engineering framework developed in Singh\u2019s laboratory, and supported by an earlier GRA grant. The objective is straightforward: Increase the success rate of discovery efforts so more antibody candidates can advance toward clinical use.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe implications extend well beyond our laboratory,\u201d said Singh. \u201cBy expanding the pipeline of functional human antibodies, we can begin to address diseases that currently lack durable treatment options. GRA\u2019s support is transformative \u2014 not only for advancing the science, but for positioning Georgia as a leader in biotechnology innovation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project is built with real-world use in mind, aiming to turn the research into a new company and eventually a clinical product. By testing the idea early and lowering risk, the team hopes to attract investment and move the technology quickly beyond the Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarc\u00eda emphasized the translational vision of the work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a transformative platform technology that overcomes major bottlenecks in antibody discovery and will accelerate and increase the efficiency of this powerful class of therapeutics,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis effort is about rethinking how we design antibodies from the ground up \u2014 integrating biological insight with engineering principles to produce molecules that are not just viable, but clinically meaningful,\u201d he said. \u201cWith GRA\u2019s support, we can de-risk early discovery and create a clearer path from promising concepts to therapies that reach patients.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Tracey Mullen, a seasoned biopharma executive, entrepreneur, and antibody discovery and engineering leader currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Mosaic Biosciences, is advising the team on translational strategy, commercial development, and company formation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe ability to rapidly generate functional human antibodies in physiologically relevant systems could meaningfully change how therapeutic discovery is approached,\u201d Mullen said. \u201cBy moving beyond largely empirical, animal- or screening-heavy workflows and incorporating human-specific, mechanism-informed evaluation earlier in the process, this platform has the potential to generate more relevant antibody candidates and create a stronger path from discovery concept to translational development.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs global demand for advanced therapeutics grows, efforts like this reflect a broader shift in how innovation moves from bench to bedside \u2014 one driven not only by scientific ingenuity, but by targeted investment at critical early stages.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAntibody therapy is a class of medicines that has transformed treatment across cancer, autoimmune disease, and infectious illness, yet it cannot be generated against many disease targets. 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I also preferred the urban environment of Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAre there any specific people who helped you during your Ph.D. journey?\u202f\u003C\/strong\u003E\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~adaglis\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAlex\u202fDaglis\u003C\/a\u003E\u202fis the ideal advisor.\u202fHe\u2019s smart, a good researcher, and an excellent advisor. 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Jones, the John F. Brock III School Chair in ChBE@GT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe $20,000 in discretionary funding from this one-year fellowship will support \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vidajamali.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s research activities focused on developing new tools for \u003Cem\u003Ein situ\u003C\/em\u003E liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, stochastic thermodynamics, and nanoscience-based platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spencers established the endowment from which the term fellowship funding comes in 2017. This endowment will eventually lead to the establishment of a professorship in ChBE@GT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBob Spencer is a successful alumnus who has remained connected to our chemical engineering program,\u201d according to Jones. \u201cHis family\u2019s gift will allow ChBE@GT to support an early career professor at a critical stage of their development\u2014the crucial years just before their promotion and tenure review. We are grateful for their support and generosity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/vida-jamali-receives-inaugural-dr-james-robert-and-margaret-spencer-early-career\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on the ChBE Newspage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Vida Jamali is the inaugural recipient of the new Dr. James Robert and Margaret Spencer Early Career Fellowship in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE@GT).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHer outstanding research accomplishments and contributions to the School and Georgia Tech led to this selection,\u201d said Professor Christopher W. Jones, the John F. Brock III School Chair in ChBE@GT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe $20,000 in discretionary funding from this one-year fellowship will support \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vidajamali.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJamali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s research activities focused on developing new tools for \u003Cem\u003Ein situ\u003C\/em\u003E liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, stochastic thermodynamics, and nanoscience-based platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistant Professor Vida Jamali is the inaugural recipient of the new Dr. James Robert and Margaret Spencer Early Career Fellowship in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE@GT)."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-05-19 20:50:46","changed_gmt":"2026-05-19 20:54:42","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680322":{"id":"680322","type":"image","title":"vida_image_0.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EVida Jamali, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1779223851","gmt_created":"2026-05-19 20:50:51","changed":"1779223851","gmt_changed":"2026-05-19 20:50:51","alt":"Vida Jamali, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"264569","name":"vida_image_0.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/19\/vida_image_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/19\/vida_image_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30687,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/19\/vida_image_0.jpeg?itok=tgpG-de0"}}},"media_ids":["680322"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:braddixon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrad Dixon\u003C\/a\u003E, ChBE\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["braddixon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690375":{"#nid":"690375","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chronicle of Digital Transformation (May 2026)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWe are pleased to share our latest bi-weekly update to the \u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E. This update covers major developments over the last two weeks (May 1-15\u003Cem\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E 2026).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EThe update is but a very small sample of digital transformation (DT)-related events\/perspectives from around the world from a variety of countries on different continents. The Chronicle clearly illustrates that DT has a wide range of meaning across industries and countries and for that matter authors\/researchers, thereby complicating the analysis. Current interest in AI and the critical importance of the human factor notwithstanding, DT is also connected more or less strongly to IoT, blockchain, digitization, digitalization, e-commerce, e-learning, e-service, automation, cloud adoption, edge computing, 5G, 6G, Industry 4.0, robotics, cybersecurity, and other forms of computer-based frameworks.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis update and subsequent ones provide the latest additions to the foundational Chronicle posted on November 14, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_as_of_end_of_october_2025.pdf\u0022\u003EDigital Transformation (April 2022 - October 2025)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAuthor:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChronicle of Digital Transformation, the broad context of Internet of Things technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;-- \u003Cem\u003EPerspectives from around the globe\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EMay 1-15, 2026.\u003C\/em\u003E Author:\u0026nbsp;Alain\u0026nbsp;Louchez, CDAIT Co-founder and Director Emeritus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The broad context of Internet of Things technologies -- Perspectives from around the globe, April 2026."}],"uid":"36164","created_gmt":"2026-05-19 14:16:05","changed_gmt":"2026-05-19 14:18:05","author":"ayura3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-05\/Digital_Transformation_Through_IoT_Technologies_May2026.pdf","title":"Digital Transformation (May 2026)"}],"groups":[{"id":"638044","name":"Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) "}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690318":{"#nid":"690318","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Accelerating Discovery With AI ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. The most robust experimental processes are developed through partnerships across multiple areas of research. The need for specialized, multidisciplinary teams slows experiment design, execution, data analysis, and process updates, delaying technological validation and deployment. But if the increasingly automated tools scientists already use in the lab could contribute to this team process of experimental design, the timeline for these goals could be greatly accelerated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis concept of \u201clab tool as lab assistant\u201d is the premise of a recent paper in \u003Cem\u003Enpj | Computational Materials\u003C\/em\u003E titled \u201cThinking Microscopes: Agentic AI and the Future of Electron Microscopy,\u201d by Vida Jamali, assistant professor the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Amirali Aghazadeh, assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Josh Kacher, associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the paper, the team introduces the concept of \u201cthinking electron microscopes,\u201d in which agentic AI systems are directly integrated with the instrument. This allows microscopes to move beyond their conventional role as characterization tools and toward functioning as co-scientists for human users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on advances in specialized large language models, or LLMs, that demonstrate their ability to collaborate, reason over data, and integrate prior knowledge, the team envisions specialized LLM-based agents assigned to specific roles and areas of knowledge expertise. By explicitly incorporating domain knowledge into specialized agents and distributing information across multiple agents with focused expertise, the approach enables parallel evaluation of competing hypotheses, clearer separation of roles \u2014\u0026nbsp;such as planning, simulation, and critique \u2014 and more transparent and robust reasoning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin the experimental pipeline, these agents can analyze materials\u2019 properties, physical data, chemical processes, and other relevant parameters. They could also collaborate with an agent that specializes in experimental design, refining iterative closed-loop experimentation, and real-time scientific discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the research focuses on AI collaboration, the team notes that human researchers must retain accountability for the accuracy and integrity of both the experimental process and the results reported. This oversight begins with advocating for greater open access to research materials in all formats, building community-driven data repositories, and adopting standardization in how experimental parameters and metadata are reported. Equally important, researchers should be willing to report data from failed experiments as well as successful outcomes. Finally, organizations should work together to standardize secure APIs that enable shared, remote access to infrastructure across distances.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe see this as a step toward scientific instruments that do more than acquire data; systems that can reason over experiments, adapt measurements, and participate in the scientific discovery process alongside researchers. - Vida Jamali,\u0026nbsp;assistant professor the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team is already developing these systems by connecting cloud-based, agentic infrastructures to microscopes at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/matter-systems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Matter and Systems at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E. With the addition of agentic AI, the goal is to accelerate discovery and engineering of new nanoscale materials for energy and quantum applications, as well as advance capabilities in cryo-electron microscopy and structural biology. These tools can optimize data collection, link real-time microscope observations with structural models of proteins, and dynamically adjust and prioritize experiments. The team sees this work as the first step toward the next generation of \u201cthinking\u201d electron microscopes, as well as an advancement in scientific discovery across domains.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;- Christa M. Ernst\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThis research is supported by the Institute for Data Engineering and Science and the Institute for Matter and Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOriginal Publication\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EJamali, V., Aghazadeh, A. \u0026amp; Kacher, J.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41524-026-02077-y\u0022\u003EThinking microscopes: agentic AI and the future of electron microscopy.\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cem\u003Enpj Computational Materials\u003C\/em\u003E 12, 149 (2026). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41524-026-02077-y\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Automating Electron Microscopy Experimental Design With Agentic AI"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. 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The program began in 1996 and has since expanded to be offered by four Georgia Tech schools:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInteractive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/id.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIndustrial Design\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELiterature, Media, and Communications\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPsychology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs we put our award submission together, it was nice for us to reflect on all our hard work and to understand the impact this program has had on students,\u201d Bruce said. \u201cWe recently surveyed alums, and so many said they were thankful for the way this program shaped their careers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnder the leadership of Henneman and Bruce, the program has achieved a 99% graduation rate, with about 60 graduates per year, up from about 30 since 2015. Henneman said the program has become one of the most competitive of its kind in the world, with an admission rate under 10%.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have some incredibly qualified students who are a part of the program,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a number of graduates move into design management positions, and some have started their own companies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHenneman and Bruce said that one thing that distinguishes Tech\u2019s MSHCI program is its close partnerships and alignment with industry. The program has an industry advisory board that keeps students informed about the skills companies value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe adapted our core classes quite a bit to ensure that they weren\u2019t just getting the academic version of HCI methods,\u201d Bruce said. \u201cOur program is practical and focuses on what they are going to do when they get into industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough the program continues to grow, Henneman says it has maintained a sense of community among students, which he says is another thing that sets it apart. Many alumni keep in touch and return to offer industry advice, critique resumes, and conduct mock interviews with current students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of times graduate school can be all about the individual,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we prepare students to go work in industry, it\u2019s all about collaboration and the people you\u2019re working with and learning how to work on teams.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech had 21 faculty and researchers recognized in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/georgia-tech-faculty-and-researchers-recognized-2026-regents-awards?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Faculty%2C%20Researchers%20Recognized%20With%20Regents%E2%80%99%20Awards\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20May%2014%2C%202026\u0022\u003E2026 Regents Awards\u003C\/a\u003E. From the College of Computing, Santosh Vempala was named a Regents\u2019 Professor, while Srinivas Aluru and Ellen Zegura had their Regents\u2019 titles renewed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMSHCI program director Dick Henneman and assitant director Carrie Bruce reflect on 30 years of success after they received the 2026 Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program from the USG Board of Regents.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u0027s MSHCI program received the 2026 Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program from the University System of Georgia\u0027s Board of Regents."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-05-15 17:00:12","changed_gmt":"2026-05-18 18:36:27","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680288":{"id":"680288","type":"image","title":"USG-BoR-5-12-2026-018-copy.jpg","body":null,"created":"1778864433","gmt_created":"2026-05-15 17:00:33","changed":"1778864433","gmt_changed":"2026-05-15 17:00:33","alt":"Raheem Bayeh, Carrie Bruce, Sonny Perdue, Dick Henneman","file":{"fid":"264535","name":"USG-BoR-5-12-2026-018-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/15\/USG-BoR-5-12-2026-018-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/15\/USG-BoR-5-12-2026-018-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":163281,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/15\/USG-BoR-5-12-2026-018-copy.jpg?itok=DFT3DWbz"}}},"media_ids":["680288"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"179356","name":"Industrial Design"}],"keywords":[{"id":"21151","name":"mshci"},{"id":"186678","name":"USG Board of Regents"},{"id":"172013","name":"Faculty Awards and Honors"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690316":{"#nid":"690316","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Why Georgia\u2019s Severe Weather Season Has Been Unusually Quiet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe peak of the severe weather season is nearing its end, but in Georgia, it\u0027s been a quieter period than residents have become accustomed to in years past, devoid of the flurry of tornado warnings, heavy rain bands, and thunderstorms. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/handlos.eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EZachary Handlos\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences degree program, explains that the region lacked a major component of the severe weather formula. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor an active season, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/pcZn3dGWQ-U?si=dz8s_PXnW44Eq8_l\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efour key ingredients typically exist\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. Moisture\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E2. A mechanism to lift air upward\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E3. Instability\u003Cbr\u003E4. Wind Shear\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?GA\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edrought conditions\u003C\/a\u003E persisting throughout the state, there is sufficient moisture in the air, carried by warm air from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, to create favorable conditions for severe weather. Instability is created as the air warms, and wind shear is created by the changing direction and speed of the wind. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Handlos, what was missing this season was a consistent lifting mechanism.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve been stuck with high-pressure systems for most of the season. The air in these systems spirals clockwise instead of counterclockwise and spins away from the center, causing the air above it to sink, which in turn suppresses or shuts off any cloud or precipitation formation. So, even if all the other factors aligned, there would\u0027ve been nothing to lift that air into creating those storms,\u0022 he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EThe lingering high-pressure systems over Georgia are the result of the state\u2019s location relative to the jet stream, which Handlos describes as an interstate highway for storms. The jet stream is a fast current of air above the Earth\u0027s surface that brings storm activity with its movement. This season, the stream moved through the Midwest, resulting in record precipitation in the region, while a drought rages on in the Southeast. As of May 4, Illinois had confirmed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/severe-weather\/this-state-leads-the-nation-for-tornado-reports-in-2026\/1887912\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E119 tornadoes\u003C\/a\u003E in 2026, which began with a historically busy early season.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you didn\u0027t pay attention to any other part of the country (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/jan\/2026tornadoinfo\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eoutside of Mississippi recently\u003C\/a\u003E), you\u0027d think it was the most boring severe weather season because there was very little activity in Georgia.But if you live along that jet stream line between Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, and southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and southern Michigan, that has been the active area of severe weather.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile it has been a uniquely quiet season in Georgia, Handlos says that as it ends, the region can expect a typical summer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022No matter if it\u0027s an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/media\/14483\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEl Ni\u00f1o or La Ni\u00f1a\u003C\/a\u003E or neither, the quintessential Atlanta summer is one where, most days, you wake up, and it\u0027s warm and humid out in the morning with clear skies. Then, it\u0027s hot and just awful in the afternoon before you start to see the puffy cumulonimbus clouds pop up, and sometimes you get hit with a thunderstorm. For what feels like about three straight months, if you live here, you don\u0027t even need to look at the weather forecast to know what the weather will be like outside here until we get to the fall,\u201d he said. \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA quiet spring season could be a precursor to a brewing \u201csuper El Ni\u00f1o\u201d at summer\u0027s end, experts predict. The potential pattern could cause a drastic rise in sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, and the disruption of weather systems could increase the likelihood of precipitation and severe weather in the Southeast. The increased precipitation could be a welcome sight for the region, lessening drought concerns and reducing the likelihood of wildfires. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"full_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"A missing component of the severe weather formula led to quiet season in the Southeast. "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA missing component of the severe weather formula led to quiet season in the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A missing component of the severe weather formula led to quiet season in the Southeast. "}],"uid":"36418","created_gmt":"2026-05-15 16:32:19","changed_gmt":"2026-05-15 19:10:27","author":"sgagliano3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680292":{"id":"680292","type":"image","title":"Radar Image Over Georgia","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA 2010 storm system moving eastward, which brought severe weather to the Atlanta region. 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Their research focuses on understanding how the nervous system and brain develop, specifically how hundreds of billions of neurons form and connect through trillions of synapses \u2013 and how they continue to change throughout adult life.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about the grant is that it allows us to apply that knowledge and explore whether and how we might control synapse formation,\u201d explains McDonald.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe McDonald Lab will examine whether the molecular processes neurons use to build synapses during early development can be reactivated later in life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIf successful, the new research could have implications for aging and neurodegenerative conditions in which synapses are lost, potentially revealing ways to repair specific synapses and restore their function.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMany researchers are interested in repairing or regenerating synapses. Most approaches so far have focused on pharmaceuticals \u2013 using drugs to influence synaptic strength.\u0026nbsp;What makes our approach unique is that we are trying to leverage the developmental machinery that neurons already have,\u201d he explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMcDonald and his team are working with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECaenorhabditis elegans\u003C\/em\u003E, a microscopic roundworm widely used in neuroscience research. The organism offers a simplified, tractable system for examining how synapses are built, dismantled, and potentially rebuilt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIf we can demonstrate proof of concept in a simple nervous system, that opens the door to scaling these approaches to more complex models,\u201d explains McDonald.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHe plans to use the Curci funds to support students and staff as they explore these new methods for engineering synapse formation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe work has the potential to be developed into something more translational and applicable to disease,\u201d says McDonald. \u201cThese sources of funding are incredibly important for launching new research directions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFarzaneh Najafi: Exploring Sleep and the Cerebellum\u2019s Role in Cognitive Health\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.najafilab.org\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Farzaneh Najafi Lab\u003C\/a\u003E examines predictive processing, how the brain makes and learns predictions about the world. 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By identifying changes in cerebellar activity during sleep, her work has the potential to improve early detection of neurological disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe know that sleep stabilizes memories in areas like the cortex and hippocampus, but we know very little about what sleep does in the cerebellum,\u201d says Najafi. \u201cThis grant allows us to bring sleep, cerebellar circuitry, and learning together.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENajafi and her team will combine behavioral experiments with high-resolution imaging to study how cerebellar circuits and synapses change across wake and sleep.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re looking at cerebellar activity during sleep at the circuit and synapse level to see how learning-related changes unfold,\u201d explains Najafi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn some cerebellar disorders, sleep disturbances can appear five to 10 years before motor symptoms begin. By identifying early changes in cerebellar activity during sleep, Najafi\u2019s research could help pinpoint neurological disease at a stage when intervention may still be possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECurci funding will allow Najafi\u2019s lab to collect foundational data needed to establish the first mechanistic links between sleep, cerebellar activity, and long-term brain health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMany traditional funding mechanisms are hesitant to support these kinds of higher\u2011risk directions, especially early on, but this award makes it possible to pursue a new and promising line of inquiry,\u201d says Najafi.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EBy funding two distinct early-stage projects, the Curci Foundation will help advance research focused on improving neurological health.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" By funding two distinct early-stage projects, the Curci Foundation will help advance research focused on improving neurological health."}],"uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2026-05-13 16:52:38","changed_gmt":"2026-05-15 19:02:25","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680269":{"id":"680269","type":"image","title":"Nathan McDonald","body":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan McDonald\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778691207","gmt_created":"2026-05-13 16:53:27","changed":"1778691207","gmt_changed":"2026-05-13 16:53:27","alt":"Male headshot","file":{"fid":"264515","name":"Nathan-McDonald-headshot_new.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/13\/Nathan-McDonald-headshot_new.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/13\/Nathan-McDonald-headshot_new.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":268203,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/13\/Nathan-McDonald-headshot_new.jpg?itok=w7k-LGCd"}},"680270":{"id":"680270","type":"image","title":"Farzaneh Najafi","body":"\u003Cp\u003EFarzaneh Najafi\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1778691268","gmt_created":"2026-05-13 16:54:28","changed":"1778691268","gmt_changed":"2026-05-13 16:54:28","alt":"Headshot of a young woman","file":{"fid":"264516","name":"farzaneh1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/13\/farzaneh1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/13\/farzaneh1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":626473,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/13\/farzaneh1.jpg?itok=KdVImNcw"}}},"media_ids":["680269","680270"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/molecules-mind-farzaneh-najafi-receives-multiple-awards-cognitive-research","title":"From Molecules to Mind: Farzaneh Najafi Receives Multiple Awards for Cognitive Research"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"5775","name":"Bioscience Research"},{"id":"762","name":"Bioscience"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura S. 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What\u0027s really behind the words is all the hard work put in by all of you.Today\u0027s celebration is for the entire College, all of you, and all your hard work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents, faculty, and staff from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) were among those recognized at the celebration. Their accomplishments reflected a year dedicated to excellence in research, teaching, and service. School of CSE award recipients included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrace Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.S. computer science (CS) student: Donald V. Jackson Fellowship\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESri Ranganathan Palaniappan\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.S. CS student: Donald V. Jackson Fellowship\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEthan Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.S. CSE student: Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EAustin Wright\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2025): Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHuili Huang\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. CSE student: Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArlene Washington-Capers\u003C\/strong\u003E, school administrative officer: 25 Years of Service Acknowledgment\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo lecturers in the School of Computing Instruction with ties to the School of CSE received awards at the celebration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMax Mahdi Roozbahani\u003C\/strong\u003E received a Dean\u2019s Award, which went to instructors who taught class sizes over 350 students this year. A Class of 2019 CSE alumnus, Roozbahani teaches \u003Cem\u003ECSE 6242: Data and Visual Analytics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENimisha Roy\u003C\/strong\u003E received the Monica Sweat Outstanding Lecturer in External Engagement Award. She earned her Ph.D. in CSE in 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E advises Kim, Palaniappan, and Wright, and recommended them for their awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChau is an associate director of Georgia Tech\u2019s M.S. Analytics program, which won the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/News-Room\/INFORMS-Releases\/Awards-Releases\/Georgia-Tech-Awarded-the-2026-INFORMS-UPS-George-D.-Smith-Prize\u0022\u003EUPS George D. Smith Prize\u003C\/a\u003E at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Kim, the Jackson Fellowship was the latest achievement in a year decorated with accolades. She was one of two School of CSE students to receive the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program award (GRFP). Kim was also selected for a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAbir Haque\u003C\/strong\u003E was CSE\u2019s second NSF GRFP awardee, receiving the grant to advance research in scientific computing. Advised by School of CSE Professor and Associate Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E, Haque additionally received a Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChow was appointed to several leadership roles this year in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The organization selected Chow as vice president for programs. SIAM also named him as co-chair of next year\u2019s Conference on Computational Science and Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENSF presented the CAREER award to two CSE faculty. Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EYunan Luo\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/nsf-grant-funds-protein-research-drug-discovery-and-personalized-medicine\u0022\u003Ereceived a grant\u003C\/a\u003E to build artificial intelligence models to study understudied proteins in biology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Qian\u003C\/strong\u003E is an assistant professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of CSE. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/elizabeth-qian-lands-nsfs-prestigious-early-career-award\u0022\u003EHer NSF CAREER award\u003C\/a\u003E will support research developing machine learning methods that learn from multi-fidelity data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from the School of CSE were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/record-breaking-simulation-boosts-rocket-science-and-supercomputing-new-limits\u0022\u003Efinalists for the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize\u003C\/a\u003E. Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Bryngelson\u003C\/strong\u003E led a team that included Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EBen Wilfong\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EAnand Radhakrishnan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Research Staff \u003Cstrong\u003Emember Dan Vickers\u003C\/strong\u003E, and alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EHenry Le Berre\u003C\/strong\u003E (CS 2025).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team achieved the largest computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to date, exceeding the current record by a factor of 20. The group simulated interacting plumes of 33 rocket thrusters inspired by the SpaceX Super Heavy booster.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBryngelson advises \u003Cstrong\u003EMelody Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, an undergraduate student who was one of three Georgia Tech students to receive a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/undergraduate.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-celebrates-three-goldwater-scholars-for-2026\/\u0022\u003EBarry Goldwater Scholarship\u003C\/a\u003E this year. She received the award to continue research at the intersection of quantum computing and CFD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EQi Tang\u003C\/strong\u003E received the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/department-energy-award-power-nuclear-research-machine-learning\u0022\u003EDOE Early Career Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E. He is the first-ever faculty member from CSE and the College of Computing to receive the award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe $875,000 award will support Tang for five years as he researches particle data processing and compression, with applications in fusion, accelerator, and nuclear physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang was also selected as a Summer Early Career Scholar of Digital Futures at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBryngelson and Tang were selected as collaborators for three DOE Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/nnsa\/articles\/nnsa-announces-selection-next-round-predictive-science-academic-alliance-program\u0022\u003EPSAAP IV\u003C\/a\u003E) Centers. The program leverages the academic community to advance science-based modeling and simulation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of Tang\u2019s students, \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex de Magalhaes\u003C\/strong\u003E, received a SPARK Award scholarship from the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute. The award recognizes outstanding student engagement in energy research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded prestigious R01 grants to three CSE faculty, each valued at $1.2 million.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAnqi Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E is using the grant to study multi-animal social behavior using advanced representation learning and reinforcement learning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENIH awarded a grant to Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EKai Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EB. Aditya Prakash\u003C\/strong\u003E to build an AI framework to efficiently treat patients diagnosed with diabetes and other chronic diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrakash advises M.S. student \u003Cstrong\u003ESudarshan Anand\u003C\/strong\u003E, who claimed two awards at the 2025 International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. First, Anand was the champion of the conference\u2019s data challenge competition. Then, the conference selected him as a Young Professional NextGen Scholar.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EYiqiao (Ahren) Jin\u003C\/strong\u003E was selected as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlcommons.org\/about-us\/programs\/\u0022\u003E2026 MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Star\u003C\/a\u003E. He was one of 39 total awardees and participated at the 2026 ML and Systems Rising Stars workshop is hosted by AMD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EVictor Fung\u003C\/strong\u003E won a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.google\/programs-and-events\/research-scholar-program\/recipients\/\u0022\u003E2025 Google Scholar Program\u003C\/a\u003E award. He received the award in the Applied Science category for multi-modal scientific agents for in silico materials discovery and inverse design. The Research Scholar Program provided up to $60,000 to early-career professors to support advancement of their research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the College of Computing selected School of CSE Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-software-center-director-lead-next-wave-scientific-discovery\u0022\u003Edirector of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Scientific Software Engineering (CSSE)\u003C\/a\u003E. The center was formed in 2022 from an $11 million investment from Schmidt Sciences. Georgia Tech was one of four universities that Schmidt Sciences selected to host a center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECSSE develops custom software tools and best practices to meet scientists\u0027 needs. Overall, this approach accelerates the pace and quality of scientific discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVuduc advised alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Hong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CS 2025), who received a Fulbright U.S.-Korea Presidential STEM Initiative Award. Designed to promote academic and cultural exchange, the award provided graduating college seniors and graduate students funding to pursue independent research projects in Korea on STEM topics of their choice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVuduc advises Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EMax Hawkins\u003C\/strong\u003E, who was selected for the OMSCS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program provided Hawkins support to design and teach a one-credit, pass\/fail\/audit seminar course. Hawkins taught \u003Cem\u003EComputing at Scale: The Design, Operation, and Societal Impacts of Data Centers\u003C\/em\u003E in Fall 2025 and a research course in Spring 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHawkins also received a $3,000 scholarship through the 7X24 Exchange Atlanta Scholarship Program. He was one of three scholarship recipients awarded to students in the greater Atlanta area with research interests in the data center industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVuduc advises Team Phoenix, Georgia Tech\u2019s student cluster competition team. Team Phoenix placed first among USA participants and sixth internationally at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/undergrads-team-phoenix-wins-top-us-honor-international-supercomputing-competition-0\u0022\u003ESC25\u2019s IndySCC competition\u003C\/a\u003E (30 total teams, 12 USA and 18 international). The team was graded on optimizing techniques and running industry standard benchmarks on supercomputers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team included computer science undergraduate students \u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Ichtovkin\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EAiden Lambert\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ESahil Samar\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ESeth Yiming Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EVenkata Sai Aditya Reddy Devarapalli\u003C\/strong\u003E. Graduate students \u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Lindsey\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EJay Saraha\u003C\/strong\u003E mentored the team coached by Research Scientists \u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Valdez\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Jezghani\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EWill Powell\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlumni \u003Cstrong\u003EZiyi (Francis) Yin\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), \u003Cstrong\u003ERafael Orozco\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), \u003Cstrong\u003EMathias Louboutin\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2020), and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFelix Herrmann\u003C\/strong\u003E received an honorable mention for the Best Paper of 2024 from the journal \u003Cem\u003EGeophysics\u003C\/em\u003E. The award, presented in 2025, recognized the group\u2019s work on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/seg\/geophysics\/article-abstract\/89\/4\/A23\/644597\/WISE-Full-waveform-variational-inference-via?redirectedFrom=fulltext\u0022\u003EWISE\u003C\/a\u003E: a full-waveform variational inference via subsurface extensions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech approved both of CSE\u2019s promotion cases \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/institute-announcement-recognizes-faculty-achievement-and-excellence\u0022\u003Ethis year\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Cherry\u003C\/strong\u003E will be promoted to full professor. \u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E will be promoted to associate professor with tenure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe mood was electric on April 20, as the College of Computing hosted its 35th Annual Awards Celebration. While individual success was on full display, the banquet also honored the community and perseverance that truly power achievement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom my seat, I can feel the energy. I see the momentum. We\u0027re all about growth and change,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair of the College of Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut those are just words. What\u0027s really behind the words is all the hard work put in by all of you.Today\u0027s celebration is for the entire College, all of you, and all your hard work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents, faculty, and staff from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) were among those recognized at the celebration. 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We need you to continue on this path. The world needs you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to administering its flagship CSE Ph.D. and M.S. programs, the School of CSE offers doctoral degrees in computer science and machine learning. Ph.D. students who received their diplomas and doctoral hoods on May 7 at McCamish Pavilion were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mfbal.in\/\u0022\u003EMuhammed Balin\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Professor \u00dcmit \u00c7ataly\u00fcrek\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dilab.gatech.edu\/andrew-hornback\/\u0022\u003EAndrew Hornback\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2026), co-advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Yunan Luo and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor May Wang\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/music-and-magic-inspire-new-phd-graduates-work-brain-science\u0022\u003EChengrui Li\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/xinhai-pan-85b47817b\/\u0022\u003EXinhai Pan\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kaansancak.com\/\u0022\u003EKaan Sancak\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Professor \u00dcmit \u00c7ataly\u00fcrek\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-graduate-builds-fintech-startup-using-leadership-mindset\u0022\u003EAgam Shah\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2026), co-advised by Scheller College of Business Professor Sudheer Chava and School of CSE Associate Professor Chao Zhang\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ksartik.github.io\/\u0022\u003EKartik Sharma\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis semester, 14 CSE doctoral students completed M.S. degrees and will continue their studies at Georgia Tech. They are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bin-bai-gt\/\u0022\u003EBin Bai\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. EAS-CSE), advised by School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Assistant Professor Pengfei Liu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/afrouz-delshad\/\u0022\u003EAfrouz Delshad\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. CSE-CSE 2026), advised by College of Computing Associate Dean for Graduate Education and School of CSE Associate Professor Elizabeth Cherry\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/ece-prg\/roy-makkar-gabriel\/\u0022\u003ERoy Makkar Gabriel\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. ECE-CSE 2026), advised by School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Ali Adibi\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/alina-gorbunova\u0022\u003EAlina Maximovna Gorbunova\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. ISYE-CSE 2026), co-advised by H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Professors Kamran Paynabar and Jianjun Shi\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wenbo-hao-4575a3222\/\u0022\u003EWenbo Hao\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. MATH-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Peng Chen\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/xueyu-hu\u0022\u003EXueyu Hu\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. MSE-CSE 2026), advised by School of Materials Science and Engineering Regents\u2019 Professor Meilin Liu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dkang339.github.io\/\u0022\u003EDayoung Kang\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. AE-CSE 2026), advised by Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and School of CSE joint Assistant Professor Elizabeth Qian\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/skim\/\u0022\u003ESoohwan Kim\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. ME-CSE 2026), advised by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor David Hu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/xuanang\/author\/xli944\/\u0022\u003EXuanang Li\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. MATH-CSE 2026), advised by School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Tom Kelly\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nityamv\/\u0022\u003ENitya Maruthuvakudi Venkatram\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. AE-CSE 2026), advised by School of AE Regents\u2019 Professor Dimitri Mavris\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/nilavrah-sensarma\u0022\u003ENilavrah Sensarma\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. BIO-CSE 2026), advised by School of Biological Sciences Professor John McDonald\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/benwilfong.com\/\u0022\u003EBenjamin Wilfong\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. CSE-CSE 2026), advised by School of CSE Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/xiaofeng-wu-3053b6226\/\u0022\u003EXiaofeng (Alex) Wu\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. CEE-CSE 2026), advised by School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur David Frost\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/keyang-zhong-4a1727266\/\u0022\u003EKeyang (Alfred) Zhong\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. ISYE-CSE 2026), advised by School of ISyE Professor Chelsea White\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s CSE graduate program includes 12 schools and departments participating as home units. These home units represent the colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences. This approach facilitates an immersive, interdisciplinary experience in which students study computational methods within their respective domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech celebrated master\u2019s graduates at a May 9 ceremony at Bobby Dodd Stadium. After the Institute celebration, graduates were recognized during ceremonies held by their respective colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMohammed Wazir Adain (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAditi Agarwal (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESudarshan Anand (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArjun Bansal (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShraddha Bharadwaj (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAarushi Biswas (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnurita Bose (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHao-Cheng Chang (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENai-Jen Cheng (M.S. CSE 2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYida Cheng (M.S. 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You don\u2019t need a co\u2011founder, a pitch deck, or a perfect plan. What you need is curiosity, a willingness to talk to real people, and a place where it\u2019s safe to learn by doing. That\u2019s exactly what CREATE\u2011X Startup Lab delivers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOmar Garcia Urdiales, CREATE\u2011X\u2019s associate director of Learn, brings a global entrepreneurial experience to Georgia Tech: founder and CEO of a startup operating in the AWS Accelerator Loft, longtime startup coach in Europe\u2019s major innovation hubs, lecturer across multiple universities, and an external doctoral researcher in entrepreneurship and digitalization. He brings this background to his teaching of Startup Lab\u2019s latest iteration \u2013 a significant redesign developed by VentureLab\u2019s Director Keith McGreggor. McGreggor created the course and has evolved it over many years, building on its initial success. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new iteration of Startup Lab allows us to meet students exactly where they are,\u201d said McGreggor. \u201cBy doing this, we give them the strongest foundation possible, providing them with the tools to grapple with uncertainty and build their confidence.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Lab has long anchored the Institute\u2019s entrepreneurial pathway with clearer structure, a unified language, and a deeper focus on reflective growth, so more Georgia Tech students can discover (and trust) their own entrepreneurial judgment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Lab is expanding responsibly, with six sections in Atlanta and additional global sections in France and Asia-Pacific taught by faculty trained in the curriculum. Students here benefit from a program that\u2019s learning across borders and bringing that learning back to campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStartup Lab is not about becoming an entrepreneur, but about engaging in the unknown and adopting entrepreneurial behavior, which can be applied to all career paths,\u201d Urdiales said. \u201cStudents become better equipped to identify problem spaces and solve them through evidence-based building.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EStart Where You Are\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUrdiales emphasized that Startup Lab is built for students who are still exploring, uncertain, or are simply curious.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany students tell us they\u2019re curious about entrepreneurship but feel not ready,\u201d he said. \u201cThey worry they\u2019re too introverted for customer interviews or assume Startup Lab is only for people with fully formed ideas. In fact, those are the most common misconceptions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course\u2019s first few weeks focus on training students to see struggles and patterns in the world. Then, they apply those skills on a team, exploring, designing, and testing a concept with real people. The nonnegotiable outcome isn\u2019t the best idea; it\u2019s a more confident, evidence-driven version of you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStartup Lab is strengthening that self-awareness. All of us who are entrepreneurs, we don\u2019t grow linearly. We have various iterations of how we see things,\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EUrdiales said. \u201cThis ability to see patterns or to see problems with customer discovery, it\u2019s a learning process and a growth process.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EBuilding Muscle Memory\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUrdiales said that students won\u2019t have a passive experience in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo become an entrepreneur, you need to do it. You need to engage with customers. You need to get out of the building,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives you the ability to incorporate theoretical frameworks into practical solutions and then understand these more practical outcomes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAligning with CREATE-X\u2019s culture of continuous iteration, Startup Lab is tightening the hands-on core of the course around four simple, repeatable tools so that entrepreneurial thinking becomes muscle memory, not a one-off assignment. The new iteration of the curriculum, developed by McGreggor, helps students learn to:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElicit grounded problem stories\u003C\/strong\u003E from real people (and separate observations from interpretations).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMake explicit strategic decisions\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2014 who you serve, what you offer, how you deliver, how you get paid \u2014 and back them with discovery evidence.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExternalize your logic\u003C\/strong\u003E with clear Business Model Canvas snapshots (hypotheses \u2260 decisions \u2260 open questions).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesign minimum viable experiments (MVEs)\u003C\/strong\u003E that can \u003Cem\u003Efalsify\u003C\/em\u003E assumptions, not just confirm them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we have is a frontier model in entrepreneurial education,\u201d said McGreggor. \u201cThe result is a course that teaches sound decision making and builds entrepreneurial confidence that rewards authentic discovery and iteration over performative polish. It creates a more solid foundation for entrepreneurial thinking and sets students up to engage more deeply with everything that follows in their CREATE-X pathway.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EReflection as a Feature\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a part of Startup Lab, instructors integrate reflection throughout the semester, which helps students notice patterns of work, make small experiments, and adjust based on what\u2019s learned. Students often worry they\u2019re not the founder type or that their introversion will hold them back; Startup Lab reframes those worries as raw material for growth, including communication skill building and one-on-one interactions you won\u2019t always get in higher-level courses.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Lab integrates HaradaLite \u2014 McGreggor\u0027s adaptation of the Japanese Harada Method \u2014 as a weekly reflection practice in which students keep a reflection log, helping them notice patterns of work, run small experiments, and adjust based on what\u0027s learned. With this approach, educators are able to measure the growth of entrepreneurial confidence by self-report, leading to a more quantitative approach to teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EA Common Language Across CREATE\u2011X\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s no mandated order for CREATE-X courses. Startup Lab simply makes the next steps clearer by providing a shared language and milestone structure across sections and instructors, so whatever comes next (I2P, Capstone, Launch, or an internship), you can carry forward a coherent, evidence- aware story of your work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll CREATE\u2011X Learn sections will work with the same milestone objectives,\u201d Urdiales said. \u201cStudents trained in Startup Lab are already trained in the muscles of entrepreneurship. They\u2019re more equipped to go into Make and Launch or be a leader within their industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EBuilt To Be Inclusive Across Disciplines and Needs\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Lab is about becoming the kind of person who can see opportunities, reason from evidence, and make better decisions when the path isn\u2019t obvious.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou do not need an idea or a pre\u2011built team\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2014 curiosity is enough.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou do not need special permits to enroll\u003C\/strong\u003E. Startup Lab is open to anyone ready to explore.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou can benefit from the course before \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E after I2P or Capstone\u003C\/strong\u003E, since there\u2019s no fixed order to the CREATE\u2011X pathway.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIntroverts are welcome\u003C\/strong\u003E. The course intentionally builds communication skills through structured, low-pressure interviews and guided interaction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStartup Lab helps students see the world\u2019s problems and fill the gaps with fresh ideas, teaching them to see and understand the important difference between evidence and inference,\u201d said McGreggor. \u201cThis lays the foundation that leads to good founders, and builds the entrepreneurial confidence needed to succeed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat You\u2019ll Actually Do\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents in Startup Lab can expect a workshop-heavy, conversation-rich semester with weekly artifacts, scenario-based decision prompts, startup reports, and quizzes that keep you honest about what you\u2019re learning. You\u2019ll assemble a Continuity Pack near the end: a compact bundle of your best discovery evidence, decisions, MVEs, economics, and final story slides so your future self (or your I2P\/Launch application) can pick up right where you left off.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course also sets norms for modern tool use. AI is welcomed as a coach and organizer, after your own baseline thinking and research, and as an enhancement of the real conversations you have. That matters because Startup Lab\u2019s promise is that you build solid judgment under the test of uncertainty, critical to the world of today and the future that is being built.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EJump Into Startup Lab\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou don\u2019t have to have it all figured out. If you\u2019re a first-year student still exploring, a junior craving real-world projects, or a senior looking to stand out in interviews, Startup Lab is for you.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeats fill quickly across all sections \u2014 and for good reason.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThis course gives you the clearest, most supportive on\u2011ramp into CREATE\u2011X, with a global methodology, a unified curriculum, and instructors who believe deeply in your potential to grow. Learn how to think entrepreneurially. See the world differently. Build the confidence that will follow you long after the semester ends.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/learn\/startup-lab\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegister for Startup Lab for Fall 2026\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECREATE\u2011X Startup Lab serves as the foundation of Georgia Tech\u2019s entrepreneurial pathway, giving students a structured but low\u2011pressure environment to explore the unknown and develop entrepreneurial thinking. Recently updated curriculum provides clearer structure, shared language, and hands\u2011on tools that emphasize real\u2011world discovery, iteration, and reflection over polished pitches. 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In fact, not much rattles his nerves considering the five years of pressure he endured studying computational neuroscience at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore he returns to New York City to continue building brain-interface technologies at Meta, we caught up with Li to learn how he keeps such a cool head at Georgia Tech and beyond. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jerrysoybean.github.io\/\u0022\u003EChengrui Li\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Interests:\u003C\/strong\u003E Computational neuroscience, eye-tracking experiments and data analysis, statistical machine learning\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEducation:\u003C\/strong\u003E Ph.D. in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EComputational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Advisor\u003C\/strong\u003E: School of CSE Assistant Professor Anqi Wu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat persuaded you to attend graduate school at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMy undergraduate was at Sichuan University in China. We knew that the most cutting-edge technology and research were in the United States, so I participated in an undergraduate exchange program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, during my third year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI wanted to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience while also becoming very proficient in math and computer science (CS). This led me to apply to the CSE Ph.D. program over others. Georgia Tech\u2019s CS ranking is very high, and the CSE program is very interdisciplinary, which matched my expectations super well. I did attain a solid education in math and CS at Georgia Tech. I also advanced my interest in neuroscience and its application by studying mathematical models and algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat research project from Georgia Tech are you most proud of?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=HD5Y7M8Xdk\u0022\u003Evariational importance sampling paper\u003C\/a\u003E is a favorite. That one was based heavily on statistical inference. I spent many hours working through complicated derivation calculations, often half-awake and half-asleep after several late nights.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper confirmed to me, though, that innovative research requires both hard work and inspiration, and that this endeavor can be rewarding. The paper was selected as a top 5% spotlight paper at ICLR 2024, a world-leading conference on artificial intelligence research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECould you share more about your role as a research scientist at Meta?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI have been working on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.meta.com\/ai-glasses\/meta-ray-ban-display-glasses-and-neural-band\/?srsltid=AfmBOoopWx7e8KGmSJVD8ItoQBedev-lha3aSZpHPkknZxNC4voGwoqN\u0022\u003EMeta\u2019s electromyography (EMG) neural band\u003C\/a\u003E. This next-generation human-computer interaction device connects with and navigates Meta\u2019s AI glasses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the neural band, you can use finger gestures to control the display content you see through the glasses, like swiping your thumb to scroll the screen, or writing on your lap as if you had a pen in your hand to send WhatsApp messages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did your Georgia Tech education prepare you for this role?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy pursuing my Ph.D., I am more proficient in critical thinking, math, coding, and presentation. During my interview, I demonstrated these skills and provided my publication records. This helped me land an internship, enabled my success in that role, and led to a full-time position. Additionally, my background in computational neuroscience best matched the work on the EMG neural band team at a big tech company.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat advice would you give someone interested in graduate school?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst, be clear whether a bachelor\u2019s or master\u2019s degree meets your work needs, or if you are truly interested in a scientific research topic. This interest should be based on your own passion, not the current trends. Interest is an important factor in deciding to pursue a Ph.D. because you have to like the topic and like it for a long time. A Ph.D. will require you to dive deep into a subject you must be genuinely curious about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESecond, we are in a new era with rapid advances in information technology. Time is an invaluable resource and is shaped by technology. You have to think more about your time, consider where and how you spend it, and embrace ways to use it more efficiently.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan you tell us more about your hobbies and how you keep up with them?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI started learning violin when I was five years old, and magic tricks when I was 11. The brain is a supercomputer suitable for functional computation. Our brain is an interface between the objective and subjective, where computation plays a core role in integrating these exact mechanics into interpretations of the world. This realization was one of the important factors that inspired me to pursue my Ph.D. research in computational neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother comparison I\u2019ve learned after playing violin for 23 years is that the cochlea in our inner ear is a fast Fourier Transformer that simultaneously computes the aesthetic of music for us. Performing magic tricks for 17 years taught me that all the occurrences of seemingly low-probability magic phenomena are achieved by either letting it be a certain event or exhausting all possibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI also have other hobbies, like yo-yo balls. I enjoy performing all these skills in front of audiences. Performing brings me satisfaction when I see excitement and happiness from the people I entertain. I am very grateful to my parents for their cultivation and encouragement in doing things that bring me fulfillment. They taught me to be curious and explore my interests, to enjoy pastimes, and instilled the habit to not give up my passions. These were not secondary things that distracted me from coursework or Ph.D. research, but rather complementary parts of my life that bring out the best in me.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is your favorite Georgia Tech memory?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI have a lot. For my research, I debated frequently with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/brainml\/pi?authuser=0\u0022\u003EAnqi Wu\u003C\/a\u003E, my advisor. These often went late into the night to defend my stances. These challenged my beliefs and made me a stronger scholar, for which I am grateful to Anqi for her time and patience. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI also enjoyed performing in the Georgia Tech symphony orchestra with our great conductor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/people\/chaowen-ting\u0022\u003EChaowen Ting\u003C\/a\u003E. 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What is not yet widely understood is what comes after it \u2014 and why a diplomatic deal, when it comes, will not be the end of the story.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBy \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/chris-gaffney\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChris Gaffney\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, Managing Director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and a former Vice President of Global Strategic Supply Chain at The Coca-Cola Company.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree weeks ago, I started hearing from contacts in my network. Senior supply chain executives, people who have managed through COVID and the Suez Canal blockage, were expressing concern. The kind of concern that doesn\u2019t make it into earnings calls or press releases. The kind that shows up in private conversations between people who actually move goods around the world for a living.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir worry wasn\u0027t about crude oil prices. Crude oil prices are now widely discussed. Their worry was about what happens after crude oil prices. About the plastic in your water bottle, the fertilizer going into this year\u0027s corn crop, the engine oil in your car, the polyester in your running shoes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose conversations sent me back to the data. The geopolitical crisis and the energy shock are now well-documented in mainstream reporting. What is less discussed and what my conversations with experienced practitioners suggested was being systematically underestimated is the operational cascade downstream of that energy shock. \u003Cstrong\u003EI wanted to answer a specific question: given that the Strait has been effectively closed since February 28, what aspects of the downstream impact are already locked in regardless of a diplomatic solution, and what is still unfolding?\u003C\/strong\u003E Could I use publicly available data, straightforward analytical tools, and accessible modeling to produce a defensible, quantified view of that question?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe answer, after several weeks of work, is yes. And what the analysis shows is more operationally significant than most of the public commentary has yet captured.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EStart with what is already true.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iea.org\/\u0022\u003EInternational Energy Agency\u003C\/a\u003E (IEA) has characterized this as what it describes as one of the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Flows through the Strait fell from roughly 20 million barrels per day before the conflict to low single-digit levels in March and early April. Asian crude stocks dropped 31 million barrels in March alone, with further declines expected through April. Global refinery runs in Asia were cut by around 6 million barrels per day. Middle distillate prices in Singapore hit all-time highs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut energy prices, as alarming as they are, are the visible part of this problem. The less visible part is what those commodities become.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naphtha\u0022\u003ENaphtha\u003C\/a\u003E, a petroleum derivative most people have never heard of, is the feedstock for the polyester in your clothing, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyethylene_terephthalate\u0022\u003Epolyethylene terephthalate\u003C\/a\u003E (PET) in your water bottle, the polypropylene in your food packaging, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyvinyl_chloride\u0022\u003Epolyvinyl chloride\u003C\/a\u003E (PVC) in your plumbing. Roughly 80 percent of the naphtha imported into Asia comes from the Middle East. South Korean petrochemical plants were running at 60 to 70 percent of capacity by late April. Japanese crackers at 65 to 75 percent. The IEA confirmed it in plain language: Asian petrochemical plants curtailed operating rates as feedstock supply dried up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liquefied_petroleum_gas\u0022\u003ELiquefied petroleum gas\u003C\/a\u003E (LPG) is the cooking gas that 60 percent of Indian households depend on for daily meals and was the first fuel to be rationed. Queues formed as deliveries were delayed. This reflected physical supply constraints alongside severe price pressure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFertilizer prices hit 49 percent above last year\u0027s levels by April, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dtn.com\/\u0022\u003EDTN\u003C\/a\u003E data. Corn planting intentions dropped 3.5 percent. The math on that is straightforward: the food prices that result from this spring\u2019s planting decisions will show up at the grocery store in 2027. The disruption has a long tail, and most of that tail is still ahead of us.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe question isn\u2019t whether this will affect what you pay for everyday goods. It already is. The question is how far the cascade goes and how long it lasts.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EHere is what the modeling shows.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking from publicly available IEA, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\u0022\u003EU.S. Energy Information Administration\u003C\/a\u003E (EIA), and commodity price data, I built a scenario model that tracks 12 commodity-region pairs through a 300-day simulation horizon. I then ran that model over 1,500 times with slightly varying assumptions to produce a range of outcomes rather than a single point estimate. That range is more honest than a single number, because the genuine uncertainty in this situation deserves to be represented.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EThree findings stand out.\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFirst\u003C\/strong\u003E: a diplomatic deal today would be unlikely to quickly reverse what has already happened. This is the finding that surprised me most, and it held across almost every simulation. The high-import-dependency commodities have already depleted enough inventory that functional shortage is already embedded in the near-term outlook regardless of when the Strait reopens. The diplomatic question determines how long the pain lasts and how severe the recovery will be. For consumers, this means the effects may show up long after the headlines fade through higher prices, product shortages, and delays in everything from clothing and packaging to fertilizer-dependent food production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESecond\u003C\/strong\u003E: Europe\u0027s most visible supply chain story, airlines canceling flights, is a price story, not a physical shortage story. The IEA documents approximately six weeks of European jet fuel supply. Airlines are grounding aircraft because fuel has doubled in price, not because airports are running dry. Meanwhile, Asian petrochemical plants are curtailing because feedstock physically stopped arriving. These two situations look similar in the headlines. They require completely different responses. For consumers, the difference matters because one problem mainly makes travel and goods more expensive, while the other can interrupt the actual production of the products modern life depends on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThird\u003C\/strong\u003E: the recovery will be harder and longer than most public commentary assumes. S\u0026amp;P Global estimates five weeks to seven months for full supply normalization after a reopening, depending on infrastructure damage. Mine clearance alone requires 60 to 90 days of sustained operations before commercial vessels can transit safely. Insurance premiums will not normalize until underwriters see months of safe transit. And when supply does restart, suppressed demand returns simultaneously with a supply base that is still rebuilding. The EIA\u0027s 2027 demand forecast of 1.6 million barrels per day growth (nearly three times the depressed 2026 rate) makes this concrete. We have seen this pattern before. COVID demonstrated it at scale. The bullwhip effect, applied to a supply-side energy shock, produces a second dislocation on the back side of the crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat this means for your grocery bill, your gas tank, and your business.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe analysis maps 36 supply chain pathways from raw commodity to consumer shelf across 15 product categories. Here are three examples that are or will be visible to you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETake construction materials. PVC pipe, insulation, and window profiles all begin with petrochemical feedstocks moving through the Gulf region. PVC resin prices in India rose nearly 80 percent in March. Since PVC pipe is largely PVC resin, the pass-through to construction costs is immediate and difficult to absorb. The result is likely to show up in higher prices for building materials, repairs, and infrastructure projects long before most consumers connect the cause.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same pattern is unfolding in synthetic motor oil. Shell\u0027s Pearl Gas-to-Liquid facility in Qatar \u2014 one of the world\u0027s most important sources of premium Group III base oil \u2014 was taken offline by missile strikes. Producers in Bahrain and the UAE have declared force majeure. Roughly 40 percent of global Group III supply is now offline or unable to ship. For consumers, that eventually means higher oil-change costs, more expensive industrial lubricants, and added operating costs moving quietly through trucking, aviation, manufacturing, and delivery networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFood arrives later, but it arrives. Fertilizer prices are already sharply elevated, and planting decisions are being made right now under those conditions. The agricultural calendar creates a lag most consumers do not see. Disruptions this spring can become higher grocery prices many months from now. That is not speculation. It is simply how agricultural supply chains work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe tend to underestimate the breadth and duration of these events while they are happening, and overestimate how quickly things return to normal after they appear to resolve.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat we did, and why it matters how we did it.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery number in this analysis traces to a cited source. Where data was insufficient and judgment was required, those judgment calls are labeled as such. The model is not a black box. It is a documented, reproducible simulation that any researcher can run independently.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI also used AI \u2014 specifically Claude by Anthropic \u2014 as a partner to help analyze and build this work. While I provided the analytical framework, the practitioner judgments, and the validation of assumptions, the AI assisted with drafting, building models, computation, and data synthesis. This collaboration is fully detailed in the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis represents a new way of performing analytical work. The results are significant: a quantified, sourced, and reproducible analysis of a complex disruption in the actual world. What usually takes a traditional research team months was completed in weeks. That speed is vital when a situation is still unfolding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe larger point.\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESixty-seven days in, the global supply chain community is navigating a disruption that has no precise historical parallel. The 1973 OAPEC embargo lasted months and produced lasting structural change in how the world consumes energy. The 1990 Gulf War shock was brief enough that it produced relatively mild downstream consequences. The 2022 European energy crisis showed us what happens when industrial feedstock costs become uneconomic for months at a time: capacity comes offline, and some of it does not come back for a long time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2026 Hormuz closure is now 72 days old. It has already lasted longer than the 1990 Gulf War shock. It is approaching the territory where the worse historical outcomes become the more relevant comparators. Every additional week of closure moves the probability distribution toward the scenarios that produced lasting structural damage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth public and private entities may be underestimating the magnitude of what recovery will require. Restoring normal supply chain function after an event of this scale and duration is not a matter of reopening a waterway. It is a matter of rebuilding inventory buffers, restarting industrial capacity, normalizing insurance markets, reestablishing commercial relationships, and managing the demand surge that hits simultaneously with the supply restart. The organizations that are planning for that recovery now will be materially better positioned than those that wait.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe people I talked to three weeks ago were right to be concerned. Their concern was based on experience and instinct and what they were seeing in their own business. Our work over the past weeks validates their perspective.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn enduring diplomatic solution is the essential precondition for any of this to improve. Without it, the cascade continues. With it, the hard work of recovery begins. Either way, the time to understand the full scope of what is in motion is now \u0026nbsp;and not after the headlines move on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEditor\u2019s note:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/scl-intelligence-reports#scl-26-02.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EView the related report\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E: technical analysis, scenario modeling, Monte Carlo simulation methodology, consumer impact assessment.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe energy shock is already widely understood. 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His research focuses on how connections in the brain form during development and what goes wrong in conditions such as autism and schizophrenia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJain is one of 15 scientists selected this year for \u201ctheir promise to change their fields by solving nature\u2019s puzzles in a broad range of fields and develop next-generation technologies that can reveal biological function,\u201d according to a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/searlescholars.org\/2026\/04\/29\/searle-scholars-program-names-15-scientists-as-searle-scholars-for-2026\/\u0022\u003ESearle Scholars Program press release\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe are honored to be part of the Searle Scholars Program,\u201d Jain says. \u201cFor a young lab with ambitious goals, this kind of recognition means everything. It gives us the confidence and resources to pursue high-risk, high-reward questions that could one day make a real difference for people affected by neurodevelopmental disorders.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJain received his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Arizona and completed his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E (IBB) at Georgia Tech has launched the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/soda\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESpatial Omics and Data Analytics (SODA) Center\u003C\/a\u003E, a new interdisciplinary research hub advancing the next frontier of biomedical discovery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe center is co-directed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/ahmet-coskun\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAhmet Coskun\u003C\/a\u003E, Bernie-Marcus Early-Career Professor and Associate Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/xiuwei-zhang\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EXiuwei Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E, J.Z. Liang Early Career Associate Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe rapidly growing field of spatial omics is a way to study lipids, genes, proteins, and other biological molecules while keeping track of where they are in tissue. This can allow researchers to determine how cells interact with their native environment, providing potentially critical information for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SODA Center envisions a future where spatial omics is used to help researchers understand biological function through their precise spatial and temporal relationships within tissues and organs, rather than solely through molecular components. By integrating expertise in biomedical engineering and computational science, the center seeks to transform raw spatial omics data into predictive models of health and disease.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the development of next-generation analytical methods, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/news\/seeing-big-picture-tissue-dynamics\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecomputational tools\u003C\/a\u003E, and open-source resources, SODA aims to empower researchers to map the cellular and molecular architecture of life with unprecedented resolution and translational impact. The center\u2019s broader goal is to establish Georgia Tech as a global leader in spatial omics research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo build community and foster collaboration, the center is launching the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioresearch.gatech.edu\/events\/spatial-omics-and-data-analytics-soda-seminar\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESODA Synergy Seminar Series\u003C\/a\u003E, beginning May 15 from 12\u20131 p.m. in the Krone Engineered Biosystems Building, CHOA Seminar Room. 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They bit him from time to time, he said, but no more than anyone else who spent a lot of time outdoors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t know if I would say I\u2019m prone,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cI do get bitten, but I also think that\u2019s partly because I\u2019m just outside a lot more.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, that assumption did not hold up once he stepped inside a sealed mosquito chamber as part of a Georgia Tech research study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo, a Georgia Tech alum and co-author on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz7063\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe study\u003C\/a\u003E, worked alongside Georgia Tech faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E and researchers in Hu\u2019s fluid dynamics lab \u2014 and co-authors Chenyi Fei, Alex Cohen, Jorn Dunkel from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology \u2014 on a multi-year effort to understand how mosquitoes locate people. Using high-speed cameras, careful controls, and mathematical modeling, the research examined how mosquitoes respond to carbon dioxide and visual cues. To confirm whether the data reflected real-world behavior, the team needed a human subject.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo volunteered.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore entering the chamber, he knew the mosquitoes were safe. They had been raised in a laboratory environment and were carefully controlled, making the experiment safer than being outdoors during peak mosquito activity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe knew exactly how all of these mosquitoes were reared, so we knew they\u2019re disease-free,\u201d he said. \u201cHonestly, even if I got bitten 100 plus times, the actual danger that I was in was very little.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWearing a mesh suit, Zuo stood nearly motionless inside the chamber while mosquitoes were released and flew freely around him. Any movement could disrupt the data, so remaining still was critical even as mosquitoes gathered close to his face and upper body.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe response was immediate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou release the mosquitoes, and they\u2019re already on top of you,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cAlmost felt like it was instant.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat surprised him most was not the bites but the sound.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI didn\u2019t realize how loud they were,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they\u2019re flying around your head, it\u2019s that annoying buzzing sound. I didn\u2019t realize how annoying it can get with just enough mosquitoes flying around.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experience was not limited to a single trial. Zuo entered the chamber multiple times as the research progressed, testing different variables including posture, clothing, and body positioning. In some experiments, he was required to hold his arms extended so cameras could capture a consistent silhouette.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt felt more like an exercise at the gym,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cI was very much more focused on keeping my arms up and being as still as possible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcross those repeated interactions, patterns emerged that closely matched what the data predicted. Mosquitoes found him quickly, clustered in specific areas, and lingered only when certain conditions aligned.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd once the conditions were right,\u201d Zuo said, \u201cthey stayed.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo\u2019s role helped bridge the gap between abstract modeling and human experience. It also challenged common assumptions about mosquito behavior that many people take for granted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat follows are some of the most common mosquito myths, and what the Georgia Tech research and Zuo\u2019s firsthand experience actually showed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMosquito Myths vs. Reality\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Mosquitoes swarm because they are following each other.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquitoes respond independently to the same cues, which creates the appearance of swarming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrajectory data collected during the experiments showed no evidence that mosquitoes were coordinating or communicating with one another. Zuo explained that what people often describe as swarming is the result of multiple mosquitoes responding simultaneously to the same environmental signals. When carbon dioxide and a clear visual target are present, many mosquitoes converge on the same area independently. Zuo compared it to people arriving separately at the same crowded place because something there is attractive, not because they are following the crowd.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Mosquitoes randomly target different parts of the body.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E In this study, mosquitoes concentrated near the head and shoulders, but only for the species observed, which is present in parts of the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech experiments focused on \u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti \u003C\/em\u003E(dengue or yellow fever mosquito), a species found in parts of Georgia and other areas of the southeastern United States. Within that species, both trajectory data and Zuo\u2019s experience inside the chamber showed mosquitoes repeatedly clustering near the head and shoulders rather than distributing evenly across the body. Zuo observed this pattern while standing still in the mesh suit, as mosquitoes returned again and again to his upper body. The study also confirmed previous biting studies showing that \u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti\u003C\/em\u003E mosquitoes target the upper body, while other mosquitoes might focus on other areas. Researchers linked the behavior to carbon dioxide released through breathing near the mouth and nose, paired with a strong visual target. 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The research showed the response was nonlinear, meaning the combined effect was stronger than simply adding the two cues together.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Once mosquitoes find a target, they always stay nearby.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquitoes do not linger unless conditions align.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe data showed that mosquitoes often passed by targets unless both carbon dioxide and visual signals were present at the same time. Zuo observed that once those conditions aligned during the mesh suit experiments, mosquitoes stayed close and returned repeatedly to the same areas. Without the full set of cues, they were less likely to remain focused on a target.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: All mosquitoes behave the same way.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquito behavior varies by species and environmental conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti\u003C\/em\u003E, Zuo described, are capable of feeding in well-lit conditions rather than relying solely on dusk. He contrasted this with \u003Cem\u003EAnopheles\u003C\/em\u003E (marsh) mosquitoes, which require darker conditions and are closely tied to light and dark cycles during experiments. 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I met my co-founders at Georgia Tech, and many of the initial use cases we are exploring at ZettaQuant are built on open-source research I conducted there.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to research, I mentored more than 300 students through the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Project\u003C\/a\u003E \u201cNLP for Financial Markets.\u201d This experience taught me how to manage teams and think about building systems with a long-term vision.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat advice would you give someone interested in graduate school?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Most people pursue graduate school after already completing more than 15 years of education. Also, people who are admitted to a top school like Georgia Tech are often already well-positioned to secure strong job opportunities. 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As technical director of Baja Badlands Productions, a film and multimedia studio he co-founded, he composes music, designs sound, and manages technical production, including the studio\u2019s website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the studio\u2019s recent short films, \u003Cem\u003EMyopia\u003C\/em\u003E, was showcased at several film festivals and received recognition for its original score and cinematography.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has also collaborated with Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/student-organizations\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estudent organization VGDev\u003C\/a\u003E and indie developers to create audio for video games.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI find this to be a great avenue for my combined interests, as creative control of audio often requires software implementation to achieve immersive sound,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong his favorite projects is \u003Cem\u003ESleighers\u003C\/em\u003E, a game he co-led. The project integrated networking systems, 3D modeling, level design, and immersive audio, and was later exhibited at DreamHack Atlanta, where the team gathered feedback from players and developers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELearning and Leadership\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond creative production, Hayley developed technical and leadership skills as a teaching assistant for \u003Cem\u003ECS 1332: Data Structures \u0026amp; Algorithms\u003C\/em\u003E, eventually becoming a head TA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe role challenged him to communicate complex ideas,\u0026nbsp;support students one-on-one,\u0026nbsp;and coordinate with large instructional teams, thereby deepening his understanding of core CS principles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing a TA reinforced my understanding of CS concepts as I designed assignments and explained material clearly,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also contributed to course development by helping design assignments and synchronous assessments that emphasized application-based learning. His work was recognized by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Teaching and Learning with the Online TA of the Year award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe credits faculty mentors, including School of Computing Instruction (SCI) faculty member \u003Cstrong\u003EFrederic Faulkner\u003C\/strong\u003E and Interim Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EMary Hudachek-Buswell\u003C\/strong\u003E, for shaping his growth as an educator.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019ve both been instrumental in my development as a leader, and I admire their determination to strengthen the quality of CS undergraduate education at Tech,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELooking Ahead\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring his time at Tech, Hayley interned as a software development engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Atlanta, where he worked on an infrastructure-based solution. 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Over time, he found himself drawn back to the kind of deeper, more impactful research he had glimpsed during his graduate studies. Watching colleagues with doctoral degrees tackle complex problems reinforced his decision.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI realized I missed research,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd seeing the kind of work Ph.D. graduates were doing motivated me to apply.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat decision led him to Georgia Tech, where the strength of its cybersecurity and network security research stood out. The program\u2019s interdisciplinary approach was a major draw.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome schools are strong in one area,\u201d he said. \u201cHere, there\u2019s collaboration across domains. That was important to me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Bhaskar arrived, the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy had not yet fully taken shape. Research groups, including the Institute for Information Security and Privacy, were already active, but the school\u0027s formal structure emerged during his second year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking with his advisor, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pearce.prof\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Bhaskar shifted his research focus from binary and static analysis to network security, a transition that required both adjustment and curiosity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wanted to move into something with more direct real-world impact,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis led him to work on censorship measurement, internet security and privacy, areas where technical findings can have global implications. With guidance from Pearce and support from other faculty working in similar areas, he quickly found his footing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis favorite research project however, was in fact \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity22\/presentation\/bhaskar\u0022\u003Ehis first\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn earlier research, unexplained anomalies had appeared in measurement data. At first, the assumption was that they stemmed from geolocation issues. However, after digging deeper, Bhaskar uncovered a different cause: routing changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat discovery showed that routing can significantly affect measurement results,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat began as a narrow investigation turned into a broader insight. One that reshaped how those measurements could be interpreted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way, other milestones followed, including his first paper accepted to a top conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat was a big moment,\u201d Bhaskar said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut beyond publications and research breakthroughs, it\u2019s the day-to-day experience of doctoral life that made the strongest impression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe camaraderie stands out the most,\u201d he said. \u201cEspecially during deadlines. Everyone is working hard, but you still take time to step away, talk, and support each other.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat sense of community extended beyond his own lab. Interactions with neighboring groups and researchers in fields like cryptography broadened his perspective and shaped his approach to problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe way different groups think about problems is really valuable,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOutside the lab, Atlanta played its own role in the experience. From sporting events to concerts, the city offered a balance to the intensity of research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to do,\u201d Bhaskar said. \u201cI tried to take advantage of that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, as he prepares to graduate, the next chapter is already in motion. Bhaskar will move to the West Coast for a post-doctorate security research role at Stanford University, following a summer internship that offers time to reset before the transition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAbhi\u0027s work is excellent,\u201d said Pearce. \u201cDuring the course of his Ph.D. he discovered important underlying phenomena that influence how we measure and understand internet censorship and end-to-end network behaviors broadly.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe\u0027s an outstanding researcher and community leader, and while his contribution as a student to my group and SCP will be missed, we\u0027re excited about what he accomplished and his next steps!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbhishek Bhaskar, who earned his master\u2019s in 2016, returned to academia after several years in industry to pursue a Ph.D. in cybersecurity at Georgia Tech. 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I saw that the community at large is facing a sustainability crisis.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahman argued in his dissertation that makerspaces can play a significant role in local innovation. When people struggle to survive, it disrupts communities in numerous ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahman details four studies conducted over three-and-a-half years that show how socio-technical factors drive organizational sustainability in makerspaces and how AI tools can foster an innovative culture within them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe compelling thing about his research is that he shows that people come to makerspaces for the tools, but they stay for the people,\u201d said Rosa Arriaga, associate professor and Rahman\u2019s advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe has plenty of work from his ethnographic research that shows that a makerspace can have all the tech and resources, but if there isn\u2019t cohesion among the people, there\u2019s a problem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIt Takes a Village\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahman is the first to admit that it\u2019s not possible for one man to run a company while pursuing a Ph.D. He needed a community. This starts with his family. His wife, Mohu Sultana, now serves as interim CEO of M2SYS and has supported Rahman throughout his Ph.D. research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech community has been part of Rahman\u2019s life in some way since he started his career.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESultana holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from Tech, and their daughter, Malisha Rahman, is graduating this week with a bachelor\u2019s in economics and international affairs. Malisha Rahman has also been accepted into the HCC program and will begin her Ph.D. in the fall.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahman said that any student who wants to create a tech startup will have an advantage from access to Georgia Tech\u2019s network.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Georgia Tech startup community is fantastic,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a tremendous amount of knowledge here, and the research community can help shape the next big thing. We have CREATE-X, a place where you can find mentorship from faculty who started in industry. You\u2019ll learn things I wish I knew before I started.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMizan Rahman, a 52-year-old entrepreneur with three successful tech startups, is completing his Ph.D. in human-centered computing. Driven by a desire to understand the human dimension of technology, his dissertation focused on makerspaces as hubs for community-driven innovation, arguing that social cohesion \u2014 not just tools and resources \u2014 is key to their sustainability. Rahman credits his academic journey with transforming how he approaches product development, and he now aims to bridge industry and research going forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mizan Rahman, a tech entrepreneur who has founded three companies, is having his Ph.D. in human centered computing conferred this week."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-05-07 12:31:35","changed_gmt":"2026-05-08 11:40:21","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680208":{"id":"680208","type":"image","title":"Mizan-Rahman_P9A6201.jpg","body":null,"created":"1778157109","gmt_created":"2026-05-07 12:31:49","changed":"1778157109","gmt_changed":"2026-05-07 12:31:49","alt":"Mizan Rahman","file":{"fid":"264450","name":"Mizan-Rahman_P9A6201.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/Mizan-Rahman_P9A6201.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/05\/07\/Mizan-Rahman_P9A6201.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":145195,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/05\/07\/Mizan-Rahman_P9A6201.jpg?itok=u5fwQmtM"}}},"media_ids":["680208"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"194609","name":"Industry"}],"keywords":[{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"195105","name":"2026 Spring Commencement"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690194":{"#nid":"690194","#data":{"type":"news","title":"When oil prices spike, where does the money go?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices \u2013 and prices of the wide range of products made from oil \u2013 literally everywhere. Federal data shows that the price at the primary crude oil hub in the U.S. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/RWTCD.htm\u0022\u003Ewas US$66 a barrel in late February 2026\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran \u2013 and $101 a barrel on April 13. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/09\/nx-s1-5745144\/oil-company-profits-high-oil-prices\u0022\u003ESimilar price increases\u003C\/a\u003E have reverberated around the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=WhCSHYkAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;oi=ao\u0022\u003Eenergy economist\u003C\/a\u003E and an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=p4hJf78AAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003Einternational trade economist\u003C\/a\u003E, we field a lot of questions during such episodes, because when oil prices go up, manufacturers, businesses and ultimately \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/soaring-gas-prices-and-disrupted-supply-chains-will-ripple-out-to-increase-costs-in-every-store-and-sector-of-the-economy-278349\u0022\u003Econsumers pay more\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESome basic economics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrude oil may be the most important commodity in the global economic system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a literal fuel for the industrial economy. It powers the engines that drive transportation and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pavementinteractive.org\/reference-desk\/materials\/asphalt\/asphalt-production-and-oil-refining\/\u0022\u003Epaves the roads\u003C\/a\u003E vehicles drive on. It\u2019s a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=34\u0026amp;t=6\u0022\u003Esource for plastics\u003C\/a\u003E from which the world\u2019s products get made and packaged, and a key ingredient at some point in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/oil-isnt-just-fuel-iran-conflict-could-disrupt-markets-for-everything-from-plastics-to-fertilizers-277946\u0022\u003Ealmost every supply chain\u003C\/a\u003E. Even \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/hormuz-closure-threatens-the-global-food-supply-why-grocery-price-hikes-are-coming-279899\u0022\u003Efertilizers that boost the food supply\u003C\/a\u003E are made from it. In short, it is difficult to imagine modern life without \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/world-news\/oil-role-modern-life-petrochemicals-impact-everyday-products-explained-126032300615_1.html\u0022\u003Eoil and its derivatives\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd when its supply changes, its price changes. Economists explain this using a fundamental model of our field: the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/l\/law-of-supply-demand.asp\u0022\u003Esupply-demand\u003C\/a\u003E diagram. When there\u2019s less of something to go around, competition among consumers who want it and companies that need it can drive the price up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESometimes this process can play out over time, allowing people to adjust their purchasing or activities to dampen price shocks. But when a significant source of the world\u2019s oil is effectively blocked without much advance notice, such as when the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/hormuz-closure-threatens-the-global-food-supply-why-grocery-price-hikes-are-coming-279899\u0022\u003Ethe U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz\u003C\/a\u003E, prices can rise sharply in a short period of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA natural question many people ask when oil prices spike is: Where does all that additional money go, and who benefits from it?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome people have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262536165\/energy-and-civilization\/\u0022\u003Ewritten\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691159638\/the-oil-curse\u0022\u003Eentire\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-world-for-sale-9780197651537\u0022\u003Ebooks\u003C\/a\u003E dissecting all the places that money goes when it leaves consumers\u2019 pockets. But ultimately, the bulk of the money heads in the direction of the source of the oil itself \u2013 the oil companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat they do with the money varies widely, depending on where in the world an oil company is operating and who owns it. What also matters is the business environment \u2013 the set of laws and regulations \u2013 in which the company operates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMiddle East faces danger\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOil producers in the Middle East face significant new risk because of the war in Iran, including threats to production, processing locations and shipping routes. These risks raise their costs for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gulfs-worst-case-scenario-2026-04-08\/\u0022\u003Einsurance, security and transportation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-the-persian-gulf-has-more-oil-and-gas-than-anywhere-else-on-earth-279303\u0022\u003Eproduction costs in the region\u003C\/a\u003E are relatively low, so higher global oil prices typically still translate into strong profits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a major exporter such as Saudi Arabia, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/saudi-aramco-oil-colossus-2024-05-30\/\u0022\u003Ethe government owns and controls nearly all oil production\u003C\/a\u003E, so high prices generally benefit the government\u2019s finances and investments, even during a war. In Saudi Arabia, oil revenue has historically been used to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/agsi.org\/analysis\/aramco-and-the-saudi-government-budget\/\u0022\u003Efund public spending\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWest Texas gets a windfall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dallasfed.org\/research\/energy11\/permian\u0022\u003EPermian Basin\u003C\/a\u003E, the largest oil field in the U.S., is a long way from the Persian Gulf. When global oil prices rise because of the war in Iran, oil companies operating in West Texas effectively get a windfall gain: Prices rise more quickly than costs, at least in the short run.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe immediate effect is more income from higher prices. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/economy\/2026\/03\/11\/545798\/texas-oil-iran-war-gas-prices\/\u0022\u003EThe money largely goes to company owners\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 meaning shareholders \u2013 through dividends, debt reduction, company-backed purchases of its own stock, and reinvestment in drilling and production. Over time, companies may decide to spend some of that windfall on building more production capacity or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/breakingviews\/us-shale-wont-repeat-old-boom-iran-war-2026-04-02\/\u0022\u003Epipelines to get more oil and gas to market\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENorth Sea boosts government revenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the North Sea, between the island of Great Britain and Scandinavia, a mix of multinational and government-owned companies produce most of the oil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the U.K., private shareholders are the primary beneficiaries of higher profits from increased oil prices, though an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-9578\/\u0022\u003Eadditional tax on oil and gas companies\u2019 profits\u003C\/a\u003E means the government also collects a significant share of the money, which it uses to help pay public expenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Norway, oil revenues flow into the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nbim.no\/en\/\u0022\u003EGovernment Pension Fund Global\u003C\/a\u003E, the world\u2019s largest sovereign wealth fund, valued at over $2 trillion. Laws govern how much, and for what purposes, money can be withdrawn from the fund, supporting \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nbim.no\/en\/about-us\/about-the-fund\/\u0022\u003Epublic spending and preserving wealth\u003C\/a\u003E for future generations. This is a similar model to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apfc.org\/\u0022\u003EAlaska\u2019s state-owned program\u003C\/a\u003E, funded by oil revenue, that pays for government services and sends an annual dividend to every permanent resident.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERussian oligarchs get rich\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERussian oil is subject to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2026\/04\/13\/the-return-of-russia-oil-sanctions-00869329\u0022\u003Estringent economic sanctions\u003C\/a\u003E imposed by major industrial countries as a response to the Russian invasion and occupation of parts of Ukraine. While the U.S. cannot control how much Russia charges for its oil, it can control services needed to move Russian oil around the world. Under current price sanctions, Western shipping, insurance and financing can be used to ship and sell Russian crude oil only if the price is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com\/g7-sets-price-cap-for-russian-oil-at-usd-60-per-barrel\/\u0022\u003Ebelow $60 per barrel\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERussia\u2019s oil industry is dominated by government-controlled companies whose \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g6xgv1n41o\u0022\u003Eleaders maintain close ties\u003C\/a\u003E to President Vladimir Putin. The dealings of those shadowy figures are often shrouded in secrecy, but it is likely that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/section\/comrade-capitalism\/\u0022\u003Ethey and Putin\u2019s military-industrial complex\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 not the Russian people \u2013 are the main beneficiaries of high oil prices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat this means for you\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEveryday U.S. consumers may not like the idea of their hard-earned cash going into the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tu.no\/artikler\/the-10-wealthiest-people-in-the-oil-industry\/231147\u0022\u003Ealready deep pockets\u003C\/a\u003E of any of these groups. But in the short run, there\u2019s not much to do but pay the price. For the long run, however, people around the world are already thinking and talking about, and opting for, sources of energy that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us-is-less-prone-to-oil-price-shocks-than-in-past-decades-277709\u0022\u003Edon\u2019t depend on fossil fuels\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article is republished from \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E under a Creative Commons license. Read the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-oil-prices-spike-where-does-the-money-go-280763\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eoriginal article\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe market for oil is global, which is why events like the war in Iran affect oil prices \u2013 and prices of the wide range of products made from oil \u2013 literally everywhere. Federal data shows that the price at the primary crude oil hub in the U.S. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/RWTCD.htm\u0022\u003Ewas US$66 a barrel in late February 2026\u003C\/a\u003E \u2013 before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran \u2013 and $101 a barrel on April 13. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/09\/nx-s1-5745144\/oil-company-profits-high-oil-prices\u0022\u003ESimilar price increases\u003C\/a\u003E have reverberated around the globe.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=WhCSHYkAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;oi=ao\u0022\u003Eenergy economist\u003C\/a\u003E and an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=p4hJf78AAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003Einternational trade economist\u003C\/a\u003E, we field a lot of questions during such episodes, because when oil prices go up, manufacturers, businesses and ultimately \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/soaring-gas-prices-and-disrupted-supply-chains-will-ripple-out-to-increase-costs-in-every-store-and-sector-of-the-economy-278349\u0022\u003Econsumers pay more\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEveryday U.S. consumers may not like the idea of their hard-earned cash going into the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tu.no\/artikler\/the-10-wealthiest-people-in-the-oil-industry\/231147\u0022\u003Ealready deep pockets\u003C\/a\u003E of any of the oil-producing groups. But in the short run, there\u2019s not much to do but pay the price. For the long run, however, people around the world are already thinking and talking about, and opting for, sources of energy that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us-is-less-prone-to-oil-price-shocks-than-in-past-decades-277709\u0022\u003Edon\u2019t depend on fossil fuels\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2013affiliated energy and trade economists describe how higher oil prices don\u2019t just hurt consumers\u2014they also shift enormous amounts of money to oil producers, with impacts varying by region, ownership, and government policy."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-05-07 20:10:19","changed_gmt":"2026-05-07 20:20:00","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680221":{"id":"680221","type":"image","title":"file-20260415-71-kc4tq8.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EIn general, when supply of a product is reduced, prices rise. As a result, even when demand remains stable, the quantity consumers buy decreases because of higher prices. Matthew E. 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It opened in 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELocal officials called it a win.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/\/Users\/mazriel3\/Downloads\/Shane%20Short,\u0022\u003EShane Short\u003C\/a\u003E, president and CEO of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/choosewalton.com\/\u0022\u003EDevelopment Authority of Walton County\u003C\/a\u003E, said the plant generates about $10 million annually in property tax revenue and has led to road improvements and expanded broadband.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EElectric vehicle maker\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rivian.com\/\u0022\u003ERivian\u003C\/a\u003E followed Meta\u2019s lead and began construction on a plant near Social Circle in September 2025, adding to the area\u2019s rapid industrial growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut for residents, the shift from a largely rural, agricultural economy to an energy-intensive industrial one has put new pressure on power and water systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re seeing higher water and power bills, worse air quality, and very few jobs in return for this, while large corporations get tax benefits,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/ahmed-saeed\u0022\u003EAhmed Saeed\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, describing why residents in some communities push back on new data center development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESaeed and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/josiah-hester\u0022\u003EJosiah Hester\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of interactive computing and computer science and director of the Center for Advancing Responsible AI, have spent the past year studying the energy, water, and financial demands associated with these facilities, and how those costs are distributed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EBetting on Demand\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI data centers run on specialized chips that use large amounts of electricity. 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","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe concept of solar geoengineering \u2014 blocking the sun\u0027s radiation to slow Earth\u0027s warming \u2014 is no longer just the realm of science fiction. In 2023, the U.S. government and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/new-report-explores-issues-around-solar-radiation-modification\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUN\u003C\/a\u003E released reports on the topic. Whether or not solar geoengineering can save the world is up for debate, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.anthonyharding.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETony Harding\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, is contributing to the conversation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarding is an alumnus of the School of Economics and returned to Georgia Tech after a postdoc at Harvard University. He studies the impact of innovative technology on climate change policy and governance, focusing on solar geoengineering. In the eight years he\u0027s been researching it, Harding said it\u0027s the scale of the conversation that\u0027s changed the most: not what the researchers are speaking about, but who they\u0027re speaking to.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A lot of people in the climate policy and academic realms were hesitant to talk about solar geoengineering, and I think that\u2019s starting to change,\u0022 Harding said. \u0022There\u0027s definitely wider acceptance of at least talking about it, and in that way, pathways to having spaces to talk about it and research funds are opening up.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the idea of solar geoengineering picks up steam, Harding invites everyone to join the conversation, starting with learning about what it is, how it works, and whether or not this once-niche proposition really can save the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat is Solar Geoengineering?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe most commonly proposed method of solar geoengineering, which also goes by names such as solar radiation modification or climate intervention, uses sulfate aerosols. When injected into the Earth\u0027s stratosphere, they reflect a small amount of the sun\u0027s radiation \u2014 less than 1% \u2014 and reduce Earth\u0027s surface temperature. This option is the most popular, and the one Harding studies, because we have natural examples, he explained. Volcanoes release sulfates when they erupt, and the largest ones are strong enough to push them into the stratosphere.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022So we have evidence from the past that if sulfate aerosols make it up to the stratosphere, there\u0027s a cooling effect,\u0022 he said. \u0022This natural analog gives us a bit more belief that it\u0027s going to work at least in some of the ways we expect it to in the real world and not just on a computer.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other two types of solar geoengineering researchers consider most seriously are marine cloud brightening to reflect incoming sunlight and Cirrus cloud thinning to let light escape more easily. Each one has pros and cons. For example, marine cloud brightening would only occur over the deepest and darkest parts of the ocean, Harding said, \u0022which would have a non-uniform cooling effect and could lead to certain adverse outcomes. \u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStratospheric aerosol injection has a more uniform distribution and cooling effect that better mimics the warming we\u0027re experiencing. However, it comes with its own concerns, one of which is that the cooling isn\u0027t permanent.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If something happened to stop the deployment of the aerosols, whether it was for political or technological reasons, we would bounce right back and experience a rapid heating that we\u0027ve never experienced before, and could have catastrophic impacts,\u0022 Harding said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat are the Costs and Benefits of Solar Geoengineering?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis question is where Harding\u0027s research makes the most impact. As an economist, he examines the costs and benefits of solar geoengineering to highlight the tradeoffs involved. Harding has published articles on how solar geoengineering could \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxrep\/grad044\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eimpact other climate change mitigation policies\u003C\/a\u003E, how it \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-019-13957-x\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaffects income inequality\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14693062.2022.2091509\u0022\u003Evalue of reducing uncertainty around solar geoengineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Making it clear what the different tradeoffs are around climate policies is super important for informing decision-making,\u0022 he said. \u0022On one side, we have these really, at their core, basic scientific questions around whether solar geoengineering will work and if it can scale up. But it\u0027s also an interesting question from a governance and economics perspective. Solar geoengineering has global repercussions, the decision will affect the entire world. How do we develop governance structures, conversations, and inclusivity to ensure we\u0027re making a choice for the collective good?\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, one of the downsides of using sulfate aerosols for solar geoengineering is negative health effects. But it also has the benefit of preventing temperature-related deaths. So, how do they compare? Harding\u0027s recently submitted paper, which is not yet peer-reviewed, finds that the benefits of reduced deaths outweigh the adverse health effects of solar geoengineering \u0022by at least an order of magnitude \u2014 if not two orders of magnitude,\u0022 he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarding notes that a more comprehensive comparison of risks and benefits is still required, but in the context of the two health impacts he examined, \u201cYes, it\u2019s a concern, and something we should consider, but we need to put it in perspective that the benefits are significantly greater than that negative effect.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhy is Solar Geoengineering Controversial?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUncertain health outcomes? Check. What else makes solar geoengineering so controversial that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.solargeoeng.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esome academics want a ban\u003C\/a\u003E on public funding, experiments, patents, deployment, and support for the technology in international institutions?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a running theme in climate conversations that discussing adaptation policies reduces the focus on cutting emissions, Harding said, and the concerns around solar geoengineering are the same: not just that it will pull research funds from mitigation efforts, but that it will pull attention from dealing with the source of the warming as well. (His 2023 paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oxrep\/grad044\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexamines this problem.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough he disagrees, others believe that researching solar geoengineering also makes it more likely that we deploy it, Harding explained. So, for those against the technology, disrupting research efforts to prevent the idea from moving further makes sense.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat\u0027s Next?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs with any unfamiliar and emerging technology, questions arise, such as, will this go horribly wrong and destroy the planet? Or, will it be the solution to all of our problems?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Putting my realistic hat on, it\u0027s probably somewhere in between,\u0022 Harding said. \u0022It\u0027s always hard to predict the future, but I can propose what I think is a realistic hope for where it can go.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarding anticipates more research and is hopeful for continued discourse between academics and the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The first and most important thing to do is make people aware of this technology and educate them about it,\u0022 Harding said. \u0022We have to understand how general people, outside of policymakers, feel about it \u2014 because that matters a lot.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also wants to see more serious international policy discussions around governing solar geoengineering to prevent a situation where one person or country deploys it independently. Whether it\u0027s a moratorium on its use or another agreement, international guidelines would help legitimize research without fears of a rogue actor, he explained.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EFinal Takeaway\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo package it all up into a neat little tagline, \u0022Solar geoengineering is a really new technology that could alleviate a lot of suffering in the case of climate change. But there\u0027s a lot of uncertainty, and it needs a lot more attention to quell any concerns about catastrophe,\u0022 Harding said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The most salient concern is that we put a lot of faith in solar geoengineering, invest a lot of resources, and slow down emissions cuts because we think we have a silver bullet. And then we get to 2080 and realize it doesn\u0027t work as expected. That\u0027s a very real concern. But the one that receives less attention is if we put solar geoengineering aside and don\u0027t spend the resources investigating it. Then we get to 2080 and realize, \u0027Wow, this technology could have worked and relieved a lot of suffering.\u0027 I think it\u0027s important to understand the flip side of that.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the idea of solar geoengineering picks up steam, Tony Harding, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, invites everyone to join the conversation \u2014 starting with learning about what it is, how it works, and whether or not this once-niche proposition really can save the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As the idea of solar geoengineering picks up steam, Harding invites everyone to join the conversation, starting with learning about what it is, how it works, and whether or not this once-niche proposition really can save the world."}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2024-01-30 17:14:10","changed_gmt":"2026-05-04 14:57:10","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677505":{"id":"677505","type":"image","title":"Untitled-design--69-.jpg","body":null,"created":"1753726615","gmt_created":"2025-07-28 18:16:55","changed":"1753726615","gmt_changed":"2025-07-28 18:16:55","alt":"Sun in blue sky","file":{"fid":"261411","name":"Untitled-design--69-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/28\/Untitled-design--69-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/28\/Untitled-design--69-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":84505,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/28\/Untitled-design--69-.jpg?itok=xRCf6wv5"}}},"media_ids":["677505"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dminardi3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDi Minardi\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dminardi3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"690016":{"#nid":"690016","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How a Lens Is Pushing the Limits of Near-Zero\u2011Power Wireless Communication to Gigabits\u2011Per\u2011Second Speeds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Georgia Tech researchers showed that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/energy-wireless-signals-could-power-smart-cities-and-ai-enabling-systems\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Especially designed lenses could harvest energy from ambient wireless signals\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, pointing toward a future of battery-free sensors embedded throughout smart cities and digital infrastructure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut powering devices is only part of the challenge. Enabling those same systems to communicate at modern data rates is a much harder. That\u2019s the leap the team is now making. The same lens-based approach is being used to unlock high-speed communication once considered out of reach for ultra-low-power systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-70454-8\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Estudy published in Nature Communications\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/emmanouil-m-tentzeris\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Manos (Emmanouil) Tentzeris\u2019\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/athena.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgile Technologies for High-performance Electromagnetic Novel Applications\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ATHENA) lab demonstrated a first-of-its-kind lens-enabled backscatter system capable of multi-gigabit data rates, reaching up to 4 gigabits per second (Gbps). At the same time, it operates using only a fraction of the power required by conventional wireless devices \u2014 bringing high-speed connectivity to systems that were never meant to support it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor years, backscatter has been treated as a tradeoff: extremely low power, but extremely limited performance. Rather than generating its own radio signal, a backscatter device modulates and reflects existing wireless transmissions to communicate, allowing it to operate with minimal energy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result, backscatter has typically been used only to send small amounts of data, most often in simple identification and sensing systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we\u2019ve shown is that backscatter doesn\u2019t have to be slow,\u201d said Marvin Joshi, the research lead and Ph.D. candidate in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWith the right architecture, it can operate at gigabit\u2011per\u2011second speeds while remaining ultra\u2011low power.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Lens That Makes It Possible\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team\u2019s dielectric lens \u2014 similar in spirit to an optical lens \u2014 focuses incoming millimeter-wave energy onto an array of tiny antenna elements, enabling both wireless energy capture and high\u2011speed backscatter communication within the same system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system reshapes and reflects\u0026nbsp;existing wireless signals,\u0026nbsp;with each element modulating the reflected signal to enable high-speed data transmission without requiring a traditional transmitter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt millimeter-wave frequencies, used by 5G and future 6G systems, there is plenty of available bandwidth, but signals at these frequencies are highly directional and sensitive to alignment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn practice, that means even small misalignment can break the link. This has been a major limitation for real-world deployment. The lens overcomes that constraint by enabling high gain and wide angular coverage simultaneously, without the need for active beam steering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThink of it like a camera lens for wireless signals,\u201d Tentzeris said, who is a Ed and Pat Joy Chair Professor in ECE. \u201cIt captures energy coming from many different directions and focuses it efficiently onto the device.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe result is a system that can communicate over a \u00b155-degree field of view, maintaining strong performance even when the device and the reader are not perfectly aligned.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFiber-Level Speeds, Nearly Zero Power\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn controlled experiments, the researchers achieved data rates of up to four Gbps, with sustained gigabit communication at distances of up to 20 meters, using high-order modulation schemes like those used in modern cellular networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a system that doesn\u2019t generate its own signal, those numbers are unexpectedly efficient. The system operates at just 0.08 picojoules per bit \u2014 approaching million-fold improvements compared to conventional wireless radios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo put that in perspective,\u201d Tentzeris said, \u201ca typical wireless transmitter burns milliwatts of power. This system operates at essentially near-zero power while pushing the data rates 1,000 times higher than what traditional backscatter could do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaken together, the results point to a fundamentally different class of wireless system, according to Tentzeris, one that combines high data rates with ultra-low power in a way that hasn\u2019t been demonstrated before.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on standard wireless modeling, the team estimates the technology could support Gbps communication over distances of kilometers when paired with existing 5G millimeter-wave infrastructure, extending high-speed, ultra-low-power links far beyond what has been achievable with backscatter systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat combination is exactly what future wireless networks are moving toward. This capability aligns naturally with next\u2011generation 6G systems,\u201d said Tentzeris, pointing to the growing importance of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) and Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) frameworks that require simultaneous communication, sensing, and localization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom Smart Cities to Disaster Response\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut speed and efficiency are only part of the story. Because the devices are low-cost, lightweight, and printable, they could be deployed at massive scale on buildings, roads, vehicles, drones, or wearable systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a smart city, thousands of these tags could continuously exchange information about traffic, air quality, or structural health without ever needing batteries. That means dense, always-on sensing and communication without worrying about power or upkeep.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn disaster zones, temporary high-speed networks could be set up almost instantly, without cables or power infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cImagine an ambulance transmitting high-resolution medical images in real time, or first responders building a live digital map of a disaster area,\u201d Joshi said. \u201cYou get fiber-like performance, but completely wireless and energy-efficient.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u2019s Next\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe architecture also lends itself to intelligent optimization, where AI-based control can be enabled to dynamically enhance signal capture and system efficiency, further expanding performance in large-scale deployments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is really about adding intelligence to anything, anywhere,\u201d Tentzeris said. \u201cWhen communication becomes this fast, efficient, and scalable, entirely new applications become possible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the core architecture now demonstrated, the ATHENA Lab team is shifting focus from proof\u2011of\u2011concept to deployment. That means moving out of the lab and into real-world environments. The next phase includes testing the system outdoors, integrating it onto drones and mobile platforms, and exploring flatter, more compact lens designs that could be easier to mount on real-world infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re thinking about how this fits into the broader wireless ecosystem,\u201d Joshi said. \u201cWe\u2019ve shown what\u2019s possible. 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In addition, the review emphasizes the importance of leveraging available and emerging technologies, such as smart meters, thermostats, and sensors, to provide timely, precise data for evaluating both energy consumption and savings as well as non-energy impacts, like health and safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/2026\/04\/17\/frontiers-of-weatherization\/\u0022\u003ERead more on the EPIcenter Research Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/2026\/04\/17\/frontiers-of-weatherization\/\u0022\u003EListen to a Podcast on the Research Here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recent review published in Energy Research \u0026amp; Social Science by EPIcenter public policy affiliates \u2013 Ryan Anthony, Brian An, Marilyn A. Brown, Michelle Graff, and Daniel C. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE) by presenting their Senior Design Projects at Capstone Design Expo. The expo featured teams from 12 different schools at the Institute, displaying innovative ways to solve problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE brought the most teams of any school to the expo, where the senior design teams had the opportunity, for the first time, to present their problems and solutions to the public. In the packed McCamish Pavilion, teams erected their poster boards and demos, ready to explain their work to other interested students, donors, parents, and leaders from other schools at the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe projects spanned industries from aluminum smelters and artisan popsicle companies, NCAA football stadium queues and hospital emergency rooms, Atlanta nonprofits and Marine Corps operations. The breadth reflected both the versatility of industrial engineering and the program\u0027s reach into Atlanta\u0027s business community and beyond. One team, \u201cShift Happens,\u201d showed how they improved dispatcher scheduling for American Airlines. Their solution takes employees\u2019 preferences, flight schedules, the dispatcher\u2019s flexible day use, and training days into account to produce an improved schedule that minimizes the number of understaffed and overstaffed shifts. The scale of their solution was enormous.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we combine that all into our one model, we have three shifts to account for: morning, evening, and midnight. We have eight regions to account for with American Airlines. It\u2019s a massive model: twenty-one million variables, thirty-five million constraints,\u201d explained \u201cShift Happens\u201d team member Colin Fravel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith their improved schedule, they expected a 73% reduction in unmet demand where there is no dispatch to work a flight. By better distributing dispatchers, they also estimate that their solution will save American Airlines $1.3 million dollars in reduced staffing costs over the course of a year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother team, \u201cBuzz on the Beach,\u201d worked with company VayKLife \u2014 a guest engagement and beach gear rental platform \u2014 to optimize transportation resource usage by reducing the number of trucks required, total miles traveled, labor hours, fuel consumption, and reliance on rental equipment during peak seasons. The team developed a routing model that accounts for inventory availability and vehicle capacity constraints, enabling the company to maintain its current level of service while operating more efficiently with fewer resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn peak season, we were able to see the savings of nine, almost ten thousand dollars in Charleston alone. And then in the off-season, we\u2019re able to save almost 13.7 thousand dollars, just in Charleston,\u201d said Rohan Prabhuram, one of the \u201cBuzz on the Beach\u201d team members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the expo, industry judges gave \u201cContact Point\u201d the Industrial Engineering monodisciplinary award. Team members Skyler Malmberg, Visakhi Miriyapalli, Nick Nist, Hannah Mathew, Justin Collins, Pardha Kanchiraju, Esha Pentakota, and Saba Ansari developed a work-process solution for Elevate Solutions Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir new process improves the way Elevate Solutions Group loads trays with contact lenses, as specified by their clients. The old process involved four to six workers loading individual trays, manual sorting, and long travel times between steps. \u201cContact Point\u2019s\u201d solution included constructing a new workstation for loading trays, a handheld scanner, custom software, and a tray attachment to make loading easier. They also counterintuitively decreased the number of workers at a time to just one.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were able to note an almost up to 50% decrease in time usage per tray,\u201d Collins explained. \u201cWe estimated this will save them over $126,000 over the first year on just this one product line that we\u0027re working with.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost of that cost savings came from labor, which they reduced by an average of 9 hours per client order. The team\u2019s impact, their client\u2019s satisfaction, and the rapid adoption of their solution were decisive factors in awarding this team the top prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor most of the 237 students in the ISyE senior design groups, the expo was the most public moment of their time throughout this experience. They showed not just a semester\u2019s work, but what four years of study, dedication, and determination look like. 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Nuclear power, with its high energy density and continuous operation, is well-suited to provide the steady base load of electricity required.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Erickson, the recent headlines of the restarting of Pennsylvania\u2019s Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor (TMI-1) could play a crucial role in meeting these demands sustainably.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis decision, supported by a 20-year agreement with Microsoft, aims to provide carbon-free energy to meet the escalating power demands of AI data centers. The company\u2019s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 aligns with the broader push for sustainable energy solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/nuclear\/us-nuclear-industry.php\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnited States Energy Information Administration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, as of Aug. 1, 2023, the United States has 93 operating commercial nuclear reactors across 54 nuclear power plants in 28 states. The most recent reactor to begin commercial operation is Unit 4 at the Alvin W. 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They know how to build models. They are comfortable with large data sets. Many are now incorporating AI tools into their workflows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut the same concern keeps surfacing across those conversations:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe analytical capability is improving\u2014but the decision-making discipline around it is not keeping pace.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnalysts move quickly to building models without fully defining the business problem. Assumptions are not always surfaced or challenged. Outputs are evaluated mathematically, not operationally. And recommendations are not always translated into real-world implications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELeaders are concerned about this and are looking for ways to address. I share their concern because I have been in their shoes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat the Experience Taught Us\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier in my career, across different roles at Coca-Cola, we did not formally teach critical thinking. We learned it through experience and often through mistakes. Three situations shaped how I think about this today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EPowerade: When the Model Works but the Thinking Doesn\u2019t\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile working with optimization groups at Coca-Cola North America, we overbuilt capacity for Powerade. The model did exactly what it was supposed to do. The problem was upstream of the model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe took the demand forecast at face value. At the time, we deferred to the brand teams without interrogating their assumptions. We never asked what was driving the projected volume\u2014whether the competitive dynamics supported it, whether the channel assumptions were realistic, whether pricing and distribution plans were grounded, whether overall market growth would materialize as projected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe consequence was idle capacity, production lines that were purchased and never installed, write-offs, and a fundamental change to our process. Going forward, brand and supply chain teams were both required to sign off on future business cases. The model was technically correct. The thinking around the model had not been.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ELittle Rock: When Feasibility Isn\u2019t Reality\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater, within Coca-Cola Supply, we made a network decision to close a plant in Little Rock. On paper, the remaining system had the capacity to absorb the volume. The model said so.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat the model assessed was production capacity based on rated line speeds. What it did not account for was dock and storage capacity at peak, or the practical limitations of standing up a new shift at the receiving plants. Those constraints were real. They were also invisible in the model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the short term, we had to source sub optimally from other plants\u2014which directly undermined the business case we had built to justify the closure. The math was right. The operational validation was incomplete.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EMini Cans: When the Thinking Matches the Model\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy the time I led the National Product Support Group, we had evolved. Decisions like the launch of mini cans required cross-functional alignment, scenario-based thinking, and a clear understanding of how demand would actually be generated across channels and routes to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe got that one right, not because the model was more sophisticated, but because the discipline around the model was stronger. We had learned, the hard way, to ask the questions the model could not ask for itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EMost of the Work Is Outside the Model\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a line I first heard from Chris Janke: \u0022Most of the work is outside the model.\u0022 He may have learned it from someone else; I don\u2019t know the original source, but it is the framing that has stayed with me. With the advances in data and machine learning we have seen over the past decade, that proportion may be closer to 75 percent today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe are better than ever at collecting and cleansing large data sets, processing high volumes of information, and identifying mathematical errors. But the most important work still happens outside the model: defining the right business question, building meaningful scenarios, interpreting outputs in real-world terms, and stress-testing the assumptions that drive the recommendation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJanke captured this precisely in documenting his own experience with a modeling error that illustrated the point. An analyst had validated the math on a labor cost model\u2014everything checked out numerically. But when the output was translated into real-world terms, it implied production workers earning roughly $300,000 per year while working approximately 60 hours total annually. The math was internally consistent. The result was operationally impossible. The question that should have been asked early: does this make sense in the context of how the business actually operates? It was not asked until after the analysis was complete.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discipline to ask that question is not modeling skill. It is a critical thinking skill.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhere the Breakdown Happens\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EBefore the Model: Skipping the Hard Questions\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA common pattern today is that analysts move quickly to building the model. The harder and more important step of defining the business decision before the model is built gets compressed or skipped entirely. The questions that require that step are not complicated, but they take time and engagement to answer well:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat business decision are we actually trying to make?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat scenarios matter, and why?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat does success look like\u2014not mathematically, but operationally?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat constraints are real versus assumed?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese questions are not as clean as coding a model. They require conversations with people who understand the constraints, not just the data. That is part of why they get skipped.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EAfter the Model: Mistaking Mathematical Accuracy for Business Validity\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is where more serious errors occur. Model issues can usually be fixed with more time. Misinterpretation of output leads to bad decisions that are much harder to unwind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Powerade and Little Rock situations both illustrate this. In each case, the model was not wrong in any technical sense. What was missing was the translation layer\u2014 where someone asks, \u201cwhat changes on a Tuesday night shift, at Plant B, when demand spikes 12 percent?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat translation layer does not happen automatically. It has to be built into how teams work. And it is exactly the discipline that gets squeezed when organizations reward speed and analytical sophistication above everything else.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat Critical Thinking Actually Means in Supply Chain\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECritical thinking in supply chain is not skepticism for its own sake, and it is not a soft skill that sits alongside the analytical work. It is a discipline applied to decisions and not just to models. The word itself points to what we mean: kritikos, the Greek root, means skilled in judging, able to discern*. That is the right definition for our purposes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt means asking whether the right question is being answered before investing in answering it well. It means making the assumptions that drive a recommendation visible and testable. It means translating analytical output into operational consequence: what actually changes, for whom, at what cost, and under what conditions the answer flips.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat discipline shows up or breaks down at four specific moments:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBefore the model is built\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;Is the business question defined precisely enough to model?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhile the model is running\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;Are the assumptions embedded in the data realistic and challenged?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen the output is ready\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;Does this result make sense in how the business actually operates?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBefore the recommendation goes forward\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;Have we planned for how this will be received, and by whom?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen these moments are skipped because of time pressure, overconfidence in tools, or a culture that rewards analytical speed over decision rigor the gap between analysis and action grows. The Powerade and Little Rock situations were both failures at these moments, not failures of the models themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E*DeCesare, M. (2009). Casting a critical glance at teaching \u201ccritical thinking.\u201d Pedagogy and the Human Sciences, 1(1), 73\u201377.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EA Five-Question Diagnostic\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore an analysis or recommendation moves forward, teams should be able to answer five questions clearly. If any of them cannot be answered, the analysis is not ready\u2014regardless of how strong the model is.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/news\/2026-04\/5-question-diagnostic.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Strategic Analysis Checklist infographic.\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-04\/20260430_Figure1_Five-QuestionDiagnostic_SpotlightArticle.docx\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFigure 1: A Five-Question Diagnostic (accessible version)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are \u0026nbsp;questions that should have specific, grounded answers before a recommendation reaches leadership. If the team cannot answer question two (what assumption would flip the result) then the recommendation rests on unexamined ground. If question four cannot be answered, the change management work has not started yet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the Powerade situation, questions one and two were the misses. In Little Rock, it was question three. The models were not the problem. The diagnostic would have surfaced both gaps before the decisions were made.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThis Gap Is Well Documented\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat I am describing from my own experience is consistent with what the research shows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA long-running finding in operations research is that many models are built and comparatively few actually drive decisions, and the breakdown is organizational, not technical. A widely cited review in the European Journal of Operational Research frames this as an implementation problem rooted in how models are connected (or not connected) to the people and processes that own the decision.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessional credentialing bodies have recognized the same gap. The INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional blueprint explicitly lists business problem framing, stakeholder analysis, and business case development as core analytics competencies\u2014not optional additions. The signal is clear: being analytically strong is necessary but not sufficient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the training side, a field study published in the European Journal of Operational Research tested the effects of structured decision training across roughly 1,000 decision makers and analysts. The results showed measurable improvement in proactive decision-making skills and decision satisfaction. The gap is real, and it is addressable. It is a training and design issue, not a talent issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EThe 4 C\u2019s: A Decision-Focused Framework\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech SCL, we organize this thinking around what we call the 4 C\u2019s. These soft skills play a key role in the decision process. Each one asks a specific question about whether the decision, not just the analysis, was made well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/news\/2026-04\/the-4-Cs.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022The 4 Cs Decision Test infographic.\u0022\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-04\/20260430_Figure2_The4Cs_SpotlightArticle.docx\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFigure 2: The 4 C\u2019s: A Decision-Focused Framework (accessible version)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENotice what this framework does not include: model accuracy, data quality, or visualization quality. Those matter, and they are inputs to the decision. But a team can have a perfect model, a clean dataset, and a compelling dashboard and still fail all four of these tests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Powerade situation failed the Collaboration test The supply chain team did not sufficiently interrogate the brand team\u2019s assumptions. Little Rock failed the Critical Thinking test: the right question was not asked about what the model was not capturing. In both cases, the Communication and Change Management failures followed directly from those upstream gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen all four are present, analysis becomes a decision. When one or more is missing, the analysis and translation to a solid recommendation are at risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhere to Start\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis topic keeps coming up in conversations with companies, in work with practitioners, and in what we hear from students as they move into industry roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tools are not the problem. AI-assisted analytics, optimization models, and advanced forecasting are real assets. But tools amplify the thinking behind them. Weak decision discipline and better tools is a faster path to the wrong answer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf this shows up in your org, try the five-question diagnostic on your next recommendation before it hits leadership. If it surfaces gaps you cannot close quickly, SCL can help. We are building workshops and courseware on decision-focused critical thinking, and we will cover this in our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/events\/calendar\/day\/2026\/06\/04\/13298\u0022\u003EJune Lunch and Learn\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuestions or comments? \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EReach out to SCL\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite the rapid advancement of AI and data modeling in supply chain management, many organizations face a growing \u0022blind spot\u0022 where sophisticated mathematical outputs are not adequately challenged by human intuition or operational reality. Drawing on experience, author Chris Gaffney illustrates how neglecting to stress-test assumptions can lead to costly mistakes even when the data itself is accurate. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE) proudly celebrates the outstanding students recognized at the annual Student Honors Celebration on Thursday, April 23. The event highlights students who demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, leadership, and service throughout the year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYubin Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYubin Kim received the Alpha Pi Mu Academic Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement, research excellence, and active involvement in scholarly activities. As part of this honor, Kim\u2019s name will be added to the Alpha Pi Mu perpetual plaque displayed in the ISyE office.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEvelyn Pennington Outstanding Service Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhong Nguyen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhong Nguyen was honored with the Evelyn Pennington Outstanding Service Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the ISyE community. His dedication to service, support of student initiatives, and commitment to academic excellence embody the spirit of this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIISE Excellence in Leadership Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESujan Ganesh Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESujan Ganesh Kumar received the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Excellence in Leadership Award in recognition of impactful leadership within ISyE student organizations. 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