{"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. Now the question is how far we can push it in the real world.\u0022\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\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\u003EEmmanouil Tentzeris and Marvin Joshi\u2019s new work demonstrates how a lens\u2011enabled backscatter system can deliver modern wireless capability without traditional transmitters.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Emmanouil Tentzeris and Marvin Joshi\u2019s new work demonstrates how a lens\u2011enabled backscatter system can deliver modern wireless capability without traditional transmitters."}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2026-04-24 18:52:15","changed_gmt":"2026-04-24 19:04:10","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"680070":{"id":"680070","type":"image","title":"Marvin-and-Manos-Holding-Lens-Device-for-Low-Power-Communication_Cropped.jpg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Emmanouil \u201cManos\u201d Tentzeris and Ph.D. student Marvin Joshi hold a lens\u2011enabled backscatter system that could support battery\u2011free wireless communication across future smart city infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1777056803","gmt_created":"2026-04-24 18:53:23","changed":"1777056803","gmt_changed":"2026-04-24 18:53:23","alt":"Professor Emmanouil \u201cManos\u201d Tentzeris and Ph.D. student Marvin Joshi hold a lens\u2011enabled backscatter system that could support battery\u2011free wireless communication across future smart city 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and Tara are just like any other African elephants \u2014 intelligent creatures that require mental stimulation in their everyday lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey would normally get this in their natural habitats while foraging for food and staying alert to predators that might target calves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zooatlanta.org\/animal\/african-elephant\/\u0022\u003Ethe four elephants reside at Zoo Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, so they don\u2019t have to worry about these things.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why zoo caretakers are always on the lookout for better ways to help their elephants exercise their brains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe caretakers at Zoo Atlanta found one when they met\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ariannamastali.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArianna Mastali\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing. Mastali designed an audio enrichment wall to help stimulate Zoo Atlanta\u2019s elephants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany zoos build concrete enrichment walls to foster elephant problem-solving and critical thinking. The walls usually have holes for the elephants to reach through with their trunks as they search for food, treats, or playful objects on the other side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali enhanced Zoo Atlanta\u2019s enrichment wall by adding an interactive audio component. A nearby speaker system emits distinctive low-frequency tones when an elephant sticks its trunk into a hole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re intelligent creatures that require a lot of complexity in their habitat,\u201d Mastali said. \u201cWe wanted to add to that complexity while giving them more control.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExperimenting in the Wild\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali\u2019s system uses cameras and computer vision to detect when an elephant\u2019s trunk is inside a hole and then sends a signal to the speakers to play a sound.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali is a member of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/animalab.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Animal Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, directed by School of IC professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/melody-jackson\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMelody Jackson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The lab often uses sensing technology to enhance animal wellness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali said she tried incorporating sensing devices into her project several times. She constructed an insert made of PVC pipe and attached a sensor to its base that used infrared beams to detect the elephant\u2019s trunk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, she said it was difficult to account for the elephants\u2019 strength. Their trunks would break the insert after a day or two.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe pivoted toward computer vision to remove the risk of damage and keep the enrichment wall as close to natural as possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA big lesson we learned was that using existing materials the elephants are already familiar with was the best way to do things, and it simplified our design process,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShane Rosse\u003C\/strong\u003E, a student in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program, assisted Mastali with the computer vision component.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnhancing Environmental Enrichment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali observed the elephants\u2019 behavior at the wall seven days before and seven days after the installation of the audio enrichment system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe number of times the elephants approached the wall after installation increased by 176%, and time spent at the wall increased by 71%\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe weren\u2019t sure at first if they would care that much, so it was great to see how much time they spent at the wall, especially our less dominant females,\u201d said Kirby Miller, senior elephant caretaker at Zoo Atlanta. \u201cThey seem to like it the most.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said the elephants used to only approach the wall when they knew there was food behind it. That started to change after the audio enrichment system was installed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe would be off somewhere else, and we\u2019d hear the speaker playing the sounds, and we knew there wasn\u2019t any food back there,\u201d Miller said. \u201cTara had her trunk in one of the holes, just listening to the sound. That let us know they do like it, and they\u2019re very curious about it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said because elephants have sharp memories and acute senses of hearing and smell, their habitats must be designed with that in mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZoo Atlanta\u2019s African Savanna elephant habitat was redesigned in 2019. In addition to the enrichment wall, it includes a bathing pond, two waterfalls, and swing boom devices that hold hay for elephants to eat as they would in the wild.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said elephants sheltered at any zoo or conservation would benefit from enrichment devices enhanced by technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think anything they can participate in that gives them choice and control is great for all zoo elephants,\u201d she said. \u201cIt depends on the elephants, but with our elephants, they can hear much higher frequencies than we can. That noise isn\u2019t that loud for us, but for them, they\u2019re feeling that noise, and they can hear much more, which makes it more stimulating for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Ph.D. student Arianna Mastali designed an interactive audio enrichment wall for Zoo Atlanta\u0027s four African elephants. 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The habitat includes an elephant enrichment wall that has numerous holes for elephants to stick their trunks into as they search for food on the other side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe elephant enrichment wall at Zoo Atlanta recently received an upgrade thanks to a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student. Arianna Mastali designed an audio enrichment system that uses computer vision to detect when an elephant sticks its trunk into the enrichment wall as it searches for food. The system then sends a signal to play a unique tone from a nearby speaker that corresponds to each hole. 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Now, it is helping industries make better planning decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have created a new AI model for decision-focused learning (DFL), called Diffusion-DFL. Recent tests showed it makes more accurate decisions than current approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with optimizing industrial output, Diffusion-DFL lowers costs and reduces risk. Experiments also showed it performs across different fields.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.11590\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiffusion-DFL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E doesn\u2019t just surpass current methods; it also predicts more accurately as problem sizes grow. The model requires less computing power despite these high-performance marks, making it more accessible to smaller enterprises.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiffusion-DFL runs on diffusion models, the same technology that powers DALL-E and other AI image generators. It is the first DFL framework based on diffusion models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnyone who makes high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, including supply chain managers, energy operators, and financial planners, benefits from Diffusion-DFL,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.zihaozhao.site\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZihao Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student who led the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInstead of optimizing around a single forecast, the model evaluates many possible scenarios, so decisions account for real-world risk and become more robust.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/iclr-2026\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERelated: GT @ ICLR 2026\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo test Diffusion-DFL, the team ran experiments based on real-world settings, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFactory manufacturing to meet product demand\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPower grid scheduling to meet energy demand\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStock market portfolio optimization\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn each case, Diffusion-DFL made more accurate decisions than current methods. It also performed better as problems became larger and more complex. These results confirm the model\u2019s ability to make important decisions in real-world scenarios with noisy data and uncertainty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiments also show that Diffusion-DFL is practical, not just accurate. Training diffusion models is expensive, so the team developed a way to reduce memory use. This cut training costs by more than 99.7%. As a result, Diffusion-DFL can reach more researchers and practitioners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur score-function estimator cuts GPU memory from over 60 gigabytes to 0.13 with almost no loss in decision quality, reducing the requirement for massive computing resources,\u201d Zhao said. \u201cI hope this expands Diffusion-DFL into other domains, like healthcare, where decisions must be made quickly under complex uncertainty.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond decision-making applications, Diffusion-DFL marks a shift in DFL techniques and in the broader use of generative AI models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn supply chain management, planners estimate future demand before deciding how much product to stock. In this DFL problem, engineers align ML models with predetermined decision objectives, like minimizing risk or reducing costs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne flaw of DFL methods is that they optimize around a single, deterministic prediction in an uncertain future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiffusion-DFL takes a different approach. Instead of making a single guess, it determines a range of possible outcomes. This leads to decisions based on many likely scenarios, rather than on a single assumed future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo do this, the framework uses diffusion models. These generative AI models create high-quality data from images, text, and audio.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe forward diffusion process involves adding noise to data until it becomes pure noise. Models trained via forward diffusion can reverse diffusion. This means they can start with noisy data and then produce meaningful insights from training examples.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReal-world data is often noisy and uncertain. Traditional DFL methods struggle in these conditions, but diffusion models are designed to handle them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause of this, Diffusion-DFL can explore many possible outcomes and choose better actions. Like image-generation AI, the model works well with complex data from different sources. This enables its use across different industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDiffusion models have achieved significant success in generative AI and image synthesis, but our work shows their potential extends far beyond that,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/guaguakai.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKai Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat makes Diffusion-DFL unique is that the specific downstream application guides how the model learns to handle uncertainty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhether we are scheduling energy for power grids, balancing risk in financial portfolios, or developing early warning systems in healthcare, we can explicitly train these highly expressive models to navigate the unique complexities of each domain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhao and Wang collaborated with Caltech Ph.D. candidate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chrisyeh96.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Yeh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Harvard University postdoctoral fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/alumnus-uses-ai-counter-african-poaching-improve-maternal-healthcare-access\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELingkai Kong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E on Diffusion-DFL. Kong earned his Ph.D. in CSE from Georgia Tech in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang will present Diffusion-DFL on behalf of the group at the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclr.cc\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EICLR 2026\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E). Occurring April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro, ICLR is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious conferences dedicated to artificial intelligence research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cICLR is the perfect stage for Diffusion-DFL because it brings together the exact community that needs to see the bridge between generative modeling and high-stakes decision-making for real-world applications,\u201d Wang said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPresenting Diffusion-DFL allows us to challenge the traditional training framework of diffusion models. It\u2019s about sparking a broader conversation on how we can align the training objectives of generative AI directly with actual, downstream decision-making needs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGenerative artificial intelligence (AI) is best known for creating images and text. Now, it is helping industries make better planning decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have created a new AI model for decision-focused learning (DFL), called Diffusion-DFL. Recent tests showed it makes more accurate decisions than current approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with optimizing industrial output, Diffusion-DFL lowers costs and reduces risk. Experiments also showed it performs across different fields.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.11590\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiffusion-DFL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E doesn\u2019t just surpass current methods; it also predicts more accurately as problem sizes grow. The model requires less computing power despite these high-performance marks, making it more accessible to smaller enterprises.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiffusion-DFL runs on diffusion models, the same technology that powers DALL-E and other AI image generators. It is the first DFL framework based on diffusion models.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have developed Diffusion-DFL, the first decision-focused learning model built on diffusion AI technology. 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This sets unrealistic expectations for AI and leads to misuse. It also slows progress toward building new AI applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are making AI easier to understand through their work on Transformer Explainer. The free, online tool shows non-experts how ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models (LLMs) process language.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/transformer-explainer\/\u0022\u003ETransformer Explainer\u003C\/a\u003E is easy to use and runs on any web browser. It quickly went viral after its debut, reaching 150,000 users in its first three months. More than 563,000 people worldwide have used the tool so far.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlobal interest in Transformer Explainer continues when the team presents the tool at the 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi2026.acm.org\/\u0022\u003ECHI 2026\u003C\/a\u003E). CHI, the world\u2019s most prestigious conference on human-computer interaction, will take place in Barcelona, April 13-17.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2026\/\u0022\u003ERelated: GT @ CHI 2026\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are moments when LLMs can seem almost like a person with their own will and personality, and that misperception has real consequences. For example, there have been cases where teenagers have made poor decisions based on conversations with LLMs,\u201d said Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aereeeee.github.io\/\u0022\u003EAeree Cho\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnderstanding that an LLM is fundamentally a model that predicts the probability distribution of the next token helps users avoid taking its outputs as absolute. What you put in shapes what comes out, and that understanding helps people engage with AI more carefully and critically.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA transformer is a neural network architecture that changes data input sequence into an output. Text, audio, and images are forms of processed data, which is why transformers are common in generative AI models. They do this by learning context and tracking mathematical relationships between sequence components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETransformer Explainer demystifies how transformers work. The platform uses visualization and interaction to show, step by step, how text flows through a model and produces predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing this approach, Transformer Explainer impacts the AI landscape in four main ways:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt counters hype and misconceptions surrounding AI by showing how transformers work.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt improves AI literacy among users by removing technical barriers and lowering the entry for learning about AI.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt expands AI education by helping instructors teach AI mechanisms without extensive setup or computing resources.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt influences future development of AI tools and educational techniques by providing a blueprint for interpretable AI systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I first learned about transformers, I felt overwhelmed. A transformer model has many parts, each with its own complex math. Existing resources typically present all this information at once, making it difficult to see how everything fits together,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gracekimcy.github.io\/\u0022\u003EGrace Kim\u003C\/a\u003E, a dual B.S.\/M.S. computer science student.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy leveraging interactive visualization, we use levels of abstraction to first show the big picture of the entire model. Then users click into individual parts to reveal the underlying details and math. This way, Transformer Explainer makes learning far less intimidating.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany users don\u2019t know what transformers are or how they work. The Georgia Tech team found that people often misunderstand AI. Some label AI with human-like characteristics, such as creativity. Others even describe it as working like magic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, barriers make it hard for students interested in transformers to start learning. Tutorials tend to be too technical and overwhelm beginners with math and code. While visualization tools exist, these often target more advanced AI experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETransformer Explainer overcomes these obstacles through its interactive, user-focused platform. It runs a familiar GPT model directly in any web browser, requiring no installation or special hardware.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsers can enter their own text and watch the model predict the next word in real time. Sankey-style diagrams show how information moves through embeddings, attention heads, and transformer blocks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe platform also lets users switch between high-level concepts and detailed math. By adjusting temperature settings, users can see how randomness affects predictions. This reveals how probabilities drive AI outputs, rather than creativity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMillions of people around the world interact with transformer-driven AI. 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Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alechelbling.com\/\u0022\u003EAlec Helbling\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/seongmin.xyz\/\u0022\u003ESeongmin Lee\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bhoov.com\/\u0022\u003EBen Hoover\u003C\/a\u003E, and alumni\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zijie.wang\/\u0022\u003EZijie (Jay) Wang\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minsuk.com\/\u0022\u003EMinsuk Kahng\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2019) assisted on the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E supervised the group and their work. His lab focuses on data science, human-centered AI, and visualization for social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcceptance at CHI 2026 stems from the team winning the best poster award at the 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference. 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Robel and Macedo, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, advocated for this year\u2019s field trip to give students direct exposure to how the concepts taught in class are used in coastal communities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cPlaces like Savannah, Tybee Island, and Charleston aren\u2019t planning for a distant future; they\u2019re making real infrastructure decisions right now,\u201d explains Robel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECoastal case studies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOn Tybee Island, city leaders and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff discussed with students how to balance tourism, environmental protection, and shoreline preservation. 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Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E students,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAnnie Lin\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMadeline Weller\u003C\/strong\u003E, were selected as walk-on recipients of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/stampsps.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Stamps President\u2019s Scholars Program.\u003C\/a\u003E As Scholars, they will\u0026nbsp;be awarded a full-ride scholarship, special mentoring, and travel opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThough this scholarship is typically given to 50 exceptional incoming first-year students, a select few second- and third-year students are chosen to receive the honor for exemplifying the program\u2019s pillars of scholarship, leadership, progress, and service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAnnie and Madeline are exemplary campus leaders and will be able to build on their progress and service with the support of the Stamps Program. We are thrilled for the contributions they bring to the environmental science community,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ELinda Green\u003C\/strong\u003E, principal academic professional and interim director of the Environmental Sciences (ENVS) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Annie Lin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELin is a second-year ENVS major conducting undergraduate research on methane and natural gas in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/jennifer-glass\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Glass Research Group.\u003C\/a\u003E Previous research highlights include quantifying microplastics in Georgia\u2019s coastal water and working with a student group to publish the first publicly available data on microplastics pollution in the Chattahoochee River.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI hope to build a career in environmental policy and justice \u2014 developing and implementing scientific, holistic, and equitable solutions to environmental issues and bridging the gaps between research, policy, and communities,\u201d says Lin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe is a student coordinator for Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education and the Georgia Tech student engagement and network coordinator for the United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise Greater Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhy environmental science?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI was born and raised in Atlanta and grew up close to the Chattahoochee River,\u201d explains Lin. \u201cIn high school, I was very involved with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, including an 11-mile, eight-hour paddling cleanup; field\u0026nbsp;and lab work to track bacterial contamination caused by sewage spills; and speaking to state legislators about environmental bills.\u0026nbsp;These experiences taught me the importance of helping make the necessary systemic changes to address environmental issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Madeline Weller\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWeller is a second-year ENVS major working in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tang.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Tang Research Group\u003C\/a\u003E, characterizing rare earth elements from Georgia kaolinite clay minerals for renewable energy applications. She also works on the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/teams\/entry\/1260\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech Methane Vertically Integrated Project\u003C\/a\u003E to pioneer local methane measurements and in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Office of Sustainability\u003C\/a\u003E to further sustainability efforts and outreach with Solar Stewards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThrough experiences with Solar Stewards, I saw firsthand how community and rooftop solar can impact people, reducing their energy burden\u2026,\u201d says Weller. \u0022Being at Georgia Tech has provided me with the resources and courage to act on my passion for achieving sustainability through energy equity, ensuring everybody has access to reliable and affordable electricity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOutside of research, she is a member of Energy Club @ GT; Sigma Gamma Epsilon,\u0026nbsp;the national honor society for the Earth Sciences;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists; Photography @ GT; and Runnin\u2019 Wreck.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EWhy environmental science?\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI chose environmental science because I was inspired to use my science skills to help find a solution to environmental issues, including climate change,\u201d she explains. \u201cImproving environmental conditions is not just important for biodiversity and ecosystems, but essential for human health and the longevity of future generations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to environmental science majors Annie Lin\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Madeline Weller.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Congratulations to environmental science majors Annie Lin\u00a0and\u00a0Madeline Weller."}],"uid":"36607","created_gmt":"2026-04-06 13:26:11","changed_gmt":"2026-04-13 16:00:13","author":"ls67","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679865":{"id":"679865","type":"image","title":"Annie Lin","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAnnie Lin\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1775486964","gmt_created":"2026-04-06 14:49:24","changed":"1775486964","gmt_changed":"2026-04-06 14:49:24","alt":"Headshot of smiling female student","file":{"fid":"264075","name":"Annie-Lin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/06\/Annie-Lin.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/06\/Annie-Lin.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":87234,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/06\/Annie-Lin.jpg?itok=koo-CaN2"}},"679857":{"id":"679857","type":"image","title":"Madeline Weller","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMadeline Weller\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1775483688","gmt_created":"2026-04-06 13:54:48","changed":"1775483688","gmt_changed":"2026-04-06 13:54:48","alt":"Headshot of a young woman","file":{"fid":"264067","name":"Madeline-Weller-.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/06\/Madeline-Weller-.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/04\/06\/Madeline-Weller-.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":154843,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/04\/06\/Madeline-Weller-.jpg?itok=0kb7-1kn"}}},"media_ids":["679865","679857"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/19\/college-sciences-students-earn-walk-stamps-presidents-scholarships","title":"College of Sciences Students Earn Walk-on Stamps President\u2019s Scholarships"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"193157","name":"Student Honors and Achievements"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192249","name":"cos-community"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"192259","name":"cos-students"},{"id":"169715","name":"stamps scholars"}],"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. 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It\u2019s a state only possible in low-oxygen environments, conditions researchers refer to as \u201creducing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cModels have suggested that these reducing conditions may have varied at different locations and times across the surface of the Moon,\u201d says lead author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/advik-vira\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvik Vira\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduate student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E who recently earned his doctoral degree. \u201cWe hope our microscopy technique can be a valuable step in mapping and understanding the Moon\u2019s 4.5-billion-year history.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team anticipates that their technique could be used on many of the lunar samples collected more than 50 years ago by the Apollo missions in addition to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/lunar-science\/programs\/angsa\/\u0022\u003EApollo Next Generation Samples\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 a group of lunar samples that have been stored under pristine conditions \u2014 and new samples from the planned\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\u0022\u003EArtemis missions\u003C\/a\u003E, with Artemis II slated for launch this spring. The technique might also be applicable to samples collected from the far side of the Moon and returned in 2024 by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/space-missions\/change-6\u0022\u003EChang\u2019e-6 mission\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe Moon holds clues not only to its own past, but also to the earliest eras of Earth\u2019s evolution \u2014 history that has long since been erased from our planet,\u201d Vira says. \u201cThis study is a step toward understanding the history of both and a reminder that there is still so much left to learn from the lunar rocks we\u2019ve brought back to Earth.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe School of Physics research team included corresponding authors Vira and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/phillip-first\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip First\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E; in addition to graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan Trivedi\u003C\/strong\u003E; undergraduate students\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGabriella Dotson, Keyes Eames\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDean Kim,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Emma Livernois\u003C\/strong\u003E; and Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/zhigang-jiang\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZhigang Jiang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, along with Institute for Matter and Systems Materials Characterization Facility Senior Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/matter-systems.research.gatech.edu\/people\/mengkun-tian\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMengkun Tian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E Senior Research Scientist\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/brant-m-jones\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrant Jones\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/thomas-orlando\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThom Orlando\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ERegents\u0027 Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry with a joint appointment in the School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Tech team was joined by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/addisenergy.com\/\u0022\u003EAddis Energy\u003C\/a\u003E Senior Geochemist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKatherine Burgess\u003C\/strong\u003E; Macalester College Assistant Professor of Geology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geology\/facultystaff\/emily-first\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmily First\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E; along with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lbl.gov\/\u0022\u003ELawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energygeosciences.lbl.gov\/profile\/hlisabeth\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHarrison Lisabeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Senior Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/als.lbl.gov\/people\/nobumichi-tamura\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENobumichi Tamura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EPostdoctoral Fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETyler Farr,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewho recently earned a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECLEVER research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe investigation began with a dark gray rock called a lunar basalt. Formed when ancient magma erupted on the Moon\u2019s surface, minerals crystallized as it cooled \u2014 preserving key information in their structures. Billions of years later, the rock was brought to Earth by the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, where a small piece is now stored at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/clever.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration Research (CLEVER)\u003C\/a\u003E, a NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) center led by Orlando.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs a NASA virtual institute, CLEVER supports researchers exploring lunar conditions and developing tools for the upcoming crewed Artemis missions, and provided the lunar samples for this research. The SSERVI also plays a critical role in training the next generation of planetary researchers: both Vira and Farr earned their Ph.D.s while on the CLEVER team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAt CLEVER, we are very interested in understanding the impacts of space weathering,\u201d Vira says. \u201cWe implemented modern\u0026nbsp;sample preparation and advanced microscopy techniques\u0026nbsp;to image samples at the atomic level, and were curious to apply it more broadly to the collection of Apollo rocks in the Orlando Lab. This sample caught our attention.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhen we imaged an ilmenite crystal from the lunar basalt, what struck us first was how uniform and perfect the crystal structure was,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWe found no defects from space weathering and instead saw an undamaged, pristine crystal \u2014 undisturbed for 3.8 billion years.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo investigate further, the team analyzed small chips of the rock with Burgess,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ea member of the RISE2 SSERVI team and then a geologist at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nrl.navy.mil\/\u0022\u003EU.S. Naval Research Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, Vira determined the oxidation state of the elements in the ilmenite\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Epresent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn spectroscopy measurements, each element leaves a distinct \u2018signature,\u2019 Vira explains. \u201cWhen we brought our results back to Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/matter-systems.research.gatech.edu\/mcf\/materials-characterization-facility\u0022\u003EMaterials Characterization Facility\u003C\/a\u003E, Mengkun (Tian) noticed something unusual: the signature showed titanium might be present in the trivalent state.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe presence of trivalent titanium had long been suspected in this lunar mineral. The team was intrigued.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA new window into old rocks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWith funding from Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cstar.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Space Technology and Research (CSTAR)\u003C\/a\u003E, Vira returned to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to analyze additional samples. The results confirmed that more titanium was present than the mineral\u2019s formula (FeTiO\u2083) predicts \u2014 indicating a portion of the titanium present was trivalent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThat led me to place our measurements in terms of the broader geological context,\u201d Vira shares. Working with First, Vira explored how ilmenite with trivalent titanium could help reconstruct the nature of ancient magmas from the Moon, especially the chemical availability of oxygen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cBecause its location on the Moon was noted during the Apollo mission, we know exactly where this rock is from, and we can determine how old the rock is,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhen coupled with our trivalent titanium measurements, we can use that information to estimate the reducing conditions for this specific region at the specific time our rock formed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIf the upcoming Artemis missions return samples suitable for the team\u2019s technique, these rocks could provide a new window into ancient lunar geology. The research also highlights that many lunar samples already on Earth could be reexamined to look for trivalent titanium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThere is still so much to learn from the lunar samples we have already brought to Earth,\u201d Vira says. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the long-term value of each sample return mission. As technology continues to advance, this type of work will continue to give us critical insights into our planet and our place in the universe for years to come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDOI\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-69770-w\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E10.1038\/s41467-026-69770-w\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFunding\u003C\/strong\u003E: This work was directly supported by the NASA SSERVI under CLEVER. Researchers were also supported by the NASA RISE2 SSERVI and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Funding for collaborations between the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Georgia Tech for the investigation of lunar minerals was provided by the Georgia Tech Center for Space Technology and Research. Sample preparation was performed at the Georgia Tech Institute for Matter and Systems, which is supported by the National Science Foundation. 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The program is co-led by Nicole Kennard, assistant director for Community-Engaged Research with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS)\u003C\/a\u003E, along with Associate Professor Richard Milligan and Associate Professor Sarah Ledford from Georgia State University, Associate Professor Emily Burchfield and Associate Teaching Professor Carolyn Keogh from Emory University, and Iesha Baldwin from Spelman College. The program also partners with several community-based organizations to co-develop strategic direction and provide training. They are\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scienceforgeorgia.org\/\u0022\u003EScience for Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.historicwestsidegardens.org\/\u0022\u003EHistoric Westside Gardens\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hbcugreenfund.org\/\u0022\u003EHBCU Green Fund\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.southriverga.org\/\u0022\u003ESouth River Watershed Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foodwellalliance.org\/\u0022\u003EFood Well Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe primary aim of the Atlanta Student Community-Engaged Research (CER) Network is to use a peer learning approach to train graduate students with the skills to co-lead community-engaged and locally focused research, while at the same time building relationships with local community organizations. This approach will help address local sustainability and societal challenges, lay the foundation for community-engaged research programs, and enable young researchers interested in this work to thrive in the Atlanta area. Initial funding for the pilot program was provided by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantaglobalstudies.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta Global Studies Center\u003C\/a\u003E and the Georgia Tech Provost\u0027s Excellence in Graduate Studies fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program received a total of 41 applications from graduate students from Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, and Emory University. Thirty-five master\u2019s and Ph.D. students were accepted into the cohort, spanning a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities, sciences, design,\u0026nbsp; public health, engineering, and computing. The program has additionally engaged eight senior-level undergraduates from Spelman College to learn about graduate school tracks with community-engaged research opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis program provides a unique opportunity to learn engagement and leadership skills not typically taught in graduate programs. Students are attending one training a month over the course of the Spring 2026 semester. Here, they learn about the diversity of sustainability-focused, community-based organizations in the area, develop skills to engage meaningfully with community partners in research projects, and improve the ways they communicate to the public about research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Provost\u0027s Excellence in Graduate Studies fund will provide a $2,500 stipend to five Georgia Tech students who will work on a research project with a community partner organization. These projects will take place over the spring and summer semesters this year, providing opportunities for graduate students to apply their newly acquired community-engagement skills to on-the-ground research, while also opening a new pathway for Georgia Tech\u2019s engagement with community partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFellows and projects include:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIrene Jacob, M.S., city and regional planning, will work with the\u0026nbsp;Food Well Alliance to update the implementation strategy for their 10-year community garden survey.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEthan Zhao, M.S., human-computer interaction, will work with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.historicwestsidegardens.org\/\u0022\u003EHistoric Westside Gardens\u003C\/a\u003E to integrate new technologies into their community garden spaces and assess the benefits to the communities they serve.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVirginia Cason, M.S., sustainable energy and environmental management, will work with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scienceforgeorgia.org\/\u0022\u003EScience for Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E to translate data gathering and analysis into community-centered narratives.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESharon Rachel, Ph.D., history and sociology of technology and science, will work with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hbcugreenfund.org\/\u0022\u003EHBCU Green Fund\u003C\/a\u003E to examine the environmental and community impacts of data center projects in Atlanta.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EElla Neumann, Ph.D., interactive computing, will work with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.southriverga.org\/\u0022\u003ESouth River Watershed Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E to document and communicate the history and impact of the City of Atlanta\u0027s combined sewer consent decree, and assess if the intended results of the decree have been met.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplicants expressed their passion for community-engaged research projects and working directly with local community members and organizations:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLived experience is just as valuable as academic expertise, and meaningful change only occurs when both work together. I think that this takes approaching problems with a lot of humility, care, and a genuine desire to listen to communities and their needs.\u201d -Virginia Cason,\u0026nbsp;M.S.,\u0026nbsp;sustainable energy and environmental management\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want to do research that stems from a theoretical question, but is feasible in reality and benefits the community. One of the most efficient ways to achieve this goal is through doing research WITH the community.\u201d -Keke Li, M.S., analytics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCommunity-engaged research is not only a methodology, but a\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecommitment to partnership, humility, and shared power.\u201d -Grace Fraser, M.S., city and regional planning\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo me, community-engaged research means working with people, not just for them. CER is not only a method but also a mindset. True impact comes when research and community experience grow together.\u201d -Bingjie Lu, Ph.D., civil engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe community partners involved in the program are equally enthusiastic about community-engaged research. As Fred Conrad of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.foodwellalliance.org\/\u0022\u003EFood Well Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E put it, \u201cFood Well has been intentional about engaging our constituents since we began, and this is not only a continuation of that effort, but a significant refinement of how we accomplish that. I think all of us have deepened our understanding of the CER process since we began this journey.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis program provides a unique opportunity to learn engagement and leadership skills not typically taught in graduate programs. 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However, one Saturday last month, the focus shifted from competition to collaboration.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (GSCS) held its annual meeting on February 21 in Athens. Since 2009, the event has hosted researchers from across the Peach State to showcase homegrown advances in scientific computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/haoningwu.github.io\/GSCS2026.html\u0022\u003EThe symposium\u003C\/a\u003E highlighted Georgia\u2019s reputation as a computing innovation hub. People from around the world come to Georgia universities to lead computing research. By advancing science, engineering, medicine, and technology, their work improves communities at home and abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and students from Georgia Tech, UGA, Georgia State University, and Emory University presented at the symposium. Georgia Tech participants came from the colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s organizers agreed to meet in Atlanta for the 2027 symposium. Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)\u003C\/a\u003E will host the 19th GSCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom healthcare to computer chip design, scientific computing underpins many of the technological advances we see in our lives,\u201d said Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~echow\/\u0022\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/a\u003E, associate chair of the School of CSE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cScientific computing provides the mathematical models, simulations, and data\u2011driven tools that make modern innovation possible. It allows people to analyze complex systems, test ideas virtually before building them, and make faster, more accurate decisions across nearly every sector of society.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hmzhou.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHaomin Zhou\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/itshelenxu.github.io\/\u0022\u003EHelen Xu\u003C\/a\u003E delivered two of the symposium\u2019s five plenary talks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhou presented a new method for solving the Schr\u00f6dinger equation, a landmark equation in quantum mechanics. Drawing inspiration from the mathematics used in generative artificial intelligence models, his approach develops an algorithm that more effectively simulates waves, particle motion, and other physical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXu focused on improving how computers move and organize data during complex calculations. Her work uses \u201ccache-friendly\u201d layouts that help computers access data more efficiently, boosting performance for scientific and engineering applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSpeaking at GSCS was a great opportunity,\u201d Xu said. \u201cThe symposium fostered connections within the scientific computing community and gave us a chance to share exciting research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium showcased student work through a poster blitz and a poster session. During the blitz, 36 students each had one minute to introduce their research to the full audience. They then shared more details about their research during the poster session.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe student projects showed the range of fields supported by scientific computing. The session also provided attendees with an opportunity to connect and expand their professional networks, helping grow the field\u2019s future impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs an aerospace engineer by training and aspiring computational scientist, GSCS gave me the platform to network with other researchers in the field while showcasing my own research,\u201d said M.S. student \u003Cstrong\u003EKashvi Mundra\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was able to connect with scientists across different disciplines whose work intersects with my own in unexpected ways. 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The same is true for crews facing digital threats on oil tankers, cargo ships, and other commercial vessels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENew cybersecurity research from the Georgia Institute of Technology, however, revealed that crews aboard commercial vessels were often not adequately prepared to manage cyberattacks effectively due to systemic training gaps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe findings are based on interviews conducted by researchers with more than 20 officer-level mariners to assess the maritime industry\u2019s readiness to handle cybersecurity attacks at sea.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Historically, cybersecurity research has focused heavily on cyber-physical systems like cars, factories, and industrial plants, but ships have largely been overlooked,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/annaraymaker.dad\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnna Raymaker\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. student and lead researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat gap is concerning when more than 90% of the world\u2019s goods travel by sea. Recent incidents, from GPS spoofing to ships linked to subsea cable disruptions, show that maritime systems are increasingly part of the global cyber threat landscape.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers proposed four practical strategies to strengthen maritime cyber defenses and close the training gaps. Their findings were presented recently at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2025\/call-for-papers\/\u0022\u003EACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E1. Make Cybersecurity Training Actually Maritime\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of those interviewed for the study described current cybersecurity training as \u201cboilerplate\u201d \u2014 generic modules that don\u2019t reflect real shipboard risks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers recommend:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERole-specific instruction: Navigation officers should learn to detect and identify GPS spoofing. Engineers should focus on vulnerabilities in remotely monitored systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBridging IT and Operational Technology: Crews need to understand how attacks on IT systems can trigger physical consequences in operational technology \u2014 including collisions, groundings, or explosions.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHands-on delivery: Replace passive PowerPoints with drills and in-person exercises that build muscle memory.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccessible standards: Training must account for the wide range of educational backgrounds across crews and be standardized across ranks.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E2. Move Beyond \u201cCall IT\u201d\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt sea, crews can\u2019t simply escalate a cyber incident to a shore-based IT department and wait. Operational resilience requires onboard readiness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers recommend:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVessel-specific response plans: Ships need clear, actionable protocols for threats such as AIS jamming or radar manipulation.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMilitary-style drills: Adopting MCON (Emission Control) exercises \u2014 used by the U.S. Military Sealift Command \u2014 can train crews to operate safely without electronic systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStronger connectivity controls: High-bandwidth satellite systems like Starlink introduce new risks. Clear policies and network segregation are essential to prevent new entry points for attackers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Ch6\u003ERelated Article: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/when-gps-lies-at-sea-how-electronic-warfare-is-threatening-ships-and-their-crews-278181\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen GPS lies at sea: How electronic warfare is threatening ships and their\u0026nbsp;crews\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E by Anna Raymaker\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E3. Create Unified, Ship-Specific Regulations\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaritime cybersecurity regulations are often reactive and fragmented. Researchers argue the industry needs a cohesive, domain-specific framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKey recommendations include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EA unified global model: Like the energy sector\u2019s NERC CIP standards, a maritime framework could mandate baseline controls such as encryption, network segmentation, and anonymous incident reporting.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERules built for real crews: Regulations designed for large naval operations don\u2019t translate well to smaller merchant or research vessels. Standards must reflect actual shipboard conditions.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFuture-proofing requirements: Autonomous ships and remotely operated vessels expand the cyber-physical attack surface. Regulations must proactively address these emerging technologies.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E4. Invest in Maritime-Specific Cyber Research\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, the researchers stress that long-term resilience requires deeper technical research focused on maritime systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPriority areas include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReal-time intrusion detection systems tailored to shipboard protocols.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProactive security risk assessments of interconnected onboard systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECyber-physical modeling to better understand cascading failures in complex maritime environments.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6\u003EThe Bottom Line\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECyber threats at sea are no longer hypothetical. Mariners report real-world incidents ranging from GPS spoofing to ransomware that disrupts global trade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough our interviews with mariners, I saw firsthand how much dedication and pride they take in their work,\u201d said Raymaker. \u201cOur goal is for this research to serve as a call to action for researchers, policymakers, and industry to invest more attention in maritime cybersecurity and support the people who risk their lives every day to keep global trade, food, and energy moving.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3719027.3744816\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Sea of Cyber Threats: Maritime Cybersecurity from the Perspective of Mariners\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas presented at CCS 2025. It was written by Raymaker and her colleagues, Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EAkshaya Kumar\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMiuyin Yong Wong\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Pickren\u003C\/strong\u003E; Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EAnimesh Chhotaray\u003C\/strong\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Li,\u003C\/strong\u003E Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESaman Zonouz\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Georgia Tech Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs \u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that commercial ship crews are often unprepared for cyberattacks due to inadequate, generic training, despite rising threats like GPS spoofing and ransomware. Because ships must handle incidents independently at sea, researchers recommend more practical, maritime-specific training, stronger onboard response plans, unified global cybersecurity regulations, and increased investment in ship-focused cyber research. 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Twenty different amino acids build the thousands of proteins that carry out biological tasks. While some are made naturally in our bodies, others are absorbed through the food we eat.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAmino acids also play a critical role commercially where they are manufactured and added to pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, cosmetics, animal feeds, and industrial chemicals \u2014 an energy-intensive process leading to greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and pollution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EA landmark new system developed at Georgia Tech could lead to an alternative: a commercially scalable, environmentally sustainable method for amino acid production that is carbon negative, using more carbon than it emits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe breakthrough builds on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/new-carbon-negative-method-produce-essential-amino-acids\u0022\u003Ea method that the team pioneered\u003C\/a\u003E in 2024 and solves a key issue \u2013 increasing efficiency to an unprecedented 97% and reducing the bioprocess cost by over 40%.\u0026nbsp;It\u2019s\u0026nbsp;the highest reported conversion of CO2 equivalents into amino acids using any synthetic biology system to date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPublished in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EACS Synthetic Biology,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ethe study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acssynbio.5c00352\u0022\u003ECell-Free-Based Thermophilic Biocatalyst for the Synthesis of Amino Acids From One-Carbon Feedstocks\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d was led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/catalog.gatech.edu\/programs\/bioengineering-phd\/\u0022\u003EBioengineering\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERay Westenberg\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/peralta-yahya.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Pamela Peralta-Yahya\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who holds joint appointments in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. The team also included\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EShaafique Chowdhury\u003C\/strong\u003E (Ph.D. ChBE 25) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKimberly Wennerholm\u003C\/strong\u003E (ChBE 23)\u003Cstrong\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ealongside\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Washington\u003C\/a\u003E collaborators\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chainreaction.anl.gov\/ryan-cardiff\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Cardiff\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, then a Ph.D. student and now a Chain Reaction Innovations Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and Charles W. H. Matthaei Endowed Professor in Chemical Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cheme.washington.edu\/facultyfinder\/james-carothers\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames M. 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To optimize their \u201cmachine,\u201d the team would need to remove the extra background machinery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022Leftover cell parts were using key resources without helping produce the amino acids we were looking for,\u201d says Peralta-Yahya. \u201cWe knew that heating the system could be one way to purify it because heat can denature these components.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe challenge was in how to protect the essential system components from the high temperatures, she adds. \u201cWe wondered if introducing enzymes produced by a heat-loving bacterium,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMoorella thermoacetica,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Emight protect our system, while still allowing us to denature and remove that inefficient background machinery.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe results were astounding: after introducing the enzymes, heating and \u201ccleaning\u201d the system, and letting it cool to room temperature, synthesis of the amino acids serine and glycine leaped to 97% yield \u2014 nearly three times that of the team\u2019s previous system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScaling for Sustainability\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo make the system viable for large-scale use, the team also needed to reduce costs. \u201cOne of the most costly components in this system is the cofactor tetrahydrofolate (THF),\u201d Peralta-Yahya shares. \u201cReducing the amount of THF needed to start the process was one way to make the system more inexpensive and ultimately more commercially viable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBy linking reaction steps so waste from one step fueled the next, the team devised a method to recycle THF within the system that reduces the amount of THF needed by five-fold \u2014 lowering bioprocessing costs by 42%.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis decrease in cost and increase in yield is a critical step forward in creating a method with real potential for use in industry and manufacturing,\u201d Peralta-Yahya says. \u201cThis system could pave the way for moving this carbon-negative technology out of the lab and onto the continuous, industrial scale.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: The Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E); U.S. Department of Energy; and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssynbio.5c00352\u0022 title=\u0022DOI URL\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssynbio.5c00352\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed a breakthrough system to manufacture valuable amino acids. 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As digital infrastructure expands and computation intensifies, the need for reliable, resilient, and sustainable power has never been more urgent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEnergy Day reflects Georgia Tech\u2019s strength in connecting world-class research in materials and components with the infrastructure and partnerships needed to translate discovery into scalable energy technologies that serve industry, society, and the future economy,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/matter-systems.gatech.edu\/people\/eric-vogel\u0022\u003EEric Vogel\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of the IMS and the Hightower Professor in Materials Science and Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnergy Day 2026 also marks an important milestone with the introduction of its first group of corporate sponsors:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gevernova.com\/\u0022\u003EGE Vernova\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/\u0022\u003ESouthern Company\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiapower.com\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Power\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/corporate.exxonmobil.com\/\u0022\u003EExxonMobil\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/southwirespark.com\/\u0022\u003ESouthwire Spark\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/gems-setra\/\u0022\u003EGems Setra\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tek.com\/en\u0022\u003ETektronix\u003C\/a\u003E. Their support reflects a shared commitment to advancing energy solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTektronix is excited to be part of Energy Day because advancing the future of energy starts with precise measurement and trusted insights,\u201d said Christopher Bohn, president of Tektronix. \u201cFrom power electronics and high voltage systems to grid scale renewables and AI driven control technologies, the breakthroughs discussed here directly align with the innovations we support through our products and solutions. Collaborating with Georgia Tech allows us to engage early with emerging research and the next generation of engineers\u2014critical collaborators in building a cleaner, smarter, and more resilient energy ecosystem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe keynote address will be delivered by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vanessazchan\/\u0022\u003EVanessa Z. Chan\u003C\/a\u003E, a nationally recognized leader at the intersection of\u0026nbsp;innovation, commercialization, and emerging technologies. Chan will provide insights on accelerating technological discovery, emphasizing how AI is transforming energy and materials design. She will discuss how commercialization strategies must rapidly evolve across multidisciplinary energy domains from grid modernization to advanced batteries and clean manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBuilding on the themes introduced in the keynote, the program transitions into a fireside chat with Georgia Tech EVPR\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/leadership\u0022\u003ETim Lieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E featuring\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kulkarniam\/\u0022\u003EAmit Kulkarni\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/james-jim-walsh\/\u0022\u003EJim Walsh\u003C\/a\u003E. Kulkarni is vice president of Product Management and Strategy for the Gas Power business within GE Vernova, where he oversees the world\u2019s largest portfolio of power generation equipment. Walsh, vice president of GE Vernova\u2019s Consulting Services, leads teams providing innovative solutions across the full spectrum of power generation, delivery, and utilization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext comes a policy-focused panel that will explore the surge in power demand driven by AI, how the United States is addressing today\u2019s most urgent energy challenges, and the long-term implications of today\u2019s decisions for a sustainable energy future. Bringing together leading voices in U.S. environmental and energy policy, the panel features\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joseph-aldy-0794942\/\u0022\u003EJoe Aldy\u003C\/a\u003E of Harvard University and former special assistant to the president for Energy and Environment;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/al-mcgartland-161689a\/\u0022\u003EAl McGartland\u003C\/a\u003E of New York University\u2019s Institute for Policy Integrity and former Environmental Protection Agency lead economist and director of the National Center for Environmental Economics; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kevinrennert\/\u0022\u003EKevin Rennert\u003C\/a\u003E, fellow and director of the Comprehensive Climate Strategies Program at Resources for the Future and former staff member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second panel focuses on critical materials \u2014 the foundation of advanced energy systems and digital technologies. As AI, data centers, and advanced energy technologies drive demand for critical materials, securing them now requires integration and coordination across the entire value chain. Panelists include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/rachel-galloway\u0022 id=\u0022menur1su2\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/rachel-galloway\u0022\u003ERachel Galloway\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;British consul general in Atlanta;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vijaymurugesan\/\u0022\u003EVijay Murugesan\u003C\/a\u003E, head of Materials Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Amazon; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinspellmeyer\/?utm_source=share_via\u0026amp;utm_content=profile\u0026amp;utm_medium=member_ios\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinspellmeyer\/?utm_source=share_via\u0026amp;utm_content=profile\u0026amp;utm_medium=member_ios\u0022\u003EColin Spellmeyer\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;executive strategic sourcing leader at GE Vernova; \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/haslam.utk.edu\/people\/profile\/charles-sims\/\u0022\u003ECharles Sims\u003C\/a\u003E, Tennessee Valley Authority Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Tennessee; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nnnyeboah\/\u0022 id=\u0022menur1sua\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nnnyeboah\/\u0022\u003ENortey Yeboah\u003C\/a\u003E, principal engineer at Southern Company. 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At Georgia Tech, we see this event as a catalyst for new partnerships, new solutions, and a shared commitment to strengthening the nation\u2019s energy foundation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnergy Day 2026 is designed for researchers advancing emerging energy technologies, policymakers navigating shifting regulatory and geopolitical landscapes, industry professionals seeking insight into emerging tools and supply chains, and students preparing to enter one of the most consequential sectors of the decade. It also welcomes anyone interested in AI, sustainability, electrification, and critical materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoin us to explore the future of energy. 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Effective response and long-term resilience depend on the ability to observe, record, and communicate critical data under pressure. Georgia Tech\u2019s IDR course pairs structured on-campus preparation with international field experiences, enabling students to study the cascading effects of major disasters, including how local building practices, governance, and culture shape damage and recovery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen students step into a disaster zone, they learn quickly that resilience is a systems problem: physical, social, and informational. Our job in computing is to help them capture and reason about that system responsibly,\u201d Roozbahani said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELearning from the 2025 Himalayas Expedition\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring spring break last year, the cohort traveled along the Teesta River corridor in Sikkim, India. The region is shaped by steep terrain, fast-moving water, and critical infrastructure in narrow valleys.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe visit followed the October 2023 glacial lake outburst flood from South Lhonak Lake, which destroyed the Teesta III hydropower dam and impacted downstream towns, including Dikchu and Rangpo. Field stops across India included Lachung, Chungthang, Dikchu, Rangpo, Gangtok, and New Delhi.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents explored both upstream and downstream consequences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpstream, the team examined how steep terrain and river confinement amplify flood forces, creating cascading risks for infrastructure. Using Filio\u2019s interactive 360\u00b0 media, students captured conditions in Lachung and Chungthang, allowing viewers to explore the landscape through a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/app.filio.io\/photo-viewer?src=https:\/\/visual.filio.io\/f-67d1cabeb82b05102bf91a4c\/_d6LpRAkr0ymi1OqCtGeAYrXo8xBGTJmACPN0SGXP50QlCE8FLR-f-67da18bc11c485642674bf73_=s0-photo-r0\u0026amp;rotation=0\u0026amp;type=360\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E360\u00b0 photo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/app.filio.io\/video-viewer?src=https:\/\/visual.filio.io\/f-67d1cabeb82b05102bf91a4c\/_IX5yWxXjRjtueg1qeGFhV62K8GDhLlarQ6uFC9g4zkjIl7rCM3-f-67dcd50f11c485642674d269_=s0-video\u0026amp;rotation=0\u0026amp;type=360\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E360\u00b0 video\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that reveal how topography and river dynamics intensify disaster impacts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey studied community-scale effects downstream, including damaged buildings, disrupted access, and prolonged recovery timelines.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERangpo offered a glimpse of recovery in motion, with materials staged for rebuilding bridges and roads essential to commerce and emergency response.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUsing Immersive Media as a Learning Tool\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents documented their field experience using \u003Cem\u003EFilio\u003C\/em\u003E, an AI-powered visual reporting platform developed by Roozbahani through Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E ecosystem. Filio captures high-resolution photos, video, and 360\u00b0 immersive media, preserving both the facts and the context of disaster sites; what the site felt like, what was lost, and what communities prioritized in recovery.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA 360\u00b0 capture lets students return months later and ask better questions. That second look is where learning accelerates,\u201d Roozbahani said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupported by alumni and faculty mentors, including Tech alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EChris Klaus\u003C\/strong\u003E and Georgia Tech mentor \u003Cstrong\u003EBill Higginbotham\u003C\/strong\u003E, the platform is evolving into a reusable educational library for future courses on immersive technology, responsible AI, and global resilience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKathmandu: The Context of Culture\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course concluded in Kathmandu, Nepal, where students examined how heritage, governance, and the everyday use of public space shape resilience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough Filio\u2019s immersive documentation \u2014 including a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/app.filio.io\/photo-viewer?src=https:\/\/visual.filio.io\/f-67d1cafeb82b05102bf91a4d\/_n2OFrWLzHNcdTkMl6uD9j0tSrOPybGLZccsNcarj8vwZaZIbuu-f-67dedf3f11c485642674d820_=s0-photo-r0\u0026amp;rotation=0\u0026amp;type=360\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E360\u00b0 photo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/app.filio.io\/video-viewer?src=https:\/\/visual.filio.io\/f-67d1cafeb82b05102bf91a4d\/_CD25dUToZ6BgfmfrayfHHtsThQGJIQWu82xqmzSy884UXHnbEB-f-67dd5a9b11c485642674d302_=s0-video\u0026amp;rotation=0\u0026amp;type=360\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E360\u00b0 video\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E from Kathmandu \u2014 the focus broadened from hazard impacts to cultural context, highlighting how recovery is not only about rebuilding structures, but also about preserving identity, memory, and community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELooking Ahead: A Growing Resource for All Students\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrost and Roozbahani envision the IDR immersive media library as a reusable resource for students even when they cannot travel, supporting future courses on immersive technology, responsible AI, and global resilience. 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While there, he contributed to the lab\u2019s Meta-sponsored\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-algorithm-teaches-robots-through-human-perspective\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEgoMimic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;project, which trains robots to perform human tasks using recordings captured by Meta\u2019s Project Aria research glasses.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPunamiya\u0026nbsp;is\u0026nbsp;also the first author of a paper accepted to the 2025 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),\u0026nbsp;one of the world\u2019s most prestigious artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning conferences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRyan is the strongest undergraduate I\u0027ve worked with,\u201d Xu said, \u201cincluding students who went on to Stanford, Berkeley, and leadership roles in major tech companies.\u0026nbsp;He\u2019s\u0026nbsp;already\u0026nbsp;operating\u0026nbsp;at the level of a strong\u0026nbsp;third-year Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;student.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPunamiya\u0026nbsp;said it was a challenge to balance his undergraduate coursework with his research in Xu\u2019s lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou get out how much you put in,\u201d\u0026nbsp;he\u0026nbsp;said.\u0026nbsp;\u201cI built my class schedule to give myself as much time to do research as possible. It also boils down to having the right research mentors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c(Xu) never saw me as an\u0026nbsp;undergrad\u0026nbsp;who\u2019s\u0026nbsp;just there to do grunt work. I was\u0026nbsp;fortunate\u0026nbsp;he saw my curiosity and cultivated me as a researcher.\u0026nbsp;That\u2019s\u0026nbsp;really how\u0026nbsp;you get more\u0026nbsp;undergrads\u0026nbsp;motivated to research \u2014 giving them the chance to be independent and explore ideas of their own.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPunamiya\u0026nbsp;said his work in Xu\u2019s lab has already helped him identify the research areas he wants to focus on as he considers his next steps. He will continue developing generalized training models for robots using human data so they can perform tasks instantly upon deployment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The amount of data needed to train a robot is difficult to obtain even for top industry companies,\u0022 he said. \u0022We have embodied robot data available in billions of humans. With the advent of extended reality devices, we can get a scalable source of diverse interactions within environments.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPunamiya\u0026nbsp;graduated in December and recently started an internship at Nvidia. He mentioned he has been accepted into several Ph.D. programs, including Georgia Tech, and he is choosing where to continue his research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s the first time my research has been\u0026nbsp;acknowledged\u0026nbsp;externally by the robotics community,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s\u0026nbsp;good to\u0026nbsp;know\u0026nbsp;the problem\u0026nbsp;I\u2019m\u0026nbsp;working on is important, and that motivates me. Robotics is an exciting field. We are doing things now that two years ago were difficult to do.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearching Inclusion in Computing Education\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbramson conducts research in the People-Agents Research for Computing Education (PARCE) Laboratory under the mentorship of\u0026nbsp;Pedro Guillermo Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda, a faculty member\u0026nbsp;in the School of Computing Instruction. He and the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Olufisayo Omojokun, nominated her for the award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work focuses on the intersection of computing education and human-AI interaction, where she\u2019s been exploring ways to create more equitable technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is such a huge milestone, and I couldn\u0027t be prouder of Summer,\u201d Feij\u00f3o-Garc\u00eda said. \u201cMentoring her for almost two years has been an amazing experience.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbramson has received the Georgia Tech President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) twice, which supports her research exploring how user-centered design curricula can help address attrition among women in computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve had the amazing opportunity to pursue research at the intersection of student identity, community belonging, and how we can build tools that support our diverse student population,\u201d Abramson said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDr. Pedro and I have a goal to build community through a human-first approach, and I could not be more grateful for his support and guidance in my own journey. The CRA highlights the best of what the computing discipline has to offer, and I am incredibly honored for our work to be recognized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbramson will spend the summer researching how user-centered design curricula can help promote confidence, belonging, and retention for women in computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENominees for the PURA program were recognized for contributing to multiple research projects, authoring or coauthoring papers, presenting at conferences, developing widely used software artifacts, and supporting their communities as teaching assistants, tutors, and mentors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESchool of Computing Instruction Communications Officer Emily Smith contributed to this story.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMain Photo: Ryan Punamiya works with a robot during the 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta. 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Modern simulations, combined with data-driven methods, allow us to bring these pieces together into a unified picture.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang\u2019s research connects HPC and machine learning with fusion energy and plasma physics. This year, Tang is continuing work on large-scale nuclear fusion models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnly a few experimental fusion reactors exist worldwide compared to more than 400 nuclear fission reactors. Tang\u2019s work supports a broader effort to turn fusion from a promising idea into a practical energy source.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENuclear fusion occurs in plasma, the fourth state of matter, where gas is heated to millions of degrees. In this extreme state, electrons are stripped from atoms, creating a hot soup of fast-moving ions and free electrons. In plasma, hydrogen atoms overcome their natural electrical repulsion, collide, and fuse together. This releases energy that can power cities and homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputers interpret extreme temperatures, densities, pressures, and plasma particle motion as massive datasets. Tang works to assimilate these data types from computer models and real-world experiments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo do this, he and other researchers rely on machine learning approaches to analyze data across models and experiments more quickly and to produce more accurate predictions. Over time, this will allow scientists to test and improve fusion reactor designs toward commercial use.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond energy and nuclear engineering,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pk.linkedin.com\/in\/umarkhayaz\u0022\u003EUmar Khayaz\u003C\/a\u003E sees broader impacts for HPC in 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHPC is the need of the day in every field of engineering sciences, physics, biology, and economics,\u201d said Khayaz, a CSE Ph.D. student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHPC is important enough to say that we need to employ resources to also solve social problems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKhayaz studies dynamic fracture and phase-field modeling. These areas explore how materials break under sudden, rapid loads.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike nuclear fusion, Khayaz says dynamic fracture problems are complex and data-intensive. In 2026, he expects to see more computing resources and computational capabilities devoted to understanding these problems and other emerging civil engineering challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECSE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ahren09.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYiqiao (Ahren) Jin\u003C\/a\u003E sees a similar relationship between infrastructure and self-driving vehicles. He believes AI will innovate this area in 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Jin develops efficient multimodal AI systems. An autonomous vehicle is a multimodal system that uses camera video, laser sensors, language instructions, and other inputs to navigate city streets under changing scenarios like traffic and weather patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJin says multimodal research will move beyond performance benchmarks this year. This shift will lead to computer systems that can reason despite uncertainty and explain their decisions. In result, engineers will redefine how they evaluate and deploy autonomous systems in safety-critical settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany foundational problems in perception, multimodal reasoning, and agent coordination are being actively addressed in 2026. 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Organized by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyclub.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnergy Club at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, the hackathon\u2019s mission was to unite passionate students, tackle critical challenges in the energy industry, and foster innovation and collaboration.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the course of 36 hours, participants collaborated in teams to brainstorm, design, and prototype projects that promote sustainable practices based on diverse problem statements, addressing this year\u2019s tracks: \u003Cstrong\u003Erenewables; electrification \u0026amp; mobility; and smart grid.\u003C\/strong\u003E These themes targeted urgent issues, from balancing renewable energy supply and demand to safeguarding infrastructure against cyber threats and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the arrival of a winter storm and the hackathon shifting to a fully virtual format, students persevered and produced top-tier projects, which were evaluated by a panel of judges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event kicked off with an engaging opening ceremony featuring inspiring keynote speeches that set the tone for the hackathon\u2019s ambitious objectives. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/spotlight-ann-dunkin-sei-distinguished-external-fellow\u0022\u003EAnn Dunkin\u003C\/a\u003E, Distinguished External Fellow at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI), served as the first of these keynotes, presenting her experiences as chief information officer for the U.S. Department of Energy. She gave participants, whether newcomers or veterans in the energy space, diverse problems to tackle, ranging from cybersecurity risks in substations to climate concerns in the age of artificial intelligence. Dunkin emphasized that no matter the challenge, a strong team can always develop innovative solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was impressed by the quality and completeness of the solutions that the students created over about 40 hours,\u201d said Dunkin. \u0022Students created real solutions that meet market needs, and they conveyed an incredible amount of information in the three minutes they had to present their solutions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite the switch to a virtual format, participants could still talk to mentors throughout the event. These mentors included a Google lead, startup CEOs, Ph.D. researchers, and other professionals with decades of experience in the energy industry. Mentors provided feedback on participants\u2019 ideas and guided them to think more deeply about the problems they chose. The various workshops also provided participants with a chance to dig deep into specific topics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michaelklevy\/\u0022\u003EMichael Levy\u003C\/a\u003E, U.S. utilities lead at global consulting firm \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.baringa.com\/en\/\u0022\u003EBaringa\u003C\/a\u003E, presented his workshop on using data and modeling to shape utility decisions, policy, and regulatory strategy. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gevernova.com\/\u0022\u003EGE Vernova\u003C\/a\u003E representatives presented \u201cThe Energy of Change,\u201d an interactive workshop featuring climate simulations and team challenges to explore the trade-offs between cost, grid capacity, and carbon impact in the real world. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mlh.io\/\u0022\u003EMajor League Hacking\u003C\/a\u003E provided guides on GitHub Copilot and Google AI Studio. The final workshop, \u201cOrg Efficiency in Early Startups,\u201d was led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rhunterharris\/\u0022\u003EHunter Harris\u003C\/a\u003E from the technology incubator complex \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantatechvillage.com\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta Tech Village\u003C\/a\u003E. Harris taught participants what to prioritize in an early startup, including how to build a management structure and find the right strategy for attracting customers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/troy-rice\/\u0022\u003ETroy Rice\u003C\/a\u003E, vice president and general manager of Florida Power and Light under NextEra Energy, gave a keynote speech on utility business models and how to set yourself apart in a large industry. Rice discussed his experience, which began as a Tech graduate from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. After learning about NextEra\u2019s business model, he eventually created and taught an internal class called \u201cHow NextEra Makes Money.\u201d Rice used this story to explain the importance of becoming an expert in knowledge that others in your company overlook. He also discussed the future of energy generation, emphasizing the growth of renewable energy in utility portfolios and often-overlooked potential career opportunities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe energy and creativity culminated in the Project Expo, where 22 innovative solutions were showcased. Representatives from the Strategic Energy Institute, Microsoft, NextEra Energy, GE Vernova, and Georgia Tech professors judged projects, offering insights and feedback.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe closing ceremony celebrated the participants\u2019 achievements and the event highlights, featuring \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-a-morris\/\u0022\u003EEmily Morris\u003C\/a\u003E, founder and CEO of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/emrgy.com\/\u0022\u003EEmrgy\u003C\/a\u003E, as the final keynote speaker. Morris shared insights from her experience as a technology startup founder in the energy sector, discussing the unique challenges of navigating a risk-averse industry. She encouraged aspiring entrepreneurs to start by envisioning their future press release to clarify their end goal and avoid getting lost in immediate challenges. Morris emphasized the importance of leveraging your network, whether your Georgia Tech connections or hometown community, regardless of whether you pursue academia, industry, or the startup world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith more than 110 registered participants, 22 project submissions, and leaders from some of the biggest energy and tech companies, EnergyHack@GT served as a platform for innovation and learning, showcasing the potential of student-led initiatives in shaping the future of energy and sustainability. 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Through the program, he received research mentoring and communications coaching that strengthened his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis award reflects what can happen when students have the time, mentorship, and support to fully develop their ideas,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energy.gatech.edu\/people\/laura-taylor\u0022\u003ELaura Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E, director of EPIcenter. \u201cOur Summer Research Program is designed to help graduate students advance rigorous energy policy research while also building the skills needed to communicate that work effectively.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESupporting Graduate Research in Energy Policy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program supports graduate students whose work contributes to energy policy and innovation. 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This is because training humanoid robots to perform these seemingly simple functions involves the need for simulation training data that lack the complex\u0026nbsp;dynamics and degrees of freedom of motion that are inherent in humanoid robots.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve better training outcomes with faster\u0026nbsp;deployment results, Fukang Liu and Feiyang Wu, graduate students under Professor Ye Zhao from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and faculty member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, have published a duo of papers in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.\u0026nbsp;This is a collaborative work with three other IRIM affiliated faculties, Profs. 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Incorporating torque data also improved motion stability and force tracking in contact-rich scenarios, demonstrating that torque information plays a key role in learning physically consistent and contact-rich humanoid behaviors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile other datasets, such as inverse kinematics or human demonstrations, are valuable, they don\u2019t always capture the dynamics needed for reliable whole-body humanoid control.\u201d said by Fukang Liu. \u201cWith our Opt2Skill framework, we combine trajectory optimization with reinforcement learning to generate and leverage high-quality, dynamically feasible motion data. This integrated approach gives robots a richer and more physically grounded training process, enabling them to learn these complex tasks more reliably and safely for real-world deployment. - Fukang Liu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another line of humanoid research,\u0026nbsp;Feiyang established a one-stage training framework that allows humanoid robots to learn locomotion more efficiently and with greater environmental adaptability. Their framework, Learn-to-Teach (L2T), unlike traditional two-stage \u201cteacher-student\u201d approaches, which first train an expert in simulation and then retrain a limited-perception student, teaches both simultaneously, sharing knowledge and experiences in real time. The result of this two-way training is a 50% reduction in training data and time, while maintaining or surpassing state-of-the-art performance in humanoid locomotion. The lightweight policy learned through this process enables the lab\u2019s humanoid robot to traverse more than a dozen real-world terrains\u2014grass, gravel, sand, stairs, and slopes\u2014without retraining or depth sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy training an expert and a deployable controller together, we can turn rich simulation feedback into a lightweight policy that runs on real hardware, letting our humanoid adapt to uneven, unstructured terrain with far less data and hand-tuning than traditional methods. - Feiyang Wu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy the application of these training processes, the team hopes to speed the development of deployable humanoid robots for home use, manufacturing, defense, and search and rescue assistance in dangerous environments. These methods also support advances in embodied intelligence, enabling robots to learn richer, more context-aware behaviors.Additionally, the training data process can be applied to research to improve the functionality and adaptability of human assistive devices for medical and therapeutic uses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs humanoid robots move from controlled labs into messy, unpredictable real-world environments, the key is developing embodied intelligence\u2014the ability for robots to sense, adapt, and act through their physical bodies,\u201d said Professor Ye Zhao. \u201cThe innovations from our students push us closer to robots that can learn robust skills, navigate diverse terrains, and ultimately operate safely and reliably alongside people. - Prof. Ye Zhao\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAuthor - Christa M. Ernst\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECitations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiu F, Gu Z, Cai Y, Zhou Z, Jung H, Jang J, Zhao S, Ha S, Chen Y, Xu D, Zhao Y. Opt2skill: Imitating dynamically-feasible whole-body trajectories for versatile humanoid loco-manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2025 Oct 13.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWu F, Nal X, Jang J, Zhu W, Gu Z, Wu A, Zhao Y. Learn to teach: Sample-efficient privileged learning for humanoid locomotion over real-world uneven terrain. 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This week, a nest of Georgia Tech experts are swarming an international conference to present their latest advancements in these tools, which offer solutions to pressing challenges in science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences-events\/siam-conferences\/cse25\/\u0022\u003ECSE25\u003C\/a\u003E). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/\u0022\u003ESIAM\u003C\/a\u003E) organizes CSE25, occurring March 3-7 in Fort Worth, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt CSE25, the School of CSE researchers are presenting papers that apply computing approaches to varying fields, including: \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperiment designs to accelerate the discovery of material properties\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMachine learning approaches to model and predict weather forecasting and coastal flooding\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVirtual models that replicate subsurface geological formations used to store captured carbon dioxide\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOptimizing systems for imaging and optical chemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPlasma physics during nuclear fusion reactions\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[Related:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/joshpreston\/viz\/SIAMCSE2025\/dash-long\u0022\u003EGT CSE at SIAM CSE25 Interactive Graphic\u003C\/a\u003E]\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn CSE, researchers from different disciplines work together to develop new computational methods that we could not have developed alone,\u201d said School of CSE Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/edmond-chow\u0022\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese methods enable new science and engineering to be performed using computation.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECSE is a discipline dedicated to advancing computational techniques to study and analyze scientific and engineering systems. CSE complements theory and experimentation as modes of scientific discovery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeld every other year, CSE25 is the primary conference for the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/get-involved\/connect-with-a-community\/activity-groups\/computational-science-and-engineering\/\u0022\u003ESIAG CSE\u003C\/a\u003E). School of CSE faculty serve in key roles in leading the group and preparing for the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn December, SIAG CSE members elected Chow to a two-year term as the group\u2019s vice chair. This election comes after Chow completed a term as the SIAG CSE program director.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of CSE Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/elizabeth-cherry\u0022\u003EElizabeth Cherry\u003C\/a\u003E has co-chaired the CSE25 organizing committee since the last conference in 2023. Later that year, SIAM members\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/publications\/siam-news\/articles\/siam-introduces-its-newly-elected-leadership\/\u0022\u003Ereelected Cherry to a second, three-year term as a council member at large\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Chow serves as the associate chair of the School of CSE. 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Referred to as the Nobel Prize of supercomputing, the award was presented at the world\u2019s top conference for high-performance computing (HPC) research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFluid dynamics problems of this style, with shocks, turbulence, different interacting fluids, and so on, are a scientific mainstay that marshals our largest supercomputers,\u201d said Bryngelson, an assistant professor with the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLarger and faster simulations that enable solutions to long-standing scientific problems, like the rocket propulsion problem, are always needed. With our work, perhaps we took a big dent out of that issue.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Super Heavy booster reflects the space industry\u2019s move toward reusable multi-engine first-stage rockets that are easier to transport and more economical overall.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, this shift creates research and testing challenges for new designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach of Super Heavy\u2019s 33 thrusters expels propellant at ten times the speed of sound. As individual engines reach extreme temperatures, pressures, and densities, their combined interactions with the airframe make such violent physics even more unpredictable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrequent physical experiments would be expensive and risky, so scientists rely on computer models to supplement the engineering process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBryngelson\u2019s flagship\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mflowcode.github.io\/\u0022\u003EMulticomponent Flow Code (MFC)\u003C\/a\u003E software anchored the experiment. MFC is an open-source computer program that simulates fluid dynamic models. Bryngelson\u2019s lab has been modifying MFC since 2022 to run on more powerful computers and solve larger problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn computing terms, this MFC-enhanced model simulated fluid flow resolution at 200 trillion grid points and one quadrillion degrees of freedom. These metrics exceeded previous record-setting benchmarks that tallied 10 trillion and 30 trillion grid points.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis means MFC simulations provide greater detail and capture smaller-scale features than previous approaches. The rocket simulation also ran four times faster and achieved 5.7 times the energy efficiency of comparable methods.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIntegrating\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.07392\u0022\u003Einformation geometric regularization (IGR)\u003C\/a\u003E into MFC played a key role in attaining these results. This new approach improved the simulation\u2019s computational efficiency and overcame the challenge of shock dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn fluid mechanics, shock waves occur when objects move faster than the speed of sound. Along with hampering the performance of airframes and propulsion systems, shocks have historically been difficult to simulate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputational scientists have used empirical models based on artificial viscosity to account for shocks. Although these approaches mimic the physical effects of shock waves at the microscopic scale, they struggle to effectively capture the large-scale features of the flow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInformation geometry uses curved spaces to study concepts of statistics and information. IGR uses these tools to modify the underlying geometry in fluid dynamics equations. When traveling in the modified geometry, fluid in the model preserves the shocks in a more natural way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen regularizing shocks to much larger scales relevant in these numerical simulations, conventional methods smear out important fine-scale details,\u201d said Sch\u00e4fer, an assistant professor at NYU\u2019s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIGR introduces ideas from abstract math to CFD that allow creating modified paths that approach the singularity without ever reaching it. In the resulting fluid flow, shocks never become too spiky in simulations, but the fine-scale details do not smear out either.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimulating a model this large required the Georgia Tech researchers to run MFC on El Capitan and Frontier, the world\u0027s two fastest supercomputers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe systems are two of four exascale machines in existence. This means they can solve at least one quintillion (\u201c1\u201d followed by 18 zeros) calculations per second. If a person completed a simple math calculation every second, it would take that person about 30 billion years to reach one quintillion operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrontier is housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and debuted as the world\u2019s first exascale supercomputer in 2022. El Capitan surpassed Frontier when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory launched it in 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo prepare MFC for performance on these machines, Bryngelson\u2019s lab followed a methodical approach spanning years of hardware acquisition and software engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2022,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-hardware-brings-students-closer-exascale-computing\u0022\u003EBryngelson attained an AMD MI210 GPU accelerator\u003C\/a\u003E. Optimizing MFC on the component played a critical step toward preparing the software for exascale machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAMD hardware underpins both El Capitan and Frontier. The MI300A GPU powers El Capitan while Frontier uses the MI250X GPU.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter configuring MFC on the MI210 GPU,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/group-optimizes-fluid-dynamics-simulator-worlds-fastest-supercomputer\u0022\u003EBryngelson\u2019s lab ran the software on Frontier for the first time during a 2023 hackathon\u003C\/a\u003E. This confirmed the code was ready for full-scale deployment on exascale supercomputers based on AMD hardware.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to El Capitan and Frontier, the simulation ran on Alps, the world\u2019s eight-fastest supercomputer based at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. It is the largest available system that features the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike with AMD GPUs,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/researchers-blazing-new-trails-superchip-named-after-computing-pioneer\u0022\u003EBryngelson acquired four GH200s in 2024\u003C\/a\u003E and began configuring MFC to the latest hardware innovation powering New Age supercomputers. Later that year, the J\u00fclich Research Centre accepted Bryngelson\u2019s group into an early access program to test JUPITER, a developing supercomputer based on the NVIDIA superchip.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/pancaked-water-droplets-help-launch-europes-fastest-supercomputer\u0022\u003EThe group earned a certificate for scaling efficiency and node performance\u003C\/a\u003E on the way toward validating that their code worked on the GH200. The early access project proved successful for JUPITER, which launched in 2025 as Europe\u2019s fastest supercomputer and fourth fastest in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGetting the level of hands-on experience with world-leading supercomputers and computing resources at Georgia Tech through this project has been a fantastic opportunity for a grad student,\u201d said CSE Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EBen Wilfong\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo leverage these machines, I learned more advanced programming techniques that I\u2019m glad to have in my tool belt for future projects. 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While the planet\u0027s current atmosphere is very thin (about 0.6% of Earth\u0027s), it was once thick enough to sustain liquid water.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAccording to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-025-02879-w\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Enew research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECommunications Earth \u0026amp; Environment\u003C\/em\u003E, these atmospheric changes could play a key role in how we interpret sediment deposits on the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe found that the changing pressure resulting from atmospheric changes would have produced sediment-rich water flows with varying shapes over time,\u201d says co-author and Georgia Tech Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/index.php\/people\/rivera-hernandez-frances-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, adding that since Mars\u2019 present-day atmosphere is very thin, the associated low pressures would produce behaviors not seen on Earth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cEarth\u2019s thicker atmosphere means that there are higher pressures on our planet, which produce very different behaviors,\u201d she explains. \u201cThis means that Earth analogs may not be reliable for interpreting some Martian sedimentary landscapes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAt low present-day pressures, Mars mud would boil and levitate if the surface temperature was warm, or freeze and flow more like lava if the temperature was cold,\u201d adds study lead\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2095063\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJacob Adler\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who began working on the project while a postdoctoral researcher in Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planetas.eas.gatech.edu\/group\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPLANETAS Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, and continued the study in his current role as an assistant research professor in Arizona State University\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sese.asu.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Earth and Space Exploration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team also included Georgia Tech Ph.D. student and current PLANETAS Lab member \u003Cstrong\u003ESharissa Thompson\u003C\/strong\u003E, along with researchers from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/?ps_kw=open%20university\u0026amp;cid=\u0026amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\u0026amp;gad_source=1\u0026amp;gad_campaignid=20982613632\u0026amp;gbraid=0AAAAADtVJY6lOT8QCO7OFiUxO7PIekbt_\u0026amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAxJXJBhD_ARIsAH_JGjjWc21Yadz1zj14RvNHFYHNtn8bTnvF2kh9RNLVBTU8nUep8WlD9ZAaAuj_EALw_wcB\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOpen University\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.avcr.cz\/en\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECzech Academy of Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis study adds a critical layer of nuance to analogue research,\u201d says Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez. \u201cBy comparing our lab results to real Martian landforms, we can better reconstruct Mars\u2019 past climate \u2014 leading to increasingly successful research in the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaking Martian mud\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn order to recreate past conditions on the red planet, the team conducted over 70 experiments in a Mars simulation chamber, testing how flowing water-sediment mixtures would be affected by the varying pressures and temperatures throughout the planet\u2019s history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThompson, who specializes in understanding these types of mixtures, played a key role in interpreting the results. \u201cAs part of my Ph.D. work at Georgia Tech, I uncover how and why flow shapes evolve as pressure changes, which helped us understand how these flows could have shifted with changing pressures on Mars over time,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have contributed to the innovative flow experiments this study conducted.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe experiments revealed that at higher atmospheric pressures, water and mud would have similar flow physics (rheology) as on Earth, indicating that some of the oldest sedimentary features on the surface should appear similar to Earth environments. In these scenarios, surface conditions may also have been more habitable for life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOn the other hand, as Mars started to lose most of its atmosphere, the dominant physics in sediment flow experiments changed to freezing and boiling. The team found that at the lower pressures Mars has experienced after the Noachian, the rheology and deposit shapes (morphology) were not at all Earth-like.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhen we mapped out where on Mars, we would expect this different behavior, we found that this opposite behavior could happen at the same time at different locations on the planet,\u201d Adler shares. \u201cThe small-scale climate variations across Mars\u2019 topography are enough to see these opposing effects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDecoding Mars\u0027 past\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe research suggests that studying the specific shapes of features like sediment flows, debris flows and mudflows could help scientists better estimate climate conditions. It also highlights how laboratory experiments are a critical part of planetary science activities, as they can help scientists better interpret remote sensing and modeling results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022By finding matching morphologies of what we see on Mars and what we see in these lab experiments, we might be able to better time-stamp the paleoclimate record,\u201d Adler explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022We\u2019ve sent rover missions to Mars largely because we find compelling remote sensing evidence of deposits formed by water or mud that could indicate a habitable environment,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe are often eager to compare what we find to Earth analogs, but these are not always suitable for comparison. 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There is an incredible community of creatives that I get to be a part of and draw inspiration from,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s also very validating that an organization with as much prestige as the SJA finds value in the work we\u2019re doing here in the lab. I\u2019m so grateful that people believe in me and the work that we\u2019re doing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECachine is one of just eight individuals selected this year from a nationwide pool. 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However, a new study finds that the technology might inhibit civic engagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E311 systems allow residents to report potholes, broken fire hydrants, and other municipal issues. In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide 311 services to community residents has boomed across city and state governments. This includes an artificial virtual assistant (AVA) developed by third-party vendors for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.atlantaga.gov\/government\/departments\/customer-service-atl311\/atl311-chatbot\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe City of Atlanta\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough survey data, researchers from Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing found that many residents are generally positive about 311 chatbots. In addition to eliminating long wait times over the phone, they also offer residents quick answers to permit applications, waste collection, and other frequently asked questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, the study, which was conducted in Atlanta, indicates that 311 chatbots could be causing residents to feel isolated from public officials and less aware of what\u2019s happening in their community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJieyu Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the School of IC, said it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUniting Communities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhou and her advisor, Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chrismaclellan.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher MacLellan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, published a paper at the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference that focuses on improving public service chatbot design and amplifying their civic impact. They collaborated with Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.carldisalvo.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarl DiSalvo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lynndombrowski.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELynn Dombrowsk\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ei, and graduate students \u003Cstrong\u003ERui Shen\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/yueyu1030.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYue You\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhou said 311 chatbots have the potential to be agents that drive community organization and improve quality of life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCurrent chatbots risk isolating users in their own experience,\u201d Zhou said. \u201cIn the 311 system, people tend to report their own individual issues but lose a sense of what is happening in their broader community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople are very positive about these tools, but I think there\u2019s an opportunity as we envision what civic chatbots could be. It\u2019s important for us to emphasize that social element \u2014 engaging people\u0026nbsp;within the community and connecting them with government representatives, community organizers, and other community members.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZhou and MacLellan said 311 chatbots can leave users wondering if others in their communities share their concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf people are at a town hall meeting, they can get a sense of whether the problems they are experiencing are shared by others,\u201d Zhou said. \u201cWe can\u2019t do that with a chatbot. It\u2019s like an isolated room, and we\u2019re trying to open the doors and the windows.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdding a Human Touch\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their paper, the researchers note that one of the biggest criticisms of 311 chatbots is they can\u2019t replace interpersonal interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike chatbots, people working in local government offices are likely to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHave direct knowledge of issues\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProvide appropriate referrals\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEmpathize with the resident\u2019s concerns\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMacLellan said residents are likely to grow frustrated with a chatbot when reporting issues that require this level of contextual knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne person in the researchers\u2019 survey noted that the chatbot they used didn\u2019t understand that their report was about a sidewalk issue, not a street issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cExplaining such a situation to a human representative is straightforward,\u201d MacLellan said. \u201cHowever, when the issue being raised does not fall within any of the categories the chatbot is built to address, it often misinterprets the query and offers information that isn\u2019t helpful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers offer some design suggestions that can help chatbots foster community engagement and improve community well-being:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEscalation. Regarding the sidewalk report, the chatbot did not offer a way to escalate the query to a human who could resolve it. Zhou said that this is a feature that chatbots should have but often lack.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETransparency. Chatbots could provide details about recent and frequently reported community issues. They should inform users early in the call process about known problems to help avoid an overload of user complaints.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEducation. Chatbots can keep users updated about what\u2019s happening in their communities.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECollective action. Chatbots can help communities organize and gather ideas to address challenges and solve problems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGovernment agencies may focus mainly on fixing individual issues,\u201d Zhou said, \u201cBut recognizing community-level patterns can inspire collective creativity. For example, one participant suggested that if many people report a broken swing at a playground, it could spark an initiative to design a new playground together\u2014going far beyond just fixing it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are just a few examples of things, the researchers argue, that 311 services were originally designed to achieve.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCommunities were already collaborating on identifying and reporting issues,\u201d Zhou said. \u201cThese chatbots should reflect the original intentions and collaboration practices of the communities they serve.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur research suggests we can increase the positive impact of civic chatbots by including social aspects within the design of the system, connecting people, and building a community view.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that while 311-style chatbots simplify the process of reporting municipal issues and reduce wait times, users can feel isolated from their community and less connected to broader civic awareness. 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Campbell Fellowship and Spark Award Winners Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnergy, Policy, and Innovation Center\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced the recipients of this year\u2019s James G. Campbell Fellowship and Spark Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKristian Lockyear, a doctoral student in the Sustainable Systems Thermal Lab, received the Campbell Fellowship, which recognizes a Georgia Tech graduate student conducting outstanding research in renewable energy systems. Candidates are nominated by their advisors for exceptional academic achievement in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELockyear\u2019s research, advised by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/garimella\u0022\u003ESrinivas Garimella\u003C\/a\u003E in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecenters on developing a biomass-powered adsorption cooling system to address food supply shortages in the cold chain and enable vaccine delivery to remote regions. He also holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Georgia Tech and is committed to advancing sustainable cooling technologies that improve access in developing areas and promote global energy equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spark Award honors Georgia Tech graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in advancing student engagement with energy research, along with a strong record of service and broader impact. This year\u2019s recipients are Daksh Adhikari, John Kim, Douglas Lars Nelson, Alex Magalhaes, Anna Raymaker, and Talia Thomas. \u201cThis year saw one of the largest pools of applications for the annual awards,\u201d said Jordann Britt, SEI\u2019s program coordinator, who led the selection process. \u201cAwardees were thoughtfully chosen based on research excellence, a strong record of service, and projects demonstrating broader impact on advancing renewable energy. Through these scholarships, we hope to encourage and support students as they grow into future leaders in the energy industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaksh Adhikari is a second-year doctoral student in mechanical engineering working in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minds.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMiNDS Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. His research focuses on increasing the adoption of two-phase thermal management techniques in artificial intelligence data centers to reduce water consumption. Adhikari is developing machine learning-based control systems to manage the unstable regions inherent in two-phase cooling processes. Outside of the lab, he enjoys playing guitar and exploring scientific topics related to space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn Kim is a doctoral candidate in public policy, advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/daniel-matisoff\u0022\u003EProfessor Daniel Matisoff\u003C\/a\u003E. His research examines the distributional effects of environmental and energy infrastructure challenges, with a focus on grid resilience, public safety, and environmental justice. Kim\u2019s broader research agenda includes analyzing inequities in power grid restoration, the economic impacts of EPA Superfund cleanups, and the socioeconomic drivers of electric vehicle adoption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDouglas Lars Nelson is a fifth-year doctoral candidate at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering,\u003C\/a\u003E advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/people\/matthew-mcdowell\u0022\u003EProfessor Matthew McDowell.\u003C\/a\u003E His research uses advanced characterization techniques to quantify degradation in next-generation battery materials, contributing to the development of safer, high-energy batteries. Nelson earned his undergraduate degree in materials science and engineering from Clemson University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlex Magalhaes is a master\u2019s student in computational science and engineering, advised by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/people\/qi-tang\u0022\u003EProfessor Qi Tang\u003C\/a\u003E. His research centers on developing scalable, high-fidelity numerical algorithms to simulate plasma confinement and equilibrium in nuclear fusion reactors. Magalhaes holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics from Wesleyan University and previously worked as a data scientist at Quantiphi. He plans to pursue a doctorate in computational plasma physics. In his free time, he enjoys rock climbing, which he\u2019s done at Yosemite and Grand Teton National Park.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnna Raymaker is a doctoral student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/saman-zonouz\u0022\u003EProfessor Saman Zonouz.\u003C\/a\u003E Her research focuses on securing critical infrastructure by identifying and mitigating cyber risks in systems, such as maritime networks and distributed energy resources. Raymaker leads a U.S. Department of Energy-aligned initiative to locate exposed solar inverters worldwide and assess their impact on operational power grids. She currently serves as president of the Graduate Student Association for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETalia Thomas is a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering working in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mtmcdowell.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMcDowell Lab.\u003C\/a\u003E Her research focuses on sustainable carbon materials for next-generation lithium- and sodium-ion batteries by using biomass precursors such as lignin and cellulose to develop high-performance anodes. Thomas also integrates life cycle and techno-economic assessments to evaluate scalability and environmental impact. She is an active leader in the graduate community, organizing initiatives that promote inclusion and student engagement. Before graduate school, she worked as a maintenance engineer at Dow and as a chemistry research associate at Zymergen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Strickland, Katie M \u0026lt;kstrickland40@gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EKatie Strickland\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 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnergy, Policy, and Innovation Center\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced the recipients of this year\u2019s James G. 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The initiative, led by Academic Professional\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/eunbee-kim-0\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEunbee Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, offers statistical guidance throughout the research process\u0026nbsp;from hypothesis formulation to data analysis and reporting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe can assist at every stage of statistical analysis and for every School and major on campus,\u201d says Kim.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe emphasizes that students and faculty don\u2019t need a fully formed research design to seek help. In fact, Kim encourages early consultations \u2014 preferably before data collection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIf you want a solid hypothesis and data plan, the best time to come is actually before you start collecting data,\u201d she explains. \u201cThe goal is to make statistical support an integral part of the research process rather than a last-minute hurdle.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EKim earned a Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from Georgia Tech in 2024. She proposed the idea for a Stats HelpDesk during the interview for her current position after witnessing people with great research ideas struggle to find accessible, customized statistical guidance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMany researchers \u2014 not just students but faculty as well \u2014 spend hours troubleshooting their data or interpreting output without knowing whether their approach is appropriate,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to bridge that gap.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe service, which officially began in late September, is staffed solely by Kim. Despite its early phase, she has already supported faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on projects ranging from senior theses to academic papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiam Hart\u003C\/strong\u003E is a second-year Ph.D. student studying psychology. \u201cI am still learning multilevel modeling but plan to use it for my thesis,\u201d says Hart. \u201cThe Stats HelpDesk has been incredibly useful \u2014 helping me apply what I\u2019m learning in class to my research \u2014 so that I can move forward with my research proposal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EConsultations are by appointment only and should be set up through the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/stats-helpdesk\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Stats HelpDesk website\u003C\/a\u003E. Remote and in-person meetings are available on Mondays from noon to 2 p.m. and on Tuesdays (remote only) from 1 \u2013 2 p.m. Currently, the service is free, but a small charge may be added at a later date.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELooking ahead, Kim plans to expand the team to include specialists in areas such as Bayesian modeling, multilevel modeling, and item response theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWith more team members, we could allocate questions based on expertise,\u201d she adds. \u201cIn the long term, we hope to grow into a collaborative resource that serves institutions beyond Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stats HelpDesk is making it easier for Georgia Tech researchers to get expert, personalized support at every stage of their project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Stats HelpDesk is making it easier for Georgia Tech researchers to get expert, personalized support at every stage of their project. 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During the semester,\u0026nbsp;students analyzed genomes sequenced from marine samples collected in Key West, Florida \u2014 doing\u0026nbsp;hands-on original bioinformatics research on par with graduate students and\u0026nbsp;working with bioinformatics tools to explore drug discovery potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe course, BIOS 4590, is a research project lab for senior biology majors that provides an opportunity for professors to share their expertise with students in a hands-on environment. In his class, Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/vinayak-agarwal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVinayak (Vinny) Agarwal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who holds joint appointments in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;School of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E aimed to introduce undergraduates to advanced bioinformatics tools through applied research using new-to-science raw data.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe resulting paper, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acschembio.5c00507\u0022\u003EPhylogenomic Identification of a Highly Conserved Copper-Binding RiPP Biosynthetic Gene Cluster in Marine\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMicrobulbifer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EBacteria\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d which was recently published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EACS Chemical Biology\u003C\/em\u003E, involves the historically understudied genus of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMicrobulbifer\u003C\/em\u003E, a type of bacteria often associated with sponges and corals. These microbial communities are rich sources of natural products, small biological molecules often associated with medicine and drug discovery.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022This class, and the resulting research, is a testament to the transformative power of hands-on learning,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean of the College of Sciences, Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, and professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. \u201cThe success of this course \u2014 and the students\u2019 remarkable achievement \u2014 reflects Georgia Tech\u0027s commitment to fostering curiosity, collaboration, and scientific rigor and to empowering the next generation of scientists and leaders.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFunded by Agarwal\u2019s 2023\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/news\/making-medicines-vinayak-agarwal-awarded-nsf-career-grant-peptide-research\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation CAREER grant\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/vinayak-agarwal-named-camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar\u0022\u003ECamille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar award\u003C\/a\u003E, the class also received support from leadership in the College of Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, and School Chemistry and Biochemistry. The study\u2019s lead author, graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYifan (Grace) Tang,\u003C\/strong\u003E served as the class teaching assistant, and was funded in part by a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/gaann-fellowship-program-biochemistry-and-biophysics\u0022\u003EBiochemistry and Biophysics\u0026nbsp;Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe students in this class are working on important, novel work \u2014 this cohort worked with real genomic data that had never been sequenced before,\u201d she says. \u201cTypically, researchers might work with one or two genome sequences, but we provided students with 42 \u2014 this might be the first time anyone has looked at\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMicrobulbifer\u003C\/em\u003E at such a wide scope.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom classroom to publication\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo prepare for the class, Tang worked alongside Laboratory Manager\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/alison-onstine\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlison Onstine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u003C\/strong\u003E who manages the School of Biological Sciences teaching laboratory spaces, to sequence the Key West bacterial genomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cOur work in the Agarwal Lab is in natural product discovery. We focus on finding new pharmaceutical drugs through marine bacteria \u2014 but with a bioinformatics spin,\u201d Tang explains. \u201cWe wanted to bring this type of experience to undergraduates, so we gave fully sequenced genomes to students and asked them to look for potential properties.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThroughout the class, students learned different techniques for analyzing bacterial genome sequences and extracting data with various tools \u2014 gaining both lab and computational skills through hands-on experiences, live demos, and troubleshooting sessions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe highlight was showing students just how much we can learn about a bacterial genus, especially one that hasn\u2019t been studied at this scale before,\u201d Tang shares. \u201cThis is a growing field, so there are so many opportunities for students to make meaningful contributions while learning new skills.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmpowering future students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor many students, it was their first time using these types of tools, but Agarwal says that it\u2019s something they\u0027ll likely encounter in both industry and research. He sees this type of research experience as especially helpful for seniors, who are often deciding between entering the workforce or continuing their education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cBioinformatics is increasingly important for analyzing big data. Students need the ability to manipulate and understand data using computational tools, and this class plays an important role in familiarizing them with this process,\u201d he shares. \u201cOur goal is to demystify research and give students the confidence and tools for both graduate school and for the workforce after graduation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe class will be offered for a third time in Fall 2026. While the exact course of research hasn\u2019t yet been decided, \u201cwe always aim for something new that can produce publication-quality research \u2014 students don\u2019t repeat past year\u2019s work,\u201d Agarwal says. 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Campbell Fellowship is designed to support Georgia Tech graduate students conducting research in the field of renewable energy and provides a $1,500 award.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe annual SPARK award is given to current Georgia Tech graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in advancing student engagement with energy research and\u202fwith evidence of broader impacts and service or leadership. The number of SPARK awards is variable, depending on funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo be eligible, student applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and currently writing a thesis or dissertation focused on renewable energy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe application deadline is Sept. 4, 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplicants must submit the following materials to the Energy Comments \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:comments@energy.gatech.edu?subject=Application%20for%202025%20Fellowship\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMailbox\u003C\/a\u003E of the Strategic Energy Institute:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EA brief cover letter (one to two paragraphs) explaining their motivation for studying their academic discipline and what they hope to accomplish in the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETheir full name, GTID number, anticipated graduation date, and field of research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EA current resume.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIn addition, a one-page letter of nomination from a faculty member must be submitted separately to the same mailbox. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to begin the process of securing this nomination letter as early as possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese fellowships offer a valuable opportunity to gain recognition and support for work in renewable energy. All eligible graduate students are encouraged to apply and take the next step in advancing their academic and professional goals.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEnergy Policy and Innovation Center\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech are pleased to announce that applications are now open for two graduate student fellowships this fall.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Strategic Energy Institute and the Energy Policy and Innovation Center at Georgia Tech are pleased to announce that applications are now open for two graduate student fellowships this fall.\u00a0\u00a0"}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2025-08-25 12:02:57","changed_gmt":"2025-10-06 16:14:53","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"194612","name":"Workforce Development"}],"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:priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPriya Devarajan\u003C\/a\u003E || SEI Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"685116":{"#nid":"685116","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mathematics Meets Rocket Science: Jaden Wang Awarded NASA Research Opportunity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJaden Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E (Zhuochen Wang) has been awarded a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasa-space-technology-graduate-research-opportunities-nstgro\/\u0022\u003ENASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The grant supports graduate students who \u201cshow significant potential to contribute to NASA\u2019s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for our nation\u2019s science, exploration, and economic future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWang, who is a Ph.D. student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E and a master\u2019s student in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/prospective-msae\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, will focus on developing mathematically-backed landing solutions for spacecraft.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI first became interested in powered descent problems during my Fall 2024 internship with NASA\u2019s Human Landing System at Marshall Space Flight Center,\u201d he says. \u201cWith my mathematical background in optimization and topology, and my passion for space exploration, I saw this research topic as a perfect fit when my co-advisor Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras suggested it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWang is co-advised by School of Mathematics Professor and Hubbard Research Fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/etnyre.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Etnyre\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;alongside\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/panagiotis-tsiotras\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanagiotis Tsiotras\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who holds the David and Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair in the\u0026nbsp;Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and is also associate director at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/robotics\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn addition to his Georgia Tech advisors, Wang will collaborate with a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/learn\/sme-map\/\u0022\u003ENASA Subject Matter Expert\u003C\/a\u003E, who will connect him with the larger technical community. He will perform part of the research as a visiting technologist at multiple NASA centers, giving him the opportunity to work with leading engineers and scientists and share his research results directly with the NASA community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom abstractions to space exploration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cNASA\u2019s upcoming missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond need technology that allows spacecraft to land precisely at their intended sites,\u201d says Wang. \u201cMy research will focus on the last stage of landing, called\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Epowered descent\u003C\/em\u003E. This stage powers up engines, which guide the spacecraft into a safe landing using a pre-designed trajectory that autopilot follows.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis means that researchers need to figure out the correct thrust, direction, and timing to reach a landing spot \u2014 all while navigating a landing that uses as little fuel as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cA common approach is to treat this as an optimization problem: minimizing fuel consumption with rigid-body physics as constraints to determine the best thrust profile,\u201d Wang explains. \u201cThis can work well, but it has drawbacks. It assumes that there is no uncertainty in the system (for example, that the thrust of the engines is applied perfectly) and it simplifies the motion of the spacecraft by treating it as though it\u2019s traveling through flat space instead of on a true curved geometry. Both shortcuts introduce errors\u0026nbsp; \u2014 our research aims to address these gaps.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ETo improve landing precision, Wang will develop a curved-space geometric\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Emathematical model, which takes into account the curved-space geometry of spacecraft motion rather than assuming flat space. To find a fuel-efficient landing trajectory, Wang will develop the model around\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eoptimal covariance steering\u003C\/em\u003E, a stochastic control problem that both minimizes fuel costs while keeping the uncertainty of the spacecraft\u0027s exact landing spot within a safe amount.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIt\u2019s a problem that leverages his experience in theoretical math and his background in aerospace engineering. \u201cI\u2019m incredibly honored that NASA finds this research exciting and is supporting my pursuit of it,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are so many fascinating engineering problems that could benefit from deeper theoretical scrutiny, especially using abstract machineries not typically covered in an engineering curriculum. 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Many return year after year, like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wundergrubs.com\/\u0022\u003EWunderGrubs\u003C\/a\u003E, an Atlanta-based insect farm that wants to bring a sustainable, nutritious form of protein to communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI can\u2019t overstate the value that Georgia Tech students bring to our company every summer through the SCoRE internship program,\u201d says CEO and co-founder Akissi Stokes-Nelson, explaining that WunderGrubs\u2019 mission is rooted in food equity and social impact. \u201cWe\u2019re constantly innovating to support smallholder farmers, develop educational programs, and expand our reach both locally and globally. The SCoRE interns have been instrumental in helping us realize this vision.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStokes-Nelson says they add immediate capacity to WunderGrubs\u2019 small team, bringing fresh perspectives and technical expertise \u2014 whether it\u2019s developing new curricula for STEAM summer camps, introducing technology like Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and Arduino controllers, or helping the company build and scale its modular \u201cgrub shed\u201d farming systems. She credits them with enabling her to reframe her business, pilot new programs, and even expand internationally, citing a recent partnership in Rwanda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat sets the Georgia Tech interns apart is their maturity, technical skill, and genuine passion for social impact. They\u2019re not just here to learn \u2014 they\u2019re here to contribute, innovate, and help us grow,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe program is unique in its focus on both student development and organizational impact, particularly for underrepresented and first-generation students,\u201d says Ruthie Yow, associate director of SCoRE, who leads partner engagement and student learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech covers all costs, including stipends for the full 12 weeks. Students take part in a seminar one evening a week to learn about grassroots sustainability innovation. They can also earn an internship course credit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConnecting With Students in STEM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIntern Ridoine Idrissou, a computer science undergraduate at Tech, supported WunderGrubs\u2019 \u201cTech Avengers\u201d STEM summer camp. \u201cWe taught kids about cybersecurity, IoT, how to be safe online, and they learned about mealworms. They got rid of almost one ton of trash,\u201d recalls Idrissou, who also developed IoT kits for the company\u2019s farm sheds. \u201cIt\u2019s not all about coding,\u201d adds the Togo, West Africa, native. \u201cIt\u2019s about connecting to the environment. It\u2019s given me a whole different type of experience than I normally have as a computer science major.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIdrissou, who has spent his last three summers interning, credits the program with giving him a chance when nobody else would. \u201cMy internship experience makes me appreciate the field I\u2019m in, and it gives me a good idea of how to be mindful, when building software or other products, of the well-being of other people.\u201d He plans to pursue a career in cybersecurity and system administration after he graduates next spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis positive internship experience isn\u2019t the only one. Another organization benefiting from Georgia Tech\u2019s talented students is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lifecyclebuildingcenter.org\/\u0022\u003ELifecycle Building Center (LBC)\u003C\/a\u003E in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShannon Goodman, a Georgia Tech architecture program alumna, serves as executive director of the LBC. She considers her interns foundational to her nonprofit, which reduces waste in the built environment by salvaging materials like lumber, cabinets, flooring, and appliances, and making them available to the community, nonprofits, and for reuse in new projects. The organization runs a 70,000 square-foot warehouse and provides free materials and services to nonprofits across Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur interns have been the connective tissue that helps all the different resource-constrained CEOs and community-based organizations build strong, trusted relationships with each other and lay the groundwork for our training program,\u201d Goodman says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssessing the Lifecycle of Salvaged Building Materials\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMorgan Hale interned at LBC while completing her graduate degree in sustainable energy and environmental management. \u201cThis internship program bridges sustainability with all the academic pathways at Georgia Tech. It does a great job of engaging students and educating them on ways to take what they\u0027re learning from school and map that into a career in sustainability,\u201d says Hale, whose capstone project focused on the lifecycle assessment of salvaged building materials. \u201cThis internship perfectly aligned with my academic and career interests in sustainability and policy,\u201d she adds. \u201cAnd the extra workshops and networking opportunities are invaluable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Goodman, education remains a key part of her team\u2019s role. \u201cOur job at the end of the day is helping people understand all the different types of opportunities that get lost when we just throw materials away. I don\u0027t know how we would do it without our interns. Through her capstone project, Morgan developed tools and procedures for calculating the embodied carbon and GHG emissions of the materials we salvage to create Environmental Product Declarations, or EPDs, for reclaimed materials, which don\u2019t currently exist in the U.S. EPDs allow us to prove exactly how much better salvaged materials perform compared to new products, and will enable the material reuse industry to scale in the U.S. at a rate never seen before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELBC\u2019s connection to Georgia Tech doesn\u2019t stop with the internship program, however. \u201cWe have had countless professors from different departments of Georgia Tech bring their students here to learn about what we do, engage with us, and get materials from us,\u201d says Goodman, noting that back in 2022, Georgia Tech was instrumental in helping her assemble community organizations like the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance and many others to form the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lifecyclebuildingcenter.org\/rebuildatl\u0022\u003EReBuildATL Coalition\u003C\/a\u003E. Today, the coalition includes more than 40 nonprofits, academic institutions, industry partners, and local government agencies that empower Westside Atlanta neighborhoods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELearn More\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Sustainable Communities Summer Internship Program is a partnership between SCoRE and the Office of Community-Based Learning. 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Leveraging knitting for breakthroughs in advanced manufacturing \u2014 including more sustainable textiles, wearable electronics, and soft robotics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMatsumoto, who is also a principal investigator at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wpi-skcm2.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/\u0022\u003EInternational Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2) at Hiroshima University\u003C\/a\u003E, is the corresponding author on a new study exploring the physics of \u2018jamming\u2019 \u2014 a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/g94g-c6tt\u0022\u003EPulling Apart the Mechanisms That Lead to Jammed Knitted Fabrics\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0022 was published this week in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and also includes Georgia Tech Matsumoto Group graduate students\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/sarah-gonzalez\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESarah Gonzalez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/alexander-cachine\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Cachine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in addition to former postdoctoral fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.tamu.edu\/materials\/profiles\/Michael-Dimitriyev.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Dimitriyev\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is now an assistant professor at Texas A\u0026amp;M University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe work builds on the group\u2019s previous research demonstrating that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/unraveling-physics-knitting\u0022\u003Eknitted materials can be mathematically \u2018programmed\u2019 to behave in predictable ways\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThese properties are intuitively understood by people who knit by hand,\u201d Matsumoto says, \u201cbut in order to manipulate and use these behaviors in an industrial setting, we need to understand the physics behind them. This new research is another step in that direction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAn Unexpected Twist\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGonzalez, who led the research, first became interested in jamming while conducting adjacent research. \u201cI was using model simulations to characterize how different yarn properties affect the behavior of knitted fabrics and noticed a strange stiff region,\u201d she recalls. \u201cIn our\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-46498-z\u0022\u003Eprevious research\u003C\/a\u003E, we had also seen this behavior in lab experiments, which suggested that what we were seeing in the simulations was a genuine phenomenon. I wanted to investigate it further.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAfter digging into the topic, she realized that what she was seeing was called \u2018jamming.\u2019 In knits, Gonzalez explains, jamming occurs when stitches are packed tightly together, and the fabric resists stretching. Although it\u2019s a well-known phenomenon, the physics has mostly been investigated in granular systems, like snow or sand, rather than fabrics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIn fabrics, when you pull softly, the response is surprisingly stiff, but when you start pulling harder and harder, the stitches rearrange, and the material softens,\u201d Matsumoto says. \u201cIn granular systems, this is a little like how avalanches work. At low forces, the snow pack is solid, but when the slope is steep, the force of gravity liquidizes that snow pack into an avalanche.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIn fabrics, it is a little like having a tangle in a piece of jewelry,\u201d she adds. \u201cIf you pull on it, it gets quite stiff, but if you loosen the knot, the chain can reconfigure, and it\u0027s not so stiff.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnraveling the Physics of Jamming\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EUsing a combination of experiments with industrially knitted fabrics and computer models, the team analyzed what causes jamming in fabrics and how to control it. \u201cWe wanted to determine how different yarn properties impacted jamming,\u201d Gonzalez explains. \u201cOur goal was to understand the mechanics of jamming through how yarn interacts at various touchpoints in stitches.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team found that both machine tension and yarn thickness played a key role in making a fabric more or less jammed, and that jamming behaves differently depending on which direction the fabric is stretched.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhen you stretch a knit along the rows, the stiffness of the yarn causes fabric jamming. Jamming in the other direction is due to yarn contacts,\u201d says Gonzalez. \u201cWe also showed that the impacts of changing machine tension and yarn thickness differ depending on fabric direction.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cDiscovering that fabric jamming works differently in different directions was a key insight,\u201d she adds. \u201cTo our knowledge, the physics of this has never been explored before.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EModern Innovation \u2014 With a Centuries-Old Technique\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe research dovetails with Matsumoto\u2019s WPI-SKCM2 Center work,\u0026nbsp;which involves investigating fundamental aspects of knots and chirality.\u0026nbsp;The Center is interested in a class of materials called \u201cknotted chiral meta matter\u201d that could lead to more sustainable materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor example, knitting \u2014 which leverages chiral knots \u2014 could be used to create more elastic fabrics from natural materials. \u201cIn many cases, manufacturers use yarns that combine, for example, polyester, cotton, and elastane to create a desired elasticity,\u201d Matsumoto says. \u201cOur research suggests that manipulating the topology of the stitches could lead to a similar elasticity, reducing the need for petroleum-based fibers and creating a more sustainable textile.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cKnitting has the potential to be extremely useful in manufacturing, but knowledge has typically been shared through intuition and word of mouth,\u201d she adds. \u201cBy creating these mathematical models, we hope to formalize that knowledge in a way that\u2019s accessible for large-scale manufacturing \u2014 so we can leverage this centuries-old intuition for modern innovation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: This work was supported by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; National Science Foundation (NSF); and Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/g94g-c6tt\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/g94g-c6tt\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\u003EResearchers in the School of Physics unravel the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting in a new study that explores the physics of \u2018jamming\u2019 \u2014 a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physicists unravel the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting in a new study that explores the physics of \u2018jamming\u2019 \u2014 a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension."}],"uid":"35599","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 15:34:08","changed_gmt":"2025-07-30 12:38:14","author":"sperrin6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677487":{"id":"677487","type":"image","title":"Former Matsumoto Group member Krishma Singal operates a knitting machine used to create fabric samples for a previous study. 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A novel study provides new insights into determining when a teleoperator needs to operate at a high level of focus and which parts of the task can be delegated to robot automation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGombolay\u003C\/strong\u003E calls it the \u201csweet spot\u201d of human ingenuity and robotic precision. Gombolay and students from his \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/core-robotics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECORE Robotics Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Econducted a novel study that measures stress and workload on human teleoperators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGombolay said it can inform military officials on how to strategically implement task automation and maximize human teleoperator performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHumans continue to hand over more tasks to robots to perform, but Gombolay said that some functions will still require human input and oversight for the foreseeable future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpecific applications, such as space exploration, commercial and military aviation, disaster relief, and search and rescue, pose substantial safety concerns. Astronauts stationed on the International Space Station, for example, manually control robots that bring in supplies, move cargo, and make structural repairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s brutal from a psychological perspective,\u201d Gombolay said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe question often asked about automating a task in these fields is, at what point can a robot be trusted more than a human?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recent paper by Gombolay and his current and former students \u2014 \u003Cstrong\u003ESam\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EYi\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ETing\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EErin\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EHedlund\u003C\/strong\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EBotti\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EManisha\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ENatarajan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2014 sheds new light on the debate. The paper was published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and will be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NASA-funded study can identify which aspects of tedious, time-consuming tasks can be automated and which require human supervision. If roboticists can pinpoint the elements of a task that cause the least stress, they can automate these components and enable humans to oversee the more challenging aspects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we\u2019re talking about repetitive tasks, robots do better with that, so if you can automate it, you should,\u201d said Ting, a former grad student and lead author of the paper. \u201cI don\u2019t think humans enjoy doing repetitive tasks. We can move toward a better future with automation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMilitary officials, for example, could measure the stress of remote drone pilots and know which times during a pilot\u2019s shift require the highest level of attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can get a sense of how stressed you are and create models of how divided your attention is and the performance rate of the tasks you\u2019re doing,\u201d Gombolay said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt can be a low-stress or high-stress situation depending on the stakes and what\u2019s going on with you personally. Are you well-caffeinated? Well-rested? Is there stress from home you\u2019re bringing with you to the workplace? The goal is to predict how good your task performance will be. If it indicates it might be poor, we may need to outsource work to other people or create a safe space for the operator to destress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Stress Test\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor their study, the researchers cut a small river-shaped path into a medium-density fiberboard. The exercise required the 24 participants to use a remote robotic arm to navigate through the path from one end to the other without touching the edges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiment grew more challenging as new stress conditions and workload requirements were introduced. The changing conditions required the test participants to multitask to complete the assignment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGombolay said the study supports the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which states that moderate levels of stress increase human performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiment showed that operators felt overwhelmed and performed poorly when multitasking was introduced. Too much stress led to poor performance, but a moderate amount of stress induced more engagement and enhanced teleoperator focus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETing said finding that ideal stress zone can lead to a higher performance rating.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou would think the more stressed you are, the more your performance decreases,\u201d Ting said. \u201cMost people didn\u2019t react that way. As stress increased, performance increased, but when you increased workload and gave them more to do, that\u2019s when you started seeing deteriorating performance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGombolay said no stress can be just as detrimental as too much stress. Performing a task without stress tends to cause teleoperators to become disinterested, especially if it is repetitive and time-consuming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo stress led to complacency,\u201d Gombolay said. \u201cThey weren\u2019t as engaged in completing the task.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf your excitement is too low, you get so bored you can\u2019t muster the cognitive energy to reason about robot operation problems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Human Factor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoboticists have made significant leaps in recent years to remove teleoperators from the equation. Still, Gombolay said it\u2019s too early to tell whether robots can be trusted with any task that a human can perform.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re a long way from full autonomy,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot that robots still can\u2019t do without a human operator. Search and rescue operations, if a building collapses, we don\u2019t have much training data for robots to go through rubble by themselves to rescue people. There are ethical needs for humans to be able to supervise or take direct control of robots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are exploring the relationship between stress levels and the performance of remote robot operators. 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Samina Patel\u2019s contributions in 2020 and 2021 included graphic and web design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll their work laid the foundation for two virtual museum exhibits:\u202femergingVOICES of Coffee County\u202fand\u202fOvercoming Segregation: A Journey Through Coffee County\u2019s Forgotten Stories.\u202fThe latter received the 2023 Award of Excellence from the American Association of State and Local History. Further recognition came this year when the project earned the 2025 Georgia Association of Museums\u2019 Special Project Award for the PLAYBACK \u0026amp; FASTFORWARD seminar series.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ET. Cat Ford, Project Director said, \u201cThe Serve-Learn-Sustain interns we partnered with from Georgia Tech were all graduates of Coffee High School. 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The key? A new algorithm that results in neural networks with internal structure more like the human brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=THqWPzL00e\u0022\u003ETopoNets: High-Performing Vision and Language Models With Brain-Like Topography\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d was awarded a spotlight at this year\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclr.cc\/\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on Learning Representations\u003C\/a\u003E (ICLR), a distinction given to only 2 percent of papers. The research was led by graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.murtylab.com\/group\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMayukh Deb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E alongside\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.murtylab.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EApurva Ratan Murty\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/iclr-2025\/\u0022\u003EThirty-two of Tech\u2019s computing, engineering, and science faculty represented the Institute at ICLR 2025\u003C\/a\u003E, which is globally renowned for sharing cutting-edge research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe started with this idea because we saw that AI models are unstructured, while brains are exquisitely organized,\u201d says first-author Deb. \u201cOur models with internal structure showed more than a 20 percent boost in efficiency with almost no performance losses. 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The researchers applied this concept to AI by organizing how internal components (like artificial neurons) connect and process information.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis type of organization has been tried in the past but has been challenging, Murty says. \u201cHistorically, rules constraining how the AI could structure itself often resulted in lower-performing models. We realized that for this type of biophysical constraint, you simply can\u2019t map everything \u2014 you need an algorithmic solution.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cOur key insight was an algorithmic trick that gives the same structure as brains without enforcing things that models don\u0027t respond well to,\u201d he adds. \u201cThat breakthrough was what Mayukh (Deb) worked on.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe algorithm, called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/murtylab\/topoloss\u0022\u003ETopoLoss\u003C\/a\u003E, uses a loss function to encourage brain-like organization in artificial neural networks, and it is compatible with many AI systems capable of understanding language and images.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe resulting training method, TopoNets, is very flexible and broadly applicable,\u201d Murty says. \u201cYou can apply it to contemporary models very easily, which is a critical advancement when compared to previous methods.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeuro-AI innovations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMurty and Deb plan to continue refining and designing brain-inspired AI systems. \u201cAll parts of the brain have some organization \u2014 we want to expand into other domains,\u201d Deb says. \u201cOn the neuroscience side of things, we want to discover new kinds of organization in brains using these topographic systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDeb also cites possibilities in robotics, especially in situations like space exploration where resources are limited. \u201cImagine running a model inside a robot with limited power,\u201d he says. \u201cStructured models can help us achieve 80 percent of performance with just 20 percent of energy consumption, saving valuable energy and space. 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Four Georgia Tech colleges. One semester-long project with an uncertain outcome. Led by Scheller College of Business Law and Ethics\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/alexander\/index.html\u0022\u003EProfessor Charlotte Alexander\u003C\/a\u003E students from across the Institute came together in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/law-data-design-lab\/index.html\u0022\u003ELaw, Data, and Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E to complete a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Project\u003C\/a\u003E during the 2025 Spring semester. 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However, the space, named EcoMake, has some important differences. Because it is housed in the Kendeda Building, there are strict standards for what types of materials and equipment can be used there in order to maintain its Living Building Certification. For example, you will find several 3-D printers there, like almost all maker spaces, but the plastic filament used in them is made from recycled plastic, perhaps recycled on-site with equipment in the lab itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome might regard such restrictions as too limiting to their creativity or design goals. Viewed another way, this approach opens up a unique set of possibilities. Biologically Inspired and Green Design (BIG-D) is a field of study (sometimes referred to by different names, like \u201cbiomimicry\u201d) that has demonstrated a lot of promise in the past few decades. 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Like natural systems, this new facility will operate within the means of nature, using no more energy or water than can be generated from its geometric footprint, and producing no more waste than it can assimilate on site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEcoMake has the following tools and equipment (so far):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E8 - Prusa I3S+ 3-D Printers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E5 - Ender 3 Pro 3-D Printers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEinScan-SP 3-D Object Scanner\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMark-10 ESM303 Mechanical Tester\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E300-X Digital Microscope\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E3Devo Filament Extruder\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EShini SG-16N Plastic Granulator\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPlastic Chip Dryer\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESinger Heavy Duty 4423 Sewing Machine\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EComplement of Standard Fabric Crafting Equipment\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEcoMake, the bio-inspired maker space will be open to students from all disciplines. 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He said he looks forward to extending his role and encouraging Latino graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am dedicated to expanding STEM through minorities and excited to be helping [our group] promote graduate education for minorities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Padrino Scholarship is named for the Spanish word for \u201cgodfather,\u201d Broesicke said, because of the special relationship between the student and professional winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis pairing of Madrina\/Padrino (Godmother\/Godfather) - Ahijada\/Ahijado (Goddaughter\/Godson) is a mentoring relationship of the Hispanic culture,\u201d he said. \u201cThis allows the establishment of a lifelong mentor relationship in which the [professional] provides guidance and serves as a role model for the young engineer or scientist.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBroesicke\u2019s scholarship also comes with the group\u2019s Medalla de Plata, or \u201csilver medal.\u201d MAES \u2014 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As a hub of forward-thinking ideas, Georgia Tech is leading Atlanta, Georgia, and the United States into a more sustainable future,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/calmon\/index.html\u0022\u003EAndre Calmon\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of operations management, at the launch event for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainable-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESustainable-X\u003C\/a\u003E. An offshoot of the successful\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;entrepreneurship initiative at Georgia Tech, Sustainable-X gives students, faculty, staff, and community members the tools and confidence to create and grow startups that address social and environmental challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESustainable-X is supported by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/sustainabilitynext-sustainability-next-task-force\u0022\u003ESustainability Next\u003C\/a\u003E, the implementation roadmap for sustainability goals within Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/strategicplan.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStrategic Plan 2020-2030\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/sustainability-next-task-force-delivers-vision-launches-implementatioin.html\u0022\u003Enew program launches in tandem\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with a climate action plan, a living learning campus initiative, seed funding for teaching through the lens of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\u0022\u003EUN Sustainable Development Goals\u003C\/a\u003E, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/ray-c-anderson-center-for-sustainable-business\/index.html\u0022\u003ERay C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(\u201cCenter\u201d) are partnering on Sustainable-X programming. Organizers include Scheller College of Business faculty and staff: co-directors Andre Calmon and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/ramachandran\/index.html\u0022\u003EKarthik Ramachandran\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Dunn Family Professor), advisor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/toktay\/index.html\u0022\u003EBeril Toktay\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Brady Family Chair and Regents\u2019 Professor), and program manager\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/staff\/lukens\/index.html\u0022\u003EKjersti Lukens\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(program support coordinator for the Center).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program kicked off with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ojy97sdinhafuts\/Social%20Entrepreneurs%20Bootcamp%20video%20pitch.mov?dl=0\u0022\u003ESocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs Bootcamp\u003C\/a\u003E, held at the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design from November 5-6, 2022. Twenty participants from Georgia Tech and the community learned\u0026nbsp;how to tackle complex sustainability problems and create startup solutions. The bootcamp was facilitated by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jstenson\/?originalSubdomain=dk\u0022\u003EJackie Stenson\u003C\/a\u003E, an expert in sustainable innovation and co-founder of multiple social enterprises. Participants progressed through problem framing and ideation exercises to design solutions inspired by the\u0026nbsp;UN Sustainable Development Goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe participants shared their projects in a pitch session, where judges and peers listened to an array of business solutions related to STEM education in under-resourced communities, meal preparation kits to help reduce food waste, water management for golf courses, and infrastructure and innovation to accelerate the transition to renewable energy. First prize was awarded to the group that focused on water management. Team members included\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/isha-dogra\/\u0022\u003EIsha Dogra\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(environmental engineering graduate student at Georgia Tech),\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emma-vail-58752b236\/?trk=people-guest_people_search-card\u0022\u003EEmma Vail\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(student at University of North Georgia), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/michelle-wong\u0022\u003EMichelle Wong\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(assistant director of the Petit Institute at Georgia Tech ).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tanjuo\/\u0022\u003ETanju\u0026nbsp;\u00d6zdemir\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a first-year materials science and engineering major\u0026nbsp;who is also serving as a 2022-23 Scheller College Undergraduate Sustainability Ambassador, remarked, \u201cI signed up for the bootcamp because it felt relevant to my future career goal of being an entrepreneur in the energy sector. The SDG innovation process was completely new to me and exposed me to how difficult and exciting it is to explore solutions to different problems.\u201d The bootcamp revealed to \u00d6zdemir how \u201ceven the seemingly chaotic process of creativity can have structure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENext Steps and Resources\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants in the bootcamp will be invited to take part in a series of forthcoming events and opportunities related to mentoring, transitioning from idea to prototype (through CREATE-X programming), and funding. The Sustainable-X 2022-23 program will culminate in a showcase in March in which selected participants, along with their counterparts in CREATE-X, will pitch their startups in hopes of obtaining support from investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReflecting on the weekend launch event, Toktay said,\u0026nbsp;\u201cI enjoyed seeing how teams including students, staff members, and community participants \u2013 which we intentionally included in the bootcamp \u2013 gelled so well. They helped each other stay grounded in real problems while exploring creative solutions.\u201d She said that she and her fellow organizers look forward to the growth of the program. \u201cWe believe that the teams have great potential to make a positive impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith the new Sustainable-X program, Scheller College is creating a new wave of impact at the intersection of sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation,\u201d stated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/alavi\/index.html\u0022\u003EDean Maryam Alavi\u003C\/a\u003E. She continued, \u201cThis program will empower a new generation of Georgia Tech community members as they address some of the most pressing sustainability challenges of our time. I look forward to seeing what results.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECo-directors Calmon and Ramachandran have worked with student and faculty entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech, INSEAD, and MIT. They recognize Georgia Tech\u2019s potential to produce the next generation of sustainability and climate-impact startups, and look forward to building the pathway to support these startups through Sustainable-X.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_80QJwglfkSHrfXo\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to sign up for updates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInterested in getting involved? 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The BBISS Graduate Fellows Program provides graduate students with enhanced training in sustainability, team science, and leadership in addition to their usual programs of study. Each two-year fellowship is funded by a generous gift from Brook and Shawn Byers and is additionally guided by a Faculty Advisory Board. The students apply their skills and talents, working directly with their peers, faculty, and external partners on long-term, large team, sustainability relevant projects. They are also afforded opportunities to organize and host seminar series, develop their professional networks, publish papers and draft proposals,\u0026nbsp;and develop additional skills critical to their professional success and future careers leading research teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2022 class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Graduate Fellows are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOliver Chapman - Ph.D. student, School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMegan Conville - Ph.D. student, School of City and Regional Planning, College of Design\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECarlos Fernandez - Ph.D. student, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESarah Roney - Ph.D. student, School of Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOlianike Olaomo - Ph.D. student, School of History and Sociology, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVishal Sharma - Ph.D. student, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Advisory Board for the BBISS Graduate Fellows is composed of the faculty who submitted the students\u0027 nominations. Nominations for Class III of the BBISS Graduate Fellows program will open in the Spring 2023. It is expected that 6 to 8 scholars will be selected for next year\u2019s group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Advisory Board for the inaugural class are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hatzell\u0022\u003EMarta Hatzell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/marilyn-a-brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/elora-lee-raymond\u0022\u003EElora Raymond\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/kate-pride-brown\u0022\u003EKate Pride Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marc-weissburg\u0022\u003EMarc Weissburg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/neha-kumar\u0022\u003ENeha Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpdates and outcomes will be posted to the BBISS website as the project progresses. Additional information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/grad-fellows-program\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/grad-fellows-program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe second class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows has been selected. 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The annual student showcase was held at Ponce City Market on July 24th with representatives from the City of Atlanta, local companies, non-profit organizations, and data scientists in attendance. DSSG is a ten week program that blends the latest advances in the data sciences and technology design with partners who need to solve problems in the communities they serve. Seventeen interns were selected from a pool of over a hundred applicants from around the country. The students\u2019 diverse backgrounds, in fields such as computer science, statistics, digital media, public policy, civil\u0026nbsp;engineering, industrial engineering, and urban planning, were blended into multi-disciplinary teams and paired with an advising professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/bbiss-appoints-twelve-fellows\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems Fellow Bistra Dilkina\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;advised one of the four student teams, with her team conducting two of the five projects in this latest round of the program. Dilkina is a Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering Assistant Professor and DSSG co-director, along with Ellen Zegura, who is the Stephen Fleming Chair of Telecommunications in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science, and Christopher Le Dantec, who is an Assistant Professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Dilkina says of the program, \u201cDSSG connects the classroom with real problems of deep community relevance. We hope this will inspire students to pursue their technical education further and to be engaged global citizens that use their education for societal impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the first project, Dilkina\u2019s team of four students partnered with Georgia Tech Facilities Management to determine some useful predictors of energy usage beyond historical energy usage and performance modelling, such as class schedules and climatic variables. Facilities Management hopes to better model energy usage, inform operational planning, and identify upgrades and renovations that might not be commonly recommended, but will be most impactful. The second project Dilkina advised, entitled \u201cPredicting and Alleviating Road Flooding in Senegal,\u201d sought to learn which regions and roadways would be most affected by flooding, and where mitigations would best preserve capacity and access to all parts of the country. Coastal countries like Senegal are at increased risk of flooding as weather patterns become more erratic and sea levels rise. Students partnered with the United Nations Global Pulse, a big data humanitarian and development group inside the UN.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe other Data Science for Social Good projects for the 2017 round were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFood for Thought: Analyzing Public Opinion on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003Cbr\u003ECycle Atlanta: Seeing Like a Bike\u003Cbr\u003EAtlanta Housing Justice:\u0026nbsp;The Anti-Displacement Tax Fund\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn past years, Dilkina has led DSSG student teams working on diverse projects. In 2016, she partnered with local nonprofit New American Pathways to design a data-driven way to identify potential places for refugee resettlement in metro Atlanta. In 2015, she worked with the\u0026nbsp; Atlanta Fire Rescue Department to build a predictive platform to help target commercial fire inspections, as well as with Trees Atlanta to efficiently identify tree planting locations and areas for forest preservation. In 2014, she led a team working with the City of Atlanta Emergency 911 Dispatch to inform new strategies for improving dispatchers\u2019 workloads and overall response times to 911 calls.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta chapter is part of a broader community of Data Science for Social Good programs that began at the University of Chicago in 2013. DSSG now has chapters at the University of Washington, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and most recently at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The emerging field of the data sciences is experiencing several growing pains, which the DSSG program serves to address: serving urgent communitty needs, developing the data science workforce by providing opportunities for students to gain experience, and helping students communicate effectively by working with real-world clients in a multi-disciplinary team structure. Students also learn critical skills such as stakeholder engagement,\u0026nbsp;data acquisition and processing, data analysis and visualization, machine learning for predictive modeling, writing, and communicating results to nontechnical audiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Design Science for Social Good \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ptc.gatech.edu\/dssg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData\u0026nbsp;Science for Social Good (DSSG) (link) is an intensive, paid internship program where students are challenged to solve real-world problems for on-the-ground partners, including local non-profit organizations and the City of Atlanta. The annual student showcase was held at Ponce City Market on July 24th with representatives from the City of Atlanta, local companies, non-profit organizations, and data scientists in attendance.\u0026nbsp;Brook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems Fellow Bistra Dilkina (link) advised one of the four student teams, with her team conducting two of the five projects in this latest round of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the first project, Dilkina\u0026rsquo;s team of four students partnered with Georgia Tech Facilities Management to determine some useful predictors of energy usage beyond historical energy usage and performance modelling, such as class schedules and climatic variables. The second project Dilkina advised, entitled \u0026ldquo;Predicting and Alleviating Road Flooding in Senegal,\u0026rdquo; sought to learn which regions and roadways would be most affected by flooding, and where mitigations would best preserve capacity and access to all parts of the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/bbiss-fellow-bistra-dilkina-co-directs-2017-data-science-social-good-fellowship\u0022\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems Fellow Bistra Dilkina advised one of the four Design Science for Social Good student teams, on two of the five projects in this latest round of the program."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2017-08-24 21:34:43","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:37:23","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595013":{"id":"595013","type":"image","title":"2017 DSSG Poster Session","body":null,"created":"1503611649","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 21:54:09","changed":"1503611649","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 21:54:09","alt":"Image of the 2017 Design Science for Social Good poster session.","file":{"fid":"226761","name":"2017_DSSG_Poster_Session.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2017_DSSG_Poster_Session.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2017_DSSG_Poster_Session.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":192050,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2017_DSSG_Poster_Session.jpg?itok=hnCfLs9c"}}},"media_ids":["595013"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166871","name":"bbiss_big_ideas"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"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@sustainable.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Communications Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@sustainable.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678258":{"#nid":"678258","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech UrbanAg Project Presents to International Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E- Written by Mandy Luong, BBISS Communications Student Assistant -\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStudents Organizing for Sustainability\u003C\/a\u003E (SOS) recently traveled across the world to Singapore for the 8th Global Botanic Garden Congress. They presented their research on the evaluation of various plants in student living accommodations. The independent research project was initially funded through the Micro Research Grants for Regenerative Built Environments sponsored by The Kendeda Building Advisory Board and the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. This feat is uncommon among Georgia Tech student organizations but can serve as a case study for future SOS trips as well as other clubs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team found out about the conference by researching various conferences related to urban agriculture initiatives around the world. They specifically sought out conferences that could give them an international experience in a city deemed cutting-edge for urban green spaces, and that would allow them to talk about their research project. After being accepted into the Global Botanic Garden Congress, they needed to find funding to support their travel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESOS members applied for numerous grants that are available to students around campus, including the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u0027s International Travel Funding through the Global Engineering Leadership Minor, the President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Travel Award, and the Student Government Association (SGA) Conference Fund. In total, they were able to obtain multiple research and travel grants for over $16,000 to cover the travel expenses of seven members. The students are confident that, had more people been available, they could have received more funding to cover the additional travel expenses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are a lot of opportunities on campus to get funding for a project, travel, or attend conferences, but students just need to know where to look,\u201d says Elaina Render, fourth-year civil and environmental engineering major and SOS project lead for the UrbanAg group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u2019s itinerary consisted of attending all four days of the conference, the last of which coincided with Singapore\u2019s National Day. At the conference, students presented their research findings to an international audience and made personal connections. They talked with people from across the globe, including botanic garden representatives from Naples, Chicago, and San Diego. Making these connections has introduced them to opportunities for more interactive trips, such as visiting the Naples Botanical Garden to learn about beach plant management. They also hope to attend the 9th Global Botanical Garden Congress in Chicago next year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe conference is a great resource for students as they approach graduation because you can network for next career steps, find possible research advisors for graduate school, and be exposed to a range of career possibilities,\u201d says Nicole Allen, fourth-year biomedical engineering major and SOS\u2019s vice president of Finance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the conference, they were able to explore the city of Singapore. On their first day, they toured Gardens by the Bay, where they saw famous attractions like the Golden Bay and the Flower Dome. The following day, they visited Singapore University of Technology and Design and met Greenprint, a student group similar to SOS, and talked with students and faculty about their campus sustainability initiatives. On the third day, they traveled to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, a beautiful mangrove forest. Allen notes that on a hike along the coastal trail, they decided to take a bus across the bridge to Malaysia and have brunch. On the last day of the conference, they visited Singapore\u2019s Botanic Garden, which also houses the National Orchid Garden.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SOS students report many successes from this experience, both personal and related to their SOS activities. Younger members of SOS, Rachel Bohl and Nikita Takalkar, both second-years, were able to attend the conference. This has inspired younger members to get more involved with on-campus sustainability initiatives. In particular, Takalkar is starting a new SOS project to decrease medical waste at Stamps Health Services. They have also seen an increase in attendance at their meetings and many questions about their trip. They hope the conference will serve as a model for future trips where students can promote their research, network, learn about what new research is happening in the world, and bring this knowledge back to Georgia Tech to inspire their own projects on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe hope that our project and trip to Singapore can serve as an inspiration to other students and campus organizations. It\u0027s possible to start an independent research project and get funding to present at international conferences,\u201d says Render.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAllen adds, \u201cWe are implementing some of the ideas our trip inspired as new, student-led sustainability initiatives here at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe student group presented their research on the evaluation of various plants in student living accommodations. The independent research project was initially funded through the Micro Research Grants for Regenerative Built Environments sponsored by The Kendeda Building Advisory Board and the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. 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The seven Ph.D. students reflected on their two years of working, studying, and training together as an interdisciplinary sustainability research team. In the article, they give their insights into how they benefited from this approach and what steps might be taken to improve graduate level, sustainability-related programs. Further, their paper offers researchers and educators a rare perspective into interdisciplinary research and education from the standpoint of students who are still pursuing their degrees and actively engaged in research for their chosen disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECitation: McSorley, M, Arkhurst, BK, Hall, M, Zha, Y, Spyrou, IM, Duchesneau, K, Ringania, U, Chang, M. 2023. For graduate students to become leaders in sustainability, we must transcend disciplinary boundaries. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 11(1). DOI: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.2023.00012\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.2023.00012\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Graduate Fellows program, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/grad-fellows-program\u0022\u003Eplease visit this webpage\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe first cohort of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Fellows \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.2023.00012\u0022\u003Epublished an article\u003C\/a\u003E in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/online.ucpress.edu\/elementa\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElementa: Science of the Anthropocene\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The first cohort of the BBISS Graduate Fellows published an article in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2023-12-04 20:36:48","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:35:29","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648086":{"id":"648086","type":"image","title":"BBISS Graduate Fellows Montage 1","body":null,"created":"1623428138","gmt_created":"2021-06-11 16:15:38","changed":"1701724126","gmt_changed":"2023-12-04 21:08:46","alt":"Montage of portraits of the inaugural class of BBISS Graduate Fellows. L to R, top to bottom,\u00a0Bettina Arkhurst, Katherine Duchesneau, Marjorie Hall, Meaghan McSorley, Udita Ringania, Ioanna Maria Spyrou, Yilun \u0027Elon\u0027 Zha.","file":{"fid":"246022","name":"GRA_Scholars_Portraits@0.5x.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":298535,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg?itok=FJsvEi_e"}}},"media_ids":["648086"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"193157","name":"Student Honors and Achievements"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"190765","name":"BBISS Graduate Fellows"},{"id":"174421","name":"graduate student research"}],"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":""}},"658039":{"#nid":"658039","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Team Wins Solar Decathlon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech student team, \u0022English Avenue Yellow Jackets\u0022, is the 2022 Design Challenge Residential Division Grand Winner for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-celebrates-20th-annual-solar-decathlon-next-generation-clean-energy-buildings\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy\u0027s Solar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E. They also took home first place in the contest\u0027s new Retrofit Housing division. Their winning entry retrofitted a 102-year-old house in Atlanta\u0027s English Avenue neighborhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The target was to retrofit an existing house to net zero,\u0022\u0026nbsp;Aayushi Mody, the team lead said. \u0022And, well, we exceeded the target by making it net positive. The house basically generates more energy than it utilizes.\u0022 But, Mody explained, that\u0027s just the beginning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to a net positive retrofit, the English Avenue Yellow Jackets provided solutions for rainwater harvesting and graywater reuse, a financial model that included land trust subsidies, and an additional 60 years\u0027 worth of projected weather data that proved the house would stay net positive even in cases of extreme weather.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/feature\/solar-decathlon\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFull Story...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech student team, \u0026quot;English Avenue Yellow Jackets\u0026quot;, is the 2022 Design Challenge Residential Division Grand Winner for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-celebrates-20th-annual-solar-decathlon-next-generation-clean-energy-buildings\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy\u0026#39;s Solar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E. They also took home first place in the contest\u0026#39;s new Retrofit Housing division. 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As paid researchers, they are reviewing, designing, and developing prototypes for interactive systems that will convey the unique elements and qualities of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design\u0026nbsp;(now under construction) and the behaviors that it engenders among its occupants and visitors. The Fellows represent all six colleges at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;and were selected from a group of 88 applicants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFaizah Asif, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnneke Augenbroe, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELeo Chen, Computer Science\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBraden Gilleland, Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKian Halim, Computational Media\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDongyuan He, Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHayden Mcleod, Business Administration\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEllen Murphy, Environmental Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGigi Pavur, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBenjamin Tasistro-Hart, Architecture\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough their research, the Fellows are learning about Living Buildings, performance dashboards, systems and complexity, and the design of human interfaces. Their work is being facilitated by Drs. Michael Chang (Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems) and Dana Hartley (School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences). Beyond the inaugural year, it is the intent that this pilot project will serve as the basis for a new Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) that allows undergraduates to earn academic credits by working on faculty-led research projects over multiple semesters, with students participating for up to three years.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETen Georgia Tech undergraduates were selected as the inaugural (2017-2018) class of Sustainable Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF). As paid researchers, they are reviewing, designing, and developing prototypes for interactive systems that will convey the unique elements and qualities of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design\u0026nbsp;(now under construction) and the behaviors that it engenders among its occupants and visitors. The Fellows represent all six colleges at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;and were selected from a group of 88 applicants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/surfers-chosen-design-kendeda-living-building-dashboard\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead More...\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ten Georgia Tech undergraduates were selected as the inaugural (2017-2018) class of Sustainable Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF)."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2017-11-09 00:11:31","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:23:16","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598574":{"id":"598574","type":"image","title":"SURFers, L to R Front Row: Faizah Asif, Kian Halim, Anneke Augenbroe, Gigi Pavur.  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Now in its 11th year, I2S provides Georgia Tech students with the opportunity to address pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges with a learning-first approach, creativity, and collaborative solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplications were solicited from across Georgia Tech, with individuals and teams entering from five colleges and 10 majors. For the first time, a USG-wide expansion invited students from other Georgia universities to participate, and submissions were received from Kennesaw State University and Agnes Scott College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELeading up to the competition, teams participated in workshops on problem discovery, stakeholder mapping, and asset-based community development. Participants who applied for a mentor also received support from Scheller MBA students. Participants prepared an application that included an executive summary and a 3-minute video presentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmidst the application and education process, ILSI was forced to quickly pivot and, with the help of its partners,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news-events\/latest-news\/2020\/annual-ideas-to-serve-competition-moves-to-virtual-format-for-2020.html?utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=dailydigest\u0026amp;utm_campaign=april13\u0026amp;utm_content=ideastoserve\u0022\u003Eshift to a virtual format\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the competition as a result of the coronavirus health crisis. However, the students were not deterred, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/other-files\/2020_I2S_Finals_Program.pdf\u0022\u003E21 teams\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;entered the final stages of the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/other-files\/2020_I2S_Finals_Program.pdf\u0022\u003Epanel of judges\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from a global community of NGOs and the local academic and business community convened virtually to determine the winners, runners-up, and finalists, all of whom receives cash prizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese winners represent a diverse set of student teams tackling a very broad set of problem areas. In the Problem Discovery Track, Amanda Miller (BA) took home the top slot and $2,500 for examining effects of the city of Atlanta\u2019s sex trafficking industry on minors through her project \u201cTrafficked.\u201d Her submission was based on and inspired by her work with Wellspring Living, an Atlanta nonprofit providing transformative services to those affected by trafficking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was Amanda\u0027s commitment to elicit a deep understanding of the root causes and factors of the problem that impressed Tech alumni Susan Davis, global coordinator of Agenda for Change and lead Problem Discovery Track judge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy goal for being involved in Ideas to Serve is to encourage students who are already clearly motivated to address social and environmental issues to think more critically about how others have tried to address these issues and what their effective role can be,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Davis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn \u201cTrafficked,\u201d Amanda Miller described the exact process of looking beyond the obvious symptoms of trafficking to explore root causes, including policy, enforcement, economics, and culture,\u201d continued Davis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second and third-place teams in the Problem Discovery Track addressed land conservation in Chile (Strategic Park Design for Sustainability) and menstrual hygiene issues in developing countries (Partners in Dignity). Fight Girls Mutilation (addressing female genital mutilation in Kenya), Aqualove (examining better hydration practices for at-risk elderly population), and Resource Bridge (homeless services) rounded out the list of top teams in this track.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the Solutions Discovery Track, teams were judged based on their potential solutions to the social and environmental issues they addressed. The winner of this track was the five-student team Invenovate. They are working on a solution to the elopement or wandering off tendency and associated risks for caretakers of children with autism and seniors with dementia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe runner-up in this category, Atlanta Youth Energy Corps, addressed issues of energy inequity, specifically in metro Atlanta. The Reflex (optimizing EMS response times) and Afterlife (tackling household waste through DYI projects) teams earned Honorable Mention in the Solutions Discovery Track.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, all teams were eligible to receive specialty prizes based on specific sections of their submission. Invenovate received the Best Pitch award, as did Carrie\u2019s Closet, an interdisciplinary Leadership Minor Capstone team. Carrie\u2019s Closet worked with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.civicatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Civic Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Fellow Mamie Harper to address the Foster Care Bill of Rights in Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1300 votes were cast in the People\u2019s Choice category, and team Reflex came out on top, while Afterlife won both the Best Video and the Net-Impact MBA award. Fight Girl\u2019s Mutilation earned the Best System\/Stakeholder Map award that required a demonstrated understanding of the underlying interactions and root causes of the social issue examined.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELastly, Partner in Dignity was chosen as the Georgia Tech delegate for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.oxfordglobalchallenge.com\/\u0022\u003EMap the System Global Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E, a social impact solution competition organized by the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School in Oxford, England (which will be held virtually this year).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was amazing to see that, despite the challenges of dealing with the public health crisis and participating virtually \u2013 from three different continents - students eagerly persevered. They did an outstanding job studying the systems around their chosen issues, identifying community-based solutions, and recognizing ways they can affect positive change,\u201d said Terry Blum,\u0026nbsp;Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship\u0026nbsp;and faculty director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Ideas to Serve Competition would not be possible without the support of our generous sponsors. Thank you to The Cecil B. Day Program for\u0026nbsp;Business Ethics, the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain, the Steven A. Denning Technology \u0026amp; Management Program, Tedd Munchak Chair in Entrepreneurship, Center for International Business Education and Research, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, LEAD Program, Hands on Atlanta, Richard Hill, Innovation and Design Collaborative, Moseley Ventures, and Speechworks.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EParticipation in the Ideas to Serve Competition fulfills the Final Deliverable requirement for the SLS Innovating for Social Impact Program \u2013 a collaboration between the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact and the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFull List of I2S Awardees\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EProblem Discovery Track Winner:\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETrafficked\u003C\/strong\u003E ($2,500)\u003Cbr\u003ETeam:\u0026nbsp;Amanda Miller (BA)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERunner-Up: \u003Cstrong\u003EStrategic Park Design for Sustainability\u003C\/strong\u003E ($1,500)\u003Cbr\u003ETeam:\u0026nbsp;Angelica Acevedo (LMC), Shrinka Roy (MBA \u0026amp; Masters in ID)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThird Place: \u003Cstrong\u003EPartners in Dignity\u003C\/strong\u003E ($1,000)\u003Cbr\u003ETeam:\u0026nbsp;Adele Payman (AE), Dharesha Jhaveri (IE), Jonathan Hou (CS), Jessica Zhang (IE), Aisha Abdullahi (IE)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHonorable\u0026nbsp;Mentions:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFight Girls\u2019\u0026nbsp;Mutilation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003Eled by Yvonne Njeri Mogwanja (CE)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAqualove\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003Eled by\u0026nbsp;Jinwoo Park (CS), Alice Zeng (CS), Benjamin Rochford (CS), Zachary Beckham (IE), Luke Dague (BME), Chandler Pitts (ME)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eand\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResource Bridge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003Eled by\u0026nbsp;Samuel Costa (BA), Kathryn Farley (BME), Shenelle Campbell (Architecture), Swaraj Agarwal (ID)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ESolution Discovery Track Winner:\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInvenovate\u003C\/strong\u003E ($2,500)\u003Cbr\u003ETeam:\u0026nbsp;Alejandro Campos (ME), Tillson Galloway (CS), Mark Saad (ME), Andre Prieto,\u0026nbsp;Martin Jacobson\u0026nbsp;(BME)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERunner-Up:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta Youth Energy Corps\u003C\/strong\u003E ($1,500)\u003Cbr\u003ETeam:\u0026nbsp;Sharon Gurung (Env. Engineering), Gwyn Rush (IA), Dakota Mitchell (Biology), Brittany Judson (Math \u0026amp; Econ)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHonorable\u0026nbsp;Mentions:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfterlife\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003Eled by\u0026nbsp;Clotilde Bignard (MBA)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReflex\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003Eled by\u0026nbsp;Usman Jamal (CS), Nevin Gilbert (CS), Reed Blanchard (ME), Amelia Abernathy (BA), Akash Harapanahalli (CE), Lauryn Wright (BME)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ESpecialty Prizes\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople\u0027s Choice Award ($500):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReflex\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest Video Award ($500):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfterlife\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest System\/Stakeholder Map ($500):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFight Girl\u2019s Mutilation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest Pitch Awards ($500):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInvenovate\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarrie\u2019s Closet\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETeam: Huda Tauha (CS), Benjamin Frumkin (ME), Riley Geran (ChemE), Sakshie Rao (IA)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScheller Net Impact MBA Award ($500):\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfterlife\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can find descriptions of teams and their video presentations on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/i2s-teams.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIdeas to Serve\u0026nbsp;Teams page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENow in its 11th year, I2S provides Georgia Tech students with the opportunity to address pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges with a learning-first approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"I2S provides Georgia Tech students with the opportunity to address pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges with a learning-first approach."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2020-05-13 16:04:27","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:09:56","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635334":{"id":"635334","type":"image","title":"Amanda Miller 2020 Ideas to Serve Winner","body":null,"created":"1589388685","gmt_created":"2020-05-13 16:51:25","changed":"1589388685","gmt_changed":"2020-05-13 16:51:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241754","name":"amanda-miller-ile_trafficked.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amanda-miller-ile_trafficked.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amanda-miller-ile_trafficked.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51591,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/amanda-miller-ile_trafficked.jpg?itok=rKUIbU5z"}}},"media_ids":["635334"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12487","name":"Ideas to SERVE Competition"},{"id":"166870","name":"BBISS_news"}],"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:dori.pap@scheller.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDori Pap\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Assistant Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Scheller College of Business\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dori.pap@scheller.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"648085":{"#nid":"648085","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seven Grad Students Chosen for BBISS GRA Scholars Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe inaugural class of seven Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Scholars was recently selected for a 2-year program of working, studying, and training as an interdisciplinary sustainability research team. Launching in the Fall of 2021 with funding provided by a generous gift from Brook and Shawn Byers and guidance from a Faculty Advisory Board, the BBISS GRA Scholars will receive supplemental training in sustainability, team science, and leadership. They will apply their skills and talents, working directly with their peers, faculty, and external partners on a long-term, large team, sustainability relevant Vertically Integrated Project. They will participate in the organization and hosting of a seminar series in which they will invite and meet global leaders in sustainability, and they will have additional opportunities to develop professional networks, to publish, to draft proposals, to acquire knowledge, and to develop other skills critical to their professional success and relevant to their intellectual interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems Graduate Research Assistant Scholars are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBettina Arkhurst - Ph.D. student, George W. 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Nominations for Classes II and III of the BBISS GRA Scholars program will open in Spring 2022 and Spring 2023. It is expected that 6 to 8 scholars will be selected for each year\u2019s group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Faculty Advisory Board for the inaugural class are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/people\/saad-bhamla\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESaad Bhamla\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/people\/nisha-botchwey\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENisha Botchwey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/shatakshee-dhongde\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EShatakshee Dhongde\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/people\/ellen-dunham-jones\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEllen Dunham-Jones\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKatherine Fu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/steven-usselman\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESteve Usselman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpdates and outcomes will be posted to the BBISS website as the project progresses. Additional information is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bbiss_gra_scholars\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bbiss_gra_scholars\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe inaugural class of seven Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Scholars was recently selected for a 2-year program of working, studying, and training as an interdisciplinary sustainability research team. Launching in the Fall of 2021 with funding provided by a generous gift from Brook and Shawn Byers and guidance from a Faculty Advisory Board, the BBISS GRA Scholars will receive supplemental training in sustainability, team science, and leadership. They will apply their skills and talents, working directly with their peers, faculty, and external partners on a long-term, large team, sustainability relevant Vertically Integrated Project. They will participate in the organization and hosting of a seminar series in which they will invite and meet global leaders in sustainability, and they will have additional opportunities to develop professional networks, to publish, to draft proposals, to acquire knowledge, and to develop other skills critical to their professional success and relevant to their intellectual interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bigideas\/seven-grad-students-chosen-bbiss-gra-scholars-program\u0022\u003ERead More...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The inaugural class of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Scholars was recently selected for a 2-year program of working, studying, and training as an interdisciplinary sustainability research team."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2021-06-11 16:02:49","changed_gmt":"2025-06-18 14:01:47","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648086":{"id":"648086","type":"image","title":"BBISS Graduate Fellows Montage 1","body":null,"created":"1623428138","gmt_created":"2021-06-11 16:15:38","changed":"1701724126","gmt_changed":"2023-12-04 21:08:46","alt":"Montage of portraits of the inaugural class of BBISS Graduate Fellows. L to R, top to bottom,\u00a0Bettina Arkhurst, Katherine Duchesneau, Marjorie Hall, Meaghan McSorley, Udita Ringania, Ioanna Maria Spyrou, Yilun \u0027Elon\u0027 Zha.","file":{"fid":"246022","name":"GRA_Scholars_Portraits@0.5x.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":298535,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GRA_Scholars_Portraits%400.5x.jpg?itok=FJsvEi_e"}}},"media_ids":["648086"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sustainable.gatech.edu\/bbiss_gra_scholars","title":"BBISS GRA Scholars Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166871","name":"bbiss_big_ideas"},{"id":"132161","name":"BBISS"},{"id":"188048","name":"BBISS GRA Scholars"},{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"},{"id":"177557","name":"climate change and sustainability sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"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":""}},"676172":{"#nid":"676172","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How Georgia Tech is Using AI to Solve Sustainability Problems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E- Written by Benjamin Wright -\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Georgia Tech establishes itself as a national leader in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ai.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAI research and education\u003C\/a\u003E, some researchers on campus are putting AI to work to help meet sustainability goals in a range of areas including climate change adaptation and mitigation, urban farming, food distribution, and life cycle assessments while also focusing on ways to make sure AI is used ethically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJosiah Hester, interim associate director for Community-Engaged Research in the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) and associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, sees these projects as wins from both a research standpoint and for the local, national, and global communities they could affect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese faculty exemplify Georgia Tech\u0027s commitment to serving and partnering with communities in our research,\u201d he says. \u201cSustainability is one of the most pressing issues of our time. AI gives us new tools to build more resilient communities, but the complexities and nuances in applying this emerging suite of technologies can only be solved by community members and researchers working closely together to bridge the gap. This approach to AI for sustainability strengthens the bonds between our university and our communities and makes lasting impacts due to community buy-in.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlood Monitoring and Carbon Storage\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/peng-chen\u0022\u003EPeng Chen\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering in the College of Computing, focuses on computational mathematics, data science, scientific machine learning, and parallel computing. Chen is combining these areas of expertise to develop algorithms to assist in practical applications such as flood monitoring and carbon dioxide capture and storage.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is currently working on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project with colleagues in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of City and Regional Planning and from the University of South Florida to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/machine-learning-key-proposed-app-could-help-flood-prone-communities\u0022\u003Edevelop flood models\u003C\/a\u003E in the St. Petersburg, Florida area. As a low-lying state with more than 8,400 miles of coastline, Florida is one of the states most at risk from sea level rise and flooding caused by extreme weather events sparked by climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChen\u2019s novel approach to flood monitoring takes existing high-resolution hydrological and hydrographical mapping and uses machine learning to incorporate real-time updates from social media users and existing traffic cameras to run rapid, low-cost simulations using deep neural networks. Current flood monitoring software is resource and time-intensive. Chen\u2019s goal is to produce live modeling that can be used to warn residents and allocate emergency response resources as conditions change. That information would be available to the general public through a portal his team is working on.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project focuses on one particular community in Florida,\u201d Chen says, \u201cbut we hope this methodology will be transferable to other locations and situations affected by climate change.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the flood-monitoring project in Florida, Chen and his colleagues are developing new methods to improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of storing carbon dioxide in underground rock formations. The process is plagued with uncertainty about the porosity of the bedrock, the optimal distribution of monitoring wells, and the rate at which carbon dioxide can be injected without over-pressurizing the bedrock, leading to collapse. The new simulations are fast, inexpensive, and minimize the risk of failure, which also decreases the cost of construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTraditional high-fidelity simulation using supercomputers takes hours and lots of resources,\u201d says Chen. \u201cNow we can run these simulations in under one minute using AI models without sacrificing accuracy. Even when you factor in AI training costs, this is a huge savings in time and financial resources.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlood monitoring and carbon capture are passion projects for Chen, who sees an opportunity to use artificial intelligence to increase the pace and decrease the cost of problem-solving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m very excited about the possibility of solving grand challenges in the sustainability area with AI and machine learning models,\u201d he says. \u201cEngineering problems are full of uncertainty, but by using this technology, we can characterize the uncertainty in new ways and propagate it throughout our predictions to optimize designs and maximize performance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUrban Farming and Optimization\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/yongsheng-chen\u0022\u003EYongsheng Chen\u003C\/a\u003E works at the intersection of food, energy, and water. As the Bonnie W. and Charles W. Moorman Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newcenter.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ENutrients, Energy, and Water Center for Agriculture Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, Chen is focused on making urban agriculture technologically feasible, financially viable, and, most importantly, sustainable. To do that he\u2019s leveraging AI to speed up the design process and optimize farming and harvesting operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChen\u2019s closed-loop hydroponic system uses anaerobically treated wastewater for fertilization and irrigation by extracting and repurposing nutrients as fertilizer before filtering the water through polymeric membranes with nano-scale pores. Advancing filtration and purification processes depends on finding the right membrane materials to selectively separate contaminants, including antibiotics and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Chen and his team are using AI and machine learning to guide membrane material selection and fabrication to make contaminant separation as efficient as possible. Similarly, AI and machine learning are assisting in developing carbon capture materials such as ionic liquids that can retain carbon dioxide generated during wastewater treatment and redirect it to hydroponics systems, boosting food productivity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA fundamental angle of our research is that we do not see municipal wastewater as waste,\u201d explains Chen. \u201cIt is a resource we can treat and recover components from to supply irrigation, fertilizer, and biogas, all while reducing the amount of energy used in conventional wastewater treatment methods.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to aiding in materials development, which reduces design time and production costs, Chen is using machine learning to optimize the growing cycle of produce, maximizing nutritional value. His USDA-funded vertical farm uses autonomous robots to measure critical cultivation parameters and take pictures without destroying plants. This data helps determine optimum environmental conditions, fertilizer supply, and harvest timing, resulting in a faster-growing, optimally nutritious plant with less fertilizer waste and lower emissions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChen\u2019s work has received considerable federal funding. As the Urban Resilience and Sustainability Thrust Leader within the NSF-funded AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ai4opt.org\/\u0022\u003EAI4OPT\u003C\/a\u003E), he has received additional funding to foster international collaboration in digital agriculture with colleagues across the United States and in Japan, Australia, and India.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOptimizing Food Distribution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the other end of the agricultural spectrum is postdoc \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/rosemarie-santa-gonzalez\u0022\u003ERosemarie Santa Gonz\u00e1lez\u003C\/a\u003E in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who is conducting her research under the supervision of Professor Chelsea White and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/pascal-van-hentenryck\/\u0022\u003EPascal Van Hentenryck\u003C\/a\u003E, the director of Georgia Tech\u2019s AI Hub as well as the director of AI4OPT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanta Gonz\u00e1lez is working with the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative to help traditional farmers get their products into the hands of consumers as efficiently as possible to reduce hunger and food waste. Preventing food waste is a priority for both the EPA and USDA. Current estimates are that 30 to 40% of the food produced in the United States ends up in landfills, which is a waste of resources on both the production end in the form of land, water, and chemical use, as well as a waste of resources when it comes to disposing of it, not to mention the impact of the greenhouses gases when wasted food decays.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo tackle this problem, Santa Gonz\u00e1lez and the Wisconsin Food Hub are helping small-scale farmers access refrigeration facilities and distribution chains. As part of her research, she is helping to develop AI tools that can optimize the logistics of the small-scale farmer supply chain while also making local consumers in underserved areas aware of what\u2019s available so food doesn\u2019t end up in landfills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis solution has to be accessible,\u201d she says. \u201cNot just in the sense that the food is accessible, but that the tools we are providing to them are accessible. The end users have to understand the tools and be able to use them. It has to be sustainable as a resource.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaking AI accessible to people in the community is a core goal of the NSF\u2019s AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE), one of the partners involved with the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA large segment of the population we are working with, which includes historically marginalized communities, has a negative reaction to AI. They think of machines taking over, or data being stolen. Our goal is to democratize AI in these decision-support tools as we work toward the UN Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger. There is so much power in these tools to solve complex problems that have very real results. More people will be fed and less food will spoil before it gets to people\u2019s homes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESanta Gonz\u00e1lez hopes the tools they are building can be packaged and customized for food co-ops everywhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI and Ethics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike Santa Gonz\u00e1lez, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/joe-f-bozeman-iii\u0022\u003EJoe Bozeman\u003C\/a\u003E III is also focused on the ethical and sustainable deployment of AI and machine learning, especially among marginalized communities. The assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an industrial ecologist committed to fostering ethical climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. His \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/seeel.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESEEEL Lab\u003C\/a\u003E works to make sure researchers understand the consequences of decisions before they move from academic concepts to policy decisions, particularly those that rely on data sets involving people and communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith the administration of big data, there is a human tendency to assume that more data means everything is being captured, but that\u0027s not necessarily true,\u201d he cautions. \u201cMore data could mean we\u0027re just capturing more of the data that already exists, while new research shows that we\u2019re not including information from marginalized communities that have historically not been brought into the decision-making process. That includes underrepresented minorities, rural populations, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people who may not interface with data collection tools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBozeman is concerned that overlooking marginalized communities in data sets will result in decisions that at best ignore them and at worst cause them direct harm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur lab doesn\u0027t wait for the negative harms to occur before we start talking about them,\u201d explains Bozeman, who holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Public Policy. \u201cOur lab forecasts what those harms will be so decision-makers and engineers can develop technologies that consider these things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe focuses on urbanization, the food-energy-water nexus, and the circular economy. He has found that much of the research in those areas is conducted in a vacuum without consideration for human engagement and the impact it could have when implemented.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBozeman is lobbying for built-in tools and safeguards to mitigate the potential for harm from researchers using AI without appropriate consideration. He already sees a disconnect between the academic world and the public. Bridging that trust gap will require ethical uses of AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have to start rigorously including their voices in our decision-making to begin gaining trust with the public again. And with that trust, we can all start moving toward sustainable development. If we don\u0027t do that, I don\u0027t care how good our engineering solutions are, we\u0027re going to miss the boat entirely on bringing along the majority of the population.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBBISS Support\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving forward, Hester is excited about the impact the Brooks Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems can have on AI and sustainability research through a variety of support mechanisms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBBISS continues to invest in faculty development and training in community-driven research strategies, including the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scre.research.gatech.edu\/faculty-fellows\u0022\u003ECommunity Engagement Faculty Fellows Program\u003C\/a\u003E (with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scre.research.gatech.edu\/about\u0022\u003ECenter for Sustainable Communities Research and Education\u003C\/a\u003E), while empowering multidisciplinary teams to work together to solve grand engineering challenges with AI by supporting the AI+Climate Faculty Interest Group, as well as partnering with and providing administrative support for community-driven research projects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is leveraging AI to tackle sustainability challenges, focusing on areas such as climate change adaptation, urban farming, food distribution, and the ethical use of AI technologies. Josiah Hester, BBISS interim associate director for Community-Engaged Research, highlights the importance of community collaboration, emphasizing the role of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems in supporting faculty development and multidisciplinary projects. Joe Bozeman emphasizes the importance of community collaboration and safeguards to ensure ethical and culturally responsive AI use. Peng Chen is developing AI-driven flood monitoring and carbon capture solutions, while Yongsheng Chen is optimizing urban farming with AI to enhance food production and resource efficiency. Rosemarie Santa Gonz\u00e1lez is working on improving food distribution to reduce waste and hunger. These initiatives highlight Georgia Tech\u2019s commitment to using AI for sustainable and impactful solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers are leveraging AI to address sustainability challenges in areas like climate change, urban farming, food distribution, and carbon storage, while ensuring ethical use of the technology."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2024-08-21 21:00:27","changed_gmt":"2025-06-12 15:49:01","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674688":{"id":"674688","type":"image","title":"AI_Sustainability_Portrait_Montage.png","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMontage of five portraits, L to R, T to B: Josiah Hester, Peng Chen, Yongsheng Chen, Rosemarie Santa Gonz\u00e1lez, and Joe Bozeman.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1724274050","gmt_created":"2024-08-21 21:00:50","changed":"1724274050","gmt_changed":"2024-08-21 21:00:50","alt":"Montage of five portraits, L to R, T to B: Josiah Hester, Peng Chen, Yongsheng Chen, Rosemarie Santa Gonz\u00e1lez, and Joe Bozeman.","file":{"fid":"258241","name":"AI_Sustainability_Portrait_Montage.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/21\/AI_Sustainability_Portrait_Montage.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/21\/AI_Sustainability_Portrait_Montage.png","mime":"image\/png","size":737757,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/21\/AI_Sustainability_Portrait_Montage.png?itok=_RrovbIe"}}},"media_ids":["674688"],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"}],"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":""}},"682063":{"#nid":"682063","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Restoring and Protecting Georgia\u2019s Coast \u2014 With Oysters","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESarah Roney studies oysters \u2014 and coastline restoration, wave energy, erosion, blue crabs, and predator chemical cues. A Ph.D. candidate in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E program and a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/2022-grad-fellows\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Graduate Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E, Roney has spent the past four years studying how strategically placing oyster reefs along Georgia\u2019s coast could yield significant benefits.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u2019s coastal ecology is being degraded by several threats. Erosion caused by a combination of traffic from water vessels, sea-level rise, increased storm intensity and frequency, and property development, are negatively impacting both coastal living systems and the state\u2019s economy. Tourism, agriculture, recreation, fisheries, property development, and trade (through the Port of Savannah) all rely on healthy coastlines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney\u2019s interest in coastal ecology and oysters drew her to focus her doctoral thesis on this problem. She divided her project into two parts. The first involved understanding how much oyster reefs reduce the erosion caused by wave energy (ship wake) from water traffic. The second part demonstrated a method for making young oysters resistant to predation \u2014 increasing their survival rates and that of the reef colonies they call home. Roney focused her research on two major waterways in the Savannah area. The Intracoastal Waterway and the South Channel of the Savannah River, which leads to the Port of Savannah, are both subject to heavy ship and boat traffic. According to Roney\u2019s collaborators at Georgia Tech, 65% of the wave energy lashing the South Channel\u2019s shores is generated by cargo vessels navigating to and from the Port of Savannah. Because traffic along the Intracoastal Waterway is subject to very few speed restrictions, there is plenty of erosive wave energy there also, even though the vessels are almost exclusively small.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney chose one site in each waterway to place her reef structures. Mesh bags of oyster shells were seeded with young oysters by personnel working at a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gacoast.uga.edu\/about\/contact-us\/shellfish-research-lab\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Georgia Shellfish Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. Roney created her reef structures by placing these bags in a row 15 to 20 meters long and a meter wide. Once established, Roney found that constructed reefs dissipate 40% of the wave energy before it reaches the marsh edge. \u201cThis is an experimental pilot study, so the reefs are on the smaller side,\u201d Roney explained. \u201cReefs as large as 100 meters long may be necessary to protect certain areas \u2014 which sounds like a big investment. But because these are living shorelines, they are self-sustaining, and will keep growing and building on themselves.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablishing oyster reefs can be challenging, however, because predators feast on young oysters. Blue crabs are among the most voracious. The second part of Roney\u2019s research was to develop a method that improves adolescent oysters\u2019 chances of surviving to adulthood \u2014 when they infrequently succumb to predation. Roney and her collaborators at Georgia Tech identified two compounds found in blue crab urine, called trigonelline and homarine, that induce young oysters to devote more energy toward growing their shells, which become 25-60% stronger than normal. Roney found that after four to eight weeks of exposure to these compounds in hatchery conditions, their overall survival rate improved by 30% once placed in a reef. Her method not only helps constructed reefs to become established, but can also help existing oyster reefs become more resilient by slowing, or reversing, their decline.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile coastal restoration projects are not new in Georgia, the techniques Roney developed are relatively novel. Conventional shoreline restoration projects involve excavation, placing gravel beds, and extensive plantings, mostly with sea grasses. Roney has shown that using living shoreline strategies are less intensive and less expensive to establish and are also effective in reducing wave energy in waterways vulnerable to erosion. Perhaps most significantly, these techniques also restore the foundational functions of the ecosystems in which they are placed. The reefs become nurseries, incubating fish, bird, plant, and crustacean species.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney engaged several partners over the four years of her project, many in the communities along Georgia\u2019s coast. Over 35 coastal residents, business owners, citizen scientists, and students volunteered their time and resources to help Roney\u2019s project succeed. Roney said, \u201cI think the most rewarding part of the project has been seeing how many people are truly invested in our coastal resources and want oyster reefs to thrive.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis project isn\u2019t likely to end once Roney earns her PhD. For living shoreline restoration practices to catch on, several other problems require investigation. Roney wants to devise a way to slowly release predator cue compounds into the water near oyster reefs, so baby oysters won\u2019t need to spend as much time in a hatchery before being placed in the wild. Perfecting such a time-release mechanism could also help rejuvenate naturally occurring oyster reefs under threat from erosion and predation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney also wants to try combining constructed oyster reefs with oyster farms, integrating one of the most sustainable ways that protein can be raised with living shoreline restoration. \u201cAs the mariculture industry in Georgia grows, there will be lots of opportunities to investigate the possible intersections between the ecological benefits, engineering benefits, and cultural benefits of oyster farming,\u201d Roney said. \u201cFood might be a continuous byproduct of shoreline restoration projects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney\u2019s research shows that economic development and preserving, or even regenerating, diverse and productive coastal habitats for future generations don\u2019t have to be mutually exclusive propositions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoney\u2019s thesis advisor is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/marc-weissburg\u0022\u003EMarc Weissburg\u003C\/a\u003E, Brook Byers Professor in the School of Biological Sciences. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/kevin-haas\u0022\u003EKevin Haas\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, helped Roney map and measure the hydrodynamic forces in her study zones. The Coastal Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the National Parks Service, and the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant program provided access, permitting, funding, and resources.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"How a Georgia Tech grad student is building living shorelines that resist erosion and predators."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESarah Roney studies oysters \u2014 and coastline restoration, wave energy, erosion, blue crabs, and predator chemical cues. 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Today, the fourth-year Georgia Tech biochemistry student is the first co-author of a groundbreaking malaria study published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-92191-6\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Portfolio\u003C\/em\u003E journal. Through extensive experimentation coupled with computer modeling, Frooman led a team of undergraduate and graduate researchers that uncovered eight peptides that can help the immune system recognize and fight the malaria parasite.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMalaria kills over 500,000 annually with the mortality rate substantially higher in Africa,\u201d says Frooman. \u201cOur research explores how specific peptides bind to proteins that trigger immune responses.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFrooman originally hoped the research would help her learn how to think like a scientist and gain basic lab knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe gained those skills and more, quickly becoming recognized as an exceptional researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMarielle is one of the most passionate and talented undergraduate researchers I have ever worked with,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/andrew-mcshan\u0022\u003EAndrew McShan\u003C\/a\u003E, McShan Lab principal investigator and associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cShe is also a caring mentor and motivated future leader who wants to change the world. Her malaria research has the potential to provide\u0026nbsp;real therapeutic outcomes, including better designs for vaccines and immunotherapy.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom curiosity to contribution\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFrooman\u2019s journey into undergraduate research began with persistence. After a year and a half of searching for lab opportunities, she attended a School of Chemistry and Biochemistry research showcase. She approached several graduate students and professors with no success, until she met McShan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cOur first meeting was so relaxed and friendly that I didn\u2019t even realize Professor McShan was the principal investigator,\u201d admits Frooman. \u201cThat\u2019s how it all started.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOnce she officially joined the lab, Frooman contributed to every stage of the research, including designing experiments, performing computational and wet lab work, analyzing data, and writing and presenting the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELessons in resilience\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team faced several challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe research was delayed by failure after failure,\u201d says Frooman. \u201cBut each setback taught us something valuable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team\u2019s biggest challenge involved trying to grow crystals of the peptide\/HLA (protein) complexes to determine how they fit together. They spent two years attempting various methods, but nothing worked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EGuided by McShan, Frooman and the team then came up with the idea of using computational modeling to enable a deeper understanding of how the peptides and proteins interact at both biophysical and structural levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cUtilizing the computational modeling enabled us to see the best bindings and turned into a game-changing insight for our research, potentially leading to the design of more effective malaria treatments and vaccines,\u201d explains Frooman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe is quick to credit Georgia Tech and McShan for providing her with such a valuable learning experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAt many universities, undergraduates rarely do meaningful research, but at Tech, it\u2019s a priority,\u201d explains Frooman. \u201cI\u2019m extremely grateful for the opportunity to grow in such a supportive environment, and to learn from mentors like Professor McShan who lead by example and make time for every student.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHer advice to other undergraduates entering research?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cEmbrace your failures. They make the successes even more rewarding,\u201d shares Frooman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOutside the lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOn campus, Frooman is president of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society and Cleanup Crew at GT, a member of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, and a campus tour guide who serves on their executive board.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe especially loves being a tour guide as it allows her to share her love of Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;and its people:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cEveryone is unapologetically themselves and fully invested in their major or interests. 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When malware infects a device, it connects to one of these services, decodes the message, and learns where to go next\u2014without ever raising red flags.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis method helps attackers stay under the radar by blending in with everyday web traffic on legitimate online services, but a team of cybersecurity researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyfi.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECyber Forensics Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E (CyFI) Lab have developed a solution to combat this stealthy threat.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by Georgia Tech Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mingxuan.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMingxuan Yao\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.westpoint.edu\/jonathan-fuller\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Fuller\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E from the United States Military Academy, the research team developed a tool to automatically detect and neutralize dead drop resolver (DDR) -enabled malware. Named VADER by the researchers, it analyzes how each malware sample decodes hidden content and extracts the logic\u2014or recipe\u2014it uses to uncover the final command-and-control (C\u0026amp;C) server.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYao and Fuller discovered how widespread this problem is when VADER identified nearly 9,000 real-world malware samples using DDR techniques across seven different popular web storage apps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s crucial for web app providers to act fast by removing these hidden payloads,\u201d said Yao. \u201cBut that\u2019s just the start\u2014new, disguised versions could be hiding anywhere on their platforms.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince providers have no idea how the content has been manipulated, spotting these hidden threats used to be nearly impossible. In an experiment by the CyFI team, a striking 64.1% of C\u0026amp;C servers shielded by dead drops were still active as of the day the study was conducted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why the CyFI Lab designed VADER to scale. When tested on 100,000 malware samples, it identified the 8,906 DDR-enabled ones and extracted seven unique decoding methods. 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Called Jezero Mons,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eit is nearly half the size of the crater itself and could add critical clues to the habitability and volcanism of Mars, transforming how we understand Mars\u2019 geologic history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe study, \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-025-02329-7\u0022\u003EEvidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d was published this May in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E-family journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECommunications Earth \u0026amp; Environment,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eunderscores\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ehow much we have left to learn about one of the most well-studied regions of Mars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELead author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/deeps.brown.edu\/people\/sara-cuevas-quinones\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESara C. Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E completed the research as an undergraduate during a summer program at Georgia Tech; she is now a graduate student at Brown University. The team also included corresponding author Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wray.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames J. Wray\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E (\u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/2095063\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJacob Adler\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethen a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech and now an assistant research professor at Arizona State University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cVolcanism on Mars is intriguing for a number of reasons \u2014 from the implications it has on habitability, to better constraining the geologic history,\u201d Wray says. \u201cJezero Crater is one of the best studied sites on Mars. If we are just now identifying a volcano here, imagine how many more could be on Mars. Volcanoes may be even more widespread across Mars than we thought.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA mountain in the margins\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EWray\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Efirst noticed\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ethe mountain in 2007, while considering Jezero Crater as a graduate student.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI was looking at low-resolution photos of the area and noticed a mountain on the crater\u2019s rim,\u201d he recalls. \u201cTo me, it looked like a volcano, but it was difficult to get additional images.\u201d At the time, Jezero Crater was newly discovered, and imaging focused almost entirely on its intriguing water history, which is on the opposite side of the 28-mile-wide crater.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThen, Jezero Crater, due to these lake-like sedimentary deposits, was selected as the landing spot for the 2020 Perseverance Rover \u2014 an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/mars-2020-perseverance\/\u0022\u003Eongoing NASA mission seeking signs of ancient Martian life and collecting rock samples for possible return to Earth\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EHowever, after landing, some of the first rocks Perseverance encountered were not the sedimentary deposits one might expect from a previously-flooded area \u2014 they were volcanic. Wray suspected he might know the origin of these rocks, but to make a case for it, he would need to show that the mountain on the edge of Jezero Crater could indeed be a volcano.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA new researcher \u2014 and old data\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe opportunity presented itself several months after Perseverance landed when Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones applied to a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/easreu.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESummer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program hosted by the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E to work with Wray.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0019103518306067?via%3Dihub\u0022\u003EA previous study\u003C\/a\u003E led by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBriony Horgan\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(professor of planetary science at Purdue University) had also suggested that Jezero Mons could be volcanic,\u201d Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones says. \u201cI began wondering if there was a way to home in on these suspicions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe team partnered with study coauthor Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez, who specializes in characterizing the surface of planets and their habitability. They decided to use datasets gathered from spacecraft orbiting Mars to compare the properties of Jezero Mons to other, known, volcanoes. \u201cWe can\u2019t visit Mars and definitively prove that Jezero Mons is a volcano, but we can show that it shares the same properties with existing volcanoes \u2014 both here on Earth and Mars,\u201d Wray explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe used data from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, and Perseverance Rover, all in combination to puzzle this out,\u201d he adds. \u201cI think this shows that these older spacecraft can be extremely valuable long after their initial missions end \u2014 these old spacecraft can still make important discoveries and help us answer tricky questions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EFor Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones, it also underscores the importance of REU programs and opportunities for undergraduates. \u201cI was an undergraduate student at the time, and this was my first time conducting research,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was fascinating to learn how different data sets could be used to decode the origin of a landscape. After Jezero Mons, it became clear to me that I would continue to study Mars and other planetary bodies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe search for life \u2014 and determining Mars\u2019 age\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe discovery makes the crater even more intriguing in the search for past life on Mars. A volcano so close to watery Jezero Crater could add a critical source of heat on an otherwise cold planet, including the potential for hydrothermal activity \u2014 energy that life could use to thrive.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThis type of system also holds interest for Mars as a whole. \u201cThe coalescence of these two types of systems makes Jezero more interesting than ever,\u201d shares Wray. \u201cWe have samples of incredible sedimentary rocks that could be from a habitable region alongside igneous rocks with important scientific value.\u201d If returned to Earth, igneous rocks can be radioisotope dated to know their age very precisely. Dating the Jezero Crater samples could be used to calibrate age estimates, providing an unprecedented window into the geologic history of the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe take home message? \u201cMars is the best place we have to look in our solar system for signs of life, and thanks to the Perseverance Rover collecting samples in Jezero, the United States has samples from the best rocks in the best place on Mars,\u201d Wray says. \u201cIf these samples are returned to Earth, we can do incredible, groundbreaking science with them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDOI: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-025-02329-7\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-025-02329-7\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones was supported by Georgia Tech\u2019s 2021 Research Experience for Undergraduates program sponsored by NSF and 3M corporation. Wray was supported by NASA funding for Co-Investigators on HiRISE and CaSSIS. CaSSIS is a project of the University of Bern and funded through the Swiss Space Office via ESA\u2019s PRODEX program. The instrument hardware development was also supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) (ASI-INAF agreement 2020-17-HH.0), INAF\/Astronomical Observatory of Padova, and the Space Research Center (CBK) in Warsaw. Support from SGF (Budapest), the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab, and NASA are also gratefully acknowledged. Operation support from the UK Space Agency is also acknowledged.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have discovered evidence that a mountain on the rim of Jezero Crater \u2014 where NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover is currently collecting samples for possible return to Earth \u2014 is likely a volcano. 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The summer-long accelerator, known for turning ideas into real-world ventures, is once again positioning Georgia Tech as a national leader in invention and startup creation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s cohort spans a wide range of industries, including artificial intelligence, defense, healthcare, gaming, sustainability, media management, agriculture tech, fashion tech, education, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese founders are in the messy middle and that\u0027s a beautiful place to be. There\u2019s a lot of freedom in that,\u201d said Margaret Weniger, director of Startup Launch. \u201cWe\u2019re all going to be in this together. It\u0027s a safe space to try new things. It\u2019s OK if it doesn\u0027t work out because what we want founders to learn is an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial spirit \u2014 something you take with you no matter what you do after this.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the next 12 weeks, teams will validate ideas, build products, and acquire customers with the help of dedicated coaches, a robust founder community, and a network of mentors and alumni.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERaghupathy \u0022Siva\u0022 Sivakumar, Georgia Tech\u2019s inaugural vice president of Commercialization and the faculty founder of CREATE-X, spoke about the core of CREATE-X and what it would take for founders to succeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStartup Launch is not about Georgia Tech gaining from your success. We are here just for one reason, which is to make you successful,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to hold yourself accountable. You need to be ambitious in terms of how big a problem you solve. You need to be emphatic that the customer matters. The successful teams are 100% behind what\u0027s going to make the lives of customers easier and better.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014, CREATE-X was co-founded by Sivakumar, Steve McLaughlin(who is now the president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art), and other Georgia Tech faculty, including Ray Vito, Craig Forest, and Ravi Bellamkonda (who is now the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University). The program received its initial major philanthropic support from Chris Klaus, a Georgia Tech alumnus and tech entrepreneur, whose gift helped launch the initiative, and , played a key role in building out the program\u0027s maker courses. Over the years, CREATE-X has continued to grow, thanks largely to the philanthropic support of alumni and foundations who believe in its mission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the last decade, the program has produced over 650 startups, $2.4 billion in portfolio valuation, and had eight founders named to Forbes\u2019 30 Under 30. Wagner shared stories of past teams who pivoted dramatically \u2014 from a glucose-monitoring pillow to a sobriety app now valued at over $350 million, and from a camping gear delivery service to a billion-dollar logistics platform.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe don\u2019t know which ideas will become the next unicorns,\u201d Weniger said. \u201cBut we\u2019re betting on you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the kickoff event, McLaughlin and Klaus were honored for their contributions to Georgia Tech\u2019s entrepreneurial ecosystem. McLaughlin encouraged the founders through the story of CREATE-X.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom the very beginning, we challenged CREATE-X to be a startup as well. To this day, CREATE-X has raised its own money to do this. It\u0027s a reminder of what it takes to make this happen,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the most difficult challenge you have ever taken. I think at the time, we were probably skeptical about whether students could do it. Now we know that you can.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President \u00c1ngel Cabrera reflected on the impact of McLaughlin, Klaus, and others who saw the vision of Georgia Tech being an entrepreneurial campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTen years ago, this was a crazy, absurd idea,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, 150 teams are working on their own crazy ideas. Even though sometimes there\u0027s this idea of the entrepreneur as a loner, what you learn very quickly is entrepreneurship is a team sport.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKlaus spoke about people collaborating and helping solve problems together.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027m especially inspired by Georgia with its complex history,\u201d he said. \u201cIt continues to be a place where peace can be envisioned and pursued. I think this recognition strengthens my commitment to building bridges, resolving conflict, and lifting up voices that seek unity. As you build your businesses, you\u0027ll be building collaborations and partnerships, and hopefully make the world a better place.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the summer progresses, founders will be guided by CREATE-X\u2019s core values: experiential education, entrepreneurial confidence, and real-world impact. Weniger encouraged teams to \u201cshow up uncomfortable\u201d and \u201cleverage every single resource\u201d available.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe journey will culminate at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/create-x-demo-day-2025-tickets-1236462565819?aff=article\u0022\u003EDemo Day\u003C\/a\u003E, where teams will showcase their startups to investors, industry leaders, and the broader community. The event is free, open to the public, and promises a front-row seat to the next wave of Georgia Tech-born innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDemo Day 2025 will take place on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 5 p.m., in the Exhibition Hall.\u003C\/strong\u003E For more information and to RSVP, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/create-x-demo-day-2025-tickets-1236462565819?aff=article\u0022\u003ECREATE-X Demo Day Eventbrite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X program has launched its largest-ever Startup Launch cohort, featuring 137 student teams and 25 faculty\/research teams, totaling 318 founders. The 12-week accelerator supports ventures across diverse industries like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and fashion tech, emphasizing entrepreneurial mindset and customer-focused innovation. Founders will receive mentorship, coaching, funding, and community support, culminating in a public Demo Day on August 28. 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The deficient police report was picked up by local media, which led to news stories that inaccurately described the crime and left out important information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest said she learned from the incident that incomplete information doesn\u2019t mitigate violence. The perspectives and stories of people who experience violence are essential to reliable data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe incident guided Foriest as she committed to research that gathers complete and accurate data on multiple types of violence, including violent injury and homicide, intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and suicide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest earned a bachelor\u2019s in health science from Columbus State University. She also holds two master\u2019s degrees: one in public health from the University of Southern California, and another in technology leadership and management from Agnes Scott College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2021, Foriest started her Ph.D. in human-centered computing at Georgia Tech to understand how technology influences violence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI look at all types of violence as an outcome of how technology affects communication,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne thing she discovered was that even though technology can amplify victims\u2019 voices, it is often used to silence them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe same social dynamics that keep people from disclosing their violent experiences to formal reporting sources offline also happen online,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBringing the Cardiff Model to the U.S.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore arriving at Tech, Foriest worked for eight years as an injury prevention coordinator at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She implemented a trauma recovery center and Atlanta\u2019s first hospital-based violence intervention program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile in that position, she worked with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/documents\/2665796-the-cardiff-model-for-violence-prevention\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECardiff Model for Violence Prevention,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E a public health approach to violence prevention developed by researchers at Cardiff University in Wales.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Cardiff model\u2019s philosophy is that violence prevention is best achieved when the healthcare and law enforcement sectors combine geographical data to determine where violence occurs in a community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Cardiff model taught Wales there was a lot about violence they didn\u2019t know from police data alone,\u201d Foriest said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne example is that researchers learned an alarming number of hospital patients were brought in from local taverns. This finding informed policymakers to implement new regulations, such as changing licensing requirements and serving alcohol in toughened glasses or non-glass vessels so they can\u2019t be used as weapons.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2011, the city of Cardiff reported a 42% reduction in hospital admissions for hospital injuries. It wasn\u2019t long before the researchers in the U.S. began importing the Cardiff model. In 2018, it became an official policy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Justice found in 2022 that 58% of violent crimes were not reported to law enforcement. Sixteen cities that make up the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uscardiffnetwork.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECardiff Model for Violence Prevention National Network\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eare now gathering and mapping patient-reported violent injury data from hospitals to fill that data gap.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta is one of the cities in that network, and Foriest has been an on-the-ground researcher collecting that data. Her work with the Cardiff model seamlessly integrated into her Ph.D. research as she sought ways to turn technology into a safe avenue of violence disclosure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking with Alex Godwin, a former Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech who is now an assistant professor at American University, she helped develop a user interface and mapping algorithm. The tool allows hospital patients who are violence victims to identify the location of the violent incident they experienced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest said, \u201cAround the Covid-19 pandemic, we had challenges getting patients screened, and we thought we should explore different options.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur interface allows patients to tap down to the degree they\u2019re comfortable on the geographic location where they were injured.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt improved our ability to map data tremendously and decreased some of the risks patients face when disclosing violence.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest and Godwin\u0027s paper on the development of the interface tool earned an honorable mention for best paper at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Yokohama, Japan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest also co-authored an award-winning paper at the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). That paper examined how social media often silences violence victims.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest is also a fellow for Data Science and Innovation at the CDC, where she continues her work on the Cardiff model. She also examines how news media coverage of suicides can often reinforce stigmas about the causes of suicide in that role.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThriving at Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EForiest is entering her fifth year as a Ph.D. student, but before she came to Tech, she had no computing experience. She applied to numerous Ph.D. programs but was eventually persuaded that technology could complement her public health expertise and her goal of preventing violence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTech was the only place where I could gain a new skill set while doing the things that I wanted to do in research,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat felt like the best fit for me, where I would get the most out of my training. I was encouraged by faculty and my peers to recognize that my perspective is valuable, and I can speak from that place and bridge my knowledge with HCI concepts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInspired by her own experience with a flawed police investigation, Jasmine Foriest is adapting the Cardiff Model\u2014a public health approach developed in Wales\u2014to the U.S. Her work emphasizes the importance of capturing diverse perspectives, particularly from marginalized communities, to create more accurate and actionable data on various forms of violence, including intimate partner violence and suicide.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jasmine Foriest is using technology to gather complete and accurate data on violence, addressing gaps in traditional reporting methods and developing tools to help victims disclose information safely."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2025-05-28 17:36:42","changed_gmt":"2025-05-28 17:41:19","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677149":{"id":"677149","type":"image","title":"Summit-on-Responsible-Computing--AI--and-Society_86A9671-Enhanced-NR.jpg","body":null,"created":"1748453824","gmt_created":"2025-05-28 17:37:04","changed":"1748453824","gmt_changed":"2025-05-28 17:37:04","alt":"Jasmine Foriest","file":{"fid":"261017","name":"Summit-on-Responsible-Computing--AI--and-Society_86A9671-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/28\/Summit-on-Responsible-Computing--AI--and-Society_86A9671-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/28\/Summit-on-Responsible-Computing--AI--and-Society_86A9671-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":85875,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/28\/Summit-on-Responsible-Computing--AI--and-Society_86A9671-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=bNCFsdmy"}}},"media_ids":["677149"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"173212","name":"Human-Computer Intraction"},{"id":"1814","name":"violence"}],"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":""}},"682458":{"#nid":"682458","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gamification of Power Grid Resilience Supports Research and Education ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYou\u2019re managing the Texas Panhandle\u2019s power grid. Heavy winds are blowing, and a worn-out utility pole ignites a fire by crashing onto a transmission line. Luckily, the fire department arrives quickly, putting out the fire before it spreads to nearby cities. But the same thing may happen again with gusty conditions predicted for the next 24 hours. Should you shut off miles of power lines to reduce that risk, causing outages for thousands of residents? Should you add batteries to the grid or move some power lines underground to lessen the impact of future fires? That sounds useful, but paying for these upgrades would require raising electricity rates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlayers of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/currentcrisis.itch.io\/current-crisis\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECurrent Crisis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E video game are pondering these questions, similar to professional grid managers during the Texas Smokehouse Creek fire in 2024. But the players did not purchase \u003Cem\u003ECurrent Crisis\u003C\/em\u003E at a run-of-the-mill gaming store. They might have played it at Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/dataseum\/\u0022\u003EDataseum\u003C\/a\u003E, which featured the game in a recent exhibition. Or they might have helped develop it in weekly meetings with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/daniel-molzahn\u0022\u003EDaniel Molzahn\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/people-epicenter-team\/\u0022\u003EEPIcenter initiative lead\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u003Cem\u003ECurrent Crisis\u003C\/em\u003E started as a computer simulation I programmed in Summer 2020 for a senior-level course\u0026nbsp;I taught that fall,\u201d says Molzahn. \u201cMy students had to dispatch crews to maintain or repair a simplified model of the Georgia power grid. In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, each dispatch had a risk of infection and quarantine, which meant losing the crew for the rest of that round. The students had a fixed budget to balance two competing goals: operating a power system with minimal outages and keeping the repair crews healthy.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe class project was popular, and its scope began to grow. Molzahn proposed turning his simulation into a video game in a July 2021 grant application to the National Science Foundation. He received the five-year award that fall and launched his \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/vip-program-engages-students-long-term-projects-bridging-research-and-classroom\u0022\u003EVertically Integrated Project\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d on power grid gaming the following spring. It soon attracted about 35 students per semester, from sophomores to those pursuing graduate degrees in various disciplines. Most students stay for three to four semesters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETristan Ziegler joined the VIP as a computational media sophomore in Spring 2022 \u2014 and still works on it three years later as a professional programmer. \u201cI found the project by searching for \u2018game\u2019 on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVIP website\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d says Ziegler, who graduated in 2024. \u201cIt offered much more freedom than traditional classes but still allowed me to earn credits and grades, unlike a student organization where you volunteer your time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students quickly discovered the benefits of working toward a shared goal in smaller groups, focused on coding, grid modeling, graphic design, or artistic creativity. Some volunteered to lead initiatives, such as organizing the Dataseum exhibition or the 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ai4opt.org\/seth-bonder-camp\u0022\u003ESeth Bonder summer camps\u003C\/a\u003E, where they will teach high schoolers the basics of game programming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother long-term member of the VIP team is Ryan Piansky, a doctoral student, who studies the resilience of power grids to wildfires. He combines well-known engineering tools \u2014 algorithms for finding a mathematically optimal problem solution \u2014 with historical wildfire data to evaluate grid management decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have examined if policies based on established engineering principles help the people who need the most help, reduce the risk of outages broadly across the whole grid, and optimally allocate limited resources,\u201d explains Piansky, who works in Molzahn\u0027s research lab. \u201cTo do that, I combine power grid models with realistic wildfire simulations to assess if those policies would likely generate desirable outcomes in a range of plausible scenarios.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe VIP work on grid modeling has informed Piansky\u2019s research, but the climate models he uses to mimic the spread of wildfires are too complex for a fast-moving video game. That\u2019s why he has helped the students develop simplified versions of these models. Humidity and vegetation, for example, influence both real fires and those popping up in \u003Cem\u003ECurrent Crisis\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPiansky\u2019s research is part of Molzahn\u2019s long-term goal: developing computer tools that help professional grid managers improve the grid\u2019s resilience to natural disasters \u2014 from pandemics and wildfires to hurricanes, heat waves and floods.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe plan to record the choices made by \u003Cem\u003ECurrent Crisis\u003C\/em\u003E players in crowdsourced datasets that will support our research,\u201d says Molzahn. \u201cBy using these datasets to train machine-learning algorithms, we can harness the power of AI to develop better disaster response policies.\u201d (The European Space Agency uses a similar gamification strategy to map\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/activities.esa.int\/4000142966\u0022\u003Emoon craters\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project\u2019s benefits go well beyond these research contributions. Its educational value includes experience working in multidisciplinary teams of students at different levels and leadership development. Molzahn also hopes the game will help build public acceptance of disruptive actions during real disasters.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRecognizing the tradeoffs inherent in grid management is important, whether it\u2019s understanding why \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.psehealthyenergy.org\/public-safety-power-shutoffs-explained\/\u0022\u003Epower shutoffs\u003C\/a\u003E reduce fire risks or why service restorations are time-consuming,\u201d says Molzahn. \u201cThis may also generate broader public support for electricity rate increases and tax allocations to pay for infrastructure hardening.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWritten by: Silke Schmidt\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCurrent Crisis,\u201d a power grid modeling video game developed through the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/vip-program-engages-students-long-term-projects-bridging-research-and-classroom\u0022\u003EVIP\u003C\/a\u003E project led by Dan Molzahn, EPIcenter\u0027s initiative lead, simulates real-world power grid challenges. 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The doctoral candidates, pursuing degrees in electrical and computer engineering, economics, computer science, and public policy, will be on campus working full-time on their dissertation research throughout the summer semester and present their findings in a final showcase.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEPIcenter will provide a full stipend and tuition for the 2025 summer semester to support the students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI look forward to hosting a fantastic cohort of early-career energy scholars this summer,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/laura-taylor\u0022\u003ELaura Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E, EPIcenter\u2019s director. \u201cThe summer research program will not only help the students advance their research while engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue but also offers professional development opportunities to position them for a strong start to their careers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students will work with EPIcenter staff and be provided with on-campus workshops on written and oral communications. Biweekly meetings over the summer will offer the students an opportunity to share their work, progress, and ideas with each other and the EPIcenter faculty affiliates. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to engage with programs and distinguished guests of the center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor students interested in presenting their research at a conference, EPIcenter also will provide travel grants\u0026nbsp;of up to $600 pursuant to having their paper\/presentation posted on the EPIcenter website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I applied to the Summer Research Program because its structure and community aligned perfectly with my summer plan on dissertation work in energy policy,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EYifan Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u201cI aim to finalize key dissertation chapters and engage closely with peers and mentors to prepare me for the job market.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program offers students an opportunity to promote\u0026nbsp;their work through the EPIcenter communication channels including the website, news feeds, blogs, and the SEI newsletter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am very excited to spend my summer at EPIcenter exploring how battery storage entry affects competition in the electricity market,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EMaghfira \u201cAfi\u201d Ramadhani\u003C\/strong\u003E, one of the student affiliates selected for the summer research program. \u201cSpecifically, I look at how the rollout of battery storage in the Texas electricity market impacts renewable curtailment, fossil-fuel generator markup, and generator entry and exit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith a variety of backgrounds and perspectives on energy, each of the students in the summer program brings something unique to EPIcenter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELa\u2019Darius Thomas\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u201cMy project explores the potential of peer-to-peer energy trading systems in promoting decentralized, sustainable energy solutions. I aim to contribute to the development of energy models that empower individuals and communities to directly participate in electricity markets.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENiraj Palsule\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u201cI intend to gain interdisciplinary insights interfacing energy transition technology and policy developments by participating in the EPIcenter Summer Research Program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u201cI believe the EPIcenter Summer Research Program will deepen my investigation of how environmental hazards disproportionately affect vulnerable communities through research on power outage impacts and lead contamination. This summer, I hope to refine my analysis and complete research on the socioeconomic dimensions of power reliability and environmental resilience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMehmet \u201cAkif\u201d Aglar\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0022I applied to the EPIcenter\u0026nbsp;Summer Research Program because it offers the chance to work alongside and learn from a community of highly qualified researchers across various fields. I believe the opportunity to present my work, receive feedback, and benefit from the structure the program provides will be invaluable for advancing my research.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout EPICenter\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mission of the Energy Policy and Innovation Center is to conduct rigorous studies and deliver high impact insights that address critical regional, national, and global energy issues from a Southeastern U.S. perspective. EPICenter is pioneering a holistic approach that calls upon multidisciplinary expertise to engage the public on the issues that emerge as the energy transformation unfolds. The center operates within Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnergy Policy and Innovation Center\u003C\/a\u003E (EPIcenter) at Georgia Tech has announced the selection of six students for its inaugural Summer Research Program. 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Thousands funneled into a 14-foot-wide alley in the Itaewon district from multiple directions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe crowd grew so large that no one could move in the alley, resulting in the deadliest crowd crush in the nation\u2019s history. Nearly 160 people were killed, and another 196 were injured.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESoonho\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EKwon\u003C\/strong\u003E, a first-year human-centered computing Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, lived within walking distance of the alley when the incident occurred.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was tragic,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cIt really makes you think about how life is fragile. Everyone in my community talked about what it would have been like if they were in that alleyway.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of the victims were young people \u2014 some of them teens who had no identification on them. Kwon thought about their family members being told their loved ones\u2019 lives had been cut short. He wondered what memories those families would have of the deceased.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe incident inspired Kwon to create a new mobile platform that helps young adults and career professionals create a post-death memorial for their families. The platform, which Kwon and his research collaborators named \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E, allows users to be remembered how they want to be remembered in the event of their untimely death.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost death preparation services are for terminally ill patients or aging adults, focusing on will management or funeral planning,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cWe thought such needs may differ for young adults and asked how we could design a system that better caters to their needs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E is a photo-based death preparation system that enables users to send a physical package containing pre-curated pictures, voice recordings, and letters to a designated recipient in the event of their passing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system syncs with a user\u2019s mobile photo album and creates a list of scanned faces. Users can select a face and view all the photos they\u2019ve taken with that person. They can choose which photos they want sent to that person after death and write individual messages for each image.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the user\u2019s death has been reported, \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E sends a package to each selected individual with printed photos, letters, and a QR code or a CD that contains videos or voice recordings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBreaking the Ice\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon and his collaborators designed \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E based on a group study that asked participants to imagine what would happen if they unexpectedly died. The participants were asked what was on their bucket lists, their epitaphs, and what they would wish for if they could make one wish come true.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSurprisingly, people were happy to participate because we framed it in a way that wasn\u2019t gloomy,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cMany shared that reflecting on their death motivated them to actively express their love and be grateful for what they have. Turning something as heavy as death into something positive was a key design implication.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDigital vs. Physical\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon began his research career examining virtual commemoration systems, including Facebook and Instagram commemoration pages, during the Covid-19 pandemic and exploring how technology can meaningfully memorialize the deceased.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said two aspects distinguish \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E from other commemoration platforms:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe deceased can decide how and by whom they want to be remembered.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe fusion of digital memorialization with physical memorialization\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLeveraging only the digital side of it can be superficial,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cWe build monuments, statues, and tombstones because the notion of death itself is losing your physical presence. By making it physical, we aimed to connect the discussion on digital legacies to traditional human commemoration forms.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI Afterlife\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon also said he is aware of artificial intelligence (AI) afterlife. This emerging technology allows people to train an AI agent and produce digital avatars with which family and friends can communicate after they die.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeredith\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ERingel\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMorris\u003C\/strong\u003E, director and principal scientist for human-AI interaction at Google DeepMind, spoke about AI afterlife in October during the Summit on AI, Responsible Computing, and Society hosted by Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her talk, Morris spoke about the criticism AI afterlife is already facing for causing people to experience extended grief and the inability to move on from losing a loved one.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon said another drawback is that AI agents are susceptible to hallucinations and could say untrue things about the deceased.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow can you say for sure that the representation of AI is me?\u201d he said. \u201cAs researchers, our role is to explore and critically examine how the emergence of such technology may shape society while striving to ensure its development benefits people.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon sees \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E as a catalyst for meaningful discussions about how a digital legacy curation system may accurately reflect a user\u2019s wishes before death.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe will present a paper on \u003Cem\u003ETimeless\u003C\/em\u003E\u0027s design process and its implications at the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) this week in Yokohama, Japan.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the wake of the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Soonho Kwon created a mobile app called \u0022Timeless\u0022 to help young people control how they are remembered after death.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon\u2019s goal is to empower users to shape their digital legacies and offer meaningful comfort to those they leave behind.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Soonho Kwon has developed a mobile platform that allows users to curate and send personalized photo-based memorial packages\u2014complete with images, voice recordings, and letters\u2014to loved ones after their death, aiming to g"}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2025-05-06 18:35:35","changed_gmt":"2025-05-06 18:42:55","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677034":{"id":"677034","type":"image","title":"IMG_3277_adjusted.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESoonho Kwon is one of the developers of Timeless, a mobile platform that creates personalized memorial packages\u2014including curated photos, voice recordings, and letters\u2014to be sent to loved ones after their death. 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Successful tests of his algorithms show promise to help doctors diagnose mental health disorders and design individualized treatment plans for patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027ve always been fascinated by the human brain and how it defines who we are,\u201d Rahaman said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe fact that so many people silently suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, while our understanding of the brain remains limited, inspired me to develop tools that bring greater clarity to this complexity and offer hope through more compassionate, data-driven care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahaman\u2019s dissertation introduces a framework focusing on granular factoring. This computing technique stratifies brain data into smaller, localized subgroups, making it easier for computers and researchers to study data and find meaningful patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGranular factoring overcomes the challenges of size and heterogeneity in neurological data science. Brain data is obtained from neuroimaging, genomics, behavioral datasets, and other sources. The large size of each source makes it a challenge to study them individually, let alone analyze them simultaneously, to find hidden inferences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahaman\u2019s research allows researchers and physicians to move past one-size-fits-all approaches. Instead of manually reviewing tests and scans, algorithms look for patterns and biomarkers in the subgroups that otherwise go undetected, especially ones that indicate neuropsychiatric disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy dissertation advances the frontiers of computational neuroscience by introducing scalable and interpretable models that navigate brain heterogeneity to reveal how neural dynamics shape behavior,\u201d Rahaman said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy uncovering subgroup-specific patterns, this work opens new directions for understanding brain function and enables more precise, personalized approaches to mental health care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERahaman defended his dissertation on April 14, the final step in completing his Ph.D. in computational science and engineering. 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But the way I had to do it was spreadsheets all over the place, and I was trying to find a solution to keep it all in one spot. I couldn\u2019t find a way to do it, so I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019ll build it.\u201d And then I got into I2P.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was challenging about building your prototype over the semester?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERose:\u003C\/strong\u003E This semester, it was mainly trying to come up with the schema and how to physically account for the edge cases. It\u2019s not easy; it took a lot of deep thought, discussions with other people who are into these niche cars, and understanding what details we needed. I\u2019m still trying to add more things and figure it out. It\u2019s not perfect, but it\u2019s enough.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was your favorite part about I2P?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERose:\u003C\/strong\u003E Adding features that I was looking for. For example, let\u2019s say I was looking for a car. Filter all the cars over 25 years old and imported to the U.S. \u2014 I can easily search my database.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat would you say to students who are interested in entrepreneurship?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERose:\u003C\/strong\u003E It\u2019s always, \u201cYou should have started sooner.\u201d I\u2019ve always thought about it. My biggest advice is to just start doing it, even if it\u2019s a little bit here, a little bit there. 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The fellowships \u2014 valued at $159,000 \u2014 include funding for three years of graduate study and tuition. Graduate students pursuing full-time, research-based master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or STEM education are eligible for the fellowship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s Georgia Tech recipients represent various areas of study, fulfilling the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGRF initiative\u2019s commitment\u003C\/a\u003E to ensuring the \u201cquality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENicole Allen \u2013 biomedical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChristopher E. 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Davel \u2013 photonic materials\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStephanie Gonzalez \u2013 aeronautical and aerospace engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EZachary Steven Grieser \u2013 aeronautical and aerospace engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECharles Hong \u2013 robotics, control, automation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVibha Ramanathan Iyer \u2013 biomedical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlexey Denisovich Khotimsky \u2013 robotics, control, automation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESamuel Kirschner \u2013 mechanical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJeffrey Li \u2013 chemical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJason Marfey \u2013 atomic, molecular, and optical physics\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENora Phoebe O\u0027Kelly \u2013 materials science and engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENadia Qutob \u2013 astronomy and astrophysics\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEthan Daniel Ray \u2013 photonic materials\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAtticus Rex \u2013 computational and data-enabled science\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClaire Su \u2013 biomedical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u0026nbsp;Alessandro Zerbini-Flores \u2013 electrical and electronic engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEight additional fellowship recipients completed their undergraduate degrees at Georgia Tech before attending graduate school at other universities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGrace Fanson\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHaaris Jilani\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMollie Johnson\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMatthew Liu\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMadeleine M. 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Although it\u2019s been a year since his doctoral defense,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zijie.wang\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZijie (Jay) Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) work continues to resonate with researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang is a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medium.com\/sigchi\/announcing-the-2025-acm-sigchi-awards-17c1feaf865f\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The award recognizes Wang for his lifelong work on democratizing human-centered AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThroughout my Ph.D. and industry internships, I observed a gap in existing research: there is a strong need for practical tools for applying human-centered approaches when designing AI systems,\u201d said Wang, now a safety researcher at OpenAI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy work not only helps people understand AI and guide its behavior but also provides user-friendly tools that fit into existing workflows.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[Related: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2025\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing Swarms to Yokohama, Japan, for CHI 2025\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s dissertation presented techniques in visual explanation and interactive guidance to align AI models with user knowledge and values. The work culminated from years of research, fellowship support, and internships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s most influential projects formed the core of his dissertation. These included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/cnn-explainer\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECNN Explainer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: an open-source tool developed for deep-learning beginners. Since its release in July 2020, more than 436,000 global visitors have used the tool.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/diffusiondb\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiffusionDB\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: a first-of-its-kind large-scale dataset that lays a foundation to help people better understand generative AI. This work could lead to new research in detecting deepfakes and designing human-AI interaction tools to help people more easily use these models.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interpret.ml\/gam-changer\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGAM Changer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: an interface that empowers users in healthcare, finance, or other domains to edit ML models to include knowledge and values specific to their domain, which improves reliability.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jennwv.com\/papers\/gamcoach.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGAM Coach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: an interactive ML tool that could help people who have been rejected for a loan by automatically letting an applicant know what is needed for them to receive loan approval. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-tool-teaches-responsible-ai-practices-when-using-large-language-models\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFarsight\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E: a tool that alerts developers when they write prompts in large language models that could be harmful and misused. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel extremely honored and lucky to receive this award, and I am deeply grateful to many who have supported me along the way, including Polo, mentors, collaborators, and friends,\u201d said Wang, who was advised by School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis recognition also inspired me to continue striving to design and develop easy-to-use tools that help everyone to easily interact with AI systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike Wang, Chau advised Georgia Tech alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fredhohman.com\/\u0022\u003EFred Hohman\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CSE 2020).\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/alumnus-building-legacy-through-dissertation-and-mentorship\u0022\u003EHohman won the ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2022\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0022\u003EChau\u2019s group\u003C\/a\u003E synthesizes machine learning (ML) and visualization techniques into scalable, interactive, and trustworthy tools. These tools increase understanding and interaction with large-scale data and ML models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChau is the associate director of corporate relations for the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech. Wang called the School of CSE his home unit while a student in the ML program under Chau.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang is one of five recipients of this year\u2019s award to be presented at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi2025.acm.org\/\u0022\u003ECHI 2025\u003C\/a\u003E). The conference occurs April 25-May 1 in Yokohama, Japan.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESIGCHI is the world\u2019s largest association of human-computer interaction professionals and practitioners. The group sponsors or co-sponsors 26 conferences, including CHI.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang\u2019s outstanding dissertation award is the latest recognition of a career decorated with achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMonths after graduating from Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/research-ai-safety-lands-recent-graduate-forbes-30-under-30\u0022\u003EForbes named Wang to its 30 Under 30 in Science for 2025\u003C\/a\u003E for his dissertation. Wang was one of 15 Yellow Jackets included in nine different 30 Under 30 lists and the only Georgia Tech-affiliated individual on the 30 Under 30 in Science list.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile a Georgia Tech student, Wang earned recognition from big names in business and technology. He received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/student-named-apple-scholar-connecting-people-machine-learning\u0022\u003EApple Scholars in AI\/ML Ph.D. Fellowship in 2023\u003C\/a\u003E and was in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-machine-learning-students-earn-jp-morgan-ai-phd-fellowships\u0022\u003E2022 cohort of the J.P. Morgan AI Ph.D. Fellowships Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with the CHI award, Wang\u2019s dissertation earned him awards this year at banquets across campus. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com\/sites.gatech.edu\/dist\/0\/283\/files\/2025\/03\/2025-Sigma-Xi-Research-Award-Winners.pdf\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech chapter of Sigma Xi presented Wang with the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award\u003C\/a\u003E. 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It could lead to more versatile and efficient AI tools.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-approach-easily-merging-data-models-brings-adaptable-multi-tasking-ais-closer-reality\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_new\u0022\u003EClick to read the full story on the College of Computing website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new artificial intelligence innovation developed by Georgia Tech aims to improve the alignment of specialized data models by combining them to create a single, smarter AI that can perform many kinds of tasks well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new artificial intelligence innovation developed by Georgia Tech aims to improve the alignment of specialized data models by combining them to create a single, smarter AI that can perform many kinds of tasks well."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2025-04-18 21:19:23","changed_gmt":"2025-04-22 13:07:28","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676890":{"id":"676890","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. students George Stoica and Pratik Ramesh have developed a new approach for merging data models that brings adaptable, multi-tasking AIs closer to reality","body":null,"created":"1745011171","gmt_created":"2025-04-18 21:19:31","changed":"1745011171","gmt_changed":"2025-04-18 21:19:31","alt":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. students George Stoica and Pratik Ramesh have developed a new approach for merging data models that brings adaptable, multi-tasking AIs closer to reality","file":{"fid":"260737","name":"pic-student-duo_george-pratik-cc.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/18\/pic-student-duo_george-pratik-cc.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/18\/pic-student-duo_george-pratik-cc.png","mime":"image\/png","size":789146,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/18\/pic-student-duo_george-pratik-cc.png?itok=xaqBaYS4"}}},"media_ids":["676890"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"181991","name":"Georgia Tech News Center"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosh Preston\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022jpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosh.preston@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josh.preston@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681782":{"#nid":"681782","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers to Present Breakthrough AI Interpretability Methods","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers from the AI Safety Initiative (AISI) at Georgia Tech is set to present groundbreaking work on understanding and controlling advanced AI systems at two prestigious conferences in 2025: the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and the IEEE\/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir research focuses on novel techniques to make large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models more interpretable and controllable - crucial advancements as AI systems become increasingly powerful and widely deployed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ENew Methods for Steering AI Behavior\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYixiong Hao leads the team\u0027s work on contrastive activation engineering (CAE), which offers a new way to guide LLM outputs by targeted modifications to internal representations. Unlike traditional methods requiring extensive computational resources, CAE can be applied during inference with minimal overhead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve made significant progress in understanding the capabilities and limitations of CAE techniques,\u0022 Hao explained. \u0022Our research reveals that while CAE can be effective for in-distribution contexts, it has clear boundaries that practitioners need to be aware of.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team discovered practical insights about implementing CAE, including the optimal number of samples needed for effective steering vectors and how these vectors respond to adversarial inputs. They also found that larger models better resist steering-induced performance degradation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EDecoding How AI Models Learn From Context\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn parallel research, Stepan Shabalin collaborated with Google DeepMind researchers to adapt sparse autoencoder circuits to work with the larger Gemma-1 2B model, providing key insights into how AI systems learn from context.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027ve demonstrated that task vectors in large language models can be approximated by a sparse sum of autoencoder latents,\u0022 said Shabalin. \u0022This gives us a deeper understanding of how models recognize and execute tasks based on context.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EExtending Techniques to Image Generation Models\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA third paper, co-authored by Shabalin, Hao, and Ayush Panda, applies similar interpretability techniques to text-to-image diffusion models. Their research uses Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) and Inference-Time Decomposition of Activations (ITDA) with the state-of-the-art Flux 1 diffusion model.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By developing an automated interpretation pipeline for vision models, we\u0027ve been able to extract semantically meaningful features,\u0022 noted Panda. Their results show these methods outperform standard approaches on interpretability metrics, enabling new possibilities for controlled image generation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EImportance for AI Safety\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParv Mahajan, Collaborative Initiative Lead at AISI, emphasized the significance of the research: \u0022These papers represent important advances in our ability to understand and control the behavior of increasingly complex AI systems. As these models become more powerful and widely deployed, interpretability research like this becomes essential for ensuring their safe and beneficial use.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team will present their work at dedicated workshops during ICLR and CVPR, creating opportunities for collaboration with other researchers. Their work aligns with AISI\u0027s mission to make frontier AI systems more transparent, controllable, and aligned with human values.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Unlocking the Black Box: New Techniques Make Advanced AI Systems More Transparent and Controllable"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of AISI student researchers has developed transformative approaches for peering into AI decision-making processes, with applications spanning both text and image generation. Their research reveals how large models process tasks internally and demonstrates practical methods for steering outputs without resource-intensive retraining. This work addresses a critical need as AI deployment accelerates, offering both theoretical understanding and practical tools for ensuring these powerful systems remain aligned with human intentions. The findings will be showcased at ICLR and CVPR, two of the field\u0027s most prestigious venues.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers from the AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech have developed innovative methods to better understand and steer both language and image-generating AI models."}],"uid":"36734","created_gmt":"2025-04-15 05:09:12","changed_gmt":"2025-04-15 05:13:19","author":"Parv Mahajan","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676837":{"id":"676837","type":"image","title":"Activations Image","body":null,"created":"1744693805","gmt_created":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","changed":"1744693805","gmt_changed":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","alt":"Table showing adding activations corresponding to common items.","file":{"fid":"260682","name":"TzA04fjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEXjgjsAUHHvgPpvpnU1HYDoC0xGYjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekI3M8jMAXH7ucBnn78dASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEZiOwHQEpiMwHYHpCExHYDoC0xGYjsADdwTf4T9Yv2kVhQfAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/TzA04fjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEXjgjsAUHHvgPpvpnU1HYDoC0xGYjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekI3M8jMAXH7ucBnn78dASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEZiOwHQEpiMwHYHpCExHYDoC0xGYjsADdwTf4T9Yv2kVhQfAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/TzA04fjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEXjgjsAUHHvgPpvpnU1HYDoC0xGYjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekI3M8jMAXH7ucBnn78dASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEZiOwHQEpiMwHYHpCExHYDoC0xGYjsADdwTf4T9Yv2kVhQfAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC.png","mime":"image\/png","size":998164,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/15\/TzA04fjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEXjgjsAUHHvgPpvpnU1HYDoC0xGYjsB0BKYjMB2B6QhMR2A6AtMRmI7AdASmIzAdgekI3M8jMAXH7ucBnn78dASmIzAdgekITEdgOgLTEZiOwHQEpiMwHYHpCExHYDoC0xGYjsADdwTf4T9Yv2kVhQfAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC.png?itok=iorOYWiB"}},"676836":{"id":"676836","type":"image","title":"thing.png","body":null,"created":"1744693805","gmt_created":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","changed":"1744693805","gmt_changed":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","alt":"Diagram showing SAE Activations","file":{"fid":"260681","name":"thing.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/thing.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/thing.png","mime":"image\/png","size":36448,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/15\/thing.png?itok=v3vgWRe1"}},"676838":{"id":"676838","type":"image","title":"Screenshot-2025-04-15-010925.png","body":null,"created":"1744693805","gmt_created":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","changed":"1744693805","gmt_changed":"2025-04-15 05:10:05","alt":"Diagram showing computation of steering vectors.","file":{"fid":"260683","name":"Screenshot-2025-04-15-010925.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/Screenshot-2025-04-15-010925.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/15\/Screenshot-2025-04-15-010925.png","mime":"image\/png","size":35684,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/15\/Screenshot-2025-04-15-010925.png?itok=fPKLPIvt"}}},"media_ids":["676837","676836","676838"],"groups":[{"id":"660394","name":"AI Safety Initative (AISI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore information about the AI Safety Initiative can be found at \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aisi.dev\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eaisi.dev.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["board@aisi.dev"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681164":{"#nid":"681164","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Machine Learning Encoder Improves Weather Forecasting and Tsunami Prediction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESuccessful test results of a new machine learning (ML) technique developed at Georgia Tech could help communities prepare for extreme weather and coastal flooding. The approach could also be applied to other models that predict how natural systems impact society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ps789.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Si\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~pchen402\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeng Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E developed Latent-EnSF, a technique that improves how ML models assimilate data to make predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn experiments predicting medium-range weather forecasting and shallow water wave propagation, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.00127\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELatent-EnSF\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E demonstrated higher accuracy, faster convergence, and greater efficiency than existing methods for sparse data assimilation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are currently involved in an NSF-funded project aimed at providing real-time information on extreme flooding events in Pinellas County, Florida,\u201d said Si, who studies computational science and engineering (CSE).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u0027re actively working on integrating Latent-EnSF into the system, which will facilitate accurate and synchronized modeling of natural disasters. This initiative aims to enhance community preparedness and safety measures in response to flooding risks.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELatent-EnSF outperformed three comparable models in assimilation speed, accuracy, and efficiency in shallow water wave propagation experiments. These tests show models can make better and faster predictions of coastal flood waves, tides, and tsunamis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn experiments on medium-range weather forecasting, Latent-EnSF surpassed the same three control models in accuracy, convergence, and time. Additionally, this test demonstrated Latent-EnSF\u0027s scalability compared to other methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese promising results support using ML models to simulate climate, weather, and other complex systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraditionally, such studies require employment of large, energy-intensive supercomputers. However, advances like Latent-EnSF are making smaller, more efficient ML models feasible for these purposes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team mentioned this comparison in its paper. It takes hours for the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts computer to run its simulations. Conversely, the ML model FourCastNet calculated the same forecast in seconds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cResolution, complexity, and data-diversity will continue to increase into the future,\u201d said Chen, an assistant professor in the School of CSE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo keep pace with this trend, we believe that ML models and ML-based data assimilation methods will become indispensable for studying large-scale complex systems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData assimilation is the process by which models continuously ingest new, real-world data to update predictions. This data is often sparse, meaning it is limited, incomplete, or unevenly distributed over time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELatent-EnSF builds on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2309.00983\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnsemble Filter Scores (EnSF) model\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E developed by Florida State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnSF\u2019s strength is that it assimilates data with many features and unpredictable relationships between data points. However, integrating sparse data leads to lost information and knowledge gaps in the model. Also, such large models may stop learning entirely from small amounts of sparse data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers employ two variational autoencoders (VAEs) in Latent-EnSF to help ML models integrate and use real-world data. The VAEs encode sparse data and predictive models together in the same space to assimilate data more accurately and efficiently.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIntegrating models with new methods, like Latent-EnSF, accelerates data assimilation. Producing accurate predictions more quickly during real-world crises could save lives and property for communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[Related:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.stpetersburg.usf.edu\/news\/2024\/flooding-cris-hazard-app-.aspx\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of South Florida Researchers Track Flooding in Coastal Communities During Hurricanes Helene and Milton\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo share Latent-EnSF to the broader research community, Chen and Si presented their paper at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences-events\/siam-conferences\/cse25\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECSE25\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESIAM\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E) organized CSE25, held March 3-7 in Fort Worth, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChen was one of ten School of CSE faculty members who presented research at CSE25, representing one-third of the School\u2019s faculty body. Latent-EnSF was one of 15 papers by School of CSE authors and one of 23 Georgia Tech papers presented at the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe pair will also present Latent-EnSF at the upcoming International Conference on Learning Representations (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclr.cc\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EICLR 2025\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E). Occurring April 24-28 in Singapore, ICLR is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious conferences dedicated to artificial intelligence research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe hope to bring attention to experts and domain scientists the exciting area of ML-based data assimilation by presenting our paper,\u201d Chen said. \u201cOur work offers a new solution to address some of the key shortcomings in the area for broader applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESuccessful test results of a new machine learning (ML) technique developed at Georgia Tech could help communities prepare for extreme weather and coastal flooding. The approach could also be applied to other models that predict how natural systems impact society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ps789.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Si\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~pchen402\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeng Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E developed Latent-EnSF, a technique that improves how ML models assimilate data to make predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn experiments predicting medium-range weather forecasting and shallow water wave propagation, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.00127\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELatent-EnSF\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E demonstrated higher accuracy, faster convergence, and greater efficiency than existing methods for sparse data assimilation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Phillip Si and Assistant Professor Peng Chen developed Latent-EnSF, a technique that improves how ML models assimilate data to make predictions."}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2025-03-14 17:35:04","changed_gmt":"2025-03-26 01:19:03","author":"Bryant Wine","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676555":{"id":"676555","type":"image","title":"Latent-EnSF-2.jpg","body":null,"created":"1741973802","gmt_created":"2025-03-14 17:36:42","changed":"1741973802","gmt_changed":"2025-03-14 17:36:42","alt":"Phillip Si and Peng Chen","file":{"fid":"260359","name":"Latent-EnSF-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":134191,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-2.jpg?itok=oOKjqW0A"}},"676556":{"id":"676556","type":"image","title":"Latent-EnSF-1.2.jpg","body":null,"created":"1741973828","gmt_created":"2025-03-14 17:37:08","changed":"1741973828","gmt_changed":"2025-03-14 17:37:08","alt":"Phillip Si and Peng Chen","file":{"fid":"260360","name":"Latent-EnSF-1.2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-1.2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-1.2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":46200,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/14\/Latent-EnSF-1.2.jpg?itok=tepM_Qab"}}},"media_ids":["676555","676556"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/machine-learning-encoder-improves-weather-forecasting-and-tsunami-prediction","title":"Machine Learning Encoder Improves Weather Forecasting and Tsunami Prediction"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"181991","name":"Georgia Tech News Center"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"}],"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":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"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":""}},"680787":{"#nid":"680787","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Lab Expanding Healthcare Access Through Novel Sensing Prototypes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new lab is working to expand access to practical sensing systems. These systems could benefit people struggling with addiction and alert people with limited healthcare access to potentially life-threatening medical issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDevice prototypes like these usually require massive amounts of time and external resources to build, but thanks to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uncommonsenselabs.com\/home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUncommon Sense Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, they can now be conveniently developed on Georgia Tech\u2019s campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lab is housed in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing and is managed by Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.alexandertadams.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexander Adams\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur overall goal is to give better access to healthcare,\u201d Adams said. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking at who we\u2019re doing this for, how we\u2019re getting it to them, how it addresses specific needs, and how to make it as financially accessible as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s always a space for high-end, high-precision equipment, but not everyone has access, and people are often afraid to get checked out because of the cost. If we can build something that doesn\u2019t necessarily give someone a perfect measurement of a condition, but it can tell them they should go to the doctor, that might be enough to save a life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lab provides resources to interdisciplinary researchers with backgrounds in computing, robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering to develop novel sensing and feedback system prototypes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe render physical prototypes that would be difficult to build without a centralized location for these resources,\u201d said Adams, who is affiliated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/robotics\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/bio\u0022\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe give students access to the tools and knowledge to build things that would typically seem unreachable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s nowhere else on campus with this collective that can go end-to-end from mechanical engineering to biomedical engineering to electrical engineering to usability.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExamples of current prototypes being developed in the lab include a device that trains people with post-traumatic stress disorder to breathe in more regular patterns, and another that measures a person\u2019s heart rate when they vape.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to learn more about that behavior through these sensing devices, and then we\u2019ll look at figuring out how we can help people correct their breathing patterns or quit their addiction,\u201d Adams said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Uncommon Sense Lab offers high-tech, state-of-the-art machinery, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E3D printers, including fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers for multi-material, high-precision prints\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EA laser cutter for producing printed circuit boards (PCBs)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESurface mount PCB manufacturing station with soldering tools, paste dispensers, and rework stations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOptical work benches for optical system design, including microscopes and fluidics workstations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EResin materials for casting and molding prosthetics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVacuum chambers and pressure chambers\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESaws, mills, lathes, and other mechanical tools for processing wood and soft metals\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESaws, grinders, polishers, and other wet tools for glass, stone, and ceramics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince he started at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in 2022, Adams has envisioned the lab. The lab space in the Technology Square Research Building in Midtown was thoroughly renovated, including access control, a new ceiling grid, environmental controls, pressurized air, plumbing, and vacuum and air filtration systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is the result of having built two labs at previous institutions, what I\u2019ve learned about my type of work and my field, and what the most useful things are to handle our diverse projects,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the reasons I came to Georgia Tech was because they saw the value of being interdisciplinary in a computing world and having a full lab space instead of just an office.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdams said the lab will accelerate the timelines of current projects for the researchers who use it and create more bandwidth for them to take on more projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI want my students to have everything at hand instead of waiting every time we need to do something,\u201d he said. \u201cThis space is for someone who might have an idea for a remote diagnostic tool, but they\u2019re wondering how to build it, add computation, and test it. This is the solution for those wondering how they can do that without spending a year finding and organizing access to facilities or ordering various parts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdams said the lab is not a public space, but anyone interested in using it can make a written request for access. The work must be part of a collaboration, and faculty must provide funds to use resources. 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If we can accurately model protein-ligand interactions using quantum mechanics, it could ultimately pave the way for integrating these methods into computer-aided drug discovery workflows.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGretchen Johnson\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EJohnson is working on a Ph.D. in ocean science, studying how corals respond to environmental stressors as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kubanek.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EKubanek Group\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cCorals can\u0027t move,\u201d says Johnson. \u201cInstead of hiding when it is hot or bright out, they must respond physiologically. I use a technique called metabolomics to study the cellular physiology of corals and look for metabolic changes over time. Understanding what makes a coral more resistant to stress is useful for protecting and restoring coral reefs.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShreya Kothari\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EKothari conducts research for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kubanek.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EKubanek Group\u003C\/a\u003E and is pursuing a Ph.D. in biology. She attempts to discover natural dispersant-like biomolecules helpful for oil spill remediation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWhile some microbes can degrade and clean up oil from the contaminated sites, the process is often slow,\u201d says Kothari. \u201cHowever, dispersant-like biomolecules can speed up oil degradation by breaking oil into smaller droplets and increasing its availability to oil-degrading microbes. I aim to determine the chemical structure and function of such biomolecules and test their effectiveness in treating real-world environmental spills by applying them in small-scale experiments that mimic oil spill conditions.\u0026nbsp;These biomolecules may\u0026nbsp;offer an eco-friendly alternative to toxic chemical dispersants and improve\u0026nbsp;existing bioremediation strategies\u0026nbsp;to mitigate environmental damage caused by oil pollution.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMonica Monge\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs part of her Ph.D. studies, Monge works in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.garglab-microbiomegt.com\/\u0022\u003EGarg Lab\u003C\/a\u003E and focuses on understanding marine bacteria community dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am specifically trying to decipher how disease-causing bacteria (pathogenic) and bacteria that doesn\u2019t harm its host (commensal) communicate with one another via chemical signals and the metabolic changes resulting from those interactions,\u201d says Monge. \u201cMy ultimate goal is to identify beneficial traits from commensal bacteria that we can leverage to alleviate coral diseases.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESidney Scott-Sharoni\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EScott-Sharoni is earning a Ph.D. in engineering psychology and works in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESonification Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMy research focuses on human interaction with AI technologies,\u201d says Scott-Sharoni.\u0026nbsp;\u201cSpecifically, I examine how different features of AI agents, such as anthropomorphism and social intelligence, impact how people psychologically perceive and behave in collaboration with these agents. 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sustainable computer chips to advancing quantum and high-performance computing,\u0026nbsp;the new frontier of nanoelectronics could lie with graphene, a material related to ordinary pencil graphite that\u2019s made from a single sheet of carbon atoms.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOne physicist helping lead this charge is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/postdocs.gatech.edu\/news\/one-postdoctoral-scholars-journey-france-cutting-edge-electronics-georgia-tech\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmira Bencherif\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a postdoctoral researcher in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.graphene.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEpigraphene Lab\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, which aims to advance electronics past the limitations of silicon using graphene\u2019s extraordinary electrical properties.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBencherif has just been awarded a prestigious European Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Action (MSCA) global post-doctoral fellowship; This year, it is expected that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu\/news\/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024-receives-10360-proposals\u0022\u003Efewer than 20% of applicants will be selected from a record pool of over 10,000 submissions\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe highly selective fellowship will support two additional years of research at Georgia Tech with The Epigraphene Lab,\u0026nbsp;followed by\u0026nbsp;Bencherif working for\u0026nbsp;one year at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pheliqs.fr\/\u0022\u003ECEA-PHELIQS Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in Grenoble, France.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThe\u0026nbsp;research in Grenoble is a critical component,\u201d Bencherif explains. \u201cOur Georgia Tech team brings the graphene expertise, and the\u0026nbsp;CEA-PHELIQS Lab brings expertise in extreme 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Combining these two areas will let me\u0026nbsp;investigate graphene properties at extreme low temperatures, for the first time.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe group hopes the research will lead to breakthroughs in sustainable electronics and manufacturing. \u201cWe already know that epigraphene can be used as either as a conductor or as an ultra-high mobility semiconductor,\u201d Bencherif says. \u201cWe\u0027re still in the fundamental research phase with this new project, but combining both properties of this material on a single chip could result in very fast electronics, very small devices, and more sustainable computing.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrowing graphene\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe fellowship builds on a longstanding partnership.\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u201cWe\u0027ve collaborated with our French partners on previous papers, and we have a great line of communication and trust,\u201d shares \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/claire-berger\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClaire Berger\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who works in the Epigraphene Lab directed by Regents\u0027 Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/walter-de-heer\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWalter de Heer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u201cThis prestigious fellowship is a recognition not only of Amira\u2019s skills, talent and dedication as a researcher, but also of the quality of the epigraphene scientific program and the strength of the French-American collaboration.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EBerger, who serves as a professor of the practice at Georgia Tech, recently received \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/claire-berger-receives-one-frances-highest-civilian-honors-science-scientific-diplomacy\u0022\u003Eone of France\u2019s highest civilian honors\u003C\/a\u003E in science and scientific diplomacy, the Chevalier dans L\u0027ordre des Palmes Acad\u00e9miques. She is also the Director of Research at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnrs.fr\/en\/cnrs\u0022\u003EFrench National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) International Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, which has a main presence at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/europe.gatech.edu\/en\/campuses\/metz\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-Europe\u003C\/a\u003E in Metz, France, as well as a mirror site at Georgia Tech\u2019s Atlanta campus.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cTo advance this field, collaboration is crucial,\u201d Berger says. \u201cWe cannot do it alone \u2014 the MSCA support for Amira\u2019s work is both a testament to her hard work and the important partnership with our French counterparts.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe future of graphene\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EOne key aspect of the Epigraphene Lab\u2019s research involves \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/21\/edge-graphene-based-electronics\u0022\u003Edeveloping a graphene semiconductor ten times more conductive than silicon\u003C\/a\u003E that has the potential to create a new kind of electronics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cComplementing its semiconducting property, some form of epigraphene has special pathways which make electronic mobility extremely high,\u201d Bencherif explains. \u201cThis has benefits like less energy dissipation, which is important for addressing global warming and energy challenges. We use epigraphene \u2014 which is graphene grown on a silicon carbide substrate \u2014 to make electrical devices and study their electrical properties.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cWe also suspect we can use another mode of communication with current, based on the wave quantum nature of the electron, leading to coherent electronics,\u201d which Berger shares is a long-term research project the group is pursuing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cThis type of work is very prospective and ambitious, which is why Amira was granted this prestigious fellowship,\u201d Berger adds. \u201cThis type of research is a lot of hard work. To drive this work forward, Amira has put in an astonishing number of hours and a lot of thoughtful effort. 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Organized by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyclub.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEnergy Club\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, the conference welcomed over 100 attendees, including industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and students, fostering dynamic discussions on the future of energy. The theme for this year\u2019s conference, \u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Going Global: Energy\u2019s Place on the World Stage,\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E highlighted the international nature of energy challenges and solutions, emphasizing collaboration across borders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event kicked off with a keynote address from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/john-tien\u0022\u003EHon. John Tien\u003C\/a\u003E, who provided thought-provoking insights into the evolving energy landscape. Following the keynote, the first panel of the day, \u0022The Ukraine Energy War: Lessons in Energy Security,\u0022 featured expert analysis from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anna-mikulska-410a846\/\u0022\u003EAnna Mikulsa\u003C\/a\u003E of the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bakerinstitute.org\/expert\/gabriel-collins\u0022\u003EGabriel Collins\u003C\/a\u003E of Rice University\u2019s Baker Institute. The session was moderated by Georgia Tech student Grant Espy. This was followed by a discussion on the role of nuclear energy globally, where Seth Grae, president and CEO of Lightbridge Corporation, and CJ Fong, vice president of Regulatory Affairs at Blue Energy, shared their perspectives, moderated by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anna-schafer-051836247\/\u0022\u003EAnna Schafer\u003C\/a\u003E, a student at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the day, attendees had the opportunity to engage with representatives from 10 local and regional energy companies through the Industry Showcase. Companies such as GE Vernova, Georgia Power, Kimley-Horn, and the Georgia Cleantech Innovation Hub were present, providing valuable networking and career development opportunities for students and professionals alike. The day concluded with an engaging panel on \u0022The Potential of Clean Hydrogen,\u0022 featuring insights from industry leaders including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/comas-haynes\u0022\u003EComas Haynes\u003C\/a\u003E of Georgia Tech\u0027s Strategic Energy Institute, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hayley-rhodes-ryan\/\u0022\u003EHayley Ryan\u003C\/a\u003E of ExxonMobil, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/storageterminalsmag.com\/luis-alcoser-leads-chevrons-future-energy-fund-with-passion-and-innovation\/\u0022\u003ELuis Alcoser\u003C\/a\u003E of Chevron Technology Ventures, and Scott McWhorter of the Southeast Hydrogen Energy Alliance, moderated by Eli Acree, a student at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second day of the conference opened with a keynote speech from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/leadership\u0022\u003ETim Lieuwen\u003C\/a\u003E, executive vice president for Research at Georgia Tech, who laid out what a carbon-neutral future could truly look like in energy. The \u0022Cybersecurity for Energy Systems\u0022 panel brought together \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/seymour-e-goodman\u0022\u003ESeymour E. Goodman\u003C\/a\u003E of Georgia Tech, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/harris.uchicago.edu\/directory\/jacob-braun\u0022\u003EJake Braun\u003C\/a\u003E of the University of Chicago, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juanvillarreal\/\u0022\u003EJuan Villarreal\u003C\/a\u003E of Villarreal Energy, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sentineldevices.com\/team\/forrest-shriver\u0022\u003EForrest Shriver\u003C\/a\u003E of Sentinel Devices to discuss the challenges and solutions in securing energy infrastructure. Following that, the \u0022Applications of Solar Microgrids\u0022 panel moderated by John Blankenhorn, a Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech, featured expert perspectives from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ChE\/people\/ptProfile?resource_id=169342\u0022\u003ELetian Dou\u003C\/a\u003E of Purdue University, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/staff-profile\/ben-b-ollis?page=11\u0022\u003EBen Ollis\u003C\/a\u003E of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goizueta.emory.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/raymond-hill\u0022\u003ERaymond Hill\u003C\/a\u003E of Emory University\u2019s Goizueta Business School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the standout moments of the conference was the Student Symposium, where seven student researchers had the opportunity to present their work, competing for $500 in prize money. Projects explored topics ranging from photocatalysts to heat-driven desalination to thermal batteries for buildings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final panel of the event, \u0022Scaled Sustainable Development,\u0022 moderated by Conference Chair Sam Woolsey, a student at Georgia Tech, featured \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energypolicy.columbia.edu\/jonathan-elkind-0\/\u0022\u003EJonathan Elkind\u003C\/a\u003E of Columbia University\u2019s Center on Global Energy Policy, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/miguel-granier\u0022\u003EMiguel Granier\u003C\/a\u003E of the Cox Cleantech Accelerator, and Hon. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hon-jobeth-coleby-davis-090b6b6b\/?originalSubdomain=bs\u0022\u003EJobeth Lillian Coleby-Davis\u003C\/a\u003E, Minister of Energy \u0026amp; Transport for the Government of the Bahamas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty Advisor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/dan-molzahn\u0022\u003EDan Molzahn\u003C\/a\u003E also praised the conference, stating, \u0022I\u0027ve been incredibly impressed by the student organizers in pulling together such a remarkable and well-executed\u0026nbsp;event. Given all the change occurring in the world today around energy, the students\u0027 foresight to focus on this topic by bringing in a broad range of experts was a huge benefit to the Georgia Tech community.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReflecting on the success of the event, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyclub.gatech.edu\/leadership\/\u0022\u003ESam Woolsey\u003C\/a\u003E shared, \u0022I was honored to serve as Energy Club\u0027s 2025 Conference Chair and to see the conference so positively received. It was a pleasure to see the ways this year\u0027s conference encouraged Georgia Tech engineers to get out of their comfort zone and discuss the policy and international affairs of energy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 11th annual Southeastern Energy Conference set a high standard for future student-led initiatives in energy and sustainability at Georgia Tech, fostering meaningful discussions and connections that will continue shaping the field.\u0026nbsp;With a diverse lineup of experts, engaging panels, and invaluable networking opportunities, this event demonstrated Georgia Tech\u2019s leadership in fostering innovative discussions on global energy challenges. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/energyclub.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEnergy Club\u003C\/a\u003E extends its heartfelt thanks to all speakers, panelists, industry representatives, and attendees for making this conference a success. 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Later that year, SIAM members\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/publications\/siam-news\/articles\/siam-introduces-its-newly-elected-leadership\/\u0022\u003Ereelected Cherry to a second, three-year term as a council member at large\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Chow serves as the associate chair of the School of CSE. Cherry, who recently became the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-team-associate-deans-ready-advance-college-initiatives\u0022\u003E associate dean for graduate education of the College of Computing, continues as the director of CSE programs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith our strong emphasis on developing and applying computational tools and techniques to solve real-world problems, researchers in the School of CSE are well positioned to serve as leaders in computational science and engineering both within Georgia Tech and in the broader professional community,\u201d Cherry said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s School of CSE was\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/founding-school\u0022\u003Efirst organized as a division in 2005\u003C\/a\u003E, becoming one of the world\u2019s first academic departments devoted to the discipline. The division reorganized as a school in 2010 after establishing the flagship CSE Ph.D. and M.S. programs, hiring nine faculty members, and attaining substantial research funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETen School of CSE faculty members are presenting research at CSE25, representing one-third of the School\u2019s faculty body. Of the 23 accepted papers written by Georgia Tech researchers, 15 originate from School of CSE authors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe list of School of CSE researchers, paper titles, and abstracts includes:\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBayesian Optimal Design Accelerates Discovery of Material Properties from Bubble Dynamics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPostdoctoral Fellow\u003Cstrong\u003E Tianyi Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E, Joseph Beckett, Bachir Abeid, and Jonathan Estrada (University of Michigan), Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Bryngelson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=143459\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELatent-EnSF: A Latent Ensemble Score Filter for High-Dimensional Data Assimilation with Sparse Observation Data\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPh.D. student\u003Cstrong\u003E Phillip Si\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPeng Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=141182\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Goal-Oriented Quadratic Latent Dynamic Network Surrogate Model for Parameterized Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EYuhang Li, Stefan Henneking, Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin), Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPeng Chen\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=149331\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPosterior Covariance Structures in Gaussian Processes\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EYuanzhe Xi (Emory University), Difeng Cai (Southern Methodist University), Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=142554\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERobust Digital Twin for Geological Carbon Storage\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EProfessor\u003Cstrong\u003E Felix Herrmann\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EAbhinav Gahlot\u003C\/strong\u003E, alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003ERafael Orozco\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EZiyi (Francis) Yin\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. CSE-CSE 2024), and Ph.D. candidate \u003Cstrong\u003EGrant Bruer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=142843\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustry-Scale Uncertainty-Aware Full Waveform Inference with Generative Models\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERafael Orozco\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003ETuna Erdinc\u003C\/strong\u003E, alumnus \u003Cstrong\u003EMathias Louboutin\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E(Ph.D. CS-CSE 2020), and Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFelix Herrmann\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=143101\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOptimizing Coupled Systems: Insights from Co-Design Imaging and Optical Chemistry\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERapha\u00ebl Pestourie\u003C\/strong\u003E, Wenchao Ma and Steven Johnson (MIT), Lu Lu (Yale University), Zin Lin (Virginia Tech)\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=82425\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMultifidelity Linear Regression for Scientific Machine Learning from Scarce Data\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAssistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Elizabeth Qian\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EDayoung Kang\u003C\/strong\u003E, Vignesh Sella, Anirban Chaudhuri and Anirban Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin)\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=141115\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELyapInf: Data-Driven Estimation of Stability Guarantees for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPh.D. candidate \u003Cstrong\u003ETomoki Koike\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Qian\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=142603\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Information Geometric Regularization of the Euler Equation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAlumnus \u003Cstrong\u003ERuijia Cao\u003C\/strong\u003E (B.S. CS 2024), Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFlorian Sch\u00e4fer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=80995\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMaximum Likelihood Discretization of the Transport Equation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPh.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EBrook Eyob\u003C\/strong\u003E, Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EFlorian Sch\u00e4fer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=149340\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIntelligent Attractors for Singularly Perturbed Dynamical Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EDaniel A. Serino (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Allen Alvarez Loya (University of Colorado Boulder), Joshua W. Burby, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis (Johns Hopkins University), Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EQi Tang\u003C\/strong\u003E (Session Co-Organizer)\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=140821\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccurate Discretizations and Efficient AMG Solvers for Extremely Anisotropic Diffusion Via Hyperbolic Operators\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EGolo Wimmer, Ben Southworth, Xianzhu Tang (LANL), Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EQi Tang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=141012\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERandomized Linear Algebra for Problems in Graph Analytics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=140989\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EImproving Spgemm Performance Through Reordering and Cluster-Wise Computation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAssistant Professor\u003Cstrong\u003E Helen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.siam.org\/sess\/dsp_talk.cfm?p=141133\u0022\u003EAbstract\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany communities rely on insights from computer-based models and simulations. This week, a nest of Georgia Tech experts are swarming an international conference to present their latest advancements in these tools, which offer solutions to pressing challenges in science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/conferences-events\/siam-conferences\/cse25\/\u0022\u003ECSE25\u003C\/a\u003E). The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.siam.org\/\u0022\u003ESIAM\u003C\/a\u003E) organizes CSE25, occurring March 3-7 in Fort Worth, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students and faculty from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) are leading the Georgia Tech contingent at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). 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Now, the fourth-year Public Policy student is leading a research project on AI and decarbonization technologies.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Cotsman joined the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datasciencepolicy.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EData Science and Policy Lab\u003C\/a\u003E as a first-year student, \u201cI had zero skills or knowledge in big data, coding, anything like that,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut she was enthusiastic about the work. And the lab, led by Associate Professor Omar Asensio in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy,\u003C\/a\u003E included Ph.D., master\u2019s, and undergraduate students from a variety of degree programs who taught Cotsman how to code on the fly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe learned how to run simple scripts and web scrapes and assisted with statistical analyses, policy research, writing, and editing. At 19, Cotsman was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2772424723000069\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E for the first time. Now, she\u2019s gone from mentee to mentor and is leading one of the research projects in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel like I was just this little freshman who had no clue what I was doing, and I blinked, and now I\u2019m conceptualizing a project and coming up with the research design and writing \u2014 it\u2019s a very surreal moment,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-02\/Cotsman2_0.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Ashley takes a selfie with a friend in front of a poster presentation at a conference.\u0022 width=\u0022570\u0022 height=\u0022430\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECotsman, right, presenting a research poster on electric vehicle charging infrastructure, another project she worked on with Asensio and the Data Science and Policy Lab.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u2019s the project about?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECotsman\u2019s project. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/appam.confex.com\/appam\/2024\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/53485\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u201cScaling Sustainability Evaluations Through Generative Artificial Intelligence\u003C\/a\u003E.\u201d uses the large language model GPT-4 to analyze the sea of sustainability reports organizations in every sector publish each year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe authors, including Celina Scott-Buechler at Stanford University, Lucrezia Nava at University of Exeter, David Reiner at University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Asensio, aim to understand how favorability toward decarbonization technologies vary by industry and over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are thousands of reports, and they are often long and filled with technical jargon,\u201d Cotsman said. \u201cFrom a policymaker\u2019s standpoint, it\u2019s difficult to get through. So, we are trying to create a scalable, efficient, and accurate way to quickly read all these reports and get the information.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow is it done?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team trained a GPT-4 model to search, analyze, and see trends across 95,000 mentions of specific technologies over 25 years of sustainability reports. What would take someone 80 working days to read and evaluate took the model about eight hours, Cotsman said. And notably, GPT-4 did not require extensive task-specific training data and uniformly applied the same rules to all the data it analyzed, she added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, rather than fine-tuning with thousands of human-labeled examples, \u201cit\u2019s more like prompt engineering,\u201d Cotsman said. \u201cOur research demonstrates what logic and safeguards to include in a prompt and the best way to create prompts to get these results.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team used \u003Cstrong\u003Echain-of-thought prompting,\u003C\/strong\u003E which guides generative AI systems through each step of its reasoning process with context reasoning, counterexamples, and exceptions, rather than just asking for the answer. They combined this with \u003Cstrong\u003Efew-shot learning \u003C\/strong\u003Efor misidentified cases, which provides increasingly refined examples for additional guidance, a process the AI community calls \u201calignment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final prompt included definitions of favorable, neutral, and opposing communications, an example of how each might appear in the text, and an example of how to classify nuanced wording, values, or human principles as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt achieved a .86 F1 score, which essentially measures how well the model gets things right on a scale from zero to one. The score is \u201cvery high\u201d for a project with essentially zero training data and a specialized dataset, Cotsman said. In contrast, her first project with the group used a large language model called BERT and required 9,000 lines of expert-labeled training data to achieve a similar F1 score.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s wild to me that just two years ago, we spent months and months training these models,\u201d Cotsman said. \u201cWe had to annotate all this data and secure dedicated compute nodes or GPUs. It was painstaking. It was expensive. It took so long. And now, two years later, here I am. Just one person with zero training data, able to use these tools in such a scalable, efficient, and accurate way.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-02\/Cotsman_0.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022Cotsman posing in front of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC.\u0022 width=\u0022570\u0022 height=\u0022430\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThrough the Federal Jackets Fellowship program, Cotsman was able to spend the Fall 2024 semester as a legislative intern in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy does it matter?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile Cotsman\u2019s colleagues focus on the results of the project, she is more interested in the methodology. The prompts can be used for preference learning on any type of \u201cunstructured data,\u201d such as video or social media posts, especially those examining technology adoption for environmental issues. Asensio and the Data Science and Policy team use the technique in many of their recent projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can very quickly use GPT-4 to read through these things and pull out insights that are difficult to do with traditional coding,\u201d Cotsman said. \u201cObviously, the results will be interesting on the electrification and carbon side. But what I\u2019ve found so interesting is how we can use these emerging technologies as tools for better policymaking.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile concerns over the speed of development of AI is justifiable, she said, Cotsman\u2019s research experience at Georgia Tech has given her an optimistic view of the new technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve seen very quickly how, when used for good, these things will transform our world for the better. From the policy standpoint, we\u2019re going to need a lot of regulation. But from the standpoint of academia and research, if we embrace these things and use them for good, I think the opportunities are endless for what we can do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Ashley Cotsman arrived as a freshman at Georgia Tech, she didn\u2019t know how to code. 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Nnamdi is a graduate teaching assistant in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a member of the Bio-Medical Informatics and Bio-Imaging Laboratory directed by Professor May Wang in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECadence Design Syst\u00adems, Inc. produces\u0026nbsp;software,\u0026nbsp;hardware\u0026nbsp;and silicon structures for designing\u0026nbsp;integrated circuits,\u0026nbsp;systems on chips\u0026nbsp;(SoCs) and\u0026nbsp;printed circuit boards. The company\u2019s Diversity in Technology Scholarship supports underrepresented groups in their pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENnamdi\u2019s graduate research focuses on the intersection of bioinformatics, machine learning, and signal and image analysis with broad applications to\u0026nbsp;clinical decision support. In addition to his Ph.D. research, Nnamdi serves as the African Graduate Students Connect (AGSC) vice president at Georgia Tech and is actively involved in organizing education and social events that are beneficial to all African graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECadence scholarship winners are selected based on their impressive academic achievements, leadership, and drive to shape the world of technology. The scholarship works to build a culture that embraces inclusivity as well as diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. 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Flexible electives in upper-level coursework will allow students to customize their program of study to their interest and career goals.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA launch event for the degree program will take place at the Kendeda Building on the afternoon of Friday, August 25, 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe new degree will prepare students to be future leaders who are well-versed on how the Earth\u0027s systems can be influenced by human activity and contribute to human well-being,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. \u201cGraduates will be positioned to be leaders in industry, academia, education, and communication to create innovative solutions to the most significant environmental challenges of our time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo faculty members in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) and a faculty member in the School of Biological Sciences will serve as inaugural leadership: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-dr-jennifer\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor, is program director; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wilson-dr-samantha\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESamantha Wilson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, academic professional, is director of Undergraduate Studies; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/linda-green\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELinda Green\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, senior academic professional in the School of Biological Sciences, is director of Experiential Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe foundational science classes in this new degree will be complemented by courses in Public Policy and City Planning, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/master-science-geographic-information-science-technology\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeographical Information Systems (GIS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/environmental-policy-and-politics\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnvironmental Policy and Politics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003Ebefore opening up and providing students with flexibility in course options to better fit their career paths and interests.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPast EAS students have been interested in careers related to environmental consulting, environmental law, and continuing their studies in graduate school,\u201d Wilson says. \u201cThe variety of environmental career paths was the driver behind allowing students to diversify their options within the degree.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis degree will give Georgia Tech students a unique opportunity to customize their environmental science program of study to their interests and career goals in science, policy, public service, non-profit, government, industry, academia, or beyond,\u201d adds Glass. \u201cWe are committed to building an academic community in ENVS that values student leadership, ethics, justice, accessibility, and belonging.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHands-on learning opportunities will include field station experiences and field trip excursions, study abroad programs, and internships, Green says. \u201cThis major sustains the Institute\u2019s strategic plan to lead by example, champion innovation, and connect globally \u2014 particularly in an area so critical as addressing Earth\u2019s environmental issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGlass added that the Schools of Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences are currently \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/college-sciences-courses-spotlight-un-sustainable-development-goals\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Erevamping several classes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to meet \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The organization has begun a groundbreaking project in collaboration with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-and-initiatives\/business-analytics-center\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBusiness Analytics Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (BAC)\u0026nbsp;at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business to enhance its ability to forecast and meet the needs of the population.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDetermining the Future of Compensation Funds\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComfama is a \u201ccompensation fund.\u201d In Colombia, these private, nonprofit organizations have been created to improve the lives of workers and their families. They provide social services for recreation, culture, education, preventive healthcare, housing assistance, loans, and more. There are 42 compensation funds across the country that play a vital part in the country\u0027s social security system, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/santiagogarciarb\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESantiago Garc\u00eda Rivera\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, head of the Information and Analytics Laboratory at Comfama.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor companies in Colombia, participation in a compensation fund is mandatory. Each fund collects a 4 percent payroll tax from affiliated companies to provide monetary subsidies to workers and their families. \u0022We have about 121 thousand companies affiliated with Comfama, which includes about 1.4 million workers. When you take into account their families, that\u0027s around 2.7 million people we serve, plus a large group of non affiliated people that use our services,\u0022 said Garc\u00eda Rivera.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Comfama, economic and demographic shifts have complicated the prediction of how many people will use its services. \u0022Recognizing these challenges, Comfama is embracing data-driven solutions. We want to build a robust prediction model to help us forecast what will happen to our affiliated population in the future,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Connection\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is where Georgia Tech comes in. One of Garc\u00eda Rivera\u0027s colleagues at Comfama, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juan-david-penagos-a85282149\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJuan David Penagos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, head of Ventures and New Business Development, knew about the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtmedellin.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute Medell\u00edn Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and suggested they reach out to see whether they could put a project together with business analytics students. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sara-araujo-santos-878946129\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESara Araujo Santos\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, managing director of Development for Latin America for the Center, contacted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/staff\/von-behren\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESherri Von Behren\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the BAC\u0027s corporate engagement manager, about possibly creating an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/explore-programs\/mba-programs\/evening-mba\/curriculum\/practicums.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022MBA business analytics practicum project\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMBA business analytics practicum project\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to help Comfama.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVon Behren contacted \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/fan\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Fan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a faculty member of the Information Technology Management group in the Scheller College. Fan leads students in transforming data into business solutions through the Business Analytics Practicum course, which is offered in the fall for graduate students and in the spring for undergraduates.\u0026nbsp; Fan immediately saw the value of the opportunity for his MBA students and set up a practicum in which they are developing predictive models using time series data and macroeconomic variables.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are two teams assigned to the project: Team Data Paisa Squad with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aaron-payne4\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAaron Payne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MBA \u201826 (team lead), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lissette-chavez\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELissette Chavez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MBA \u201825, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/boristaganov\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBoris Taganov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MBA \u201825, and Team The Growth Gurus of Antioquia, with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/justin-siegel1120\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJustin Siegel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MS in Analytics \u201925 (team lead), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/srinjoy-dasmahapatra\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrinjoy DasMahapatra\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MBA \u201925, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vinaya-venigalla-3a03a597\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVinaya Vinigalla\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MBA \u201924.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/phd\/qin\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHaofei Qin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candiate at Scheller helped mentor students along the way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey meet weekly with the Comfama team, which includes analysts and data scientists \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alejandra-bernal-pati%C3%B1o-679ab710b\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlejandra Bernal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/slondo50\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESusanna Londo\u00f1o\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wbeimarossa\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWbeimar Ossa\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The teams discuss their progress and address any challenges they face that week. With less than two months to go, they\u0027re seeing results.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFan has been pleased with the results so far. \u201cThis cohort was truly outstanding,\u201d he said, speaking of his students. \u201dThey approached complex topics with clarity and creativity, and their collaborative spirit led to innovative ideas and enlightening discussions. They handled challenging subjects effortlessly, always coming up with fresh and interesting perspectives.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManaging the Present and Predicting the Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegarding the work of Team Data Paisa Squad, Aaron Payne remarked, \u0022One of our key successes has been developing a model framework that provides accurate forecasts and adapts to changes in external economic indicators. By integrating machine learning techniques alongside traditional time series models, we\u0027ve increased our forecasts\u0027 robustness. Additionally, the collaboration with Comfama\u0027s internal team has been highly productive, enabling us to align our technical solutions with their business needs. The early feedback on our findings has been positive.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPayne stated that one of the main challenges they\u0027ve faced has been combining data from multiple sources, as each source has different levels of detail and accuracy. Ensuring these data sets are consistent and reliable has been difficult, especially for economic factors that may not directly match Comfama\u0027s internal data. Another challenge is adapting standard forecasting models like SARIMAX\u2014\u003Cstrong\u003ES\u003C\/strong\u003Eeasonal \u003Cstrong\u003EA\u003C\/strong\u003EutoRegressive \u003Cstrong\u003EI\u003C\/strong\u003Entegrated \u003Cstrong\u003EM\u003C\/strong\u003Eoving \u003Cstrong\u003EA\u003C\/strong\u003Everage with e\u003Cstrong\u003EX\u003C\/strong\u003Eogenous variables\u2014 to account for external influences like government policies or unexpected economic changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This experience has reinforced the value of experiential learning in advancing my business analytics skills. Working with real-world data, especially in a dynamic organization like Comfama, has provided a deeper understanding of how to apply advanced analytical methods to solve practical business problems. The practicum has helped bridge the gap between theory and practice, giving me confidence in using these tools to drive decision-making in real business environments,\u0022 said Payne.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe practicum is more than just about numbers, though. It\u0027s about understanding the lives behind the data points. As Fan reminds his students, \u0022A model is just a model, but those data points represent individual lives. We want to understand the mechanism or the story behind the data.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of MBA students from the Scheller College of Business is partnering with data analysts at a Colombian compensation fund as part of a business analytics practicum course with the Business Analytics Center. 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Because it took place internally, it was traditionally assumed that attackers could only influence this network through physical access.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Hyundai, researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/people\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Systems Security Research Lab \u003C\/a\u003E(CPSec) observed that threat models used to evaluate the security of these technologies were outdated.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team, led by Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZhaozhou Tang\u003C\/strong\u003E, found that vehicle technology advancements allowed attackers to launch new attacks, improve existing attacks, and circumvent current defense systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, Tang\u2019s findings included the possibility for attackers to remotely compromise the computers used in cars and aircraft through Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, and other wireless channels.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur job was to thoroughly review existing information and find ways to protect against these attacks,\u201d he said. \u201cWe found new threats and proposed a defense system that can protect against the new and old attacks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn response to their findings, the team developed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/383876245_ERACAN_Defending_Against_an_Emerging_CAN_Threat_Model\u0022\u003EERACAN\u003C\/a\u003E, the first comprehensive defense system against this new generation of attackers. Designed to detect new and old attacks, ERACAN can deploy defenses when necessary.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system also classifies the attacks it reacts to, providing security experts with the tools for detailed analysis. It has a detection rate of 100% for all attacks launched by conventional methods and detects enhanced threat models 99.7% of the time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project received a distinguished paper award at the 2024 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 24) held in Salt Lake City. Tang presented the paper at the October conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis was Zhaozhou\u2019s first paper in his Ph.D. program, and he deserves recognition for his groundbreaking work on automotive cybersecurity,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/samanzonouz4n6\/saman-zonouz\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESaman Zonouz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy \u003C\/a\u003Eand the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated the transportation sector as one of the nation\u2019s 16 critical infrastructure sectors. Ensuring its security is vital to national security and public safety.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cModern vehicles, which rely heavily on controller area networks for essential operations, are integral components of this infrastructure,\u201d said Zonouz. \u201cWith the increasing sophistication of cyberthreats, safeguarding these systems has become critical to ensuring the resilience and security of transportation networks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper introduced to the scientific community the first comprehensive defense system to address advanced threats targeting vehicular controller area networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CPSec team is putting the technology it has developed into practice in collaboration with Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc., which sponsors the work. Tang hopes ERACAN\u2019s success will raise awareness of these new threats in the research community and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt will help them build future defenses,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have demonstrated the best practice to defend against these attacks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang received his bachelor\u2019s degree at Georgia Tech, where he first performed security-related work for the automobile industry. While working with Zonouz on his master\u2019s degree, he decided to change course and pursue research initiatives like vehicle security in a Ph.D. program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is interesting how it came full circle,\u201d he said. \u201cI will continue on this path of automobile security throughout my Ph.D.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EERACAN: Defending Against an Emerging CAN Threat Model\u003C\/em\u003E, was written by \u003Cstrong\u003EZhaozhou Tang,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EKhaled Serag\u003C\/strong\u003E from the Qatar Computing Research Institute, \u003Cstrong\u003ESaman Zonouz\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EBerkay Celik\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EDongyan Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E from Purdue University, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/raheem-beyah\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and dean of the College of Engineering. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECPSec Lab\u003C\/a\u003E is a collaboration between the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers, with Hyundai, uncovered wireless vulnerabilities in vehicles\u0027 internal networks. They developed ERACAN, a defense system with near-perfect attack detection, addressing new and old threats. 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The Ph.D. student in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of a research group that presented at a major conference in August and is now preparing to host a research meeting in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe used the lull between events, research, and classes to meet with Orozco and learn more about his background and interests in this Meet CSE profile.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ERafael Orozco\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Interests:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EMedical Imaging;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESeismic Imaging; Generative Models;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EInverse Problems; Bayesian Inference; Uncertainty Quantification\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHometown\u003C\/strong\u003E: Sonora, Mexico\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us briefly about your educational background and how you came to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI studied in Mexico through high school. Then, I did my first two years of undergrad at the University of Arizona and transferred to Bucknell University. I was attracted to Georgia Tech\u2019s CSE program because it is a unique combination of domain science and computer science. It feels like I am both a programmer and a scientist.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did you first become interested in computer science and machine learning?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn high school, I saw a video demonstration of a genetic algorithm on the internet and became interested in the technology. My high school in Mexico did not have a computer science class, but a teacher mentored me and helped me compete at the Mexican Informatics Olympiad. When I started at Arizona, I researched the behavior of clouds from a Bayesian perspective. Since then, my research interests have always involved using Bayesian techniques to infer unknowns.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou mentioned your background a few times. Since it is National Hispanic Heritage Month, what does this observance mean to you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI am quite proud to be a part of this group. In Mexico and the U.S., fellow Hispanics have supported me and my pursuits, so I know firsthand of their kindness and resourcefulness. I think that Hispanic people welcome others, celebrating the joy our culture brings, and they appreciate that our country uses the opportunity to reflect on Hispanic history.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou study in Professor Felix Herrmann\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/slim.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling (SLIM)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;group. In your own words, what does this research group do?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe develop techniques and software for imaging Earth\u2019s subsurface structures. These range from highly performant partial differential equation solvers to randomized numerical algebra to generative artificial intelligence (AI) models.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the driving goals of each software package we develop is that it needs to be scalable to real world applications. This entails imaging seismic areas that can be kilometers cubed in volume, represented typically by more than 100,000,000 simulation grid cells. In my medical applications, high-resolution images of human brains that can be resolved to less than half a millimeter.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.imageevent.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a recent conference where SLIM gave nine presentations. What research did you present here?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe challenge of applying machine learning to seismic imaging is that there are no examples of what the earth looks like. While making high quality reference images of human tissues for supervised machine learning is possible, no one can \u201ccut open\u201d the earth to understand exactly what it looks like. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, I presented an algorithm that combines generative AI with an unsupervised training objective. We essentially trick the generative model into outputting full earth models by making it blind to which part of the Earth we are asking for. This is like when you take an exam where only a few questions will be graded, but you don\u2019t know which ones, so you answer all the questions just in case.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhile seismic imaging is the basis of SLIM research, there are other applications for the group\u2019s work. Can you discuss more about this?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe imaging techniques that the energy industry has been using for decades toward imaging Earth\u2019s subsurface can be applied almost seamlessly to create medical images of human sub tissue.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELately, we have been tackling the particularly difficult modality of using high frequency ultrasound to image through the human skull. In our\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.03478\u0022\u003Erecent paper\u003C\/a\u003E, we are exploring a powerful combination between machine learning and physics-based methods that allows us to speed up imaging while adding uncertainty quantification.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe presented the work at this year\u2019s MIDL conference (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2023.midl.io\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMedical Imaging with Deep Learning\u003C\/a\u003E) in July. The medical community was excited with our preliminary results and gave me valuable feedback on how we can help bring this technique closer to clinical viability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe start of the fall semester can be busy for most Georgia Tech students, but this is especially true for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERafael Orozco\u003C\/strong\u003E. The Ph.D. student in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is part of a research group that presented at a major conference in August and is now preparing to host a research meeting in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe used the lull between events, research, and classes to meet with Orozco and learn more about his background and interests in this Meet CSE profile.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Profile story of School of CSE Ph.D. student Rafael Orozco"}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2023-10-05 14:18:04","changed_gmt":"2024-12-09 17:36:57","author":"Bryant Wine","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671947":{"id":"671947","type":"image","title":"Meet CSE Rafael Orozco.jpg","body":null,"created":"1696515509","gmt_created":"2023-10-05 14:18:29","changed":"1696515509","gmt_changed":"2023-10-05 14:18:29","alt":"Meet CSE Profile Rafael Orozco","file":{"fid":"255112","name":"Meet CSE Rafael Orozco.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/05\/Meet%20CSE%20Rafael%20Orozco.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/05\/Meet%20CSE%20Rafael%20Orozco.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":260567,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/05\/Meet%20CSE%20Rafael%20Orozco.jpg?itok=3uLgcBd_"}}},"media_ids":["671947"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/meet-cse-profile-phd-student-rafael-orozco","title":""}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"76231","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"183261","name":"artificial intelligence; College of Engineering"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBryant Wine, Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nbryant.wine@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674510":{"#nid":"674510","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Tool Teaches Responsible AI Practices When Using Large Language Models","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThanks to a Georgia Tech researcher\u0027s new tool, application developers can now see potential harmful attributes in their prototypes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFarsight is a tool designed for developers who use large language models (LLMs) to create applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Farsight alerts prototypers when they write LLM prompts that could be harmful and misused.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDownstream users can expect to benefit from better quality and safer products made with Farsight\u2019s assistance. The tool\u2019s lasting impact, though, is that it fosters responsible AI awareness by coaching developers on the proper use of LLMs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMachine Learning Ph.D. candidate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zijie.wang\/\u0022\u003EZijie (Jay) Wang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zijie.wang\/papers\/farsight\/\u0022\u003EFarsight\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s lead architect. He will present the paper at the upcoming\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2024\/\u0022\u003EConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CHI 2024). Farsight ranked in the top 5% of papers accepted to CHI 2024, earning it an honorable mention for the conference\u2019s best paper award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLLMs have empowered millions of people with diverse backgrounds, including writers, doctors, and educators, to build and prototype powerful AI apps through prompting. However, many of these AI prototypers don\u2019t have training in computer science, let alone responsible AI practices,\u201d said Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith a growing number of AI incidents related to LLMs, it is critical to make developers aware of the potential harms associated with their AI applications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang referenced an example when\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22\/\u0022\u003Etwo lawyers used ChatGPT to write a legal brief\u003C\/a\u003E. A U.S. judge sanctioned the lawyers because their submitted brief contained six fictitious case citations that the LLM fabricated.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith Farsight, the group aims to improve developers\u2019 awareness of responsible AI use. It achieves this by highlighting potential use cases, affected stakeholders, and possible harm associated with an application in the early prototyping stage.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA user study involving 42 prototypers showed that developers could better identify potential harms associated with their prompts after using Farsight. The users also found the tool more helpful and usable than existing resources.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFeedback from the study showed Farsight encouraged developers to focus on end-users and think beyond immediate harmful outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile resources, like workshops and online videos, exist to help AI prototypers, they are often seen as tedious, and most people lack the incentive and time to use them,\u201d said Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur approach was to consolidate and display responsible AI resources in the same space where AI prototypers write prompts. In addition, we leverage AI to highlight relevant real-life incidents and guide users to potential harms based on their prompts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pair-code.github.io\/farsight\/\u0022\u003EFarsight employs an in-situ user interface\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to show developers the potential negative consequences of their applications during prototyping.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlert symbols for \u201cneutral,\u201d \u201ccaution,\u201d and \u201cwarning\u201d notify users when prompts require more attention. When a user clicks the alert symbol, an awareness sidebar expands from one side of the screen.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sidebar shows an incident panel with actual news headlines from incidents relevant to the harmful prompt. The sidebar also has a use-case panel that helps developers imagine how\u0026nbsp;different groups of people can use their applications in varying contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother key feature is the harm envisioner. This functionality takes a user\u2019s prompt as input and assists them in envisioning potential harmful outcomes. The prompt branches into an interactive node tree that lists use cases, stakeholders, and harms, like \u201csocietal harm,\u201d \u201callocative harm,\u201d \u201cinterpersonal harm,\u201d and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe novel design and insightful findings from the user study resulted in Farsight\u2019s acceptance for presentation at CHI 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECHI is considered the most prestigious conference for human-computer interaction and one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECHI is affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery. The conference takes place May 11-16 in Honolulu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang worked on Farsight in Summer 2023 while interning at Google + AI Research group (PAIR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFarsight\u2019s co-authors from Google PAIR include\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chinmayk\/\u0022\u003EChinmay Kulkarni\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/laurenwilcox.net\/\u0022\u003ELauren Wilcox\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.google\/people\/michael-terry\/\u0022\u003EMichael Terry\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/michaelmadaio.com\/\u0022\u003EMichael Madaio\u003C\/a\u003E. The group possesses closer ties to Georgia Tech than just through Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETerry,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medium.com\/people-ai-research\/meet-the-new-co-leads-of-pair-lucas-dixon-and-michael-terry-17a67754fc10\u0022\u003Ethe current co-leader of Google PAIR\u003C\/a\u003E, earned his Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from Georgia Tech in 2005. Madaio graduated from Tech in 2015 with a M.S. in digital media. Wilcox was a full-time faculty member in the School of Interactive Computing from 2013 to 2021 and serves in an adjunct capacity today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThough not an author, one of Wang\u2019s influences is his advisor,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E. Chau is an associate professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. His group specializes in data science, human-centered AI, and visualization research for social good.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think what makes Farsight interesting is its unique in-workflow and human-AI collaborative approach,\u201d said Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFurthermore, Farsight leverages LLMs to expand prototypers\u2019 creativity and brainstorm a wide range of use cases, stakeholders, and potential harms.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThanks to a Georgia Tech researcher\u0027s new tool, application developers can now see potential harmful attributes in their prototypes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFarsight is a tool designed for developers who use large language models (LLMs) to create applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Farsight alerts prototypers when they write LLM prompts that could be harmful and misused.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDownstream users can expect to benefit from better quality and safer products made with Farsight\u2019s assistance. 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It is the first surgical planning tool that uses multi-user mobile AR in iOS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application\u2019s collaborative feature overcomes limitations in traditional surgical modeling and planning methods. This offers patients better, personalized care from doctors who plan and collaborate with the tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers partnered with Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in ARCollab\u2019s development.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/twixupmysleeve\u0022\u003EPratham Mehta\u003C\/a\u003E, a computer science major, led the group\u2019s research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have conducted two trips to CHOA for usability evaluations with cardiologists and surgeons. The overall feedback from ARCollab users has been positive,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey all enjoyed experimenting with it and collaborating with other users. They also felt like it had the potential to be useful in surgical planning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2402.05075\u0022\u003EARCollab\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s collaborative environment is the tool\u2019s most novel feature. It allows surgical teams to study and plan together in a virtual workspace, regardless of location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab supports a toolbox of features for doctors to inspect and interact with their patients\u0027 AR heart models. With a few finger gestures, users can scale and rotate, \u201cslice\u201d into the model, and modify a slicing plane to view omnidirectional cross-sections of the heart.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloping ARCollab on iOS works twofold. This streamlines deployment and accessibility by making it available on the iOS App Store and Apple devices. Building ARCollab on Apple\u2019s peer-to-peer network framework ensures the functionality of the AR components. It also lessens the learning curve, especially for experienced AR users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab overcomes traditional surgical planning practices of using physical heart models. Producing physical models is time-consuming, resource-intensive, and irreversible compared to digital models. It is also difficult for surgical teams to plan together since they are limited to studying a single physical model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDigital and AR modeling is growing as an alternative to physical models.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2208.10639\u0022\u003ECardiacAR\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is one such tool the group has already created.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, digital platforms lack multi-user features essential for surgical teams to collaborate during planning. ARCollab\u2019s multi-user workspace progresses the technology\u2019s potential as a mass replacement for physical modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver the past year and a half, we have been working on incorporating collaboration into our prior work with CardiacAR,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis involved completely changing the codebase, rebuilding the entire app and its features from the ground up in a newer AR framework that was better suited for collaboration and future development.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIts interactive and visualization features, along with its novelty and innovation, led the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2024\/\u0022\u003EConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to accept ARCollab for presentation. The conference occurs May 11-16 in Honolulu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECHI is considered the most prestigious conference for human-computer interaction and one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EM.S. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/harshakaranth.com\/\u0022\u003EHarsha Karanth\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alexanderyang.me\/\u0022\u003EAlex Yang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CS 2022, M.S. CS 2023) co-authored the paper with Mehta. They study under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group partnered with Timothy Slesnick and Fawwaz Shaw from CHOA on ARCollab\u2019s development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking with the doctors and having them test out versions of our application and give us feedback has been the most important part of the collaboration with CHOA,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese medical professionals are experts in their field. We want to make sure to have features that they want and need, and that would make their job easier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECardiologists and surgeons could soon have a new mobile augmented reality (AR) tool to improve collaboration in surgical planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab is an iOS AR application designed for doctors to interact with patient-specific 3D heart models in a shared environment. It is the first surgical planning tool that uses multi-user mobile AR in iOS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application\u2019s collaborative feature overcomes limitations in traditional surgical modeling and planning methods. 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However, models can improve by deepening the data pool with multilingual source material such as their proposed XLingHealth benchmark.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor users, our research supports what ChatGPT\u2019s website already states: chatbots make a lot of mistakes, so we should not rely on them for critical decision-making or for information that requires high accuracy,\u201d Jin said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince we observed this language disparity in their performance, LLM developers should focus on improving accuracy, correctness, consistency, and reliability in other languages,\u201d Jin said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing XLingEval, the researchers found chatbots are less accurate in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi compared to English. By focusing on correctness, consistency, and verifiability, they discovered:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECorrectness decreased by 18% when the same questions were asked in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnswers in non-English were 29% less consistent than their English counterparts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENon-English responses were 13% overall less verifiable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXLingHealth contains question-answer pairs that chatbots can reference, which the group hopes will spark improvement within LLMs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe HealthQA dataset uses specialized healthcare articles from the popular healthcare website\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPatient\u003C\/em\u003E. It includes 1,134 health-related question-answer pairs as excerpts from original articles.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiveQA is a second dataset containing 246 question-answer pairs constructed from frequently asked questions (FAQs) platforms associated with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor drug-related questions, the group built a MedicationQA component. This dataset contains 690 questions extracted from anonymous consumer queries submitted to MedlinePlus. The answers are sourced from medical references, such as MedlinePlus and DailyMed.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their tests, the researchers asked over 2,000 medical-related questions to ChatGPT-3.5 and MedAlpaca. MedAlpaca is a healthcare question-answer chatbot trained in medical literature. Yet, more than 67% of its responses to non-English questions were irrelevant or contradictory.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe see far worse performance in the case of MedAlpaca than ChatGPT,\u201d Chandra said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe majority of the data for MedAlpaca is in English, so it struggled to answer queries in non-English languages. GPT also struggled, but it performed much better than MedAlpaca because it had some sort of training data in other languages.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGaurav Verma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and postdoctoral researcher\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/snowood1.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYibo Hu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-authored the paper.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJin and Verma study under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/\u0022\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, and Hu is a postdoc in Kumar\u2019s lab. Chandra is advised by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EThe team will present their paper at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2024.thewebconf.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Web Conference\u003C\/a\u003E, occurring May 13-17 in Singapore. The annual conference focuses on the future direction of the internet. The group\u2019s presentation is a complimentary match, considering the conference\u0027s location.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnglish and Chinese are the most common languages in Singapore. The group tested Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi because they are the world\u2019s most spoken languages after English. Personal curiosity and background played a part in inspiring the study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChatGPT was very popular when it launched in 2022, especially for us computer science students who are always exploring new technology,\u201d said Jin. \u201cNon-native English speakers, like Mohit and I, noticed early on that chatbots underperformed in our native languages.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing communications officer Nathan Deen and School of Computational Science and Engineering communications officer Bryant Wine contributed to this report.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech has developed a framework for assessing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). 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In some cases, LPTM can be deployed without any training data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe key to LPTM is that it is pre-trained on datasets from different industries like healthcare, transportation, and energy. The Georgia Tech group created an adaptive segmentation module to make effective use of these vastly different datasets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers will present LPTM in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the 2024 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nips.cc\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeurIPS 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E). NeurIPS is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious conferences on artificial intelligence (AI) and ML research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe foundational model paradigm started with text and image, but people haven\u2019t explored time-series tasks yet because those were considered too diverse across domains,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~badityap\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EB. 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LPTM is different though because it is geared toward time-series, not text and image generation. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers trained LPTM on data ranging from epidemics, macroeconomics, power consumption, traffic and transportation, stock markets, and human motion and behavioral datasets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter training, the group pitted LPTM against 17 other models to make forecasts as close to nine real-case benchmarks. LPTM performed the best on five datasets and placed second on the other four.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe nine benchmarks contained data from real-world collections. These included the spread of influenza in the U.S. and Japan, electricity, traffic, and taxi demand in New York, and financial markets.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe competitor models were purpose-built for their fields. While each model performed well on one or two benchmarks closest to its designed purpose, the models ranked in the middle or bottom on others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another experiment, the Georgia Tech group tested LPTM against seven baseline models on the same nine benchmarks in zero-shot forecasting tasks. Zero-shot means the model is used out of the box and not given any specific guidance during training. LPTM outperformed every model across all benchmarks in this trial.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELPTM performed consistently as a top-runner on all nine benchmarks, demonstrating the model\u2019s potential to achieve superior forecasting results across multiple applications with less and resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur model also goes beyond forecasting and helps accomplish other tasks,\u201d said Prakash, an associate professor in the School of CSE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cClassification is a useful time-series task that allows us to understand the nature of the time-series and label whether that time-series is something we understand or is new.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne reason traditional models are custom-built to their purpose is that fields differ in reporting frequency and trends.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, epidemic data is often reported weekly and goes through seasonal peaks with occasional outbreaks. 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The dataset provides a new resource to study how public correspondence affects businesses and markets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA is the first human-curated dataset on question-answer pairs from earnings call transcripts (ECTs). The dataset teaches models to identify subjective features in ECTs, like clarity and cautiousness. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset lays the foundation for a new approach to identifying disinformation and misinformation caused by nuances in speech. While ECT responses can be technically true, unclear or irrelevant information can misinform stakeholders and affect their decision-making.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETests on White House press briefings showed that the dataset applies to other sectors with frequent question-and-answer encounters, notably politics, journalism, and sports. This increases the odds of effectively informing audiences and improving transparency across public spheres.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe intersecting work between natural language processing and finance earned\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2410.20651\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe paper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E acceptance to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeurIPS 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious conferences on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022SubjECTive-QA has the potential to revolutionize nowcasting predictions with enhanced clarity and relevance,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shahagam4.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgam Shah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the project\u2019s lead researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIts nuanced analysis of qualities in executive responses, like optimism and cautiousness, deepens our understanding of economic forecasts and financial transparency.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/neurips-2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMICROSITE: Georgia Tech at NeurIPS 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA offers a new means to evaluate financial discourse by characterizing language\u0027s subjective and multifaceted nature. This improves on traditional datasets that quantify sentiment or verify claims from financial statements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset consists of 2,747 Q\u0026amp;A pairs taken from 120 ECTs from companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2021. The Georgia Tech researchers annotated each response by hand based on six features for a total of 49,446 annotations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group evaluated answers on:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERelevance: the speaker answered the question with appropriate details.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClarity: the speaker was transparent in the answer and the message conveyed.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOptimism: the speaker answered with a positive outlook regarding future outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESpecificity: the speaker included sufficient and technical details in their answer.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECautiousness: the speaker answered using a conservative, risk-averse approach.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAssertiveness: the speaker answered with certainty about the company\u2019s events and outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group validated their dataset by training eight computer models to detect and score these six features. Test models comprised of three BERT-based pre-trained language models (PLMs), and five popular large language models (LLMs) including Llama and ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll eight models scored the highest on the relevance and clarity features. This is attributed to domain-specific pretraining that enables the models to identify pertinent and understandable material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe PLMs achieved higher scores on the clear, optimistic, specific, and cautious categories. The LLMs scored higher in assertiveness and relevance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another experiment to test transferability, a PLM trained with SubjECTive-QA evaluated 65 Q\u0026amp;A pairs from White House press briefings and gaggles. Scores across all six features indicated models trained on the dataset could succeed in other fields outside of finance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Building on these promising results, the next step for SubjECTive-QA is to enhance customer service technologies, like chatbots,\u201d said Shah, a Ph.D. candidate studying machine learning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to make these platforms more responsive and accurate by integrating our analysis techniques from SubjECTive-QA.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA culminated from two semesters of work through Georgia Tech\u2019s Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVIP Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is an approach to higher education where undergraduate and graduate students work together on long-term project teams led by faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate students earn academic credit and receive hands-on experience through VIP projects. 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All six researchers are undergraduate students studying computer science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/chava\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESudheer Chava\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E co-advises Shah and is the faculty lead of SubjECTive-QA. Chava is a professor in the Scheller College of Business and director of the M.S. in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChava is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Computing\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Leading undergraduate students through the VIP Program taught me the powerful impact of balancing freedom with guidance,\u201d Shah said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAllowing students to take the helm not only fosters their leadership skills but also enhances my own approach to mentoring, thus creating a mutually enriching educational experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresenting SubjECTive-QA at NeurIPS 2024 exposes the dataset for further use and refinement. NeurIPS is one of three primary international conferences on high-impact research in AI and ML. The conference occurs Dec. 10-15.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SubjECTive-QA team is among the 162 Georgia Tech researchers presenting over 80 papers at NeurIPS 2024. The Georgia Tech contingent includes 46 faculty members, like Chava. These faculty represent Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges of Business, Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, underscoring the pertinence of AI research across domains.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Presenting SubjECTive-QA at prestigious venues like NeurIPS propels our research into the spotlight, drawing the attention of key players in finance and tech,\u201d Shah said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe feedback we receive from this community of experts validates our approach and opens new avenues for future innovation, setting the stage for transformative applications in industry and academia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have created a dataset that trains computer models to understand nuances in human speech during financial earnings calls. 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The award recognizes doctoral students who show exceptional promise in making a significant contribution to the worldwide advancement of science and technology. The new recipients join three returning scholars from the College of Sciences. To view all of the current Georgia Tech ARCS Scholars, visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlanta.arcsfoundation.org\/current-scholars-2024-25\u0022\u003E2024-25 ARCS Atlanta Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeet the 2024-25 ARCS Scholars\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlivia Eng\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEng is a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellow. Her research compares rover and orbital datasets of Mars to increase the spatial resolution of quantitative geologic mapping.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am excited to receive this award as it validates the importance of my research and my abilities as a scientist,\u201d says Eng.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENominated by her advisor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/rivera-hernandez-dr-frances\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrances Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Eng is also a part of Georgia Tech\u0027s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute and Center for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration Research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAlivia is an exceptional graduate student and planetary scientist,\u201d says Rivera-Hern\u00e1ndez. \u201cHer curiosity, passion, and question-driven approach have sparked multiple new projects at Georgia Tech and led my research group in exciting new directions. Beyond her research, Alivia is deeply committed to community engagement, aiming to inspire future generations to pursue careers in planetary geology. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with her.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMarrissa Izykowicz, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIzykowicz\u2019s research focuses on synthesizing nanoparticles designed to target and retain anti-cancer drugs in both primary and metastatic tumors of various cancers. Her research tackles the challenge of treating metastatic lesions, which are difficult to target due to their small size and abundance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am deeply passionate about my work because it addresses an issue that has plagued humanity for centuries,\u201d says Izykowicz. \u201cMy research investigates the\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ecomplexities of metastatic cancer, building on the knowledge of those who came before me to pave the way toward a potential cure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe was nominated for the award by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, who serves as a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the James A. Carlos Family Chair for Pediatric Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMarrissa is a wonderful student and colleague\u0026nbsp;\u2014\u0026nbsp;always willing to do whatever is needed to advance her studies,\u201d says Finn. \u201cHer research is tremendously exciting, working with collaborator\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen Housley\u003C\/strong\u003E on nanoparticles that can deliver medications directly to cancerous tumors. The project involves chemistry, cell biology, immunology, and analytical biochemistry, and Marrissa does it all with great dedication and expertise.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZach Mobille, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMobille is pursuing a Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences, specializing in computational neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am passionate about my research because it sheds light on how the brain\u2019s structure and abilities are related quantitatively,\u201d says Mobille. \u201cIt targets a deeper understanding of how information is processed in networks of neurons, which may influence how computational devices are designed in the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EMobille serves as chair of the community impact committee of the Georgia Tech\/Emory Computational Neural-engineering Training Program (CNTP) and is a past recipient of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;InQuBATE Training grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/hannah-choi\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHannah Choi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who advises Mobille, states: \u201cZach is driven by curiosity and determined to solve complex research problems. He has consistently impressed me with his creativity and motivation in computational neuroscience. Zach proposes innovative ideas, is never afraid of learning new techniques, and takes initiative in his research. I am thrilled that the ARCS fellowship has recognized his qualities as an independent and creative researcher.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Pederson\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPederson uses computer simulations to study chemistry at solid\/liquid interfaces at the molecular scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cComputational modeling across length- and time-scales is a powerful technique for gaining insight into chemical and physical processes,\u201d says Pederson. \u201cWith my research, I hope to promote wider adoption of these multi-scale computational techniques to enable the design of cleaner and safer chemical processes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn addition to his research work, Pederson helped organize and run ComSciCon-ATL 2024, an interdisciplinary science communications conference for Southeast STEM graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cJohn is an outstanding researcher and problem-solver,\u201d says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/jesse-mcdaniel\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJessie McDaniel\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry who nominated Pederson. \u201dHe has contributed substantially to software and method development efforts that form the core of our group\u2019s work on studying chemical reaction mechanisms in complex environments related to electrochemistry and surface chemistry. John exemplifies excellence in all facets of research, scholarship, and service.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHighlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award. 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Though this scholarship is typically given to 40 exceptional incoming first-year students, a select few second- and third-year students are chosen to receive the honor for exemplifying the program\u2019s pillars of scholarship, leadership, progress, and service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe new Scholars include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E\/\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Estudent\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESonali Kaluri,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;School of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Estudent\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESeth Kinoshita\u003C\/strong\u003E, and School of Biological Sciences student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMedina McCowin\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs part of the program, the selected students will receive a full-ride scholarship, special mentoring, and travel opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Scholars\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESonali Kaluri\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eis a third-year\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Estudent double majoring in biology and applied languages and intercultural studies (with a concentration in Spanish). Deeply passionate about women\u0027s health, she has researched clinical considerations of treating liver disease in pregnant women and the impact of a virtual lactation program on maternal and infant health outcomes at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIn her spare time, she volunteers at the Winship Cancer Institute and the March of Dimes and is a member of the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI hope to attend medical school and pursue a career in academic medicine after graduation from Georgia Tech,\u201d says Kaluri. \u201cMy research experience has made me acutely aware of the gaps in medical knowledge regarding the different ways disease processes affect women, and I hope to become an advocate for change through research and clinical practice!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeth Kinoshita\u003C\/strong\u003E is a third-year biochemistry major with a minor in health and medical sciences. As an undergraduate research assistant with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, he focuses on a novel drug delivery structure that can be surgically inserted to decrease recovery time and minimize invasiveness for tendon injuries. His work has been published in several academic journals. He serves as an undergraduate research ambassador and a pre-health mentor \u2014\u0026nbsp;and spends his free time with Sympathetic Vibrations, Georgia Tech\u0027s male a cappella group. Kinoshita also works as the medical coordinator for Aurora Day Camp, a camp for children with cancer and their siblings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0022After graduation, I want to pursue an M.D.\/Ph.D. in regenerative orthopedic medicine to bridge my tendon repair research with direct implementation into patients,\u201d says Kinoshita. \u201cI aim to develop innovative treatments that can restore mobility in the extremities and improve the quality of life for patients with musculoskeletal disorders.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedina McCowin\u003C\/strong\u003E is a third-year biology major researching cancer treatment methods in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sulchek2.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESulchek BioMEMS and Biomechanics Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. She also worked for Lachance Laboratories as an undergraduate researcher, investigating cancer genetics\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EActive on campus, she is the biology representative for the Georgia Tech Undergraduate House of Representatives and president of the Georgia Tech Public Health Student Association. McCowin has also held several leadership roles with the Georgia Tech American Medical Student Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIn the future, I hope to pursue an M.D.\/Ph.D. and become a pediatric oncologist and cancer treatment researcher, focusing on improving pediatric cancer treatments,\u201d says McCowin. \u201cWorking in the healthcare field and experiencing personal loss has taught me that empathy and compassion are the most important factors in becoming a doctor. As a doctor, I want to contribute to the advancements of pediatric medicine, but also be dedicated to improving the emotional and mental well-being of my patients and their families.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESonali Kaluri, Seth Kinoshita, and Medina McCowin have been selected as walk-on recipients of the prestigious Stamps President\u0027s Scholarship. 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Excel is an Inclusive Postsecondary Education (IPSE) program that offers a four-year track for IDD students to earn two separate certificates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELowy said the course differs from typical technology courses taught to IDD students. It provides autonomy and encourages students to contribute input on how the course is designed and which technology projects they want to create. They reflect critically on the role of technology in the world and use that reflection to design technology for themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe course is also unique because it involves a mix of professional educators and technology researchers working together. Lowy taught the class alongside her advisor, Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/jennifer-kim\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, her lab colleague, Kaely Hall, master\u2019s students in the Georgia Tech MS-HCI program, computer science undergraduates, and Excel educators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have a few models of students designing next to designers in classrooms, but they tend to be only taught by professionals in K-12 education, not necessarily HCI researchers in higher education. They rarely include students with IDD,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn higher education, HCI projects may not go further than the classroom space. This course was special because we can teach these students with IDD high-level concepts about HCI and adopt their ideas into ongoing projects. We can keep working on them after the class has finished.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELowy said she designed the course based on previous work on accessible co-design and consulted with Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tiles.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJessica Roberts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an educational technology researcher in the School of IC, to develop course materials. She refined the course with her co-teachers as she taught it, responding to observations and reflections from students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf the students had not been allowed to provide their input, Lowy and her team would never have learned how IDD students prefer to use different technologies. Lowy said they took that feedback to implement strength-based activities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo much technology design for people with disabilities focuses on what they cannot do,\u201d she said. \u201cOur lab likes to focus on what they can do and their strengths.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring one class, the researchers brought a robot dog into the classroom to determine whether it could supply emotional support to the students. The feedback they received showed the students were more interested in how the robot dog could be a companion in day-to-day activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe came in with an idea of how the participants might want to use the technology,\u201d Lowy said. \u201cThe students had a much broader view of what they might like to use this technology for. They reflected on their lives, and that\u2019s exactly what we want good design to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELowy said she hopes the course serves as a blueprint for inclusive advanced technology courses at the university level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost of their technology courses focus on workplace education like how to use Microsoft Suite, Google Calendar, or Outlook,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re working on more of a foundational level about how those technologies are designed and whether they work for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also said the course could be a step toward more inclusiveness in university classroom environments with traditional students and students with IDD learning together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSomething that IPSE students have told me is that it\u2019s hard to keep up with lectures, and they sometimes struggle to keep up in class,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019d be great if they take a class specifically targeted to them at their own pace with a hands-on element to it, and they got to learn through experiential activities. Then they take the knowledge they\u2019ve gleaned into an inclusive class where they work with their peers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also suggested other models universities might offer, like an Intro to HCI course for IDD students that allows them to work on projects with students enrolled in the traditional Intro to HCI course.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAny university with an IPSE program and an HCI program on campus can do this,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERachel Lowy\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing, piloted a new human-computer interaction design course for IDD students in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/excel.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExcel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E program. Lowy said the course differs from typical technology courses taught to IDD students. 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This research focuses on securing the controller area network (CAN), a vital system used in modern vehicles that is increasingly targeted by cyber threats.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This project is led by our Ph.D. student Zhaozhou Tang with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Systems Security\u003C\/a\u003E (CPSec) Lab,\u0022 said Zonouz. \u0022Impressively, this was Zhaozhou\u0027s first paper in his Ph.D., and he deserves special recognition for this groundbreaking work on automotive cybersecurity.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work introduces a comprehensive defense system to counter advanced threats to vehicular CAN networks, and the team is collaborating with the Hyundai America Technical Center to implement the research. The CPSec Lab is a collaborative effort between SCP and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another paper, \u003Cem\u003ETesting Side-Channel Security of Cryptographic Implementations Against Future Microarchitectures\u003C\/em\u003E, Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~genkin\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel Genkin \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ecollaborated with international researchers to define security threats in new computing technology. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We appreciate ACM for recognizing our work,\u0022 said Genkin. \u201cTools for early-stage testing of CPUs for emerging side-channel threats are crucial to ensuring the security of the next generation of computing devices.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe third paper, \u003Cem\u003EUnmasking the Security and Usability of Password Masking\u003C\/em\u003E, was authored by graduate students \u003Cstrong\u003EYuqi Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ESuood Al Roomi\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ESena Sahin\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~frankli\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, SCP and ECE assistant professor. This study investigated the effectiveness and provided recommendations for implementing password masking and the practice of hiding characters as they are typed and offered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Password masking is a widely deployed security mechanism that hasn\u0027t been extensively investigated in prior works,\u0022 said Li.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe assistant professor credited the collaborative efforts of his students, particularly Yuqi Hu, for leading the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2024\/home.html\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E (CCS) is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The conference was held from Oct. 14-18 in Salt Lake City.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEight Georgia Tech researchers were honored with the ACM Distinguished Paper Award for their contributions to cybersecurity at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). The recognized papers tackled issues in automotive cybersecurity, password security, and cryptographic testing. One project, led by Ph.D. student Zhaozhou Tang, focuses on securing vehicle networks from cyber threats. Another paper addressed testing cryptographic implementations against future microarchitectures, while a third examined the effectiveness of password masking. 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This can lead to faster studies of Mars\u2019 surface composition to find clues of previous life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe algorithm demonstrates how data science impacts traditional scientific fields like chemistry, biology, and geology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven further, Wright is developing Nested Fusion applications to model shifting climate patterns, plant and animal life, and other concepts in the earth sciences. The same method can combine overlapping datasets from satellite imagery, biomarkers, and climate data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUsers have extended Nested Fusion and similar algorithms toward earth science contexts, which we have received very positive feedback,\u201d said Wright, who studies machine learning (ML) at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCross-correlational analysis takes a long time to do and is not done in the initial stages of research when patterns appear and form new hypotheses. 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Promising results from a recent usability test have moved the platform one step closer to everyday use in hospitals worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers partnered with medical experts from Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) to develop and test\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/georgia-tech-partners-childrens-hospital-new-heart-surgery-planning-tool\u0022\u003EARCollab\u003C\/a\u003E. The iOS-based app leverages advanced AR technologies to let doctors collaborate together and interact with a patient\u2019s 3D heart model when planning surgeries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.03249\u0022\u003Eusability evaluation\u003C\/a\u003E demonstrates the app\u2019s effectiveness, finding that ARCollab is easy to use and understand, fosters collaboration, and improves surgical planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis tool is a step toward easier collaborative surgical planning. ARCollab could reduce the reliance on physical heart models, saving hours and even days of time while maintaining the collaborative nature of surgical planning,\u201d said M.S. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pratham2903\/\u0022\u003EPratham Mehta\u003C\/a\u003E, the app\u2019s lead researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNot only can it benefit doctors when planning for surgery, it may also serve as a teaching tool to explain heart deformities and problems to patients.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo cardiologists and three cardiothoracic surgeons from CHOA tested ARCollab. The two-day study ended with the doctors taking a 14-question survey assessing the app\u2019s usability. The survey also solicited general feedback and top features.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group determined from the open-ended feedback that:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EARCollab enables new collaboration capabilities that are easy to use and facilitate surgical planning.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnchoring the model to a physical space is important for better interaction.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPortability and real-time interaction are crucial for collaborative surgical planning.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsers rated each of the 14 questions on a 7-point Likert scale, with one being \u201cstrongly disagree\u201d and seven being \u201cstrongly agree.\u201d The 14 questions were organized into five categories: overall, multi-user, model viewing, model slicing, and saving and loading models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe multi-user category attained the highest rating with an average of 6.65. This included a unanimous 7.0 rating that it was easy to identify who was controlling the heart model in ARCollab. The scores also showed it was easy for users to connect with devices, switch between viewing and slicing, and view other users\u2019 interactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe model slicing category received the lowest, but formidable, average of 5.5. These questions assessed ease of use and understanding of finger gestures and usefulness to toggle slice direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on feedback, the researchers will explore adding support for remote collaboration. This would assist doctors in collaborating when not in a shared physical space. Another improvement is extending the save feature to support multiple states.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe surgeons and cardiologists found it extremely beneficial for multiple people to be able to view the model and collaboratively interact with it in real-time,\u201d Mehta said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe user study took place in a CHOA classroom. CHOA also provided a 3D heart model for the test using anonymous medical imaging data. Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oria.gatech.edu\/irb\u0022\u003EInstitutional Review Board (IRB)\u003C\/a\u003E approved the study and the group collected data in accordance with Institute policies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five test participants regularly perform cardiovascular surgical procedures and are employed by CHOA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group provided each participant with an iPad Pro with the latest iOS version and the ARCollab app installed. Using commercial devices and software meets the group\u2019s intentions to make the tool universally available and deployable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe plan to continue iterating ARCollab based on the feedback from the users,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe participants suggested the addition of a \u2018distance collaboration\u2019 mode, enabling doctors to collaborate even if they are not in the same physical environment. This allows them to facilitate surgical planning sessions from home or otherwise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers are presenting ARCollab and the user study results at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeevis.org\/year\/2024\/welcome\u0022\u003EIEEE VIS 2024\u003C\/a\u003E, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) visualization conference.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIEEE VIS is the world\u2019s most prestigious conference for visualization research and the second-highest rated conference for computer graphics. It takes place virtually Oct. 13-18, moved from its venue in St. Pete Beach, Florida, due to Hurricane Milton.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ARCollab research group\u0027s presentation at IEEE VIS comes months after they shared their work at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2024\/\u0022\u003ECHI 2024\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rahul-ozhur-narayanan-0899a8217\/\u0022\u003ERahul Narayanan\u003C\/a\u003E and alumni\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/harshakaranth.com\/\u0022\u003EHarsha Karanth\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. CS 2024) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alexanderyang.me\/\u0022\u003EHaoyang (Alex) Yang\u003C\/a\u003E (CS 2022, M.S. CS 2023) co-authored the paper with Mehta. They study under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group partnered with Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003ETimothy Slesnick\u003C\/strong\u003E and Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EFawwaz Shaw\u003C\/strong\u003E from CHOA on ARCollab\u2019s development and user testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m grateful for these opportunities since I get to showcase the team\u0027s hard work,\u0022 Mehta said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI can meet other like-minded researchers and students who share these interests in visualization and human-computer interaction. There is no better form of learning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new surgery planning tool powered by augmented reality (AR) is in development for doctors in need of better collaboration when planning heart operations. Promising results from a recent usability test have moved the platform one step closer to everyday use in hospitals worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers partnered with medical experts from Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) to develop and test\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/06\/georgia-tech-partners-childrens-hospital-new-heart-surgery-planning-tool\u0022\u003EARCollab\u003C\/a\u003E. The iOS-based app leverages advanced AR technologies to let doctors collaborate together and interact with a patient\u2019s 3D heart model when planning surgeries.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.03249\u0022\u003Eusability evaluation\u003C\/a\u003E demonstrates the app\u2019s effectiveness, finding that ARCollab is easy to use and understand, fosters collaboration, and improves surgical planning.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A usability evaluation of ARCollab demonstrated the app\u2019s effectiveness, finding it easy to use and understand, fosters collaboration, and improves heart surgery planning."}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2024-10-16 14:12:35","changed_gmt":"2024-10-16 15:16:02","author":"Bryant 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research into weather and severe storms, and by students at the three institutions for learning about everything from physics and engineering to weather, rainfall, and the effects of changing climate on the migration patterns of birds and insects. The instrument will be one of just a handful of weather radars operated by universities in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are really excited about this partnership with Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the University of Georgia, and Georgia Gwinnett College,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/geography.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/james-marshall-shepherd\u0022\u003EMarshall Shepherd\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Dean for Research, Scholarship and Partnership at UGA\u2019s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and Director of UGA\u2019s Atmospheric Sciences Program. \u201cThe radar will be a real-time component of classes, so it\u2019s creating new instructional and service capabilities. It will also enable researchers at the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech to pursue new research opportunities in the areas of severe weather, frozen precipitation \u2013 and perhaps even studies of birds and insects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe radar will provide a new data source for UGA\u2019s WeatherDawgs service, which provides hyperlocal weather data not only for the Athens community, but also for residents of eastern and northeastern Georgia. The system will also provide a real-time component for the mesoscale meteorology course taught at the university.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Georgia Tech, the radar will support the work of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/severestorms.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESevere Storms Research Center (SSRC)\u003C\/a\u003E, a state-funded initiative that serves as a focal point for severe storms research in the state. The radar will also support research and education at Georgia Tech, including courses on weather radar systems and studies of lightning being done in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe new radar will help fill some low-level gaps in weather radar coverage in north Georgia, and give higher-resolution data for the Georgia Gwinnett campus, University of Georgia campus, Georgia Tech campus and areas in between,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/severestorms.gatech.edu\/contact-information\/\u0022\u003EJohn Trostel\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the SSRC. \u201cThis is an area where both UGA and Georgia Tech have interests because it goes from urban to suburban, then back to urban. We might see some very interesting weather phenomena going on in those transition areas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe National Weather Service has access to a feed from the radar and will use it to obtain information about low-altitude weather activity that can\u2019t be seen as well from sources such as the NEXRAD radar based in Peachtree City and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Trostel added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ggc.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Gwinnett College\u003C\/a\u003E, the radar will provide real-world examples of how physics and engineering concepts are applied. Data from the radar system, which will be accessible to the college, would also provide students with a new research opportunity that is a required component of the science curriculum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur Physics and Pre-Engineering courses already cover the concepts of electromagnetic waves and the Doppler effect, which are the main principles behind radar,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ggc.edu\/directory\/neelam-khan\u0022\u003ENeelam Khan\u003C\/a\u003E, the Chair of the Physics and Pre-Engineering Department at Georgia Gwinnett College. \u201cThrough this radar, students will learn about the applications of Doppler radar to track weather patterns and visualize the data it produces.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConnections with the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and the Georgia Tech Research Institute will also help broaden the experience of students at Georgia Gwinnett College, a four-year public college that was founded in 2005 and now has more than 11,000 students, Khan said. All three collaborating institutions are part of the University System of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Furuno WR-2100 X-band weather radar was purchased in 2022 using funding from Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. It was initially placed atop a building on GTRI\u2019s Smyrna campus, where it underwent tests while Trostel and Shepherd searched for the best location for a more permanent installation. The researchers have used the device to look at storms, generate data, and practice data analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Gwinnett location was selected because the campus location enables coverage for both Atlanta and Athens. The Gwinnett County location also helps fill potential gaps in northeast Georgia and brings a unique resource for GGC\u2019s educational mission. The radar is now fully operational.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOwning and operating a weather radar is unusual for colleges and universities, but not surprising given the impact of severe weather in Georgia, Shepherd noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWeather is a significant threat to our lives and property, particularly in Georgia,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cWhile we have an adequate radar network from the National Weather Service and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, there are often gaps and needs for higher resolution, more detailed information. Our institutions have entered very rare air in owning and operating a weather radar that will benefit our students, the state, and our research enterprise in the University System of Georgia institutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause they\u2019ll be able to control the geographic areas covered by the radar and the level of detail in the information gathered, the new weather radar will be a useful tool not only for tracking storms, but also for conducting research, Trostel said. Its ability to provide highly detailed information even allows it to track the movement of insects and birds, for example.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can see things at higher resolution, and we have complete control over how we manipulate the radar beam to look at things,\u201d Trostel said. \u201cThe radar is much less expensive to purchase and operate than other weather radars, which makes it a budget-friendly tool for university research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe instrument cost approximately $150,000 to purchase and was acquired through donations and internal funding at UGA and Georgia Tech. Shepherd and Tom Mote, the founding director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at UGA, contributed funds from institutional research budgets. A significant financial gift was also acquired from Elaine Neal, an alumna of the UGA Department of Geography and longtime donor to the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, funds were provided by GTRI\u2019s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, and the Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems Laboratory, the Georgia Tech Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, and Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon (john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu)\u003Cbr\u003EGTRI Communications\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr\u003EAtlanta, Georgia USA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstalled recently at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), an X-band weather radar purchased two years ago by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia (UGA) is now providing data for a section of north Georgia where information on severe storms such as tornados can be limited by terrain. 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For others, a lab meeting time changed, and tennis doubles in the afternoon won\u2019t be an option anymore.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents returning to campus for a new semester often struggle to find time for physical activities because of their new routines and schedules. However, a new app developed at Georgia Tech helps busy students prioritize physical activity in their daily routines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Kefan Xu of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/riarriaga\/home?authuser=0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUbicomp Health and Wellness Lab at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E created Plannergy, a time management app that identifies open time blocks in users\u2019 schedules.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXu introduced Plannergy at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI) in Honolulu, Hawaii in May. He says the app is ideal for college students because they tend to have busy and inconsistent schedules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlannergy allows users to track their schedules, reflect on what activities would be beneficial and timely, and strategize how to implement the activity into their schedule.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Currently, the app is catered to people who\u2019ve been physically inactive and have inconsistent schedules,\u201d Xu said. \u201cCollege students know their schedule will change when they begin a new semester. They need to get some physical activity and find opportunities in the day they can leverage. It could be as simple as walking to school instead of taking a scooter.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXu tested his app on 16 college students who planned their physical activities every seven days and followed a reflective iteration framework to track improvement. The results showed that Plannergy is an effective behavior change tool. The findings also indicate that it increases participants\u2019 awareness of their schedules.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe American Heart Association says adults can reduce the risk of heart disease by participating in at least \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/healthy-living\/fitness\/fitness-basics\/aha-recs-for-physical-activity-in-adults\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity weekly\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ereport in 2023\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that found 72% of Americans aren\u2019t meeting that standard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Xu points out in his paper, studies have shown that incorporating physical activity into a person\u2019s routine usually helps them maintain it. However, he\u2019s identified two common problems:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPeople lack understanding about their schedules and routines.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPeople have schedules that fluctuate from one day to the next.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIndividuals face a lot of changes in their life,\u201d Xu said. \u201cMaybe they\u2019re a student who has graduated, and they\u2019re going into industry, which means their daily routine will be different from what it was while they were in school. This app allows them to experiment with different time slots and activity types to figure out another way and help them update their activity routine no matter what life changes they face.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECUSTOM FIT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome users who have been inactive for extended periods may be unsure how much exercise they need. Plannergy can also help them determine the intensity level of the activity to help avoid overexertion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf someone has been inactive for months, it\u2019s hard to ask them to run two miles daily,\u201d Xu said. \u201cThere\u2019s much for them to figure out. How much do they want to do, and at what intensity level? This app lets them gradually figure out the ideal activity. They can continue to track their progress and see if improvements are needed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlannergy is not limited to physical activity. Xu says one of the students in his study who worked out daily used the app to identify times in her schedule to take breaks or focus on more spiritual disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe added yoga and removed some high-intensity physical activities, and her sleeping routine also changed,\u201d Xu said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXu is working to improve the app. Future versions will have sensing technology to leverage health informatics so users can make better decisions. He also wants the app to record user data and make customized suggestions for activities that fit the user\u2019s schedule and preferred exercise intensity level.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe app requires manual tracking, which can create user burden,\u201d he said. \u201cI think in the future, the process could be more automated. 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She is the lead co-author of the paper published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-47568-w\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/a\u003E, a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Portfolio\u003C\/em\u003E journal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIyer, now a second-year undergraduate majoring in biology with a pre-med focus, worked with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to develop a novel voice-based diagnostic tool for Parkinson\u2019s disease (PD).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cEssentially, we proved the feasibility of a telemedicine approach towards detecting PD,\u201d says Iyer. \u201cThrough a three-second phone call, our machine-learning model recognizes patterns in data to detect Parkinson\u2019s with a 97 percent accuracy rate.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIyer states that additional strengths of the project include the potential for\u0026nbsp;detecting PD at an early stage, leading to improved treatment outcomes, and the practical benefits of a virtual diagnostic tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cParkinson\u2019s disease is a nervous system disorder that primarily affects the elderly population, and one of the many issues with detection is that symptoms must be analyzed in person,\u201d explains Iyer. \u201cIn Arkansas, 75 percent of our population resides in medically underserved areas\u0026nbsp;\u2014\u0026nbsp;it can be hard for them to access health facilities. Our research addresses the need for convenient detection via telemedicine.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrom science fairs to academic researcher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIyer\u2019s teachers at her STEM middle school encouraged her passion for science and discovery. A science fair enthusiast, Iyer led a sixth-grade team to win the state title for the\u0026nbsp;Verizon Innovative Learning app, creating a smartphone app that turns off text notifications when a car reaches more than five miles per hour.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIyer credits her middle school teachers for inspiring her to seek answers beyond what she found in her textbooks.\u0026nbsp;During the summer between eighth and ninth grade, Iyer watched YouTube videos to teach herself machine learning, appreciating the opportunity to use artificial intelligence to analyze data and make predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cMachine learning fascinates me because it holds so much potential,\u201d says Iyer. \u201cI\u0027ve always been interested in computer science, but machine learning opened my eyes to new possibilities and taught me that I can pay it forward through applied bioinformatics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn ninth grade, she emailed UAMS professors with a research idea incorporating medicine and computer science. Her outreach led to a post as an undergraduate researcher, helping create a computer algorithm to detect eye disease. While working on a diagnostic AI model for malignancy, she began collaborating with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFred Prior\u003C\/strong\u003E, the chair of Bioinformatics at UAMS, who became a valued mentor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cDr. Prior introduced me to the joys of research and how small changes can make a big difference in our world,\u201d says Iyer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EPrior assigned her to the team focusing on Parkinson\u2019s in her 11th grade year\u0026nbsp;\u2014 and she soon began taking on more of an active leadership role in the research. She spent the rest of high school juggling coursework with constructing code and drafting proposals to create the computer algorithm capable of detecting PD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgress and service\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIyer\u2019s desire to improve the world through research led her to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cOne thing that spoke to me is the Progress and Service motto,\u201d says Iyer. \u201cMy career goals include becoming an empathetic researcher focused on reducing healthcare disparities. Specifically, I hope to specialize in developing diagnostic tools that are affordable and available for underserved areas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAs lead co-author of the PD research study, Iyer spent much of her first year working with Prior and UAMS,\u0026nbsp;participating in Zoom calls every Saturday.\u0026nbsp;As a second-year,\u0026nbsp;Iyer intends to continue working with UAMS on PD and machine-learning research. She has also taken on a new role as multiple principal investigator for a study related to chronic back pain management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELainie Pomerleau,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewho taught Iyer\u2019s first-year English course, and is now an assistant professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia, helped Iyer prepare the PD paper for publication. \u201cAnu embodies Georgia Tech\u0027s mission to develop leaders who advance technology to improve the human condition,\u201d says Pomerleau.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EDespite her busy schedule, Iyer has immersed herself in the Georgia Tech community. She loves the climbing wall at the Campus Recreation Center and points to Cognitive Psychology as her favorite class. Iyer\u0026nbsp;considers\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/explorellc.cos.gatech.edu\/home\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EExplore\u003C\/a\u003E, the science-centered living and learning community, to be one of the highlights of her first year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI really enjoyed being a part of Explore, living with other students who prioritize science,\u201d says Iyer. \u201cIt was easy to make friends because we all had similar classes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn the spring of her first year, she was selected as a College of Sciences Ambassador, accompanying prospective students and their parents to science-related courses and answering their questions about\u0026nbsp;campus life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EShe plans to get more involved with researchers at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am a biology major, but one amazing thing about Georgia Tech is that there is a lot of encouragement to join labs outside of your major and pursue your interests,\u201d says Iyer. \u201cI\u2019d like to work in a Georgia Tech lab, particularly in neurology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELooking forward to her next few years at the Institute, she\u2019s excited about the possibilities ahead:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is well known for groundbreaking research,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to take advantage of Tech\u2019s many opportunities\u0026nbsp;\u2014 and fulfill my ultimate goal of making a positive impact in the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESecond-year biology student Anu Iyer\u2019s groundbreaking research is revolutionizing Parkinson\u2019s disease detection.\u0026nbsp;Through a three-second phone call, her team\u2019s machine-learning model can detect Parkinson\u2019s with 97 percent accuracy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Biology major Anu Iyer wants to make a positive difference in the world; 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speech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir study of language detection software found that algorithms struggle to differentiate anti-Asian violence-provoking speech from general hate speech. Left unchecked, threats of violence online can go unnoticed and turn into real-world attacks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from Georgia Tech and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) teamed together\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/claws-lab.github.io\/violence-provoking-speech\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ein the study\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. They made their discovery while testing natural language processing (NLP) models trained on data they crowdsourced from Asian communities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Covid-19 pandemic brought attention to how dangerous violence-provoking speech can be. There was a clear increase in reports of anti-Asian violence and hate crimes,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gaurav22verma.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGaurav Verma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech Ph.D. candidate who led the study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSuch speech is often amplified on social platforms, which in turn fuels anti-Asian sentiments and attacks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EViolence-provoking speech differs from more commonly studied forms of harmful speech, like hate speech. While hate speech denigrates or insults a group, violence-provoking speech implicitly or explicitly encourages violence against targeted communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHumans can define and characterize violent speech as a subset of hateful speech. However, computer models struggle to tell the difference due to subtle cues and implications in language.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested five different NLP classifiers and analyzed their F1 score, which measures a model\u0027s performance. The classifiers reported a 0.89 score for detecting hate speech, while detecting violence-provoking speech was only 0.69. This contrast highlights the notable gap between these tools and their accuracy and reliability.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study stresses the importance of developing more refined methods for detecting violence-provoking speech. Internet misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric escalate tensions that lead to real-world violence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Covid-19 pandemic exemplified how public health crises intensify this behavior, helping inspire the study. The group cited that anti-Asian crime across the U.S. increased by 339% in 2021 due to malicious content blaming Asians for the virus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers believe their findings show the effectiveness of community-centric approaches to problems dealing with harmful speech. These approaches would enable informed decision-making between policymakers, targeted communities, and developers of online platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with stronger models for detecting violence-provoking speech, the group discusses a direct solution: a tiered penalty system on online platforms. Tiered systems align penalties with severity of offenses, acting as both deterrent and intervention to different levels of harmful speech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe believe that we cannot tackle a problem that affects a community without involving people who are directly impacted,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jiaweizhou.me\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiawei Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student who studies human-centered computing at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy collaborating with experts and community members, we ensure our research builds on front-line efforts to combat violence-provoking speech while remaining rooted in real experiences and needs of the targeted community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers trained their tested NLP classifiers on a dataset crowdsourced from a survey of 120 participants who self-identified as Asian community members. In the survey, the participants labeled 1,000 posts from X (formerly Twitter) as containing either violence-provoking speech, hateful speech, or neither.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince characterizing violence-provoking speech is not universal, the researchers created a specialized codebook for survey participants. The participants studied the codebook before their survey and used an abridged version while labeling.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo create the codebook, the group used an initial set of anti-Asian keywords to scan posts on X from January 2020 to February 2023. This tactic yielded 420,000 posts containing harmful, anti-Asian language.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers then filtered the batch through new keywords and phrases. This refined the sample to 4,000 posts that potentially contained violence-provoking content. Keywords and phrases were added to the codebook while the filtered posts were used in the labeling survey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team used discussion and pilot testing to validate its codebook. During trial testing, pilots labeled 100 Twitter posts to ensure the sound design of the Asian community survey. The group also sent the codebook to the ADL for review and incorporated the organization\u2019s feedback.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the major challenges in studying violence-provoking content online is effective data collection and funneling down because most platforms actively moderate and remove overtly hateful and violent material,\u201d said Tech alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rynaagrover\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERynaa Grover\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (M.S. 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His expertise is in artificial intelligence, data mining, and online safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing and advises Zhou. Their research connects societal mental health and social media interactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech researchers partnered with the ADL, a leading non-governmental organization that combats real-world hate and extremism. ADL researchers\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/binny-mathew.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBinny Mathew\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.jordankraemer.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJordan Kraemer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E co-authored the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group will present its paper at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2024.aclweb.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ACL 2024), which takes place in Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 11-16\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EACL 2024 accepted 40 papers written by Georgia Tech researchers. 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high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cI am honored to receive this fellowship,\u201d says Berry. \u201cIn addition to the support for my Georgia Tech studies, I\u2019m especially excited to participate in the three-month practicum where I\u2019ll collaborate with leading DOE scientists.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAccording to the DOE, the practicum takes place at one of 21 DOE laboratories or sites across the country, offering the fellows insights into how their scientific interests can translate to research areas important to the nation.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Berry is a graduate research assistant for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESherrill Group\u003C\/a\u003E, spearheading research on using quantum mechanics and high-performance 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My current research focuses on accuracy\u2013modeling proteins with thousands of atoms to understand why some drugs work better than others,\u201d explains Berry. \u201cOne of the practicum benefits will be access to\u0026nbsp;the DOE\u2019s supercomputers. I\u2019m looking forward to learning how these incredible computers can help us further implement data-driven approaches to screen potential drug candidates (small molecules) even more rapidly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EThe fellowship is renewable for up to four years.\u0026nbsp;As of September 1, 2024, the DOE CSGF will have onboarded more than 675 students across 34 cohorts representing 84 Ph.D. institutions. There are a record 40 incoming fellows for 2024-2025, with Berry the sole recipient from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Izzy is an amazing student. She came to Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Chemistry and minors in computer science, applied math, and physics\u2014as well as research experience in computational biophysics,\u201d says\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/david-sherrill\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;David Sherrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E who oversees Berry\u2019s work. \u201cShe is exactly the kind of interdisciplinary student the DOE wants to recognize with their Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. 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However,\u0026nbsp;there are challenges for working people with disabilities that even a great salary can\u2019t overcome.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe envision a scenario in which people with disabilities can get into the workforce and provide for their needs,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cassie-S.-Mitchell\u0022\u003EMitchell\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuinn, one of Mitchell\u2019s former students, graduated in May with his master\u2019s in computer science. He was well-known on campus for the sign attached to the back of his wheelchair, which said \u201cTHWG\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u2014 or \u201cTo Hell With Georgia\u201d \u2014 a nod to the famous Georgia Tech-University of Georgia rivalry Quinn shares with his older sister, who attended UGA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe overall objective with this data-enabled study is to highlight the factors in academia and industry that have historically inhibited the successful inclusion of disabled people in STEM work,\u201d said Quinn, who took the lead role in this study, which will gather data from both non-disabled and disabled people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to get a\u0026nbsp;more complete picture of the current landscape, of the educational environment and the workplace,\u201d said Mitchell,\u0026nbsp;principal investigator of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cassie-mitchell-lab\/\u0022\u003ELaboratory for Pathology Dynamics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIncreasing the Sample Size\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study is part of the Science Leadership award Mitchell\u2019s lab received in October 2022. This program, supported by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/\u0022\u003EChan Zuckerberg Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E, supports early-career biomedical researchers who have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. The award includes a $1.15 million grant over five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMitchell, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/mitchell-captures-2-silver-medals-world-para-athletics-championships\u0022\u003Ean internationally recognized Paralympian\u003C\/a\u003E, developed a neurological condition as a teen that resulted in quadriplegia. She\u2019s always made it a point in her lab to include students from diverse backgrounds and disabilities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is almost no data out there about the inclusion of disabled people in the workforce, only tiny sample sizes,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cSo we wanted to go after a larger sample size. Because if we are not reaching appropriate inclusion \u2014 and the few existing studies show that we\u2019re not \u2014 then we want to know why.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EQuinn added, \u201cStable and high-paying careers in STEM fields seem like a viable option for people with disabilities to both achieve and maintain financial independence.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrappling With the Disability Tax\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor a person with significant disability, even a good-paying job may not be enough to offset the \u201cdisability tax.\u201d Quinn defines the tax as \u201cthe extra time and money that living with a disability takes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, some people need a monthly disability check to cover common living expenses. But often, a more valuable government benefit is a health plan that covers \u201cthe thousands of dollars per month in personal support and care services,\u201d Quinn explained. \u201cYou often only qualify for this if you\u2019re on government disability benefits and making less than a certain amount of money per month.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso, policies vary by state, so individuals can easily fall through the cracks due to the complexities of various programs. And private or employer-funded healthcare plans typically can\u2019t compete with government plans, which cover these expensive personal support services.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor many people with disabilities, it comes down to a choice between working or government-supported services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere doesn\u2019t seem to be a middle ground,\u201d said Mitchell, who estimates approximately 60% of her income supports her medical and disability needs. \u201cAnd that\u2019s after insurance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers hope their study provides momentum that will result in something close to full accessibility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis study will illuminate the challenges, even if it doesn\u2019t solve them,\u201d said Mitchell. \u201cAnd while we\u2019re focusing on STEM, this kind of study can be extrapolated to other fields as well. Whether you\u2019re in science or not, I think people understand we\u2019re asking important societal questions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_3vHF9UnjOl3bRhY\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETake the Survey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassie Mitchell and Robert Quinn are examining the factors that affect the inclusion of people with disabilities in STEM fields, aiming to understand the challenges they face with the ultimate goal of improving accessibility and financial independence for disabled individuals.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cassie Mitchell and Robert Quinn are examining the factors that affect the inclusion of people with disabilities in STEM fields, aiming to understand the challenges they face with the ultimate goal of improving accessibility and financial independence for"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2024-07-16 15:21:52","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 20:14:10","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674358":{"id":"674358","type":"image","title":"Trey Quinn and Cassie Mitchell","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobert \u0022Trey\u0022 Quinn and Cassie Mitchell have collaborated on a new study of disability in the STEM fields of work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1721142965","gmt_created":"2024-07-16 15:16:05","changed":"1721143133","gmt_changed":"2024-07-16 15:18:53","alt":"Trey Quinn and Cassie Mitchell","file":{"fid":"257860","name":"Trey and Cassie.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/16\/Trey%20and%20Cassie.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/07\/16\/Trey%20and%20Cassie.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4745408,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/07\/16\/Trey%20and%20Cassie.jpg?itok=szLqkbSn"}}},"media_ids":["674358"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Insights from the model could lead to personalized medicine, better brain-computer interfaces, and advances in neurotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group combined two current ML methods into their hybrid model called MRM-GP (Multi-Region Markovian Gaussian Process).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENeuroscientists who use MRM-GP learn more about communications and interactions within the brain. This in turn improves understanding of brain functions and disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cClinically, MRM-GP could enhance diagnostic tools and treatment monitoring by identifying and analyzing neural activity patterns linked to various brain disorders,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=qW4_NR4AAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EWeihan Li\u003C\/a\u003E, the study\u2019s lead researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNeuroscientists can leverage MRM-GP for its robust modeling capabilities and efficiency in handling large-scale brain data.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMRM-GP reveals where and how communication travels across brain regions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group tested MRM-GP using spike trains and local field potential recordings, two kinds of measurements of brain activity. These tests produced representations that illustrated directional flow of communication among brain regions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperiments also disentangled brainwaves, called oscillatory interactions, into organized frequency bands. MRM-GP\u2019s hybrid configuration allows it to model frequencies and phase delays within the latent space of neural recordings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMRM-GP combines the strengths of two existing methods: the Gaussian process (GP) and linear dynamical systems (LDS). The researchers say that MRM-GP is essentially an LDS that mirrors a GP.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELDS is a computationally efficient and cost-effective method, but it lacks the power to produce representations of the brain. GP-based approaches boost LDS\u0027s power, facilitating the discovery of variables in frequency bands and communication directions in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConverting GP outputs into an LDS is a difficult task in ML. The group overcame this challenge by instilling separability in the model\u2019s multi-region kernel. Separability establishes a connection between the kernel and LDS while modeling communication between brain regions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough this approach, MRM-GP overcomes two challenges facing both neuroscience and ML fields. The model helps solve the mystery of intraregional brain communication. It does so by bridging a gap between GP and LDS, a feat not previously accomplished in ML.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe introduction of MRM-GP provides a useful tool to model and understand complex brain region communications,\u201d said Li, a Ph.D. student in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis marks a significant advancement in both neuroscience and machine learning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFellow doctoral students\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/JerrySoybean\u0022\u003EChengrui Li\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/yulewang97\u0022\u003EYule Wang\u003C\/a\u003E co-authored the paper with Li. School of CSE Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/anqiwuresearch\u0022\u003EAnqi Wu\u003C\/a\u003E advises the group.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach MRM-GP student pursues a different\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/phd-programs\u0022\u003EPh.D. degree offered by the School of CSE\u003C\/a\u003E. W. Li studies computer science, C. Li studies computational science and engineering, and Wang studies machine learning. The school also offers Ph.D. degrees in bioinformatics and bioengineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWu is a 2023 recipient of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/anqi-wu-awarded-2023-sloan-research-fellowship\u0022\u003ESloan Research Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E for neuroscience research. Her work straddles two of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/research\u0022\u003ESchool\u2019s five research areas\u003C\/a\u003E: machine learning and computational bioscience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMRM-GP will be featured at the world\u2019s top conference on ML and artificial intelligence. The group will share their work at the International Conference on Machine Learning (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icml.cc\/\u0022\u003EICML 2024\u003C\/a\u003E), which will be held July 21-27 in Vienna.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EICML 2024 also accepted for presentation a second paper from Wu\u2019s group intersecting neuroscience and ML. The same authors will present\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2402.01263\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Differentiable Partially Observable Generalized Linear Model with Forward-Backward Message Passing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwenty-four Georgia Tech faculty from the Colleges of Computing and Engineering will present 40 papers at ICML 2024. Wu is one of six faculty representing the School of CSE who will present eight total papers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u2019s ICML 2024 presentations exemplify Georgia Tech\u2019s focus on neuroscience research as a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/strategic-initiatives\u0022\u003Estrategic initiative\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWu is an affiliated faculty member with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/18\/georgia-tech-launch-interdisciplinary-neurosciences-research-program\u0022\u003ENeuro Next Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, a new interdisciplinary program at Georgia Tech that will lead research in neuroscience, neurotechnology, and society. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents recently approved a new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/02\/georgia-tech-offer-phd-neuroscience-and-neurotechnology-new-minor\u0022\u003Eneuroscience and neurotechnology Ph.D. program\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPresenting papers at international conferences like ICML is crucial for our group to gain recognition and visibility, facilitates networking with other researchers and industry professionals, and offers valuable feedback for improving our work,\u201d Wu said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt allows us to share our findings, stay updated on the latest developments in the field, and enhance our professional development and public speaking skills.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVisit \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/icml-2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/icml-2024\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E for news and coverage of Georgia Tech research presented at ICML 2024.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new machine learning (ML) model created at Georgia Tech is helping neuroscientists better understand communications between brain regions. 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Greater customization from this research can lead to discovery of new drugs, materials, and other applications tailor-made for consumers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Tech group dubbed its method PRODIGY (PROjected DIffusion for controlled Graph Generation). PRODIGY enables diffusion models to generate 3D images of complex structures, such as molecules from chemical formulas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScientists in pharmacology, materials science, social network analysis, and other fields can use PRODIGY to simulate large-scale networks. By generating 3D molecules from multiple graph datasets, the group proved that PRODIGY could handle complex structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn keeping with its name, PRODIGY is the first plug-and-play machine learning (ML) approach to controllable graph generation in diffusion models. This method overcomes a known limitation inhibiting diffusion models from broad use in science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe hope PRODIGY enables drug designers and scientists to generate structures that meet their precise needs,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ksartik.github.io\/\u0022\u003EKartik Sharma\u003C\/a\u003E, lead researcher on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/prodigy-diffusion.github.io\/\u0022\u003Ethe project\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cIt should also inspire future innovations to precisely control modern generative models across domains.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPRODIGY works on diffusion models, a generative AI model for computer vision tasks. While suitable for image creation and denoising, diffusion methods are limited because they cannot accurately generate graph representations of custom parameters a user provides.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPRODIGY empowers any pre-trained diffusion model for graph generation to produce graphs that meet specific, user-given constraints. This capability means, as an example, that a drug designer could use any diffusion model to design a molecule with a specific number of atoms and bonds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group tested PRODIGY on two molecular and five generic datasets to generate custom 2D and 3D structures. This approach ensured the method could create such complex structures, accounting for the atoms, bonds, structures, and other properties at play in molecules.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMolecular generation experiments with PRODIGY directly impact chemistry, biology, pharmacology, materials science, and other fields. The researchers say PRODIGY has potential in other fields using large networks and datasets, such as social sciences and telecommunications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese features led to PRODIGY\u2019s acceptance for presentation at the upcoming International Conference on Machine Learning (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icml.cc\/\u0022\u003EICML 2024\u003C\/a\u003E). ICML 2024 is the leading international academic conference on ML. The conference is taking place July 21-27 in Vienna.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~skumar498\/\u0022\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E is Sharma\u2019s advisor and paper co-author. They worked with Tech alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.rtrivedi.me\/\u0022\u003ERakshit Trivedi\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS 2020), a Massachusetts Institute of Technology postdoctoral associate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwenty-four Georgia Tech faculty from the Colleges of Computing and Engineering will present 40 papers at ICML 2024. Kumar is one of six faculty representing the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESharma is a fourth-year Ph.D. student studying computer science. He researches ML models for structured data that are reliable and easily controlled by users. While preparing for ICML, Sharma has been interning this summer at Microsoft Research in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/research-for-industry\/overview\/\u0022\u003EResearch for Industry\u003C\/a\u003E lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cICML is the pioneering conference for machine learning,\u201d said Kumar. \u201cA strong presence at ICML from Georgia Tech illustrates the ground-breaking research conducted by our students and faculty, including those in my research group.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVisit \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/icml-2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/icml-2024\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E for news and coverage of Georgia Tech research presented at ICML 2024.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew research from Georgia Tech is giving scientists more control options over generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in their studies. 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Born out of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/manufacturing\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, the Georgia AIM (Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing) project works with PIN fellows to advance the project\u0027s mission of equitably developing and deploying talent and innovation in AI for manufacturing throughout the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen she accepted the PIN Fellowship for 2023, she saw an opportunity to learn more about the nexus of artificial intelligence, manufacturing, waste, and education. With a background in environmental studies and science, Baldwin studied methods for waste reduction, environmental protection, and science education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI took an interest in AI technology because I wanted to learn how it can be harnessed to solve the waste problem and create better science education opportunities for K-12 and higher education students,\u201d said Baldwin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis type of unique problem-solving is what defines the PIN Fellowship programs. Every year, a cohort of recent college graduates is selected, and each is paired with an industry that aligns with their expertise and career goals \u2014 specifically, cleantech, AI manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, and cybersecurity\/information technology. Fellowships are one year, with fellows spending six months with a private company and then six months with a public organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the experience, fellows expand their professional network and drive connections between the public and private sectors. They also use the opportunity to work on special projects that involve using new technologies in their area of interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith a focus on artificial intelligence in manufacturing, Baldwin led an inventory management project at the Georgia manufacturer Freudenberg-NOK, where the objective was to create an inventory management system that reduced manufacturing downtime and, as a result, increased efficiency, and reduced waste.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also worked in several capacities at Georgia Tech: supporting K-12 outreach programs at the Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility, assisting with energy research at the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center, and auditing the infamous mechanical engineering course ME2110 to improve her design thinking and engineering skills.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLearning about artificial intelligence is a process, and the knowledge gained was worth the academic adventure,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause of the 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Emily is excited to teach young students from another culture and looks forward to fostering empathetic listening skills. With the ultimate goal of attending medical school, Emily explains, \u201cTeaching may seem distant from the field of medicine, but teaching plays a large part in patient care. I aspire to develop into a healthcare professional capable of comprehending and addressing the diverse needs of those under my care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECLAIRE LIN\u003C\/strong\u003E, B.S. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, 2023, English Teaching Assistant, Taiwan. One of Claire\u2019s life goals is to bring accessibility to underserved areas around the globe. She explains, \u201cI have yearned to connect with communities through cultural immersion and direct communication to address the root causes of disparities in healthcare and education.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 2,000 Fulbright U.S. Students\u2014recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals from all backgrounds\u2014pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English in schools abroad each year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFulbright is a program of the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which has operated in over 160 countries worldwide.\u0026nbsp; In the United States, the Institute of International Education implements the Fulbright U.S. Student and U.S. Scholar Programs on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fulbrightprogram.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttps:\/\/fulbrightprogram.org\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Prestigious Fellowships Advisor Dr. Karen Mura sees the Fulbright program as an opportunity for recipients to connect with the world as they advance their personal goals and growth. \u0022The Fulbright program is a tremendous opportunity for our students to broaden their horizons and gain valuable experience in their fields of study,\u0022 she said. \u0022We are incredibly proud of our five recipients for their hard work and dedication, and we look forward to seeing how they will contribute to their host communities while representing Georgia Tech and the United States.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Undergraduate Education is proud of these talented students and wishes them the best of luck as they embark on their Fulbright journeys.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents interested in Fulbright, or any nationally or internationally competitive award, can follow up by contacting Shannon Dobranski at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: shannon.dobranski@gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eshannon.dobranski@gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pgpp.oue.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPre-Graduate and Pre-Professional Advising\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.success.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAcademic Success and Advising (ASA)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oue.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOffice of Undergraduate Education (OUE).\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences graduate Anisha Kanukolanu is among the Georgia Tech students and alumni who have received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to study\/conduct research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"College of Sciences graduate Anisha Kanukolanu is among the Georgia Tech students and alumni who have received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to study\/conduct research."}],"uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-06-13 20:09:25","changed_gmt":"2024-06-17 21:16:41","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674179":{"id":"674179","type":"image","title":"Anisha Kanukolanu","body":null,"created":"1718309474","gmt_created":"2024-06-13 20:11:14","changed":"1718309474","gmt_changed":"2024-06-13 20:11:14","alt":"Anisha Kanukolanu","file":{"fid":"257660","name":"IMG_7063.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/13\/IMG_7063.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/13\/IMG_7063.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1181821,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/13\/IMG_7063.jpg?itok=mNkJB-nC"}},"674180":{"id":"674180","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Fulbright Scholars (2024-2025)","body":null,"created":"1718309538","gmt_created":"2024-06-13 20:12:18","changed":"1718309538","gmt_changed":"2024-06-13 20:12:18","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Fulbright Scholars (2024-2025)","file":{"fid":"257661","name":"2024-2025 Fulbright Scholars Web (2)-2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/13\/2024-2025%20Fulbright%20Scholars%20Web%20%282%29-2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/13\/2024-2025%20Fulbright%20Scholars%20Web%20%282%29-2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":906967,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/13\/2024-2025%20Fulbright%20Scholars%20Web%20%282%29-2.png?itok=mjZKPniz"}}},"media_ids":["674179","674180"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/urop.gatech.edu\/researcher-profiles\/anisha-kanukolanu","title":"Undergraduate research profiles: Anisha Kanukolanu"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"193157","name":"Student Honors and Achievements"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"174813","name":"B.S. 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Co-advised by ISyE professors, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/lauren-steimle\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELauren Steimle\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/gian-gabriel-garcia\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGian-Gabriel Garcia\u003C\/a\u003E, McNealey has worked with them to develop models that aim to understand and mitigate biases in healthcare algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the ERN Conference in STEM, McNealey\u2019s research analyzed the potential for algorithmic bias in clinical decision support, particularly within the realm of maternal health disparities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough her work, McNealey sheds light on the critical need for comprehensive solutions to mitigate biases perpetuated by machine learning (ML) algorithms.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENationwide and particularly in Georgia, there\u2019s been a sharp increase in maternal adverse outcomes for Black and Hispanic women, in which her research investigates the racial disparities. 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When we create our ML models, typically the first thing we look at is accuracy, but we do not regularly investigate the downstream effects or decisions that are made as a result of the model.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn collaboration with Emory University, McNealey has gained insight into how these models are used in practice which has allowed her to consider how this impacts her work and additionally the community at hand.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELeaning on recent advances in algorithmic fairness, Amaya challenges conventional approaches by highlighting the limitations of merely removing race indicators from ML models.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy advocating for holistic solutions, she is already paving the way for meaningful progress towards impartial practices in ML research.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this type of work, we don\u2019t see it just in healthcare, we see it in loan applications, criminal recidivism\u2026 I think this can be very impactful for a lot of different communities and applications.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELooking ahead, McNealey envisions a future where accessible tools and metrics empower stakeholders to detect, justify, and mitigate biases effectively.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer award-winning presentation exemplifies inclusive excellence and leads the next generation to the new era of shaping diverse perspectives on comprehensive equity in ML research. 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Ask a robot to do the same, and you may get numerous responses, depending on how the robot is trained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince humans often associate objects in a home with the room they are in, Naoki Yokoyama thinks robots that navigate human environments to perform assistive tasks should mimic that reasoning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoboticists have employed natural language models to help robots mimic human reasoning over the past few years. However, Yokoyama, a Ph.D. student in robotics, said these models create a \u201cbottleneck\u201d that prevents agents from picking up on visual cues such as room type, size, d\u00e9cor, and lighting.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama presented a new framework for semantic reasoning at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/conferences-workshops\/fully-sponsored\/icra\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ICRA) last month in Yokohama, Japan. 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Yokoyama authored the paper while interning at the Boston Dynamics\u2019 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theaiinstitute.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think the cognitive robotic category represents a significant portion of submissions to ICRA nowadays,\u201d said Yokoyama, whose family is from Japan. \u201cI\u2019m grateful that our work is being recognized among the best in this field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead of natural language models, Yokoyama used a renowned vision-language model called BLIP-2 and tested it on a Boston Dynamics \u201cSpot\u201d robot in home and office environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe rely on models that have been trained on vast amounts of data collected from the web,\u201d Yokoyama said. \u201cThat allows us to use models with common sense reasoning and world knowledge. It\u2019s not limited to a typical robot learning environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is Blip-2?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBLIP-2 matches images to text by assigning a score that evaluates how well the user input text describes the content of an image. The model removes the need for the robot to use object detectors and language models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInstead, the robot uses BLIP-2 to extract semantic values from RGB images with a text prompt that includes the target object.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBLIP-2 then teaches the robot to recognize the room type, distinguishing the living room from the bathroom and the kitchen. The robot learns to associate certain objects with specific rooms where it will likely find them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom here, the robot creates a value map to determine the most likely locations for a target object, Yokoyama said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama said this is a step forward for intelligent home assistive robots, enabling users to find objects \u2014 like missing keys \u2014 in their homes without knowing an item\u2019s location.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a pair of scissors, the robot can automatically figure out it should head to the kitchen or the office,\u201d he said. \u201cEven if the scissors are in an unusual place, it uses semantic reasoning to work through each room from most probable location to least likely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe added that the benefit of using a VLM instead of an object detector is that the robot will include visual cues in its reasoning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can look at a room in an apartment, and there are so many things an object detector wouldn\u2019t tell you about that room that would be informative,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to limit yourself to a textual description or a list of object classes because you\u2019re missing many semantic visual cues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile other VLMs exist, Yokoyama chose BLIP-2 because the model:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAccepts any text length and isn\u2019t limited to a small set of objects or categories.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAllows the robot to be pre-trained on vast amounts of data collected from the internet.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHas proven results that enable accurate image-to-text matching.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHome, Office, and Beyond\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama also tested the Spot robot to navigate a more challenging office environment. Office spaces tend to be more homogenous and harder to distinguish from one another than rooms in a home.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe showed a few cases in which the robot will still work,\u201d Yokoyama said. \u201cWe tell it to find a microwave, and it searches for the kitchen. We tell it to find a potted plant, and it moves toward an area with windows because, based on what it knows from BLIP-2, that\u2019s the most likely place to find the plant.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama said as VLM models continue to improve, so will robot navigation. The increase in the number of VLM models has caused robot navigation to steer away from traditional physical simulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt shows how important it is to keep an eye on the work being done in computer vision and natural language processing for getting robots to perform tasks more efficiently,\u201d he said. \u201cThe current research direction in robot learning is moving toward more intelligent and higher-level reasoning. These foundation models are going to play a key role in that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETop photo by Kevin Beasley\/College of Computing.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERoboticists have employed natural language models to help robots mimic human reasoning over the past few years. However, Yokoyama, a Ph.D. student in robotics, said these models create a \u201cbottleneck\u201d that prevents agents from picking up on visual cues such as room type, size, d\u00e9cor, and lighting.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama presented a new framework for semantic reasoning at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/conferences-workshops\/fully-sponsored\/icra\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (ICRA) last month in Yokohama, Japan. ICRA is the world\u2019s largest robotics conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYokoyama earned a best paper award in the Cognitive Robotics category with his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/naoki.io\/portfolio\/vlfm\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVision-Language Frontier Maps (VLFM) proposal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yokoyama presented a new framework for semantic reasoning for robots at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, where he won best paper in the Cognitive Robotics category."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-06-06 14:26:46","changed_gmt":"2024-06-06 14:40:32","author":"Nathan 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more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough the workshops, students learned to navigate new methods of research that involve data analysis and computational aspects of disciplines like chemistry and biology \u2014 as well as communicate connections across concepts like group theory, topology, combinatorics, and number theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, the NSF REU programs across the College\u2019s six Schools of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EChemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEarth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPhysics\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPsychology\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/academics\/degrees\/bachelors\/neuroscience-bs\u0022\u003EUndergraduate Neuroscience Program\u003C\/a\u003E, allowed early-year students to get their first taste of in-depth research with unique expertise and equipment available at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther students took advantage of special fellowships to attend summer conferences in their chosen disciplines, where they networked with fellow young scientists and mathematicians while soaking up knowledge from peers and mentors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHere\u2019s a roundup of some of the 2022 summer undergraduate student research programs and events led by the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/stacc-workshop\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Summer Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (STACC) Workshop\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduates eager to try calculations in areas such as quantum dynamics, electronic structure theory, and classical molecular dynamics \u2014 and who want to know more about new data science and machine learning tools \u2014 got their chance during this two-week early summer computational chemistry workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTheoretical and computational studies provide a necessary complement to experimental investigations because they are able to obtain the atomistic level of detail that is near impossible to probe with experiment,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-kretchmer\u0022\u003EJoshua Kretchmer\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is becoming more and more routine to use these techniques, even outside of pure theory research groups, as computers have become more powerful and more easy-to-use software is being developed to perform these calculations,\u201d Kretchmer said. \u201cIt is thus important for students to be exposed to these techniques early on in their undergraduate education so they have a basic understanding of how and when the slew of different computational techniques are best utilized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2022 was the first year for the STACC Workshop, and Kretchmer added that the students \u201cseem to be engaged and excited by the material, both in terms of learning the technical skills necessary to utilize high-performance computers and the unique aspects that can be learned about chemical systems from computer simulations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose thoughts were echoed by University of South Florida student Nicholas Giunto. \u201cAfter simulating and calculating these various processes, I realized how theoretical chemistry can do so much more than just simulate these scenarios. This technique of chemistry can be used in many other fields of science as well,\u201d Giunto said. \u201cThis workshop has broadened my perspective of chemistry, and taught me a whole new field of science that is innovative and prudent.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, check out the STACC website \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/stacc-workshop\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESummer College Research Internship\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThanks to a grant from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sutherlandchair.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBetsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Dean\u2019s Chair\u003C\/a\u003E, community college students in Georgia were paired up with a Georgia Tech College of Sciences lab \u2014 at no cost to the students \u2014 for the inaugural \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scri.cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESummer College Research Internship (SCRI)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for SCRI grew from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shania.khatri.io\/\u0022\u003EShania Khatri\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E experiences conducting research for the first time. Khatri, a fourth-year Biological Sciences major scheduled to graduate in December 2022, began research in high school through a program at a local university that placed students, especially those historically underrepresented in STEM, in labs to complete their own summer research projects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI felt firsthand how important mentorship was in building confidence in STEM, promoting belonging, and ultimately influencing my decision to pursue higher education and research,\u201d Khatri said. \u201cResearch shows that students who complete high school and undergraduate programs are more likely to pursue STEM majors and consider doctoral degrees, underscoring that mentorship early in careers can improve achievement and retention of these students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESCRI students helped design experiments, collected and analyzed data, and presented the results of their work. They worked closely with their Ph.D. student mentors, learning from them as well as the broader community of their host labs. They also heard weekly lectures from College of Science faculty as they learned about the broader research environment at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe accepted students have strong scholastic potential, and we hope that we can excite them about the research happening at Georgia Tech and potentially recruit them to join our programs, either as transfer students or future graduate students,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences Program\u003C\/a\u003E. Ratcliff also co-leads the SCRI with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/todd-streelman\u0022\u003ETodd Streelman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the School of Biological Sciences at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree students from two-year community college programs in Georgia were chosen for the inaugural SCRI, Ratcliff said. With diverse interests, all three researched in labs within the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile this was not part of our review criteria, two of the three students are members of groups that are underrepresented in science according to National Institutes of Health criteria, so this is a great opportunity to broaden participation in academic research,\u201d Ratcliff added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen discussing diversity in STEM and retention of underrepresented minorities, community college students should be at the forefront of the discussion,\u201d Khatri said. \u201cIt is my hope that through this program the students will gain confidence in their own abilities, and learn skills of science communication, data analysis, critical thinking, collaborative work, and problem solving that will aid them in any career path.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore information on the Summer College Research Internship\u0026nbsp;is available \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scri.cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChild Lab Day\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChild Lab Day is the capstone assignment for students in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E course \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oscar.gatech.edu\/pls\/bprod\/bwckctlg.p_disp_course_detail?cat_term_in=202102\u0026amp;subj_code_in=PSYC\u0026amp;crse_numb_in=2103\u0022\u003EPSYC 2103 Human Development\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/christopher-stanzione\u0022\u003EChristopher Stanzione\u003C\/a\u003E, senior lecturer and associate chair for undergraduate studies for the School, said his students conducted cognitive, language, and conceptual assessments in June on children ranging in age from four months to nine years old.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a great applied experience for the Georgia Tech students,\u201d Stanzione said. \u201cAll semester we study these concepts, but to see development in action is special. They\u2019ll likely see the gradual change between concepts by administering the assessments to kids of different ages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first Child Lab Day was in 2019. This summer, students majoring in psychology, biomedical engineering, computer science, biology, neuroscience, and economics took part in this second one. \u201cThey loved it,\u201d Stanzione said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENational Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REUs)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time, this year all six schools across the College of Sciences \u2014 plus the Neuroscience program at Tech \u2014 led Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a National Science Foundation initiative.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach student was associated with a specific research project, and worked closely with school faculty and other researchers. Students were given stipends and, in many cases, assistance with housing and travel to help cover the experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince most of the undergraduate participants are recruited from institutions that do not have extensive research infrastructure, the immersive research experience available to them in these programs can be transformational,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/david-collard\u0022\u003EDavid Collard\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and senior associate dean in the College, who previously led the REU program in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry for more than a decade.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA measure of success of the REU programs in the College of Sciences is that many of the undergraduate participants subsequently go on to complete their Ph.D., some at Georgia Tech, and others elsewhere,\u201d Collard added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe following are the details for each College of Sciences school\u2019s REU program. Learn more about future Summer Research Programs for Undergraduates \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/gtcosreuprograms\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences REU:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/easreu.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Broadening Participation in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Geosciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking under the supervision of a School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) faculty member, participants focused on a single research project, but also gained a broad perspective on research in Earth and atmospheric sciences by participating in the dynamic research environment. This interdisciplinary REU program had projects ranging from planetary science to meteorology to oceanography. In addition to full time research, undergraduate researchers participated in a number of professional development activities, seminars with faculty and research scientists, presentation and research poster symposiums, and social activities with other summer REU students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchools of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering REU:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reu.biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAquatic Chemical Ecology (ACE) at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Aquatic Chemical Ecology REU gave students the opportunity to perform research with faculty from five Georgia Tech schools.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents participated in research with one or more faculty members, learned about careers in science and engineering, and saw how scientists blend knowledge and skills from physics, chemistry, and biology to investigate some of the most challenging problems in environmental sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis was the first REU experience for Jenn Newlon, a rising senior at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/uncw.edu\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington\u003C\/a\u003E. In fact, \u201cI\u2019d actually never heard of an REU before I came here,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a really good experience. I never really saw this side of research in my institution. While I did get to do undergraduate research, it was more of, \u2018do this in a lab, this is what happens.\u2019 I had to present my findings every week to my PI (principal investigator), who gave really good feedback. And all the people in my lab were really kind and helpful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchools of Psychology, Biological Sciences REU:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reu.neuroscience.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeuroscience Research Experience for Undergraduates\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first week of the inaugural Neuroscience\/Psychology REU was a Neuroscience Bootcamp, where students engaged in hands-on activities to learn about brain anatomy, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), encephalography, and other techniques.\u0026nbsp; Then the student researchers spent time working on projects in the laboratories of mentors in either the School of Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, or with researchers at Georgia State University. They also attended professional development and social activities with other REU students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is tremendous interest in neuroscience, and we have seen an incredible expansion of technology in our ability to record from the human nervous system,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/Lewis-Wheaton\u0022\u003ELewis Wheaton\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and co-director of the Neuroscience\/Psychology REU.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAt the same time, many students do not have access to these technologies at their academic institutions because of expense,\u201d Wheaton said. \u201cWe feel that it is vital to ensure that students who do not have access to these technologies at their universities get exposure to the tools and approaches to understand the human brain. I am excited to further focus on providing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities to engage in this research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA unique feature of the Neuroscience REU program is that it allows some students to come back for a two-year experience, \u201cwhich can really provide a great opportunity to enhance their research, and put these students in a stronger position to advance their careers,\u201d Wheaton added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is also great that we can show them the research and educational environment at Georgia Tech and in the broader Atlanta area,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/eric-schumacher\u0022\u003EEric Schumacher,\u003C\/a\u003E professor in the School of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience\/Psychology REU. \u201cThis is an opportune time to showcase our two schools and the Institute, given that both schools are working with the College and Institute to offer a cross-disciplinary Neuroscience Ph.D. program soon.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat was the impression that Alexa Toliver came away with. The fourth year student at Arizona State University is majoring in neurobiology, \u201cbut I always wanted to do neuroscience research,\u201d she said during the recent REUs poster session at the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building. \u201cIt was a little new, but it was a great opportunity and I never felt uncomfortable with any of the topics. This was the only neuroscience REU that I could find, and I applied to it and I got it, so I was excited.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics REU:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physicsreu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Broadening Participation in Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking under the supervision of a physics faculty member, participants focused on a single research project but also gained a broad perspective on research in physics by participating in the dynamic research environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAvailable projects for the REU spanned the field of physics ranging from quantum materials, quantum simulation\/sensing, astrophysics, physics of living systems, and non-linear dynamics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to full time research, undergraduate researchers participated in a number of professional development seminars, research horizon lunches, and social activities with other summer REU students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrendan D\u2019Aquino, a rising senior at Northeastern University in Boston, had planned to use his computer science background to get an industry job after graduation. 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Working with his advisor, Assistant Professor Srijan Kumar, Verma expects to ensure safety, equity, and well-being by creating multimodal learning and natural language processing approaches to achieve better human-AI interactions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpmorgan.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/research-awards\/phd-fellowship-2023\/yuxi-wu\u0022\u003EWu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Ph.D. candidate in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. Empowering people regarding their privacy concerns is at the core of her research. Wu examines how cross-sector, collective action systems could better support end-user privacy. Professor Keith Edwards and Adjunct Assistant Professor Sauvik Das advise Wu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s inspiring to see our students and their work being honored with these prestigious fellowships,\u0022 said Irfan Essa, computer science professor and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech continues to lead in AI education and research. These fellowships for Gaurav and Yuxi are evidence that we\u0027re continuing to move in the right direction.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVerma and Wu are part of a spectrum of AI research spanning Georgia Tech. To unite this broad community and ensure it continues moving in the right direction, the Institute recently established\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/06\/ai-hub-georgia-tech-unite-campus-artificial-intelligence-rd-and-commercialization\u0022\u003EAI Hub at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022AI has a deep history at Georgia Tech, and we continue to serve as leaders in many areas of AI research and education,\u0022 said Essa, interim co-director of AI Hub at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Bringing all areas of AI under one umbrella, AI Hub at Georgia Tech will provide structure and governance as the Institute continues to lead and innovate in the burgeoning discipline of AI.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech Ph.D. students are being recognized for their innovative research with J.P. 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This vulnerability allows potential access to Instagram login credentials, Gmail inboxes, and YouTube watch histories, as Kim demonstrated last month on a slightly older MacBook Pro.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EA remote attacker can deploy iLeakage by hosting a malicious webpage they control, and a target just needs to visit that webpage,\u201d said Kim. \u201cBecause Safari does not properly isolate webpages from different origins, the attacker\u0027s webpage is able to coerce Safari to put the target webpage in the same address space. The attacker can use speculative execution to subsequently read arbitrary secrets from the target page.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow is this possible? Well, as manufacturers developed faster and more efficient CPUs, their devices have become vulnerable to something called speculative execution attacks. This vulnerability is in the design of the chip itself. It has led to major software issues since the Spectre attack was reported in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere have been many attempts to stop these types of attacks, but Kim and Genkin show through their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/architecture.fail\/\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that more work still needs to be done.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201ciLeakage shows these attacks are still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly six years of Spectre mitigation efforts following its discovery,\u201d said Genkin. \u201cSpectre attacks coerce CPUs into speculatively executing the wrong flow of instructions. We have found that this can be used in several different environments, including Google Chrome and Safari.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team made Apple aware of its findings on Sept. 12, 2022. Since then, the tech company has issued mitigation for iLeakage in Safari. However, the researchers note that the update was not initially enabled by default. It was only compatible with macOS Ventura 13.0 and higher as of today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo far, the team does not have evidence that real-world cyber-attackers have used iLeakage. They\u2018ve determined that iLeakage is a significantly difficult attack to orchestrate end-to-end, requiring advanced knowledge of browser-based side-channel attacks and Safari\u0027s implementation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe vulnerability is confined to the Safari web browser on macOS because the exploit leverages peculiarities unique to Safari\u0027s JavaScript engine. However, iOS users face a different situation due to the sandboxing policies on Apple\u0027s App Store. The policies require other browser apps using iOS to use Safari\u0027s JavaScript engine, making nearly every browser application listed on the App Store vulnerable to iLeakage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ileakage.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EiLeakage: Browser-based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will be published at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2023\/index.html\u0022\u003E2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;later this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong with Kim and Genkin,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EStephan van Schaik\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the University of Michigan and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EYuval Yarom\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Ruhr University Bochum co-authored the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech cybersecurity and privacy researchers have uncovered a significant threat that exploits a vulnerability in the Safari web browser. 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The awarded fellowships are for the amount of $12,000 each. The four students are Gil Malengreaux, Angela Moore, Kiara Moore, and Krithika Srinivasan. In addition to the fellowship, the students receive priority for paid summer internships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreference for the fellowships is given to students choosing the new Systems Design track, which incorporates two courses from mechanical engineering \u2013 robotics and mechatronics, in addition to a new ISyE course on supply chain systems design. The purpose of the track is to prepare students for roles in supply chain facilities\u0027 engineering and design, as well as a broader range of supply chain systems design roles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPriority is also given to underrepresented minorities and female students. Amazon is supporting ISyE and the SCL to reach out to students in transfer programs with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or schools that are otherwise are majority minority.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Fellowship Recipients\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGil Malengreaux\u003C\/strong\u003E, who hails from Belgium, did both his undergraduate \u2013 in electromechanical engineering \u2013 and master\u0027s work \u2013 in industrial engineering and operations research (IEOR) \u2013 at Ghent University. He is in ISyE\u0027s in the Master of Supply Chain Engineering (MS SCE) program on a Fulbright scholarship to the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMalengreaux said that he chose the supply chain engineering program because ISyE has one of the top programs internationally. \u0022With a generic, broad master\u0027s degree in IEOR, I wanted to learn how I can apply these techniques within a supply chain setting,\u0022 he explained. \u0022My IEOR background provides me a multidisciplinary view on businesses and industry, but I believe that there\u0027s so much exciting innovation in the world of logistics and fulfilment, that highly specialized profiles are indispensable to optimize these systems, and make them more efficient, durable, and sustainable. The sustainability aspect is what really interests me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Moore\u003C\/strong\u003E completed her bachelor\u0027s degree in industrial engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m fascinated by the interconnectivity of complex systems within the global supply chain,\u0022 Moore said. \u0022From my experience in production, inventory management, system implementation, and procurement, I\u0027ve seen how a small decision in one department can have a large impact on the entire system. I\u0027d like to use my industry experience with the supply chain engineering curriculum to help strategically plan out future supply chain systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When I graduate from the MS SCE program, I want design innovative supply chain systems that reduce waste while being agile and responsive. I\u0027d like to work with a group of people that are interested in challenging current processes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKiara Moore\u003C\/strong\u003E received her bachelor\u0027s degree in computer science with a mathematics minor from Atlanta, GA\u0027s Spelman College. Spelman is an all-women\u0027s college and the No. 1-ranked HBCU.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe selected Georgia Tech for her master\u0027s degree because \u0022it has been a dream school for me. Georgia Tech is known for educating some of the top professionals in the industry. Not only is Tech ranked highly for engineering, ISyE is the No. 1 school in its field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Further,\u0022 she noted, \u0022ISyE offers programs that partner with different companies to provide real-world experience. Without hesitation I knew Tech and ISyE would be the best choice for me.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing this dream education experience, Moore\u0027s dream job will be working on the business side of supply chain engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKrithika Srinivasan\u003C\/strong\u003E comes to ISyE from India, where she received her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). Srinivasan said that \u0022VIT is known worldwide for its cosmopolitan atmosphere and its beautiful campus. I enjoyed my four years there, where I made the best of friends and worked with some of the best faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I believe supply chain engineering plays an important role in any industry, as it involves optimization of processes, customer satisfaction, and employee welfare,\u0022 she explained. \u0022It is central to the holistic development of a company, as well as the idea that a small, seemingly insignificant change can change the fortunes of a company. Also, any supply chain connects people around the world, giving it a global reach that enriches numerous cultures.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer dream job, she says, \u0022is one that would let me be creative and provide solutions to problems that would result in the satisfaction of the end user. Supply chain engineering brings together my passion for engineering as well as my problem solving skills, and I hope to help as many people as I can.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on ISyE\u0027s MS SCE program, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/academics\/masters\/supply-chain-engineering\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/academics\/masters\/supply-chain-engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor questions or if you are interested in applying for an Amazon Fellowship, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/outreach\/amazonfellow\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/outreach\/amazonfellow\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE and the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u0026nbsp; are proud to announce that the first four students have been selected as Amazon Masters of Science in Supply Chain Engineering Supply Chain Systems Design Track Fellows. 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task\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u201d was published in \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E earlier this year, and it investigates brain activity via fMRI during periods of deep focus and less-focused work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe work is the first to investigate low-frequency fluctuations between different networks in the brain during focus, and could act as a springboard to study more complex behaviors and focus states.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cYour brain is dynamic! Nothing is just on or off,\u201d Seeburger explains. \u201cThis is the phenomenon we wanted to study. How does one get into the zone? Why is it that some people can sustain their attention better than others? Is this something that can be trained? If so, can we help people get better at it?\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe dynamic brain\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe team\u2019s work is also the first to study the relationship between fluctuations in attention and the brain network patterns within these low-frequency 20-second cycles. \u201cFor quite a while, the studies on neural oscillations focused on faster temporal frequencies, and the appreciation of these very low-frequency oscillations is relatively new,\u201d Seeburger says. \u201cBut, these low-frequency fluctuations may play a key role in regulating higher cognition such as sustained attention.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOne of the things we\u0027ve discovered in previous research is that there\u0027s a natural fluctuation in activity in certain brain networks. When a subject is not doing a specific task while in the MRI scanner, we see that fluctuation happen roughly every 20 seconds,\u201d adds co-author Schumacher, explaining that the team was interested in the pattern because it is quasi-periodic, meaning that it doesn\u2019t repeat exactly every 20 seconds, and it varies between different trials and subjects.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBy studying these quasi-periodic cycles, the team hoped to measure the relationship between the brain fluctuation in these networks and the behavioral fluctuation associated with changes in attention.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EYour attention needed\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETo measure attention, participants tapped along to a metronome while in an fMRI scanner. The team could measure how \u201cin the zone\u201d participants were by measuring how much variability was in each participant\u2019s taps \u2014 more variability suggested the participant was less focused, while precise tapping suggested the participant was \u201cin the zone.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe researchers found that when a subject\u2019s focus level changed, different regions of the brain synchronized and desychronized, in particular the fronto-parietal control network (FPCN) and default mode network (DMN), The FPCN is engaged when a person is trying to stay on task, whereas the DMN is correlated with internally-oriented thoughts (which a participant might be having when less focused). \u201cWhen one is out-of-the-zone, these two networks synchronize, and are in phase in the low frequency,\u201d Seeburger explains. \u201cWhen one is in the zone, these networks desynchronize.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe results suggest that the 20-second patterns could help predict if a person is sustaining their attention or not, and could provide key insight for researchers developing tools and techniques that help us deeply focus.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe big picture\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhile the direct relationship between behavior and brain activity is still unknown, these 20-second patterns in brain fluctuation are seen universally, and across species. \u201cIf you put someone in a scanner and their mind is wandering, you find these fluctuations. You can find these quasi-period patterns in rodents. You can find it in primates,\u201d Schumacher says. \u201cThere\u0027s something fundamental about this brain network activity.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI think it answers a really fundamental question about the relationship between behavior and brain activity,\u201d he adds. \u201cUnderstanding how these brain networks work together and impact behavior could lead to new therapies to help people organize their brain networks in the most efficient way.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAnd while this simple task might not investigate complex behaviors, the study could act as a springboard to move into more complicated behaviors and focus states. \u201cNext, I would like to study sustained attention in a more naturalistic way,\u201d Seeburger says. \u201cI hope that we can further the understanding of attention and help people get a better handle on their ability to control, sustain, and increase it.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDOI: \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01156-1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13415-024-01156-1\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA team of Georgia Tech \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Eresearchers\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is the first to study the relationship between fluctuations in attention and the brain network patterns within low-frequency 20-second cycles. They found that synchronized and desynchronized activity in different brain networks across 20-second cycles corresponds to small shifts in attention levels. The research may have applications for therapeutic treatments and could be a springboard for future innovation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of Georgia Tech researchers is the first to study the relationship between fluctuations in attention and the brain network patterns within low-frequency 20-second cycles. 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These multifaceted facilities convert biomass into biofuels, biochemicals, and bioproducts; foster a circular economy; and reduce reliance on fossil fuels \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ewhile promoting environmentally friendly industrial practices.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Renewable Bioproducts Institute (\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/rbi\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERBI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E) at Georgia Tech recently hosted a workshop on the Emerging Bioeconomy and the Future of Biorefining. The event cultivated new partnerships as more than 75 attendees from academia, national laboratories, and industry shared and learned about the cutting-edge developments in the emerging field.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/j-carson-meredith\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarson Meredith\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, executive director of RBI, said, \u201cT\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehe workshop provided an immersive experience for the attendees with access to knowledge, opportunities to network, and a platform for collaboration to positively impact their understanding and involvement in this rapidly evolving field. I saw a lot of human connections being made, a lot of people shaking hands, and having conversations off to the side. That\u2019s exactly why we hold such workshops \u2014 to exchange ideas within the Institute as well as between researchers in universities, industry, and national labs.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe program started with a keynote by \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/egr.vcu.edu\/directory\/b.frank.gupton\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EB. Frank Gupton\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, professor of chemical and life science engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, on creating resilient national supply chains for essential medicines and the need for waste reduction through process chemistry improvements to reduce the carbon footprint in the pharmaceutical industry. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EVarious presentations from RBI\u2019s research faculty demonstrated the depth of research in the field of bioeconomy and biorefineries. Topics included integrated biorefining processes by multicomponent separations and catalytic conversion, lignin-derived phenol as the new platform of biorefineries, catalytic conversion of organic acids, data-driven biorefinery process control, hot topics in lifecycle assessment, and more. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA highlight of the annual workshop was the student poster session that showcased the diversity of research happening in the renewable bioproducts field. Over 25 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/students\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERBI Fellows\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E spanning chemical and biomolecular engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and chemistry and biochemistry presented their research to a highly engaged audience. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAndreas Villegas, president of the Georgia Forestry Association and the dinner keynote speaker, addressed the need for educating the community about working forests and their potential to create carbon-neutral products and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 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IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)\u0026nbsp;International Conference on Body Sensor Networks:\u0026nbsp;Sensor and Systems for Digital Health\u0026nbsp;(IEEE BSN 2023)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe work centers on wearable joint health monitoring through acoustical sensing. It presents a miniaturized, fully digital sensing system designed for convenient attachment to the knee using adhesive. The system offers potential applications in streamlined data collection for monitoring athletes and individuals with joint disorders, as well as future prospects for decentralized digital clinical trials.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe paper was\u0026nbsp;first authored by Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Nikbakht and senior authored by Inan.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe KneeMS system that Mohammad has built is a noteworthy step forward in wearable health monitoring,\u201d said Inan. \u201cIt not only signifies progress in monitoring joint health but also hints at potential shifts in how we conduct clinical trials and approach treatments and therapies.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENikbakht and Inan were presented the award at IEEE BSN 2023 on October 9 in Cambridge, Mass. 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This award is part of SHPE\u0027s Technical Achievement and Recognition (STAR) Awards and will be presented at the SHPE National Convention taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Nov. 1-5.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarolina Col\u00f3n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarolina is currently working toward her Ph.D. in Bioengineering, focusing on T-cell therapies, at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2022 and holds an A.A. in Engineering from Valencia College, awarded in 2019.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOriginally from Puerto Rico, she moved to Florida for her last year of high school.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch at GTRI, Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarolina\u0027s research work aims to combine aerospace engineering and bioengineering to develop devices that enable the mass production of cell therapies to lower their cost and make them more accessible.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGEM Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECol\u00f3n was a participant in GTRI\u2019s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gemfellowship.org\/gem-fellowship-program\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGEM Fellowship\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E program in 2022. The national GEM Consortium provides funding for graduate education through corporate sponsorships and a partnership with university partners, such as Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe National GEM Consortium is \u003C\/span\u003Ea network of leading corporations, government laboratories, elite universities, and elite research institutions that empowers qualified students from underrepresented communities to pursue a graduate degree in a STEM field. GEM\u2019s mission is to garner a talent pool of African American, Hispanic American, and Native American advanced degree-seekers in STEM fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEvery year, GEM identifies and recruits close to 2,000 students and working professionals from underrepresented groups to participate in its program, which consists of three graduate fellowship tracks: Master of Science in Engineering, Ph.D. in Science, and Ph.D. in Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGEM also provides financial support to aspiring graduate students from underrepresented groups, allowing them to pursue their dreams without worrying about money.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EStudents selected into the GEM Fellowship program must complete a corporate internship during the summer and attend graduate school during the fall and spring semesters. In exchange, students are provided funding for graduate school through an agreement with their home institutions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn the GEM Fellowship program, one of her advisors was GTRI Principal Research Engineer Jud Ready of the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory (EOSL).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EReady said that Carolina \u201cincreased teamwork and morale while creatively expanding knowledge of her lab mates\u2019 different cultural backgrounds.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESaid Carolina of her GEM experience: \u0022\u003C\/span\u003EThe experience I gained at \u003Cspan\u003EGTRI\u003C\/span\u003E will definitely last me a lifetime, and it\u2019s something that has changed my life immensely. Thanks to all at \u003Cspan\u003EEOSL\u003C\/span\u003E and GEM.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOther Research Programs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarolina\u2019s research and professional trajectory has also been aided by her participation in multiple Georgia Tech summer research programs, including the Cell Therapy Manufacturing (CMaT), FOCUS, and SURE programs. Georgia Tech\u2019s FOCUS program is one of the nation\u2019s premier graduate recruitment programs designed to attract highly skilled students who have historically been underrepresented in higher education. The Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering\/Sciences (SURE) program is a 10-week summer research program designed to attract qualified under-represented minority and women students into graduate school in the fields of engineering and science.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWoodruff School Honors\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMost recently, as a new graduate student at Georgia Tech, she has been selected as the Vice President of the Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) group and has already put into motion her ideas regarding Hispanic heritage, GT PRIDE, community college information sessions, etc.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe School of Mechanical Engineering has recognized her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. She is an active volunteer with student recruitment panels and represented the school at the Women of Technology Gala. The school also awarded her the Inaugural Women of Woodruff \u201cRising Star\u201d award for her efforts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETo cap it off, the Woodruff School also awarded Carolina the inaugural Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship (IRF). This honor recognized Carolina\u0027s vision of intertwining the fields of aerospace and bioengineering to create enhanced devices and enable cell therapies in the space environment for astronauts in long-term space missions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENada es imposible si lo intentas. 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The organization\u2019s STAR Awards are annual honors given to individuals, companies, and government agencies that have demonstrated commitment and measurable impact in advancing Hispanics in STEM. The awards are a key feature of the annual SHPE National Convention.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECarolina has been a member of SHPE for three years. A key example of her contribution to SHPE is that, in 2022, she was invited to represent Georgia Tech College of Engineering at the SHPE national conference in North Carolina, and is reprising the same role this year as well.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELeading up to last year\u2019s event, she helped students with graduate school applications, resumes, practice interviews, and pointers on how to land internships. 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Campbell Fellowship and Spark Awards Recipients","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Strategic Energy Institute (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003ESEI\u003C\/a\u003E) of Georgia Tech is excited to announce that Bettina Arkhurst is the 2023 recipient of the \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJames G. Campbell Fellowship Award.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E Arkhurst\u2019s commitment to academics, research, and community service has been recognized by the award committee.\u003C\/span\u003E She is a Ph.D. candidate advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fu\u0022\u003EKatherine Fu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArkhurst holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. Her research seeks to understand how concepts of energy justice can be applied to renewable energy technology design to better consider marginalized and vulnerable populations. She strives to create frameworks and tools for mechanical engineers to apply as they design energy technologies for all communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an energy equity intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Arkhurst has worked with colleagues to better understand the role of researchers and engineers in the pursuit of a more just clean energy transition. She is also a leader in the Woodruff School\u2019s graduate student mental health committee, which seeks to improve the culture around graduate student mental health and well-being. Additionally, Arkhurst is working with the Georgia Tech Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scre.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESCoRE\u003C\/a\u003E) to develop a course on community engagement and engineering that will launch in Spring 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/epicenter.energy.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEPICenter\u003C\/a\u003E) and the Strategic Energy Institute are proud to announce the 2023 Spark Award recipients: Jake Churchill, Jordan R. Hale, \u003Cspan\u003EAndrew G. Hill, Henry J. Kantrow, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEmily Marshall, and \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJacob W Tjards.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E The award honors \u003Cspan\u003Eoutstanding leadership in advancing student engagement in energy research.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChurchill is a master\u2019s student in mechanical engineering advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/akanksha-menon\u0022\u003EAkanksha Menon\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Woodruff School. Working with Menon in the Water-Energy Research Lab, his research focuses on coupling reverse osmosis desalination with renewable energy and storage technologies to provide clean, sustainable, and affordable water in the face of growing global water stress. Churchill has led the Georgia Tech Energy Club\u2019s Solar District Cup team for three years, guiding students interested in solar energy careers. He has also been involved with several SEI initiatives, including EPICenter\u2019s high school summer camp, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/epicenters-summer-camp-energizes-high-schoolers-tech-campus\u0022\u003EEnergy Unplugged\u003C\/a\u003E. He is currently facilitating a student-led study to quantify the benefits of cleaning photovoltaic panels using the rooftop array at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/energy\/cnes-building\u0022\u003ECarbon Neutral Energy Solutions Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHale is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry, specializing in theoretical and computational chemistry under \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-kretchmer\u0022\u003EJoshua Kretchmer\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. His current research focus is utilizing various quantum dynamics formalisms and unique computational techniques to identify the microscopic mechanisms of electron transport in perovskite solar cells. Hale has mentored high school students, teaching them the fundamentals of computational chemistry and various programming skills. Additionally, he has been actively engaged with undergraduate students from other universities both in and out of Georgia through the Summer Theoretical and Computational Chemistry workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHill is a Ph.D. candidate in the Soper Lab in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research is focused on the activation of strong chemical bonds using Earth-abundant metals for energy conversion and storage. He has taken an active leadership role on campus, in part through service as the president of the Georgia Tech Chemistry Graduate Student Forum.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarshall is a second-year graduate student working for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/alan-doolittle\u0022\u003EAlan Doolittle\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. She uses specialized molecular beam epitaxy techniques to grow high-quality III-nitride materials for next-generation power, radio frequency, and optoelectronic devices. Her current research focuses on improving the fundamental understanding of the scandium catalytic effect to optimize the growth of scandium aluminum nitride, a material that shows great promise for applications in future power grids. In addition to her research, Marshall is committed to teaching, having volunteered for five semesters serving her fellow students as a peer instructor at the Hive Makerspace and currently training junior members of her lab to grow semiconductors via molecular beam epitaxy. After earning her master\u2019s and Ph.D., she hopes to continue teaching, mentoring, and connecting others across the world in an effort to bring about a brighter future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKantrow is a Ph.D. candidate in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, co-advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/natalie-stingelin\u0022\u003ENatalie Stingelin\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/carlos-silva\u0022\u003ECarlos Silva\u003C\/a\u003E. His research seeks to understand the photo physics of semiconducting polymers operating in dynamic dielectric environments and to provide material design guidelines for solar fuel technologies. He is an active student leader in the Center for Soft Photo-Electrochemical Systems, where he also serves on the energy justice committee. He served as the secretary of the Association for Chemical Engineering Graduate Students (AChEGS) in 2022 and continues to mentor first-year graduate students in AChEGS and through the Pride Peers Program at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETjards is a graduate research assistant\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech\u2019s Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory. He graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2021 before beginning his Ph.D. program, where he is studying energy systems. Tjards\u2019 research is focused on modeling new manufacturing processes of drywall and aluminum to reduce water consumption during production. Additionally, he is working on a new technique for water purification. While in school, he has been a teaching assistant and instructor for the undergraduate mechanical engineering course on energy systems analysis and design (ME 4315). In his free time, Tjards enjoys Formula 1 racing, Georgia Tech baseball games, and woodworking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"The 2023 recipients of James G. Campbell Fellowship and Spark Awards are announced."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Strategic Energy Institute (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003ESEI\u003C\/a\u003E) of Georgia Tech is excited to announce that Bettina Arkhurst is the 2023 recipient of the \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJames G. 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The\u0026nbsp; showcase is an opportunity to display innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt this year\u0027s competition, Lilypad Health emerged\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Evictorious.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;Their groundbreaking invention\u2014an\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Eat-home, non-invasive menstrual blood screening tool\u003C\/span\u003E\u2014paves the way for accessible, non-invasive care. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAlong with a $20k cash prize, Lilypad Health has secured a spot in CREATE-X Startup Launch, a program for Georgia Tech students, faculty, researchers, and alumni who want to launch their projects from idea stage (or beyond) into fully functioning and viable startups.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFor second place, Team Makr Papr took the spot. I\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Enstead of juggling brochures, schedules, and business cards, t\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eheir product allows users to utilize a smart name tag, streamlining all information in one place and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Ealigning with the growing demand for eco-friendly solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELastly, Team Candor won the People\u2019s Choice award. Their Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) platform is built for local governments \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Estruggling with managing citizen interactions. Team Candor\u2019s CRM simplifies processes like complaint reporting, enhancing transparency, and responsiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInspired by these remarkable teams?\u0026nbsp;You could be next!\u0026nbsp;If you have a startup idea burning within you, consider applying for the\u0026nbsp;summer 2024 Startup Launch program\u0026nbsp;at create-x.gatech.edu. The deadline for applications is\u0026nbsp;Tuesday, March 19, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Don\u2019t miss your chance to turn your vision into reality.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeep dive into the competition and team stories on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/14\/womens-health-takes-center-stage-inventure-prize-2024\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech News Center site\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt this year\u0027s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EVenture Prize Competition\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Lilypad Health emerged\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Evictorious.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EThe competition is held annually at the Georgia Institute of Technology to display innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lilypad Health, a startup opening doors to accessible, non-invasive care through an at-home, non-invasive menstrual blood screening tool, wins the 2024 Inventure Prize Competition."}],"uid":"36436","created_gmt":"2024-03-15 20:00:11","changed_gmt":"2024-03-20 16:27:39","author":"bdurham31","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673389":{"id":"673389","type":"image","title":"InVenture Prize 2024 Winners","body":"\u003Cp\u003EInVenture Prize 2024 Winners, Lilypad Health. 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The key to the demonstrated technology is a passive silicon chiplet, which contains 3D printed slots for fiber insertion, that precisely self-aligns to an underlying PIC at sub-micron scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis has the potential to eliminate active alignment techniques commonly used in photonics packaging and enable a scalable and silicon-based solution to fiber alignment and coupling. Photonic interconnection between modern 2.5D packages with PICs and optical fibers is a current key bottleneck.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work will potentially lead to improved and scalable CPO architectures, enabling massive off-package bandwidth and reduced energy consumption\u202fof interconnects in data centers, which will be important to meet the rapidly increasing packaging demands of artificial intelligence applications and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work was supported by the United States Air Force under Contract FA8650-20-C-1003 and in part by the Georgia Tech Institute for Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), through the National Science Foundation under Grant ECCS-2025462.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYu plans to continue this research in Bakir\u2019s Integrated 3D Systems Group to create more robust and scalable designs that are compatible with the latest semiconductor technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ECE Ph.D. candidate was recognized for his research on next generation co-packaged optics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ECE Ph.D. candidate was recognized for his research on next generation co-packaged optics."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-03-07 19:05:48","changed_gmt":"2024-03-08 15:56:03","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673337":{"id":"673337","type":"image","title":"Shengtao SQ Graphic.jpg","body":null,"created":"1709837968","gmt_created":"2024-03-07 18:59:28","changed":"1709837953","gmt_changed":"2024-03-07 18:59:13","alt":"Shengtao Yu","file":{"fid":"256721","name":"Shengtao SQ Graphic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/07\/Shengtao%20SQ%20Graphic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/07\/Shengtao%20SQ%20Graphic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":978595,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/03\/07\/Shengtao%20SQ%20Graphic.jpg?itok=DlRBP0y8"}}},"media_ids":["673337"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193557","name":"co-packaged optics"},{"id":"193558","name":"CPO"},{"id":"125461","name":"ECTC"},{"id":"193559","name":"Outstanding Paper Award"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647519":{"#nid":"647519","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CMDI: Mighty Microbial Dynamics for a Healthier People and Planet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShaping the shared future of microbes and human health is the mission for Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYes, there are similar academic-based centers studying infectious diseases and the microbes that cause them, but to understand what makes Georgia Tech\u2019s center different, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/sam-brown\u0022\u003ESam Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, CMDI co-director and a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says to concentrate on that third letter in the Center\u0027s name.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFocus on dynamics,\u201d says Brown. \u201cThat\u2019s basically how microbes are changing over time and space as well as how they\u2019re changing \u003Cem\u003Esystems\u003C\/em\u003E in time. This notion of dynamics operates on different scales. It operates, as I see it, on a behavioral scale \u2014 individual bugs making decisions and changing their behavior in time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEcological dynamics are \u201chow populations are changing with time, and how they\u2019re interacting with other communities \u2014 for example in biofilms,\u201d Brown adds, referring to the name for communities of microorganisms that stick to surfaces and create their own \u201cneighborhoods.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are also evolutionary dynamics, which are worrying to Brown and other researchers, as they can mean bacteria increase resistance to antibiotics. And then there are epidemiological dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re all glued to our screens watching the epidemiological dynamics of Covid-19 play out in real time,\u201d he explains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll of this involves the study of some of the natural world\u2019s tiniest troublemakers \u2014 and helpers. Humans are pathetically outnumbered by microbes. They live in, on, and around all of us. They are at both ends of the human food chain, helping farmers grow food, and then assisting us in digesting our meals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou have trillions of bacteria in your gut,\u201d points out \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/marvin-whiteley\u0022\u003EMarvin Whiteley\u003C\/a\u003E, CMDI\u2019s founding co-director who serves as a professor in the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech Bennie H. and Nelson D. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and co-director for Emory-Children\u2019s CF Center. So, in the spectrum of these tiny communities, there are helpful and harmful microbes alike \u2014 and the latter can often make us very sick. That\u2019s where CMDI experts step in.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCMDI is working to transform how we study microbes in an environmental context, and ultimately find new microbial strategies to improve human and environmental health,\u201d Brown says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMDI\u2019s science is conducted in an interdisciplinary manner, like many other research centers at Georgia Tech, with research that reaches into a number of other disciplines \u2014 microbial ecology, microbiome dynamics, biogeochemistry, microbial biophysics, socio-microbiology, infection dynamics, host-pathogen interactions, marine and aquatic microbiology, microbial evolution, viral ecology, spatial imaging, and math\/computational modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center is fairly new, beginning operations in 2018. Yet it\u2019s already closing in on 100 researchers \u2014 faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral students \u2014 and is aggressively recruiting early career scientists from around the world to research at CMDI.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are a unique interdisciplinary research center since our expertise spans such broad subjects from coral reef ecosystems, to antibiotic resistant bacteria, to new infectious diseases therapies,\u201d explains \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/maria-avdonina\u0022\u003EMaria Avdonina\u003C\/a\u003E, CMDI manager.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding CMDI\u2019s foundation, and using it to attack \u003Cem\u003EP. aeruginosa\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow does a pathogen do what it does at the molecular level?\u201d Marvin Whiteley asks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is a question that he began asking at The University of Texas at Austin, where he founded another center to study infectious disease before coming to Georgia Tech in 2017. Back then, Whiteley was looking for the kind of interdisciplinary mix of researchers that can be found widely across the Institute, so he moved to Atlanta and built that into the CMDI\u2019s mission as its founding co-director.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s the idea of not just working with pure microbiologists, but working with those interested in how things change, and their dynamic aspects, even daily changes in the microbiome,\u201d he says, referring to the term used to describe all the microorganisms that live in a particular environment, whether it\u2019s a human body or a body of land or water. \u201cIt requires modelers \u2014 people used to looking at big data sets \u2014 and people who think about evolutionary biology. It\u2019s a unique kind of expertise that I don\u2019t have in my lab, but the folks who work for me in the lab can take advantage of it within CMDI.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhiteley\u2019s research interests include the study of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease that results in bacteria chronically attacking the lungs of its patients. To combat disease, Whiteley is focusing research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa (\u003Cem\u003EP. aeruginosa\u003C\/em\u003E), a particularly dangerous bacteria that\u2019s often found in CF patients\u2019 lungs. He notes that the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drugresistance\/pdf\/threats-report\/pseudomonas-aeruginosa-508.pdf\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control\u003C\/a\u003E (CDC) lists it as one of the primary pathogens that is cause for clinical concern.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt lives in nature, but we published a paper showing it\u2019s not everywhere. It\u2019s located near human activity, so wherever we are, it seems to grow and do really well. It\u2019s in a lot of different diseases \u2014 and CF is one of them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EP. aeruginosa\u003C\/em\u003E is also \u201ca really important cause of wound infections,\u201d Whiteley adds, citing a CDC estimate that by 2050, about 20 percent of the entire U.S. healthcare budget could be spent treating chronic wound infections.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe biggest problem in environments where it\u2019s problematic is hospitals,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s very tolerant of antimicrobials, and it acquires resistance fairly quickly. That causes it to enrich in its environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaking on Covid-19\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, who is a CMDI faculty member, professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences, and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences program, is a key scientist behind Georgia Tech\u2019s Covid-19 surveillance testing efforts, along with Covid-19 event risk and population immunity modeling research around nation and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeitz has led a series of concurrent efforts to estimate epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2, develop novel approaches to use large-scale testing as an intervention, and leverage mathematical models and real-time datasets to inform the public of ongoing transmission risk.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeitz recently received a best paper award \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/research-papers-estimating-covid-19-risk-events-hidden-symmetries-origami-capture-annual-sigma\u0022\u003Efrom the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi\u003C\/a\u003E for his work on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool\u003C\/a\u003E, which calculates the odds of being exposed to an infected individual in groups of different sizes; it has received more than 8 million unique visitors who have generated more than 40 million risk estimates since the planning tool\u2019s launch in July 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeitz also joined fellow faculty and staff in sharing an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/biological-sciences-and-chemistry-faculty-receive-trio-2020-2021-institute-research-awards\u0022\u003EInstitute Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E and Institute Service Award in recognition of collective efforts to design, develop, implement, deploy an asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 saliva-based testing program to address the coronavirus pandemic across campus. \u201cWe\u2019re very proud of what Joshua has done,\u201d Sam Brown says, \u201cboth in the context of Covid-19 and also in exploring new therapeutic angles for bacterial infections, by harnessing the viral natural enemies of bacteria: phages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe search for new antibiotics \u2014 and how best to use them\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile Covid-19 is a virus that has dominated headlines since early 2020, bacterial resistance to antibiotics \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drugresistance\/about.html\u0022\u003Ehas been a problem\u003C\/a\u003E for decades. Penicillin was first available as an antibiotic in 1941. \u003Cem\u003EStaphylococcus aureus\u003C\/em\u003E was found to be resistant to it as early as 1942.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMDI faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/julia-kubanek\u0022\u003EJulia Kubanek\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor of in the School of Biological Sciences and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, former associate dean for Research in the College of Sciences and newly appointed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/julia-kubanek-named-vice-president-interdisciplinary-research\u0022\u003Evice president for Interdisciplinary Research (VPIR)\u003C\/a\u003E for all of Georgia Tech, has spent the past 17 years diving into the waters near Fiji and the Solomon Islands, looking for natural marine products that could fill that widening gap in resistance-free drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since entirely new classes of antibiotics were brought to market,\u201d Kubanek explains. \u201cPharmaceutical companies have reduced their investments in antibiotic drug discovery, despite the continuing rise of antimicrobial resistance among existing drugs. More resistant strains of infectious bacteria and fungi are evolving constantly and present severe threats to public health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Covid-19 pandemic is a related example. It has revealed that science\u2019s arsenal of antiviral drugs is inadequate, she notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKubanek and CMDI faculty colleague \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Professor and Harry and Linda Teasley Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, are both part of Georgia Tech\u2019s drug discovery program, which looks at small molecule natural products from marine organisms as sources for potential future medicines against infectious diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA partnership with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.med.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003EEmory University School of Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E helps researchers screen Georgia Tech\u2019s natural product library \u2014 what Kubanek and her research team found on those South Pacific trips \u2014 for potential drug candidates has resulted in encouraging news for viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the specific coronavirus that causes Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re currently following three promising classes of natural products from marine algae and sponges that show preliminary activity against this coronavirus,\u201d Kubanek says. Those molecules are distinct from currently marketed antivirals and antibiotics, and that could mean more weapons in science\u2019s arsenal for fighting infectious diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMDI researchers also approach the antibiotic resistance crisis through an epidemiological and evolutionary lens. For example, recent work from the Brown Lab has identified new strategies to slow or even reverse the increase in drug-resistant strains, by changing how doctors dose their drugs, and how they make use of diagnostic information.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMicrobes, climate, and environmental health\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond human infections and pathogen control, CMDI also focuses on the significant impacts that microbes have on human and environmental health. CMDI faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joel-kostka\u0022\u003EJoel Kostka\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and associate chair of Research in the School of Biological Sciences who also serves as a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, is a leading researcher in environmental microbiology, bringing the power of \u201comics\u201d technologies to discover the role of environmental microbes in shaping key aspects of our shared world, from bioremediation to climate change.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKostka\u2019s work \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/deepwater-horizon-and-rise-omics-decade-breakthroughs-microbial-science\u0022\u003Eled to the discovery of key marine microbes\u003C\/a\u003E that played an important role in cleaning up the oil spilled during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster \u2014 microbes that turned out to be abundant in oil-contaminated soils around the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKostka\u2019s work in this space \u201crevealed a natural capacity for rare microbes in the Gulf of Mexico to catalyze the bioremediation, or natural cleanup, of petroleum hydrocarbons,\u201d he explains. \u201cThese microbes show promise as biological indicators to direct emergency response efforts, as well as to elucidate the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/joel-kostka-details-microbial-legacy-deepwater-horizon-disaster\u0022\u003Eimpacts of oil exposure on ecosystem health during oil spills\u003C\/a\u003E and other environmental disasters,\u201d he adds.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Kostka Lab has also long characterized the role of the environment in shaping microbial communities that limit the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a large scale climate change experiment that\u2019s being conducted in northern Minnesota with funding by the U.S. Department of Energy, Kostka\u2019s research recently \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/temperate-glimpse-warming-world\u0022\u003Eshowed that warming accelerates the production of greenhouse gases from soil microbial respiration\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 and that microbial activity \u201cwas fueled by the release of plant metabolites, suggesting that enhanced greenhouse gas production is likely to persist and result in amplified climate feedbacks.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cJoel is our key player in this space,\u201d Brown says. \u201cHe\u2019s done incredible research on how the environment can dictate microbial species abundance and their behavioral contributions to the functioning of Earth\u2019s ecosystems. He\u2019s shown that different \u2018taxa\u2019, or groups of organisms, become metabolically active or \u2018switched on\u2019 depending on environmental factors like temperature. His research contributes to building better climate models as well as to develop new geoengineering strategies to adapt to climate change. He\u2019s doing beautiful work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECMDI\u2019s global call to early career microbiologists\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECMDI\u2019s research is funded by grants from agencies like the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/\u0022\u003ENational Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E to individual labs run by faculty \u2014 and by money distributed directly to the Center from across Georgia Tech, including the College of Sciences and its Office of the Dean and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/12-proposals-achieve-college-sciences-strategic-goals-funded-sutherland-deans-chair\u0022\u003ESutherland Dean\u0027s Chair\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese sources \u201care getting healthier by the minute, and that\u2019s a testament to the scientists at the Center,\u201d Brown points out \u2014 so much so that two new positions have recently been created: a senior research scientist who will assist postdoctoral and graduate students with grant and fellowship applications, and a CMDI Early Career Award Fellowship that seeks out \u201csuperstars, people who are going to go on to be faculty success stories.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to get them early,\u201d Brown says. \u201cWe\u2019re interviewing some great candidates just out of their Ph.D.s. We\u2019ll give them maximum independence, their own space, their own office, their own pot of money. They\u2019ll be sitting at the intersection of our research interests but can run their own lab and their own research program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis allows postdoctoral students to focus on research projects, Julia Kubanek says. \u201cBecause postdocs generally don\u2019t enroll in formal courses, nor are they generally expected to teach in the classroom, they get to immerse themselves in research in collaboration with faculty, students, and other postdocs. The CMDI is rapidly growing as a collaborative environment, where postdocs can try out their best ideas and learn from others how to tackle the most pressing scientific questions in microbial dynamics, microbial communication, ecosystem health, and infectious disease.\u201d Kubanek adds that a related fellowship program \u201cwill augment postdoctoral salaries to attract the very best candidates, enabling grant dollars to stretch further, leading to new discoveries.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center is also ratcheting up outreach, including what it calls its \u0022Research Envoys Program.\u0022 The intitiative features graduate students giving seminars at local institutions throughout the Atlanta area, including at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Although it\u2019s mostly on pause right now due to the pandemic, two Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral student working with CMDI faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 a professor in the School of Biological Sciences who is also chair of the Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, and co-director of the Aquatic Chemical Ecology Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program \u2014 recently gave remote seminars at Spelman College and Kennesaw State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur trainees get practice in speaking, and it opens doors to folks seeing Georgia Tech as an option,\u201d Brown explains. The CMDI is also working with Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sreb.org\/\u0022\u003ESouthern Regional Education Board\u003C\/a\u003E to continue to increase the number of underrepresented minorities at all levels of recruitment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re really interested in educating the next generation of scientists in biology,\u201d Whiteley adds. \u201cEverybody says that \u2014 but we\u2019re actually developing programs to recruit the best talent in the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECMDI research areas and faculty:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESam Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVirulence, microbiomes, biofilms, cystic 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Marshall and Matthews were among just a handful of students to have their research recognized.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarshall\u2019s talk presented her team\u2019s prior success with growing improved-quality scandium aluminium nitride (ScAlN) and observations of a ScAIN coverage dependent and substrate temperature dependent scandium (Sc) catalytic effect. It also emphasized the importance of Marshall\u2019s current research in quantifying the Sc catalytic effect to improve ScAlN films and devices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey both conducted their research in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/william-alan-doolittle\u0022\u003EProfessor Alan Doolittle\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alan.ece.gatech.edu\/ASTF\/Files%20for%20Upload\/index.htm\u0022\u003EAdvanced Semiconductor Technology Facility\u003C\/a\u003E. 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There, ocean water washes over the salt marsh grasses, and that water is rich in sulfate. \u201cSulfide is a phytotoxin or plant toxin,\u201d Kostka says. \u201cA lot of sulfide will kill plants or at least stress them out, but when you add just a little bit (to \u003Cem\u003ESpartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E), it fuels microbial factories in the plant roots.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKostka\u2019s team found that \u003Cem\u003ESpartina alterniflora\u003C\/em\u003E has concentrated sulfur bacteria in its roots, and those bacteria are in two categories: sulfur oxidizers, which use sulfide as an energy source \u2014 \u201cthen you have sulfate reducers which breathe or respire sulfate from seawater, producing sulfide.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this microbial cell factory, bacteria are using sulfide as an energy source to fix nitrogen \u2014 and possibly carbon \u2014 which then is passed to the grasses. 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The plant may have a cell factory that\u2019s making biomass from chemical energy rather than photosynthesis.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFinding climate clues in plants\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new study\u2019s research in salty wetlands is similar to climate-related work Kostka leads on peat mosses in freshwater bogs at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mnspruce.ornl.gov\/\u0022\u003ESpruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments (SPRUCE)\u003C\/a\u003E research facility in northern Minnesota. 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As they warm, bogs may also start releasing more carbon along with their methane into ecosystems, a harmful one-two punch for the environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe saltwater marshes that Kostka\u2019s team studies have also been termed \u201cblue carbon\u201d sinks because they act to mitigate climate change by sequestering large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere on a global scale. \u201cSalt marshes or coastal marshes are not only critical as habitat for fish and shellfish that we like to eat \u2014 along with other vegetated coastal ecosystems \u2014 they store as much or more carbon as the remainder of the seafloor,\u201d Kostka says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA triumph for omics, and what\u2019s next\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKostka credits \u2018omics\u2019, technologies which allow for the study of microbes in the environment without cultivation, for advances in uncovering microbiomes \u2014 all the microorganisms in a specific environment. Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, the sequencing of all genes or expressed genes in the environment, allows scientists to chart the potential for microbes to carry out important ecosystem functions like nitrogen fixation. 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Previously, the dashboard estimated exposure for different size events by state.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECovid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d is the work of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and founding director of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EPh.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E program, in collaboration with the lab of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/clio-andris\u0022\u003EClio Andris\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/planning.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of City and Regional Planning\u003C\/a\u003E with a joint appointment in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, and with researchers from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.abil.ihrc.com\/\u0022\u003EApplied Bioinformatics Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E (a public\/private partnership between Georgia Tech, IHRC Inc., and ASRT Inc.).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have developed an interactive\u0026nbsp;county-level map of the risk that one or more individuals may have\u0026nbsp;Covid-19 in events of different sizes,\u201d Weitz says. \u201cThe issue of understanding risks associated with gatherings is even more\u0026nbsp;relevant as many kinds of businesses, including sports and universities, are\u0026nbsp;considering how to re-open safely.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dashboard accounts for widespread gaps in U.S. testing for the Coronavirus, which can silently spread through individuals who display mild or no symptoms of illness. \u201cPrecisely because of under-testing and the risk of exposure and infection, these risk calculations provide further support for the ongoing need for social distancing and protective measures. Such precautions are still needed even in small events, given the large number of circulating cases,\u201d states \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ethe dashboard\u2019s website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor example: As of Monday, July 6, for an event with 100 attendees in Fulton County, Georgia, the estimated risk of someone in attendance being actively infected with Coronavirus is 76 percent. For that same day at an event with 1,000 attendees, the estimated risk in all but 16 of Georgia\u2019s 159 counties exceeds 99 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dashboard\u2019s technical development was made possible by contributions from Seolha\u0026nbsp;Lee, a master\u2019s student in Andris\u0027 group, and Aroon Chande, a Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dashboard\u2019s website, which is updated daily, incorporates data from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E case count\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/\u0022\u003ECovidtracking.com dashboard\u003C\/a\u003E (a resource led by journalist Alexis Madrigal of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E)\u003C\/em\u003E. Both of these databases record confirmed case reports from state-level departments of public\u0026nbsp;health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool takes the number of cases reported in the past 14 days in each county, and\u0026nbsp;multiplies these by an under-testing factor to estimate the number of\u0026nbsp;circulating cases in a particular county,\u201d Weitz explains. (In late June, Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/time.com\/5859790\/cdc-coronavirus-estimates\/\u0022\u003Estated on a press call\u003C\/a\u003E that \u201cnow that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/635137\/immunity-recovered-covid-19-patients-could-cut-risk-expanding-economic-activity\u0022\u003Eserology tests\u003C\/a\u003E are available, which test for antibodies, the estimates we have right now show about 10 times more people have antibodies in the jurisdictions tested than had documented infections.\u201d)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2020\/03\/graphic-see-why-small-groups-are-safer-during-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic\/\u0022\u003ETracking tools developed earlier this year\u003C\/a\u003E by Weitz and colleagues at Georgia Tech and other institutions are also factored into the team\u2019s new county-level calculator. \u201cThe model is simple, intentionally so, and provided context for the rationale to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/blog\/get-schooled\/scientists-the-math-show-how-large-events-like-march-madness-could-spread-coronavirus\/g1pVdzQgJS5aoPnadBqyXO\/\u0022\u003Ehalt large gatherings in early-mid March\u003C\/a\u003E and newly relevant context for considering when and how to re-open,\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Estates the dashboard website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe new county-level calculator builds on the team\u2019s interactive state-level tool, which estimates the daily risk that one or more individuals infected with Covid-19 are present in U.S. events of various sizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The new county-level calculator builds on the team\u2019s interactive state-level tool, which estimates the daily risk that one or more individuals infected with Covid-19 are present in U.S. events of various sizes."}],"uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2022-08-24 14:36:59","changed_gmt":"2024-02-15 21:30:09","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"636771":{"id":"636771","type":"image","title":"The team\u0027s interactive map shows the risk level of attending an event, given the event size and location (assuming 10:1 ascertainment bias). 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When her home state experienced a dangerous, deep cold spell in February of this year, the atmospheric sciences and meteorology major figured the best way she could help her family would be to study that catastrophic weather event.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/gtcosreuprograms\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU)\u003C\/a\u003E program at Georgia Tech that she had enrolled in for summer 2021 gave her that chance. More students will soon have a similar opportunity; starting in summer 2022, for the first time, all six College of Sciences schools will offer an REU.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy motivation was mainly driven by emotional pulls,\u201d Colbert says. \u201cMy family being directly affected by the storm pushed me to find research-based answers for both them and me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe REU that enabled her to conduct that research was the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reu.biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech summer research program\u003C\/a\u003E, an interdisciplinary REU with the Schools of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEarth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EChemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. EAS also has its own REU: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/easreu.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Broadening Participation in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Geosciences research program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESara Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones\u003C\/strong\u003E, a second year student at Purdue University, attended both of those REUs this summer. She\u2019s a physics major but had a chance to explore planetary sciences with her research project on potential volcanic activity near \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/rivera-hernandez-wins-nasa-grant-aid-current-mars-rover-missions-and-find-martian-lakes-future\u0022\u003EMars\u2019 Jezero Crater, where NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover is currently exploring\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve never had research experiences before,\u201d Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones says. \u201cIt\u0027s been a great environment, great people. It\u0027s been wonderful working with all my peers, and just learning about them, seeing where they come from, what they\u0027re researching. Many people here are in totally different fields. That\u0027s also been interesting, to get exposed to these new things that I had no idea even existed, honestly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s REUs give Cuevas-Qui\u00f1ones and other students \u2014 particularly those from underrepresented communities and those who are enrolled at universities without research opportunities found at Tech \u2014 a chance to get in the lab, or out in the field. The experiences also give students from smaller colleges and universities the opportunity to use state-of-the-art equipment, and to be mentored by top Georgia Tech researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat was the situation for \u003Cstrong\u003EMeredith Clayton\u003C\/strong\u003E, who is set to graduate this December from Stephen F. 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Georgia Tech popped up near the top,\u201d Jefferson says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJefferson was obviously water-focused when it came to REUs. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EBut it was interesting seeing people interested in the race side of things \u2014 of environmental justice problems in flooding issues. Just anything in the environment was free game. And I didn\u0027t realize, going in, that it would be that diverse. I assumed all of us would be water-focused.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis experience was just eye opening for how other people communicate their science, how other people present,\u201d they add. \u201cI\u0027m learning the ins and outs of presentations\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJefferson hopes to get a Ph.D. in aquatic sciences and then apply at a US National Laboratory, or perhaps the United States Geological Survey.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWherever the water takes me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Sciences: All about our REUs \u2014 and their leaders\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EREUs are sponsored and funded for science and math programs in higher education by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation (NSF\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.3m.com\/\u0022\u003E3M\u003C\/a\u003E also sponsored a student in the EAS REU. Some of the College of Sciences REUs accept Georgia Tech students, while others are limited to out-of-state students. Check the links for acceptance requirements of each REU.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/collard\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Collard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, senior associate dean in the College, who previously led the REU program in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry for more than a decade, shares that \u201cNSF REU programs in the College of Sciences have a long record of engaging diverse cohorts of participants in cutting edge research.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince most of the undergraduate participants are recruited from institutions that do not have extensive research infrastructure, the immersive research experience available to them in these programs can be transformational,\u201d he says. \u201cA measure of success of the REU programs in the College of Sciences is that many of the undergraduate participants subsequently go on to complete their Ph.D., some at Georgia Tech, and others elsewhere.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollard highlights that \u201cthe new additions to the College\u0027s set of NSF REU programs \u2014 in neuroscience and in atmospheric science, oceanography, and geosciences \u2014 represent a strong commitment of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, the School of Biological Sciences, and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences to broadening participation and fostering inclusivity in research careers.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn each school, there is very much a team effort in running these programs,\u201d he adds, \u201cand the coordination of these efforts between the schools is a particularly important feature in allowing us to provide high quality programs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reu.biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EREU: Aquatic Chemical Ecology Summer Research Program (ACE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHosted by the Schools of Biological Sciences, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECivil \u0026amp; Environmental Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/brian-hammer\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Hammer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, associate professor, School of Biological Sciences and ACE co-director:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOur Aquatic Chemical Ecology (ACE) REU program has been running since 2004. 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They also foster collaborations with experts and colleagues within their field of study, and network and develop lifelong friendships with other participants within their program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessional development opportunities focus on best practices for conducting research, strategies for writing research papers\/conducting research presentations, tips for applying to graduate school, and discussions on topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion. Social activities, while limited this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, range from field trips to local Atlanta tourist attractions, to companies\/organizations relevant to students\u0027 career interests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo my knowledge, the students are having a wonderful time, and the impression I get is that they are so happy to be working in-person at a college campus performing research with other undergraduate students and Georgia Tech faculty. Since last year was supposed to be our first year running this program, but was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year was really our true first year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tone was set immediately on day one when I emailed the students arriving on campus to ask if everything was going okay. One student simply responded to my email question with a picture of the majority of the EAS REU students at the grocery store, buying supplies for the summer, and all were smiling.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the most exciting research program I have ever been a part of. These students are amazing people who are highly talented at research. They\u2019re creative, strongly motivated, and most importantly, they\u2019re kind, respectful, and constantly striving to make the world a better place through their work. While they may have learned a lot from this program, I learned a lot from them! They are excellent role models, and it\u0027s an honor and a privilege to have worked with them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/physicsreu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EREU: Broadening Participation Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHosted by the \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/jennifer-curtis\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Curtis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, associate professor and REU director, School of Physics:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GT Physics REU program offers a wide range of cutting-edge independent research projects to a diverse group of undergraduates from around the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents have explored a wide range of physical phenomena including Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum properties of magnetic materials, gravitational waves, computational astrophysics, physics of living systems, and soft condensed matter.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program stands out for its commitment to broadening participation in physics by a diverse cohort of students. 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The day kicked off with opening remarks from Brown and Juliana Cyril, director of the Office of Technology and Innovation, Office of Science, CDC. \u0026nbsp;Cyril and Brown each highlighted the unique relationships and collaborative potential between the two organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETalks spanned pathogen systems, from the bacteria \u003Cem\u003EPseudomonas aeruginosa \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003EStreptococcus pneumoniae \u003C\/em\u003E(Rich Stanton and Davina Campbell, CDC; Pengbo Cao, CMDI; Bernie Beall, CDC), to colonization dynamics of the fungal pathogen, \u003Cem\u003ECandida auris \u003C\/em\u003E(Joe Sexton, CDC), to shield immunity in SARS-CoV-2 (Adriana Lucia-Sans and Andreea Magalie, CMDI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETalks were further divided into research themes such as biofilm control (Pablo Bravo, CMDI; Rodney Donlan, CDC; Sheyda Azimi, CMDI) and microbiomes in infection (Commander Alison Laufer-Halpin, CDC; Jennifer Farrell, CMDI).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn line with the commitment of the CMDI to promote trainee career development, the CMDI-CDC Meeting on Infectious Disease Dynamics was organized and run by Center graduate students and post-doctoral scientists, and CMDI talks were presented exclusively by Center trainees,\u201d adds Farrell. \u201cWe look forward to continuing the conversation with our CDC colleagues in the future!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn June, the first ever joint symposium of the Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection at Georgia Tech (CMDI) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) brought together interdisciplinary researchers to discuss infectious disease dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In June, the first ever joint symposium of the Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection at Georgia Tech (CMDI) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) brought together interdisciplinary researchers to discuss infectious disease dynamics."}],"uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2021-07-09 18:40:05","changed_gmt":"2024-02-15 20:27:11","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647521":{"id":"647521","type":"image","title":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection Logo","body":null,"created":"1621279753","gmt_created":"2021-05-17 19:29:13","changed":"1621279753","gmt_changed":"2021-05-17 19:29:13","alt":"","file":{"fid":"245816","name":"CMDI Logo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CMDI%20Logo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CMDI%20Logo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":196647,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CMDI%20Logo.png?itok=LL23cFPA"}}},"media_ids":["647521"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection at Georgia Tech (CMDI) "}],"groups":[{"id":"620089","name":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI)"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"188231","name":"CMDI"},{"id":"123","name":"CDC"}],"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\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jess@cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJess Hunt-Ralston\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Sciences at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jess@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"624728":{"#nid":"624728","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Graduate students Cristian Crisan and Aroon Chande discover a novel, active toxin used by the pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae to kill competitor cells.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMicrobes\u0026nbsp;live inside crowded communities in the environment and in hosts. 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In a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bOYrC\u0022\u003Ecollaborative study published in \u003Cem\u003EGenome Biology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with Georgia Tech colleagues from the Jordan and Yunker labs, graduate students Cristian\u0026nbsp;Crisan\u0026nbsp;and Aroon Chande develop a computational tool, find several new T6SS toxins, and show that one of them is highly efficient at killing competitors. Currently, Cristian is studying the molecular mechanism by which another of the toxins can kill other cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMicrobes\u0026nbsp;live inside crowded communities in the environment and in hosts. Many wield\u0026nbsp;a toxin-tipped harpoon\u0026nbsp;called the Type 6 Secretion System (T6SS) to poke and kill competitors. The pathogenic bacterium\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVibrio cholerae\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;uses its T6SS weapon to survive in water and cause massive outbreaks of fatal cholera. In places like Yemen and Haiti, where water supplies are often contaminated and proper sanitation techniques are unavailable, cholera epidemics cause thousands of deaths. Only a few\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EV. cholerae\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;T6SS toxins have been described in prior studies that focused on outbreak strains, but the Hammer lab suspected novel toxins might be discovered by examining less-studied samples from environmental sources. In a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bOYrC\u0022\u003Ecollaborative study published in \u003Cem\u003EGenome Biology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with Georgia Tech colleagues from the Jordan and Yunker labs, graduate students Cristian\u0026nbsp;Crisan\u0026nbsp;and Aroon Chande develop a computational tool, find several new T6SS toxins, and show that one of them is highly efficient at killing competitors. 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Now, one Georgia Tech research group is receiving well-deserved accolades for their applications in data science and machine learning toward single-cell omics research.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EStudents studying under \u003Cstrong\u003EXiuwei Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), received awards in April at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\/events\/awsom\u0022\u003EAtlanta Workshop on Single-cell Omics (AWSOM 2023)\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of CSE Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EZiqi Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E received the best oral presentation award, while \u003Cstrong\u003EMihir Birfna, \u003C\/strong\u003Ean undergraduate student majoring in computer science, took the best poster prize.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAlong with providing computational tools for biological researchers, the group\u2019s papers presented at AWSOM 2023 could benefit populations of people as the research could lead to improved disease detection and prevention. They can also provide a better understanding of causes and treatments of cancer and new ability to accurately simulate cellular processes.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI am extremely proud of the entire research group and very thankful of their work and our teamwork within our lab,\u201d said Xiuwei Zhang. \u201cThese awards are encouraging because it means we are on the right track of developing something that will contribute both to the biology community and the computational community.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EZiqi Zhang presented the group\u2019s findings of their deep learning framework called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.05.01.538975v1.full\u0022\u003EscDisInFact\u003C\/a\u003E, which can carry out multiple key single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) tasks all at once and outperform current models that focus on the same tasks individually. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe group successfully tested scDisInFact on simulated and real Covid-19 datasets, demonstrating applicability in future studies of other diseases. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBafna\u2019s poster introduced CLARIFY, a tool that connects biochemical signals occurring within a cell and intercellular communication molecules. Previously, the inter- and intra-cell signaling were often studied separately due to the complexity of each problem.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOncology is one field that stands to benefit from CLARIFY. 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That has been a challenging problem due to lack of ground truth information in biology, Xiuwei Zhang said.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe want to answer certain basic questions in biology, like how did we get these different cell types like skin cells, bone cells, and blood cells,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we understand how things work in normal and healthy cells, and compare that to the data of diseased cells, then we can find the key differences of those two and locate the genes, proteins, and other molecules that cause problems.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EXiuwei Zhang\u2019s group specializes in applying machine learning and optimization skills in analysis of single-cell omics data and scRNA-seq methods. Their main interest area is studying mechanisms of cellular differentiation\u2014 the process when young, immature cells mature and take on functional characteristics. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA growing, yet effective approach to research in molecular biology, scRNA-seq gives insight of existence and behavior of different types of cells. This helps researchers better understand genetic disorders, detect mechanisms that cause tumors and cancer, and develop new treatments, cures, and drugs.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIf microenvironments filled with various macromolecules and genetic material are considered datasets, the need for researchers like Xiuwei Zhang and her group is obvious. These massive, complex datasets present both challenges and opportunities for the group experienced in computational and biological research.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECollaborating authors include School of CSE Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EHechen Li\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Squires\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EXinye Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E, Wallace H. 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Without considering all these factors, current models can only do these tasks individually, but scDisInFact can do each task better and all at the same time.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECLARIFY delves into how cells employ genetic material to communicate internally, using gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and externally, called cell-cell interactions (CCIs). Many computational methods can infer GRNs and inference methods have been proposed for CCIs, but until CLARIFY, no method existed to infer GRNs and CCIs in the same model. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EscMultiSim simulations perform closer to real-world conditions than current simulators that model only one or two biological factors. This helps researchers more realistically test their computational methods, which can guide directions for future method development. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhether they be computer scientists, biologists, or non-academics alike, the advantage of interdisciplinary and collaborative research, like Xiuwei Zhang\u2019s group, is its wide-reaching impact that advances technology to improve the human condition. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re exploring the possibilities that can be realized by advanced computational methods combined with cutting edge biotechnology,\u201d said Xiuwei Zhang. \u201cSince biotechnology keeps evolving very fast and we want to help push this even further by developing computational methods, together we will propel science forward.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe discovery of nucleic acids is a recent event in the history of scientific phenomenon, and there is still much learn from the enigma that is genetic code.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAdvances in computing techniques though have ushered in a new age of understanding the macromolecules that form life as we know it. Now, one Georgia Tech research group is receiving well-deserved accolades for their applications in data science and machine learning toward single-cell omics research.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students studying under Xiuwei Zhang, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), received awards in April at the Atlanta Workshop on Single-cell Omics (AWSOM 2023). 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This development will enable new ML technologies by allowing designers to see and share their work in action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHelbling presented\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.17108\u0022\u003EManimML\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at IEEE VIS, the world\u2019s highest-rated conference for visualization research and second-highest rated for computer graphics. It received so much praise at the conference that it won the venue\u2019s prize for best poster.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was quite surprised and honored to have received this award,\u201d said Helbling, who is advised by School of Computational Science and Engineering Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u201cI didn\u0027t start ManimML with the intention of it becoming a research project, but because I felt like a tool for communicating ML architectures through animation needed to exist.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[RELATED:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/three-computing-faculty-receive-google-awards-inclusion-research\u0022\u003EPolo Chau is One of Three College of Computing Faculty to Receive 2023 Google Award for Inclusion Research\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML uses animation to show ML developers how their algorithms work. Not only does the tool allow designers to watch their projects come to life, but they can also explain existing and new ML techniques to broad audiences, including non-experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML is an extension of the Manim Community library, a Python tool for animating mathematical concepts. ManimML connects to the library to offer a new capability that animates ML algorithms and architectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHelbling chose familiar platforms like Python and Manim to make the tool accessible to large swaths of users varying in skill and experience. Enthusiasts and experts alike can find practical use in ManimML considering today\u2019s widespread interest and application of ML.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe know that animation is an effective means of instruction and learning,\u201d Helbling said. \u201cManimML offers that ability for ML practitioners to easily communicate how their systems work, improving public trust and awareness of machine learning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML overcomes what has been an elusive approach to visualizing ML algorithms. Current techniques require developers to create custom animations for every specific algorithm, often needing specialized software and experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML streamlines this by producing animations of common ML architectures coded in Python, like neural networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA user only needs to specify a sequence of neural network layers and their respective hyperparameters. ManimML then constructs an animation of the entire network.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo use ManimML, you simply need to specify an ML architecture in code, using a syntax familiar to most ML professionals,\u201d Helbling said. \u201cThen it will automatically generate an animation that communicates how the system works.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML ranked as the best poster from a field of 49 total presentations.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeevis.org\/year\/2023\/welcome\u0022\u003EIEEE VIS 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;occurred Oct. 22-27 in Melbourne, Australia. This event marks the first time IEEE held the conference in the Southern Hemisphere.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML has more than 23,000 downloads and a demonstration on social media has hundreds of thousands of views.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EManimML is open source and available at:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/helblazer811\/ManimML\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/github.com\/helblazer811\/ManimML\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAlec Helbling\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the creator of ManimML, a tool that renders common ML concepts into animation. This development will enable new ML technologies by allowing designers to see and share their work in action.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHelbling presented\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.17108\u0022\u003EManimML\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at IEEE VIS, the world\u2019s highest-rated conference for visualization research and second-highest rated for computer graphics. 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The expanded undergraduate offerings target a wider range of job and research opportunities \u2014 from academia to analytics, NASA to NOAA, meteorology to marine science, climate and earth science, to policy, law, consulting, sustainability, and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usg.edu\/regents\/\u0022\u003EBoard of Regents of the University System of Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E has approved two new specific degrees within the School: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) and Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences (SEP). Regents also approved Environmental Science (ENVS) as an interdisciplinary College of Sciences degree between the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. The existing Earth and Atmospheric Sciences B.S. degree will sunset in two years for new students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are really excited to be able to offer this new interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Environmental Science,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/jls.eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJean Lynch-Stieglitz,\u003C\/a\u003E ADVANCE Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS). \u201cWhile it was developed jointly between the Schools of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological Sciences, it brings together Georgia Tech\u2019s broad expertise and course offerings related to the Earth\u2019s environment from across the Institute.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are excited to see these new programs develop,\u201d added \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/newman-dr-andrew\u0022\u003EAndrew Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and the School\u2019s undergraduate coordinator, \u201cas these degrees highlight the quantitative and computational skills of Georgia Tech students, and align better with their interests in global understanding of problems related to environmental impact and sustainability, natural hazards and landscape development, as well as planetary evolution, habitability, and exploration.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents looking for specific types of programs will also be more understanding of what their program offers,\u201d Newman said. \u201cUnder our current degree, a student interested in ocean science, planetary science, and environmental chemistry all would be looking at the same degree that doesn\u2019t define their interests. Now, having programs with those interests in their name, and described well on the upcoming webpage, will greatly increase their interest in our program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Evolution of EAS at Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENewman also shared that, in Fall 2021, the School surveyed current EAS undergraduate students and recent alumni for feedback and thoughts on the potential degrees. Responses from the community highlighted that the plan for transitioning the existing major could not only help new students hone their academic and career plans, but also help them communicate beyond EAS about their chosen major.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese degrees make it more clear what the student is studying,\u201d shared one student. \u201cBefore, people would ask what my major \u2018even is\u2019 and what kinds of jobs I could get with it. I think the new majors make it more clear.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFinally, Planetary Science!\u201d said another student. \u201cThis degree would go well with a Physics or AE (Aerospace Engineering) certificate or dual degree.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAll about the new Georgia Tech EAS degrees\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe expanded undergraduate degree offerings are designed to continue Georgia Tech\u2019s reputation for academic rigor \u2014\u0026nbsp;and also reflect trends in student interests, as well as current and forecasted needs in the job marketplace.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA key aspect of the new Environmental Science degree program will be its flexibility,\u201d said Lynch-Stieglitz. \u201cStudents will be able to focus their study to support their interests and career goals whether those be in conservation, climate change, or environmental health. We\u2019ve also left space in their program to encourage participation in especially impactful experiences such as study abroad and research projects. Georgia Tech students are fantastic \u2014 well prepared, diverse, smart, hard-working, and passionate. This flexible approach will allow them to become the broadly educated leaders who will envision the solutions to environmental problems that are so urgently needed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore on the new undergraduate degrees and what they will require:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EB.S. 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The degree also builds on Georgia Tech\u2019s existing expertise in Atmospheric Chemistry, Oceanography, Climate Dynamics, Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography, and meteorological research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAOS degree recipients \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ametsoc.org\/index.cfm\/ams\/education-careers\/careers\/career-guides-tools\/preparing-students-for-employment-in-the-private-sector\/\u0022\u003Elooking for jobs\u003C\/a\u003E or graduate research can target the energy sector, insurance risk modeling, broadcast meteorology, consulting, data analytics, aviation, military, and K-12 education, among other positions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EB.S. 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Newman added that there is a critical emerging market need for scientists with expertise in the Earth\u2019s environmental systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ENVS degree will provide a strong base for students pursuing graduate programs and careers in environmental policy, environmental law, medicine, and other master\u2019s and Ph.D. programs in environmentally related disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EB.S. 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I was there for nearly 50 days.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMoore is an expert at collecting data in difficult research environments, traveling to some of the most extreme places on Earth in order to research microbes, and what hints they might give regarding astrobiology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt all started in grad school, when I joined a microbial ecology lab,\u201d Moore recalls. \u201cI pretty quickly learned that I love to do really difficult, challenging projects. I got interested in working around fire, biomass burning and forests, and I started collecting bacteria from the air. That was a challenge in and of itself, just trying to collect these really tiny things while standing in the smoke from the forest fires. But from that I learned that I loved to go out into the environment and collect things and try to understand everything around me.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI have a lot of different projects, but they all connect through astrobiology,\u201d Moore says. \u201cI\u2019m interested in anything that hasn\u0027t been answered yet.\u201d Moore is also leading a project called EXO Methane, which is investigating if different Archaea could survive in Martian and Enceladus-like environments. 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Our goal was to measure these things in the environment.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGathering samples wasn\u2019t easy. \u201cWe set up a lab on the glacier, and we set it up in a trench to try to keep any of the ice cores that we pulled out roughly at the same temperature as the glacier itself,\u201d Moore says. Because of that, \u201cweather was a huge, huge thing. Anytime it would get stormy, the wind would blow all of the snow around, and it would fill the entrance to our trench. We had to dig ourselves out several times. People would put out flags so that you could see your way back to the main house or back to your dorms.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe team hopes that this research will give a more defined record of the past from the Greenland Ice Sheet, improving climate change predictions. 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An ice melter that can be used to take and clean ice samples, the tool is a miniaturized prototype that may be able to help take measurements on Mars, or in similar remote environments in the future.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cBeing able to take a tool that Georgia Tech undergraduates made to Greenland and test it on 600-year-old ice in the field was a really cool experience,\u201d Moore adds. \u201cWe brought Starlink with us, and so I was able to video call the undergraduate team while I was testing their tool, which was really special.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe team is now lab-analyzing ice cores that they brought back from Greenland, unraveling which microbes might be present and potentially active. \u201cIt\u0027s really interesting to see: Is this all chemistry? 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I am so thrilled to be working with world class scientists on cutting edge equipment.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EManis is one of 87 awardees from 58 different universities who will conduct research at 16 DOE national laboratories. The research projects proposed by the new awardees are aligned with the priority mission areas of the DOE Office of Science that have a high need for workforce development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe SCGSR program provides a way for graduate students to enrich their scientific research by engaging with researchers at DOE National Labs, learning from world class scientists, and using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities,\u201d notes \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/person\/dr-asmeret-asefaw-berhe\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAsmeret Asefaw Berhe\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Director of the DOE Office of Science. \u201cIn addition, they get valuable opportunities to network and observe firsthand what it\u2019s like to have a scientific career. I can\u2019t wait to see what these young researchers do in the future. I know they will meet upcoming scientific challenges in new and innovative ways.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EManis, who also earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWallace H. 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The Center supports research on fundamental gas-phase chemical processes important in energy applications.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESCGSR awardees work on research projects of significant importance to the Office of Science mission that address critical energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges at national and international scales. Projects in this new cohort span eight different\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/science\/science-programs\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDOE Office of Science research programs\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EManis\u2019 project falls into the Basic Energy Sciences category. \u201cI am interested in understanding the low energy electron interaction with biomolecules, which is a potential way of causing DNA damage,\u201d he said. \u201cThe research I will conduct at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is to first help in commissioning the DREAM (Dynamic REAction Microscope) end station in the TMO (time-resolved atomic, molecular and optical science) instrument hub.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI have never visited SLAC before, but I am extremely excited to work there,\u201d Manis added. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a change of pace collaborating with another group of scientists, and I can\u2019t wait to start.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. Candidate James X. 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With these predictions, AF2Complex is able to calculate which proteins are likely to interact with each other to form functional complexes in unprecedented detail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe essentially conduct computational experiments that try to figure out the atomic details of supercomplexes (large interacting groups of proteins) important to biological functions,\u201d explained \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/jeffrey-skolnick\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJeffrey Skolnick\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u2019 Professor and Mary and Maisie Gibson Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, and one of the corresponding authors of the study. With AF2Complex, which was developed last year by the same research team, it\u2019s \u201clike using a computational microscope powered by deep learning and supercomputing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn their latest study, the researchers used this \u2018computational microscope\u2019 to examine a complicated protein synthesis and transport pathway, hoping to clarify how proteins in the pathway interact to ultimately transport a newly synthesized protein from the interior to the outer membrane of the bacteria \u2014 and identify players that experiments might have missed. Insights into this pathway may identify new targets for antibiotic and therapeutic design while providing a foundation for using AF2Complex to computationally expedite this type of biology research as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EComputing complexes\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreated by London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind, AlphaFold 2 is a deep learning tool able to generate accurate predictions about the three-dimensional structure of single proteins using just their building blocks, amino acids. Taking things a step further, AF2Complex uses these structures to predict the likelihood that proteins are able to interact to form a functional complex, what aspects of each structure are the likely interaction sites, and even what protein complexes are likely to pair up to create even larger functional groups called supercomplexes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe successful development of AF2Complex earlier this year makes us believe that this approach has tremendous potential in identifying and characterizing the set of protein-protein interactions important to life,\u201d shared \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mu_gao\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMu Gao\u003C\/a\u003E, a senior research scientist at Georgia Tech. \u201cTo further convince the broad molecular biology community, we [had to] demonstrate it with a more convincing, high impact application.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers chose to apply AF2Complex to a pathway in \u003Cem\u003EEscherichia coli\u003C\/em\u003E (\u003Cem\u003EE. coli\u003C\/em\u003E), a model organism in life sciences research commonly used for experimental DNA manipulation and protein production due to its relative simplicity and fast growth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo demonstrate the tool\u2019s power, the team examined the synthesis and transport of proteins that are essential for exchanging nutrients and responding to environmental stressors: outer membrane proteins, or OMPs for short. These proteins reside on the outermost membrane of gram-negative bacteria, a large family of bacteria characterized by the presence of inner and outer membranes, like \u003Cem\u003EE. coli\u003C\/em\u003E. However, the proteins are created inside the cell and must be transported to their final destinations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfter more than two decades of experimental studies, researchers have identified some of the protein complexes of key players, but certainly not all of them,\u201d Gao explained. AF2Complex \u201ccould enable us to discover some novel and interesting features of the OMP biogenesis pathway that were missed in previous experimental studies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ENew insights\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.olcf.ornl.gov\/summit\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESummit\u003C\/a\u003E supercomputer at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOak Ridge National Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, the team, which included computer science undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/davinan.github.io\/dna\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavi Nakajima An\u003C\/a\u003E, put AF2Complex to the test. They compared a few proteins known to be important in the synthesis and transport of OMPs to roughly 1,500 other proteins \u2014 all of the known proteins in \u003Cem\u003EE. coli\u003C\/em\u003E\u2019s cell envelope \u2014 to see which pairs the tool computed as most likely to interact, and which of those pairs were likely to form supercomplexes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo determine if AF2Complex\u2019s predictions were correct, the researchers compared the tool\u2019s predictions to known experimental data. \u201cEncouragingly,\u201d said Skolnick, \u201camong the top hits from computational screening, we found previously known interacting partners.\u201d Even within those protein pairs known to interact, AF2Complex was able to highlight structural details of those interactions that explain data from previous experiments, lending additional confidence to the tool\u2019s accuracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to known interactions, AF2Complex predicted several unknown pairs. Digging further into these unexpected partners revealed details on what aspects of the pairs might interact to form larger groups of functional proteins, likely active configurations of complexes that have previously eluded experimentalists, and new potential mechanisms for how OMPs are synthesized and transported.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince the outer membrane pathway is both vital and unique to gram-negative bacteria, the key proteins involved in this pathway could be novel targets for new antibiotics,\u201d said Skolnick. \u201cAs such, our work that provides molecular insights about these new drug targets might be valuable to new therapeutic design.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond this pathway, the researchers are hopeful that AF2Complex could mean big things for biology research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnlike predicting structures of a single protein sequence, predicting the structural model of a supercomplex can be very complicated, especially when the components or stoichiometry of the complex is unknown,\u201d Gao noted. \u201cIn this regard, AF2Complex could be a new computational tool for biologists to conduct trial experiments of different combinations of proteins,\u201d potentially expediting and increasing the efficiency of this type of biology research as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAF2Complex is an open-source tool available to the public and can be downloaded \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/FreshAirTonight\/af2complex\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was supported in part by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE DE-SC0021303) and the Division of General Medical Sciences of the National Institute Health (NIH R35GM118039).\u0026nbsp;DOI: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.82885\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a new paper published in \u003Cem\u003EeLife,\u003C\/em\u003E School of Biological Sciences and School of Computer Science researchers show how AF2Complex, a deep learning tool designed to predict the physical interactions of proteins, is lending new insights into protein synthesis and transport \u2014 and paving the way to computationally expedite biology research as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers are using AF2Complex, a deep learning tool designed to predict the physical interactions of proteins, to shed light on an important biological pathway \u2014 and pave the way to computationally expedite biology research."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2023-01-03 17:14:14","changed_gmt":"2023-12-14 17:03:35","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657354":{"id":"657354","type":"image","title":"Researchers Jeffrey Skolnick and Mu Gao at the Engineered Biosystems Building at Georgia Tech. 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However, first-year students in the College of Sciences\u2019 \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/explorellc.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EExplore Living Learning Community (Explore LLC)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E got to dive deep into the subject anyway \u2014 which meant reading lots of scientific papers and medical case studies while engaging in research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOffered as a one-credit College of Sciences special topics course, Explore LLC undergraduates who are interested in research and pre-health studies get to learn about special science and mathematics topics that are not regularly offered in a typical curriculum.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe instructors for the new course are postdoctoral scholars and research scientists in the College, including \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlconlin\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPeter Conlin\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, the first instructor to participate in the course.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn addition to research and pre-health course opportunities, Explore LLC gives first-year students majoring in College of Sciences-related disciplines (biology, chemistry and biochemistry, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and psychology) a unique opportunity to live among the highest concentration of science and math majors on campus in the same residence halls.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGeorgia Tech undergraduates often take general education\/core classes in year one and two of their studies. However, undergraduates are also curious about research and advances in science and mathematics, especially in health-related areas and in improving the human condition,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/cameron-tyson\u0022\u003ECam Tyson\u003C\/a\u003E, College of Sciences Assistant Dean. \u201cA special topics course offered for Explore LLC participants was the perfect setting to bring together students with these interests, along with postdoctoral scholars and research scientists interested in sharing their knowledge and experience.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EConlin\u2019s inaugural course, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECOS 3801 HP: Special Topics: Evolutionary Biology in Health and Disease\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, hosted 16 Explore LLC students in the spring of 2023. Below are some of his comments:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETell me how you approached developing this course in a way that would make the subject matter relevant to the Explore students?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPeter Conlin:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe original call for proposals requested \u201ccourses that will be of interest to first-year and sophomore students with a specific interest in a healthcare career and\/or performing undergraduate research.\u201d So, my course, Evolutionary Biology in Health and Disease, was designed from the ground up with this purpose in mind.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI wanted to connect the basic biological research with its medical applications, and encourage students to pursue undergraduate research opportunities. To this end, our in-class discussions, the homework assignments, and the final presentations for the class were all centered on reading and interpreting results from scientific literature and medical case studies. I also featured ongoing research at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cmdi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ewhenever possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI made a point to advertise upcoming out-of-class seminars each week (especially those featuring speakers from Georgia Tech labs). Students could attend and summarize the talk they heard for extra credit points.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAny lasting lessons?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EInitially, I think some of the students were a little shocked that their first assignment was to read a scientific paper for class. (Admittedly, the paper was not an easy one!) But by the end of the semester, after reading seven more papers for class and likely several others for their final presentation, I think they all felt much more confident about their ability to pick up an article, even on an unfamiliar topic, and work their way through it.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHow did teaching the course help you as an instructor?\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt the beginning of the semester, I was consistently overestimating how much material I could get through in a single 50-minute class period. By the end of the semester, I felt that I had a better understanding of how long different activities would take, and we ended up finishing on time much more frequently.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI was so thankful for the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/content\/tech-teaching-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETech to Teaching \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Efor Postdocs class taught by \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/tammy-mccoy-phd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETammy McCoy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (Teaching Assistant Development and Future Faculty Specialist at the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECenter for Teaching and Learning\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E) while I was developing my syllabus. McCoy and College of Sciences Assistant Dean \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/cameron-tyson\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECam Tyson\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E really helped me to make this course a reality, so I\u2019m very grateful to both of them for giving me this opportunity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe feedback from the students?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe feedback from my students was critical to my success as an instructor. I explained to the students at the start of the course that I wanted to improve my teaching, that I would be actively seeking their feedback, and that I would do my best to make changes based on the feedback I received. Some of the changes included modifying the course content, as I did when I saw the level of enthusiasm and participation when we discussed cancer evolution. I revised my syllabus to continue discussions on this topic.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI also changed up homework assignments and in-class activities based on student feedback. This gave students more experiences with reading and discussing research papers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI tried to experiment with different in-class activities and teaching styles, ranging from primarily lecture-based classes with occasional discussion questions, to a \u201cflipped\u201d classroom where students spent the majority of the time discussing the papers they had read in small groups. It was such a great experience to watch the students take such an active role in their learning.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESebastian Horbulewicz, a second-year biochemistry major, was a student in Conlin\u2019s Special Topics course:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI enjoyed the fact that we delved into a wide variety of topics, giving us small pieces with which we could use to build a broader understanding of evolution. Dr. Conlin\u2019s succinct lessons gave me a lot to think about, and introduced me to new aspects of cancer, antibiotic resistance, virulence, and more. 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Without efficient data storage, applications like self-driving cars, life-saving healthcare diagnostics, and responsive voice assistants would fall short of their true potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the forefront of this evolving data storage landscape, a collaboration between the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022\u003ESamsung\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;seeks to substantially decrease the voltage in existing technology, unlocking the full potential of AI systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFinding innovative solutions in data storage is paramount, it\u2019s not just about saving photos or documents anymore. The storage needed is about enabling AI systems to transform how we interact with our devices, the world around us, and even each other,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/asif-islam-khan\u0022\u003EAsif Khan\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ECE) with a joint appointment in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(MSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhan\u0027s lab is spearheading the collaboration which brings together three ECE labs, including those of Professors\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/suman-datta\u0022\u003ESuman Datta\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/shimeng-yu\u0022\u003EShimeng Yu\u003C\/a\u003E. The lead author of the paper is Dipjyoti Das, a postdoctoral fellow under Khan\u0027s supervision. The second author, Hyeonwoo Park, conducts research under Datta. The team is joined by researchers from MSE, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/materials\u0022\u003EInstitute of Materials\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/nano\u0022\u003EInstitute of Electronics and Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E, and a dedicated team from Samsung.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a pivotal era of transformation and opportunity in high-memory compute,\u201d said co-author Suhwan Lim, an engineer at Samsung. \u201cStrategic intersectoral relationships like this between Samsung and Georgia Tech nurture innovative thinking and lead to exciting experiential results that push us all forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdding to the already substantial Georgia Tech presence in the field of computer memory storage, the team\u0027s findings will be featured at the upcoming\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-iedm.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer\u0022\u003EInternational Electron Devices Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IEDM) in San Francisco this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Quest for Voltage Efficiency\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research focuses on improving NAND flash technology found at the core of storage devices like solid-state hard drives, USB sticks, and SD cards. NAND boasts an impressive 1,000-layer 3D architecture, cramming 100 terabytes of data into a minuscule space.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, the critical challenge is NAND\u2019s persistent high voltage requirements. Exceeding 20 volts poses challenges in computing due to increased energy consumption, heat generation, and the risk of damaging electronic components.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNAND has been the backbone of data storage, so our research doesn\u0027t attempt to replace it; it\u0027s an upgrade. We\u0027re boosting NAND\u0027s power and pushing it into the digital storage future,\u201d said Das, who designed and executed experiments, as well as contributed to characterization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Ferroelectric Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper\u2019s groundbreaking proposal aims to revolutionize NAND flash technology by replacing the traditional NAND gate stack \u2014 a multi-layered structure in a transistor essential for controlling the flow of electrical current in semiconductor devices \u2014 with a new ferroelectric structure and a tunneling barrier.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0027s method, introducing aluminum oxide (Al2O3) in the middle of the ferroelectric stack, has dramatically improved data storage capability, reducing voltage requirements by an impressive 40-60%.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, the study reveals that the Al2O3\u0026nbsp;layer functions as a tunnel barrier, impeding electron motion and establishing a dipole, creating an additional electric field that aligns with the polarization direction, boosting device memory performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe experiential findings could transform various sectors, including AI, mobile devices, edge data processing, embedded systems, and overall computing efficiency.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis breakthrough charts a new course towards more efficient, reliable and dense data storage solution,\u201d said Datta, who is the Joseph M. 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Das stresses the importance of understanding, controlling, and clearly defining disturbance specifications. Establishing a well-defined threshold for disturbances is pivotal for achieving widespread commercialization readiness in their research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking alongside industry leaders like Samsung is essential for any endeavor aiming to make a transformative impact in everyday technology,\u201d added Khan. \u201cIt becomes particularly pertinent as we collectively look towards a future dominated by the power required to fuel advancements in AI.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECitation: Dipjyoti Das*, Hyeonwoo Park*, Zekai Wang, Chengyang Zhang, Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran, Chinsung Park, Nashrah Afroze, Po-Kai Hsu, Mengkun Tian, Hang Chen, Winston Chern, Suhwan Lim, Kwangsoo Kim, Kijoon Kim, Wanki Kim, Daewon Ha; Shimeng Yu, Suman Datta, Asif Khan. \u201cExperimental Demonstration and Modeling of a Ferroelectric Gate Stack with a Tunnel Dielectric Insert for NAND Applications.\u201d Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). 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With fabless technology, the company is poised to grow a network of industry partners that catalyzes expansion in the $23 billion power amplifier market.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBorn in Venezuela, Garay developed a passion for using science and engineering to solve problems while repairing machinery on a farm in his hometown. While pursuing doctoral studies at Georgia Tech, he recognized the opportunity to bring innovation to the power amplifier, which had not changed in decades despite the rapid advance of technology and its critical role in devices.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGaray\u2019s research resulted in multiple patents, spurring him to spin out the technology and create Falcomm through assistance from Georgia Tech resources, including\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E. Falcomm is the first company to receive investment from the Georgia Tech Foundation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is proud to support our academic innovators to help them ensure their inventions have real-world impact,\u201d said Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech\u2019s vice president of Commercialization and chief commercialization officer. \u201cThe Office of Commercialization is rapidly expanding our programs and initiatives to build out the largest and most robust entrepreneurial ecosystem at any public university. I am happy to say that Falcomm is the recipient of the first equity investment out of our new Research Impact Fund targeted specifically at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/17\/georgia-tech-students-microchip-startup-reduces-energy-waste-amplifies-power\u0022\u003Espinouts based on Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;intellectual property.\u0022\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Falcomm team was recently bolstered by the addition of pioneering industry leaders who have demonstrated a track record of innovation in telecommunications, wireless, and semiconductors:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThomas Cameron, Ph.D., chief strategy officer,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eis a 35-year veteran of technology research and development in the wireless industry. During a 12-year stint at Analog Devices, Cameron served as chief technology officer of the Communications Business Unit and was a leading evangelist for the adoption of 5G connectivity. He held leadership and engineering roles in the RF industry at Bell Northern Research, Nortel, Sirenza Microdevices, and WJ Communications. Cameron has seven patents in wireless technology and has authored numerous papers and technical articles.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENed Cahoon, director of Foundry and Customer Relationships,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ebrings more than 20 years of RF business development experience across the mobile and wireless infrastructure industries. He helped to stand up IBM\u2019s $1 billion RF business before joining GlobalFoundries in 2016, where he served as a fellow in the office of the chief technology officer. A senior design and go-to-market leader, Cahoon brings experience building networks across foundries, academia, and technology companies.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFor Falcomm, the funding follows quickly on the heels of the company\u2019s selection to the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 in 2023. The company is a graduate of the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pr-inside.com\/berkeley-skydeck-accelerator-presents-batch-12-startups-at-demo-day-r4848718.htm\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBerkeley SkyDeck Accelerator\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eand the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/qualcomm-sponsoring-evonexus-incubator-demo-day-june-26th-2023-301845503.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEvoNexus incubator\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBringing innovation to the tiny power amplifier can have a massive impact on some of the nation\u2019s most pressing challenges. The energy efficiency gains resulting from an increase in power output come at a time of growing urgency around climate change. The ability to manufacture domestically comes at a time when nearshoring is a priority to address cost and supply chain challenges underscored by the global semiconductor shortage and resulting CHIPS Act.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cEdgar and his team are just as inspiring as they are hard-working. They have shown that it\u2019s possible to assemble the talent and operations to innovate on a foundational technology that hasn\u2019t seen meaningful advances in decades anywhere in the country,\u201d said Guy Filippelli, Squadra Ventures\u2019 managing partner. \u201cBy boosting efficiency and manufacturing domestically in the critical semiconductor industry, Falcomm\u2019s innovations will bolster American competitiveness.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe funding will be used to accelerate go-to-market activities with satellite companies and wireless infrastructure manufacturers, advance the company\u2019s patented technology, and expand the team. Falcomm is actively hiring for roles in operations, engineering, and design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/apply.workable.com\/falcomm\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EView job openings\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EATLANTA\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EBALTIMORE\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003E\u2014\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/myfalcomm.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFalcomm\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, the semiconductor company providing ultra-efficient power amplifiers to the wireless communications market, announced that it has raised $4 million in seed funding and hired two industry leaders to accelerate the development of its next-generation Dual-Drive PA and expand its network of hardware manufacturers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seed round includes four investor partners"}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2023-11-29 18:44:24","changed_gmt":"2023-12-05 17:39:43","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672474":{"id":"672474","type":"image","title":"Edgar Garay.jpeg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EEdgar Garay is CEO and founder of Falcomm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1701288041","gmt_created":"2023-11-29 20:00:41","changed":"1701288041","gmt_changed":"2023-11-29 20:00:41","alt":"Edgar Garay headshot","file":{"fid":"255713","name":"Edgar Garay.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/29\/Edgar%20Garay_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/29\/Edgar%20Garay_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1787708,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/29\/Edgar%20Garay_0.jpeg?itok=uOokjybN"}}},"media_ids":["672474"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"655285","name":"GT Commercialization"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"189594","name":"Falcomm"},{"id":"4193","name":"venturelab"},{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor Falcomm:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStephen Babcock,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stephen@squadra.vc\u0022\u003Estephen@squadra.vc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFor Georgia Tech:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nP\u00e9ralte C. 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Proposals are\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Edue on Feb. 1, 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The RFP document describing the application process and several important changes for this year can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/endowed-fellowships\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2024-25 RFP Proposals\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe principal mission of RBI is to incubate and develop interdisciplinary teams of researchers that can establish thought leadership through new bioproduct research directions. Our focus is on pre-competitive, use-inspired research with a technical, economic, or policy focus.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAll supported work needs to address an aspect of bioproducts and the developing bioeconomy\u003C\/strong\u003E. The RBI Fellowship supports this mission by promoting two objectives: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(1)\u0026nbsp; Helping teams of faculty to establish new concepts, publish early results, and develop competitive federal, industry, or foundation proposals in the future. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(2) Training a diverse group of graduate-level professionals who can support the evolving bioproducts R\u0026amp;D workforce.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002***NEW PROGRAM CHANGES***\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlong with Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) stipend and tuition support, RBI will provide $1,000 of materials and supplies funding or a $1,000 credit toward the use of RBI\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/services-overview\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/services-overview\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eanalytical facilities\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe fellowship was formerly called the PSE (Paper Science and Engineering Fellowship). It has been renamed as the RBI Fellowship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe fellowship minor requirement has been changed from 12 hours to nine hours. The minor will consist of two core courses and one elective, described\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/rbi-phd-minor\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/rbi\/rbi-phd-minor\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. 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The findings are part of a new Georgia Tech cybersecurity study that examines the current state of password policies across the internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing a first-of-its-kind automated tool that can assess a website\u2019s password creation policies, researchers also discovered that 12% of websites completely lacked password length requirements.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Li\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESuood Al Roomi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;created the automated assessment tool to explore all sites in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/docs\/crux\u0022\u003EGoogle Chrome User Experience Report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CrUX), a database of one million websites and pages. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELi and Al Roomi\u0027s method of inferring password policies succeeded on over\u0026nbsp;20,000 sites in the database and showed that many sites:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPermit very short passwords\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDo not block common passwords\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EUse outdated requirements like complex characters\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also discovered that only a few sites fully follow standard guidelines, while most stick to outdated guidelines from 2004. The project was 135 times larger than previous works that relied on manual methods and smaller sample sizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnly 28% of the websites studied enforced a password block list, which means thousands of sites are vulnerable to cyber criminals who might try to use common passwords to break into a user\u2019s account, also known as a password spraying attack.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBoth Professor Li and I were excited to take on the challenge,\u201d said Al Roomi. \u201cWith his guidance and our continuous work on both algorithm design and the measurement technique, we were able to fully develop an automated measurement of password creation policy and apply it at scale.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAl Roomi and Li designed an algorithm that automatically determines a website\u2019s password policy. With the help of machine learning, the pair could see the consistency of length requirements and restrictions for numbers, upper- and lower-case letters, special symbols, combinations, and starting letters. They could also see if sites permitted dictionary words or known breached passwords.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs a security community, we\u0027ve identified and developed various solutions and best practices for improving internet and web security,\u201d said Li. \u201cIt\u0027s crucial that we investigate whether those solutions or guidelines are actually adopted in practice to understand whether security is improving in reality.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project began during the height of the pandemic when Al Roomi found a gap in the research literature surrounding website password policies. Through his reading, he discovered that a consensus of his peers did not think a large-scale survey of password policies was possible due to the variety of web design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was exciting to see an identified challenge in the literature and to develop and apply a vision we turned into the measurement tool,\u201d said Al Roomi. \u201cThis research was my first in my Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech and SCP. It is one of the most challenging yet rewarding endeavors I\u0027ve worked on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full report will be presented at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2023\/index.html\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Copenhagen, Denmark, later this month.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity23\/presentation\/al-roomi\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Large-Scale Measurement of Website Login Policies\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was also accepted to the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium earlier this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech cybersecurity researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind automated measurement tool that can assess password protection policies across the internet. 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And thanks to Frontier, the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer, the simulator is even better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Bryngelson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2019s research group manages the Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) software package. His group was one of ten teams selected by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to optimize their simulator in a hackathon held Oct. 31 \u2013 Nov. 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the hackathon, the group crafted MFC to run on Frontier, the world\u2019s only exascale supercomputer. With newfound experience on Frontier, the group is poised to work with exascale machines scheduled to come online soon, like Aurora and El Capitan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team used\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.olcf.ornl.gov\/calendar\/frontier-hackathon-october-2023\/\u0022\u003Ethe hackathon to refine MFC\u003C\/a\u003E, making it more capable for medical, aeronautical, and defense applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mflowcode.github.io\/\u0022\u003EMFC simulates compressible multiphase flows\u003C\/a\u003E, a key issue in many engineering problems. MFC\u2019s high quality simulations help engineers improve technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPotential applications include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ENeedle-free drug injection\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EImproved artificial heart pumps and valves\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EErosion-resistant aircraft surfaces\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EQuieter submarines\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese simulations require a blend of software, like MFC, and the largest supercomputers the government can bring to bear.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMFC is a versatile solver that accounts for flavors of fluid flows like acoustics, surface tension, phase change, high Mach shock waves, and so on,\u201d said Bryngelson, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMFC has other tricks. We can model solid and porous materials, which have been applied to simulations of the breakup of kidney stones for new lithotripsy therapies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore the hackathon, Bryngelson\u0027s group already scaled MFC to the entirety of Summit, another OLCF supercomputer. Summit is based on NVIDIA GPUs, and was the world\u0027s fastest supercomputer from November 2018 to June 2020.\u0026nbsp;Testing MFC on Frontier showed the group how the software performs at its peak on over 30,000 AMD GPUs. As a result, the group configured software to the industry\u2019s two leading hardware vendors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the hackathon, the group resolved a compiler issue that slowed performance by five times. They squashed the bug by hacking a fix in the machine bytecode.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe issue caught the attention of Cray, a manufacturer of Frontier and its compilers. The performance bug likely infests other applications using Frontier. So, MFC\u2019s experience will help Cray further study and prevent similar issues for future users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[Related:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/new-hardware-brings-students-closer-exascale-computing\u0022\u003ENew Hardware Brings Students Closer to Exascale Computing\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRunning on Frontier is about discovering the most challenging engineering problems we can solve, \u201cBryngelson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve tooled MFC to perform exceptionally large simulations on the next generation of leadership-class supercomputers, like Frontier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the U.S. Department of Energy jointly operate Frontier. It jumped to first place on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/top500.org\/lists\/top500\/2023\/11\/highs\/\u0022\u003ETop500\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in June 2022 soon after becoming operational and proving its exascale capability that May. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrontier can compute over one quintillion calculations in a second as an exascale supercomputer. If a person completed a simple math problem every second, that person would need 31.6 billion years to match what Frontier can do in a second.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group accessed research scientists and engineers as mentors throughout the hackathon. Notable assistance came from Steve Abbott of Cray, Brian Cornille of AMD, and Reuben Budiardja of ORNL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMFC stems from Bryngelson\u2019s time at Caltech, dating back to 2018. He worked on the project with Tim Colonius, and the project has collaborators around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBryngelson\u2019s students maintain MFC and participated in the hackathon. These included Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBen Wilfong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAnand Radhakrishnan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and undergraduate students\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Henry Le Berre\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAnsh Gupta\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough the hackathon, the group acquired an education that may not be possible otherwise. They now have experience using a specialized tool to use toward their research,\u201d Bryngelson said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEverything we\u2019re talking about right now is very new, and there is little track record to fall back on, so we\u2019re helping find problems and hacking fixes as we go.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Bryngelson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2019s research group manages the Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) software package. His group was one of ten teams selected by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to optimize their simulator in a hackathon held Oct. 31 \u2013 Nov. 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the hackathon, the group crafted MFC to run on Frontier, the world\u2019s only exascale supercomputer. 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However, solar wind is affected by the magnetosphere, forming the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003Enorthern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora australis) \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eat Earth\u2019s poles, and stretching the spherical shield into having a long \u201ctail\u0022 \u2014 the magnetotail \u2014 which the Moon passes through periodically on its orbit around Earth.\u0026nbsp; When the Moon is in the magnetotail region, it is temporarily shielded from the protons in solar wind, but still exposed to photons from the Sun.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0022This provides a natural laboratory for studying the formation processes of lunar surface water,\u0022 says University of Hawai\u2018i (UH) at M\u0101noa Assistant Researcher \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.higp.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/people\/shuai-li\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EShuai Li\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, who led the research study\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E. \u0022When the Moon is outside of the magnetotail, the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lunar+surface\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Elunar surface\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is bombarded with solar wind. Inside the magnetotail, there are almost no solar wind protons and water formation was expected to drop to nearly zero.\u0022\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESurprisingly, while the Moon was within the magnetotail, and shielded from solar wind, the researchers found that the rate of water formation did not change. Since water was still forming in the absence of solar wind, the researchers began to theorize what could be responsible for forming the water.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBuilding on previous research, Orlando and Jones hypothesized that electrons from Earth could be responsible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA work in progress\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThis work was actually based, in part, on our previous studies examining the role of ionizing radiation in metal-oxide particles present in nuclear waste storage tanks,\u201d Orlando explains, adding that in a previous project as part of an Energy Frontier Research Center called IDREAM, they showed that water forms when a mineral called boehmite is irradiated with electrons produced by energetic particles after radioactive decay.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhile boehmite does not exist on the Moon\u2019s surface, minerals with similar compositions are present, and Orlando and Jones theorized that, like the boehmite, irradiation from electrons might be producing water on lunar surface grains. \u201cDespite the incredibly different physical environments,\u201d Orlando says, \u201cthe chemistry and physics is likely very similar.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe solar wind water cycle has the potential to make huge impacts on human discovery of the Moon and beyond.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u201cWhile some of these water\u0026nbsp;molecules will be destroyed by the Sun, some will eventually\u0026nbsp;make it to the cold spots in permanently shadowed regions at higher latitudes,\u201d Orlando says,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E in \u201cthe regions where some of the planned Artemis landings will be.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe next step? \u201cOur hope is to prove that the hypothesis is correct!\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOrlando and Jones have been studying the role of solar wind on the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ein situ\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E production of water on the\u0026nbsp;Moon,\u0026nbsp;Mercury, and other airless bodies as part of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) center called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reveals.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERadiation Effects on Volatile Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces\u003C\/a\u003E (REVEALS).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe realization that electrons from Earth were part of the dynamic lunar water cycle was a direct result of the interactions of several scientists with diverse backgrounds made possible by the SSERVI support. The work, which will further expand on the solar wind water cycle \u2014 including other sources of energy beyond surface temperature like meteorite and electron impacts \u2014 will continue in a new Georgia Tech-led SSERVI program, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-lead-nasa-center-lunar-research-and-exploration\u0022\u003ECenter for Lunar Environment and Volatile Exploration Research\u003C\/a\u003E (CLEVER).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENew \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENature Astronomy \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eresearch by \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EThom Orlando and Brant Jones \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eshows electrons from Earth may contribute to the formation of water on the Moon\u2019s surface\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E. 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Companies and technologists forget about user input from workers using these systems.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMicrosoft and other major tech companies have\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2022\/04\/Microsoft-New-Future-of-Work-Report-2022.pdf\u0022\u003Eannounced commitments\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eto use technology to foster a culture of meaningful work within the workplace. However, Sheehan said that small businesses often lack the resources and knowledge required to incorporate such beneficial technology. Others design the technology with only productivity in mind and without considering if it makes their employees\u2019 jobs more meaningful.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of research that shows there\u2019s a technology gap, particularly for small businesses,\u201d Sheehan said. \u201cI\u2019m not always advocating for technology as a solution, but I look at what exists critically and ask, \u2018Is this technology doing what we want it to? If the goal is to support workers, how is it doing that?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESheehan worked with a small Georgia-based manufacturing company to conduct an 18-month study. She designed and deployed off-the-shelf tools to automate the company\u2019s shipping and receiving processes that required time and paperwork.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWith the support of researchers from Georgia Tech\u2019s\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute of People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E(IPAT), she customized a wearable and mobile app. The workers used the app to check off critical tasks within the shipping process one by one. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe results were mixed.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESheehan said many ground-floor shipping experts were frustrated by the frequency of having to repack orders because of customer complaints about improper shipping. The workers insisted they\u2019d done the job correctly. The mobile app allowed them to take pictures of each order after packaging for quality assurance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe workers appreciated the feature, but they also provided negative feedback. In some cases, the app required workers to perform tasks contrary to methods that suited them and made them feel productive. It also took away a sense of autonomy and pride in expertise from workers because it instructed them what to do step by step. Instead of making the job easier, workers felt like their superiors didn\u2019t trust them to do the job correctly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt helped in certain areas like not having to take notes on paper anymore and using outdated equipment. However, they struggled to see how it would preserve meaning in their job in terms of working with their hands and doing various tasks at any given time.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe create universal systems and solutions for mobile apps that are often deployed without understanding the context of organizational practices. That\u2019s a problem. Now, the workers have to adapt their processes to make this tool work in practice. They\u2019re being asked to give up how they do things,\u201d Sheehan said.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EShe added that automated technology systems need to go beyond convenience and productivity, and these systems may cause more harm than good if it diminishes meaning and value from workers.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cBy leaving the worker perspective out of the design process, we limit the potential of these technologies,\u201d she said. \u201cProductivity still relies on people being engaged in the process. 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However, the smaller scale of these online attacks has resulted in less attention from security researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy building on developments recently made in cognitive security, Principal Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECourtney Crooks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESneha Talwalkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;are working to bring relief to survivors of domestic abuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe impact of domestic abuse, otherwise called intimate partner violence (IPV), on public health is something that Crooks has been studying for several years through research and practice in her role as a licensed psychologist and researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter seeing how new technology opened new methods of abuse online, Crooks realized she could help fill in the gaps in this research space using her experience working with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SCP) at Georgia Tech, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003EEmory University School of Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo get what they want, abusers try to change their victim\u2019s state of mind through cognitive manipulation and use different tactics to do so. Crooks decided to explore ways to help IPV survivors counteract these enhanced technology-enabled cognitive security risks as they progressed through their recovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe software Crooks and Talwalkar are working to develop would alert survivors to these potential or observed abuses by leveraging well-known, developmentally appropriate, psychologically based learning strategies. The tool will focus solely on the unique risks faced by IPV survivors. Applying human-centered design principles and ethical standards to the AI design will be a top priority for the team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team is working to develop AI-assisted interventions that are psychologically informed and made specifically to focus on the unique risks faced by survivors. These interventions will be designed to take place alongside traditional methods of support, such as mental health and community resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important to understand that abusive relationships are complicated. While some people can escape them, many can\u2019t,\u201d said Crooks. \u201cOr they may physically escape, but resources like their phones, online accounts, or finances may still be vulnerable to their abusers. Survivors may also need to continue to communicate with their abuser, like in instances in which they share children.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegardless of circumstances, it is often difficult for survivors to stop communicating with their abusers once they escape the relationship. This inability to disconnect is because of the psychological connections reinforced while they were with their former partner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe AI technologies Crooks and Talwalkar propose will not act like a ChatGPT chatbot. Instead, it will act like a coach, learning from abusive behavior tactics and potential survivor responses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tool will then make suggestions based on each user\u2019s specific recovery progress and goals while factoring in potential risks. To improve its coaching performance and general knowledge base, the AI will continue to learn from the outcome of each incident survivors face.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe model provides the necessary intervention to assist in the recovery of an IPV survivor,\u201d said Talwalkar. \u201cWe want to use artificial intelligence for good, and this project is a step in that direction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe classes in the SCP master\u2019s program played a pivotal role in shaping Talwalkar\u2019s research in this area. While exploring internet censorship and language models, she recognized the emerging challenges posed by AI in security. After an insightful conversation with SCP Professor Peter Swire, Talwalkar gained the confidence to shift her focus towards investigating malicious intent in immersive environments. With Crooks\u2019 guidance, she began exploring the socio-technical environment of IPV.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDesigning User-Centered Artificial Intelligence to Assist in Recovery from Domestic Abuse\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;was accepted as an extended abstract and presented to the 2023 World Congress Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing event this summer. Proceedings of the IEEE is publishing the work in an upcoming issue. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn May, Crooks, Talwalkar, and others from their research team presented their findings at the Health Sciences Research Day hosted on the Emory University campus by the Emory School of Medicine. Crooks presented her study of the lived experience of coercive control in domestic abuse, from which this current research is derived, at the February 2023 National Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOctober is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/ofvps\/fact-sheet\/october-domestic-violence-awareness-month\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Domestic Violence Awareness Month\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and National\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/staysafeonline.org\/programs\/cybersecurity-awareness-month\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECybersecurity Awareness Month\u003C\/a\u003E. 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894-6260\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jpopham3@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 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across academia and industry.\u0026nbsp;This year 35 early-to-late-stage and recently graduated Ph.D. were selected as Rising Starts from over 100 applicants from dozens of global universities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWan is advised by ECE professors\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/arijit-raychowdhury\u0022\u003EArijit Raychowdhury\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/tushar-krishna\u0022\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/a\u003E. His research interests center around computer architecture, VLSI, and embedded systems, with a focus on building hardware and systems for cognitive intelligence and autonomous machines (such as robots, drones, and unmanned vehicles), aiming to advance their performance, efficiency, resilience, and trustworthy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA highlight of Wan\u2019s work is his award-winning research, \u201cIntelligence in Robotic Computing: Agile Design Flows for Efficient and Resilient Autonomous Machines.\u201d Through synergistic advances in systems, hardware architectures, solid-state technologies, and collective intelligence, Wan led a team in developing an efficient and adaptive hardware accelerator, resilient and robust system optimization, and agile and scalable design methodology for autonomous machine computing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHis research has been recognized by the ECE Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Excellence Award in 2023, IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention in 2023, first place in ACM Student Research Competition in 2022, the CRNCH Ph.D. Fellowship in 2022, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE\/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) in 2020.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs part of the Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star cohort, Wan presented at this year\u2019s rising star program at Google, Mountain View, CA on Aug. 17-18, 2023.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn addition to Wan, three other Georgia Tech Ph.D. students were recognized as Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars: Yonggan Fu, Haoran You, and Yang (Katie) Zhao, all in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe inaugural award from MLCommons recognized Ph.D. candidate Zishen Wan as a \u201cRising Star\u201d in machine learning research.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The inaugural award from MLCommons recognized Ph.D. candidate Zishen Wan as a \u201cRising Star\u201d in machine learning research."}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2023-09-27 19:06:29","changed_gmt":"2023-09-28 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE), were recently selected as finalists for the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) student paper competition. The winner will receive the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/connect.informs.org\/tsl\/awards\/student-paper\u0022\u003ETSL Best Student Paper Award\u003C\/a\u003E, given to an outstanding paper primarily authored by a student(s) and whose topic is of interest to the broad TSL community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOut of a total of 40 submissions, four were designated as finalists. The winner will be chosen at the October 15-18, 2023 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/phoenix2023\/\u0022\u003EINFORMS Annual Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E taking place in Phoenix Arizona, during which the finalists will showcase their work in a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.abstractsonline.com\/pp8\/?__hstc=194041586.d9f5fcca9c3149e571a92839c26bb095.1693633552224.1693633552224.1693633552224.1\u0026amp;__hssc=194041586.2.1693633013809\u0026amp;__hsfp=2180945085\u0026amp;hsCtaTracking=8f511889-324a-41b3-a438-37ad295392e9%7C0c80c5d7-cc8d-4989-9b70-52de4c44b90b#!\/10856\/session\/38\u0022\u003Ededicated session\u003C\/a\u003E. All finalists receive a commemorative plaque, and the winning entrant(s) receives a $500 honorarium. In addition, the winning paper, if not published or under review elsewhere, will be invited for a fast-track review at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/journal\/trsc\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETransportation Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDipayan Banerjee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/trsc.2022.1125\u0022\u003EFleet Sizing and Service Region Partitioning for Same-Day Delivery Systems\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany existing Same-Day Delivery (SDD) studies focus primarily on operational dispatch problems and do not consider system design questions. Furthermore, prior work on SDD system design does not consider the fleet sizing decision when a service region may be partitioned into zones dedicated to individual vehicles (such designs have been shown to improve system efficiency in related vehicle routing settings). Banerjee\u0027s research utilizes a novel approach to addressing two key tactical design challenges when planning an SDD system: figuring out how many delivery vehicles you need and dividing the delivery area into manageable zones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing continuous approximations to capture average-case operational behavior, the problem of independently maximizing the area of a single-vehicle delivery zone is considered first. The approach then characterizes area-maximizing dispatching policies and leverages the results to develop a procedure for calculating optimal areas as a function of a zone\u0027s distance from the depot, given a maximum number of daily dispatches per vehicle. Using minimal computation, the approach specifies fleet sizes and builds vehicle delivery zones that meet operational requirements, verified by simulation results.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESushil Varma\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.10178\u0022\u003EElectric Vehicle Fleet and Charging Infrastructure Planning\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVarma\u0027s research focuses on finding the best way to dispatch electric vehicles to pick up customers while making sure they charge periodically. As customer requests arrive, system operators must determine the minimum number of vehicles and chargers for a given service level, along with a matching and charging policy that maximizes that service level. Varma\u0027s approach provides a sharp characterization of the fleet size and the charging infrastructure requirements as demand grows. The research highlights the fundamental differences between planning for an electric vehicle system and a gas-powered system. To understand the difference, note that serving a customer comprises two steps - \u0026nbsp;pickup and trip, each contributing to the fleet size requirement of the system. As EVs require charging time, they need more vehicles to compensate for the trip part of the service. In turn, the optimal dispatching policy can reduce the EV requirement induced by the pick up part of the service by lowering the pickup times, owing to the extra EVs due to the trip phase. The reduction in the EV requirement depends on the number of charging stations and the size of the EV battery packs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research proposes the \u0022Power-of-d\u0022 dispatching policy, which achieves this performance by selecting the d closest vehicles to a trip request and choosing the one with the highest battery level. Varma also conducted detailed simulations that verified the scaling results. The paper discusses how the results extend to accommodate demand that increases\/decreases repetitively or cyclically over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Dipayan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDipayan Banerjee is a fifth-year ISyE Ph.D. candidate advised by Professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/alan-erera\u0022\u003EAlan Erera\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/alejandro-toriello\u0022\u003EAlejandro Toriello\u003C\/a\u003E. He is broadly interested in optimization for logistics and supply chain management with a focus on modern e-commerce systems. His doctoral research, supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellowship, studies demand management and delivery optimization for e-retail fulfillment. Dipayan was jointly awarded ISyE\u0027s Atlanta Air Cargo Association Fellowship for Ph.D. Research Excellence in Supply Chain Engineering in 2022. In addition to being named a finalist for the 2023 INFORMS TSL Society Best Student Paper Award, he also was a finalist for the 2019 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Sushil\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESushil Varma, also a 5th-year ISyE Ph.D. student, is advised by Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/siva-theja-maguluri\u0022\u003ESiva Theja Maguluri\u003C\/a\u003E. His research interests include queueing theory, game theory, and revenue management with applications in electric vehicles, online marketplaces like ride-hailing, load balancing, and stochastic processing\/matching networks. Sushil was awarded the Stephen. S. 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But funding inequities prevent many HBCUs from providing the necessary infrastructure to perform impactful research, including in the defense space.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is addressing that challenge through its Defense-University Affiliated Research Traineeship (DART) Program. DART\u2019s main goal is to leverage the pipeline of researchers underrepresented in STEM and accelerate their awareness, knowledge, access, and opportunities in research and development (R\u0026amp;D) contracting for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). GTRI launched DART as a pilot program this summer where it partnered with a faculty member and an undergraduate student at Alabama A\u0026amp;M University (AAMU) in Huntsville, Alabama, to conduct research for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation \u0026amp; Missile Center (AvMC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGTRI has benefitted from almost 90 years of DoD research, which has taught us a lot about how to build out our infrastructure,\u201d said Lee Simonetta, a GTRI principal research engineer who serves as DART\u2019s principal investigator (PI). \u201cOur partnership with Alabama A\u0026amp;M was a mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 opportunity, where we provided the research facility and capabilities and they contributed their exceptional talent and expertise as we worked together to address a pressing need for one of our sponsors.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI hosted AAMU\u2019s Kenneth Sartor, an assistant professor of math, and Malcolm Echols, a fourth-year electrical engineering student, at its research facility in Huntsville. Sartor and Echols worked under the guidance of GTRI Principal Research Engineer Eric Grigorian. Grigorian is also the chief engineer and division \u003Cspan\u003Echief of GTRI\u2019s Applied Systems Laboratory\u2019s (ASL) Architecture and Systems Development Division.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003EThe group\u2019s research project involved using machine learning to improve predictive maintenance for the Army\u2019s helicopters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the DoD realm, predictive maintenance is used to predict the failure of the components of weapon and delivery systems so that they can be replaced before they fail. The technique is particularly beneficial for military equipment as its frequent exposure to harsh conditions can make it more prone to wear and tear.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that can rapidly learn from data, identify patterns, and make recommendations with minimal human intervention. The technology could optimize predictive maintenance by collecting and analyzing data in a fraction of the time it takes humans and reduce uncertainties around when assets might fail.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAAMU and GTRI developed and incorporated advanced machine learning algorithms into AvMC\u2019s data repository of helicopter maintenance records to augment its maintenance prediction models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur group developed a few algorithms that AvMC had not yet considered, which was great progress for an initial study,\u201d said Grigorian. \u201cKen\u2019s mathematical background and Malcolm\u2019s technical knowledge really enhanced the solutions we developed, and I enjoyed working with them and learning from them.\u201d\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESartor, who holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology and a master\u2019s and bachelor\u2019s degree \u2013 both in electrical engineering \u2013 from North Carolina A\u0026amp;T University and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), respectively, called his collaboration with GTRI a full-circle moment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis program gave me a chance to kind of take all those skills I developed in my career since graduating from Georgia Tech and apply them this past summer,\u201d Sartor said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining AAMU in 2012, Sartor spent his career in private industry, including working for and ultimately retiring from Northrop Grumman as a systems engineer, where he gained expertise in topics such as algorithm development, modeling and simulation, and systems analysis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the reasons I went into teaching is because both of my parents were teachers and I have always had a passion for giving back to the next generation, including showing students how to use concepts they learn in the classroom to solve real-world problems.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESartor said Echols\u2019 technical skills, including his coding experience, along with his tenacity and eagerness to learn, made him a great fit for the program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEchols said Sartor\u2019s academic and DoD research experience helped him achieve maximum success. He also called DART an eye-opening experience that gave him the confidence to tackle new challenges. Echols will be returning to GTRI to work as a student researcher during the 2023-2024 school year.\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThroughout the summer, Dr. Sartor kept reminding me to not just limit my thinking to the academic world, but to the actual problem we were looking to solve,\u201d Echols said. \u201cIt was a big adjustment, but it also a great experience. I learned a lot.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom FY 2010 to FY 2020, about $67 billion in DoD science and technology funding was awarded to 1,183 institutions of higher education, of which 157, or about 13%, were HBCUs or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs), according to a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/read\/26399\/chapter\/1\u0022\u003Erecent study\u003C\/a\u003E from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. But HBCUs and MSIs received only 1.3% of the total DoD research funding awarded to all institutions of higher education, the data found.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study identified three areas as crucial for HBCUs and MSIs to build their capacity and compete for DoD funding: One, a strong institutional research and contract base, including appropriate physical research facilities and skilled research support to enable competitiveness; two, research faculty support, including an articulated vision and support for a research climate and culture by institutional leadership, faculty teaching workloads that allow time for research pursuits, and department\/college-based research staff and administrative support; and three, ancillary services, including effective human resources processes and legal\/contracting assistance, and robust government relations teams.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAll of these schools share a similar story \u2013 they have talented, capable people, but are held back by a lack of infrastructure,\u201d said William H. Robinson, GTRI\u2019s deputy director for research for its Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate (ICSD). \u201cFor this pilot, we were able to navigate that challenge and I believe this is an area where GTRI can continue to provide mentorship going forward.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELooking ahead, GTRI aims to expand DART to other HBCUs throughout the country.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOne of our goals from the beginning was to develop champions, both faculty and students, at HBCUs who can advocate for the importance of DoD research,\u201d said GTRI Principal Research Engineer Erick Maxwell, who first developed the idea for the DART Program. \u201cAs we think about expanding this program to other HBCUs, we have this example of success through our work with Alabama A\u0026amp;M that we can continue to build on.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGTRI\u2019s Huntsville Research Center (HRC) is the development and technology home for Army air defense systems, missile defense systems, and rotary wing aviation technology, among many other projects. GTRI Huntsville provides on-site research and engineering solutions and has a deep reach-back to GTRI\u2019s Atlanta-based laboratories.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWriter: Anna Akins\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EPhotos: Sean McNeil\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EGTRI Communications\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EAtlanta, Georgia\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Emillion of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0027s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThrough the Defense-University Affiliated Research Traineeship (DART) Program, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is addressing the challenge of many HBCUs receiving the necessary infrastructure to perform impactful research, including in the defense space. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EGTRI launched DART as a pilot program this summer, where it partnered with a faculty member and an undergraduate student at Alabama A\u0026amp;M University (AAMU) in Huntsville, Alabama, to conduct research for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation \u0026amp; Missile Center (AvMC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI launches its pilot Defense-University Affiliated Research Traineeship (DART) Program to leverage the pipeline of researchers underrepresented in STEM and accelerate their access and opportunities in research and development for the DoD."}],"uid":"35832","created_gmt":"2023-09-26 14:24:32","changed_gmt":"2023-09-26 14:36:59","author":"Michelle Gowdy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671831":{"id":"671831","type":"image","title":"GTRI Principal Research Engineer Eric Grigorian (left) leads a flight simulator presentation at GTRI\u0027s Huntsville Research Center","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGTRI Principal Research Engineer Eric Grigorian (left) served as the DART advisor for AAMU as they developed machine learning algorithms to improve predictive maintenance for the Army\u0027s helicopters. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ewas selected as a finalist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/Recognizing-Excellence\/INFORMS-Prizes\/George-Nicholson-Student-Paper-Competition\u0022\u003ENicholson Student Paper Competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.informs.org\/Recognizing-Excellence\/INFORMS-Prizes\/George-Nicholson-Student-Paper-Competition\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe George Nicholson Committee Competition is held each year to identify and honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and management sciences written by a student.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis year they received a record number of 139 submissions and only six were selected as finalists.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAll finalists are invited to present their papers in the Nicholson Student Paper special sessions at the INFORMS Annual \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMeeting\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E in Phoenix, AZ. The winner(s) will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2301.03493\u0022\u003E\u201cMean-field Analysis for Load Balancing on Spatial Graphs,\u201d \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Esolves a long-standing open problem in load balancing, which \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Edates back to\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E the 90s. The paper introduces a novel approach to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eestablish\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E a mean-field approximation for systems which have data locality constraints between tasks and servers. The paper extends\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E the applicability of mean-field analysis \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Efar \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ebeyond traditional assumptions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDaan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E received his B.S. in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and his M.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Eindhoven, University of Technology. His Ph.D. research focuses on the performance of large-scale systems and the optimization thereof by incorporating machine learning algorithms and making smart design decisions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHis \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eprevious\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E work has studied how to structure cloud networks in the presence of task-server constraints, how to implement machine learning predictions while \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Emaintaining\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E robustness and how to learn \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eoptimal\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E decision policies in dynamic environments. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHe is a recipient of the Stewart Fellowship, the ARC-TRIAD Fellowship, a finalist for the Alice and John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Research Award and the INFORMS Junior Faculty Paper Award and has been awarded the ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper Award.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDaan Rutten, a Ph.D. student in Operations Research at the H. 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Dozens of College of Sciences students were honored during \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/specialevents.gatech.edu\/events\/student-honors\u0022\u003ETech\u2019s Student Honors Celebration\u003C\/a\u003E, held on April 19 at the Academy of Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeaching excellence was also honored through Georgia Tech Teaching Assistant Awards and special certificates during the Institute\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/content\/awards\u0022\u003ETeaching Assistant (TA) and Future Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E ceremonies, also held on April 19, at the Exhibition Hall Midtown Ballroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us in congratulating these special recipients across our College of Sciences community:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/loveaward.oue.gatech.edu\/provost-excellence-award\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProvost\u2019s Academic Excellence Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 2021, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oue.gatech.edu\/2023-provosts-academic-excellence-award\u0022\u003EProvost\u2019s Academic Excellence Award\u003C\/a\u003E was created to recognize the remaining finalists of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/loveaward.oue.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELove Family Foundation Award\u003C\/a\u003E (awarded this year to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/loveaward.oue.gatech.edu\/#winner\u0022\u003EKaris Wang\u003C\/a\u003E). Each student is a graduating senior and represents the most outstanding scholastic record from their college. Finalists receive a $2,000 award, generously sponsored by the Love Family Foundation, and recognition at the annual Student Honors program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of this year\u2019s recipients of the Provost\u2019s Academic Excellence Award is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elena-cabrera-gatech\/\u0022\u003EElena Cabrera\u003C\/a\u003E, who is graduating from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E. Cabrera conducted three years of research in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hertzoglab.psychology.gatech.edu\/lab-members\/\u0022\u003EAdult Cognition Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, earning her the College of Sciences Dean\u2019s Scholarship and Early Research Award. She has also served as Psychology Association president and received two Tower Awards from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/student-support\/omed\/about-omed\/omed-events\/tower-awards\u0022\u003EOffice of Minority Educational Development\u003C\/a\u003E. After graduation, Cabrera plans to pursue social and cultural psychological research on her path to becoming a psychology professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther recipients include \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/arul-gupta-named-poets-quants-2023-best-brightest-business-major.html\u0022\u003EArul Gupta\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kevinyli\/\u0022\u003EKevin Li\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jacob-young-541406197\/\u0022\u003EJacob Young\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterflais\/\u0022\u003EPeter Lais\u003C\/a\u003E from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oue.gatech.edu\/2023-provosts-academic-excellence-award\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead more\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHonors Program Outstanding Student Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award was established in fall 2022 to honor one graduating student who best exemplifies the Honors Program during their time at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first ever recipient of this award is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sasorme\/\u0022\u003ESarah Sorme\u003C\/a\u003E, a graduating \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eneuroscience\u003C\/a\u003E major who has been active in the Honors Program. Sorme has had many leadership roles within the Honors Program during her time at Georgia Tech, including serving on two committees \u2014 the New Student Committee and the Community Outreach Committee \u2014 acting as a first-year retreat guide, and serving as editor of the Honors Program newsletter (The HyPe). She also served as co-director of the Honors Leadership Council and was instrumental in guiding the Program through the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Sarah wants to use her cognitive science knowledge and leadership experiences to develop human-centered technology to improve society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oue.gatech.edu\/node\/2215\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead more\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E about Sorme.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERoger M. Wartell and Stephen E. Brossette Award for Multidisciplinary Studies in Biology, Physics, and Mathematics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award is presented to an undergraduate student with demonstrated accomplishments at the interface of biology with either physics or mathematics. The award was established by a generous donation from alumnus Stephen E. Brossette in recognition of the many contributions of Roger M. Wartell to the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2023 winner, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/julianne-tijani-4b99861a2\/\u0022\u003EJulianne Tijani\u003C\/a\u003E, is a physics major who has conducted research on the evolution of yeast, antibiotic-resistant infections, and cystic fibrosis. She has participated in the National Science Foundation\u2019s (NSF) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/crssprgm\/reu\/\u0022\u003EResearch Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)\u003C\/a\u003E program, and was recognized as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/bio\/petit-undergraduate-research-scholars-program\u0022\u003EPetit Scholar.\u003C\/a\u003E Julianne has also served as a teaching assistant in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, a student assistant for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/explorellc.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEXPLORE living learning community\u003C\/a\u003E, and a medical scribe at Emory University Hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA. Joyce Nickelson and John C. Sutherland Undergraduate Research Award\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award was created by the endowment gift of Joyce E. Nickelson and John C. Sutherland to honor Joyce\u2019s late mother, alumna A. Joyce Nickelson, and Sutherland. The scholarship, which recognizes excellence at the interface of mathematics and physics, is awarded to an undergraduate student who has jointly studied mathematics and physics, and who has engaged in scientific research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENickelson-Sutherland award winner \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lance-lampert-9544bb1bb\/\u0022\u003ELance Lampert\u003C\/a\u003E is completing degrees in physics and mathematics. He has been a research assistant at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, has taken part in the University of Michigan NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program, and will be conducting research at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/home.cern\/\u0022\u003ECERN\u003C\/a\u003E particle accelerator facility in Switzerland this summer. He is also a leader in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/qca\u0022\u003EQuantum Computing Association\u003C\/a\u003E, maintains the web infrastructure for Georgia Tech\u2019s student radio station \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wrek.org\/\u0022\u003EWREK\u003C\/a\u003E, and hosts a show on the channel.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECynthia L. Bossart and James Efron Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis honor was created by alumna Cindy Bossart to recognize high academic achievement by a student in the College of Sciences who is a non-Georgia resident.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/veronikavessigault\/\u0022\u003EVeronika Vessigault\u003C\/a\u003E is the 2022-3 recipient of this award and is a mathematics major with a minor in computational data analysis. She is currently taking graduate-level numerical linear algebra, and she studied in Hungary as part of the Budapest Semester in Mathematics. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics and an academic career. While at Tech, she volunteered close to 100 hours teaching high school and community college students and served as a teaching assistant in both the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMetha Phingbodhipakkiya Memorial Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis honor was established by Maranee Phingbodhipakkiya to honor her father, his love for physics, and the sacrifices he made to assure that she would have the finest education. This award is made to a junior or senior in the College of Sciences based on academic merit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe recipient of this award, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/saima-firoj-08368b206\/\u0022\u003ESaima Firoj\u003C\/a\u003E, is a biochemistry major who is also completing minors in Spanish and health and medical sciences. She has conducted research on the structure and aggregation patterns of membranes through cryo-electron microscopy to aid in drug development and delivery, and on the biochemical origins of life. She has also volunteered extensively in the medical field. \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert A. Pierotti Memorial Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Sciences presents this scholarship in honor of Robert \u201cBob\u201d Pierotti, past dean of the College and founder of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC)\u003C\/a\u003E. The award is made to top graduating seniors in the College who have excelled both academically and in research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three recipients of the 2022 Pierotti Award are \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thiago-esslinger\/\u0022\u003EThiago Esslinger\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andrew-ji-020133191\/\u0022\u003EAndrew Ji\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ELila Nassar\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEsslinger\u003C\/strong\u003E is majoring in both biochemistry and earth and atmospheric sciences. During his time as an undergraduate, Esslinger conducted research with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ibes.brown.edu\/people\/kim-cobb\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E, former professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E who now serves as the director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ibes.brown.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute at Brown for Environment and Society\u003C\/a\u003E. His research aimed to investigate the influence of symbiont community composition on coral geochemical proxy records in the central equatorial Pacific. In addition, he has worked as a study abroad teaching assistant, and has received a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/content\/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards\u0022\u003EPresident\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E as well as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-student-sustainability-champions\u0022\u003ESustainability Student Champions Award\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJi \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a biology major with a minor in computing and intelligence. He is a researcher in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, where he works with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/francesca-storici\u0022\u003EFrancesca Storici\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 professor and associate chair for Graduate Education in the School \u2014 to sequence the genome of a species of yeast. He also serves as a teaching assistant for the Bioethics and Integrative Genetics course, for which he was recognized as the School of Biological Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Assistant of the Year. Ji has also done considerable volunteer work in clinics and hospitals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENassar\u003C\/strong\u003E is a physics major with a concentration in the physics of living systems. Nassar has a broad set of research experiences with faculty \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/martin-mourigal\u0022\u003EMartin Mourigal\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/jennifer-curtis\u0022\u003EJennifer Curtis\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. Nassar has also served as the secretary and president of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E Georgia Tech Society of Women in Physics\u003C\/a\u003E. In summer 2021, Nassar also participated in the NSF REU program at Vanderbilt University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Sciences Undergraduate Research Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate research awards are made to students in the College of Sciences who have made strong contributions to research over a number of semesters. This year\u2019s winners were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chelsea-bekemeier\/\u0022\u003EChelsea Bekemeier\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lydia-kenney-809962196\/\u0022\u003ELydia Kenney\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EDimitrios Kidonakis\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/evelyn-gardolinski\/\u0022\u003EEvelyn Gardolinski\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBekemeier\u003C\/strong\u003E is graduating from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E with a concentration in meteorology. Bekemeier conducts research with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/huey-dr-greg\u0022\u003EGreg Huey\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the School, and has contributed to controlled burning experiments in Fort Columbus, GA, as well as the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/research-aircraft-investigate-monsoon-climate-connections\u0022\u003EAsian Summer Monsoon Chemical and CLimate Impact Project\u003C\/a\u003E (ACCLIP) based in South Korea. She has also been dedicated to outreach endeavors, serving as a STEM educator for iFLY Indoor Skydiving and a Superheroes Club Educator at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.awakeneducationllc.com\/superheroes-club\u0022\u003EAwaken Education LLC\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKenney \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a biochemistry major who began working with Raquel Lieberman, professor and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/news\/raquel-lieberman-named-first-chair-alumna-funded-effort-boost-women-faculty-chemistry-and\u0022\u003ESepcic-Pfiel Endowed Chair\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E in 2020. She was named a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.beckman-foundation.org\/people\/lydia-kenney\/\u0022\u003EBeckman Scholar\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry and biological sciences \u2014 in 2021, conducting metagenomics research on deep sea sediments to identify novel binding proteins. Throughout her work with Lieberman, Kenney has won the best poster competition at the 36th Annual \u003Cem\u003EProtein Society Symposium \u003C\/em\u003Ein San Francisco, CA, and co-authored a manuscript.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKidonakis\u003C\/strong\u003E is a mathematics major who began research as a high schooler in 2018. Working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/services.math.duke.edu\/~jdr\/\u0022\u003EJoseph Rabinoff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor at Duke University formerly in Georgia Tech\u2019s the School of Mathematics, Kidonakis conducted a research project on arithmetic geometry which won the award for best project in mathematics at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair. During his time at Tech, Kidonakis has also worked with School of Mathematics professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ib.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIgor Belegradek\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mattbakermath\/home\u0022\u003EMatt Baker\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGardolinski\u003C\/strong\u003E is graduating from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuro.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EUndergraduate Program in Neuroscience\u003C\/a\u003E, and began doing research with Tim Cope, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, in 2020. Gardolinski conducted her research thesis with Cope, which aimed to develop a large data base on molecular mechanisms underlying signaling by specialized sensory receptors responsible for movement perception. She has also served as a teaching assistant, a peer advisor, and as the vice president of finance for Georgia Tech\u2019s Red Cross Club.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELarry O\u2019Hara Graduate Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis honor is provided by an endowment bequeathed by alumnus Larry O\u2019Hara. It is presented to outstanding graduate students in the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAll of the 2023 winners have established a strong record of research with multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as multiple conference presentations:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/xliu729.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EXiaonan Liu\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/aaron-pfennig\u0022\u003EAaron Pfennig\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, Quantitative Biosciences program, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELiu\u003C\/strong\u003E is currently studying structural graph theory, extremal combinatorics, and graph coloring with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/xingxing-yu\u0022\u003EXingxing Yu\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Mathematics and the director of Graduate Studies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPfennig\u003C\/strong\u003E\u2019s research interests include theoretical and empirical population genetics of admixed populations. He currently works with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-lachance\u0022\u003EJoseph Lachance\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, to examine admixture of modern humans with archaic hominins.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeaching Assistant Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Science had several winners among the \u003Cstrong\u003E2023 Georgia Tech Teaching Assistant Awardees\u003C\/strong\u003E. The awards are presented annually by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Teaching and Learning\u003C\/a\u003E to celebrate the contributions to teaching excellence at Georgia Tech made by graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUndergraduate Teaching Assistant of the Year\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bret-min-hendricks\/\u0022\u003EBret Hendricks\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics \u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Teaching Assistants of the Year\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/santana-afton\u0022\u003ESantana Afton\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markace-rainey-167757147\/\u0022\u003EMarkace Rainey\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/leo-wood\u0022\u003ELeo Wood\u003C\/a\u003E, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Student Instructor of the Year:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/james-anderson\u0022\u003EJames Anderson\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics \u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral students also won Teaching Assistant Awards at the school level:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUndergraduate Teaching Assistant Award:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/charlotte-carl\u0022\u003ECharlotte Carl\u003C\/a\u003E, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hoganpeer\/\u0022\u003EBenjamin Peer\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Teaching Assistant Award:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexbcosta\/\u0022\u003EAlex Costa\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/erin-griffith-6a0a6ba\/\u0022\u003EErin Griffith\u003C\/a\u003E, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/drupal.psychology.gatech.edu\/tiffany-nguyen\u0022\u003ETiffany Nguyen\u003C\/a\u003E, Psychology\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraduate Student Instructor Award:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cassie-shriver\/?trk=public_profile_browsemap\u0022\u003ECassandra Shriver\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/terri-dunbar-37645955\/\u0022\u003ETerri Dunbar\u003C\/a\u003E, Psychology\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOnline Teaching Assistant Award:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cstrong\u003EMollene Denton\u003C\/strong\u003E, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETech to Teaching Certificates\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETech to Teaching Certificates are designed to prepare Georgia Tech graduate and postdoctoral associates for college teaching positions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough this certificate program, participants will develop a thorough understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning, and will demonstrate their ability to apply these skills in the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe following College of Sciences students were awarded Tech to Teaching Certificates:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/austin-christian\u0022\u003EAustin Christian\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cool.gatech.edu\/node\/58\u0022\u003ERebecca Guth-Metzler\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sknavel3.math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESierra Knavel\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katie-m-kuo-1a9b4351\/\u0022\u003EKatie Kuo\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kavita-matange-b8208974\/\u0022\u003EKavita Matange\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/athulyaram\/\u0022\u003EAthulya Ram Sreedharan Nair\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-saccuzzo-189650185\/\u0022\u003EEmily Saccuzzo\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/breanna-shi-b2247a1b9\/\u0022\u003EBreanna Shi\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cosmo.gatech.edu\/members\/danielle-skinner\/\u0022\u003EDanielle Skinner\u003C\/a\u003E, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECenter for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Certificates\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a member institution in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/grad-students\/preparing-faculty\/cirtl\u0022\u003ECIRTL\u003C\/a\u003E national network, Georgia Tech joins with 39 other universities on a mission to improve undergraduate education through the preparation of future faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParticipants in these certificate programs learn about how students learn, how differences among students affect their learning, evidence-based teaching and assessment practices, and teaching with technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParticipants who complete these foundation-level learning outcomes through a combination of coursework, workshops, or online learning, receive the CIRTL Associate certificate.  \u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe following College of Sciences students were awarded CIRTL Certificates:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/stephanie-bilodeau\u0022\u003EStephanie Bilodeau\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/katherine-booth\u0022\u003EKatherine Booth\u003C\/a\u003E, Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abigail-diering-5528b1125\/\u0022\u003EAbigail Diering\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELuke Foster\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eliza-gazda\/\u0022\u003EEliza Gazda\u003C\/a\u003E, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/chad-henshaw\u0022\u003EChad Gomard-Henshaw\u003C\/a\u003E, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/sarah-gonzalez\u0022\u003ESarah Gonzalez\u003C\/a\u003E, Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EErin Griffith\u003C\/strong\u003E, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Guth-Metzler\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brian-hack-444031171\/\u0022\u003EBrian Hack\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbigail Hagwood\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kamisha-hill-9996a6164\/\u0022\u003EKamisha Hill\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mary-kho\u0022\u003EMary Kho\u003C\/a\u003E, Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKatie Kuo\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/silva.chemistry.gatech.edu\/group-members\/\u0022\u003ERavyn Malatesta\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKavita 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This year, she also wanted to make new friends \u2014\u0026nbsp;and got the opportunity to do both at Georgia Tech this summer thanks to the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/summer-research\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E program.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt was just a completely different experience,\u201d Brunner said. \u201cI was able to find a balance between research and socializing, because a lot of research \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eis\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E socializing. You\u0027re working with different people, you\u0027re working in different labs, or working with different areas of science. So this idea of socializing and networking, the relaying of information that different people have, it\u0027s just amazing.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEvery school in the Georgia Tech College of Sciences now offers a summer NSF REU. The Human Neuroscience Research and Techniques program that Brunner attended is led by the School of Psychology. The REU program is funded by the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENational Science Foundation (NSF)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe NSF\u2019s goal is to involve visiting students in high-quality mentored research programs with access to appropriate facilities, along with professional development and cohort building opportunities,\u201d says \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/david-m-collard\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDavid Collard\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, senior associate dean in the College of Sciences and a former director of REU programs in the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E for more than a decade. \u201cThey help to better inform each participant\u2019s decision about whether to pursue graduate studies. It is a credit to our programs that a majority of their recent participants have gone on to top graduate schools, some at Georgia Tech and others elsewhere.\u0022\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe NSF leverages the REU program to boost participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The organization estimates that several million additional people, specifically more individuals from groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields, are needed for the country\u2019s science and engineering workforce, to better reflect the demographics and representation of the U.S. population.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0022I am delighted that each of our schools is able to contribute to NSF\u0027s vision for the development of the future STEM workforce in the U.S.,\u0022 added Collard.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe College of Sciences spoke to several undergraduates who gave presentations at the REU poster sessions in July:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEmily Almgren, Mathematics REU, rising senior, Haverford College\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENot many undergraduates get a chance to conduct research before they get their B.S. degree. How important is that to you?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIt\u0027s really important for figuring out whether I want to do research, whether I want to go to graduate school, and also what area of research I want to go into. it\u0027s really hard to know what kind of research you want to do without having done that research. So our views are really important for forming that decision of where to apply to grad school.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJessica Brunner, Psychology\/Neuroscience REU, rising senior, Spelman College\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhat was your experience in this year\u2019s REU?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cAt first glance, it may seem daunting, but Spelman\u2019s motto is to \u2018forever remain undaunted\u2019. So I came in with this ideology that I was going to be ready, and I was going to tackle anything that came my way, ready to do some hardcore research, and just experience what it\u0027s like to be a graduate student for a summer. This just solidified it more for me that this is definitely something that I see myself doing in the future, and I will be pursuing a Ph.D. after I graduate Spelman College.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMarygrace Fagan, Physics REU, rising junior, Purdue University\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhat was your experience with the mentors you worked with in the Physics REU?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cEveryone in my lab has been super helpful. The grad students who are mentors are totally willing to help me whenever I have a question. I\u0027ve learned a ton. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/claire-berger\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EClaire Berger\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (professor of the practice in the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E) is my mentor, and she\u2019s very good at explaining things. And you can tell she knows what she\u2019s talking about. She co-wrote one of the first research papers on graphene. That\u2019s so cool.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHector G. Torres De Jesus, Biological Sciences REU, rising junior, University of Puerto Rico\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhy did you decide to attend this REU at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI\u2019m very interested in microbiology and marine biology, and the University of Puerto Rico is the only campus on the island that has marine biology as a major. We don\u2019t have a lot of research opportunities there, so my mentor suggested an internship or undergraduate program in the U.S. because that way, you can find more marine biology courses. I read that \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-dr-jennifer\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (associate professor in the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E) had worked with microbiology and water microorganisms. 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Resulting benefits include improved accuracy, increased efficiency, and reduced computational costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped by Georgia Tech researchers, the ScaleFL framework advances federated learning, which is an ML approach inspired by the personal data scandals of the past decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFederated learning (FL), a term coined by Google in 2016, enables a DNN model to be trained across decentralized devices or servers. Because data aren\u2019t centralized with this approach, threats to data privacy and security are minimized.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FL process begins with sending the initial parameters of a global DNN model to smartphones, IoT devices, edge servers, or other participating devices. These edge clients train their local version of the model using their unique data. All local results are aggregated and used to update the global model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe process is repeated until the new model is fully trained and meets its design specifications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFederated learning works best when remote clients involved in training a new DNN model have comparable computational power and bandwidth. But training can bog down if some participating remote-client devices have limited or fluctuating computing resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn most real-life applications computational resources tend to differ significantly across clients. This heterogeneity prevents clients with insufficient resources from participating in certain FL tasks that require large models,\u201d said School of Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. student Fatih Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFederated learning should promote equitable AI practice by supporting a resource-adaptive learning framework that can scale to heterogeneous clients with limited capacity,\u201d said Ilhan, who is advised by Professor Ling Liu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIlhan is the lead author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/openaccess.thecvf.com\/content\/CVPR2023\/papers\/Ilhan_ScaleFL_Resource-Adaptive_Federated_Learning_With_Heterogeneous_Clients_CVPR_2023_paper.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScaleFL: Resource-Adaptive Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Clients\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which he is presenting at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cvpr2023.thecvf.com\/\u0022\u003E2023 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\u003C\/a\u003E. CVPR 23 is set for June 18-22 in Vancouver, Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreating a framework that can adaptively scale the global DNN model based on a remote client\u2019s computing resources is no easy feat. Ilhan says the balance between a model\u2019s basic and complex feature extraction capabilities can be easily thrown out of whack when manipulating the number of neurons or the number of neuron layers of a DNN model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince a deeper model is more capable of extracting higher order, complex features while a wider model has access to a finer resolution of lower-order, basic features, performing model size reduction across one dimension causes unbalance in terms of the learning capabilities of the resulting model,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team overcomes these challenges in part by incorporating early exit classifiers into ScaleFL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese ML-based tools are designed to optimize accuracy and efficiency by introducing intermediate decision points in the classification process. This capability enables a model to complete an inference task as soon as it is confident in its prediction, without having to process the whole model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cScaleFL injects these classifiers to the global model at certain layers based on the model architecture and computational constraints at each complexity level. This enables forming low-cost local models by keeping the layers up to the corresponding exit,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTwo-dimensional scaling with splitting the model along depth and width dimensions yields uniformly scaled, efficient local models for resource-constrained clients. As a result, not only does the global model achieves better performance compared to baseline FL approaches and existing algorithms, but local models at different complexity levels also perform significantly better for clients that are resource-constrained at inference time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe exit classifiers that help balance a model\u2019s basic and complex features also play into the second part of ScaleFL\u2019s secret sauce, self-distillation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESelf-distillation is a form of knowledge distillation, which has been used to transfer knowledge from a \u2018teacher\u2019 model to a smaller \u2018student\u2019 model. ScaleFL applies this process within the same network by comparing early predictions made by the exit classifiers (students) and the final predictions of the last exit (teacher) of local models during optimization. This technique prevents isolation and improves the knowledge transfer among subnetworks of different levels in ScaleFL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIlhan and his collaborators extensively tested ScaleFL on three image classification datasets and two natural language processing datasets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur experiments show that ScaleFL outperforms existing representative heterogeneous federated learning approaches. In local model evaluations, we were able to reduce latency by two times, and the model size by four times, all while keeping the performance loss below 2%,\u201d said Ilhan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science researchers have developed a new framework that advances federated learning, a distributed, real-time approach for training deep neural network models. 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Kumar\u2019s group offers to those discussions their work that focuses on robustness in AI models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSecurity of AI models is paramount. Development of reliable and responsible AI models are important discussion topics at the national and international levels,\u201d Kumar said. \u201cAs Large Language Models become part of the backbone of many products and tools with which users will interact, it is important to understand when, how, and why these AI models will fail.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/acl-2023\/\u0022\u003EMICROSITE: Georgia Tech at ACL 2023\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERobustness refers to the degree to which an AI model\u2019s performance changes when using new data versus training data. To ensure that a model performs reliably, it is critical to understand its robustness.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETrust is of essential value within robustness, both for researchers that work in AI and consumers that use it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeople lose trust in AI technology when models perform unpredictably. This issue is relevant in the ongoing societal discussion about AI security. Investigating robustness can prevent, or at least highlight, performance issues arising from unmodeled behavior and malicious attacks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDeep Learning for Every Kind of Media\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne aspect of AI robustness Kumar\u2019s group will present at ACL 2023 delves into multimodal deep learning. Using this method, AI models receive and apply data through modes ranging from text, images, video, and audio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/pubs\/multimodal-robustness-xmai-acl2023.pdf\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;presents a way to evaluate multimodal learning robustness called Cross-Modal Attribute Insertions (XMAI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EXMAI found that multimodal models perform poorly in text-to-image retrieval tasks. For example, adding more descriptive wording in search text for an image, like from \u201cgirl on a chair\u201d to \u201clittle girl on a wooden chair,\u201d caused the correct image to be retrieved at a lower rank.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar\u2019s group determined this when XMAI outperformed five other benchmarks in two different task retrieval tests.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy conducting experiments in a sandbox setting to identify the plausible realistic inputs that make multimodal models fail, we can estimate various dimensions of a model\u2019s robustness,\u201d said Kumar. \u201cOnce these shortcomings are identified, these models can be updated and made more robust.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELabels Matter When It Comes to Adversarial Robustness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrompt-based few-shot learning (FSL) is another class of AI models that, like multimodal learning, uses text as input.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile FSL is a useful framework for AI to improve task performance when labeled data is limited, Kumar\u2019s group points out in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/pubs\/few-shot-adversarial-robustness-acl2023.pdf\u0022\u003Etheir ACL findings paper\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that there is limited understanding of the methods\u2019 adversarial robustness.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur findings shine a light on a significant vulnerability in FSL models \u2013 a marked lack of adversarial robustness,\u201d Verma explained. \u201cThis indicates a non-trivial balancing act between accuracy and adversarial robustness of prompt-based few-shot learning for NLP.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar\u2019s team ran tests on six GLUE benchmark tasks, comparing FSL models with fully fine-tuned models. Here, they found a notable, greater drop in task performance of FSL models treated with adversarial perturbations than that of fully fine-tuned models.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the same study, Kumar\u2019s group found and proposed a few ways to improve FSL robustness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese include using unlabeled data for prompt-based FSLs and expanding to an ensemble of models trained with different prompts. The group also demonstrated that increasing the number of few-shot examples and model size led to increased adversarial robustness of FSL methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cImproved adversarial robustness of few-shot learning models is essential for their broader application and adoption,\u201d Verma said. \u201cBy securing a balance between robustness and accuracy, all from a handful of labeled instances, we can potentially implement these models in safety-critical domains.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering researchers are presenting two papers the upcoming 61st Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics that explore the robustness of AI applications. 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It is the largest tokenized and annotated dataset of its kind.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn investment strategy developed using the dataset predicted investment returns yielding 163.4% higher than the buy and hold method on the QQQ index fund from 2011 to 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset and strategy are part of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2305.07972\u0022\u003Enew research findings from Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E. The findings document the influence the FOMC has on markets and the economy through its public communications. The research is being presented this month at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy understanding the impact of FOMC communications on market movements, investors can make more informed decisions, and potentially protect their portfolios from sudden downturns or capitalize on growth opportunities,\u201d said Ph.D. student and lead researcher\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAgam Shah\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAdditionally, it can help economists at the Federal Reserve Banks more efficiently understand the impact of their communication.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/acl-2023\/\u0022\u003EMICROSITE: Georgia Tech at ACL 2023\u003C\/a\u003E]\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset contains 214 meeting minutes, 1,026 speeches, and transcripts from 63 press conferences. The meeting minutes and speeches span from January 1996 to October 2022. The press conference archive dates from April 2011 to October 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo explore this heap of FOMC pronouncements, Shah and his team crafted a novel machine-learning classification task. The new task categorized statements in the dataset as hawkish, dovish, or neutral, rather than just positive, negative, or neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe classification task allows computer models to understand FOMC policy stances through the language used in their correspondence. This in turn guides models to predict how markets react to communications, giving investors valuable information to form their own strategies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the reasons our research achieved these remarkable results is because it harnesses the power of natural language processing (NLP) to systematically analyze a vast amount of data which is impractical for humans to process effectively,\u201d Shah said. \u201cThis provides a much more nuanced understanding of the market\u2019s response to FOMC communications.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShah is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). He is advised by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESudheer Chava\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor in the Scheller College of Business.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESuvan Paturi\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Georgia Tech alumnus and software engineer at Nasdaq eVestment, co-authored the paper with Shah and Chava.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group will present their paper at a time when the FOMC and the Federal Reserve are in news headlines now more than ever. To curb inflation, the Fed has increased interest rates ten consecutive times from March 2022 to June 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne example that inspired the group occurred during this period on Aug. 26, 2022. 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The merit-based award is given to women pursuing doctoral-level degrees and comes with a $20,000 scholarship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe P.E.O. Sisterhood is an educational organization founded in 1869 dedicated to the advancement of women in higher education with more than 6,000 local chapters in North America and about 250,000 active members.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be honored,\u201d Botti said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really expecting it. It can help me go to more conferences that I wouldn\u2019t necessarily be able to attend otherwise. A lot of my time here was during Covid, so we didn\u2019t get to travel much. It\u2019ll be nice to broaden my network and see other types of research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe bulk of Botti\u2019s research has focused on training robots through human demonstration, also known as Learning from Demonstration (LfD).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBotti received a best paper award in 2022 from the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction for co-authoring \u201cMIND MELD: Personalized Meta-Learning for Robot-Centric Imitation Learning.\u201d The paper explores robots designed to be taught by everyday people and how the robot can learn correctly if users lack the expertise to teach them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople can be suboptimal when giving demonstrations because they may not understand the robot or there may be a correspondence problem,\u201d Botti said. \u201cMaybe your arm is different from the robot\u2019s arm, and when you perform the motion, it may not work as well. 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During the GVU Center Research Showcase in April 2023, he presented two tools that he is building which helps to interpret and explain large language models as part of his work with the AI-ALOE Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoscia\u2019s first tool, KnowledgeVIS, visualizes the associations that language models learn to make during training, such as harmful gender biases. This tool enables AI-ALOE researchers to identify problems during training and prevent them from reaching students. After training, AI-ALOE\u2019s language models learn to perform specific tasks. To understand how they work, Coscia has been visualizing backpropagation, attention scores, and different layers of the language models deployed in iTell, an intelligent textbook that can automatically score student writing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe hopes that his novel methods will be adapted by other teams at AI-ALOE, enabling everyone to evaluate their AI before deployment. 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We all breathe air, drink water, and eat food, to name a few. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/christina-ragan\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EChristina Ragan\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u2019s research homes in on the events surrounding one of the first experiences that bind us all together: being born.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cEveryone has had a mother at some point in their life,\u201d says Ragan, who is a faculty member and academic professional in the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and the director of Outreach for the Undergraduate Program in \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuroscience.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENeuroscience\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E at Tech. \u201cWe may all develop different diseases [later in life], but we\u0027ve all had a mother.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERagan, who directs the \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/raganlab.weebly.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMolecular Mechanisms of Mothering and Anxiety\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (MOMMA) Lab, is particularly interested in studying how the events of pregnancy and early parenthood may affect the mental health of both mothers and children.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cMental health is one of those things that\u2019s not always as obvious as other physical ailments. If you break your arm, you go to the doctor. If you have a heart attack, you would go to the doctor. But when you\u0027re feeling depressed or anxious, sometimes you don\u0027t always go and seek help,\u201d Ragan explains. \u201cWe need better markers of mental health \u2014 if we can find some of those neurobiological markers, maybe that can help identify who\u0027s at risk.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAnd after years of studying it, Ragan is about to become a parent herself, finding that \u201cyou can do as much research as you want, and you\u2019re still going to find things that surprise you.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMonitoring mental health\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI\u0027m interested in the neurobiology of parental behavior \u2014 or what\u0027s going on in the brain when someone becomes a parent \u2014 and I focus on mothers,\u201d Ragan says. One of her big interests is in postpartum anxiety.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWhat happens with postpartum anxiety is that it just seems typical to most people. Of course, I\u2019m going to worry about my kid, right? That\u0027s how they survive. But it becomes an issue when it\u0027s prolonged.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETo better understand anxious mothers, Ragan studies animals. \u201cThe challenge with using non-human animals is we can\u0027t ask them, \u2018how are you feeling today?\u2019 But we have these other proxy measures.\u201d By measuring how the animals respond to spaces that either induce anxiety (like a maze, high off the ground) or calm it (like a dark, enclosed space), Ragan can gain insights into their mental health\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThroughout her career, Ragan has examined how things like exposure to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0149763417300763\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ecertain medications\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E or \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0018506X15300283\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eskin-to-skin contact\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E impacts behavioral and neurobiological markers of anxiety in both maternal and postnatal rodents. One such \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.14814\/phy2.13615\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eproject\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E examined obsessive-compulsive behaviors in maternal rats and their offspring.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cPostpartum OCD is things like constantly checking to see if the baby\u0027s breathing, which again, plenty of parents do. But will you not leave the house because you\u0027re worried something\u0027s going to happen?\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EExposing rodents to clomipramine \u2014 an antidepressant commonly prescribed to treat OCD in humans \u2014 shortly after birth has been shown to induce OCD-like behaviors in rodents (like repetitively poking their heads in and out of holes in an enclosure) later in life. \u201cBut people had done this work only in male rats,\u201d Ragan says.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhen she studied the effects of this exposure on the behavior of maternal rats, they exhibited the same OCD-like behaviors that had been observed in male rats. Ragan says they were also \u201cdifferent in their nursing behaviors. Overall, the amount of time [spent nursing] was the same as the controls, but when it should have been at its highest \u2014 it was kind of shifted.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFor the past year, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHarika Kosaraju\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, an undergraduate studying neuroscience at Georgia Tech, has been following up on Ragan\u2019s behavioral research. Kosaraju will dive deeper into this work in the fall, where she\u2019ll be looking at how those conditions impact serotonin \u2014 a neurotransmitter commonly decreased with OCD \u2014 in decision-making areas of the brain, as well as how the molecular machinery cells use to produce serotonin are affected.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI was initially really attracted to Dr. Ragan\u0027s projects because of this population that they were addressing, that I hadn\u0027t seen addressed in a lot of research,\u201d says Kosaraju. \u201cFocusing on a population that doesn\u0027t have a lot of research is so important \u2014 especially because of the stresses and risks of pregnancy and childbirth in the postpartum period.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPutting theory into practice\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERagan\u2019s husband \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Zachary-Grieb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EZachary Grieb\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, who is a Medical Science Liaison with Amneal Pharmaceuticals, also studied the neurobiology of parenthood, focusing primarily on the interplay between oxytocin and parenthood. The two met as trainees at Michigan State University, and after years of collaborating on their parenthood research, Grieb and Ragan will soon begin their own journey in parenthood.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOne of the things I remember [Christina] saying when we were dating was \u2018I \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehave\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E to have a baby \u2014 I mean, we study this!\u2019,\u201d Grieb says.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cExactly!\u201d Ragan replied. \u201cWe have to put theory into practice. But you can research for years and years and years, and nothing can really prepare you for a child,\u201d Ragan says.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI think one of the things I\u2019ve appreciated more about this process is how everything begins with the mother,\u201d Grieb added. \u201cGestation \u2014 the mother and her experiences \u2014 those are [the baby\u2019s] initial paths.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAnd while that may sound overwhelming, both Ragan and Grieb have some related advice for new parents.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe newborn brain is as plastic as it ever will be \u2014 you have the most cells you\u2019ll ever have,\u201d Grieb says. \u201cOne of the problems with having all this information and research is we can be overwhelmed by it. And it\u0027s great that we have this information \u2014 but know that kids can be incredibly resilient.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhen it comes to mental health, Ragan adds that \u201cif you have any concerns at all that you may be feeling anxious or depressed \u2014 especially if you haven\u2019t experienced that before \u2014 definitely tell your physician because they can tell you different strategies to cope with it. Early detection is the best kind of treatment.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EChristina Ragan has spent her career as a neuroscience researcher studying the neuroscience behind the mental health of motherhood. Now she\u2019s set to begin a new research project \u2014 and become a parent herself.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Christina Ragan has spent her career as a neuroscience researcher studying the neuroscience behind the mental health of motherhood. Now she\u2019s set to begin a new research project \u2014 and become a parent herself."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2023-06-02 16:07:44","changed_gmt":"2023-06-02 16:29:47","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670917":{"id":"670917","type":"image","title":"Christina Ragan (right) and her husband Zachary Grieb have studied the neuroscience of mental health and parenthood for years, and are now set to become parents themselves.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EChristina Ragan (right) and her husband Zachary Grieb have studied the neuroscience of mental health and parenthood for years, and are now set to become parents themselves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1685722096","gmt_created":"2023-06-02 16:08:16","changed":"1685722096","gmt_changed":"2023-06-02 16:08:16","alt":"Christina Ragan, currently pregnant, and Zachary Grieb pose together in lab coats, forming a heart with their two hands over Ragan\u0027s abdomen.","file":{"fid":"253883","name":"Ragan-Lead-PicMental Health and Motherhood.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/02\/Ragan-Lead-PicMental%20Health%20and%20Motherhood.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/02\/Ragan-Lead-PicMental%20Health%20and%20Motherhood.png","mime":"image\/png","size":12416640,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/02\/Ragan-Lead-PicMental%20Health%20and%20Motherhood.png?itok=TYAG59WV"}},"670918":{"id":"670918","type":"image","title":"Harika Kosaraju presenting her behavioral work on OCD and motherhood after exposure to clomipramine at a conference.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EHarika Kosaraju presenting her behavioral work on OCD and motherhood after exposure to clomipramine at a conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1685722432","gmt_created":"2023-06-02 16:13:52","changed":"1685722432","gmt_changed":"2023-06-02 16:13:52","alt":"Harika Kosaraju smiling next to a research poster, holding an award that says \u0022Most Outstanding Project\u0022","file":{"fid":"253884","name":"IMG-3082 (1).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/02\/IMG-3082%20%281%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/06\/02\/IMG-3082%20%281%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2068406,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/06\/02\/IMG-3082%20%281%29.jpg?itok=fadX8KSl"}},"670919":{"id":"670919","type":"image","title":"Ragan and Grieb\u0027s science-themed photo for their pregnancy announcement.","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERagan and Grieb\u0027s science-themed photo for their pregnancy announcement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1685722605","gmt_created":"2023-06-02 16:16:45","changed":"1685722605","gmt_changed":"2023-06-02 16:16:45","alt":"Two large beakers \u2014 one filled with blue water and one filled with red water \u2014 behind a small beaker filled with purple water. 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Working toward a larger effort to develop a housekeeping robot, Yokoyama and his collaborators \u2014 Simar Kareer and Joanne Truong \u2014 set out to train their robot to walk over clutter it might encounter in a home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe main motivation of the project is getting low-level control over the legs of the robot that also incorporates visual input,\u201d said Yokoyama, a Ph.D. student within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u201cWe envisioned a controller that could be deployed in an indoor setting with a lot of clutter, such as shoes or toys on the ground of a messy home. Whereas blind locomotive controllers tend to be more reactive \u2014 if they step on something, they\u2019ll make sure they don\u2019t fall over \u2014 we wanted ours to use visual input to avoid stepping on the obstacle altogether.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve their goal, the researchers took a novel training approach of fusing a high-level visual navigation policy with a visual locomotion policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.joannetruong.com\/projects\/vinl.html\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;advised by Interactive Computing Associate Professor Dhruv Batra and Assistant Professor Sehoon Ha, Kareer, Yokoyama, and Truong show that their two-policy approach successfully simulates robotic navigation over obstacles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey call their approach ViNL (Visual Navigation and Locomotion), and so far, it has guided robots through simulated novel cluttered environments with a 72.6% success rate. The team will present its paper, ViNL: Visual Navigation and Locomotion Over Obstacles, at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.icra2023.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation\u003C\/a\u003E, which is being held May 29-June 2 in London.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth policies are model-free \u2014 the robot learns on its own simulation and doesn\u2019t mimic any pre-existing behavioral patterns \u2014 and can be combined without any additional co-training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis work uniquely combines separate locomotion and navigation policies in a zero-shot manner,\u201d said Kareer, who along with Truong is a Ph.D. student within the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cIf we come up with an improved navigation policy, we can just take that, do no extra work, and deploy that to our robot. That\u2019s a scalable approach. You can plug and play these things together with very little fine-tuning. That\u2019s powerful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe visual navigation policy teaches the robot through goal-achieving motivation. It gives the robot an objective of navigating from one place to another while avoiding any obstacles. The robot receives a score based on how successfully it completes its task. If it stumbles over an obstacle, it is penalized.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe gave it an environment that had very few obstacles, and then slightly more and slightly more,\u201d Kareer said. \u201cThis gradual approach is helpful to its learning. When you just toss it into an environment with a million obstacles, it fails a lot. But if you show it one or two obstacles and say, \u2018try to learn these,\u2019 it\u2019s much more stable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe locomotion policy teaches the robot how to use its limbs to step over an object, including how high it should lift its legs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause a real-world quadruped will only be able to see what its front camera sees, obstacles will disappear from its view as it gets closer to them. The team accounted for this by incorporating memory and spatial awareness into their network architecture to teach the robot exactly when and where to step over the obstacle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe robot has a rich understanding of where its entire limb is relative to the obstacles,\u201d Kareer said. \u201cWhen you see it walking over obstacles, it\u2019s not just deciding to put its foot down on spots where there are no obstacles. It\u2019s remembering where all the obstacles are relative to its body and keeping its limbs out of the way until it\u2019s passed over them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd if an obstacle is too tall to step over, the robot can also choose to go around it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe saw that it was very good at navigating, and even in cases where it might take a wrong turn, it knows that it can backtrack and go back where it came from,\u201d Truong said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFinally, the group taught the robot specifically what types of objects it should be looking to step over in a house, such as toys, and ones that it should go around, such as a chair. This also helps the robot to know how high it will need to lift its legs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat\u2019s important for navigation is to be able to have the experience of navigating in real-world houses, so we train our navigation policy with photo-realistic scans of apartments,\u201d Truong said. \u201cWe used scans of over 1,000 apartments for training and evaluated the robot in scenarios it had never seen before. We zero-shot deploy it into a new environment, so you can take a new robot, put it in a new house, and it will be able to do this as well.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers agree their paper is multi-faceted and has numerous implications that fall outside its focus but are nonetheless important. Their work could lead to robots\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2023\/05\/indoorsim-to-outdoorreal-learning-to.html\u0022\u003Enavigating openly in the outdoors\u003C\/a\u003E, selectively picking paths based on the user\u2019s preference to avoid muddy ground or rocky terrain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNormally, it matters much less how you get from Point A to Point B,\u201d Truong said. \u201cYou just need to know that Point B is valid. With overcoming obstacles, not only do Point A and Point B need to be valid, how you get from Point A to Point B also matters.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s paper also won a best paper award for the Learning for Agile Robotics Workshop at the 2022 Conference on Robot Learning in December.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are using a new approach to train their robot to walk over clutter it might encounter in a home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers are using a new approach to train their robot to walk over clutter it might encounter in a home."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-05-18 16:58:30","changed_gmt":"2023-05-18 19:19:51","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670836":{"id":"670836","type":"image","title":"208A9510 copy.jpg","body":null,"created":"1684429431","gmt_created":"2023-05-18 17:03:51","changed":"1684429431","gmt_changed":"2023-05-18 17:03:51","alt":"From left to right, Simar Kareer, Joanne Truong, and Naoki Yokoyam work together on developing a quadrupedal robot that can navigate over obstacles. 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It was the culmination of the semester-long I2P course, which enables students to turn invention ideas into working products.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI\u2019m so excited,\u201d said Mya Griesbaum, a first-year materials science and engineering student.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis was the second time Griesbaum had taken the I2P course and presented at the showcase. Griesbaum came back to see how other students had developed their projects, but also for I2P resources to develop her own, like research education, class credit, a $500 reimbursement for physical expenses, and faculty mentorship. The access to labs and mentors was particularly helpful, she said.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn her table, she had a spread of materials, including a halter top. Griesbaum created a fungi-derived alternative to leather, called Mycorrhiza, in collaboration with Pratyusha Akavaram, Irene Dumitriu, Ben Collins, and Aryaman Jha. Griesbaum worked two semesters on perfecting the leather, going through several lab mishaps and iterative research. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cProgress can be really slow, and patience is key,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember going in and really wanting to make a scalable product in a single semester and that definitely was not the case.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHowever, Griesbaum encouraged other students to not be deterred. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cYou don\u0027t have to know as much as you think you do. You do not have to be an expert in a field whatsoever. There are so many people who can help you out and who want to help you out and share the knowledge,\u201d she said. \u201cJust go for it.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWho Wants a Cricket Brownie? \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt another booth, an attendee with over a decade of experience in marketing alternative flowers and sustainable products offered support to Lauren Duderstadt, a fifth-year student and double major in mechanical engineering and industrial design, and Rohan Banerjee, another fifth-year student and mechanical engineer major, for their cricket powder-based snack, Crikey. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe pair had brought brownie samples made from pulverized crickets that boasted \u003Cspan\u003E20 grams of protein per serving. \u003C\/span\u003EThe samples had a chocolate taste but also a pillowy texture, something the team worked hard to achieve. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt first, the texture had been sandy. Trying to get the texture and taste right propelled them to continue, Banerjee said. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cOn a granular, day-to-day level, when we\u2019re working on a prototype, tasting it and seeing what we think, it\u2019s that curiosity of \u2018What if we tweak this? What if we can make it a little better?\u2019\u201d Banerjee said. \u201cAnd over months of doing that, you end up with something dramatically better than where you started.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDuring that iteration process, Banerjee appreciated the faculty resources most. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cEven though we picked something that\u2019s seemingly niche, our mentor was someone we found to have significant experience in marketing and product development in similar spaces. He was able to give us a lot of really good feedback,\u201d Banerjee said. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECraig Forest, associate director for CREATE-X\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/make\u0022\u003EMAKE program\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E said many students gain applicable skills and confidence working with CREATE-X mentors.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cSince 2015, more than 1,500 students have been able to pursue their invention ideas because of the generous time from mentors across campus and the resources of CREATE-X,\u201d Forest said. \u201cI2P gives students the resources, incentives, and structure to move their idea from their head to a real, working prototype on the table.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhy Not Be the Change?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAt another booth, a uterus model sat prominently on display. Sarah Deiters, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, and Ayusha Prasad, a second-year biomedical engineering major, had created a product called Cervilove, designed to make IUD insertion less painful.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThere are many women who suffer with IUD insertion, and a lot of women who don\u0027t even attempt to use it because of the pain,\u201d Deiters said. \u201cSo, attacking that idea has been awesome.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESome attendees stopped by to hear about the product. The students explained that the current process for insertion uses a tenaculum, which pierces cervical tissue and was developed from forceps used in the 19th century for bullet extraction. Impressed attendees gave the team contacts for investors and additional support.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIUD insertion hasn\u2019t really changed since IUDs became popular nearly 75 years ago,\u201d Deiters said. \u201cI was just thinking, \u2018Why can\u2019t we do something about it? What\u2019s keeping us from changing the culture and the whole insertion process for IUDs?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPrasad said the entire experience of I2P boosted their confidence. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cKnowing that somehow and some way we can potentially make a better healthcare environment for women is something that drives us forward,\u201d Prasad said. \u201cI think if you\u2019re passionate about something, then this is definitely the place for it to take off.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESpring 2023 I2P Showcase Winners\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1st place: \u003C\/strong\u003EMycorrhiza \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E(Mya Griesbaum (lead), and collaborators, Pratyusha Akavaram, Irene Dumitriu, Ben Collins, and Aryaman Jha)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2nd place:\u003C\/strong\u003E Crikey (Lauren Duderstadt and Rohan Banerjee)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3rd place: \u003C\/strong\u003ECervilove (Sarah Deiters and Ayusha Prasad)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMycorrhiza gained access to the CREATE-X summer startup accelerator, Georgia Tech Startup Launch, giving the startup $5,000 in optional seed funding, coaching, and free incorporation services. Mycorrhiza will also gain access to investors and industry partners at Demo Day, which attracts more than 1,3000 attendees, and more. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI2P applications for the summer and fall are open. Students must apply for the program to register for the course. The last deadline for the summer session is May 15. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/make\/idea-to-prototype\u0022\u003ERead more about the course on the CREATE-X website\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFungi fashion, cricket-based snacks, and an improved for IUD insertion. These were the winning products of the Spring 2023 I2P Showcase, which had over 30 on display. 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Although the museum has hosted many online exhibits since it was founded in 1996, Randolph\u2019s is the first that visitors can explore in person.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe interactive display, titled \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/black-feminist-dc\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWe Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, focuses on \u201cthe stories and voices of Black feminist organizers and theorists \u2014 including Anna Julia Cooper, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mary Treadwell, and Nkenge Tour\u00e9 \u2014 whose expansive work made a difference in the lives of Black women in their Washington, D.C., communities and for all people throughout the United States,\u201d according to the museum website. It will run through Fall 2024 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERandolph worked with co-curator Kendra Taira Field, an associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University, to create the exhibit. Students in Randolph\u2019s HTS 3803 Black Feminism class also played an integral role in developing ideas and research, she said, adding: \u201cIt was great learning about Black feminism through their eyes.\u0022\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESkylar Edwards, a student in Randolph\u0027s class, shared videos of the opening night, highlighting the interactive wall she and her classmates helped create, where visitors flip through words to fill out their vision for the future.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0022I was in awe of the accomplishments of the diverse group of women included in the exhibit,\u0022 said Jendayia Taylor, another student in Randolph\u0027s course.\u0026nbsp;\u0022I hope it empowers others in the same way it empowers me.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/04\/07\/black-feminist-exhibit-washington\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ean article in the Washington Post\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Randolph explained why sharing the story of these Black feminists is so important.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEven in mainstream (read: White) feminism, Randolph says, \u201cBlack women\u2019s blueprint is sometimes wiped away.\u201d But \u201cthat doesn\u2019t mean that you don\u2019t keep working\u201d toward ending all oppression. \u201cYou keep pushing the ball up the hill,\u201d she continues. \u201cAt times, the ball falls back down, but at times they get somewhere. We don\u2019t want to forget where they\u2019re going.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFor more:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/04\/07\/black-feminist-exhibit-washington\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENew Exhibit Spotlights the Impact of Black Feminists in Washington\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/03\/30\/dc-black-feminists-murray-ross-terrell\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThese mothers of Black feminism had one big thing in common \u2014 D.C.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca 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After listening to team presentations, the judges asked questions and gave feedback. Once the judges deliberated, the following teams took home winning titles: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E1st Place: SensAI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAn AI-based, socially interactable app that gamifies cognitive therapy for children with neuromotor disabilities\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Ysabelle Tristan, Vaibhav Mishra, Rachel Logue, Raksha Govind, Ishan Sheth\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E2nd Place: Mindscope\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA telehealth app built for providers that tracks patient data and metrics over time, session by session.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nyimul Hoque, Benson Ku, Charlie Jenkins, Microl Chen, Rahul Komatineni, Vanessa Wei\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E3rd Place: Doula \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAn app and clinician dashboard that will support maternal mental health and attempt to reduce incidence of peripartum depression and anxiety\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Ketki Vinayak Joshi, Anish Chandrashekar Biwalkar, Dhanish Revanth Rangaswamy Nandakumar, Niharika Ikkurthy, Christian Coletti, Binoy Shah\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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Stay tuned!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEight teams, comprised of both Georgia Tech and Emory University students, competed for cash prizes and a chance to enter the 2023 GT Startup Launch cohort in a competition on mental health solutions. At the end of the 2023 EGHI\/GT Hackathon for Mental Health Technologies Hackathon, a teamed named SensAI walked away with first place after proposing a solution to enable children with neuromotor disabilities better therapy. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On April 1, eight teams, comprised of both Georgia Tech and Emory University students, presented solutions to tackle mental health challenges and improve wellbeing, at the 2023 EGHI\/GT Hackathon for Mental Health Technologies Hackathon. 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They gather information and make calculations, but whether they do so in a neutral manner is a debated issue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe harmful effects of an algorithm can range from labeling and categorizing someone into a box that inaccurately depicts who they really are, to altering one\u2019s future because of the way they answered a question on an exam or job application.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tv92WWqUQyA\u0022\u003Ealgorithms can reinforce systems that are unjust or oppressive\u003C\/a\u003E, argues Georgia Tech researcher and School of Interactive Computing Ph.D. candidate\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/UpolEhsan\/status\/1537112310505824256\u0022\u003EUpol Ehsan\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in his paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Algorithmic Imprint,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;which was presented at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/facctconference.org\/\u0022\u003E2022 Association for Computing Machinery\u2019s FAcct Conference\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2020, Ehsan saw a news report about protests occurring in the United Kingdom. Students across the U.K. spoke out against the results of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) A-level examinations, which had been graded by an algorithm for the first time. The A-levels are the final exams taken before university in the U.K. and have a major impact on whether students can attend their desired institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), the GCE exam governing body in the U.K., said the COVID-19 pandemic had made it necessary to pivot from manual grading to using an algorithm. Protests demonstrated that students found this change to be unacceptable, arguing the algorithm was biased against people from poorer economic backgrounds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOfqual removed the algorithm from its grading, but that didn\u2019t solve the problem. Ehsan and his colleagues argue the effects of Ofqual\u2019s algorithm lingered long after its removal. The situation is one example of how algorithms can leave hard imprints on the societies in which they are deployed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost students we interviewed for the paper had their grades improved,\u201d Ehsan said. \u201cBut they were still angry. That\u2019s when I started thinking, \u2018Why are people still angry even if their results aren\u2019t bad?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd why was the U.K. the only country to receive any media coverage when the same exams are administered in more than 160 countries, including Ehsan\u2019s home country of Bangladesh?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is not a U.K. issue,\u201d he said. \u0022This is a global issue. If we don\u2019t share people\u2019s stories, their narratives get erased from the historical narrative. If we didn\u2019t bring this up, largely speaking, the Bangladesh narrative would\u2019ve never been captured as the catastrophe that it was.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProtests were also going on elsewhere. It\u2019s just that they were never covered. These kids were protesting just as much as the U.K. kids.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fact that many of the other countries who use the GCEs are members of the Commonwealth \u2014 meaning they were once occupied by the British Empire \u2014 wasn\u2019t lost on Ehsan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe voices in the Global South weren\u2019t being heard after suffering the effects of an algorithm designed by the Global North.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRight now, the current way we evaluate an algorithm\u2019s impact is from the birth to the death of the algorithm, from its deployment to its destruction,\u201d Ehsan said. \u201cWhen an algorithm is deployed, we do an impact assessment. When it is no longer deployed, we stop it, and that\u2019s where we think this is the end.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd that is the fundamental flaw in our thinking. Even when the algorithm was taken out, its harms persisted.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe imprints can be even more damaging when they mimic or reinforce modern and historical systems of discrimination and oppression. Ehsan argues that was the case with the Commonwealth nations who also use the GCEs, and the exams were already considered to be unfair and biased before the algorithm was deployed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt feels like I\u2019m paying money to my ex-colonizer for a piece of certificate that tells the world I am no dumber than a local UK kid,\u201d said one student whom Ehsan interviewed during his research. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s hard to ignore that reality.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEhsan compared the effects of colonialism to trying to erase pencil markings from a piece of paper. Even after the eraser has been used, the traces of the pencil markings are still visible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things you see in postcolonialism is that there are remnants of the British infrastructure that we still live with today,\u201d Ehsan says. \u201cJust because colonizers leave, does not mean colonialism has left. Just because an algorithm has left, doesn\u2019t mean its impact has left.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEhsan said the goal of his paper is to bring awareness to the imprints that algorithms can leave so developers can consider the potential impacts of an algorithm before deploying it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things I wanted to do was drive policy changes,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want this to be a research project just to have a research project. I had a moral reason behind it. I was driven by it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEhsan also said he would like to see developers, researchers, and practitioners design algorithms in a way in which their impacts can be controlled and mitigated, and if an algorithm harms a group of people, reparations should be considered to atone for the damage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAlgorithms leave imprints that are often immutable,\u201d he said. \u201cJust because they are made of software, it doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s an undo button there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe need people to understand that algorithms have consequences that outlive their own existence, and if that doesn\u2019t bring us into a more mindful, ethical way of thinking about deployments, I\u2019d be very sad.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Algorithmic Imprint was co-authored with Ranjit Singh and Jacob Metcalf from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datasociety.net\/\u0022\u003EData \u0026amp; Society Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Professor Mark Riedl from the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA researcher from the School of Interactive Computing finds that the imprints of a biased or flawed algorithm can be even more damaging when they mimic or reinforce modern and historical systems of discrimination and oppression.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech researcher is working to shine a light on the potential harm algorithms can inflict, even after they are no longer in use."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-05-02 14:29:36","changed_gmt":"2023-05-02 14:31:56","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670711":{"id":"670711","type":"image","title":"Upol Ehsan (1).jpeg","body":null,"created":"1683037795","gmt_created":"2023-05-02 14:29:55","changed":"1683037795","gmt_changed":"2023-05-02 14:29:55","alt":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. Upol Ehsan presenting his work, The Algorithmic Imprint","file":{"fid":"253623","name":"Upol Ehsan (1).jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/Upol%20Ehsan%20%281%29.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/Upol%20Ehsan%20%281%29.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48049,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/02\/Upol%20Ehsan%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=lbbrV0a0"}}},"media_ids":["670711"],"groups":[{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen Communications Officer I School of Interactive Computing nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667603":{"#nid":"667603","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Mental Health Resources Not Meeting Perinatal Black Women\u0027s Needs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPregnant and postpartum Black women experience disproportionately higher rates of mental health challenges, and new research indicates that a one-size-fits-all approach to digital mental health tools and platforms is falling short for these women.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVanessa Oguamanam has researched the correlation of digital tools and how often Black women in perinatal stages use them to improve their mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Black women are at\u0026nbsp;\u201chigher risk for experiencing perinatal and postnatal anxiety disorders such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.\u0022\u0026nbsp;The risk for PMADs is estimated to be double that of the general population.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E[MICROSITE: Georgia Tech at CHI 2023]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem has worsened since the Covid-19 pandemic, says Oguamanam, a Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing under the advisement of Associate Professor Andrea Parker, founder and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/wellnesstechlab\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWellness Technology Research Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. Oguamanam has spent most of her doctoral career researching technology designed to benefit the health of Black women.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had friends who became new moms during the pandemic and just seeing the extra amount of stress that they were enduring in addition to balancing new childcare responsibilities led me to start thinking of potential ways I could address this mental health crisis with technology.\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMental health is one of the leading complications during pregnancy and childbirth, and it\u2019s a contributing factor to some maternal deaths. The pandemic exacerbated all of that. We\u2019re seeing rates that are skyrocketing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a paper that was accepted at the 2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Oguamanam and Parker surveyed 101 pregnant and postpartum Black women. They found 34% reported moderate to severe anxiety, while 41% percent expressed having moderate to severe psychological distress, and 74% experienced a high level of postnatal depressive symptoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOguamanam and Parker also studied participant interaction with four main forms of technology \u2014 social media, apps, self-tracking devices, and video calls.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s been very little work investigating how we can design digital mental health tools to support Black pregnant and postpartum women\u2019s needs,\u201d Parker said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to understand what their current use and satisfaction level is with existing platforms. We need this foundational understanding to drive future design efforts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research indicates that income and education levels were significant variables among the women surveyed. Of the 101 participants surveyed, 49 identified as low income, and 43 percent identified as middle to upper income. Forty-three held less than a bachelor\u2019s degree while 58 held a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose with higher incomes and education tended to use apps and self-tracking devices more frequently. The use of video calls varied among pregnancy status and the area of the U.S. where participants lived. Women who were pregnant and lived in the South used video calls most frequently.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESocial media was widely used among all demographics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the main takeaways from the study is that participant feedback shows the \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d approach that digital mental health interventionists often take in their design methods can be insufficient for meeting the needs of pregnant and postpartum Black women. Oguamanam said the societal problems of systemic racism and barriers to healthcare that Black women experience aren\u2019t often considered in such efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYears and years of experiencing racial and gendered discrimination have impacted the stress levels of Black women and their overall well-being,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important to emphasize that when we\u2019re thinking about health disparities among racial groups, there can be a tendency to think it just boils down to differences in socioeconomic status,\u201d echoed Parker. \u201cBut many of these disparities persist when we compare higher income groups of black women to another racial ethnic group. These inequitable differences reflect a broader set of structural forces that create barriers to healthcare access and quality and increased exposure to mental health threats.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOguamanam and Parker also found that 97% of the women surveyed embraced the identity of the strong Black woman, a representation that has been explored at length by social science researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers agree the external factors of systemic racism and healthcare barriers tend to push Black women toward that identity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a role that a number of Black women tend to identify with, either consciously or subconsciously,\u201d Oguamanam said. \u201cIt\u2019s the idea of presenting an image of strength and feeling like you have to take care of you, your family, and your community and that you\u2019re responsible for carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOguamanam\u2019s and Parker\u2019s study indicates women with greater adoption of the strong Black woman persona tended to use self-tracking devices with greater frequency. That trend could be attributable to those devices offering a sense of autonomy, Parker said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe whole vision of self-tracking devices is that you can take care of yourself,\u201d Parker said. \u201cYou can monitor your own well-being and oversee collecting data and managing your own health. That type of platform might be more appealing to individuals who have a resistance toward being vulnerable.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese findings only scratch the surface, and Oguamanam and Parker hope to shift current methods and discussions surrounding digital mental health toward a more inclusive environment that includes the experience of pregnant and postpartum Black women.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMore research is needed to investigate these hypotheses, and ultimately design and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital tools that support the wellbeing of pregnant and postpartum Black women,\u201d Parker said. \u201cSuch innovations can help us make necessary strides toward achieving maternal mental health equity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFindings from new research from the School of Interactive Computing indicate that a one-size-fits-all approach to digital mental health tools and platforms is falling short for Pregnant and postpartum Black women.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers look to create better support tools based on a study of how participants interact with social media, apps, self-tracking devices, and video calls."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-05-02 14:17:06","changed_gmt":"2023-05-02 14:20:53","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670710":{"id":"670710","type":"image","title":"AA_pregnancy story.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1683037037","gmt_created":"2023-05-02 14:17:17","changed":"1683037037","gmt_changed":"2023-05-02 14:17:17","alt":"A candid stock photo of a black couple seated on a bench smiling together about the impending birth of their child","file":{"fid":"253622","name":"AA_pregnancy story.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/AA_pregnancy%20story.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/AA_pregnancy%20story.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":78423,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/02\/AA_pregnancy%20story.jpeg?itok=do6NzrVB"}}},"media_ids":["670710"],"groups":[{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen Communications Officer I School of Interactive Computing nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667602":{"#nid":"667602","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Safe Spaces Facilitating Frank Discussions on \u0027Taboo\u0027 Women\u0027s Health Issues","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn many countries around the world, cultural and religious taboos create environments that silence women and gender minorities and restrict access to health information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut a team of graduate students within the School of Interactive Computing have explored how technology can help circumvent these barriers so that women can engage in freer communication on stigmatized health issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHannah Tam, Karthik Bhat, and Priyanka Mohindra conducted research to study how safe spaces could be curated to support 35 women of Indian origin in discussing subjects that are otherwise considered taboo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENeha Kumar, an associate professor who teaches jointly with the School of Interactive Computing and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, served as advisor to the students. Kumar is the director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/www.tandem.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETandem Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, which works to explore cultural taboos and investigate their impact on health and well-being among women and gender minorities internationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E[MICROSITE: Georgia Tech at CHI 2023]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the two-week study, the researchers provided the group with discussion prompts on stigmatized topics such as menstrual health, sexual wellbeing, fitness, body image, diet and exercise, and mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTaboos persist because Indian culture is still largely patriarchal,\u201d Bhat said. \u201cThe cultural norm is that you don\u2019t talk about these things with other people, you don\u2019t talk about them with other genders, you don\u2019t talk about these things outside the home. It becomes hard to seek care where it\u2019s necessary and community where it\u2019s necessary.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe restrictions of societal taboos escalate when adolescent girls begins their menstrual cycles, Mohindra said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEverything about how they\u2019re treated changes,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re not able to go to temples because it\u2019s considered impure. They\u2019re not allowed to serve food or go into the kitchen. Nobody should know you\u2019re going through that, even though it\u2019s a natural process.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnything that has to do with intimacy or anything sexual and a woman is involved, that\u2019s looked down at no matter what age you are,\u201d she said. \u201cGirls are afraid to ask their mothers about these things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETam said she and her colleagues used legitimate peripheral participation (LLP) as a framework to analyze the social learning that took place in the Whats App group they established for the study. The LLP framework creates social interactions among community members that enable them to share knowledge and experiences while allowing other members to observe and learn without actively participating.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe found that learning happened at all levels, which was applicable to both core members and peripheral members, or members who might not have been as active in the group,\u201d Tam said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group of women participated with partial anonymity, which also provided a sense of security and comfort to most users. Using WhatsApp only required members to provide their phone numbers, which helped them conceal their identities to minimize the risk of facing judgment in their communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group conducted follow-up interviews with 10 of the 35 participants and found that some had started connecting with other group members offline, which Tam said was a step forward from where they had started.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople found relief in being able to talk openly,\u201d Tam said. \u201cOne member said she hadn\u2019t felt comfortable saying the word \u2018period\u2019 aloud \u2014 even among her close friends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs members were unpacking their experiences with taboos outside the group, that led to a lot of members questioning traditional systems and social structures.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the project, Bhat said, was not about making a direct impact on the health of the women participating. Instead, the researchers aimed to find ways in which social media platforms could enable sharing of sensitive information and equip participants with the ability to navigate cultural barriers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur findings suggested that this space and our intervention gave them the avenue to learn how to engage on stigmatized health topics and then take these conversations out into the world,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere needs to be dedicated efforts to educating at various levels so that people who are in positions of power, such as governments and healthcare authorities, recognize and address the challenges in health communication that we saw, and work to address them. This is critical for women\u2019s health and wellbeing worldwide. But given that these problems exist and are not going away anytime soon, how can technology support us in addressing this gap now?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew research from Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Interactive Computing investigates the use of curated safe spaces in India where women can talk openly about\u0026nbsp;menstrual health, sexual wellbeing, fitness, body image, diet and exercise, and mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Peer-reviewed research explores cultural taboos and investigate their impact on health and well-being among women and gender minorities internationally."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-05-02 13:56:11","changed_gmt":"2023-05-02 14:00:17","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670709":{"id":"670709","type":"image","title":"indian women_taboo subjects.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1683035784","gmt_created":"2023-05-02 13:56:24","changed":"1683035784","gmt_changed":"2023-05-02 13:56:24","alt":"A young woman makes a shushing gesture","file":{"fid":"253621","name":"indian women_taboo subjects.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/indian%20women_taboo%20subjects.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/indian%20women_taboo%20subjects.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42935,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/02\/indian%20women_taboo%20subjects.jpeg?itok=g_1Ptyr-"}}},"media_ids":["670709"],"groups":[{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer I\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Enathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667599":{"#nid":"667599","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Like Humans and Animals, AI Agents Find Their Way Through Memory","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMemory may be just as important to artificial intelligence (AI) agents in creating \u2018mental maps\u2019 as it is to humans and animals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA recent paper authored by Georgia Tech researchers makes a surprising discovery \u2014 blind AI agents use memory to create maps and navigate through their surrounding environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EErik Wijmans, the lead author of the paper, said the idea for his research began by asking if AI agents might mimic human and animal behavior in how they navigate and adjust to their environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHumans and animals navigate with some type of spatial representation \u2014 what is commonly referred to as a cognitive map,\u201d Wijmans said. \u201cSo, we were wondering how AI agents navigate and if it\u2019s similar to that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe first question we asked was, \u2018Is memory important to these agents?\u0027 It is. They tend to remember at least the past thousand interactions with their environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijmans completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 2022 and is currently a research scientist at Apple.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijmans created blind AI agents and trained them by dropping them into the floorplans of more than 500 houses with the goal of navigating from one area of the house to another area. The only sense it had to work with was egomotion \u2014 the ability to know how far it has moved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe agent bumped its way around from room to room, backtracking as needed, before finding its destination. Wijmans then created a second probe agent that was injected with the memories of the first agent. The probe agent used the memory of the original agent to take shortcuts to quickly reach its objective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s surprising that they can do this without vision because they\u2019re in an unknown environment that they\u2019ve never seen before, so they have to figure out how to navigate in that environment and also figure out the structure of it,\u201d Wijmans said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a result that shows that our hypothesis is true, or at the very least along the right direction. We took an agent and put it in a complex environment and trained it for a task that requires it to interact with that environment, and the result was mapping.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijman\u2019s paper,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEmergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents\u003C\/em\u003E, is one of four outstanding paper award winners for the 2023 International Conference on Learning Representations, which is being held May 1-5 in Kigali, Rwanda. His research was also recognized by the Georgia Tech chapter of Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society) and received a 2023 GT Sigma XI Best Ph.D. Thesis Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijmans is advised by School of Interactive Computing Distinguished Professor Irfan Essa and Associate Professor Dhruv Batra.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cErik makes fundamental contributions to multiple sub-areas of AI, including reinforcement learning, robotics, and embodied perception,\u201d Batra said. \u201cHis hypothesis is a bold one \u2014 that intelligence emerges via large-scale learning by an embodied agent accomplishing goals in a rich 3D environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his paper, Wijmans describes mapping as an emerging phenomenon. Neural network models for navigation have performed well despite not containing any explicit mapping modules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijman\u2019s AI agents showed a 95% success rate when they used memory to navigate, whereas memoryless agents failed entirely. This seems to suggest that agents create mental maps as a natural part of learning to navigate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe results were so initially surprising, that my first gut instinct was that we had done something wrong in our experimental design,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a work with a very complex body of experiments that tie together a single narrative,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a challenging thing to do. When you\u2019re trying to test whether something involves memory, you must come up with ideas of what to test for and how to test for that. You must make each experiment as precise as possible to not get false positives, and that involves considerable experimental design and effort.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWijmans said he made it as difficult as possible for the agent to reach its goal, removing vision, audio, olfactory, haptic, and magnetic sensing and gave it no bias toward mapping. It had no supervision or any kind of outside help.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSurprisingly, even under these deliberately harsh conditions, we find the emergence of map-like spatial representations in the agent\u2019s non-spatial unstructured memory. It not only successfully navigates to the goal but also exhibits intelligent behavior like taking shortcuts, following walls, and detecting collisions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe discovery also suggests that AI, humans, and animals all share a natural characteristic of problem solving and navigation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe one link that we can make is the idea of convergent evolution, which is where you see the same mechanism evolve multiple times in species that have no common ancestor that shares that mechanism,\u201d Wijmans said. \u201cMammals build maps, insects build maps, and now AI agents build maps. So perhaps mapping is the natural solution to navigation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA recent paper authored by Georgia Tech researchers makes a surprising discovery \u2014 blind AI agents use memory to create maps and navigate through their surrounding environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A recent paper authored by Georgia Tech researchers makes a surprising discovery \u2014 blind AI agents use memory to create maps and navigate through their surrounding environment."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2023-05-02 13:23:26","changed_gmt":"2023-05-02 13:28:07","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670706":{"id":"670706","type":"image","title":"Erik Wijmans, Irfan Essa","body":null,"created":"1683033816","gmt_created":"2023-05-02 13:23:36","changed":"1683033816","gmt_changed":"2023-05-02 13:23:36","alt":"Georgia Tech Ph.D. student Erik Wijmans and Distinguished Professor Irfan Essa","file":{"fid":"253618","name":"Erik Wijmans, Irfan Essa_86A9563.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/Erik%20Wijmans%2C%20Irfan%20Essa_86A9563.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/02\/Erik%20Wijmans%2C%20Irfan%20Essa_86A9563.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38004,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/02\/Erik%20Wijmans%2C%20Irfan%20Essa_86A9563.jpeg?itok=GUWuL3qy"}}},"media_ids":["670706"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[{"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer I\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nnathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["nathan.deen@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667523":{"#nid":"667523","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Micro-Grants Community-Based Research Teams Present their Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2022-23 Micro-Grants Community-Based Research awardees presented their findings at the second annual symposium, held on April 18, 2023, in the auditorium of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, which is the region\u2019s first Living Building. Ten teams presented to faculty, staff, students, and student family members. The topics were wide ranging, and dealt with both practical and theoretical issues. The work surpassed all expectations for quality and quantity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevised by the Kendeda Building Advisory Board and sponsored by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems and the Kendeda Building, the Micro-Grants Research Program solicits proposals for very small scale ($50 to $500), short term, sustainability related, research studies to be conducted by members of the Georgia Tech community. Community investigators are encouraged to explore ways in which the Georgia Tech campus can continue to innovate, demonstrate, prove, and promote the adoption of best and next practices in regenerative design and operations. Researchers were also encouraged to use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for research design. All members of the Georgia Tech community were encouraged to apply. The program especially sought proposals from students and staff that had little or no prior research experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program has four objectives:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto expand scientific thinking and the understanding of the research process amongst those not (yet) directly involved in scientific research;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto bolster the use of the campus as a living laboratory;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto give voice to people and communities outside of research that have culturally novel perspectives on problems and their possible solutions, and to create new pathways for partnering with them; and\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003Eto seed novel ideas and nurture nascent investigators.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2022-23 awardees and the titles of their projects are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlex Lomis, Devi Patel, and Dr. Jung-Ho Lewe, \u0022Design and Development of a Low-Cost and Highly-Scaleable Occupancy Counter to Optimize the Utilization of HVAC Resources\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EKaitlyn Tran, Shivani Potdar, and Amanda Janusz, \u0022Bird Safe Campus\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERicardo Martinez, \u0022Chiropterans at Georgia Tech\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EElizabeth Umanah, \u0022Reimagining Eco-Friendly Parking Lot Design Through Simulations\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELujain Diab, Ally Kimpling, Jenna Sitta, Marcus Morris, Skylar Ryan, Dr. Jennifer Leavey, and Steve Place, \u0022A Greener Grey: \u201cIroning\u201d Out Issues in Greywater Systems\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJun Wang and Yilun Zha, \u0022Kendeda\u2019s Educational Role in Waste Management and Recycling\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESiddharth Sivakumarun, \u0022Investigating Capacity for Regenerative Energy through Foot Traffic\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlexandra Rodriguez Dalmau and John Fortner, \u0022Recognition of Insect Species in the Georgia Tech campus with Machine Learning\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGray Simmons, Kevin Leach, and Dr. Jung-Ho Lewe, \u0022IOT Climate Sensor Development for HVAC Efficiency Analysis\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EKaylin Cross, Pranav Jothi, Maanas Kumar, Brian Wu, Savannah Howard, and Sheng Dai, \u0022Prototyping Bio-inspired Geothermal Energy Recovery for Space Heating and Cooling\u0022\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore details and links to all the presentations are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/micro-grants\u0022\u003Ethis web page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2022-23 Micro-Grants Community-Based Research awardees presented their findings at the second annual symposium, held on April 18, 2023, in the auditorium of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The 2022-23 Micro-Grants Community-Based Research awardees presented their findings at the second annual symposium, held on April 18, 2023, in the auditorium of the Kendeda Building."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2023-04-25 20:23:35","changed_gmt":"2023-04-25 20:25:11","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_files":{"253528":{"fid":null,"name":"2023 Microgrants Bird Safe Campus Team","file_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/25\/Microgrants_Birdsafe.jpg","file_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/25\/Microgrants_Birdsafe.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":362996,"description":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Bird Safe Campus team shows their prototype window decals. L to R. - Amanda Janusz, Shivani Potdar, and Kaitlyn Tran.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n"}},"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\/micro-grants","title":"BBISS Microgrants Page"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"179356","name":"Industrial Design"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"}],"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:brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrent Verrill\u003C\/a\u003E, Research Communications Program Manager, BBISS\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["brent.verrill@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"667227":{"#nid":"667227","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GTRI Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program Continues to Expand for Third Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) solves the most pressing national security problems, from spacecraft innovations to artificial forensics, and has historically sought to partner with Georgia Tech faculty to enhance those solutions. The GTRI Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program (GSFP) is a competitive program for high-caliber Georgia Tech graduate students. Selected academic researchers and graduate students work on research that is aligned with GTRI strategic technology priorities. The GSFP fosters and cultivates long-term relationships between academic faculty and GTRI researchers to fulfill the mission of creating leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. \u003Ca data-entity-substitution=\u0022canonical\u0022 data-entity-type=\u0022node\u0022 data-entity-uuid=\u0022a958b8d1-c4a6-4dc8-b3c2-73ac67d10d28\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/laboratories\u0022\u003EFind out more about the labs at GTRI.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/national-security-research-fueled-partnership\u0022\u003EThe first eight projects in the inaugural cohort\u003C\/a\u003E, along with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/gtri-graduate-student-fellowship-expands\u0022\u003Ethe seven projects chosen last year\u003C\/a\u003E, have been a great success. In this third year, the fellowship is expanding to include an additional seven projects that will further the research collaboration across Georgia Tech\u2019s schools and colleges.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe really want connectivity to manifest through research collaborations, and it\u2019s advantageous for us to reach into the broad wealth of and depth of talent across the academic schools,\u201d said Mark Whorton, GTRI\u2019s chief technology officer. \u201cFrom the theoretical research done on campus into the applied research we do at GTRI, we\u0027re seeking to take those great capabilities and bring applications into the national security space.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAcross the seven selected fellowship awards for the upcoming academic year, researchers from GTRI labs will co-advise students along with a Georgia Tech faculty member. 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This research proposes to develop reconfigurable metasurfaces using vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch technologies for HPM systems, and demonstrate a reconfigurable reflectarray (RRA) and high-power limiter metasurface.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cPhase-change materials offer a completely new paradigm for the ubiquitous RF switch, a fundamental building block in sensor and electronic warfare systems,\u201d said Kovitz and Ghalichechian. \u201cAs a part of this joint effort, we plan to design, fabricate, and test novel reconfigurable and high-power microwave structures based on these phase-change materials.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Interactive Decision-making and Resilient Planning for Long-Horizon Collaborative Manipulation in Complex Military Environments\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Ye Zhao, Dr. Stephen Balakirsky, Maxwell Asselmeier\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnit:\u003C\/strong\u003E School of Mechanical Engineering; Aerospace Transportation \u0026amp; Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy It Matters: \u003C\/strong\u003ECollaborative manipulation, as a class of general-purpose autonomous systems, provides an expansive set of desirable capabilities to perform complex tasks in highly unstructured environments. These autonomous systems could operate in dangerous environments that are inaccessible to first responders, saving labor and reducing the risk to human life. This will open the opportunity of enabling human operators to focus on high-level, critical decisions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201c\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis fellowship will support human-robot teaming with a robot that has a high level of autonomy along with a sense of touch,\u201d said Balakirsky. \u201cThis combination will allow a human operator to provide tasking of dexterous manipulation tasks to the robot without the burden of teleoperation or constant process monitoring. This system has wide-ranging applications from search and rescue to manufacturing.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Trustworthy Edge Systems for Video Analytics: Robustness, Safety, and Resilience\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Ling Liu, Dr. Margaret Loper, Connor Geurin\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnit:\u003C\/strong\u003E School of Computer Science; Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy It Matters: \u003C\/strong\u003EVideo as an edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) service will be a crucial component in many cyber-physical systems and applications. However, most of the video analytics today are typically done in the Cloud, which incurs overwhelming demand for bandwidth. This research is centered on developing trustworthy edge systems for video analytics, including developing the theory, algorithms, and techniques for boosting the robustness of real-time object detection. This will ensure safety and resilience against different types of disruptions and compromises.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe proliferation of mobile computing and Internet of Things has created a paradigm that pushes computing tasks and services from the network core to the network edge,\u201d said Loper. \u201cPushing AI to the edge is seen as a promising solution for processing the massive amounts of small data generated by these devices. The findings of this research could fundamentally change how AI-enhanced edge systems will be designed, developed, and deployed, and could lead to a new generation of security and safety-enhanced edge systems.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Policy-perspective Explainable and Trusted Artificial Intelligence\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Sehoon Ha, Dr. Robert Wright, Morgan Byrd\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnits: \u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing; Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory (CIPHER)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy It Matters: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe emergence of capable artificial intelligence (AI) that can make sequential strategic decisions via deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has revolutionized various fields, including computer games and robotic control, but they have not yet impacted safety-critical domains such as power grid control, medical treatment, and autonomous driving and far from real-world deployment. This research investigates scalable model-based RL approaches for explainable and trusted AI to develop explainable AI learning frameworks that can be applied to these safety-critical domains.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cAI technologies are becoming more and more capable every day and are on the verge of revolutionizing many fields and industries,\u201d said Wright. \u201cHowever, AI models are prone to mistakes, and their reasoning can be very opaque, leading to a [reasonable] lack of trust. This effort investigates novel explainable AI approaches for Reinforcement Learning (RL) to improve trust and practicality. Our intent is to develop model-based RL algorithms that can explicitly describe why it is making its decisions, visualize or describe what it expects to happen, and provide counterfactual examples for why it chose not to make decisions.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Two-dimensional Nanopore Sensors for Real-time, Single Molecule Protein Sequencing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Eric Vogel, Dr. Katherine Young, Noah Baughman\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnits: \u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering; Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory (CIPHER)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy It Matters: \u003C\/strong\u003EThere is a significant need to develop rapid protein sequencing technologies that can be used by the warfighter in the field to identify the impact of biological warfare agents or to provide physiological monitoring to enhance soldier performance. A technology to rapidly sequence the primary and secondary structure of proteins at the single-molecule level in real-time does not currently exist. The objective of this work is to develop a rapid protein sequencing prototype technology based on two-dimensional (e.g., graphene, MoS2) nanopore sensors that can be used by the warfighter in the field and enable future research programs which apply this prototype to perform full protein sequencing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThere is a significant need to develop rapid protein sequencing technologies that can be used to identify the impact of biological warfare agents or to provide physiological monitoring to enhance human performance,\u201d said Vogel and Young. \u201cThis fellowship will support the fundamental research necessary to develop nanopore electrochemical sensors based on two-dimensional materials to rapidly sequence the primary and secondary structure of proteins at the single-molecule level in real-time.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Generating Geopolitics: AI, Disinformation, and the Future of National Security\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Jon Lindsay, Mr. Nicholas Nelson, Dennis Murphy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnits: \u003C\/strong\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, and School of Public Policy; Electronics, Optics, Systems Directorate (EOSD)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy It Matters:\u003C\/strong\u003E The use of Artificial Intelligence\/Machine Learning (AI\/ML) in national security has the potential to enhance our ability to protect national interests greatly. However, there are also potential challenges and risks associated with this technology, such as the potential for bias or misuse. This research will engage in a multidisciplinary study that will bridge the gap between disparate research fields and reintroduce relevant security-related concepts from the social sciences. This will result in the generation of scientifically-grounded potential use cases for the technology in the support and protection of national interests.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cAs AI\/ML capabilities and use cases continue to evolve, it is critical for defense and national security actors to better innovate, scale, deploy, and integrate AI and autonomy-based technologies to form agile, system-wide solutions,\u201d Nelson and Lindsay said. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat: Unmasking the \u0022Status dilemma\/competition\u0022 of the triad powers (Russia, China, and United States) in offensive-defensive behavior\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho: \u003C\/strong\u003EDr. Adam Stulberg, Dr. Theresa Kessler, Megan Litz\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnits: \u003C\/strong\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs; Advanced Concepts Laboratory (ACL)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy it matters: \u003C\/strong\u003EUnveiling the misperceptions of offensive and defensive signaling is needed in a time when offensive and defensive capabilities are becoming ever more difficult to decipher as technology is evolving. The goal of this research is to shed light on how misinterpreting states\u2019 \u003Cem\u003Estatus\u003C\/em\u003E can lead to international conflict and expand the initial scholarship that is starting to gain traction within the political science and security studies communities. Understanding and attempting to codify intention would be of great interest to U.S. strategists and tactical planners and aid in answering vital questions of National Security regarding the status of triad powers. Information of this nature will benefit U.S. leadership, departments, and inter-agencies that navigate relations with Russia and China.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThis fellowship will support the codification of offensive and defensive signals between Russian, Chinese, and American powers using an open-source literature repository,\u201d said Kessler. \u201cThis will help unveil misperceptions and decipher intention.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriters: Georgia Parmelee, Tess Malone (Georgia Tech Research); Charles Domercant, Anna Akins (GTRI)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGTRI Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $800 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0027s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe GTRI Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program (GSFP) is a competitive program for high-caliber Georgia Tech graduate students. Selected academic researchers and graduate students work on research that is aligned with GTRI strategic technology priorities. The GSFP fosters and cultivates long-term relationships between academic faculty and GTRI researchers to fulfill the mission of creating leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" This third year\u2019s GTRI Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program (GSFP) will further the research collaboration across Georgia Tech\u2019s schools and colleges, leading to innovations in everything from artificial intelligence to international policy."}],"uid":"35832","created_gmt":"2023-04-11 14:52:49","changed_gmt":"2023-04-11 14:52:49","author":"Michelle Gowdy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1276","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"166902","name":"science and technology"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"368","name":"Fellowship"},{"id":"192508","name":"GSFP"},{"id":"192509","name":"GTRI Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program"},{"id":"192510","name":"developing tech leaders"},{"id":"2835","name":"ai"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"188423","name":"improving the human condition"},{"id":"543","name":"National Security"}],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E(Interim) Director of Communications\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMichelle Gowdy\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMichelle.Gowdy@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E404-407-8060\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michelle.gowdy@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"666660":{"#nid":"666660","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Named as Apple Scholar for Connecting People with Machine Learning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA Georgia Tech Ph.D. student has been selected as an Apple Scholar for work done to ensure machine learning (ML) systems are easy to use and understand for researchers, developers, and everyday end-users.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EZijie Jay Wang is a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/machinelearning.apple.com\/updates\/apple-scholars-aiml-2023\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2023 Apple Scholars in AI\/ML PhD fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The fellowship recognizes the success of Wang\u2019s research efforts to make artificial intelligence (AI) and ML systems more transparent and accessible.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs the power and complexity of these systems continue to advance at breakneck speed, his advisor says Wang\u2019s work is vitally important.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cJay\u0027s research connects humans and ML systems. His work on easy-to-use and interactive interfaces is crucial to making ML more interpretable, accessible, and reliable,\u201d said Polo Chau, School of Computational Science and Engineering associate professor.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETo help people better connect with these systems, Wang leverages his expertise, not only in ML, but also in data visualization. He\u2019s developed several interactive visualization tools that are designed to help technical and nontechnical people understand deep learning, neural networks, and other ML-related topics. These include:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/cnn-explainer\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/cnn-explainer\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECNN Explainer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;an open-source tool developed for deep-learning beginners. Since its release in July 2020, more than 180,000 global visitors have used the tool.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interpret.ml\/gam-changer\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/interpret.ml\/gam-changer\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGAM Changer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which\u0026nbsp;empowers users in healthcare, finance, or other domains to edit ML models to include knowledge and values specific to their domain, which improves reliability. This tool won a best paper award at the 2021\u0026nbsp;Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. It has also been integrated into Microsoft\u0027s Interoperability Library.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/diffusiondb\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/diffusiondb\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDiffusionDB\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a first-of-its-kind large-scale dataset that lays a foundation to help people better understand generative AI. This work could lead new research in detecting deepfakes\u0026nbsp;and designing human-AI interaction tools to help people more easily use these models.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBuilding upon his success, Wang has two accepted papers at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOne of these,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jennwv.com\/papers\/gamcoach.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGAM Coach: Towards Interactive and User-centered Algorithmic Recourse\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, describes an interactive ML tool that could be used to help people who have been rejected for a loan by automatically letting an applicant know what\u2019s needed for them to receive loan approval.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Apple Scholars in AI\/ML PhD fellowship program will enable Wang to explore more work like this, as well as more high-risk\/high-reward research opportunities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt is a tremendous privilege to be awarded this fellowship, and I am excited about the opportunity to collaborate with researchers at Apple in my research projects. By partnering with Apple researchers, I believe it will greatly amplify real-world applicability and impacts of my work,\u201d said Wang.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis is not the first time Wang has been recognized with a high-profile fellowship. He was recognized last year as a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-machine-learning-students-earn-jp-morgan-ai-phd-fellowships\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Erecipient of the 2022 J.P. 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Mgr. II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"666923":{"#nid":"666923","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Meet the Three ECE Grad Students Taking the Stage at the 2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENext week, three talented graduate students in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eare set to compete in the highly anticipated \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022\u003EThree Minute Thesis (3MT) competition\u003C\/a\u003E. Asim Gazi, Nischita Kaza, and Pranav Premdas are gearing up to showcase their exceptional research skills and explain their thesis in just three minutes - to a non-technical audience! \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELearn more about each ECE participant and their research below. You can cheer them on in person at the John Lewis Student Center next Thursday (April 6) at 5:30 p.m. You can also watch the competition live at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/92901716012\u0022 target=\u0022_new\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/92901716012\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMeet the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EStudents\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAsim Gazi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Advisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/omer-t-inan\u0022\u003EOmer T. Inan\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/christopher-john-rozell\u0022\u003EChristopher J. Rozell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThesis Summary:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOne in every four adult Americans will pathologically suffer from bouts of severe short-term stress (i.e., acute stress). A key challenge in restoring quality of life is mitigating acute stress outside of the clinic, where the individual is outside the reach of a clinician or therapist. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EGazi\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u2019s Ph.D. research is on models and algorithms that enable the next generation of sense-and-react (i.e., closed-loop) technologies for psychological stress mitigation. Specifically, he designs signal processing and machine learning algorithms that take signals obtained from wearables and estimate an individual\u0027s underlying (i.e., latent) stress state over time. Gazi also studies and models the stress-reducing effects of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS): electrical activation of a \u201crest and digest\u201d nerve to counteract stress\u0027s \u0022fight or flight\u0022 response.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Asim:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EAsim received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2018, funded by the UTD Academic Excellence Scholarship. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering here at Georgia Tech (GT), funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He will be defending his dissertation this summer and will pursue postdoctoral research afterwards. Over the course of his PhD, Asim has co-authored over 30 published and in-review journal articles and conference papers, and has been awarded several Best Paper, Poster, and Presentation awards. He is also an active\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Escience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educator, with his STEM outreach efforts here in Atlanta being recently recognized by the\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;2021-2022 GT ECE Outstanding Service and Outreach Award.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAsim on the 3M Thesis Challenge:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EI have been very impressed with my colleagues\u0027 research and their communication of key points to a general audience. I look forward to participating in the final round and learning more about the fascinating research being done around Georgia Tech. In participating, I have found that t\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehere is quite a bit of overlap between the answer to \u0022Tell me\/us about your Ph.D. research\u0022 and the preparation needed for the Three Minute Thesis competition. In fact, the majority of my three-minute pitch is an exact replica of the elevator pitch I prepared for a recent postdoctoral fellowship interview.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENischita Kaza\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Advisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Francisco-E-Robles\u0022\u003EFrancisco Robles\u003C\/a\u003E, Associate Professor in the Wallace H. 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She works to leverage the unique properties of ultraviolet (UV) light to image cells and tissues in a label-free manner, eliminating the need for chemical labels or stains and lengthy sample preparation procedures that are typical of many conventional imaging systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Nischita:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENischita is a Ph.D. candidate in the Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy lab and a graduate teaching fellow at Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Teaching and Learning. In addition to research and teaching, she is a founding executive member of the Biomedical Photonics Society, a student organization focused on bringing together individuals interested in optics and photonics for biomedical applications. She also enjoys science communication and volunteers at STEM outreach events for various student organizations. After her Ph.D., she plans to pursue a post-doc in computational imaging and hopes to have a career in academia.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENishchita on the 3M Thesis Challenge:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Three Minute Thesis competition has been a great learning experience so far. As someone who tends to delve into the details, it was definitely challenging to condense my research into three minutes. In addition to thinking about how to make my own research accessible to a general audience, I really\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;enjoyed learning about the diverse research of other participants during the preliminary rounds.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPranav Premdas\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFaculty Advisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/arvanitis\u0022\u003ECostas D. Arvanitis\u003C\/a\u003E in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; co-advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Brooks-Lindsey\u0022\u003EBrooks Lindsey\u003C\/a\u003E in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThesis Summary:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe large diversity in our vasculature structure, ranging from large arteries with high blood flow velocity to small capillaries and vessels near tumors with a flow as slow as 1 um\/min calls for a very robust algorithm for tracking microbubbles. The current super resolution techniques fail to capture this diversity. Pranav is working to develop a novel robust super resolution algorithm that increases the range of velocities that can be tracked. Thereby, providing vital tracking and vasculature information that can be used for a range of applications from tracking immune cells in immune cell therapy to diagnosing the malignancy of the tumor by studying the blood flow pattern.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Pranav:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPranav Premdas is a master\u2019s thesis student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering specializing in digital signal processing and machine learning. He is currently working on increasing the range of trackable velocities of microbubbles using Super Resolution Ultrasound.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPranav on the 3M Thesis Challenge:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs Albert Einstein once quoted \u201cIf you can\u2019t explain it to a six-year-old, you don\u2019t understand it yourself.\u201d This competition has made me understand that only if you truly understand a concept, you will be able to explain it in simple terms. Further, being provided a stage to showcase my work to a large audience has been a very enthralling experience. I look forward to presenting my work in the finals!\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENext week, three talented ECE graduate students are set to compete in the highly anticipated\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/grad.gatech.edu\/3MT\u0022\u003EThree Minute Thesis (3MT) competition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Asim Gazi, Nischita Kaza, and Pranav Premdas are gearing up to showcase their exceptional research skills and explain their thesis in just three minutes - to a non-technical audience! 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One way this is being achieved is through development of data science tools successfully tested on the Mars Perseverance rover, which could be applied to interpret large, complex datasets on our own planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2302.07187\u0022\u003Ea recent paper\u003C\/a\u003E, a collaborative team of School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) researchers and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists introduce a design methodology, called ISHMAP, to develop new data anomaly detection models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough implemented on the Perseverance rover as it explores for new discoveries on the Red Planet, ISHMAP\u2019s greater impact will be its applicability for terrestrial life here at home who work in the rocketing field of scientific data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have shown that collaboratively framing a data science problem with the relevant domain experts may be much more important than the actual data modeling when it comes to the ultimate impact of a model,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.austinpwright.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAustin Wright\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a School of CSE Ph.D. student. \u201cThat is to say, really working hard to precisely form the right question is, in many ways, more important than the model used to try and answer it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISHMAP stands for Iterative Semantic Heuristic Modeling of Anomalous Phenomena. In essence, ISHMAP is a process for scientists and researchers to produce natively interpretable anomaly detection models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe framework is the culmination of more than 30 months of collaborative research between CSE and JPL through Wright\u2019s internship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere, the ISHMAP group partnered with the NASA team that manages Perseverance\u2019s Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument, a fluorescence spectrometer that studies elemental composition data of the Martian surface.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe highlight of ISHMAP\u2019s development is a highly accurate spectral anomaly algorithm that resulted in a 93.4% accuracy rate when detecting diffraction anomalies. What started as a yearlong field deployment of the toolkit is now a regular component of the PIXL team\u2019s workflow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, more than 97 NASA and NASA-affiliated scientists around the globe currently use a visualization tool embedded with the algorithm, thus proving itself as a key contributor in finding discoveries on Mars and elsewhere in our galaxy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cISHMAP can provide a strong structure to make sure scientists know what the model is doing and is guaranteed to be addressing something that they are interested in,\u201d Wright said. \u201cBy contributing through the whole process, they have built-in levels of trust and ownership rather than just having some extra feature foisted upon them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ISHMAP team joining Wright includes his advisor, School of CSE Associate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAdrian Galvin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EScott Davidoff\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;from JPL.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Nemere\u003C\/strong\u003E, a programmer at Queensland University of Technology, also co-authored the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ISHMAP algorithm analyzes\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/sciadv.abp9084\u0022\u003Eanomalies in crystal structure\u003C\/a\u003Es. These reveal aspects of geological and geochemical history that indicate suitability of life, such as past presence of water and essential minerals. This is a specific component of the PIXL instrument that searches for elemental traces of ancient microbial life on Mars in datasets collected in surveys, scans, and samples.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs scientific datasets grow larger and more complex, so too do the methods used to find anomalies. Existing anomaly detection research primarily relies on deep learning methods, but these tend to lack nuance and interpretability, which are vital to scientific inquiry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISHMAP bridges methodologies from artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) into a framework for scientific researchers to use in designing more effective and interpretable anomaly detection tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn important early stage in the ISHMAP process was an 18-month-long formative design study between the ISHMAP group and NASA\u2019s PIXL team. This defined the design goals needed to enhance PIXL.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo accomplish its mission, PIXL needed an algorithm that focused on raw data over processed data, robustness to operate under a limited amount of ground truth data, and enhanced ability to interpret and differentiate different kinds of anomalies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuy-in from users proved to be a key step in the early stages of the methodology to understand research problems and to integrate with existing model techniques. This way, ISHMAP produces an effective anomaly detection algorithm custom made to meet end-user needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo help spread the word about ISHMAP and attract more scientific users, Wright represented the group by presenting their research at the 28th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iui.acm.org\/2023\/call_for_papers.html\u0022\u003EIUI 2023\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn Association for Computing Machinery conference held March 27 \u2013 31 in Sydney, IUI 2023 is a premier international forum reporting outstanding research at the intersection of HCI and AI to further develop user interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think that researchers can consider using ISHMAP simply because these kinds of collaboration between data scientists and domain scientists are difficult,\u201d Wright said. \u201cA resource like ISHMAP can give structure to both parties, and make the whole process easier and more likely to result in good science.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESearching for evidence of life on Mars is making an impact here on Earth. 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After three years at Georgia Tech, the brothers added one more thing to that list: graduating with a trio of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/academics\/degrees\/bachelors\/neuroscience-bs\u0022\u003EBachelor of Science in Neuroscience\u003C\/a\u003E degrees this past May and gearing up for medical school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENeuroscience is the fastest growing undergraduate major in the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech, and prospective and current students often enjoy hearing from our alumni about their experiences in the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe recently spoke with the NEURO \u201822 Kashlan brothers about their time at Georgia Tech, advice for students, and a look at what\u2019s next on the horizon:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EMAJORING IN NEUROSCIENCE\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did you decide to study Neuroscience at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane:\u003C\/strong\u003E The Neuroscience program at Georgia Tech is unique in that it\u0027s incredibly interdisciplinary. As Neuroscience majors, students can freely take courses in Georgia Tech\u0027s top-ranked programs like engineering, computer science, and even business on top of a regular course load filled with biology and other science core curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, the broad nature of the curriculum offers students an opportunity to explore all areas of Neuroscience, including Biological Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Computational Neuroscience, and several other pathways that help develop essential lifelong skills. It is a fantastic \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isss.oie.gatech.edu\/content\/what-are-stem-eligible-majors-here-georgia-tech\u0022\u003ESTEM\u003C\/a\u003E major to pick as students who want to explore different career paths and pick up different skills. We enjoyed charting our individual experiences within Neuroscience and are so grateful for the advisors and professors who supported us along the way.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat made you all decide to go to Georgia Tech together?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane:\u003C\/strong\u003E Georgia Tech has always felt like a second home to us. We were born and grew up in the Atlanta area. Georgia Tech offered a strong list of notable faculty members. The modern campus is big enough to explore different interests in a wide variety of subjects. Tech offered a special place for us to be challenged, make new friends, and grow independently as a trio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E I would add the fact that Georgia Tech offered an unparalleled value of education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETwo questions in one: Who were your favorite professors, mentors, TAs \u2014 and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E There were so many professors and mentors that helped shape me into the person that I am today. For example, my involvement with Dr. Ragan in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/nih-brain-initiative-taps-two-labs-georgia-tech#:~:text=It\u0027s%20all%20part%20of%20the,epilepsy%20and%20traumatic%20brain%20injury.\u0022\u003EBRAIN Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E helping promote neuroscience to students in schools around the Atlanta area, enforced my love for neuroscience and giving back to the community. Dr. Decker, who mentored me as a TA, instilled and enforced my passion for teaching. Dr. Shepler, who I worked closely with in mentoring students in Chemistry under the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tutoring.gatech.edu\/plus-sessions\/\u0022\u003EPLUS Program\u003C\/a\u003E, further deepened my love for teaching science. Dr. Harrison, who guided me through my first teaching experience in the biology department, is another example. Like all other professors, they were vital in facilitating an engaging, fun, and highly memorable learning environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EFrom the very long list of professors I had an extraordinary time learning from, I especially enjoyed being a TA for Dr. Decker in Anatomy and Pathology. Dr. Tyson helped develop my interest in mentoring others and deepening my experience in Organic Chemistry. Dr. Senf provided continuous support in sponsoring the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/act.alz.org\/site\/TR?team_id=725003\u0026amp;pg=team\u0026amp;fr_id=15491\u0022\u003EStudents Against Alzheimer\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E organization I helped found and fostered my passion for scientific communication and advocacy. Also, a thank you to the GT 1000 program for allowing me to be a part of mentoring the next generation of Yellow Jackets \u2013 Sandi Bramblett and Dr. Rafael Bras for showing me the ropes of leading by example and to Savitra Y Dow and Dr. Lacy Hodges for their constant support.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E I\u0027m so grateful for all the professors I had the privilege of learning from and taking classes with over my tenure at Georgia Tech, such as Dr. Decker, Dr. Tyson, Dr. Holder, Dr. Weigel, Dr. Whyte, Dr. Howitz, Dr. Kerr, Dr. Harrison, and Dr. Duarte. I especially value my experience with Dr. Shepler, with whom I took chemistry in my first year because she made the learning of science meaningful and fun. Dr. Senf helped develop my scientific writing skill, which is critical in neuroscience research. Dr. Ragan, with whom I took NEUR 4001, for learning so much about research methods, proper presentation creation and delivery, paper writing, and making the atmosphere of every class fun and engaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWould you all intentionally take classes together?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003ESometimes it worked out that we would have similar classes since we\u0027re all neuroscience majors. Still, most semesters, we would only share a required class or two, while some classes might be with different professors because of time conflicts with other courses. We each prioritized taking whatever classes worked best with our individual schedules and graduation plans, but taking a lesson or two [together] was always fun.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECoolest thing you\u0027ve learned about the human brain?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E The most remarkable thing I\u0027ve learned about the human brain is how much we don\u0027t know about it. Out of every meticulous detail we know about human physiology and function we have barely scratched the surface of our cognition and thinking. This leaves so much room for exploration in neuroscience research because there is so much yet to be uncovered.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ECAMPUS LIFE\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDuring the school year, did you have any daily routines or habits?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E After my first year, my earliest class usually started around 10 a.m. On a typical day, I liked to wake up at around 9 a.m. if I didn\u0027t have any events or important assignments to complete. After taking some of my morning classes, I would almost always go to the fourth floor of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECrosland Tower\u003C\/a\u003E [in the Price Gilbert Memorial] Library to do my assignments and study before lunch or my following classes. After grabbing some lunch and attending the rest of my classes that day, I usually went to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.crc.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ECRC\u003C\/a\u003E to play basketball with my friends or eat dinner. On busy days though, I went back to studying or completing projects and other longer assignments in preparation for exams or important deadlines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was your most memorable experience from the past few years?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EI would probably have to say graduation. While it is a bit clich\u00e9, knowing that your years of hard work through trials and tribulations have finally amounted to something great is amazing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAny recommendations for places to visit around campus and Atlanta?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E I enjoyed Six Flags Night with my friends in the fall; Lake Lanier to enjoy the water; and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/beltline.org\/\u0022\u003E[Atlanta] Beltline\u003C\/a\u003E, which has an amazing history. I had the opportunity to visit [there] with my English class during my first year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E I\u0027ll add the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiaaquarium.org\/?keyword\u0026amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw3qGYBhBSEiwAcnTRLmze_E3lgDICm2OHJbUFeKGr4ZQyDkbbOvWJallhdvhCly0LzSJh9xoCq3kQAvD_BwE\u0022\u003EGeorgia Aquarium\u003C\/a\u003E to that list \u2014 the whale sharks and penguins make it an awesome experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWere you involved in any clubs or organizations?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EDuring my first semester, I enjoyed my experience in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/transitionseminars.oue.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGT1000\u003C\/a\u003E and looked up to my team leader for the class. I joined the GT1000 program because of that experience and served as a team leader for my first two years on campus and then as an ambassador for my last year. I enjoyed helping students work through many of the challenges I had once experienced as a first-year. Since my first year, I have spent a good portion of time outside class as a volunteer and advocate for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.alz.org\/\u0022\u003EAlzheimer\u0027s Association\u003C\/a\u003E, where we urge our national leaders to support increased care and research funding to one day end Alzheimer\u0027s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy connecting with other volunteers in the state and country, I saw the need for younger voices to get involved in the cause. I founded Students Against Alzheimer\u0027s, a student-led organization that works with the Alzheimer\u0027s Association to get younger advocates involved. I\u0027m also grateful to have had the opportunity to go to Washington D.C. with other advocates, where we met \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.warnock.senate.gov\/\u0022\u003ESenator Raphael Warnock \u003C\/a\u003Eand other states\/national representatives to push for updates in legislation. I would spend a lot of time with family or having fun in the Atlanta area in my free time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E I joined and participated in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/swimclub\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Swim Club\u003C\/a\u003E, founded a GT chapter of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.apdaparkinson.org\/?utm_source=google\u0026amp;utm_medium=cpc\u0026amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw3qGYBhBSEiwAcnTRLpQt-D5YR357RqxJBkZBNRW0fYILoWF7suz06Cb5DeFFG4Q0znTH3RoCjBgQAvD_BwE\u0022\u003EAmerican Parkinson\u0027s Disease Association\u003C\/a\u003E, and was part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStudent Government\u003C\/a\u003E during my first year. Outside of school, I was heavily involved with my research at the Woolf Lab for the past two years. I volunteered as a medical assistant at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodsamatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003EGood Samaritan Health Clinic\u003C\/a\u003E. I was also a part of several organizations where I tutored and supported Georgia\u0027s refugee children, which I have been involved in since middle school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe organization I was involved in the most was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tutoring.gatech.edu\/#:~:text=Tutoring%20%26%20Academic%20Support%20(TAS),your%20experience%20with%20TAS%20here.\u0022\u003ETeaching and Academic Services at Tech\u003C\/a\u003E. I participated as a PLUS leader and one-on-one tutor, assisting in events such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tutoring.gatech.edu\/studypalooza\/\u0022\u003EStudypalooza\u003C\/a\u003E. The opportunity to give back to my peers through teaching and guidance was a great experience. Outside the classroom, I helped lead the BRAIN initiative, whereas as a neuroscience student, I went to schools around the Atlanta area to hold activity-filled seminars promoting the learning of neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students observed activities such as a human brain dissection, controlling nerves in your arm, and a \u0022mind control\u0022 machine. These activities deepened my love and advocacy for neuroscience. I also discovered my passion for helping others, volunteering as a trained nurse assistant at the Good Sam Health Clinic. I also had the privilege to be part of the task force set up to design the process of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/health.gatech.edu\/coronavirus\/testing\u0022\u003ECovid-19 testing\u003C\/a\u003E for the students and the community at GT in preparation for reopening the campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u0027s the most important thing you\u0027ve learned through Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EAside from balancing time and managing classes, the most important and unexpected lesson I have learned is knowing when to ask for help. It was important along our journeys to connect with fellow students and professors to get extra support during the more challenging weeks or when making career plans. I feel that Tech\u0027s most valuable resource doesn\u0027t come from the new buildings or courses, it\u0027s the role models \u2013 our peers and mentors \u2013 that we engage with daily.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EGT enforced several lessons \u2014 including problem-solving, how to persevere, self-motivation, and putting things into perspective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was the hardest class you took, and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EI would definitely have to say that Principles of Neuroscience (NEUR 2001) was the hardest class that I have taken at Georgia Tech. It\u0027s a four-credit class I took my first semester and included a lab component. You essentially learn most of the basic neuroscience curriculum in one extremely demanding class. The lab consists of lots of reports that have to be extremely in-depth and are significantly longer than normal papers. The lecture had a significant portion of the grade dedicated to exams which were incredibly detailed and required memorization of the minor details. It was a challenging experience, but looking back I\u0027m grateful because it allowed me to adjust to Georgia Tech\u0027s rigorous curriculum early and understand foundational neuroscience, which helped my research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ESTEM RESEARCH, CAREERS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u0027s your advice for young people interested in STEM research?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EI think the most important part of being interested in STEM is just that \u2014 curiosity. Being curious about everyday scientific phenomena is the crux of being a good researcher or engineer. Just by staying curious so many doors are open for learning. A student can start with some YouTube videos, hone that passion by taking a course or joining a lab, and who knows, maybe one day that passion will turn into a career.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvice for students who are interested in a career in health and medicine?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EBuilding a career in medicine takes a long time, maybe up to 12 years or more after college. Get involved through internships and research as early as your first year and take the time to figure out what about medicine and health interests you. There are so many opportunities, not only within the scope of being a clinician, but also in medical research; medical technology; medical business; and medical law. Going down the path of a physician is certainly not the only way to have a career in health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMake sure that you network with your peers and alumni to find out what others have career ideas that can serve as inspiration for yourself. I especially recommend taking a gap year or two before making such an impactful commitment to exploring all potential career opportunities that might interest you before dedicating yourself to a life in medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EI agree with Zane that you must do a lot of soul-searching when you commit to the field of medicine. This is a highly specialized career you will spend the rest of your life doing. Remember that you need to love what you do; otherwise, you will not be happy, and your patients will pick up on that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EACADEMICS AND STUDY TIPS\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDid you have any study strategies or habits?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EI\u0027m an early morning person, so most of my studying took place before I began my first class, which was typically in the late morning or afternoon. The rule of thumb is to study for two to three hours for every lecture hour, so I always tried to study the material ahead of the lectures to get familiar with the topics being presented in class as they are taught and then revisit the material immediately after.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003ESpaced repetition, consistency, and time management is the key to excelling in school. I can confidently say that you don\u0027t need to be the smartest person to get the best grades because you can outweigh that by being more disciplined and efficient. Finding a study habit that works for you is the key. Oftentimes, what works for one person most likely won\u0027t work for another. You must learn and discover what works best for you through iteration in your first semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDiscover the studying habit that helps you perform best on exams and assignments. What worked for me was spacing out my studying ahead of exams and using spaced repetition, so I would revisit concepts multiple times before taking an exam rather than moving through the material progressively and not reviewing old lectures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, I would ramp up my studying a few days before an exam with the most time spent the day before and the day-of, because I found it easier to recall small details from a PowerPoint slide when reviewing it an hour prior to taking the exam (after multiple run-throughs, though).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe strategy can sometimes vary between classes: brute repetition and memorization works in a subject like biology \u2014 but not so much in a conceptual subject like physics and math that requires more practice than learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second half of doing well in classes is understanding the syllabus and finding what assignments or exams you need to score well on. Maximizing your grade in non-exam\/quiz assignments gives you the highest chance of getting an A in the class and oftentimes gives you a buffer to score an 80 or 85 exam average.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFavorite study spot on campus?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EMy favorite study spots on campus would have to either be the fourth and fifth floor of the Crosland Tower Library or the third floor of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/library.gatech.edu\/clough\u0022\u003ECULC\u003C\/a\u003E. The Library\u0027s first floor is always packed, so the quiet upper floors were great for studying. The bridge connecting the two main libraries was also a relaxing spot to study since the windows give a nice view of the city and keep the area well-lit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat were your go-to study snacks?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E I\u0027m a big sandwich guy; throughout my time at Georgia Tech, I\u0027ve probably had upwards of a thousand sandwiches between classes. You can always count on the 14th Street Jimmy John\u2019s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow do you recharge after a tough exam or difficult class?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EI crashed a lot on the beanbags on the fourth floor of CULC building, hung around the dorms a lot, tried to forget about it, and worked towards the next assignment or class to study for.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat motivated you when you were struggling in a class?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhen struggling in a class, I always reminded myself that I wasn\u0027t alone. I stressed that I should continue to persevere and not get demoralized if I got a bad exam grade, or didn\u0027t understand some concept right away. I noticed that classes at Georgia Tech usually got harder as the semester progressed, until the eighth or ninth week, then eased off significantly as the final exam approached.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy biggest piece of advice for all students would be to focus on scoring as high as possible on all non-exam grades, like participation and homework assignments that you have the most control over. Getting close to a 100 percent in those sections carries your average significantly and allows you to have the room to tank a few bad quiz or exam grades, and gives you lots of buffer for the final exam.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s also important to keep track of your grade in the class and what grade section you\u0027re underperforming in (homework, quiz, test, etc.). This lets you know what assignments mean the most to your grade and prioritize time between different classes and assignments to maximize your chances of keeping your averages high.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi:\u003C\/strong\u003E I think not falling too far behind made it much easier to prepare and be ready. Don\u0027t wait; go seek help if you don\u0027t understand a topic fully. GT has a lot of resources for help when needed. Take advantage of all that is available. A key piece of advice, read your syllabus at the beginning of the semester and fully understand the professor\u0027s expectations. Study ahead and follow the syllabus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u0027s the best advice you\u0027ve learned about balancing school and life?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E Balancing school, sleep, and a social life can be challenging. I always liked to keep a few consistent hobbies fit into my schedule, like playing basketball at the CRC or even just walking around campus at night so I could have some escape from the pressure of school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI learned that getting into a routine and set schedule also helps with this balance because you get more hours out of your day when your time is managed properly. Unfortunately though, there will be times when you will have to sacrifice going out on a Friday night to complete a project or make sure that you perform well on an exam.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI encourage you not to feel bad about making these hard decisions because it all becomes worth it come graduation day. That said, having some avenue to de-stress from school and have fun is super important, even if it\u0027s a small activity for a few minutes a day because studying at Tech without taking a break will burn you out quickly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, sleep is your friend \u2014 don\u0027t ignore it. It\u0027s a cheat code to improve your mood and mental health, reflect on your school performance and social relationships, improve your mood, etcetera.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E2022 AND BEYOND\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are your plans for the rest of 2022 and beyond?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam: \u003C\/strong\u003EAfter graduating in the spring, I moved to Boston to work as a research assistant in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kirbyneuro.org\/WoolfLab\/\u0022\u003EWoolf Lab at Harvard Medical School\u003C\/a\u003E. We study non-opioid-based analgesic drugs used in the treatment of chronic pain. I will apply to medical schools next summer and want to pursue a career as a physician focusing on improving immigrant and refugee health in the United States- my passion since middle school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane: \u003C\/strong\u003EIn late April, I switched my research work from Yale Medical to the Woolf Lab at Harvard Medical. In the future, I plan to combine my passion for research and medicine as a physician-scientist to improve patients\u0027 lives suffering from neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer\u0027s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EI moved to Boston with Zane and Adam and have been focusing on volunteering at various clinics and studying for my MCAT exam. After taking the MCAT exam this fall, I will start working as a research assistant.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ESPIRIT OF GEORGIA TECH\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBest part of being a Yellow Jacket?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZane:\u003C\/strong\u003E The decision has to be between making great friends and calling such an amazing school home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERommi: \u003C\/strong\u003EThe best part of being a Yellow Jacket is knowing that I am ready to face any new challenge, confident that I will do well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam:\u003C\/strong\u003E Developing many relationships and connections with friends, mentors, and professors at the school have continued to benefit me even after graduation. 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The ARCS fellowship\u0026nbsp;is made possible each year by way\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;the fundraising and continuous generous support of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlanta.arcsfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003EARCS Foundation Atlanta Chapter\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeet Cassandra Shriver\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to be recognized for my previous achievements and grateful to be joining a wonderful community of people passionate about advancing science and technology,\u0026rdquo; said Shriver.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer proposed research is to analyze how scaling affects mammalian climbing mechanics, with emphasis on conservation applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I plan to observe and compare gait kinematics for mammals of various sizes, with the understanding that scaling relationships may require alternative postures or strategies to overcome gravitational forces,\u0026rdquo; Shriver explained. \u0026ldquo;This research will require extensive collaborations with zoological and wildlife institutions, which are often more willing to collaborate when efforts are made to include conservation and animal welfare initiatives in research proposals.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Specifically, I\u0026#39;m curious how various morphological differences and scaling constraints affect climbing kinematics,\u0026rdquo; she explained, \u0026ldquo;and how these strategies might change as you increase in size from something as small as a squirrel to as large as a bear.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Cassie is an ideal student for this project in the biological sciences, combining her technical engineering background with her interest for studying natural systems,\u0026rdquo; said Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/young-hui-chang\u0022\u003EYoung-Hui Chang\u003C\/a\u003E, Shriver is co-advised by Chang and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWoodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E with a joint appointment in the School of Biological Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In particular, Cassie has a passion for understanding animal behavior and impacting conservation efforts, which has led to her research on climbing biomechanics,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Chang added. \u0026ldquo;I have no doubt that the ARCS scholarship will play a major role in helping Cassie continue to develop as a scientist that will work to grow the conservation technology community in metro-Atlanta and make Georgia Tech an industry leader in sustainable and evidenced-based technology solutions for wildlife and beyond.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn her first year of graduate school at Georgia Tech, Shriver engaged in a project mentoring students to create a solution to solve an urban human-wildlife conflict, designing an open source automated rabies vaccine dispenser for foxes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeet Noam Altman-Kurosaki\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. candidate \u003Cstrong\u003ENoam Altman-Kurosaki\u003C\/strong\u003E, a graduate research assistant in the School of Biological Sciences added on receiving the ARCS Award, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;m very excited and honored to have received it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of Altman-Kurosaki\u0026rsquo;s work takes place in Mo\u0026#39;orea, French Polynesia, studying the mechanisms that drive coral reef decline and recovery, often focusing on how anthropogenic stressors alter the interactions between corals, algae, and fishes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As you can imagine, doing work out here can get quite costly,\u0026rdquo; Altman-Kurosaki explained, adding that the award will also \u0026ldquo;help me cover the difference in the cost of living and supplies for my work.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking in the lab of Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E, an experimental marine ecologist known for his work on community, marine, and chemical ecology, Altman-Kurosaki said that Hay, who also holds the Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology and is a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor, has encouraged\u0026nbsp; his curiosity and independence. This has made him a much stronger and more creative scientist overall, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mark is really good at making sure I \u0026lsquo;couch\u0026rsquo; my ideas in broader theory and ecological phenomena \u0026mdash; and making sure that I can test them through manipulative experiments, not just correlative and comparative survey techniques,\u0026rdquo; said Altman-Kurosaki of his mentor and research advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Noam is innovative, energetic, resourceful, and a tireless researcher that is discovering new approaches to retain or recover the critical ecosystem services that threatened coral reefs provide to tropical human populations,\u0026rdquo; Hay added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAltman-Kurosaki\u0026rsquo;s science career actually began with a pre-university trip to an aquarium. \u0026ldquo;I saw a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oceansunfish.org\/species-and-distribution\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMola mola\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand couldn\u0026#39;t believe something so ridiculous existed on this planet,\u0026rdquo; he said of the ocean sunfish. \u0026ldquo;So I decided on a lark to take the classes I\u0026#39;d need for my university\u0026#39;s summer marine biology course. I ended up falling in love with the general field of ecology, and that love only deepened when I finally got hands-on field experience in marine biology.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs he continued to gain experience and learn more about the field, Altman-Kurosaki began to realize that this was what he wanted to do with his life, and ultimately decided to pursue a graduate education to keep conducting research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout ARCS\u0026reg;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.arcsfoundation.org\/national-homepage\u0022\u003EARCS\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026reg;\u003C\/strong\u003E Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, a national organization started by a group of women \u0026ldquo;who focused upon the future\u0026rdquo; in 1958, has granted more than $120 million to over 10,000 ARCS Scholars in top-rated STEM programs at leading US universities who are \u0026ldquo;determined to be the best and the brightest in their fields.\u0026rdquo; The awards are given to outstanding students who are U.S. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, math, technology, and medical research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlanta.arcsfoundation.org\/who-we-are-3\u0022\u003EARCS\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026reg;\u003C\/strong\u003E Foundation Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, comprised of about 150 philanthropic women, supports scholars from Emory University, Morehouse College, and the University of Georgia, in addition to Georgia Tech. 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This was around March 2020. \u0026ldquo;We got the first paper out in May.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExplaining how their research areas differ, Gumbart shared, \u0026ldquo;My research uses atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to understand the relationship between structure and function of proteins.\u0026rdquo; He added, \u0026ldquo;While we work on a number of systems, themes in the lab include outer-membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria as well as proteins in viruses, most notably hepatitis B virus. We also pivoted part of the lab\u0026rsquo;s efforts to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) during the pandemic.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond the work with Fenton, Gumbart\u0026rsquo;s lab has published seven papers on SARS-CoV-2 proteins. \u0026ldquo;The most recent of these was the largest simulation we\u0026rsquo;ve ever run, a so-called \u0026lsquo;potential of mean force\u0026rsquo; calculation to determine the energetics of opening the spike protein,\u0026rdquo; Gumbart said. \u0026ldquo;For this, we used \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.olcf.ornl.gov\/summit\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESummit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.\u0026rdquo; The team\u0026rsquo;s work was published in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-022-04138-6#citeas\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECommunications Biology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My work is more on the macroscale, cells to tissue and organ, while JC\u0026rsquo;s is more on the molecular scale,\u0026rdquo; Fenton explained. \u0026ldquo;There are several orders of magnitude in both time and space separating our research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETen years ago\u0026hellip;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFenton is also an adjunct professor of Biology. Before he arrived at Georgia Tech, he was director of Electrophysiology Research at the Beth Israel Medical Center, now \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/locations\/beth-israel\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMount Sinai Beth Israel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, in New York City for five years, and then research scientist at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECornell University in the College of Veterinary Medicine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E for six years. However, with his training as a physicist, his calling was to join a physics department and train physics students to work on nonlinear dynamics and biophysics, which led him to the opportunity at Georgia Tech, where he and Gumbart met.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGumbart, who also serves as associate director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuantitative Biosciences Ph.D. program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech, said what ultimately brought him to Georgia Tech was the extraordinary research being done in the sciences, particularly in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/research\/activities\/pols\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhysics of Living Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E group, of which he and Fenton are both faculty members. \u0026ldquo;I didn\u0026rsquo;t know Flavio before, but after arriving at Georgia Tech in January 2013, he and I quickly bonded over our research and shared love for NFL football, with my team being the Chicago Bears, and his the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaboration, cross pollination, and a love story\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The disparate scales on which we work \u0026mdash; my lab on individual proteins and Flavio\u0026rsquo;s on entire organs \u0026mdash; makes it hard to bridge the gap,\u0026rdquo; said Gumbart. \u0026ldquo;But we are always on the lookout for new opportunities. Even if we haven\u0026rsquo;t collaborated very often in research, we often discuss other things such as outreach and teaching,\u0026rdquo; He added. \u0026ldquo;For example, when I taught my first Introductory Physics class, I sat in on Flavio\u0026rsquo;s section every morning before my own to observe how to best convey the difficult concepts being covered that day.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir lab members are also frequent collaborators, partly due to the fact that their offices and labs are close to each other. \u0026ldquo;There has been some cross pollination,\u0026rdquo; Fenton smiled. \u0026ldquo;With one of my Ph.D. students transferring to JC\u0026rsquo;s lab to do his Ph.D., and one of his undergraduate students came to my lab to do his.\u0026nbsp;Fenton added that two students from the differing labs ended up getting married, and now both work at the FDA. \u0026ldquo;Currently, we are co-mentoring an undergraduate, and we have a married couple who joined our labs\u0026mdash; one partner in each lab,\u0026rdquo; Fenton added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProductive publishers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough there was no competition or a particular number slated as a goal, Fenton and Gumbart, realized through a conversation that their decade of research at Georgia Tech has resulted in 100 published papers for each of them and their lab members, in journals like \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EPNAS,\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EPhysical Review Letters\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGumbart added that some years resulted in more papers than others, but that published research in his lab has increased in recent years. \u0026ldquo;17 in 2021, and 17 \u0026mdash; so far \u0026mdash; in 2022,\u0026rdquo; Gumbart said. \u0026ldquo;We were fortunate that computational research was minimally impacted by the switch to remote work during the Covid pandemic. We also have benefited greatly from a long-term trend in the increasing recognition of the role simulations can play in understanding biological systems at the molecular scale, which has led to more collaborations and projects than ever. \u0026ldquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth professors point to students as a key part of these collaborative opportunities. \u0026ldquo;GT grads and undergrads are the best,\u0026rdquo; Fenton said. \u0026ldquo;I could not have done the studies and obtained the results we have published without them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My research has expanded in part through the wealth of collaborative opportunities I\u0026rsquo;ve found here,\u0026rdquo; Gumbart shared, adding that colleagues at other schools also recognize graduate students as a key strength of the Georgia Tech research program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlligators, Santa, and Rick and Morty\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYears of interaction with colleagues and students have provided several memories in addition to collaboration. Fenton recalled what he described as a \u0026ldquo;fun memory\u0026rdquo; that took an unexpected turn.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One day while having lunch with a postdoc of Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDan Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/biology\/faculty-staff\/detail.dot?u=hastley\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHenry Astley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, now a professor at University of Akron \u0026mdash; we were talking about alligators and began asking questions about the physics behind their unique physiology,\u0026rdquo; Fenton said. \u0026ldquo;Our discussion led us to talks with Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.csusb.edu\/profile\/towerkow\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETomasz Owerkowicz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at California State University at San Bernardino, who sent us alligators (with approved protocols) and we performed experiments that resulted in a paper, \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/study-finds-alligator-hearts-keep-beating-no-matter-what-0\u0022\u003EDefibrillate You Later, Alligator: Q10 Scaling and Refractoriness Keeps Alligators from Fibrillation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026quot; So our casual lunch resulted in a very interesting study.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of studies like these, Fenton and cohorts have been able to develop new methods for low energy defibrillation including a theory to \u0026quot;teleport\u0026quot; spiral waves of electrical activity with a small stimulus that can \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/researchers-map-rotating-spiral-waves-live-human-hearts\u0022\u003Eterminate arrhythmias\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;But what we are most excited about,\u0026rdquo; said Fenton, \u0026ldquo;is that for the past year we have begun performing experiments in explanted hearts from patients that receive a new heart at Emory University\u0026rsquo;s Hospital\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026mdash; we are one of the few groups in the world doing this.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe next 10 years\u0026hellip;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGumbart and Fenton said that while they look forward to continuing their friendship and (at least) another 100 papers each, they also hope to continue working together and co-mentoring students. \u0026ldquo;I believe this will be easy to do, as JC loves doing research,\u0026rdquo; Fenton said. \u0026ldquo;I can always count on finding him in his office working late at night for a chat or discussion, and he is always game for trying new restaurants for dinner and having scientific discussions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGumbart shared, \u0026ldquo;One of the great things about working with Flavio is how festive he is, whether dressing up for something new every Halloween or even Santa Claus at Christmas. 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As part of this award, Shi will organize a workshop to address equity by using her math background to help other underrepresented graduate students across \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Elearn and apply math and computational methods in their research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Biological Sciences Graduate Committee Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/ingeborg-schmidt-krey\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIngeborg Schmidt-Krey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Efirst met Shi during her recruitment into the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioinformatics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBioinformatics (BINF) Ph.D. program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which is directed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/king-jordan\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor King Jordan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and is one of five Ph.D. programs and two M.S. programs\u0026nbsp; in the School of Biological Sciences at Tech.\u0026nbsp;Shi impressed Schmidt-Krey during her second semester as an engaged student \u0026mdash; particularly in research ethics discussions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Bree\u0026rsquo;s background in mathematics coupled with her passion for applying mathematical approaches to biological research made her a fantastic match for such an interdisciplinary program,\u0026rdquo; said Schmidt-Krey.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Bree has a particular interest in using machine learning in her research and making her skills accessible to other students via her symposium, outreach activities, and teaching.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShi first contacted Biological Sciences Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/patrick-mcgrath\u0022\u003EPatrick McGrath\u003C\/a\u003E about coming to Georgia Tech to join the Bioinformatics program. \u0026ldquo;With her mathematical background and interest in genomics, I thought that she would be a great match for this program and Georgia Tech in general,\u0026rdquo; McGrath said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Now in her second year, Breanna is fully participating in our lab\u0026rsquo;s research,\u0026rdquo; he added. \u0026ldquo;She\u0026rsquo;s using her skills in machine learning and computational biology to understand the evolution of behavior in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/mystery-lake-malawi-180971442\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELake Malawi cichlids\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a large flock of species that have evolved a variety of new social behaviors.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchmidt-Krey shared that Shi advocates for graduate students via the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Student Government Association (SGA)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, is working towards the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/content\/tech-teaching-0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETech to Teaching\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ecertificate in preparation for her plans to become a professor, participates in several underrepresented minority recruitment activities, and is an instructor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vip.gatech.edu\/#\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVIP program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, where she will involve undergraduates from various backgrounds in her research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Bree is currently supported by a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gemfellowship.org\/gem-fellowship-program\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGEM Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp; 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said McGrath, who is now Shi\u0026rsquo;s advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMcGrath added that Shi is also passionate about using new technologies to study aggression behaviors, simulating virtual fish to induce and learn from aggressive behaviors in other fish.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently overseeing a large group of undergraduate and master\u0026rsquo;s students, Shi is also passionate about mentorship, adding that she became interested in education research through her time with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ctl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While I was initially nervous about having her overseeing so many students so early in her career, Breanna has really done an outstanding job of overseeing this group,\u0026rdquo; McGrath shared. \u0026ldquo;Her goal is to become an academic professor, so it\u0026#39;s great to see her display these skills. I am very proud of what Breanna has accomplished in such a short time.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShi\u0026rsquo;s mentorship will continue with the IAS workshop. \u0026ldquo;[The workshop] will be a partnership with Christin Salley, a third year Ph.D. student in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECivil Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E who is also a GEM fellow,\u0026rdquo; Shi said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our hope is to get graduate students interested in using mathematics and computer science into their research,\u0026rdquo; Shi said. \u0026ldquo;As diversity fellows, Christin and I are making it a priority to\u0026nbsp; include students from diverse groups and to facilitate mentoring.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey also hope to provide a collaborative environment where students can network and learn. \u0026ldquo;Our goal is to host this event annually,\u0026rdquo; Shi added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShi, who has two degrees in mathematics, has been interested to understand why some students find math and computer sciences (CS) difficult to master. 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Here, the conference committee assigned EINNs to the AI for Social Impact track.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Predicting and preventing epidemics are major challenges for the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with far-reaching effects on health, economy, and social well-being,\u0026rdquo; Rodr\u0026iacute;guez said. \u0026ldquo;Forecasting with EINNs allows us to see further into the future, which it critical to planning and decision-making in public health.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of the beauty of EINNs is its incorporation of the best aspects from neural networks and mechanistic models, an idea borrowed from physics-informed neural networks. The team mentions in their study that the goal was not to compete with the models, but rather to develop a method for consistently good performance in accuracy and correlation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrent neural network models are good at short-term forecasting, typically one to four weeks, but do not have any knowledge on epidemic dynamics. As a result, they often lose accuracy in long-term forecasting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMechanistic models, on the other hand, contain this knowledge, making them a welcomed addition to deep neural networks for long-term epidemic forecasting. At the same time, mechanistic models have difficulty ingesting some datasets, like social media data. EINNs enables such models to incorporate these datasets better through neural networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn total, the research team made 5,696 predictions per tested model, including EINNs. This required training each model more than 700 times. Though computationally expensive, this developed the AI that ultimately led the team\u0026rsquo;s success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo accomplish this, the team tested models on four Intel Xeon E7-4850 CPUs, boosted by four NVDIA Tesla V100 DGXS 32GB GPUs. With code written in PyTorch, the GPUs completed training of each predictive task in about 30 minutes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Current ML modes don\u0026rsquo;t utilize domain knowledge embedded in epidemiological models and we wanted to bridge that gap,\u0026rdquo; Rodr\u0026iacute;guez said. \u0026ldquo;To accomplish this, we took inspiration from recent work in scientific AI and developed new techniques. 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What was once a predictable trend, called Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law, is now increasingly untenable with current technologies, which would inhibit further development of today\u0026rsquo;s computers and smart devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) is taking this dilemma head-on, in part, through a computer version of Frankenstein\u0026rsquo;s lab. Dubbed the Rogues Gallery, CRNCH showcased this collection of unique hardware at the 2023 CRNCH Summit to illustrate how it is ushering the next generation of computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 2018, the Rogues Gallery is a collection of unique computer hardware acquired from vendors, research labs, and startups. While these components could unlock the future of computing, they are either so new or rare that few individuals know how to effectively program them, and the full capabilities remain unknown.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo better understand these components, the Rogues Gallery allows students, faculty, and industry collaborators to access its hardware collection to experiment within a managed data center. The Rogues Gallery also operates as CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s testbed that researchers across the globe can use through remote access.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo share this interesting and helpful resource, CNRCH leadership organized the 2023 summit to bring together computing stakeholders and raise awareness of novel architectures, like the Rogues Gallery. 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Georgia Tech became the host of the nation\u0026rsquo;s largest, publicly available Lucata Pathfinder system when it arrived in July 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system is a prototype computing platform designed to run deep analytics on large graphs. Here, Rogues Gallery researchers are working to explore the limits of the Lucata Pathfinder using large data sets with applications related to community detection, graph-based genome assembly, and graph neural networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Lucata, Pathfinder uses migrating thread technology to deliver 16 times the performance at one-tenth the power of comparable systems. 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Due to the low cost and high customizability of FPGAs, this technology is a promising starting point for the next generation of computer engineers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The most exciting thing about the Rogues Gallery is its flexibility to respond to requests from faculty at Georgia Tech and researchers,\u0026rdquo; Young said. \u0026ldquo;When we started the testbed, we never anticipated deploying a full remote FPGA cluster for classes, but the COVID-19 pandemic meant that we had to evolve the way we taught specific classes.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOptimizing Rogues Gallery hardware for remote access is one of the keys to making it a source for meaningful computer research across the globe, not just Georgia Tech. 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Over a 36-hour period, participants at this decoy hackathon developed a real-world solution that the 3rd Infantry Division (3ID), based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, can implement into its organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This collaboration between warfighters and innovators is invaluable,\u0026rdquo; said Andrew Chang, the lead GTRI planner and coordinator for the workshop. \u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech and 3ID have been building a strong relationship since the signing of the Educational Partnership Agreement in 2021.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EThe Prompt and Resources\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDecoys could help shape the battlefield by influencing enemy troops\u0026rsquo; movements or drawing fire, revealing their positions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The goal of this event is to source real-world tactical problems facing our front-line warfighters with 3ID and work on those problems through a collaboration of talent from 3ID, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rotc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Army ROTC\u003C\/a\u003E, the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and GTRI,\u0026rdquo; said Chang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Jan. 5 \u0026ndash; 8, cadets and soldiers worked in teams to design and prototype an array of decoys: a visual, a thermal, and an electromagnetic decoy. The decoy also needed to be easily constructed using locally-sourced materials with minimal building experience.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;(This year\u0026rsquo;s) problem set let soldiers interact with students and Georgia Tech experts in their prospective field of study,\u0026rdquo; said Jose Blanco, one of the GTRI special advisors supporting the event. \u0026ldquo;This gave them access to a whole new base of knowledge that they don\u0026rsquo;t have on hand out at their units or the field.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECreating sustainable innovation means applying today\u0026rsquo;s technology to today\u0026rsquo;s problems. GTRI wanted to provide the space and tools needed to accelerate the decoy projects so the attendees had access to a wide array of meeting rooms, collaboration spaces, and workspaces. These resources are otherwise unavailable to 3ID.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, GTRI advisors were placed within each team to offer design thinking guidance and technical input.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003ESpaces for Collaboration\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore launching into the official prompt for the weekend, the participants got to know one another and saw how their colleagues approached problems through an icebreaker at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventionstudio.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EFlowers Invention Studio\u003C\/a\u003E. The cutting-edge, state-of-the-art makerspace on Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus boasts almost 7,000 square feet and over 500 unique tools available for various tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDevesh Ranjan, school chair for Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. 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The Flowers Invention Studio and IDEA lab in the Wepfer Design Commons was the perfect place for the soldiers to practice rapid prototyping and testing,\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was incredible to both mentor and observe our ROTC students working alongside the 3rd Infantry Division soldiers as they tackled real technology challenges facing the Army,\u0026rdquo; said Mike Shannon, Georgia Tech Interim Executive Vice President for Administration \u0026amp; Finance and a retired Army officer. \u0026ldquo;This event truly showcases the best of the partnership Georgia Tech and 3rd Infantry Division have established.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the event pivoted to the main objective, participants also leveraged several other spaces across Georgia Tech and GTRI. The welcome and final presentations were held in the Coda Atrium, while the teams used GTRI conference rooms in Coda as collaborative workspaces. The groups also had access to some GTRI lab spaces in the Advanced Concepts Lab at 430N and the GTRI SEEDLab in the Baker Building to do actual prototyping.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EThe Outcome\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Through one very intense weekend, the workshop was able to get three prototypes produced, introduce the teams to design thinking, and get a lot of very smart and knowledgeable people working on real problems being faced by soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division,\u0026rdquo; said Chang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach team was able to make significant progress in developing a decoy within their assigned domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe visual team created a full-scale Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) decoy and demonstrated that it can be constructed by a team of untrained soldiers.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe thermal team developed a conceptual design on how thermal optics can be deceived by materials-layering and conventional heat sources as well as how it can be integrated with the visual decoy to improve the systems\u0026rsquo; overall effectiveness.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThe EM team successfully created and validated a remote-controlled, self-contained decoy emitter that can replicate SC\/PT communications emissions with commercially available materials valuing under $50.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are many experienced soldiers in the division that can provide ground-up innovations in how the division operates,\u0026rdquo; said Danielle Shutt, a first lieutenant in 3ID who supported the visual and thermal decoy teams at the event. \u0026ldquo;These soldiers only require the necessary time and resources to actualize these innovations. Soldiers who take ownership of their work often understand the problems and potential solutions associated with their mission and they should be given opportunities like this hackathon and facilities like the Marne Innovation Center to contribute improvements to their division.\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u0026rsquo;s especially exciting about this event is that the teams\u0026rsquo; work will continue to be developed for possible implementation. One of the prototypes will be taken to the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California, to get tested in a simulated combat environment. 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One of the fastest ways researchers can refine their projects are through hackathons where they have access to the latest HPC hardware and advisement from fellow peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech hosted a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.openhackathons.org\/s\/siteevent\/a0C5e000005V6AoEAK\/se000150\u0022\u003Evirtual open hackathon\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;held Jan. 18-26, for participants to\u0026nbsp;advance and\u0026nbsp;test ongoing software on powerful HPC hardware. On the final day, teams presented their research,\u0026nbsp;showcasing\u0026nbsp;insightful applications\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;physics, medicine, computer science, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESpencer Bryngelson\u003C\/strong\u003Ecoordinated the event with NVIDIA\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.openacc.org\/\u0022\u003EOpenACC Organization\u003C\/a\u003E. This is the second hackathon Bryngelson has organized since arriving to Georgia Tech in 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Overall, this hackathon went really well once again,\u0026rdquo; Bryngelson said. \u0026ldquo;I am impressed with the presentations, and I hope that the teams leave satisfied with the progress made on their projects.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry formed six teams in the event. Research scientists from NASA, NVIDIA, and Georgia Tech served as mentors to help teams through their projects and using available HPC hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers swarmed the hackathon with representation from nine schools spanning three colleges. These include: the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of CSE, School of Computer Science, School of Computing Instruction, the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Physics, and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering- an academic unit shared among Emory University, Georgia Tech, and Peking University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne team participated in the hackathon to accelerate their software that simulates particle assembly, an area with application in geomechanics, materials science, and even pharmacology. At the end of the hackathon, the team accelerated their entire two-dimensional simulation algorithm by 78 times and by 29 times in a three-dimensional subprocess.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA second team used the hackathon to improve their Monte Carlo algorithm with applications in nuclear physics. Specifically, the group improved precision of tracking particle spins through electric and magnetic fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother team also optimized a Monte Carlo simulation, but with application to better study and improve oxygen exchange between body tissue. Here, the team needed to accelerate their code to track over 2.5 million photons during propagation. By the end of the hackathon, their code\u0026rsquo;s speed improved by 20 times.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile all six teams saw refinement of their individual projects, the hackathon also presented an immediate and tangible environmental benefit for all.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESoftware optimization makes supercomputers more energy efficient. Teams preserved energy costs the equivalent of removing 50 vehicles from use for a year and planting over 3,800 tree saplings\u0026nbsp;through improvements developed during the hackathon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This hackathon was absolutely worth it,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERuijia Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Ph.D. student in Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. \u0026ldquo;It was a great learning experience and the potential application that we developed for our program is enormous.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeams ran their computer codes and programs on the latest HPC hardware available\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech. The\u0026nbsp;hackathon employed 81 total CPUs from Intel and AMD and 21 GPUs from NVIDIA, including the A100, A40, Tesla V100, and Quadro Pro models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese CPUs and GPUs used in the hackathon belong to Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Instructional Cluster Environment (ICE). ICE is a collection of two different computer clusters managed by the College of Computing and Partnership for an Advance Cluster Environment (PACE).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ICE project originated in 2018 as an educational resource for graduate and undergraduate students to gain first-hand scientific computing experience. Along with using ICE in credit-bearing courses at Georgia Tech, PACE research scientists use ICE to host tutorials and workshops for researchers to improve their computational skills, like hackathons.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the hackathon provided participants with opportunities to advance their research, it also acted as a laboratory for NVIDIA, and the HPC community overall, to study the latest hardware in action and attain user feedback.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis mutual relationship between hardware and software developers ensures the HPC field progresses forward together to continue overcoming computational challenges of the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Thank you to the event co-sponsors, NVIDIA and OpenACC, and the additional mentors from NASA that helped make this hackathon happen,\u0026rdquo; Bryngelson said. \u0026ldquo;I would also like to acknowledge and thank the PACE team at Georgia Tech, who served dual roles as mentors and made sure the computing happened. We\u0026rsquo;re very fortunate to have such great people like them helping in so many different ways.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech hosted a virtual open hackathon held Jan. 18-26, for participants to advance and test ongoing software on powerful HPC hardware. 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He is advised by former ECE Professor Madhavan Swaminathan, currently at the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGuo\u0026rsquo;s research interests include machine learning (ML) and optimization, and their applications in microwave design and electronic packaging problems. His award-winning paper, \u0026ldquo;Training Set Optimization with Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning Models of Electromagnetic Structures,\u0026rdquo; proposes to use the uncertainty quantification method to reduce the size of training sets required by ML models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe recently received the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/news\/663308\/guo-receives-top-paper-award-electronic-packaging-and-systems\u0022\u003EBest Student Paper Award\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on a different research project at the 2022 Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems Conference (EPEPS 2022).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe EDAPS symposium has consistently served as a platform for dissemination of latest research in the areas of electrical design of chip, package and system. The symposium consists of technical paper presentation, poster sessions, industry exhibits, workshops, and tutorials. 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