Assistant Professor Bistra Dilkina (CSE) and Professor Ashok Goel (IC) begin three-year terms as newly selected, inaugural Brook Byers Fellows at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech. Ten other faculty across campus are among the new members who will provide essential advice about the direction of sustainability research at Georgia Tech.

Brook Byers Fellows serve as exclusive strategic and tactical advisors to the independent research institute. They also serve as ambassadors to communicate broadly the vision, mission, values, and objectives of the Institute to others. They bring to the Director’s attention individuals and organizations that share mutual interests in sustainability, and help facilitate partnerships when appropriate.

The program is named after Brook Byers -- a venture capitalist and senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from Georgia Tech and later an MBA from Stanford University. He has helped build more than 110 companies in the life sciences area, and is particularly active in biotechnology incubation. His philanthropy supports the eponymous Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.

In late August, the Fellows will begin mapping out a strategy for future years. Members are:

First

Last

School

College

Baabak

Ashuri

Building Construction

COA

Ellen

Dunham-Jones

Architecture

COA

Atalay

Atasu

Business

SCOB

Ashok

Goel

Interactive Computing

COC

Bistra

Dilkina

Computational Science & Engineering

COC

Randy

Guensler

Civil & Environmental Engineering

COE

Tom

Fuller

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

COE

Kevin

Caravati

Aero Trans Adv Sys

GTRI

Dan

Matisoff

Public Policy

IAC

Juan

Moreno-Cruz

Economics

IAC

Marc

Weissburg

Biology

COS

Kim

Cobb

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

COS