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WattAir aims to use waste heat to produce water from the air, while TopoDx is working to help laboratories identify effective antibiotics in hours rather than days.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring a discussion with TopoDx CEO Yogi Patel, Deborah Kilpatrick, a partner at Sonder Capital and chair of the event\u0027s host committee, highlighted the company\u0027s potential.\u0026nbsp;\u201cIf you can do what you\u2019re describing, and I believe you can, you will have a major impact on U.S. healthcare,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 10 participating ventures included Carbice, CIMTech.ai, Falcomm, InfraVana, Nagare Labs, Piezo Therapeutics, Stellar Scale Nano Fabrication, TopoDx, UnfoldAI and WattAir.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe \u003Cem\u003ERoadShow\u003C\/em\u003E allowed our founders to connect directly with investors who understand their industries and the potential of their technologies,\u201d said Jonathan Goldman, director of Quadrant-i. \u201cThe interest we\u0027re seeing is encouraging, and we\u0027re looking forward to what these connections could mean for the companies as they continue to grow.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003ERoadShow\u003C\/em\u003E is part of Georgia Tech\u0027s broader effort to connect research-driven ventures with the investors and industry partners who can help bring emerging technologies to market.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith investor discussions and due diligence continuing, the next chapter is already taking shape. As funding rounds close, Quadrant-i plans to share individual company milestones, highlighting how connections made through the commercialization ecosystem are helping Georgia Tech ventures advance toward the market.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix Georgia Tech ventures received investment term sheets after presenting at the Silicon Valley RoadShow. The event connected research-driven startups with investors and industry partners.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six Georgia Tech ventures received investment term sheets after presenting at the Silicon Valley RoadShow. 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appropriate emotional support.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this concern, Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new neural framework that examines how different training sources influence empathy and social reasoning within these AI-powered models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of people are using LLMs to help process the death of a loved one, or maybe their girlfriend broke up with them, or their boyfriend cheated on them,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/glennmatlin.doctor\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlenn Matlin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatlin said the new framework he and a Georgia Tech-led research team have developed audits neural networks with an LLM and estimates the influence documents, transcripts, and other data sources have on a model\u2019s output.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re trying to connect the data to outputs, which is 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The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hcai-lab-gt.github.io\/capabilibara\/\u0022\u003Epaper\u003C\/a\u003E will be presented this week at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/colm.cc\/\u0022\u003EConference on Language Modeling\u003C\/a\u003E in San Francisco.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatlin said the findings suggest that an objective tone in its output indicates that a model places greater importance on textbooks or similar neutral training sources. An empathetic tone suggests the model values sources with dialogue and conversational examples more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe find that models tend to learn better from interpersonal dialogue when it comes to social reasoning,\u201d he said. \u201cModels that are good at social reasoning will rely less on textbooks about human emotions and more on FAQs or customer service dialogue.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt can read all it wants from texts that explain anger, but that wouldn\u2019t help it determine whether someone is angry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eilab.gatech.edu\/mark-riedl.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Mark Riedl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Matlin\u2019s advisor, said that knowing which sources models value most could enable engineers to alter their behavior.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe question is, in this vast ocean of documents in this neural network, which ones become important in certain situations, and which ones don\u2019t,\u201d Riedl said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis leads to the potential for interventions in how we train the model. If we want more empathy, we might look to see where it learns empathy and give it more of those documents, fewer of them, or other documents.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERiedl said the framework can audit an LLM\u2019s sourcing for advice on any topic, from financial to medical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to help people make more informed decisions about whether they should use AI for a particular task,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou might make a different decision about whether to trust the AI\u2019s recommendation if you knew how a skill was learned and which documents influenced that decision. The first step is knowing how it learns, where it learns from, and what documents tend to lead to certain behaviors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe findings that Matlin, Riedl, and their collaborators have made so far came through a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/allenai.org\/blog\/olmo-capability-tracing\u0022\u003Epartnership with the Allen AI Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (Ai2), which allowed them to audit their open-sourced LLM, Olmo 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile not as large as ChatGPT or Claude, Olmo 3\u2019s training data comprises over a billion documents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatilin said it\u2019s impossible to know why ChatGPT or Claude behave in certain ways because their parent companies do not disclose their training data. 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Now she is a computer science student, returning to the program as a Helen Fellow and serving as the first BridgeUP STEM participant to experience the program as both a scholar and a fellow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a high school student at Global Impact Academy in Fairburn, Georgia, Ni worked with four professors, spending about two months with each and exploring different areas of computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was really cool being able to experience the different forms of computing and their significance,\u201d Ni said. \u201cOne day I would be playing AI literacy games with Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003EJudith Uchidiuno\u003C\/strong\u003E, then the next day I\u2019d be training my own ML model with Dr. \u003Cstrong\u003ESonia Chernova\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/constellations.gatech.edu\/bridgeup-stem-building-future-computing\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBridgeUP STEM\u003C\/a\u003E is a College of Computing program that guides first-generation and low-income students by moving them beyond the traditional classroom. Funded by the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation, the program provides early, hands-on exposure to coding skills and computing research activities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENi was interested in technology and STEM but planned to pursue a career in healthcare after high school because she considered it a more practical path.\u0026nbsp;However, in her junior year, she stepped out of her comfort zone and chose a path that felt foreign to her.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBridgeUP really helped me through my journey. It allowed me to see what computing was all about and made me confident in my choice to switch paths,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, as a Helen Fellow, Ni continues to explore the intersection of computing and health through research in the lab of School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERosa Arriaga\u003C\/strong\u003E. She is working on TEAMMAIT, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant project focused on understanding how mental health clinicians interact with AI.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are developing TEAMMAIT as an AI teammate for mental health work, with the goal of providing insights and feedback to help mental health professionals.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong with lab-based research, Ni\u2019s fellowship also connects her with the current BridgeUP STEM cohort.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019d say this role is both a mentorship and a research role because, in addition to the research work, I\u2019ll also be assisting Dr. Arriaga in the spring semester by mentoring her research seminars with the BridgeUP STEM scholars,\u201d Ni said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENi says that returning to the program has already felt nostalgic, especially at the first BridgeUP STEM meeting of the semester.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI met Dr. Judith as well as the people from her lab who also recognized me. It made me feel very happy seeing how enthusiastic these new scholars are, and it feels like so much yet so little has changed,\u201d Ni said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Ni, returning as a fellow is an opportunity to share the experience that helped her find a new direction. She hopes it can encourage other students who may be uncertain about their paths.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBridgeUP STEM is a program that is near and dear to me. It allowed me to find myself and build a path for my future career goals,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI wanted to return to BridgeUP STEM as a Helen Fellow because I would like to inspire those coming after me and share my story with them. I want to let them know that it\u2019s never too late to go for what they\u2019re truly passionate about even if you feel like it\u2019s a race against time.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer advice to students now beginning their BridgeUP journey is to ask questions, talk to the researchers, and make the most of the experience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs she returns to the program with a new perspective, Ni carries one lesson from her time as a scholar: \u201cTime flies and you should make the most of it.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAshley Ni\u003C\/strong\u003E first came to BridgeUP STEM as a high school student, joining in the 2024-2025 academic year. 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The tool, called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11573549\u0022\u003EORISA\u003C\/a\u003E, can also rebuild the recovered information into a working AI session.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe findings show that deleting an AI conversation on a phone does not necessarily mean it removes every trace.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research could give digital investigators a new way to recover information from phones. It also raises privacy concerns for people who use AI assistants that run locally on their devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELocal AI assistants run directly on a phone rather than sending conversations to a cloud service. While the local assistant is running, information from conversations can remain in the phone\u2019s working memory even after it is deleted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EORISA searches this memory for pieces of deleted conversations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn one experiment, researchers created a fictional AI assistant called \u201cProject Note Keeper\u201d using the ChatterUI Android app. They gave it 100 fictional facts about a project, then deleted the conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EORISA recovered information from the deleted conversation and used it to create a new working session. When researchers asked the restored assistant to list the project notes it had been given, it returned 26 facts. The original session could access only 14 facts because the rest had fallen outside its active memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiment showed that researchers could recover information the AI had already stopped actively using.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt can help establish what information someone shared with an AI assistant and what assistance they received,\u201d said Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EKen Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E, lead author of the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested ORISA with 10 Android apps and three AI models. Across 60 test configurations, the tool recovered conversation information that remained in the phone\u2019s memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers say the information becomes harder to recover as the phone\u2019s memory is overwritten by other activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was presented at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The paper, titled \u003Cem\u003ERecovering and Rehosting Mobile Local LLM Conversations and Contexts via Memory Forensics,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas authored by Ph.D. students Xu, \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Oygenblik\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ERunze Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMingxuan Yao\u003C\/strong\u003E; Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EMuhammad Ibrahim\u003C\/strong\u003E; and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EBrendan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESaltaformaggio\u003C\/strong\u003E. The work was done in Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cyfi.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, a collaboration between the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDeleting a locally stored AI conversation may remove it from view without eliminating its data. Researchers find that deleted local AI chats may remain recoverable from a phone\u2019s memory through a new tool called ORISA. ORISA recovered 26 of 100 project facts from a deleted Android AI session\u2014more than the original session could still access. This shows that information an assistant appears to have forgotten may remain forensically recoverable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers find that deleted local AI chats may remain recoverable from a phone\u2019s memory through a new tool called ORISA."}],"uid":"36253","created_gmt":"2026-10-13 12:45:52","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:59:02","author":"John Popham","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681416":{"id":"681416","type":"image","title":"Cyfi-Lab-Brendan-and-Student.jpg","body":null,"created":"1791895736","gmt_created":"2026-10-13 12:48:56","changed":"1791895736","gmt_changed":"2026-10-13 12:48:56","alt":"A man points to a rack of CPUs. He is talking to a student who is slighlty out of focus. 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Intended to help the FDA quickly identify the source of contamination, the rule requires producers or distributors with more than $25,000 in annual produce sales to comply or face significant fines.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, the FDA extended its compliance deadline to July 2028. One reason for the extension may be the volume of feedback from stakeholders affected by the rule. The FDA received more than 1,200 comments during an open forum, with feedback from stakeholders ranging from major distributors to small farmers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany small farmers commented on how they may not have the devices needed to input this data,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kwonsoonho.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESoonho Kwon\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing (SIC) and lead author of the paper. \u201cDoes this mean they have to purchase it themselves? Do they need to become educated on how to use computing systems?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon is a member of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/escapelab?pli=1\u0026amp;authuser=0\u0022\u003EEquity and Sustainability in Computing Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, which is led by SIC professor and chair\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shaowenbardzell.com\/about\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShaowen Bardzell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany small farms also said they can\u2019t afford to hire someone to track the data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne small farmer said the amount of data tracking required by the rule is overwhelming. Some of the required data include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022ea1cd1b17babad7a094193ce3cfcdc1e5\u0022\u003Elocation and name of the field where food was harvested\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e3e0b858de04d537ed1544ed215d6a3ca\u0022\u003Edate of harvest\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e513b4f8aa9e9d9f23b57363206857f61\u0022\u003Epacking dates\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e619ee0212b73538d858d6c2bed7b8f07\u0022\u003Eshipping dates\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPlease do not force us to do technology stuff,\u201d the commenter said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard enough to keep up with the local demand as it is. We run a pretty low digital technology effort. It\u2019s basically harvest fresh organically grown veggies and sell them to local people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon said the intention of the Food Traceability Rule is admirable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPreventing foodborne illness is critical, and data- and technology-driven governance can be a powerful tool toward that goal,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s equally important to think critically about who is supposed to be the default user of these systems, and who gets missed in the process. It\u2019s undermining the people who are unable to comply.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther factors didn\u2019t appear to be considered by the FDA, including the lack of technological infrastructure in rural America, where many foods are grown.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany parts of rural America have limited or unreliable internet access,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cIf the FDA wants them to send this data, they must comply within 24 hours. Does that mean they have to stop their daily routine and drive to a city that has internet to send it? The rule is operating on the assumption that everyone is dealing with the same physical environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECulture and religion also seem overlooked. Some commenters raised concerns that Amish farmers who avoid certain technologies for religious reasons would be pressured into digital record keeping.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany major distributors and organizations expressed support for the Food Traceability Rule in the FDA\u2019s forum.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cathwieczorek.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECatherine Wieczorek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in SIC and co-author on the paper, said these organizations don\u2019t have the same tension points as smaller producers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLarger food producers have the operational capacity to do the type of work the rule requires,\u201d Wieczorek said. \u201cWe find there\u2019s a power imbalance when it comes to smaller food producers like a family farm. Change at that scale is difficult for smaller producers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBardzell, who advises Kwon and Wieczorek, said the situation provides computing researchers an opportunity to create interventions that will benefit those with fewer resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn a data age when we\u2019re adding AI into our work processes and labor practices, we need to think about how this need creates unequal burdens on different stakeholders in our food system,\u201d Bardzell said. \u201cIt\u2019s a significant challenge for computing going forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwon will present the paper on behalf of his collaborators next week at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cscw.acm.org\/2026\/\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (CSCW) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their research is supported by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new paper by a Georgia Tech-led research team suggests that the FDA\u0027s Food Traceability Rule can disproportionately burden family farms and other small food producers due to a lack of technological infrastructure, resources, or compliance expertise.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new paper by a Georgia Tech-led research team suggests that the FDA\u0027s Food Traceability Rule can disproportionately burden family farms and other small food producers due to a lack of technological infrastructure, resources, or compliance expertise."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-10-13 14:42:39","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:58:29","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681417":{"id":"681417","type":"image","title":"AdobeStock_615559252.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1791902571","gmt_created":"2026-10-13 14:42:51","changed":"1791902571","gmt_changed":"2026-10-13 14:42:51","alt":"A farmer holds a tablet while a woman to his right assists him","file":{"fid":"265820","name":"AdobeStock_615559252.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/13\/AdobeStock_615559252.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/13\/AdobeStock_615559252.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":129552,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/13\/AdobeStock_615559252.jpeg?itok=pcEMK4t4"}}},"media_ids":["681417"],"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":"194609","name":"Industry"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"693262":{"#nid":"693262","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CS Ph.D. Student Gains Industry Insight at Apple","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many graduate students, an internship offers a chance to see how their research holds up outside the lab. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oytunkuday.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOytun Duran\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a third-year computer science Ph.D. student, had that opportunity this summer at Apple.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuran spent nearly four months interning at Apple\u2019s headquarters in Cupertino, California. His work during the internship focused on Apple\u2019s Foundation Models, a series of generative AI models that power Apple Intelligence, and on the large-scale infrastructure and tooling around them. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuran\u2019s research interests lie at the intersection of computer architecture, systems, and machine learning. More recently, he has focused on making artificial intelligence (AI) workloads more accessible, sustainable, and cost-effective. Duran is co-advised by Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eiclab.scs.gatech.edu\/pages\/team.html#PI\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYingyan (Celine) Lin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.anand-iyer.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnand Iyer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ein the School of Computer Science.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuran said he saw the internship as an opportunity to gain industry experience and apply his knowledge to real-world problems. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIndustry research is particularly exciting to me because you can work on challenging problems while also seeing how these ideas can translate into systems and products at a very large scale and impact nearly a billion lives,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a research intern, Duran especially appreciated the level of independence he was given. He was expected to take initiative to find problems on his own and then develop solutions with his mentors. Although Duran liked taking ownership of his work, he also came to better understand the value of outside input. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne thing I\u2019m continuing to improve is recognizing when it\u2019s more efficient to ask for input earlier rather than spending too much time trying to solve everything independently,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuran said he enjoyed the internship, especially the people he met. However, the biggest highlight for him was presenting his work.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had the opportunity to present several times, including to larger audiences across different organizations, and I really enjoyed discussing the findings and getting feedback from people with different perspectives,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the technical knowledge he gained, Duran said the experience gave him a new perspective on how research and engineering work in industry. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI realized that combining strong research with real business needs can often create much greater impact than research alone,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really enjoyed seeing my work translate into something with broader, tangible impact, and that has influenced the kind of work I want to pursue in the future.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor many graduate students, an internship offers a chance to see how their research holds up outside the lab. \u003Cstrong\u003EOytun Duran\u003C\/strong\u003E, a third-year computer science Ph.D. student, had that opportunity this summer at Apple.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A computer science Ph.D. student spent his summer interning at Apple, gaining industry insight and experience. "}],"uid":"36532","created_gmt":"2026-10-15 22:14:47","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:58:02","author":"Morgan Usry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681444":{"id":"681444","type":"image","title":"OytunDuran.JPG","body":null,"created":"1792103427","gmt_created":"2026-10-15 22:30:27","changed":"1792103427","gmt_changed":"2026-10-15 22:30:27","alt":"Man standing outside in front of rainbow sculpture ","file":{"fid":"265852","name":"OytunDuran.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/15\/OytunDuran.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/15\/OytunDuran.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":149185,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/15\/OytunDuran.JPG?itok=A_XEkfLm"}}},"media_ids":["681444"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:morgan.usry@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMorgan Usry\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECommunications Officer\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"693263":{"#nid":"693263","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cybersecurity Community Rallies Around Campus Food Insecurity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the month of September, faculty and staff in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy raised over $3,600 for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/star.studentlife.gatech.edu\/klemis-kitchen\u0022\u003EKlemis Kitchen\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u2019s on-campus food bank.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe kitchen serves students in need with groceries or meals, works to reduce food waste on campus, and is part of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/star.studentlife.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EStudents\u2019 Temporary Assistance and Resources\u003C\/a\u003E (STAR) Services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe STAR Office is so grateful to the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy for sponsoring a food drive this semester,\u201d said STAR Program Director \u003Cstrong\u003ESteven Fazenbaker.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cYour successful campaign has put us in a position to serve over 300 students by keeping Klemis Kitchen fully stocked with our most popular shelf-stable food items for the rest of the fall semester.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cIt also allows us to get a head start restocking Klemis Kitchen during the winter break, so we will be ready when the spring semester begins. Thank you so much for your over-the-top generosity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe school exceeded its goal by $1,600 and surpassed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/scp-food-drive\u0022\u003Elast year\u2019s donation\u003C\/a\u003E of $2,110.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Research Operations \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/staffer-prioritizes-building-school-culture\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMary Helen Hayes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E organized the food drive and spent September fundraising.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile I organized and led the drive, its success came from the generosity and community spirit of our faculty and staff,\u201d Hayes said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThank you to everyone who contributed and helped make it possible. SCP is proud to support such a meaningful cause, and we truly hope our contribution makes a difference for Klemis Kitchen and the students it serves.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile SCP hosts this food drive once a year, Klemis Kitchen accepts donations year-round.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/star.studentlife.gatech.edu\/klemis-kitchen\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/star.studentlife.gatech.edu\/klemis-kitchen\u0022\u003EKlemis Kitchen\u003C\/a\u003E to learn more about how you can help. The Kitchen relies 100% on donations, including leftovers from the dining halls, donations from community partners like grocery stores and churches, and food drives sponsored by departments across campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhotos by John Popham\/College of Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s cybersecurity community raised over $3,600 for Klemis Kitchen in September. The campaign strengthened food access for students and supported future restocking. The fundraiser exceeded its goal by $1,600 and surpassed last year\u2019s $2,110 donation, helping Klemis Kitchen serve over 300 students through fall and prepare for spring. 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Are the mariners equipped to handle modern cybersecurity threats like GPS spoofing?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2609.12810\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E accepted for the 2026 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2026\/index.html\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech researchers interviewed 20 military sailors about their cybersecurity experiences, training, and responses to hypothetical scenarios. Their findings point to a gap between how mariners are trained to handle emergencies and how cyberattacks can compromise the systems they depend on.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study found several gaps in how crews prepare for cyber threats:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022edf63c815360cecb04c01d6561be9a7b1\u0022\u003ETraining often misses the mark. Thirteen participants said that standard cybersecurity training was largely irrelevant to their shipboard duties, and 14 reported receiving no mission-specific cybersecurity training.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e619f896d048b6bcd034a76176e6067bb\u0022\u003EOperational technology is often overlooked. Eighteen participants said their training did not distinguish between traditional information technology and operational technology, such as navigation and propulsion systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e928f3fef211e61dcd97e963697bd9389\u0022\u003EObvious failures are easier to recognize. Eighteen participants said they would primarily look for visible signs of operational problems when identifying a potential cyberattack.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e1499170bf08bd8a760ed09fee3a091d7\u0022\u003ECybersecurity is often a low priority. Seventeen participants described their cybersecurity training as absent, low quality, or a low priority.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese gaps matter because cyberattacks can compromise a system without causing it to stop working. For example, an attacker could manipulate navigation data, leaving a crew to make decisions based on false information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019d assume it was anything but cyber at first. It would probably take me quite some time to get to that conclusion,\u201d one participant told the researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team examined three hypothetical scenarios: GPS spoofing, loss of propulsion control in a high-traffic area, and failure of electronic navigation systems in a congested channel at night.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn each scenario, mariners would first focus on keeping the vessel safe, using established procedures to stabilize the ship and troubleshoot its systems. While this response is essential during an emergency, it could delay recognition of an attack if crews do not consider that the system or its data may have been compromised.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, a ship navigating a narrow channel depends on accurate location information, but what happens when its navigation systems appear to work normally while a hacker manipulates that data?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn attacker could use GPS spoofing to falsify a vessel\u2019s reported position. If the false position is close enough to the ship\u2019s actual location, a mariner might not notice anything wrong. The vessel could gradually head toward shallow water or another obstacle without triggering an obvious error or alarm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy the time the mariner realizes something is wrong, the ship\u2019s size and limited maneuverability could make it too late to avoid a grounding or collision,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EAnna Raymaker\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student who studies maritime security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe scenario illustrates a central challenge in maritime cybersecurity: An equipment failure may be easy to recognize, but a cyberattack that provides false information can be much harder to detect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2609.12810\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBatten the Hatches: Cybersecurity with Military Mariners\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas written by master\u2019s student \u003Cstrong\u003ERyan Von Brock\u003C\/strong\u003E, Raymaker, Research Scientist \u003Cstrong\u003EAnimesh Chhotaray\u003C\/strong\u003E, Associate Professors \u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Li\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESaman Zonouz\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Provost \u0026amp; Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs \u003Cstrong\u003ERaheem Beyah\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was conducted in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/capcpsec\/\u0022\u003ECyber-Physical Security Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, a collaboration between the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhotos by Terence Rushin\/College of Computing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaritime cybersecurity training leaves sailors vulnerable to attacks that manipulate ship systems without obvious failures. 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Clinicians rely on retrospective patient reports to understand what happens during that time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, recall bias, selective disclosure, and difficulty remembering can render those reports subjective, incomplete, or inaccurate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClinicians can now see sensor data on how patients\u2019 bodies react in these situations thanks to a new technology toolkit from Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new app that syncs with a FitBit wearable device can track and record heart rate, step count, noise level, and other sensor data when patients practice prolonged exposure homework assigned by their therapists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA web dashboard lets clinicians review that data, add notes, and track patient progress. This information helps them structure therapy sessions more effectively and accelerate patient progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe toolkit is the culmination of a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/627023\/new-12-million-nsf-grant-aims-improve-treatment-ptsd-patients\u0022\u003E$1.2 million National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E grant awarded to Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/riarriaga\/home\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERosa Arriaga\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and Emory\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/directory\/profile\/?u=AMSHERR\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Sherrill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArriaga is an associate professor at Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing. Sherrill is an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/departments\/psychiatry\/index.html\u0022\u003EDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003EEmory School of Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill is also a practicing clinical psychologist at the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and has worked with veterans with PTSD for more than a decade.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArriaga and the students in her\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/riarriaga\/lab?authuser=0\u0022\u003EUbicomp Health and Wellness Lab\u003C\/a\u003E spent five years developing the toolkit, which they call the Patient Engagement Computational Sensing System (PECSS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was a lot of master\u2019s students and undergrads who built the back end to the app and the dashboard,\u201d Arriaga said. \u201cIt was a lot of work and effort by a lot of students to take an idea from conception to deployment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers originally titled the toolkit the Prolonged Exposure Collecting Sensing System, but they changed the name after realizing it could be used for other types of therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea is that for any therapy that has a homework component, this can bridge the gap between patient self-reporting and clinician intuition,\u201d Arriaga said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.natswinger.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENathaniel Swinger,\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E a Ph.D. student in Arriaga\u2019s lab, co-led a paper on the study\u2019s results along with Ph.D. student Myeonghan Ryu. 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It is typically delivered in one-on-one therapy sessions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill said the toolkit shows promise toward enhancing prolonged exposure therapy outside of clinical settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProlonged exposure has been researched more than any other therapy that exists,\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cWe know it\u2019s effective, but we\u2019ve had problems for decades implementing it in the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a need for technology in taking what patients learn in their sessions and having them replicate it outside of the clinic.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUntil now, the impact prolonged exposure on a patient with PTSD depends on the patient\u2019s willingness to self-report the results of their homework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe number of potential triggers is an endless list,\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cWe want people to approach them with their guard down and not to engage in avoidance or soothing behaviors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill said most of his patients have shown interest in continuing to use the toolkit \u2014 even after therapy is no longer needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA system like this could reduce the frequency of sessions with a therapist,\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cWe\u2019re teaching patients to be their own therapists. This toolkit gives them a greater sense of independence.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGiven the promising results, Swinger said that ideally the next step would be a large-scale clinical trial.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re looking to better test the causal clinical impacts of the system and a more generalizable notion of efficacy,\u201d Swinger said. \u201cWe want to rigorously test it in a clinical setting for people beyond veterans with PTSD.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClinicians can now see sensor data on how patients\u2019 bodies react in triggering environments thanks to a new technology toolkit from Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clinicians can now see sensor data on how patients\u2019 bodies react in triggering environments thanks to a new technology toolkit from Georgia Tech and Emory University."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-10-19 17:24:16","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:56:30","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681463":{"id":"681463","type":"image","title":"AdobeStock_864610717.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1792430666","gmt_created":"2026-10-19 17:24:26","changed":"1792430666","gmt_changed":"2026-10-19 17:24:26","alt":"A therapist sits across from her patient who is a veteran with PTSD","file":{"fid":"265871","name":"AdobeStock_864610717.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/19\/AdobeStock_864610717.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/19\/AdobeStock_864610717.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":139731,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/19\/AdobeStock_864610717.jpeg?itok=gpVvUOZu"}}},"media_ids":["681463"],"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"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"693317":{"#nid":"693317","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Find a Way to Reduce AI Chatbots\u2019 Reinforcement of Delusions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArtificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can give people a comfortable place to discuss personal thoughts and feelings. However, when a chatbot constantly agrees with a user, it can reinforce false beliefs and potentially \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/2025\/12\/ai-psychosis-is-a-medical-mystery\/685133\/?gift=rYkYJRkiFfFnni2r6QoYhEoKOopttUMYKvO0wk3NqmY\u0026amp;utm_source=copy-link\u0026amp;utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_campaign=share\u0022\u003Ecause harm\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3849709\u0022\u003ENew research\u003C\/a\u003E from Georgia Tech suggests that a simple change to a chatbot\u2019s instructions could reduce that risk. The work was accepted to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3849709\u0022\u003EACM AI Letters\u003C\/a\u003E publication.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers \u003Cstrong\u003ELorenzo de la Loza\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EVijay Madisetti\u003C\/strong\u003E tested eight AI models in 1,280 experiments involving simulated conversations about delusional beliefs. They found that instructions designed to discourage excessive agreement reduced the models\u2019 confirmation of those beliefs by 73.8%. Adding a self-reflection step increased the reduction to 77%.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe think that this paper will help AI providers and solution creators better understand how best to protect and safeguard their users from harming themselves,\u201d Madisetti said. \u201cThis may make AI safer for all of us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI chatbots are designed to be helpful and supportive. But that behavior can become risky when a chatbot agrees with a user\u2019s beliefs without questioning whether they reflect reality. Researchers call this behavior sycophancy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECourtney Crooks\u003C\/strong\u003E, a principal research scientist at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E and adjunct faculty member in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scp.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Cybersecurity and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E, said chatbot conversations can have both positive and negative effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeople may feel more comfortable discussing difficult thoughts with a chatbot than with another person. But if the chatbot always agrees, users may miss opportunities to question their beliefs or consider other points of view.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same behavior that makes a chatbot feel supportive, Crooks explained, can also encourage harmful patterns of thinking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers tested instructions that told AI models not to reinforce users\u2019 beliefs simply to be agreeable. The team evaluated the models using 16 clinically derived scenarios involving delusional beliefs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team also tested other safety tools, including systems designed to flag potentially harmful content. The results suggest that changing a chatbot\u2019s instructions can be an effective way to reduce excessive agreement in the scenarios tested.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrooks called the findings a promising direction for future research combining psychology and AI safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study did not test people in clinical settings or prove that the approach prevents real-world harm. However, it offers developers a potential way to make chatbots more careful when responding to vulnerable users without building an entirely new AI model.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers found that instruction changes can reduce chatbots\u2019 reinforcement of delusional beliefs. 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A little digital robot is hovering near his fingers.","file":{"fid":"265912","name":"AI-Chatbot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/21\/AI-Chatbot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/21\/AI-Chatbot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1715464,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/21\/AI-Chatbot.jpg?itok=9cA4rhB2"}},"681478":{"id":"681478","type":"image","title":"Vijay.jpg","body":null,"created":"1792507064","gmt_created":"2026-10-20 14:37:44","changed":"1792507064","gmt_changed":"2026-10-20 14:37:44","alt":"A man in a suit speaking with two students. 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These decisions are complicated further by differences in patient needs, disease progression, and social factors like access to care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of computer scientists and doctors led by Georgia Tech aims to change that. Using a system of artificial intelligence (AI) models, the team can help clinicians deliver the right intervention to the right patient at the right time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir system uses Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) models. While the name is technical, the idea is simple. The RMAB framework helps decision-makers choose the best actions over time when conditions are complex and constantly changing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis project will tackle Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), building on previous experience expanding RMAB models to support maternal health care in India. Success on this front could lead to treating other chronic illnesses, like hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, and mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecognizing the RMAB system\u2019s potential, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\u0026nbsp; awarded the group an R01 grant.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/Dar1PemdxE2k-lko4bhfMQ\/project-details\/11418002\u0022\u003EThe award will fund the project\u003C\/a\u003E with $1.2 million through 2029.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur goal is to address the immense challenge of allocating limited health intervention resources in optimal ways,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/guaguakai.com\/\u0022\u003EKai Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECSE\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy leveraging rich contextual data and accounting for social determinants, we envision RMAB models that empower health centers to customize interventions to individual patient profiles. Ultimately, this advances precision medicine and ensures equitable healthcare access for diverse populations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ET2D is a diabetes condition where the body resists insulin or doesn\u2019t produce enough to regulate blood sugar levels. Left unmanaged, high blood sugar leads to severe health problems like heart disease and stroke, damage to organs like eyes and kidneys, nerve damage, infections, and ulcers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ET2D is challenging to treat because patients have different ages, genetics, lifestyles, and body composition, all of which affect the progress of the disease. Social factors, like transportation and family support, matter just as much as biology to treat the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor these reasons, patients who get the same medications may get very different results. While treatment plans now incorporate new GLP-1 drugs, they remain expensive and difficult to distribute equitably.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDiabetes is a great example of a complicated, multi-faceted problem. It is a natural playground for the kind of high-dimensional machine learning algorithms we want to build and deploy,\u201d said School of CSE Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~badityap\/\u0022\u003EB. Aditya Prakash\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs a chronic disease, diabetes also creates opportunities for sequential decision-making. Providers are not making just one decision to treat the condition, but rather a series of decisions over time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrue to its multi-armed name, the team\u2019s framework applies RMAB models across three different thrusts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContextual RMABs use patient histories, biomarkers, demographics, and other data to predict how each individual will respond to an intervention. These models directly provide personalized, data-driven treatments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy incorporating patient-specific information, contextual RMAB models can help healthcare providers prioritize the most timely interventions. The goal is to improve patient outcomes while making more efficient use of limited healthcare resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, the group wants to understand social life and community influence in public health. Families and social networks shape how people manage chronic health conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENetwork RMABs study and account for the role of social factors in health interventions. For example, the models can recognize when one patient responds better to treatment than others through benefits of their social circle.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore broadly, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations often share responsibility for the same population in an area. Sometimes, they even compete for the same medications or funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMulti-agent RMABs are the third glass of models aimed at decentralized health systems to make fairer decisions. These tools examine how to coordinate resources and decisions between stakeholders. This in turn leads to policies that encourage cooperation and equitable resource distribution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel extremely confident in RMABs because we have already seen these frameworks deliver real-world impact,\u201d Wang said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPrior success has proven the value of data-driven decision-making under resource constraints, giving us a strong blueprint to effectively address the nuances and complexities of diabetes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang previously built RMAB models to expand maternal healthcare for women in India. Working in conjunction with the non-profit organization ARMMAN, the models used healthcare information to identify and reach the most vulnerable populations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy integrating RMAB models into ARMMAN mobile health technology, the partnership has reached over 350,000\u0026nbsp;mothers. This further led to a 31% improvement in engagement with health information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECompared to maternal healthcare, diabetes is a more nuanced disease with differing causes, symptoms, and treatments. This requires a team effort spanning institutions and backgrounds. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. \u003Cstrong\u003ESara Cromer\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Experienced diagnosing and treating diabetes, she has studied how social issues and equity influences the disease. MGH will provide much of the patient data to train the RMAB models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:https:\/\/sites.google.com\/stonybrook.edu\/jianli\u0022\u003EJian Li\u003C\/a\u003E studies reinforcement learning at Stony Brook University. His expertise in applying reinforcement learning for resource allocation plays a key part tailoring models for the T2D problem. Wang and Li have previously worked together on RMAB research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrakash is an expert in computational epidemiology at Georgia Tech. He has led substantial contributions to the use of AI for networks to predict outbreaks and track disease spread. This experience has led to collaborations with NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Science Foundation, and others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project speaks to the interdisciplinary problem-solving we try to achieve in CSE. Despite having different backgrounds, our interest in applying our strengths to real-world healthcare problems unites us together,\u201d Prakash said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese problems require experts from all sides. Without computational scientists, we can\u2019t take advantage of available data. We lean on clinical experts to provide the data and expertise needed to guide our methods and make sense of results. Ultimately, these approaches need to be clinically validated if we want to make real-world progress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPublic health systems often face a difficult challenge when time, funding, and resources are limited: who should receive care first? These decisions are complicated further by differences in patient needs, disease progression, and social factors like access to care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of computer scientists and doctors led by Georgia Tech aims to change that. Using a system of artificial intelligence (AI) models, the team can help clinicians deliver the right intervention to the right patient at the right time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir system uses Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) models. While the name is technical, the idea is simple. The RMAB framework helps decision-makers choose the best actions over time when conditions are complex and constantly changing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis project will tackle Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), building on previous experience expanding RMAB models to support maternal health care in India. Success on this front could lead to treating other chronic illnesses, like hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, and mental health.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of CSE researchers Kai Wang and B. Aditya Prakash are PIs of a $1.2 million NIH R01 grant to build AI models that consider individual, social, and system factors when treating patients with Type 2 Diabetes and other chronic illnesses."}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2026-10-22 13:51:13","changed_gmt":"2026-10-26 12:55:43","author":"Bryant Wine","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"681512":{"id":"681512","type":"image","title":"Wang-Prakash-NIH-R01-Head-Image.jpg","body":null,"created":"1792677082","gmt_created":"2026-10-22 13:51:22","changed":"1792677082","gmt_changed":"2026-10-22 13:51:22","alt":"CSE Wang Prakash NIH R01 Grant","file":{"fid":"265923","name":"Wang-Prakash-NIH-R01-Head-Image.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/22\/Wang-Prakash-NIH-R01-Head-Image.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/22\/Wang-Prakash-NIH-R01-Head-Image.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":174520,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/22\/Wang-Prakash-NIH-R01-Head-Image.jpg?itok=F247Tcxl"}},"681513":{"id":"681513","type":"image","title":"RMAB-Figure-3.png","body":null,"created":"1792677124","gmt_created":"2026-10-22 13:52:04","changed":"1792677124","gmt_changed":"2026-10-22 13:52:04","alt":"CSE Wang Prakash NIH R01 Grant","file":{"fid":"265924","name":"RMAB-Figure-3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/22\/RMAB-Figure-3.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/10\/22\/RMAB-Figure-3.png","mime":"image\/png","size":82207,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/10\/22\/RMAB-Figure-3.png?itok=DiMd3WJi"}}},"media_ids":["681512","681513"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"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":"170447","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"176858","name":"machine learning center"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"194384","name":"Tech AI"},{"id":"49591","name":"Diabetes"},{"id":"186687","name":"diabetes research"},{"id":"755","name":"public health"},{"id":"108101","name":"chronic disease"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\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":""}},"693130":{"#nid":"693130","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Poet Victoria Chang Named Prestigious National Book Award Finalist","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVictoria Chang, the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech, has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/2026-national-book-award-finalists-announced\/\u0022\u003Enamed a finalist\u003C\/a\u003E for a National Book Award for Poetry, one of the nation\u2019s top literary prizes, for her book of poems, \u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the nod, Chang becomes one of just 180 poets named finalist for the prestigious prize since its reinstatement by the National Book Foundation in 1991.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u0027s such an honor to have \u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eselected as a finalist for the National Book Awards,\u201d Chang said. \u201cMy book \u003Cem\u003EOBIT\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas longlisted in 2020 during the pandemic, so it will be nice to celebrate in person in New York with all the other finalists.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETree of Knowledge\u003C\/em\u003E emerged from Chang\u2019s contemplation of the felling of a tree across from her house in Los Angeles, where she was living at the time. It became, as \u003Cem\u003EMother Jones\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Esaid, \u201ca meditation on abstract art, mortality, language, home, and history.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt spiraled out to me writing about trees in paintings that I was thinking about, and then to the expulsion of Chinese people from Eureka, California, in the 1800s,\u201d Chang said. \u201cI also included art that I made from historical photographs of Chinese people in Eureka, so the book threads the personal, the political, the historical, and the environmental.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe book features not only Chang\u2019s writing, but also her visual art. 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What does AI\u2019s rapid growth mean for the future of humanity? How can it be steered towards a more prosperous future for all?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will host a series of four events, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/ai-society\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAI \u0026amp; Society Series\u003C\/a\u003E, to bring together scholars, practitioners, industry leaders, and the Georgia Tech community to explore some of the most consequential questions surrounding artificial intelligence and their potential solutions. 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It\u2019s also poised to create radical societal change and is sparking apprehension about what comes next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe positive and negative potential of AI was the focus of the first Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/ai-society\u0022\u003EAI \u0026amp; Society Series\u003C\/a\u003E event, hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/civicleadership.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMichael E. Tennenbaum Family Institute for Technology and Civic Leadership\u003C\/a\u003E on Oct. 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow do we harness the technology for good and minimize the bad?\u201d said Georgia Tech Provost Raheem Beyah in his opening remarks. Understanding and planning for AI-driven societal changes will require a knowledge of history, economics, communication, and so much more \u2014 subjects grounded in the humanities and social sciences, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNo better place than Georgia Tech, and no better college than the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts to lead the discussion,\u201d he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe panel, \u201cWe, the People, and AI: The Future of Data, Energy, Health, and Human Rights,\u201d was moderated by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Dean Amanda Murdie and included Wendy H. Wong, Professor, University of British Columbia \u2013 Okanagan Campus; Caroline Gwynn Monagle, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, R1 RCM; and Marilyn A. Brown, Regents\u2019 and Brook Byers Professor, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne focus of the evening was data privacy. Many people are giving AI agents and other systems more and more access to their private information in the name of convenience and efficiency.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWong, author of the book \u201cWe, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age,\u201d discussed how our digital lives create massive amounts of data being collected, analyzed, bought, and sold.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think about data as sticky, like literally like gum on the bottom of your shoe. Really easy to make \u2026 and really hard to get off,\u201d Wong said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndividuals often lack access and control of data being created about them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe data about you don\u2019t belong to you. They belong to the data collector,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI has only accelerated this data collection and intensifies the need to explore whether human rights should be extended to cover our digital data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI is not happening to you. AI is happening, and you have a way to think about what you want out of that,\u201d Wong said. \u201cWe are all data stakeholders.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAI\u2019s possible impacts on energy and sustainability were also discussed. Brown, an expert in sustainable energy technologies and policy, shared what excites her about AI\u2019s possible uses related to sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAI can optimize the electricity grid. It can improve industrial processes, reduce waste, predict equipment failures, [and] help integrate variable renewable energy into the system,\u201d Brown said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, AI\u2019s high consumption of energy is a challenge yet to be overcome and could produce unequal environmental and economic impacts, Brown said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy concern is that we\u2019re not paying attention to who\u2019s going to bear the consequences of all of that pollution relative to who is going to be benefiting from the economic growth and wealth of AI.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom medical breakthroughs to doctors taking AI notes during appointments, AI\u2019s influence on health and medicine was also discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMonagle, a leader in the healthcare technology and services industry, discussed how AI is improving processes around healthcare and insurance but also cautioned that only certain functions could be ceded to technology and that human expertise was still very valuable in the healthcare space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe still have to be the ones in the driver\u2019s seat, and that means we still have to be experts in our fields. We can\u2019t just rely on AI to tell us everything,\u201d Monagle said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHigher education, and the liberal arts in particular, have an important role to play in training future professionals to consider factors beyond just technology and the bottom line when implementing AI and other technologies in their fields, Monagle said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important that universities teach people to step back and think holistically about what we are building. Why are we building it? What is it going to achieve? Is this aligned with our values? And what are our values?\u201d said Monagle.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe positive and negative potential of AI was the focus of the first Georgia Tech AI \u0026amp; Society Series event, hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the Michael E. 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The project is in collaboration with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cidi.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Inclusive Design and Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E (CIDI) in the College of Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe funding will support the ACCESS for Aging Well with Assistive Technology (AT) 2.0 project, which builds on the researchers\u2019 previous work to help older adults live independently.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs Americans continue to age and we\u0027re growing older as a society, we want to ensure that people can continue to live independently and participate in the communities of their choice,\u201d Moon said. \u201cThe tools that we have developed here are intended to do that.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAssistive Technology Supports Independence\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to AARP, 75% of adults over 50 want to age in their homes. However, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.retirementliving.com\/aging-in-place\/aging-in-place-statistics\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERetirement Living\u003C\/a\u003E reports only 10% of homes are appropriately equipped to do so. Assistive technologies can help older adults live independently longer, but finding the right solutions and learning how to access them can be difficult.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EACCESS for Aging Well with AT 2.0 addresses those challenges by using machine learning, predictive analytics, and community partnerships to connect people with the tools and resources they need.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EExpanding Access and Community\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers will use the funding to integrate the existing \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aging-well.cidi.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACCESS for Aging Well website\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.assistive-tech.net\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eassistive technology catalog\u003C\/a\u003E into a single platform that provides assessments, recommendations, and solutions for older adults via machine learning, predictive analytics, expert insight, and state assistive technology program data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt will foster an active community through online discussion forums, social media, product reviews, and informational articles. The team will also analyze community discussions with AI-based tools to refine recommendations and identify new or innovative ways people may be using assistive technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFinally, the funding will help the researchers connect with organizations such as senior centers, rehabilitation centers, and state aging agencies to expand access to assistive technologies and meet older Americans where they are.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EEvery Dollar Spent on Assistive Technology Saves $9\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project also supports a significant return on investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor every $1 spent on assistive technology, people save $9,\u201d Moon said. \u201cAssisted living is terribly expensive. We will never replace assisted living or nursing homes, but we do want to give people the choice to age successfully in their communities of choice.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing technology to improve lives is a central mission of the Ivan Allen College and Georgia Tech, and researchers at CACP and CIDI collaborate across disciplines to do just that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u0027re using AI and harnessing the cutting edge of technology to make better recommendations based on what we know, but it\u2019s not just technology for technology\u2019s sake. We put the people first and technology follows. 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The changes support the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/policylibrary.gatech.edu\/campus-use-facilities\/interim-institutional-facility-access-control-policy\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitutional Facility Access Control Policy\u003C\/a\u003E, which establishes requirements for granting and managing access to Georgia Tech facilities. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeginning Monday, Nov. 9:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysical keys and other facility access may be issued only to individuals with active Georgia Tech employee, student, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hr.gatech.edu\/affiliates\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaffiliate status\u003C\/a\u003E. A Georgia Tech ID or BuzzCard alone does not establish active status. Contractors, vendors, temporary workers, and others who need access but are not Georgia Tech employees or students should work with their sponsoring department to establish or renew Georgia Tech Human Resources \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hr.gatech.edu\/affiliates\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaffiliate status.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeginning Monday, Jan. 4, 2027:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysical key requests must be submitted through a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.service-now.com\/technology?id=sc_cat_item\u0026amp;sys_id=e2ad2de5dbdc9c10391b9837db961933\u0026amp;sysparm_category=8a3e2d29dbdc9c10391b9837db9619c7\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EServiceNow ticket\u003C\/a\u003E by an authorized requestor, such as a building manager, facilities director, or project manager. Requests by email, phone, or walk-in will no longer be accepted. Additionally, physical keys will not be issued where electronic access is available.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat Departments Should Do Now\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDepartments should review the status of individuals they sponsor who have or need physical key access and:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e39f01736506d032baf8fa9f074221e5a\u0022\u003EBegin or renew the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hr.gatech.edu\/affiliates\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHuman Resources affiliate process\u003C\/a\u003E for contractors and other individuals who will require continued access.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e2bd58ad660738e9a1c9ba7d7df2f322e\u0022\u003EBecome familiar with submitting new physical key requests through the Access Control \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.service-now.com\/technology?id=sc_cat_item\u0026amp;sys_id=e2ad2de5dbdc9c10391b9837db961933\u0026amp;sysparm_category=8a3e2d29dbdc9c10391b9837db9619c7\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EServiceNow\u003C\/a\u003E process.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli data-list-item-id=\u0022e71de3429973f2ec5fafe0c8d24edb65e\u0022\u003EMake sure requests include the appropriate approvals and justifications.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysical key recipients will be required to pick up keys in person at Swarm Support, located at The Pavilion, 410 Fourth Street NW, Building #216, with valid identification. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;A limited exception exists for active affiliates performing contractor-type work who need a physical key for one business day or less. In this situation, affiliates may pick up keys and return them to the Georgia Tech Lock Shop, located in the O\u0027Keefe Building, 151 Sixth Street NW. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.service-now.com\/technology?id=sc_cat_item\u0026amp;sys_id=e2ad2de5dbdc9c10391b9837db961933\u0026amp;sysparm_category=8a3e2d29dbdc9c10391b9837db9619c7\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EServiceNow\u003C\/a\u003E ticket is still required.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For step-by-step guidance and frequently asked questions, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/access.campusservices.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAccess Control\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBeginning Jan. 4, 2027, Georgia Tech will implement a new process for requesting physical keys. 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