The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
About the Georgia Tech Information Security Center
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, is an interdisciplinary center involving faculty from the College of Computing, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy.
About the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
For more than seventy-seven years, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has built a reputation as one of the world’s premier applied research and development organizations. Each day, GTRI’s science and engineering expertise is used to solve some of the toughest problems facing government and industry across the nation and around the globe. A non-profit research institute, GTRI teams with its customers to attack their problems with passion and objectivity. In 2011, GTRI was awarded more than $205 million in sponsored research contracts from government and industry.
GTRI’s nearly 1,600 expert scientists, engineers and other professionals spend each day turning ideas into action. Much of GTRI’s research takes place within eight uniquely focused research laboratories. Among them is the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL) which conducts applied research focused on secure information systems, network vulnerability and mission assurance within the cyber domain. GTRI and Georgia Tech’s academic units have complementary missions and work together to solve real-world problems. As an integral part of Georgia Tech, GTRI opens the door to the vast intellectual resources of one of America’s leading research universities.
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