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AI Week 2026: AI-powered cognitive parters for personalized learning: Jill Watson as a case study. Tuesday, Oct. 13, 10:30-11:30, Scholars Event Theater

August 18, 2026

AI Week: AI-Powered Cognitive Partners for Personalized Learning: Jill Watson as a Case Study

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A panel featuring Drs. Vincent Spezzo, Ashok Goel, and Amanda Nolen will examine how AI-powered cognitive partners such as Jill Watson can support personalized learning, student engagement, and instructional effectiveness.

August 17, 2026

Essie Knows Best: The Lesson Only Nursing Home Residents Can Teach Georgia Tech Design Students.

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Designing with people, rather than for them, can restore independence while teaching future designers lessons no classroom alone can provide.

August 14, 2026

Georgia Tech, VRARA and AAIA Announce Techlanta 2026

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Techlanta is organized in collaboration with Georgia Tech OIT, the new Allen–Davidson–Coleman XR Makerspace, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), and the Symbiotic and Augmented Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).

August 14, 2026

Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society Names Simon Sponberg Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research

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The Georgia Tech researcher and longtime neuroscience community leader will help catalyze new collaborations and research opportunities across the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

Georgia Tech doctoral candidate Will Huggins presents findings of an AMPF case study

August 14, 2026

Why the Data Behind a Part Now Matters as Much as the Part Itself

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Georgia Tech researchers are working to make U.S. manufacturing and defense supply chains more secure and resilient by combining digital part tracking, cybersecurity, AI-enabled quality verification, and real-time supply chain monitoring.

Georgia Tech doctoral candidates Neel Shah and Jamila Khanfri in discussion

August 13, 2026

Smart Factories Aren't Coming. They're Here.

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From physical AI to cybersecure factory design, Georgia Tech's Manufacturing Institute is setting the pace for the next era of American production.

Staff Spotlight: Josh Lee standing with arms crossed in front of a wearable technology display. Graphic with hexagonal design elements and the text “Staff Spotlight” and “Josh Lee.”

August 13, 2026

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Josh Lee’s Employee Spotlight

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The Institute for Matter and Systems recognizes Josh Lee for his work in wearable medical technologies.

August 13, 2026

The Cybersecurity Imperative in Smart Factories

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As manufacturing becomes more connected, Saman Zonouz’s research shows why cybersecurity must be built into industrial systems from the start, before hidden vulnerabilities become threats to production, public safety, and national security.

August 13, 2026

Rare NASA Satellite Data Reveals Major Limits in Flood Models

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Using unprecedented observations of Ukraine’s 2023 Kakhovka Dam collapse, Georgia Tech researchers found that widely used flood models underestimated both water levels and flood timing.

August 12, 2026

New Model Teaches Workplace AI to Read More Like Humans

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The new AI framework called SlideAgent helps large language models (LLMs) better understand complex visual documents used in the workplace like presentation slide decks, brochures, and reports.

Casey Wichman, Associate Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Economics.

August 12, 2026

How Does Wildfire Smoke Affect the Economy?

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Georgia Tech economist Casey Wichman explains how increased wildfire smoke from climate change affects spending, productivity, and healthcare costs.

Three-panel figure showing soft-material adhesion experiments: a microscope image of a probe contacting a surface, fluorescence images of the contact area, and a graph showing pull-off force versus retraction speed, with stress relaxation and dynamic bond effects labeled.

August 11, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Mechanism Behind Soft-Material Adhesion

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Georgia Tech researchers have uncovered a new mechanism governing how soft materials adhere, revealing that adhesion can weaken and then strengthen as pulling speed increases — a finding that could enable new approaches to biomedical devices, soft robotic

Three photos of Georgia Tech researchers Arnav Hiray, machine learning doctoral student; Vidhyakshaya Kannan, a Georgia Tech Financial Services intern; and Siddharth Lohani, a computer science major ’26 and software engineer at Bloomberg.

August 11, 2026

AI Can Help Make Complex IPO Filings Easier to Analyze

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Georgia Tech researchers developed IPO-Mine, an AI-powered toolkit that helps investors, researchers, and regulators analyze complex IPO filings more efficiently.

August 11, 2026

Georgia Tech Solar Racing Team Sets Record at Electrek American Solar Challenge

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The team set a challenge record for occupancy and took home first place in the Formula Sun Grand Prix’s multi-occupant category.

August 10, 2026

Eunhye Song Named VP/President-Elect of INFORMS Simulation Society

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ISyE faculty member Eunhye Song has been named vice president/president-elect of the INFORMS Simulation Society, recognizing her growing leadership in simulation research.

August 10, 2026

Georgia Tech Engineer Rethinks Supply Chains for Community Resilience

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Through BBISS, Pérez-Guzmán co-leads a community resilience network of roughly 40 to 50 practitioners and researchers working on community-led resilience hubs across Georgia and South Carolina.

August 7, 2026

Georgia Tech Strengthens Atlanta's Innovation Ecosystem Through Tech Square Tech Hop and Avant South

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Tech Square Tech Hop and Avant South showcase Georgia Tech's leadership in strengthening Atlanta's growing innovation ecosystem.

Saman Zonouz is a Georgia Tech associate professor and lead researcher for the DerGuard project.

August 6, 2026

As Water Systems Face Cyberattacks, Georgia Tech Research Points to Solutions

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Recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the United States have renewed concerns about the cybersecurity of the operational technology that supports critical infrastructure.

August 5, 2026

Where Breakthrough Meets Business: Georgia Tech Grad Makes Impact Through Research, Entrepreneurship

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Alumnus and serial entrepreneur Chris Lee is using research from his latest company, Huxley Medical, to improve the diagnosis of sleep apnea and related cardiovascular disease with a simple wearable device.

August 5, 2026

Your Immune Cells Are Tired. Georgia Tech Researchers Found a Way to Wake Them Up.

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Georgia Tech researchers developed a way to rejuvenate aging immune cells, potentially restoring the body’s ability to better fight cancer, infection, and other diseases.