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August 27, 2026

Wilkinson Elected Chair of Georgia Tech’s Faculty Executive Board

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The longtime Georgia Tech professor and academic leader in the College of Sciences will guide the Faculty Executive Board as it upholds the Institute's shared governance.

August 26, 2026

Open Source, Big Ideas: Scientific Computing Community Heading to Georgia Tech

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Georgia Tech is hosting the 2026 MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods) Community Workshop, Sept. 22-25. MFEM supports research in computational physics, earth systems modeling, engineering, energy, and other fields.

A smiling woman standing in front of a wall. The wall has a unique pattern and wood frames.

August 20, 2026

New Faculty Member Examines How AI Shapes Our Most Personal Relationships

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For Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Veronica Rivera, the growing role of AI in daily life raises important questions about what happens when technology designed to help people puts their privacy and safety at risk.

August 19, 2026

Silicon Meets Asphalt: Cybersecurity Project Uses AI to Protect Highways

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Georgia Tech cybersecurity researchers are working to ensure the security of networked highway systems.

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.

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.

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

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.

August 3, 2026

SRNL, Georgia Tech Announce Facundo M. Fernández's Joint Faculty Appointment

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Regents' Professor Facundo M. Fernández will collaborate on research in mass spectrometry, an analytical technique used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions for research.

The MentIE Program is a professional mentorship initiative at Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)

July 30, 2026

Shape a Student's Future. Become a MentIE Mentor.

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Mentoring is a flexible and rewarding opportunity to give back to the ISyE community while making a lasting impact on a student's personal and professional growth.

An artist's concept showing a black hole. (Credit: NASA/JPL)

July 29, 2026

A New Era of Black Hole Detection

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From new calibration tools to a record-breaking catalog of detections, the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network is leading the way in gravitational wave science.

SCI faculty member Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García

July 24, 2026

SCI Faculty Brings Human-Centered AI Expertise to International Fulbright Summit

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A School of Computing Instruction (SCI) faculty member recently shared his expertise in computing education with a distinguished to an international audience.

Rich Simmons on a car designed by the GT-Motorsports team at the Michigan International Speedway

July 20, 2026

Richard Simmons Named Interim Director of Student Competition Center

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Richard Simmons, principal research engineer in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has been named interim director of the Student Competition Center (SCC).

July 20, 2026

Alumna Ann Dunkin to Chair Inaugural Emerging Technologies Virtual Forum

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ISyE alumna Ann Dunkin, P.E. (BSIE 1986, MSIE 1988), will lead discussions on emerging technologies as chair of IISE's inaugural forum.

July 16, 2026

New Leadership Appointments at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science to Focus on Building Connections and AI Skills

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The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) has selected faculty to serve in two associate director roles.

July 7, 2026

Zhu Receives NSF CAREER Award

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Mathematics Assistant Professor Wei Zhu has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

July 6, 2026

Researchers Use GeoGuessr Champion to Test Geolocation Accuracy in VLMs

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Researchers have developed what they believe is the strongest benchmark dataset on measuring the geolocation accuracy of LLMs.

June 30, 2026

Meet the Expert: Brian An

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In this EPIcenter Expert series, meet Brian An, EPIcenter Affiliate, studying the intersection of energy resilience and urban policy to improve grid equity during extreme weather.

June 24, 2026

Bruce Weinelt Joins BBISS as Managing Director

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Bruce will develop and lead BBISS’s external partnership and fundraising strategy, grounded in the Institute's academic research priorities.