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Matthew Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Tech, EPIcenter Faculty Affiliate

March 3, 2025

Meet the Expert: Matthew Oliver

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Master of the rebound — Economist Matthew Oliver measures the sometimes concealed costs of pivoting to clean energy

Pictured are Sohan Choudhury of Flint, Garrett Smiley of Sora Schools, Sarah Hamer of RetailReady, and Bruno Geoly of Lumindt.

March 3, 2025

Beyond Tech: CREATE-X Entrepreneurs Make Forbes 30 Under 30

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Forbes 30 Under 30 list featured eight CREATE-X founders, including Sohan Choudhury of Flint, Garrett Smiley of Sora Schools, Sarah Hamer of RetailReady, Bruno Geoly and Mia Rath of Lumindt, Rishabh Kewalramani of BackBar, and Tamara Zubatiy of Barometer.

Calla Scotch, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, speaks about their win with Team Convexity at the Fall 2024 I2P Showcase.

March 3, 2025

Leading the Charge in Additive Manufacturing: Team Convexity

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Convexity finished second in the Fall 2024 I2P Showcase and will now compete in the InVenture Prize for a chance to win $35,000.

Bradford “Brad” Greer (bottom) and Kevin Ge (top), both 2023 graduates from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and founders of CADMUS Health Analytics. Left, Greer loading a stretcher after dropping a patient off.

February 24, 2025

Mechanical Engineers Turn Classroom Project Into Promising Health Tech Company

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Bradford Greer and Kevin Ge, 2023 Georgia Tech graduates, turned their classroom project into CADMUS Health Analytics, a health tech startup that partnered with Northeast Georgia Health System to improve EMS services through data analysis and AI.

Image of CREATE-X Founders in the Startup Launch program, showing their products, meeting guests of Demo Day, and networking

February 21, 2025

Shape the Future: Apply to Startup Launch by March 17

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CREATE-X invites Georgia Tech students, faculty, alumni, and researchers to apply for the 2025 Startup Launch program by March 17, to access workshops, mentorship, and startup support, including $5,000 in seed funding and $150,000 in in-kind services.

Illustration of container ship in ocean with global map overlayed and port cranes in the background

February 19, 2025

How Tariffs May Reshape Global Trade and Supply Chains

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Professor Alan Erera provides insight into the impact of tariffs on global trade and supply chains.

February 18, 2025

Manufacturing the Workforce of the Future

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Georgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility is opening doors to new manufacturing careers.

Georgia Tech's Scott Duncan welcome remarks at the Microgrid workshop

February 4, 2025

Tech Square Microgrid Workshop Sparks Ideas For Energy Resiliency Assets

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Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), Southern Company, and Georgia Power hosted a workshop aimed at imparting new information and sparking innovative ideas around the Tech Square Microgrid (TSMG) and the use of its data in education and research

Image of a notebook and lightbulb. The notebook reads "CRAETE-X Tips"

February 3, 2025

Six Tips to Begin Your Startup With CREATE-X

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Starting a business can be daunting, but CREATE-X is here to help you navigate these challenges with six essential tips for launching your own business!

January 30, 2025

Solar Rebound: The Behavioral Economics Behind Increased Electricity Use

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A recent study by Matthew E. Oliver from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his co-authors, Juan Moreno-Cruz from the University of Waterloo and Kenneth Gillingham from Yale University, delves into the solar rebound effect.

Poster featuring S.K. Sharma, former Chief Analytics and AI Officer at Universal Music Group, promoting the Deep Startups event on January 30 at 7 p.m. in Marcus Nano Rooms 1116-1118. The event, hosted by CREATE-X, will discuss developing startups using AI, data science, and strategic analytics within the music industry

January 27, 2025

Deep Startups with S.K. Sharma: Transforming Music With AI and Data Science

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CREATE-X will host a Deep Startups fireside chat featuring S.K. Sharma, former chief analytics and AI officer at Universal Music Group, on Jan. 30, focusing on startup development in the music industry.

This image shows computer science students in Twiggs County, Georgia in their virtual class with Georgia Tech

January 22, 2025

Georgia Tech's Computer Science Initiative Expands Opportunities for Rural Students

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Georgia Tech’s Rural Computer Science Initiative empowers rural teachers and students in Georgia through co-taught computer science courses, preparing them for tech careers and supporting Georgia’s future workforce.

Collage of Startup Launch alumni an CREATE-X participants on the cover of the CREATE-X Decade Report

January 17, 2025

CREATE-X Releases Report on 10-Year Milestone

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CREATE-X, founded in 2014 at Georgia Tech, has released its first decade report, showcasing its impact of supporting the Georgia Tech community in launching more than 560 startups, achieving a total portfolio valuation of over $2 billion.

December 9, 2024

CREATE-X Announces 2025 Jim Pope Fellows

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CREATE-X has announced the next cohort of faculty members selected for the Jim Pope Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year.

December 3, 2024

New Dataset Takes Aim at Subjective Misinformation in Earnings Calls and Other Public Hearings

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SubjECTive-QA is the first human-curated dataset on question-answer pairs from earnings call transcripts (ECTs). The dataset teaches models to identify subjective features in ECTs, like clarity and cautiousness.

December 3, 2024

Multipurpose Model Enhances Forecasting Across Epidemics, Energy, and Economics

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The Large Pre-Trained Time-Series Model (LPTM) framework completes forecasting tasks across a broad range of domains, outperforms current models, and requires 40% less data and 50% less training time than current baselines.

Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, zerocool, Fanatics Collectibles, speaks to Georgia Tech students

December 1, 2024

StockX Co-Founder, Josh Luber, Visits Georgia Tech for Deep Startups

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Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, shared his entrepreneurial journey and insights on resilience and innovation with Georgia Tech students at the CREATE-X Deep Startups workshop.

December 1, 2024

Adapt to Thrive: Y Combinator and Greptile Talk Startups Georgia Tech

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On Nov. 12, CREATE-X hosted a panel with Y Combinator partner Brad Flora and Greptile founders, offering practical advice and networking for aspiring entrepreneurs, with Flora sharing his journey and tips, and the Greptile founders discussing their startu

Members of Georgia AIM’s governance team stand for a photo with Cassia Baker, a cybersecurity expert with the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (left), and David Bridges, executive vice president of Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (second from right), which oversees the projects.

November 7, 2024

Georgia AIM Wins Tech for Good Award from the Technology Association of Georgia

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The award honors a program or project that uses technology to promote inclusiveness and equity by serving Georgia communities and individuals who are underrepresented in the tech space.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

November 5, 2024

Y Combinator Is Coming to Georgia Tech, Hosted by CREATE-X

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Y Combinator, hosted by CREATE-X, is coming to Georgia Tech on Nov.12, 5p.m., Walter G. Ehmer Theater, for a panel between Group Partner Brad Flora and the founders of Greptile to discuss the startup accelerator and entrepreneurship.