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The LIDAR Research Team with Digit Robot

November 18, 2025

LIDAR Lab-mates Moving Humanoid Robots Closer to Adaptability in the Real World

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To achieve better training outcomes with faster deployment results, Fukang Liu and Feiyang Wu have published a duo of papers in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

November 12, 2025

Professor Earns Test-of-Time Award at AI and Computer Gaming Conference

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Professor Mark Riedl received the first-ever test-of-time award from the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).

Picture upper left: Philipp Gutruf, Alex Adams, Hong Yeo, and Kimberlee McKay. Picture upper right: workshop attendees. Picture lower left: Rudy Gleason, Shelly Spires, Brad Jones, and Ruwanthi Ekanayake. Picture lower right: Hong Yeo, Garan Byun, and Clint Zeagler.

November 10, 2025

Wearable Health Equity Workshop

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The second Wearable Health Equity Workshop was held on October 30, 2025, at the Georgia Tech Marcus Nanotechnology Building. The workshop presented some of the latest wearable health technologies and offered practical solutions for advancing rural healthc

Pictured (left-to-right): Micheal Best, Mohsin Yousufi, Joon Kum, Rachel Lowy, Niharika Mathur, and James Foley.

November 6, 2025

Foley Scholar 2025 Winners and Finalists

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The Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology.

Shazia, the Carter Center Digital Democracy Fellow, with Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology

October 22, 2025

Georgia Tech Ph.D. Candidate Shazia Awarded Carter Center Digital Democracy Fellowship

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Shazia, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Georgia Tech, has been named the recipient of The Carter Center Digital Democracy Fellowship for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Lisa Marks, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the College of Design.

October 6, 2025

Lisa Marks Named Interim Chair of Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies

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Georgia Tech has appointed Lisa Marks, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the College of Design.

Group photo of Rural CS teachers with Georgia Tech instructors at the fall 2025 kickoff.

October 1, 2025

Rural Computer Science Initiative expands and inspires for new school year

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Now in its fourth year, the program continues to expand its reach.

man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin

September 23, 2025

Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care

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Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.

A researcher works in a cotton field in Jenkins County, Georgia, as part of a project on AI and pesticide use. Dorothy Seybold

September 23, 2025

What Happens When AI Comes to the Cotton Fields

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A Georgia Tech team is piloting AI-powered sensors to help cotton farmers optimize pesticide use.

September 18, 2025

A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems

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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.

September 17, 2025

Two IC Faculty Receive NSF CAREER for Robotics and AR/VR Initiatives

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Two Georgia Tech professors, Danfei Xu and Yalong Yang, have received the prestigious NSF CAREER award for their research in robotics, which focuses on teaching robots to self-improve, and in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), which aims to create imm

Georgia Tech researchers test their prototype of a robotic guide dog. Photo by Terence Rushin/College of Computing.

September 10, 2025

Georgia Tech Team Designing Robot Guide Dog to Assist the Visually Impaired

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Researchers rely on feedback from blind and visually impaired (BVI) communities to create service animal prototype.

University of Liberia President Layli Maparyan is pictured with students starting the Georgia Tech Online Master Program in Computer Science this fall 2025.

September 9, 2025

Liberian Students Awarded Georgia Tech Fellowships in Computer Science

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In a landmark achievement for higher education and international collaboration, 12 faculty and staff from the University of Liberia have been accepted into the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) prog

A doctor on a computer working with an AI-powered health device

September 2, 2025

The Algorithm Will See You Now — But Only If You’re the Perfect Patient

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Georgia Tech researchers warn that AI reshapes healthcare around an “ideal user,” overlooking people who need medical intervention the most.

August 29, 2025

IPaT and GTRI Seed Funding Awarded to Four Projects

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The Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech (IPaT) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) co-sponsored more than $55,000 in seed grant awards to four research projects.

August 28, 2025

Georgia Tech Plugged Him In. Now He’s Wired for Problem-Solving

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Scott Gilliland’s winding path led to breakthroughs in wearable tech that solve challenges for people with Parkinson’s and help us understand dolphin communication.

August 28, 2025

When AI Blurs Reality: The Rise of Hyperreal Digital Culture

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Experts at Georgia Tech say the surge in AI hyperrealism — content that mimics human emotion, speech, and appearance with uncanny precision — is both a technological marvel and a societal challenge.

The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.

August 21, 2025

Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants

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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.

August 20, 2025

Youth Look to Transform Communities Through Civic Technologies

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Through a $1.25 million NSF Grant, Georgia Tech, Northeastern University, and MIT are empowering youth from underserved Atlanta and Boston communities to lead community transformation and bolster civice engagement.

Adam-MacCallum,Jim Pope Fellow and translational research advocate in Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits pensively, looking out.

August 15, 2025

Jim Pope Fellow to Offer New Course on Biotechnology Commercialization this Fall

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Adam McCallum, a Jim Pope Fellow at Georgia Tech, is advancing entrepreneurial education in biomedical engineering by mentoring students, launching a new commercialization course, and supporting innovations that address neurological diseases t