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March 6, 2025

Maribeth Gandy's 25 Year Journey at Georgia Tech: Pioneering Human-Computer Interaction

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Maribeth Gandy's journey at Georgia Tech began in 1993 when she enrolled as a computer engineering major.

March 5, 2025

Corian Ellisor Selected as IPaT Artist-in-Residence

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Corian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology’s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence.

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.

Pictured are MS-HCI students Saba Alemayehu and Emily Layton.

February 17, 2025

Human-Computer Interaction Students Showcase Projects at 2025 Interactivity@GT Event

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This year’s Interactivity event combined a distinguished Atlanta business panel presentation with the annual MS-HCI student research showcase.

February 14, 2025

Securing Tomorrow’s Autonomous Robots Today

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Assistant Professor Glen Chou is leading research to ensure the security and safety of future autonomous robots, which could one day fight wildfires, explore space, and assist in critical environments like nuclear reactors and hospitals.

February 3, 2025

Tackling Global AI Hiring Bias: Prioritizing Collaboration Over Division Between the US, EU, and China

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While AI-driven systems hold the potential to streamline hiring processes, the issue of hiring discrimination has emerged as a pressing global concern as AI-automated recruitment tools gain widespread adoption.

Participants outside of the Frissell Community House at the Penn Center on November 21, 2024. Photo credit - Jennifer Hirsch.

January 23, 2025

Building Toward Community-Owned Resilience Hubs

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Resilience hubs are trusted, community-serving facilities designed to support residents and coordinate communication and resources in everyday life

Klaus Advanded Computing Building rainbow steps

January 22, 2025

ACM Recognizes Faculty Trio for Their Transformative Computing Contributions

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College of Computing Professors Michael Bailey, Dana Randall, and Thad Starner are among 55 Fellows named by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.

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.

January 16, 2025

Biden Administration Names Interactive Computing Researcher as PECASE Recipient

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Interactive Computing Associate Professor Josiah Hester is one of 400 people to be awarded the Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation's highest honor for early career researchers.

January 9, 2025

Innovate and Collaborate: Inside TSRB’s Maker Spaces

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The Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at Georgia Tech houses two invaluable community maker spaces that embody Tech Square's ethos of collaboration: the IPaT Prototyping Lab and Craft Lab.

The winners of the Fall 2024 I2P Showcase stand together in Exhibition Hall.

January 8, 2025

Double Victories at the Fall 2024 I2P Showcase

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Allez Go and Soul tied for Best Overall projects at the Fall 2024 I2P Showcase, earning spots in the CREATE-X summer startup accelerator and advancing to the InVenture Prize semifinals.

David Sherrill, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Computational Science and Engineering; associate director of the Georgia Tech Institute for Data Engineering and Science.

January 6, 2025

David Sherrill to Serve as Interim Director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science

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Sherrill is Regents' Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry with a joint appointment in the College of Computing. Sherrill has served as Associate Director for IDEaS since its founding in 2016.

January 6, 2025

Gregory Sawicki to Serve as Interim Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines

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Effective January 1st, Gregory Sawicki will serve as interim executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM).

The Ruta N partnership in Medellín, Colombia, generated thousands of jobs. Jorge Calle/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

December 17, 2024

How cities are reinventing the public-private partnership − Four lessons from around the globe

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Local governments have long teamed up with businesses in so-called public-private partnerships.

December 11, 2024

Membrane Biosensor Wins Convergence Innovation Competition in Asia

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Team Membrane Biosensor from Yuan Ze University, Taiwan won the Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology’s (IPaT) annual Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) held for the first time in Taipei, Taiwan, December 7, 2024.

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.

November 25, 2024

Scientists Find Vehicles Susceptible to Remote Cyberattacks in Award-Winning Paper

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Georgia Tech researchers, with Hyundai, uncovered wireless vulnerabilities in vehicles' internal networks.