IC Faculty Awards Nov 2024
November 25, 2024

School of IC Reels in Best Papers, Industry Awards, and Foley Scholar Awards

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November was a banner month for the School of Interactive Computing as faculty and students earned numerous industry, conference, and Georgia Tech accolades and awards.
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Craig Forest Overlooks I2P Showcase Fall 2023
November 22, 2024

I2P Showcase to Unveil Fall 2024 Student Prototypes

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Georgia Tech's Fall 2024 Idea to Prototype (I2P) Showcase on December 3 will feature over 50 student-built prototypes, including a digital twin for health screenings and an active shooter detection tool, and is open to the entire Georgia Tech community.
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Deven Desai and Mark Riedl
November 21, 2024

Researchers Say AI Copyright Cases Could Have Negative Impact on Academic Research

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Deven Desai and Mark Riedl are Georgia Tech researchers raising awareness about how court rulings for AI copyright cases could force academic researchers to construct new AI models with limited training data.
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Mothbox
November 14, 2024

Mothbox Workshop Recap

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Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) along with the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award sponsored a two-day Mothbox science workshop held on October 28-29, 2024.
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Foley Scholars for 2024-2025: Vanessa Oguamanam, Charles Ramey, and Momin Siddiqui. Jiawei Zhou, bottom right, was unable to attend.
November 14, 2024

Foley Scholars 2024 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.
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Facundo Fernández
November 13, 2024

Facundo Fernández Receives 2024 Anachem Award

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The award recognizes an outstanding analytical chemist that has advanced the field through exemplary research, teaching, or other endeavors.
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 Meredith Ringel Morris, Google DeepMind director of human-AI interaction research speaking at the School of Interactive Computing’s inaugural Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society.
November 12, 2024

Future of AI and Policy Among Key Topics at Inaugural School of Interactive Computing Summit

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Interactive Computing Chair has led a faculty initiative establishing an annual forward-thinking conference to address societal impacts of AI-driven technologies.
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Beatriz Palacios Abad
November 12, 2024

Beatriz Palacios Abad Wins Best Paper Award and Impact Award at CSCW 2024

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Beatriz Palacios Abad, a computer science doctoral student in Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, won both a best paper award and impact recognition award at the 2024 ACM SIGCHI conference
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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.
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Kait Morano is the resilience planning director for the CEAR Hub and research scientist with Georgia Tech.
October 28, 2024

Building Resilient Communities: Insights from Kait Morano at Georgia Tech

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In a recent interview on The Weather Channel, Kait Morano, a research scientist from Georgia Tech, discussed disaster resilience and the strategies communities can adopt to withstand extreme weather events.
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a pair of glasses and a pencil lay on a paper
October 24, 2024

Trio of Georgia Tech-Affiliated Research Projects Recognized at Top Cybersecurity Conference

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Eight Georgia Tech researchers were honored with the ACM Distinguished Paper Award for their contributions to cybersecurity at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
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American flag and faces
October 23, 2024

Deepfakes Surge During Election Cycles

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Deepfakes are increasingly used during election cycles, posing significant challenges for detection and regulation, warns Georgia Tech’s Mark Riedl.
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Russell Clark named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.
October 22, 2024

Russell Clark Named Interim Director of Sustainability

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Russell Clark, lead principal investigator of the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub (CEAR) and senior research scientist at the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), has been named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.
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Through the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation.
October 21, 2024

Georgia Tech and The Blk+Cross Launch #WatchtheVoteATL to Fight Election Misinformation

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Through the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation.
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Michael Best, executive director of IPaT, presents Gillian Hayes with a gift bag before her IPaT distinguished alumnus talk on Oct. 17, 2024
October 18, 2024

Gillian Hayes Receives IPaT Distinguished Alumni Award

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Gillian Hayes, who received her doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2007, was honored with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Saman Zonouz is a Georgia Tech associate professor and lead researcher for the DerGuard project.
October 18, 2024

Georgia Tech Cybersecurity Goes Green with $4.6 Million DOE Grant

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Georgia Tech researchers received a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to enhance cybersecurity for renewable energy technologies.
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A rufous-tailed jacamar (Photo by Benjamin Freeman)
October 15, 2024

Research Takes Flight: Benjamin Freeman Named 2024 Packard Fellow

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The Fellowship will support the Freeman lab as it The Freeman lab investigates how mountain biodiversity persists in a warming world.
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Muzna Raheel and Delaney Gomen pictured (left-to-right).
October 11, 2024

Georgia Tech and The Carter Center Award Joint Fellowships Leveraging Technologies to Support Sustainable Peace and Democratic Principles

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The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the recipients of fellowships in which students will collaborate with The Carter Center during the fall 2024 academic semester.
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A logo with the words "Georgia Tech Strategic Plan" over "Sustainability Next" with an abstract half-flower with blue, yellow, and gold rectangular petals.
October 9, 2024

2024 Sustainability Next Seed Grant Awards

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The seed grant program is administered by BBISS in collaboration with RBI, SEI, and IPaT.
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Rising Georgia 7th-8th graders learn how coastal areas are changing due to sea level rise. 
October 1, 2024

NASA Summer Camp Inspires Future Climate Leaders

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The CEAR Hub partnered with the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp
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