DATA - Key Persons
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- Executive Assistant
- Assistant to the Executive
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Psychologist
- Director of Translational Research for the Georgia Tech
- Research Scientist II
Agata Rozga is a psychologist with expertise and 13 years of experience forging a new interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of computing and psychology called computational behavioral science. The research vision is to transform the measurement, analysis, and understanding of health-related behaviors by leveraging advances in sensing, wearable and mobile technologies, and computational analysis methods. The ultimate goal is to develop tools that can lead to better detection, monitoring, and treatment of a variety of chronic health conditions.
One key area Dr. Rozga's research has focused on is understanding early trajectories and predictors of social communication in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In her most recent work, she is applying novel computational methods to longitudinal measures of communication behavior to understand different pathways to language in autism, including failure to acquire spoken language by age 5. Dr. Rozga's research has recently expanded to include a focus on Mild Cognitive Impairment, with an eye toward developing novel AI-based systems to help monitor cognitive and functional decline in everyday activities, to deliver appropriate in-situ supports, and to support care networks.
Dr. Rozga serves as the Director of Translational Research for the Georgia Tech-led NSF National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING), and as the Programs and Research Director for the Technology Core of the Cognitive Empowerment Program at the Emory Brain-Health Center. She was previously the Head of Product for Diligent Robotics, https://www.diligentrobots.com/.
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- Instructor
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ahmet Coskun is a systems biotechnologist and bioengineer, working at the nexus of multiplex imaging and quantitative cell biology.
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- Principal
- Research Associate
Dr. Alexeev came to Georgia Tech at the beginning of 2008 as an assistant professor. His research background is in the area of fluid mechanics. He uses computer simulations to solve engineering problems in complex fluids, multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions, and soft materials. As a part of his graduate research at Technion, he investigated resonance oscillations in gases and probed how periodic shock waves excited at resonance can enhance agglomeration of small airborne particles, a process which is important in air pollution control technology. He also investigated wave propagation in vibrated granular materials and its effect on fluidization of inelastic granules. During postdoctoral studies at TU Darmstadt, he examined how microstructures on heated walls can be harnessed to control thermocapillary flows in thin liquid films and to enhance heat transport in the fluid. That could be beneficial in many practical applications, especially in microgravity. At the University of Pittsburgh, he studied the motion of micrometer-sized, compliant particles on patterned substrates to develop efficient means of controlling movement of such particles in microfluidic devices. Such substrates are needed to facilitate various biological assays and tissue engineering studies dealing with individual cells.
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- a. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor
Alexander Shapiro is the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Shapiro's research interests are focused on stochastic programming, risk analysis, simulation based optimization, and multivariate statistical analysis. In 2013 he was awarded Khachiyan Prize of INFORMS for lifetime achievements in optimization, and in 2018 he was a recipient of the Dantzig Prize awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 2020 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2021 he was a recipient of John von Neumann Theory Prize awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Dr. Shapiro served on editorial board of a number of professional journals. He was an area editor (optimization) of the Operations Research Journal and the editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Programming, Series A, Journal.
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- Chairman and Professor of Finance
Amirali Aghazadeh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and also program faculty of Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Bioengineering Ph.D. programs. He has affiliations with the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) and Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences. Before joining Georgia Tech, Aghazaeh was a postdoc at Stanford and UC Berkeley and completed his Ph.D. at Rice University. His research focuses on developing machine learning and deep learning solutions for protein and small molecular design and engineering.
Dr. Medford is interested in leveraging materials informatics, statistics, and machine learning to maximize the practical impact of fundamental atomic-scale simulations in the field of surface science and catalysis. His research areas include heterogeneous catalysis, oxide surface chemistry, density functional theory, kinetic models, uncertainty quantification, and Bayesian optimization and inference.
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Annie Anton, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, which she chaired until 2017. Previously, she served as a professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, where she was director of the CSC Policy and Compliance Initiative and a member of the NCSU Cyber Defense Lab. In 2010, she chaired the NC State University Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee. In 2008, she chaired the NC State Public Policy Task Force. Anton's research focuses on methods and tools to support the specification of complete, correct behavior of software systems used in environments that pose risks of loss as a consequence of failures and misuse. This includes systems in which the security of personal and private information is particularly vulnerable. Current extensions to this work, include the analysis of federal security and privacy regulations, and compliance practices. Anton is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research group of students and faculty at Georgia Tech, CMU, NC State and UMBC. This group is interested in technologies that assist practitioners and policy makers in meeting the challenge of eliciting and expressing policies and regulations (a form of requirements). These tools help ensure that software systems are aligned with the privacy polices and regulations that govern these systems. Her professional activities include a notable combination of multi-disciplinary research and education. She is co-founder of the annual Requirements Engineering and the Law Workshop (RELAW). She is a former associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, cognitive issues subject area editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal, and the International Board of Referees for Computers & Security. Antón has served on various boards, ﾠincluding: ﾠPresident Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, the NIST Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board, the IEEE Computer Society Research Board, an Intel Corporation Advisory Board, the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board. ﾠShe is a former member of the U.S. DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, the CRA Board of Directors, the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate Advisory Council, the Distinguished External Advisory Board for the TRUST Research Center at U.C. Berkeley, the DARPA ISAT Study Group, the USACM Public Policy Council, the Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees, the Microsoft Research University Relations Faculty Advisory Board, the CRA-W, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (GTAB), and Corporate Secretary for Trekking for Kids, Inc.
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- Professor School of Mathematics
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- Director
- Professor of Computer Science
- Professor School of Interactive Computing
Ashok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. At Georgia Tech, he is also the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Human-Centered Computing, a Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design, and a Fellow of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. For more than thirty years, Ashok has conducted research into artificial intelligence, cognitive science and human-centered computing, with a focus on computational design, modeling and creativity. His recent work has explored design thinking, analogical thinking and systems thinking in biological inspired design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRDQ4hr9i8), and his research is now developing virtual research assistants for modeling biological systems. Ashok teaches a popular course on knowledge-based AI as part of Georgia Tech's program on Online Masters of Science in Computer Science. He has pioneered the development of virtual teaching assistants, such as Jill Watson, for answering questions in online discussion forums (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCguICyfTA). Chronicle of Higher Education recently called virtual assistants exemplified by Jill Watson as one of the most transformative educational technologies in the digital era. Ashok is the Editor-in-Chief of AAAI's AI Magazine.
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- Member of the Institute for Data Engineering
Ashwin Renganathan is a member of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science.
Dr. Duarte is excited to join the Department of Psychology at U.T. Austin starting in Fall, 2021 after 13 years as a professor at The Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Duarte received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from U.C. Berkeley in 2004 and conducted her postdoctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK. Dr. Duarte is a cognitive neuroscientist who uses multiple, complementary neuroscience methods including electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neuropsychological methods (i.e. neurological patients), to understand the neural mechanisms of age-related changes in episodic memory, which is memory for personally experienced events. The major aim of her research program is to understand the neural changes that underlie age-related decline in episodic memory, why some people age better, from a neural and cognitive perspective, than others, and to develop and implement effective interventions to alleviate this decline. She has longstanding and active interdisciplinary collaborations with neurologists, neuropsychologists, and sleep disorder clinicians, and with mechanical engineers, to investigate experimental manipulations that may ameliorate episodic memory impairments in people with Alzheimer's disease pathology, and to explore sleep-related biomarkers of Alzheimer's pathology. She has a particular interest in the cognitive neuroscience of aging in racial/ethnic minorities and the psychosocial factors like race-related stress, depression, and acculturation that influence memory and underlying brain function in diverse populations. Her lab's work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Science Daily, and Ozy.
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- Director Seminars and Distinguished Lectures
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- Vice President for the Enterprise Innovation Institute
Bridges leads EI², a statewide, 12-program, 160-member organization and the nation's largest and most comprehensive university-based program of business and industry assistance, technology commercialization, and economic development.
B. David Bridges is the Vice President for the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. EI2 is the largest, oldest, and most successful economic development organization at any university in the country. It is home to 11 economic development programs which (1) build and scale startups, (2) grow existing small and medium sized enterprises, including manufacturing firms, and (3) energize ecosystem builders (communities, governments, universities, and non-profits). These programs serve the State of Georgia, with programmatic reach across the Southeast region, the United States, and five continents around the world. Bridges concurrently serves as the Director of the Economic Development Lab (EDL) within the Enterprise Innovation Institute. EDL works with communities in Georgia on projects such as workforce development, fiscal and economic impact analyses, strategic planning, and downtown redevelopment. This lab also works locally and globally conducting innovation policy research and implementing innovation ecosystem building projects with 23 countries around the world.
Since joining the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, Bridges has worked in various practice areas serving manufacturing firms, national labs, international governments, and innovation ecosystems. He has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on over $20 million in grants and has authored, co-authored, or significantly contributed to over $40 million in winning proposals. Bridges has won over 100 proposals from U.S. federal agencies, plus universities, governments and non-profits from around the world. He is a Principal Research Faculty member and a frequent lecturer and key note speaker in China, South Africa, and across Latin America on nascent, innovation ecosystem building.
Prior to joining EI2, he was a general management consultant and a brand manager at three consumer package goods companies. Bridges has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and a Master of Science in Marketing from Georgia State University.
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- Senior Research Scientist
Mr. Drake is a senior research faculty member at GTRI in the Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL) and in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), College of Computing at Georgia Tech. At GTRI/ICL Mr. Drake is in the Innovative Computing Division where he serves as Technical Lead for the Algorithms and Analytics Branch. His interests include adaptive algorithms, learning machines, numerical linear algebra, and applying these technologies to solve real-world problems. Mr. Drake has been awarded patents and published numerous papers in the areas of optical computers, adaptive algorithms for signal processing, and adaptive machine learning methods. More recently, he has been performing research in the areas of Raman spectroscopy and text analytics, such as topic modeling, using matrix low-rank approxIMaTion methods. He is a member of the Georgia Tech/GTRI DARPA funded XDATA research team. Mr. Drake also served as cofounder of three startup companies and held positions at large Fortune 500 companies. He began his career as a mathematician at a federal laboratory, the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), San Diego, CA. Mr. Drake holds two Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Forest Biology, a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics all from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and attended Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, on a graduate fellowship from NOSC.
Ben Wang is Professor Emeritus in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. In addition, Dr. Wang previously served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute.
Dr. Wang's primary research interest is in applying emerging technologies to improve manufacturing competitiveness. He specializes in process development for affordable composite materials. Dr. Wang is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the growing field of nanomaterials science. His main area of research involves a material known as "buckypaper", which has shown promise in a variety of applications, including the development of aerospace structures, improvements in energy and power efficiency, enhancements in thermal management of engineering systems, and construction of the next-generation of computer displays.
Dr. Wang served on the National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB). NMMB is the principal forum at the U.S. National Academies for issues related to innovative materials and advanced manufacturing, and has oversight responsibility for National Research Council activities in these technology areas. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering.
Because of his contributions to advanced manufacturing and materials, Dr. Wang was invited to deliver a presentation to the U.S. National Research Council Review Panel in support of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2005. In 2012, he was invited to give testimony before the National Academies Committee on Manufacturing Extension Partnership. In 2012 he was invited to participate in the Roundtable on Strengthening U.S. Advanced Manufacturing in Clean Energy in the White House.
In addition to authoring or co-authoring more than 240 refereed journal papers, he is a co-author of three books: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (Prentice-Hall, 1st Edition, 2nd Edition, and 3rd Edition), Computer-Aided Process Planning (Elsevier Science Publishers), and Computer Aided Manufacturing PC Application Software (Delmar Publishers).
Dr. Wang earned his bachelor's in industrial engineering from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and his master's in industrial engineering and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
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- Interim Executive Director
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager, Office of Research Development and Manufacturing USA Initiative
Primary responsibilities include: Support for investigators developing large-scale research funding proposals, and consultation with Manufacturing USA institutes on cost sharing obligations and memberships.
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- Associate Professor School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Carl DiSalvo is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design and civic media. DiSalvo is also co-director of the Digital Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Center and its Digital Civics initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation, and he leads the Serve-Learn-Sustain Fellows program, which brings together faculty, staff, students and community partners to explore pressing social research themes (the 2016-2017 themes are Smart Cities and Food, Energy, Water, Systems). He has a courtesy appointment in the School of Interactive Computing, and is an affiliate of the GVU Center and the Center for Urban Innovation. DiSalvo also coordinates the Digital Media track of the interdisciplinary M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction. DiSalvo's scholarship draws together theories and methods from design research and design studies, the social sciences and the humanities, to analyze the social and political qualities of design, and to prototype experimental systems and services. Current research domains include civics, smart cities, the internet of things, food systems, and environmental monitoring. Across these domains, DiSalvo is interested in how practices of participatory and public design work to articulate issues and provide resources for new forms of collective action.
Dr. Deo came to Georgia Tech in August 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering. Prior, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He studied radiation effects in structural materials (iron and ferritic steels) and nuclear fuels (uranium dioxide). He also obtained research experience at Princeton University (Mechanical Engineering), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science
Chao Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research area is data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. His research aims to enable machines to understand text data in more label-efficient and robust way in open-world settings. Specific research topics include weakly-supervised learning, out-of-distribution generalization, interpretable machine learning, and knowledge extraction and reasoning. He is a recipient of Google Faculty Research Award, Amazon AWA Machine Learning Research Award, ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Runner-up Award, IMWUT distinguished paper award, and ECML/PKDD Best Student Paper Runner-up Award. Before joining Georgia Tech, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.
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- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President for Research
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Chaouki T. Abdallah is the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As chief research officer, Abdallah provides overall leadership for the Institute's $1.45 billion portfolio of research, economic development, and sponsored activities, including the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Enterprise Innovation Institute, 10 interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs), and related research administrative support units. He also serves on the executive committee of the Council on Research for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU), the executive committee for the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), and the advisory committee for the Center on Measuring University Performance (MUP).
Since Abdallah assumed the role of EVPR, the Institute took occupancy of Coda, a first-of-its-kind, mixed-use facility in the heart of Tech Square, designed to create opportunities in interdisciplinary research, commercialization, and sustainability. Under his leadership, Georgia Tech also recently launched the "Commission on Research Next," a process that will map a comprehensive future for research at Tech. The initiative will also develop the Institute's strategy to bolster commercialization efforts and tech transfer initiatives, and grow critical collaborations with industry, government, the national labs, and foundations.
Chaouki T. Abdallah is the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Abdallah serves as chief research officer for the Institute, providing overall leadership for the research, economic development, and related support units within Georgia Tech. As a direct report to President Ángel Cabrera and a member of the president's cabinet, he serves as chief research officer for the Institute. This position provides overall leadership for the $1.45 billion annual research enterprise that includes the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), 10 interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs), as well as economic development, and related support units within Georgia Tech. He also serves on the executive committee of the Council on Research for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU), the executive committee for the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), and the advisory committee for the Center on Measuring University Performance (MUP).
Abdallah came to Georgia Tech from the University of New Mexico, where he served as the university's 22nd president, as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, as well as department chair of the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department. During his tenure, Abdallah oversaw long-range academic planning and efforts to improve student success, as well as retention-achievement and graduation achievement rates.
He conducts research and teaches courses in the area of systems theory with a focus on control, communications, and computing systems. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, national laboratories, and various companies. Abdallah, who is fluent in English, French, and Arabic, is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of that organization's Millennium Medal.
Abdallah began his college career at the Faculté d'ingénierie of the Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon, then obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from Youngstown State University in 1981, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1982 and 1988, respectively.
He has published eight books (three as co-editor and five as co-author) and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and provided expert testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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- Associate Director for Research and Education
- Regents Professor School Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research in the Sherrill group focuses on the development of ab initio electronic structure theory and its application to problems of broad chemical interest, including the influence of non-covalent interactions in drug binding, biomolecular structure, organic crystals, and organocatalytic transition states. We seek to apply the most accurate quantum models possible for a given problem, and we specialize in generating high-quality datasets for testing new methods or machine-learning purposes. We have developed highly efficient algorithms and software to perform symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) computations of intermolecular interactions, and we have used this software to analyze the nature of non-covalent pi-interactions in terms of electrostatics, London dispersion forces, induction/polarization, and short range exchange-repulsion.
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- Grants Administrator
- Senior Grants Administrator
Charmain M. Alston is the senior grants administrator for IDEaS. She joined the team in 2017 with more than 26 years of experience in the federal government, and 18 years of experience with proposal and financial administration at the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. Charmain has a BBS with a concentration in Acquisition and Contract Management.
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- Research Communications Program Manager
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- Professor School of Eletrical and Computer Engineering
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- Professor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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- Executive Assistant
- Program Manager
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- Associate Vice President for Research Administration
Hope oversees sponsored programs operations at Georgia Tech. In addition to functions supporting grants and contracts, these operations administer sponsored research sub-contracting, non-disclosure agreements (and other exchange agreements in support of research), enterprise contracting systems and data, and a training and outreach team.
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- Principal Research Engineer
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- Director of Master 's Recruiting and Admissions
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- Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing
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- Associate Professor School of Interactive Computing
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- Associate Chair and Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Professor at Georgia Tech
Dr. Annalisa Bracco is a professor at Georgia Tech with extensive background in computational fluid dynamics and physical oceanography. Her research interests include coastal ocean circulation, with focus on meso- and submesoscale processes, ocean predictability and inverse dynamics, impacts of physical forcing on ecosystems, and climate model validation. Her group has been involved in field collections during the Deepwater Horizon spill (July/Aug. 2010) and was back in the Gulf in the summer of 2011.
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- Professor and School Chair
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- Research Development Manager
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Associate Professor, School of Psychology
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- Vasser Woolley Foundation Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry
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- Assistant Professor School of Mechanical Engineering
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- Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy
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- CEO / S.T.a.R. Technologies, LLC
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- Director of Research Operations
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- Chairman, BMI & Professor of BMI and BME
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- Senior Director for Strategic Partnerships
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- Media Contact
- Director of Research Communications
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- Senior Research Scientist
Hannah Choi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on mathematical approaches to neuroscience, with primary interests in linking structures, dynamics, and computation in data-driven brain networks at multiple scales. Before coming to Georgia Tech, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington and also a visiting scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and spent one semester at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley as a Patrick J McGovern Research Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University and her BA in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Director for Student Engagement
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- Senior Vice President, Georgia Institute of Technology and Director, Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Senior Vice President, Georgia Tech
Hudgens leads more than 2,900 employees conducting more than $830 million in research across a variety of disciplines, including science, engineering, economics, policy and technical expertise to address national security, state, and industry challenges.
James J. Hudgens, Ph.D., has led national security research for over 23 years. As the current director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and senior vice president of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Hudgens leads more than 2,900 employees conducting more than $830 million in research across a variety of disciplines, including autonomous systems, cybersecurity, electromagnetics, electronic warfare, modeling and simulation, sensors, systems engineering, test and evaluation, and threat systems. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy and technical expertise to address challenges facing national security, state, and industry.
Before joining Georgia Tech, Hudgens directed the $265 million-per-year Threat Intelligence Center (TIC) at Sandia National Laboratories, where he led the Information Operations and Proliferation Assessments programs for the National Security Program Division. Prior to his promotion to director of TIC, Hudgens served in several leadership positions across the organization, including director the Information Systems Analysis Center (ISAC), senior manager of the Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems department where he won the Department of Energy Secretary's Honor Award for Achievement for leading the Copperhead counter-IED program; deputy director of the Surveillance and Reconnaissance program, manager of Photonic Microsystems Technologies, and principal member of Technical Staff.
Hudgens earned a Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering and a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Iowa State University, and has authored numerous publications and presentations.
Now focused on Creating the Next wave of advanced technological solutions at one of the nation's leading research institutions, Hudgens continues to be recognized as a high-level thought leader with a focus on transformation, innovation, and growth.
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- Associate Dean, Research and Faculty Affairs
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- & Statistical Analysis Manager, Library
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- Fouts Family Associate Professor and Director, MS in Analytics
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- Associate Laboratory Director for Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences
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- Principal
- Research Scientist
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- Research Development Manager
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- Director of Academic & Research Facilities Infrastructure
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- Professor
- Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research
Kubanek oversees all interdisciplinary activities including the Interdisciplinary Research Institutes, Interdisciplinary Research Centers, the Pediatric Technology Center, and the Global Center for Medical Innovation.
Julia Kubanek serves as Georgia Tech's Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research and is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. In this role, she oversees and supports interdisciplinary activities at Georgia Tech including the Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs); the Pediatric Technology Center (PTC), the Novelis Innovation Hub; the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI); and the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI). She also partners across the institute on developing and advancing new research initiatives based on student and faculty interests, expertise, and societal need.
Kubanek has held several previous leadership roles at Georgia Tech, including Associate Dean for Research in the College of Sciences and Associate Chair in the School of Biological Sciences. She joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2001. Her areas of research interest include chemical signaling among organisms (especially in aquatic systems), natural products chemistry, metabolomics, chemical biology, and drug discovery. She has authored approximately 100 research articles on marine plankton and coral reef chemical ecology, and on the discovery, mechanism of action, and biosynthesis of marine natural products. She was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2002, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2004, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012. In 2016, she served as chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Marine Natural Products; since 2016, she has chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. Kubanek received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Queen's University, Canada, in 1991 and her Ph.D. in at the University of British Columbia in 1998, and performed postdoctoral research at the University of California - San Diego and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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- Global Chief Product Officer / Honeywell
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- Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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- Managing Director, Business Analytics Center
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- Professor School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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- Senior Administrative Professional
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- Chief Engineer, Pediatric Technologies, GTRI
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- Professor, McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering
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- Executive Assistant
- Program Manager
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- Asst. Director for Administrative Operations
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Associate Vice President of Corporate Engagement
Nolan leads the office that serves as the nexus for the Institute's entire partner relationship and activity portfolios to strategically shape corporate engagement at Georgia Tech for maximum impact. The office is also tasked with facilitating collaboration efforts across various partner units within Tech.
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- Science Advisor, Institute for Materials
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- Executive Director Research Computing and
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- Professor School of Materials Science & Engineering
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- Interim Executive Director
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- Associate Director, Education and Outreach IISP Professor
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- Georgia Power Associate Professor
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- Professor School of City & Regional Planning
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- Associate Director, Policy
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- Associate Professor School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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- Associate Chair for Faculty Development
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- Director of Industry Relations, Institute for Data Engineering and Science
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- Head Technologist and Fellow / Mubadala Capital Ventures
Raghupathy Sivakumar Vice President of Commercialization Sivakumar leads the newly established Office of Commercialization, which includes the Office of Technology Licensing and VentureLab, that serves as the central engine that drives commercialization and entrepreneurship efforts across Georgia Tech. Profile & Contact Information
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- Dean, College of Engineering
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- Academic and Research IT Support Engineer
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- Professor of Interactive Computing in the College
- Professor School of Interactive Computing
Rebecca "Beki" Grinter is a Professor of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing & (by courtesy) the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on improving the experience of computing by understanding the human experience in the building and using of technologies. Her work contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and computer supported cooperative work. She has also worked in the areas of robotics, networking, security, and software engineering. She has published over 80 scholarly articles, served as Papers Chair (2006) & Best Papers Chair (2010) for the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier conference for human-computer interaction. In 2013 she was elected to the CHI Academy. In 2010 she was recognized as a Distinguished Alumna of the University of California, Irvine. Before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, she was a Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC and a Member of Technical Staff in the Software Production Research Department of Bell Laboratories. She was also a visiting scholar at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Information and Computer Science both from the University of California, Irvine, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds. Affiliations GVU Center
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- Director of Research Development
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- Senior Director, Research Program Administration
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- Chief Research Operations Officer
- Georgia Tech As the Chief Research Operations Officer
- Vice - President for Finance
- Vice President for Research Operations
Robert Butera serves Georgia Tech as the Chief Research Operations Officer (CROO). He facilitates the Institute's research activities and oversees Research Integrity Assurance, Research Administration, Research Operations/Infrastructure, and Research Development as part of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research. Butera is a Professor jointly appointed in the Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Prior to taking on the role of CROO, Butera served as the Vice President for Research Development and Operations (2019-2023). Prior to joining the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, Butera served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering (2016-2019). He previously directed the Neural Engineering Center (2014-2016), served as founding Faculty Director of the Grand Challenges Living Learning Community (2012-2015), and Director of the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program (2005-2008). During the 2008-2009 academic year he served as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the US Department of State in Washington, DC.
Butera received his BEE degree from Georgia Tech (1991) and his MS (1994) and PhD (1996) from Rice University. Following graduate school, he conducted postdoctoral research (1996-1999) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. He joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1999.
Butera's research is focused on developing novel methods for peripheral and autonomic nerve modulation using electrical signaling, combining engineering and neuroscience to tackle clinically motivated problems. For much of his earlier career, he conducted research in computational approaches to problems in systems and cellular neuroscience.
Professionally, Butera has served as Vice-President for Finance (2011-2014) and Vice-President for Publications (2017-2019) for the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society as well as on its AdCom (Board of Directors) from 2005-2010. He also served on the Board of Directors for the Organization for Computational Neuroscience (2013-2015). Butera is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Butera facilitates and directs the Institute's research activities and oversees Research Integrity Assurance, Research Administration, and Research Development and Operations as part of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research.
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