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From left to right, Stridelink Founders Cassandra McIltrot , Marzeah “Zea” Khorramabadi, and Neel Narvekar. Khorramabadi is holding one of their sensors, a device like a watch.

April 25, 2025

Female Founders Alumni Talk Patient Care with AI and Wearable Sensors

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Female Founders alumni and Stridelink founders discuss their entrepreneurial pathway to delivering better patient care through a wearable sensor for orthopedic recovery.

Members of the Georgia Center of Innovation – Logistics Advisory Board gathered at the 2025 Georgia Logistics Summit, where each received a personal note of recognition from Governor Brian Kemp for three years of dedicated service. Their collective efforts have advanced freight and logistics across Georgia—strengthening collaboration between industry, government, and academia to drive the state’s economic growth.

April 24, 2025

Georgia Center of Innovation Hosts 2025 Logistics Summit

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Center of Innovation’s 15th Logistics Summit delivers insights on digital transformation, workforce, transportation

April 16, 2025

Liquid Cooling Technology Developed at Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Patent, Company Raising Capital to Scale

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EMCOOL's technology solves overheating in electronics.

April 16, 2025

Liquid Cooling Technology Developed at Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Patent, Company Raising Capital to Scale

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EMCOOL's technology solves overheating in electronics.

Georgia Quick Start Deputy Commissioner Scott McMurray (center left) and Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research Tim Lieuwen (center right) gathered with members of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, Georgia AIM, and more to officially commemorate the partnership on April 8.

April 10, 2025

Georgia Tech and Georgia Quick Start Partner to Improve Manufacturing Training

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In a bid to support job creation and retention, the new partnership will work to develop scalable extended reality training programs for Georgia's manufacturing sector.

Yolanda Payne, Christie Peng, Shinhai Chen, Alex Aridgides, and Varuni Chopra.

April 4, 2025

Four Startup Lab Students Selected for 2025 Immersive Cohort at SXSW

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Four Georgia Tech students—Alex Aridgides, Shinhai Chen, Varuni Chopra, and Christie Peng—have been selected for the 2025 immersive cohort at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, where they will refine their innovations and network with industry le

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.