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September 10, 2024

CREATE-X Demo Day Ends and New Decade of Startup Launch Begins

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CREATE-X hosted its 11th Demo Day at Georgia Tech on Aug. 29, showcasing 100 startups and kicking off its new application season, with the program having grown to over 32,000 participants and 560 startup teams launched, totaling a portfolio valuation exce

Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium members gathered at the June quarterly meeting. Photo: Audra Davidson.

August 29, 2024

Fostering Industry Innovation: Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium Celebrates First Year of Operation

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With over 25 founding member companies brought on in its first year, the Consortium serves as a key connection point between the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute and industry partners — and as fertile ground for collaborative innovation.

August 21, 2024

Predicting the Future of Supply Chains: Learning from the Past to Navigate Uncertainty

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In a rapidly evolving global landscape, predicting the future of supply chains is akin to trying to catch lightning in a bottle.

CREATE-X Demo Day, Aug. 29, 5-7p.m., Exhibition Hall, 460 Fourth Street NW, Atlanta, GA

August 14, 2024

CREATE-X Celebrates 10-Year Milestone With 100 New Startups at Demo Day

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On Aug. 29, CREATE-X will celebrate its 10th anniversary at Demo Day, showcasing over 100 startups and more than 250 founders.

August 9, 2024

Georgia Tech’s Industrial Assessment Center Named Top in U.S. for 2024

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Industrial Assessment Centers help medium-sized industrial facilities with energy-related support.

Electrosuit Founders Aubrey Hall and Sherya Chakraborty pose for their third place win in the Spring 2024 I2P Showcase

August 2, 2024

Iterating Better Therapy Support: Electrosuit

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Electrosuit, a startup by Aubrey Hall and Sherya Chakraborty, secured third place in the Spring 2024 I2P Showcase, and their product, a garment for at-home electrical stimulation, targets individuals with chronic pain or motor impairments.

An early rendering of the main expanded research area at the Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (Credit: Lord Aeck Sargent).

July 23, 2024

AI and Automation Converge in Expansion of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility

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The Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute’s pilot facility will continue to bridge the gap between manufacturing research and industry with its new AI- and automation-focused expansion.

Dolfin Solutions wins at I2P Spring 2024 Showcase

July 18, 2024

The FinTech Gap: Dolfin Solutions Rises

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First-year computer science majors Marianna Cao, James Gao, and Jaeheon Shim, share their experience in building Dolfin Solutions, is a personal financial management platform.

Six people in dark blue boiler suits standing in the control room of a ship

June 11, 2024

Researchers Help Maritime Industry Navigate Toward Sustainability

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GT researchers Valerie Thomas and Patricia Stathatou are working toward a sustainable future for ocean shipping

Small Village in Green Hills at Congo River, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa

May 20, 2024

Harnessing AI to Reduce Food Insecurity in Africa

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Researchers in the School of Economics hope the tool they're developing can help policymakers and community organizations implement more timely and targeted interventions to alleviate hunger on the continent.

May 17, 2024

CREATE-X Alumnus Launches to Acquisition

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Parth Arora, Georgia Tech computer science senior and founder of Third Dimension Fitness, leveraged his entrepreneurial skills and CREATE-X’s resources to grow his startup, leading to its acquisition by Elbo as he prepares to join Apple’s VisionPro team.

Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

April 16, 2024

SCL's Chris Gaffney Speaks at Recent The Home Depot / ATDC Portfolio Showcase

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ATDC's Supply Chain vertical hosts panel discussion and supply chain startup showcase

April 4, 2024

Can Metro Atlanta Handle 1.8 Million More Residents?

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Georgia Tech experts examine how the Atlanta region can prepare for the projected addition of nearly 2 million residents by 2050.

Omar Asensio, visiting fellow, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

March 18, 2024

Civic Data Analysis Finds New Opportunity for Federal Energy Efficiency Initiatives

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A new study from the School of Public Policy finds that federal housing policies accelerate energy efficiency participation among low and moderate-income households — even when those policies don’t directly address energy efficiency.

IRIM Director Seth Hutchinson at Hyundai Meta Factory Conference Delivering Keynote

March 4, 2024

IRIM Director Delivers Keynote at Hyundai Meta-Factory Conference

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Seth Hutchinson, executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, delivered a keynote lecture at the 2024 Hyundai Meta-Factory Conference.

Simple schematic documenting the path of air pollution from emissions to outcomes. This review discusses the challenges of measuring how emissions of pollutants (step 1) disperse through the air (step 2) to become eventual exposures (step 3) and health outcomes (step 4).

February 5, 2024

EPICenter Faculty Affiliates Examine How Economists Contribute to Our Understanding of Pollution’s Health Impact

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EPICenter faculty affiliates Dylan Brewer, Daniel Dench, and Interim Director Laura Taylor compare methods used in epidemiology literature with the causal inference framework used in economics in analyzing the effect of air pollution on health outcomes.

Georgia Tech Team at Supercomputing 2023

January 5, 2024

Georgia Tech HPC Community Joins the Global HPC Community

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Interdiciplinary Team Participates in the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analytics

Winners of the EGHI/GT Hackathon stand together at Tech Square ATL Social

December 7, 2023

Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon

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Students tackled climate change in the Fall 2023 Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) /Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) Global Health Hackathon, Nov. 11, at Tech Square ATL Social.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

November 8, 2023

EI² Kicks Off Programming in Colombia with CREATE-X

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CREATE-X, in partnership with the Enterprise Innovation Institute’s (EI²) Medellín Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (GTMC), has rolled out its first international program in Medellín, Colombia.