Category Engineering | Research News Center

August 28, 2025

Srinivas Peeta Named Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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The appointment recognizes Professor Peeta’s longstanding contributions to transportation research and his leadership in advancing methodological innovation within the field.

The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.

August 21, 2025

Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants

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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.

Graphic of person using an assistive device thinking about how a robot could hep learn riding a unicycle

August 8, 2025

Research Combining Humans, Robots, and Unicycles Receives NSF Award

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Novel research to improve tailored assistive and rehabilitative devices wins NSF Grant

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July 17, 2025

Engineering the Car of the Future

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ECE experts look to the future of the automotive industry, and how new technology will not only transform vehicles, but reshape the power grid, influence policy decisions, and impact numerous aspects of society.

July 11, 2025

Space: The Current Frontier

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Georgia Tech engineers have the solar system covered, with projects hundreds — or millions — of miles from home.

Ahmed Yunus and Yongsheng Chen working with a wastewater reactor system in the lab.

July 10, 2025

‘Biochar’ Can Naturally Clean the Pollution that Rain Washes Off Georgia’s Roads

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A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways.

Photo of Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer

July 9, 2025

Lighting the Way to Faster Data Transfer

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DARPA is backing Professor Ali Adibi’s work to use light, not electricity, to move data faster and more efficiently in next-generation electronics.

July 3, 2025

How Agentic AI is Rethinking the Origins of Life on Earth

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Georgia Tech researchers Amirali Aghazadeh and Daniel Saeedi discuss AstroAgents, an agentic AI system that analyzes space chemistry to generate new ideas for life’s beginnings.

July 1, 2025

Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes

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By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.

the planet mars with a satellite flying in front of it

June 25, 2025

Mars Rising as the New Frontier of Science and Strategy

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As the White House accelerates plans for a 2026 crewed mission to Mars, Georgia Tech experts highlight the engineering, scientific, and diplomatic challenges that will shape the success—and sustainability—of humanity’s next giant leap.

Fan Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

June 24, 2025

Fan Zhang Receives National Engineering Achievement Award from ANS

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Fan Zhang, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, has received the 2025 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS).

June 17, 2025

Dematic's Sowmya Ananthachary Joins the SCL Industry Advisory Board

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Ms. Ananthachary brings a wealth of experience in enterprise software and cloud technologies to the SCL Advisory Board.

From clinical trial participant to BCI advocate, Ian Burkhart shares his story at “Wired Lives,” organized by Georgia Tech’s Neuro Next Initiative. Photo: Chris McKenney

June 11, 2025

Unveiling the Human Stories Behind Brain Implants

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Four people who have experienced brain implants shared their personal journeys, offering rare insight into the human side of neurotechnology.

June 3, 2025

InterfaceNeuro Highlights Atlanta’s Growing Role in the Neurotech Revolution

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The conference brought together voices from across the neurotechnology spectrum to explore advancing brain-computer interface research and patient-centered innovation.

Jud Ready holds a sample of a perovskite solar cell, along with other samples similar to those launched to the International Space Station. (Photo: Branden Camp)

May 19, 2025

10 Questions with Jud Ready

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Ready had hoped earning his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech would lead him to a spot in NASA’s Astronaut Corps. Instead, it’s led him to GTRI, where his passion for space is alive and well.

May 9, 2025

Yun Awarded Prestigious Asan Foundation Biomedical Science Scholarship

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The Ph.D. student was recognized for advancing biomedical imaging through photonics research.

Sarah Roney oversees nursery troughs in the UGA Shellfish Research Lab filled with young oysters growing on shells recycled from restaurants all over Georgia.

April 25, 2025

Restoring and Protecting Georgia’s Coast — With Oysters

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How a Georgia Tech grad student is building living shorelines that resist erosion and predators.

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

The wireless device measures only two centimeters in length and one-and-a-half centimeters in width, and is the first of its kind to continuously monitor the skin's exchange of vapors with the environment.

April 14, 2025

New Wearable Device Monitors Skin Health in Real Time

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The device is the first of its kind to continuously monitor how the skin exchanges gases with the environment, helping to monitor skin health and wound healing.

April 8, 2025

Rozell Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

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The ECE professor awarded the prestigious distinction for outstanding contributions to computational neuroengineering, psychiatric neuromodulation, and international leadership in accessible biomedical education.