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May 22, 2025

Georgia Tech Faculty and Programs Recognized With 2025 Regents’ Awards

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USG Board of Regents’ awards honor outstanding achievements and high-impact practices in instruction, research, entrepreneurship, and campus programming.

May 20, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants Awarded

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The grants aim to transform instruction using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which offer a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.

May 19, 2025

Creativity and Innovation on Display at Spring 2025 TechMade Symposium

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The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering's Spring 2025 TechMade Symposium: Elevating Georgia Tech's Maker Culture brought together students, faculty, and staff to explore research and activities conducted in makerspaces on campus and discus

May 15, 2025

Georgia Tech Leads as Robotics World Converges on Atlanta for ICRA 2025

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The world’s largest robotics conference is coming to Atlanta, and 136 researchers and students from Georgia Tech will showcase their novel and groundbreaking contributions to a booming field.

May 14, 2025

Georgia Tech Celebrates 2025 Ph.D. Graduates in Cybersecurity and Privacy

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Five Ph.D. students from Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy graduated in Spring 2025, contributing significant research in software security, cryptography, and privacy with 34 published papers.

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

May 13, 2025

Researchers Say Stress “Sweet Spot” Can Improve Remote Operators' Performance

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Georgia Tech researchers say there's a "sweet spot" of stress that can enhance performance of remote robot operators such as drone pilots and astronauts.

Tao Lu, a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Computing, with Assistant Professor Yalong Yang

May 9, 2025

AR/VR Researchers Bring Immersive Experience to News Stories

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It may not be long before augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets cause them to keep their phones in their pockets when they want to read The New York Times or The Washington Post.

Mohit Chandra, a third-year computer science Ph.D. student.

May 9, 2025

AI Chatbots Aren’t Experts on Psych Medication Reactions — Yet

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Asking artificial intelligence (AI) for advice can be tempting.

May 5, 2025

Bruce Walker Named Founding Director of New Center to Advance Human-AI-Robot Collaboration

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Georgia Tech’s new Center for Human-AI-Robot Teaming (CHART) looks to revolutionize the collaboration between humans, AI, and robots.

April 29, 2025

Georgia Tech Joins Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association

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Georgia Tech announces its membership with the Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) marking a significant step in advancing innovation in the fields of augmented and virtual reality.

Pictured are faculty members from IIT Madras, Emory University, Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology, and other members of the diabetes expert group.

April 28, 2025

Exploring Diabetes Care Challenges in India

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Georgia Tech researchers help identify the top 10 most pressing challenges to improving diabetes care in India.

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.

RepĀR aircraft maintenance system being used with a tablet. The system uses a combination of augmented reality, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

April 24, 2025

Transforming Aircraft Maintenance With Augmented Reality

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In the dynamic world of aviation maintenance, precision, quickness, and meticulous documentation are essential.

Interactive Computing Professor Mark Riedl co-organized the 2024 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society, where AI literacy was a key topic. Photo by Terence Rushon/College of Computing

April 24, 2025

Professor's CNBC Course Highlights College’s Leadership in Expanding AI Literacy

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Georgia Tech Professor Mark Riedl is helping people learn new skills to stay competitive in the workplace.

April 21, 2025

McLaughlin Named Cooper Union President

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Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the 14th president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, effective July 1.

Michelle LaPlaca (left), associate chair for Faculty Development and professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; W. Hong Yeo, Harris Saunders, Jr. Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

April 18, 2025

Newly Named Children’s PTC at Georgia Tech Peterson Professorship Recipients Work to Improve the Lives of Kids in Georgia and Beyond

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Professors Michelle LaPlaca and W. Hong Yeo are recognized for their innovative contributions to pediatric healthcare research.

April 17, 2025

Thesis on Human-Centered AI Earns Honors from International Computing Organization

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Zijie (Jay) Wang (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) is a recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).

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 14, 2025

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

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DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.

April 9, 2025

Code Switching in the Digital World

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Technology has transformed how we communicate.