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August 27, 2024

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In partnership with the Georgia AIM project, GTRI is leading the development of an integrated artificial intelligence response hub for Southwest Georgia to help communities streamline disaster management and logistics.
Russell Gentry and Valerie Thomas collaborating in a Georgia Tech lab.
August 9, 2024

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Interdisciplinary collaboration drives innovation at Georgia Tech. The Institute encourages research faculty to dismantle traditional academic barriers by holding joint appointments. Researchers discuss how blending diverse fields helps them create more sustainable, technologically advanced, and socially viable solutions to some of our planet’s biggest problems.

A group photo of several researchers at ICAA19.
July 30, 2024

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Global aluminum leader Novelis and the Georgia Institute of Technology recently co-hosted the 19th International Conference on Aluminum Alloys, highlighting advances in sustainability, future mobility, and next-generation manufacturing.
An early rendering of the main expanded research area at the Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (Credit: Lord Aeck Sargent).
July 23, 2024

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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.
Headshot of Chaouki Abdallah wearing a navy suit jacket and gold-patterned tie with a white a shirt. Chaouki is smiling.
June 25, 2024

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Chaouki Abdallah, Georgia Tech's executive vice president for Research (EVPR), has been named the new president of the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Abdallah, MSECE 1982, Ph.D. ECE 1988, has served as EVPR since 2018; in this role, he led extraordinary growth in the research enterprise. Through the work of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, 10 interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs), and a broad portfolio of faculty research, Georgia Tech now stands at No. 17 in the nation in research expenditures.

Kyle Saleeby, a research engineer with the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, shows visitors how robotics can be used in manufacturing and an array of 3-D printed industrial materials.
June 21, 2024

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Georgia AIM — a project born out of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute working to bring equitable AI to Georgia's manufacturers — recently hosted Vice President Kamala Harris as she kicked off her Economic Opportunity Tour.
Using what she learned from her PIN fellowship, Iesha Baldwin now serves as the inaugural sustainability coordinator for Spelman College.
June 20, 2024

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Iesha Baldwin, the inaugural Georgia AIM Fellow with the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, hopes to use artificial intelligence to cut down on manufacturing waste — and improve science education.
Naiya Salinas is one of a half-dozen students enrolled in the new AI Enhanced Robotic Manufacturing program at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource (VECTR) Center, which is setting a new standard for technology-focused careers.
June 20, 2024

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GTMI's Georgia AIM project is working with the Georgia VECTR Center to train veterans in industry-standard robotics, manufacturing modules, cameras, and network systems using their new AI-Enhanced Robotic Manufacturing Studio.
Mechanical Engineering Professors Shreyes Melkote (left) and Jerry Qi.
May 31, 2024

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Two Georgia Tech researchers — including GTMI's Shreyes Melkote — were selected to receive achievement awards by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Consortium affiliates gathering at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute building.
May 14, 2024

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Four industry leaders have been named to the new board of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute’s Manufacturing 4.0 Consortium, cementing the first full year of the organization that works to build industry and research partnerships.