A new cybersecurity technology that relies on the unique digital fingerprint of individual semiconductor chips could help protect the equipment of electrical utilities from malicious attacks that exploit software updates on devices controlling the critical infrastructure. The GridTrust project, which has been successfully tested in a real…
Andrew Stevens MS (pictured), Jon Duke MD, and Richard Boyd Ph.D. secured the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2023 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference. Their winning project, “Automated Extraction of Social Determinants of Health from Electronic Health Records,” addresses the challenge of…
Software updates are a ubiquitous part of our lives. That’s true at home and at work. And it’s true for the critical systems the U.S. Department of Defense relies on to protect the nation. Think about all the highly sophisticated systems that power drones or fighter jets or even secure authentication programs. Many of those systems are custom…
Three of 12 projects that received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges are led by researchers in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE). The 12 projects received a total of $27 million in investment, supporting the use of knowledge…
This story originally appeared in Yale Insights on Aug. 7, 2023, and was written by Aimee Levitt. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March of 2020, Heather Tookes, a professor of finance at Yale SOM, began to study the impact of various government policy responses to the crisis. With colleague Matt Spiegel, she published two research papers about…
Carson Meredith, executive director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute and professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), has been elected to the 2023-2024 class of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) fellows. The Fellow status is AIChE's highest grade of membership and is achieved through election…
The Georgia Institute of Technology contributed over $4.5 billion to the state economy in fiscal year 2022 –– a 7.4% increase from the previous year and the largest impact among the 26 University System of Georgia (USG) member institutions. With Tech leading the way, a new USG study finds that the system contributed a total of $20.1 billion…
Billions of years ago, self-replicating systems of molecules became separated from one another by membranes, resulting in the first cells. Over time, evolving cells enriched the living world with an astonishing diversity of new shapes and biochemical innovations, all made possible by compartments. Compartmentalization is how all living…
Investors have been buying houses at a steady rate since the last recession, but how much does it affect availability in the housing market? New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology shows investors are most likely to push out Black, middle-class homeowners from neighborhoods. Data from 800 neighborhoods in the Atlanta metropolitan…
The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) held their annual faculty leadership retreat on Wednesday July 13th in Savanna Hall, located in Grant Park on the grounds of Zoo Atlanta. The retreat brought together the current IDEaS Leadership Team and a cohort of newly hired research faculty in Data Science, High-Performance…
