Meet Srinivas Aluru, executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). IDEaS is one of Georgia Tech's 11 interdisciplinary research institutes within the Georgia Tech Research enterprise. What is your field of expertise and why did you choose it? As a graduate student in the early 90s, I chose high performance…
A new mathematical simulation has concluded that the continued practice of mask wearing and social distancing during ongoing vaccinations could help stem a potential surge in Covid-19 cases, particularly as more infectious variants emerge. The study was conducted collaboratively by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the…
The promise of 5G Internet of Things (IoT) networks requires more scalable and robust communication systems — ones that deliver drastically higher data rates and lower power consumption per device. Backscatter radios ― passive sensors that reflect rather than radiate energy ― are known for their low-cost, low-complexity, and battery-free…
The U.S. continues to see Covid-19 vaccinations gradually increasing nationwide, with nearly 66% of all adults now having at least one vaccine dose according to CDC’s COVID Data Tracker, yet disparities have been noted in vaccination rates across races and geographic areas. A new dashboard shows differences in vaccination rates by race across…
Vision. Collaboration. Innovation. The qualities for which Georgia Tech has become so well-known were embodied in people like Bob Nerem, founding director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) from 1995 to 2009, Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine, and Institute professor emeritus…
Georgia Tech and Georgia Power celebrated the opening of a 1.4-megawatt microgrid in Tech Square with a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday, June 16. The microgrid is located at Spring and Fifth Streets in Atlanta. This project, made possible through a longstanding partnership between Georgia Power and Georgia Tech, will help power the larger…
The Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have entered into an agreement to bolster the interactions, collaborations, and joint scientific output of both institutions. The goals of this collaborative arrangement are to: Solve Big Problems by leveraging the integrated full…
By Sonia Fernandez (UC Santa Barbara) We’ve seen robots take to the air, dive beneath the waves and perform all sorts of maneuvers on land. Now, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring a new frontier: the ground beneath our feet. Taking their cues from plants and animals that have evolved to navigate…
In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinics and patients alike began cancelling all non-urgent appointments and procedures in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. A boom in telemedicine was borne out of necessity as healthcare workers, administrators, and scientists creatively advanced technologies to fill a void in care. During…
For the past six years, multidisciplinary researchers from across the world have been probing northern Minnesota peat bogs in an unprecedented, long-range study of climate change supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. They set out to answer complex questions, including one big one – will future warming somehow release 10,000 years of…
