T. Robert Harris

T. Robert Harris

T. Robert Harris

Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Robert Harris' background is in semiconductors and microelectronics. He serves as research faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory and teach in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research focus is on photonic integrated circuits, heterogeneous integration, electronic warfare, and RF electronics.

robert.harris@gtri.gatech.edu

404.407.8290

Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory

University, College, and School/Department
Research Focus Areas:
  • Optics & Photonics
Additional Research:
Thermoelectric materials, integrated photonics, advanced characterization, compund semiconductors

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Dimitri Mavris

Dimitri Mavris

Dimitri Mavris

Regents' Professor
Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis
Director, Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory

Dimitri Mavris is a Regents’ Professor, Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis, and an S.P. Langley Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) and executive director of the Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering (PMASE). Dr. Mavris received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary areas of research interest include: advanced design methods, aircraft conceptual and preliminary design, air-breathing propulsion design, multi-disciplinary analysis, design and optimization, system of systems, and non-deterministic design theory. Dr. Mavris has actively pursued closer ties between the academic and industrial communities in order to foster research opportunities and tailor the aerospace engineering curriculum towards meeting the future needs of the US aerospace industry. He has also co-authored with his students in excess of 1,000 publications. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, Dr. Mavris has chaired and served in several Technical and Program Committees for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and served on the AIAA Board of Directors and Institute Development Committee. He is the President of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS). He is the Georgia Tech technical point of contact for the FAA Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels & Environment (ASCENT), the Georgia Tech site director for the FAA Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS), and the principal investigator for the Airbus/Georgia Tech Center for MBSE-enabled Overall Aircraft Design and the Siemens Center of Excellence for Simulation and Digital Twin.

dimitri.mavris@aerospace.gatech.edu

(404) 894-1557

Website

  • http://www.ae.gatech.edu/community/staff/bio/mavris-d
  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Algorithms & Optimizations
    • Delivery & Storage
    • Policy & Economics
    • Use & Conservation
    Additional Research:
    System Design & Optimization

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    Bernard Kippelen

    Bernard Kippelen

    Bernard Kippelen

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics
    Vice Provost for International Initiatives
    Steven A. Denning Chair for Global Engagement

    Bernard Kippelen was born and raised in Alsace, France. He studied at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg where he received a Maitrise in Solid-State Physics in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Nonlinear Optics in 1990. From 1990 to 1997 he was Charge de Recherches at the CNRS, France. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. There, he developed a research and teaching program on polymer optics and plastic electronics. In August 2003, Dr. Kippelen joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology where his research ranges from the investigation of fundamental physical processes (nonlinear optical activity, charge transport, light harvesting and emission), to the design, fabrication and testing of light-weight flexible optoelectronic devices and circuits based on nanostructured organic materials. He currently serves as director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, and as co-president of the Lafayette Institute, a major optoelectronics commercialization initiative that is based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in Metz, France. He currently holds 25 patents and has co-authored over 270 refereed publications and 14 book chapters. His publications have received over 20,000 citations and his h-index is 73 (Google Scholar). He served as chair and co-chair of numerous international conferences on organic optoelectronic materials and devices and as deputy editor of Energy Express. He was the founding editor of Energy Express.

    bernard.kippelen@ece.gatech.edu

    404.385.5163

    Office Location:
    MoSE 4239

    ECE Profile Page

  • Kippelen Group
  • Google Scholar

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Biobased Materials
    • Biochemicals
    • Biorefining
    • Biotechnology
    • Flexible Electronics
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Optics & Photonics
    • Pulp Paper Packaging & Tissue
    • Renewable Energy
    • Sustainable Manufacturing
    Additional Research:
    Photovoltaics; Organic Photonics and Electronics; Integrated Photonics; Flexible Electronics; Optical Materials; Nanocellulose Applications; Films & Coatings; Sustainable Manufacturing; Biomaterials

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    Steven Biegalski

    Steven Biegalski

    Steven Biegalski

    Program Chair, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics

    Steven Biegalski is the Chair of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has three degrees in nuclear engineering from University of Maryland, University of Florida, and University of Illinois, respectively. Early in his career Dr. Biegalski was the Director of Radionuclide Operations at the Center for Monitoring Research. In this position Dr. Biegalski led international efforts to develop and implement radionuclide effluent monitoring technologies. This work supported both US national capabilities and international treaties. Dr. Biegalski was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin for 15 years and held the position of Reactor Director for The University of Texas at Austin TRIGA reactor for over a decade. He has advised 25 Ph.D. students to graduation and holds Professional Engineering licenses in the states of Texas and Virginia.


     

    steven.biegalski@me.gatech.edu

    (404) 894-3718

    Website

    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution
    Additional Research:
    Nuclear

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    Krista Walton

    Krista Walton

    Krista Walton

    Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, College of Engineering

    Krista S. Walton is the Associate Dean for Research & Innovation in the College of Engineering and Professor and Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received her B.S.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Alabama-Huntsville in 2000 and obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2005, working with Prof. M. Douglas LeVan. Prof. Walton completed an ACS PRF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University in 2006 under the direction of Prof. Randall Snurr.

    Her research program focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional porous materials for use in adsorption applications including carbon dioxide capture and air purification. She has published > 80 peer-reviewed articles and presented dozens of plenary lectures and invited seminars. Prof. Walton currently serves as an Associate Editor for the ACS Journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, and is the Director and Lead PI of Georgia Tech’s DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, UNCAGE-ME. Prof. Walton’s accomplishments have been recognized by many prestigious awards including the inaugural International Adsorption Society Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Society (2013) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008).

    krista.walton@chbe.gatech.edu

    404.894.5254

    Office Location:
    Bunger-Henry 421

    Nanomaterials & Adsorption Lab

  • ChBE Profile Page
  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Aerogels & Hydrogels
    • Biochemicals
    • Carbon Capture
    • Catalysis
    • Energy & Water
    • Environmental Processes
    • Materials for Energy
    • Separation Technologies
    Additional Research:
    CO2 Capture; Climate Change Mitigation; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Separation Membranes; Biofuels; Carbon Capture; Catalysis; Separations Technology; Environmental Processes; Energy & Water; Separation Technologies; Aerogels & Hydrogels; Biochemicals

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    Wenke Lee

    Wenke Lee

    Wenke Lee

    Executive Director, Institute for Information Security and Privacy
    Co-Executive Director, SEI
    Professor

    Wenke Lee, Ph.D., is executive director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) and responsible for continuing Georgia Tech's international leadership in cybersecurity research and education. Additionally, he is the John P. Imlay, Jr. Professor of Computer Science in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, where he has taught since 2001. Previously, he served as director of the IISP's predecessor -- the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) research lab -- from 2012 to 2015. Lee is one of the most prolific and influential security researchers in the world. He has published several dozen, oft-cited research papers at top academic conferences, including the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, USENIX Security, IEEE Security & Privacy ("Oakland"), and the Network & Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. His research expertise includes systems and network security, botnet detection and attribution, malware analysis, virtual machine monitoring, mobile systems security, and detection and mitigation of information manipulation on the Internet. Lee regularly leads large research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and private industry. Significant discoveries from his research group have been transferred to industry, and in 2006, doing so enabled Lee to co-found Damballa, Inc., which focused on detection and mitigation of advanced persistent threats. Lee’s awards and honors include the “Internet Defense Prize” awarded by Facebook and USENIX in 2015, an “Outstanding Community Service Award” from the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in 2013, a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship in 2005, an NSF Career Award in 2002, as well as best paper awards in the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Passionate about quality education, Lee serves on the advisory boards of the Faculty of Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the board of trustees at Pace Academy in Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1999.

    wenke@cc.gatech.edu

    404.385.2879

    Website

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Delivery & Storage
    • Machine Learning
    • Network and Security
    • Policy & Economics
    • Vulnerability Analysis
    Additional Research:
    Data Security & Privacy; Encryption; Internet Infrastructure & Operating Systems; Machine Learning; Cyber Technology

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    Ari Glezer

    Ari Glezer

    Ari Glezer

    George W. Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems and Professor
    Chair, Thermal Systems

    Dr. Glezer began at Tech in 1992 as an Associate Professor. He was named to the Woodruff Chair in Thermal Systems in 2002. Prior, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.

    ari.glezer@me.gatech.edu

    404.894.3266

    Office Location:
    Love Building, Room 239

    Website

  • Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory
  • University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Renewable Energy
    Additional Research:
    Wind; Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer; Combustion; and Energy Systems; Fluid mechanics; turbulent shear flows; flow control; diagnostics

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    David S. Sholl

    David S.  Sholl

    David S. Sholl

    Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

    Sholl’s research focuses on materials whose macroscopic dynamic and thermodynamic properties are strongly influenced by their atomic-scale structure. Much of this research involves applying computational techniques such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations and quantum chemistry methods to materials of interest. Although the group's work is centered on computational methods, it involves extensive collaboration with experimental groups and industrial partners.

    david.sholl@chbe.gatech.edu

    404.894.2822

    Office Location:
    ES&T 2214

    ChBE Profile Page

  • Sholl Research Group
  • Google Scholar

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Biobased Materials
    • Biochemicals
    • Biorefining
    • Computational Materials Science
    • Fuels & Chemical Processing
    • Pulp & Paper Manufacturing
    • Sustainable Manufacturing
    Additional Research:
    Metal-Organic Frameworks; Separation Membranes; Separations Technology; Carbon Capture; Hydrogen; SMART Manufacturing; Sustainable Manufacturing; Biochemicals

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    Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar

    Ellen Yi  Chen Mazumdar

    Ellen Mazumdar

    Assistant Professor; School of Mechanical Engineering
    Director; The Sensing Technologies Lab

    Dr. Mazumdar started at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in January of 2019 and currently has a courtesy appointment with the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. She graduated with her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Sandia National Laboratories in the Diagnostic Science and Engineering group. Her research interests include the design of new diagnostic techniques and sensor systems for studying combustion, multiphase flows, hypersonic flows, and energetic materials. Her group utilizes new composite sensing materials, optical diagnostics, magnetostatics, and system identification methods to study these complex physical phenomena.

    ychen3161@gatech.edu

    404.894.3242

    Office Location:
    Love 229

    Sensing Technologies Laboratory Website

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Autonomy
    • Combustion
    • Energy Storage
    • Thermal Systems
    Additional Research:
    new sensor systems diagnostic techniques; robotic; biomedical; hypersonics

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