Douglas Hope is a Senior Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute who specializes in fundamental research on problems associated with Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Hope has expertise in imaging, signal detection, inverse problems, and information theory. In addition to his work in SDA, he collaborates with astronomers on interdisciplinary projects to detect and characterize planets around other stars.

In addition to research, Hope has experience teaching and mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. He takes the honor of passing forward knowledge to the next generation as a serious responsibility. He has shown commitment to outreach and advancement in education, research, and scholarship. Hope firmly believes in giving first-generation and underrepresented scholars the opportunity to contribute toward solutions to address current and future space-related challenges.

In addition to his research and teaching here at GTRI, he is actively involved in numerous projects and collaborations within the U.S. and internationally.

Principal Research Associate with Georgia Tech Research Institute, specializing in defense applications such as command and control, battle management, national-to-tactical integration, and space situational awareness. Prior to this, career Air Force officer with extensive experience in acquisitions and tactical aviation.

Abdel-Khalik joined the Georgia Tech faculty as the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in 1987. He was appointed to his current position as the Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor in 1993. He served as Associate Director of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering between 1990 and 1992 and as the Georgia Tech Secretary of the Faculty between 2002 and 2006. He served as a member of the USNRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) between 2006 and 2012, including two years as Chairman (2009-2011).  Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, Abdel-Khalik served as a faculty member in the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Department (1976-1987) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Engineering (1973-1975) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abdel-Khalik also served as a Senior Engineer at Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division (1975); as a Guest Research Scientist at the Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe, Germany (1979); and as an Invited Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (1982).

Abdel-Khalik currently serves as a member of the External Advisory Boards for the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University and the Mechanical Engineering Department of King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Badr University in Cairo, Egypt.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing support for the launch of newly funded research centers and for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.