Ashok Goel

Ashok Goel

Ashok Goel

Professor; School of Interactive Computing
Director| Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing; College of Computing
Co-Director; Center for Biologically Inspired Design
Fellow; Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

Ashok Goel is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. At Georgia Tech, he is also the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Human-Centered Computing, a Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design, and a Fellow of Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. For more than thirty years, Ashok has conducted research into artificial intelligence, cognitive science and human-centered computing, with a focus on computational design, modeling and creativity. His recent work has explored design thinking, analogical thinking and systems thinking in biological inspired design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRDQ4hr9i8), and his research is now developing virtual research assistants for modeling biological systems. Ashok teaches a popular course on knowledge-based AI as part of Georgia Tech's program on Online Masters of Science in Computer Science. He has pioneered the development of virtual teaching assistants, such as Jill Watson, for answering questions in online discussion forums (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbCguICyfTA). Chronicle of Higher Education recently called virtual assistants exemplified by Jill Watson as one of the most transformative educational technologies in the digital era. Ashok is the Editor-in-Chief of AAAI's AI Magazine.

ashok.goel@cc.gatech.edu

Office Location:
GVU/TSRB

Design & Intelligence Laboratory

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Research Focus Areas:
  • Human Augmentation
  • Platforms and Services for Socio-Technical Frontier
  • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
  • Additional Research:

    Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Computational Design; Computational Creativity; Educational Technology; Design Science; Learning Science and Technology; Human-Centered Computing


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    King Jordan

    King Jordan

    King Jordan

    Professor
    Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program

    King Jordan is Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a computational laboratory and his group works on a wide variety of research and development projects related to: (1) human clinical & population genomics, (2) computational genomics for public health, and (3) computational approaches to functional genomics. He is particularly interested in the relationship between human genetic ancestry and health. His lab is also actively engaged in capacity building efforts in genomics and bioinformatics in Latin America. 

    king.jordan@biology.gatech.edu

    404-385-2224

    Office Location:
    EBB 2109

    Website

  • http://biosciences.gatech.edu/people/king-jordan
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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Genomics
  • Public Health
  • Additional Research:
    Epigenetics ; Computational genomics for public health. We are broadly interested in the relationship between genome sequence variation and health outcomes. We study this relationship through two main lines of investigation - human and microbial.Human:we study how genetic ancestry and population structure impact disease prevalence and drug response. Our human genomics research is focused primarily on complex common disease and aims to characterize the genetic architecture of health disparities, in pursuit of their elimination.Microbial:we develop and apply genome-enabled approaches to molecular typing and functional profiling of microbial pathogens that cause infectious disease. The goal of our microbial genomics research is to empower public health agencies to more effectively monitor and counter infectious disease agents.

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    Martha Grover

    Martha Grover

    Martha Grover

    Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    James Harris Faculty Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Member, NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution

    Grover’s research activities in process systems engineering focus on understanding macromolecular organization and the emergence of biological function. Discrete atoms and molecules interact to form macromolecules and even larger mesoscale assemblies, ultimately yielding macroscopic structures and properties. A quantitative relationship between the nanoscale discrete interactions and the macroscale properties is required to design, optimize, and control such systems; yet in many applications, predictive models do not exist or are computationally intractable.

    The Grover group is dedicated to the development of tractable and practical approaches for the engineering of macroscale behavior via explicit consideration of molecular and atomic scale interactions. We focus on applications involving the kinetics of self-assembly, specifically those in which methods from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics do not provide closed form solutions. General approaches employed include stochastic modeling, model reduction, machine learning, experimental design, robust parameter design, and estimation.

    martha.grover@chbe.gatech.edu

    404.894.2878

    Office Location:
    ES&T 1228

    Grover Group

  • ChBE Profile Page
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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Electronic Materials
  • Molecular Evolution
  • Nuclear
  • Additional Research:
    Colloids; Crystallization; Organic and Inorganic Photonics and Electronics; Polymers; Discrete atoms and molecules interact to form macromolecules and even larger mesoscale assemblies, ultIMaTely yielding macroscopic structures and properties. A quantitative relationship between the nanoscale discrete interactions and the macroscale properties is required to design, optimize, and control such systems; yet in many applications, predictive models do not exist or are computationally intractable. The Grover group is dedicated to the development of tractable and practical approaches for the engineering of macroscale behavior via explicit consideration of molecular and atomic scale interactions. We focus on applications involving the kinetics of self-assembly, specific those in which methods from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics do not provide closed form solutions. General approaches employed include stochastic modeling, model reduction, machine learning, experimental design, robust parameter design, estIMaTion, and optimal control, monitoring and control for nuclear waste processing and polymer organic electronics

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    Seth Hutchinson

    Seth Hutchinson

    Seth Hutchinson

    Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics

    I am currently Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in the School of Interactive Computing, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am also Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    seth@gatech.edu

    404-385-7583

    Office Location:
    Klaus Advanced Computing Building | Suite 1322

    Personal Page

  • College of Computing Profile
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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Autonomy
  • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
  • Additional Research:

    Robots never know exactly where they are, what they see, or what they're doing. They live in dynamic environments, and must coexist with other, sometimes adversarial agents. Robots are nonlinear systems that can be underactuated, redundant, or constrained, giving rise to complicated problems in automatic control. Many of even the most fundamental computational problems in robotics are provably hard. Over the years, these are the issues that have driven my group's research in robotics. Topics of our research include visual servo control, planning with uncertainty, pursuit-evasion games, as well as mainstream problems from path planning and computer vision.


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    Timothy Charles Lieuwen

    Timothy Charles Lieuwen

    Timothy Charles Lieuwen

    Interim Executive Vice President for Research
    Regents' Professor

    Tim Lieuwen is the interim executive vice president for Research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this role, he oversees the Institute’s $1.37 billion portfolio of research, economic development, and sponsored activities. This includes leadership of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Enterprise Innovation Institute, nine interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs), and related research administrative support units.

    In his 25-plus years at Georgia Tech, Lieuwen earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering (1996 and 1999, respectively) and has held multiple leadership positions. He has been the executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) since 2012 and began serving as the interim chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering in 2023.

    Lieuwen has received numerous honors and recognition for his work in clean energy systems and policy, national security, and regional economic development. Additionally, he has been awarded the titles of Regents’ Professor and the David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair in AE. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

    tim.lieuwen@aerospace.gatech.edu

    (404) 894-3041

    Office Location:
    Guggenheim Building, Room 363

    Website

    Research Focus Areas:
  • Aerospace
  • Conventional Energy
  • Hydrogen Equity
  • Hydrogen Leadership
  • Hydrogen Utilization
  • Additional Research:

    Acoustics; Fluid Mechanics; Combustion; Signal Processing


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    Micah Ziegler

    Micah Ziegler

    Micah Ziegler

    Assistant Professor

    Dr. Micah S. Ziegler is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the School of Public Policy.

    Dr. Ziegler evaluates sustainable energy and chemical technologies, their impact, and their potential. His research helps to shape robust strategies to accelerate the improvement and deployment of technologies that can enable a global transition to sustainable and equitable energy systems. His approach relies on collecting and curating large empirical datasets from multiple sources and building data-informed models. His work informs research and development, public policy, and financial investment.

    Dr. Ziegler conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, he evaluated established and emerging energy technologies, particularly energy storage. To determine how to accelerate the improvement of energy storage technologies, he examined how rapidly and why they have changed over time. He also studied how energy storage could be used to integrate solar and wind resources into a reliable energy system.

    Dr. Ziegler earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemistry, summa cum laude, from Yale University. In graduate school, he primarily investigated dicopper complexes in order to facilitate the use of earth-abundant, first-row transition metals in small molecule transformations and catalysis. Before graduate school, he worked in the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI). At WRI, he explored how to improve mutual trust and confidence among parties developing international climate change policy and researched carbon dioxide capture and storage, electricity transmission, and international energy technology policy. Dr. Ziegler was also a Luce Scholar assigned to the Business Environment Council in Hong Kong, where he helped advise businesses on measuring and managing their environmental sustainability.

    Dr. Ziegler is a member of AIChE and ACS, and serves on the steering committee of Macro-Energy Systems. His research findings have been highlighted in media, including The New York Times, Nature, The Economist, National Geographic, BBC Newshour, NPR’s Marketplace, and ABC News.

    micah.ziegler@gatech.edu

    404.894.5991

    Office Location:
    ES&T 2228

    Personal Website

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Energy
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Sustainable Engineering
  • Additional Research:
    Complex SystemsEnergy and Sustainability

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    Jian Luo

    Jian Luo

    Jian Luo

    Professor
    BBISS Lead: Coastal Urban Flooding

    Dr. Jian Luo completed his undergraduate and M.S. studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he received a B.Sc.(Eng.) and a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in 2006 in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, California. The research Dr. Luo is conducting involves field, theoretical, and computational investigations of flow and reactive transport in subsurface; development and application of geostatistical methods for the spatial and temporal analysis of hydrogeologic and biochemistry data; development of computational algorithms and programs to simulate subsurface flow and reactive transport, and to assess the associated uncertainty; inverse modeling to estimate flow and transport parameters under uncertainty; and use of such computational methods and models to assess subsurface contamination, and to aid the optimal design of groundwater remediation operations.

    jian.luo@ce.gatech.edu

    (404) 385-6390

    Departmental Bio

  • BBISS Initiative Lead Project - Coastal Urban Flooding in a Changing Climate
  • Research Focus Areas:
  • Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution
  • Additional Research:
    Geosystems; Water

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    Morris Cohen

    Morris Cohen

    Morris Cohen

    Associate Professor

    Morris Cohen received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2010, respectively, and served as a research scientist until August 2013. From September 2012 until August 2013, Dr. Cohen was appointed as AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation. 

    In Fall 2013, he joined the faculty in the School of ECE. He is a winner of the NSF CAREER Award in 2017, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2015, and was chosen for the Santimay Basu Prize in 2014, an award given once per 3 years to an under-35 scientist by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). 

    Dr. Cohen is interested in the natural electricity of the Earth, including lightning, the electrically charged upper atmosphere, and the radiation-filled space environment. He uses radio waves at low frequencies measured all around the world to understand them, and develops resulting practical applications. His group also works on novel techniques to generate low frequency waves with nonconventional electrically-short antennas. He is an author of more than 60 journal publications. He employs a “flipped classroom” model in some of his courses to make the experience more active and engaging. 

    He enjoys hiking, cooking, and traveling the world for work and play with his family.

    mcohen@gatech.edu

    (404) 894-8415

    Office Location:
    VL W511

    Website

    Research Focus Areas:
  • Energy Utilization and Conservation
  • Additional Research:
    Electronics

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    Suresh Menon

    Suresh Menon

    Suresh Menon

    Professor

    Professor Menon joined Flow Industries, Kent, Washington, as a research scientist, and in 1988, became a senior scientist and program manager for the computational fluid dynamics group in Quest Integrated, Inc. (formerly called Flow Research, Inc.). At Quest, Menon led research teams in various research projects such as the active control of combustion instability in ramjet engines, supersonic mixing studies, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft fluid dynamics, and hypersonic reentry problems. In 1992, he joined Georgia Institute of Technology as an associate professor and became a professor in 1997. He is currently the Hightower Professor of Engineering in Georgia Tech. Professor Menon is a world renowned expert in large-eddy simulation of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows and has developed unique simulation capabilities to study pollutant formation, ozone depletion in high-altitude aircraft jet plumes and combustion in gas turbine and ramjet engines. He has been (and is currently) a principal investigator for a wide range of research projects funded by NASA, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. His work has been (and is also) supported by many industries including General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Solar Turbines, Boeing, Safran (France), Hyundai (S. Korea), JAXA (Japan), IHI (Japan) and Rocketdyne-Aerojet. He has published and/or presented over 395 papers. Professor Menon is a Fellow of AAAS, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Combustion Institute and the Sigma Xi. He is a peer reviewer for numerous archival journals, NASA, NSF, DoD and DOE research proposals.

    suresh.menon@aerospace.gatech.edu

    (404) 894-9126

    Website

    Research Focus Areas:
  • Energy Generation, Storage, and Distribution
  • Additional Research:
    Combustion

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    Subhro Guhathakurta

    Subhro Guhathakurta

    Subhro Guhathakurta

    Chair, School of City & Regional Planning
    Director, Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization
    Professor

    subhro.guha@design.gatech.edu

    (404) 894-2351

    Website

    Research Focus Areas:
  • Policy & Economics
  • Additional Research:
    City and Regional Planning; Cyber/ Information Technology; Strategic Planning; Visualizations

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