Alex Endert

Alex Endert

Alex Endert

Assistant Professor

Alex Endert is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He directs the Visual Analytics Lab, where he works with his students to design and study how interactive visual tools help people make sense of data and AI. His lab often tests these advances in domains, including intelligence analysis, cyber security, decision-making, manufacturing safety, and others. His lab receives generous support from sponsors, including NSF, DOD, DHS, DARPA, DOE, and industry. In 2018, he received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on visual analytics by demonstration. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 2012. In 2013, his work on Semantic Interaction was awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Pioneers Group Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the Virginia Tech Computer Science Best Dissertation Award.

endert@gatech.edu

404-385-4477

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University, College, and School/Department
Research Focus Areas:
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
  • Additional Research:

    Visual Analytics


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    Munmun De Choudhury

    Munmun De Choudhury

    Munmun De Choudhury

    Assistant Professor

    Munmun De Choudhury is currently an associate professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech. Munmun’s research interests are in computational social science, with a focus on reasoning about personal and societal well-being from social digital footprints.

    mchoudhu@cc.gatech.edu

    404-385-8603

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Lifelong Health and Well-Being
  • Machine Learning
  • Platforms and Services for Socio-Technical Frontier
  • Additional Research:

    Social Media; Social Computing; Computational Social Science; Mental Health; Natural Language


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    Agata Rozga

    Agata Rozga

    Agata Rozga

    Research Scientist II

    Agata Rozga is a psychologist with expertise and 13 years of experience forging a new interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of computing and psychology called computational behavioral science. The research vision is to transform the measurement, analysis, and understanding of health-related behaviors by leveraging advances in sensing, wearable and mobile technologies, and computational analysis methods. The ultimate goal is to develop tools that can lead to better detection, monitoring, and treatment of a variety of chronic health conditions.

    One key area Dr. Rozga’s research has focused on is understanding early trajectories and predictors of social communication in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In her most recent work, she is applying novel computational methods to longitudinal measures of communication behavior to understand different pathways to language in autism, including failure to acquire spoken language by age 5. Dr. Rozga’s research has recently expanded to include a focus on Mild Cognitive Impairment, with an eye toward developing novel AI-based systems to help monitor cognitive and functional decline in everyday activities, to deliver appropriate in-situ supports, and to support care networks.

    Dr. Rozga serves as the Director of Translational Research for the Georgia Tech-led NSF National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING), and as the Programs and Research Director for the Technology Core of the Cognitive Empowerment Program at the Emory Brain-Health Center. She was previously the Head of Product for Diligent Robotics, https://www.diligentrobots.com/.

    agata@gatech.edu

    404-894-2304

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Lifelong Health and Well-Being
  • Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier
  • Additional Research:
    Computational Behavioral Science; Applications of Machine Learning to Developmental Health

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    Mary Ann Weitnauer

    Mary Ann Weitnauer

    Mary Ann Weitnauer

    Associate Chair-Academic; Senior Associate Chair

    mary.ann.weitnauer@ece.gatech.edu

    404-894-9482

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Platforms and Services for Socio-Technical Frontier
  • Additional Research:
    Wireless Communication; Cooperative Diversity; Distributed MIMO; MAC and Routing for Wireless Multi-Hop Networks; Millimeter Wave Communications

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    Alain Louchez

    Alain Louchez

    Alain Louchez

    Principal Research Associate

    Alain Louchez is the Managing Director of the Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT pronounced sedate) in charge of directing the Internet of Things (IoT)-related development efforts across the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).  He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and the Georgia Tech Lorraine (European campus) Advisory Board.

    Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he held various executive positions including Vice President for BellSouth (now AT&T) Europe; Executive Director of BellSouth France, and General Manager of GTE/Verizon Media Ventures’ wireless video operations in Hawaii. Most recently, he was Vice President of Strategic Management at Numerex, a company focused on machine-to-machine communications (M2M). He was instrumental in the development of the M2M Standardization Task Force at the Global Standards Collaboration.

    Alain served on the board of directors of France Telecom Mobiles Data (France Telecom’s wireless data subsidiary); Cofira (Videndi’s founding parent of SFR, France’s second largest telecommunications operator); Com-Dev (a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations group in charge of cable TV), SINEDI/Com-Dev Images (a holding company dedicated to investments in some French thematic TV channels such as Canal J, Planète, CinéCinéma, etc.) and Datech (BellSouth’s French direct marketing subsidiary).

    alain.louchez@gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Platforms and Services for Socio-Technical Frontier
  • Additional Research:
    Internet of Things

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    Peter Swire

    Peter Swire

    Peter Swire

    Associate Director, Policy

    Peter Swire, J.D., is Associate Director of Policy for the Institute for Information Security & Privacy. Swire has been a privacy and cyberlaw scholar, government leader, and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990's. In 2013, he became the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia institute of Technology. Swire teaches in the Scheller College of Business, with appointments by courtesy with the College of Computing and School of Public Policy. He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP. Swire served as one of five members of President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. Prior to that, he was co-chair of the global Do Not Track process for the World Wide Web Consortium. He is a senior fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and a policy fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Under President Clinton, Swire was the chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget -- the only person to date to have U.S. government-wide responsibility for privacy policy. In that role, his activities included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule, chairing a White House task force on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age, and helping negotiate the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows.Under President Obama, he was special assistant to the President for economic policy. Swire is author of five books and numerous scholarly papers. He has testified often before the Congress, and been quoted regularly in the press. He has served on privacy and security advisory boards for companies including Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, as well as a number of start-ups. Swire graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

    peter.swire@scheller.gatech.edu

    404-385-3279

    Office Location:
    Scheller 4163

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Cybersecurity Public Policy
  • Additional Research:
    Data Security & Privacy

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    Irfan Essa

    Irfan Essa

    Irfan Essa

    Senior Associate Dean; College of Computing
    Professor; School of Interactive Computing

    Irfan Essa is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing (CoC), at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Graphics, and Social Computing, with potential impact on Content Creation, Analysis and Production (e.g., Computational Photography & Video, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Behavioral/Social Sciences, and Computational Journalism research.He has published over 150 scholarly articles in leading journals and conference venues on these topics and several of his papers have also won best paper awards. He has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and was elected an IEEE Fellow. He has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and Google Research and also was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He joined Georgia Tech in 1996 after his earning his Master's (1990), Ph.D. (1994), and holding a research faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab (1988-1996).

    irfan@cc.gatech.edu

    404.894.6856

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Robotics
  • Additional Research:

    Healthcare Security; Machine Learning; Mobile & Wireless Communications; Computer Vision and Robotics; Computer Graphics and Animation; Computational Photography and Video; Intelligent and Aware Environments; Digital Special Effects; Computational Journalism; Social Computing


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    Sudheer Chava

    Sudheer Chava

    Sudheer Chava

    Alton M. Costley Chair and Professor of Finance
    Associate Director - Risk Management, Institute for Information Security & Privacy

    Sudheer Chava, Ph.D, is an associate director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy for the area of risk management, and professor of finance at Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as finance area coordinator at Scheller and as the director of the nationally top 10 ranked Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) program at Georgia Tech (a joint program by the School of Mathematics, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Scheller).  Dr. Chava has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate, masters, MBA and Ph.D. levels, including derivatives, risk management, valuation, credit risk, financial technology ("fintech"), and management of financial institutions. He also has taught both theoretical and empirical finance doctoral courses and is a faculty advisor to multiple doctoral students. Dr. Chava's main research interests are risk management, credit risk and financial institutions. He has extensively published on these topics in the leading finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. His research won a Ross Award for the best paper published in Finance Research Letters in 2008, was a finalist for the Brattle Prize for the best paper published in Journal of Finance in 2008, and was nominated for the Goldman Sachs Award for the best paper for published in Review of Finance during 2004.  Dr. Chava is the recipient of multiple external research grants such as FDIC-CFR Fellowship, Morgan Stanley Research grant, Financial Service Exchange Research grant, Q-group Research Award (2010, 2012) and GARP Research Award. He has presented his research at finance conferences such as AFA, WFA, EFA, Federal Reserve Banks and at many universities in the United States and abroad. Chava received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. Prior to that he earned an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering, and worked as a fixed-income analyst at a leading investment bank in India. In 2014, he was awarded the Linda and Lloyd L. Byars Award for faculty research excellence at Georgia Tech and he has also received multiple research awards and fellowships at Texas A&M University.

    sudheer.chava@scheller.gatech.edu

    404.894.4371

    Office Location:
    Scheller 4125

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Risk Management
  • Additional Research:
    IT Economics;

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    Xiaoming Huo

     Xiaoming Huo

    Xiaoming Huo

    Associate Director for Research, IDEaS
    Professor
    Executive Director, TRIAD (Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science)
    BBISS Co-lead: Microclimate Monitoring and Prediction

    Xiaoming Huo is an A. Russell Chandler III Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Huo's research interests include statistical theory, statistical computing, and issues related to data analytics. He has made numerous contributions on topics such as sparse representation, wavelets, and statistical problems in detectability. His papers appeared in top journals, and some of them are highly cited. He is a senior member of IEEE since May 2004. 

    xiaoming.huo@isye.gatech.edu

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  • BBISS Initiative Lead Project -Microclimate Monitoring and Predication at Georg…
  • Research Focus Areas:
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Data

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