Glen Chou

Glen Chou

Glen Chou

Assistant Professor

Glen Chou joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Cybersecurity & Privacy and the School of Aerospace Engineering in November 2024. He directs the Trustworthy Robotics Lab, which designs principled algorithms that can enable general-purpose robots and autonomous systems to operate capably, safely, and securely, while remaining resilient to real-world failures and uncertainty. To achieve this, his research leverages control theory and machine learning, while connecting to optimization, computer vision, formal methods, planning, human-robot interaction, and statistics. Glen is interested in broad applications of autonomy, including robotic manipulation, vision-based navigation, aerospace, and large-scale cyber-physical systems more generally.

Glen is from Northern California. He holds dual B.S. degrees in EECS and ME from UC Berkeley, as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Glen was a postdoc at MIT CSAIL.

chou@gatech.edu

Office Location:
CODA E0962B

Trustworthy Robotics Lab

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    Additional Research:
    • Control theory 
    • Formal methods
    • Human Robot Interaction
    • Machine learning
    • Optimization
    • Perception-based control

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    Sarah H.Q. Li

    Sarah H.Q. Li - Assistant Professor; Aerospace Engineering

    Sarah H.Q. Li

    Assistant Professor

    Sarah Li will join the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering in January 2025. Her research advances multi-agent models and algorithms to overcome challenges facing future air and space mobility systems. Her research lies at the intersection of game theory, stochastic control, and optimization to enable optimal and safe decision-making of autonomous systems in interactive settings. Sarah earned her Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington and her B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at ETH Zurich in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. She was a 2020 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellow and a 2022 University of Washington Condit Graduate Fellow. During her Ph.D., she interned with Microsoft Research to develop supply chain games and Loon to develop multi-disciplinary design optimization for stratospheric balloons.

    sarahli@gatech.edu

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    Additional Research:
    • Cyber-physical Systems
    • Game theory
    • Multi-agent Interactions

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    Krishan Ahuja

    Krishan Ahuja

    Krishan Ahuja

    Regents' Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

    A 2019 inductee to the National Academy of Engineering, Ahuja has more than 35 years of research and development experience in aircraft noise research, acoustics facilities design, flow control, state-of-the-art instrumentation, and advanced signal processing. During his employment of 13 years at Lockheed Georgia Company in various capacities, including the head of the Aeroacoustics Research and acting manager of the Advanced Flight Sciences Department, he was the principal investigator and/or the program manager on several successfully completed projects funded by Lockheed, the U. S. Air Force and NASA. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology as a Senior Faculty Research Leader in March 1989. He recently served in the capacity of the director of Georgia Tech Ireland. Ahuja is a former associate editor of the AIAA Journal and also a former Chairman of the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee. Ahuja has authored or co-authored over 180 technical articles or reports on a range of topics including acoustic shielding, fan noise, active flow control, flow/acoustic interactions, jet noise, cavity noise, automobile noise, sonic boom research, psychoacoustics, high-temperature fiber optics strain gauges, acoustic transducers, active noise control, tilt rotor noise, source separation, acoustic fatigue, duct acoustics, computational aeroacoustics, innovative flow visualization techniques, tornado signatures, rapid charging of batteries and others. The international media, including CNN and Beyond 2000, has covered his work.

    krishan.ahuja@gtri.gatech.edu

    404.385.1140

    Office Location:
    Guggenheim 362

    Research Focus Areas:
  • Aerospace
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Propulsion; Aerodynamics; Acoustics and Dynamics

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    Wassim M. Haddad

    Wassim M.  Haddad

    Wassim M. Haddad

    Professor of Aerospace Engineering; David S. Lewis Professor of Dynamical Systems and Control
    Wassim M. Haddad received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Florida Tech in 1983, 1984, and 1987. Since 1994, he has been with the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he holds the rank of professor, the David Lewis Chair in Dynamical Systems and Control, and Chair of the Flight Mechanics and Control Discipline. He also holds a joint professor appointment with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is the co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief scientific advisor of Autonomous Healthcare, where from August 2012 to June 2015 he served as the president and chief executive officer. Dr. Haddad has made numerous contributions to the development of nonlinear control theory and its application to aerospace, electrical, and biomedical engineering. His transdisciplinary research in systems and control is documented in over 630 archival journal and conference publications, and seven books in the areas of science, mathematics, medicine, and engineering. Dr. Haddad is an National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow; a member of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences; an IEEE Fellow; and the recipient of the 2014 AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award.

    wm.haddad@aerospace.gatech.edu

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Additional Research:
    Defense / National Security; Healthcare Security; Large-Scale or Distributed Systems

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    Christopher E. Carr

    Christopher E. Carr

    Christopher E. Carr

    Assistant Professor
    School of Aerospace Engineering
    School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

    Christopher E. Carr is an engineer/scientist with training in aero/astro, electrical engineering, medical physics, and molecular biology. At Georgia Tech he is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a secondary appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a member of the Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL) and runs the Planetary eXploration Lab (PXL). He serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) or Science PI for several life detection instrument and/or astrobiology/space biology projects, and is broadly interested in searching for and expanding the presence of life beyond Earth while enabling a sustainable human future. He previously served as a Research Scientist at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Molecular Biology. He serves as a Scott M. Johnson Fellow in the U.S. Japan Leadership Program.

    cecarr@gatech.edu

    617-216-5012

    Office Location:
    ESM 107B

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Aerospace
  • Bioengineering
  • Bioinformatics
  • Diagnostics
  • Health & Life Sciences
  • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
  • Miniaturization & Integration
  • Molecular Evolution
  • Separation Technologies

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    Karen M. Feigh

    Karen M. Feigh

    Karen M. Feigh

    Professor & Associate Chair for Research; School of Aerospace Engineering
    Director; Georgia Tech Cognitive Engineering Center

    Karen M. Feigh is a Professor at Georgia Tech's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the School of Interactive Computing. As the director of the Georgia Tech Cognitive Engineering Center, she leads a research and education program focused on the computational cognitive modeling and design of cognitive work support systems and technologies to improve the performance of socio-technical systems. She is responsible for undergraduate and graduate level instruction in the areas of flight dynamics, human reliability analysis methods, human factors, human-automation interaction and cognitive engineering. Feigh has over 14 years of relevant research and design experience in fast-time air traffic simulation, ethnographic studies, airline operation control centers, synthetic vision systems for helicopters, expert systems for air traffic control towers, human extra-vehicular activities in space, and the impact of context on undersea warfighters. Recently her work has focused on human-autonomy teaming and the human experience of machine learning across a number of domains.

    Feigh has served as both Co-PI and PI on a number of FAA, NIA, ONR, NSF and NASA sponsored projects. As part of her research, Feigh has published 35 scholarly papers in the field of Cognitive Engineering with primary emphasis on the aviation industry. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She previously served as the Chair to the Human Factor and Ergonomics Society’s Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group, and on the National Research Council’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB).

    karen.feigh@gatech.edu

    404.385.7686

    Office Location:
    MK 321-3

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Collaborative Robotics
  • Additional Research:

    Cognitive engineering; human factors; adaptive automation


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    Brian Gunter

    Brian Gunter

    Brian Gunter

    Associate Professor

    Dr. Gunter is an Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rice University, and later his M.S. and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in orbital mechanics. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Gunter was on the faculty of the Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft) in the Netherlands, as a member of the Physical and Space Geodesy section. His research activities involve various aspects of spacecraft missions and their applications, such as investigations into current and future laser altimetry missions, monitoring changes in the polar ice sheets using satellite data, applications of satellite constellations/formations, and topics surrounding kinematic orbit determination. He has been responsible for both undergraduate and graduate courses on topics such as satellite orbit determination, Earth and planetary observation, scientific applications of GPS, and space systems design. He is currently a member of the AIAA Astrodynamics Technical Committee, and also serves as the Geodesy chair for the Fall AGU Meeting Program Committee. He has received a NASA group achievement award for his work on the GRACE mission, and he is also a former recipient of a NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).

    brian.gunter@ae.gatech.edu

    404.385.2345

    Office Location:
    ESM 205

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Autonomy
  • Additional Research:

    satellite geodesy; space systems; orbital mechanics; Earth and planetary observation; remote sensing


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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

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

    Acoustics; Fluid Mechanics; Combustion; Signal Processing


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