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School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) resident painter Mark Leibert for years has turned to algorithms and computational methods to help inspire and refine his work.

Leibert and collaborators from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have gone even further, recruiting a team of student researchers in the Art & AI Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) to explore the artistic implications of AI and the technological implications of art. In fact, they were well ahead of the recent public buzz over artificial intelligence tools, having launched four years ago.

Leibert is now working with Ethan Trewhitt, another GTRI researcher, who helps students dig deeper into the sometimes mystifying ways in which AI and artistic intent interact.

Workforce diversity in science and technology is widely seen as necessary for continued innovation. For Georgia Tech, striving toward inclusivity starts with a simple but crucial goal: building deep, lasting research partnerships.

Research Next, a planning initiative for Georgia Tech’s research enterprise, was launched by Executive Vice President for Research Chaouki T. Abdallah in 2020 and co-chaired by Tim Lieuwen and Mark Whorton. As part of Phase 3, project teams worked throughout the past year to implement its goals.

A research team with members from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, and the Space Systems Design Laboratory has developed a concept using a net to capture and de-orbit large debris.

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect pathogens. $2.1 million of the grant will go to Georgia Tech to focus on automating the processing lines that turn chickens into meat.

Severe Weather Team 2 knows every minute counts when it comes to keeping your family safe during severe weather events. Severe Weather Team 2 Chief Meteorologist Brad Nitz spoke with researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute about a project that could help predict a tornado before it happens.

Norfolk Southern said it is also partnering with the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta to develop more advanced safety inspection technology by using "machine vision and algorithms powered by artificial intelligence to identify defects and needed repairs much more effectively than traditional human inspection."

For two straight years, Cabrera said, Georgia Tech is the top spender for research among universities without a medical school. A portion of that research takes place at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Cabrera noted, which focuses on applied research, or research focused on solving real-world problems.

The Georgia Tech School of Electrical & Computer Engineering recently featured William H. Robinson, GTRI Deputy Director for Research for Information and Cyber Sciences Directorate (ICSD) and ECE Professor.

For the second consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology has garnered a spot among the 20 universities in the U.S. with the highest amount of research and development (R&D) spending. Georgia Tech’s R&D spending of $1.114 billion in fiscal year 2021 reflects a 6.2% increase from the 2020 figure for its entire research enterprise, which includes the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). 

Keeping a watchful eye on severe weather across north Georgia just got a little easier. That’s according to Dr. Marshall Shepherd and John Trostel, two of the top researchers at the University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology. The two helped secure funding to purchase a new weather radar system.

Salvus continues sponsored research with Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the original developers of the interferometric detection technology, in the areas of health care, environmental sciences, food safety and agriculture. 

Tom Crowley has turned his love of astronomy into consulting work with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Aloha Telescope outreach program. In addition to the live presentations, the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Direct to Discovery outreach program is creating a Zoom option so that multiple schools can participate at the same time.

The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, NASA and DuPont de Nemours, Inc., has a brand-new spacecraft materials experiment flying on the International Space Station.

The Angry Kitten was developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute to simulate the electronic warfare devices of other country’s aircraft, the kind that the Air Force might encounter in the sky.

Now, scientists led by Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, have described the strongest gigantic jet ever seen, which sprang up from cloudtop in Oklahoma and darted 50 miles above Earth’s surface, where it delivered the largest charge transfer to space on record. 

GTRI scientist Levi Boggs made a multi-organization research team to learn more about the historical lightning flashes after discovering that the data was also accessible to devices on satellites from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

A huge lightning bolt which rose 50 miles into space above a thunderstorm has offered new insights into mysterious ‘gigantic jets’, which carry huge amounts of electrical charge. Corresponding author Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) said, "We were able to map this gigantic jet in three dimensions with really high-quality data.

In the peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers created a three-dimensional map of the Oklahoma jet, according to corresponding author Levi Boggs, a scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

The Air Force believes the electronic warfare system — which was built about a decade ago by Georgia Tech Research Institute to simulate enemy threats, but was so capable that the Air Force is considering turning into an operational pod that can be used to jam and electronically attack adversaries — could “dramatically shape” the future of electronic warfare, the service said in an Aug. 3 news release.

A study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances sheds light on the structure and cause of gigantic jets. The investigation was inspired when Levi Boggs, a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and one of the paper’s lead authors, learned about a photograph of the Oklahoma jet by a citizen scientist.