Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy
Ph.D., Professor, Associate Chair of Global Engineering Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Department: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Office: KACB 2332 Phone: 404.385.3754 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/391/overview
Biography
Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy is Professor and Associate Chair of Global Engineering Leadership & Entrepreneurship at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research, teaching and professional interests are in Infrastructure Asset Management, Transportation Planning, Sustainability Modeling and Policy Development, and Engineering Leadership Development. Amekudzi-Kennedy is co-author of the textbook: Systems Engineering with Economics, Probability, and Statistics (2012), and has authored and co-authored over 100 refereed journal articles, technical reports, and other publications contributing predominantly to advancing infrastructure asset management and sustainability thinking and analysis for sustainable development. She is the Founding Chair of the Committee on Sustainability and the Environment (American Society of Civil Engineers), Founding Co- Director of the Global Engineering Leadership Minor (Georgia Institute of Technology), and has served as a member of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (U.S. National Research Council, 2009-2018) and chaired the 2009, 2014 and 2019 Advisory Boards for the ASCE Georgia Infrastructure Report Card. In 2018, Amekudzi-Kennedy was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and received a Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award from the College of Engineering and a Class of 1940 Course Survey Effectiveness Award from the Institute.
Victor Breedveld
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Department: School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Office: Ford ES&T 1202 Phone: 404.894.4780 Email: [email protected] Web: http://chbe.gatech.edu/people/victor-breedveld
Biography
Victor Breedveld is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. He received his undergraduate engineering degree (ir.) in Applied Physics from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, whe re he continued his studies toward a PhD in Applied Physics. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, supported by a TALENT Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), before joini ng the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2003. Dr. Breedveld’s research program focuses on: 1) the structure and rheology of complex fluids, in particular the development and use of novel experimental techniques to elucidate the microstructural dynamics of these materials; and 2) interactions between fluids and solid substrates, with a special interest in extreme wetting and dewetting of porous materials, and droplet manipulation. He received an NSF-CAREER award in 2006 and has won several teaching awards at Georgia Tech.
Laura Cadonati
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Physics Office: Boggs 1-65 Phone: 404.385.3980 Email: [email protected] Web: http://cadonati.gatech.edu/
Biography
Dr. Laura Cadonati is Professor in the School of Physics and the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (CRA) at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include gravitational waves and particle astrophysics, with focus on the detection, characterization and astrophysical interpretation of short-duration gravitational wave signals that are produced by cataclysmic astrophysical events such as the collisions of black holes or core collapse supernovae. She is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) since 2002, and a past member of the Borexino solar neutrino experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy. Dr. Cadonati was recently deputy spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, past chair of the LIGO Data Analysis Council, and has as experience in creating and leading an NSF-supported LIGO group as a single investigator. She received her undergraduate degree in Italy, with a Laurea in Physics at the University of Milano, and holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), has chaired the APS Division of Gravity, and was awarded an NSF Career Award and the 2018 Georgia Tech outstanding faculty research author award.
Jaydev Desai
Ph.D., Professor, BME Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Director of the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics
Department: Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: UAW 3112 Phone: 404.385.5381 Email: [email protected] Web: http://robomed.gatech.edu/
Biography
Dr. Jaydev P. Desai is currently a Professor and BME Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. Since joining Georgia Tech in 2016, he has launched the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR) and is its founding Director. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) leading the strategic research area of medical robotics and human augmentation. He completed his undergraduate studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1993. He received his M.A. in Mathematics in 1997, M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 1995 and 1998 respectively, all from the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a recipient of several NIH R01 grants, NSF CAREER award, and was also the lead inventor on the “Outstanding Invention in Physical Science Category” at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was formerly employed. He is also the recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. He has been an invited speaker at the National Academy of Sciences “Distinctive Voices” seminar series and was also invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He has over 175 publications, is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, and Editor-in-Chief of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics. His research interests are primarily in the area of image-guided surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, cancer diagnosis at the micro-scale, and endovascular robotics. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and AIMBE.
Brandon Dixon
Ph.D, Associate Professor
Department: School of Mechanical Engineering Office: IBB Building, Room 2312 Phone: 404.385.3915 Email: [email protected] Web: http://llbb.gatech.edu/
Biography
Dr. Brandon Dixon is an Associate Professor and a Woodruff Faculty Fellow in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where since joining the faculty in 2009 he has established a research program focused on developing engineered approaches to understanding and treating diseases of the lymphatic system. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, he was a post-doc at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 2006 from Texas A&M University and his bachelor’s degree from the same university in 2001. His research is funded by the NIH, NSF, DOD, Gates Foundation, the Georgia Research Alliance, the American Heart Association, and other private foundations. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and the NIH Pathway to Independence Award. Lastly, he is a co-founder of LymphaTech, a start-up company formed with a former PhD student from the lab focused on developing enabling technologies for assessing clinical lymphedema.
Stefan France
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Office: MoSE 2100K Phone: 404.385.1796 Email: [email protected] Web: https://ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu/~sfrance3/Stefan_France.html
Biography
Stefan France is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Professor France earned his B.S. in Chemistry (2000) from Duke University and a M.A. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) in Organic Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. His research group focuses on experimental methodology development, natural product synthesis, and medicinal chemistry. Owing to Prof. France's avid interest in undergraduate research, his research group has mentored and trained more than 50 undergraduates (both Georgia Tech and non-Georgia Tech students). Professor France was the recipient of several awards for his research, mentorship, and teaching including: the 2018 Georgia Tech-Georgia Power Professor of Excellence; the 2015 Georgia Tech Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award; the 2014 Georgia Tech Faculty Award for Academic Outreach; the 2014 Georgia Tech Hesberg Teaching Award; the 2013 Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award; the 2012 National Organization for the Professional Advancement for Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award; and the 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. He heads the Chemistry FAST Program, a NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site, and also serves as Chair of the NSF Chemistry REU Leadership Group.
Manpreet Hora
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ph.D. Coordinator, Operations Management
Department: Scheller College of Business Office: Scheller College of Business Suite 450, Room 4252 Phone: 404.385.3465 Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/hora/index.html
Biography
Dr. Manpreet S. Hora is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology and his research examines operational failures, innovation, service operations, and supply chain management.
Manpreet has published in journals such as Management Science, Journal of Operations Management (JOM) and Production and Operations Management (POM). His research awards include the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) and his work has been covered by NPR, CNN Money and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He serves as a Department Editor for JOM and a Senior Editor for the POM journal. He serves as the Division Chair at AOM. He is the PhD Coordinator for the Operations Management area group.
Manpreet has developed and taught Service Operations and Empirical Methods and has published several teaching cases. His teaching awards include the Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teaching Award, the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence and a nominee for the Regents Teaching Excellence Award. He is also a Provost & Teaching-Learning Fellow at Georgia Tech.
Prior to joining academia, Manpreet worked at Deutsche Bank in various capacities in Singapore, New York, and London. His last appointment involved managing an operations team in foreign exchange derivatives in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his PhD from University of Western Ontario (Canada), MBA from Griffith University (Australia) and is a CFA charterholder from the CFA Institute.
Javier Irizarry
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Building Construction Office: Caddell 224 Phone: 404.385.7609 Email: [email protected] Web: http://conectech.gatech.edu/
Biography
Dr. Javier Irizarry is an Associate Professor in the School of Building Construction at Georgia Tech. He is the Director of the CONECTech Lab which mission is to establish the framework for developing next generation technology enhanced solutions to construction environment problems by incorporating the cognitive processes of the human component of construction operations. Dr. Irizarry’s research interests include technology use for construction safety, Human Computer Interaction issues in mobile applications for Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management (AEC+FM) information access, Situation Awareness driven information system design, interactive visualization systems for AEC+FM education, Building Information Modeling based Augmented Reality applications for AEC+FM, and Unmanned Aerial Systems use in the built environment. His industry experience includes the planning and construction of land, air, and sea transportation infrastructure projects as well as commercial and residential projects. Dr. Irizarry is a Licensed Professional Engineer and holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a Masters in Engineering Management from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.
Julie Ju-Youn Kim
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Director of the Undergraduate Program
Department: School of Architecture
Office: Phone: Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.c2architecturestudio.com/
Biography
Julie Ju-Youn Kim RA AIA is the Associate Chair, Director of the Undergraduate Program, and Associate Professor with tenure in the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also founder and principal of c2architecturestudio, an award-winning architectural practice. c2architecturestudio’s creative efforts have been recognized by noteworthy awards, including an AIA/DC Unbuilt Award, SARA Design Award, and an AIA National Honor Award. Julie has been featured in international journals including SPACE, Korean Architect, and Architectural Record. Her original work has been exhibited at the Kibel Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, District Architecture Center, Detroit Public Library, FLAK Gallery, and the Detroit Artists’ Market.
As an educator and practitioner, Julie is committed to broadening the platform and audience of architecture by building bridges and fostering connections between the academy and practice.
She is the Director of the Flourishing Communities Collaborative, an Academic Lab that endeavors to educate, advocate and offer design solutions to Atlanta and broader Southeast region neighborhoods who are traditionally under-resourced and underserved by the design disciplines.
She is also currently engaged in research for a book (Routledge, 2019) that offers an overview of applied urban and architectural design principles on cities and sites in transition, revealing their potential through new urban landscapes, architectural provocations and the inherently optimistic acts of making and building.
Her previous academic appointments include Associate Professor, Director of the Summer Institute, and Director of the Comprehensive Building Design Studio at The Catholic University of America; Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Detroit Mercy; Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland; Visiting Professor for the Paris International Studio at Lawrence Technological University; and Visiting Professor at Boston Architectural College. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and her Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jin Liu
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Modern Languages Office: Swann 312 Phone: 404.385.0194 Email: [email protected] Web: http://pwp.gatech.edu/liu/
Biography
Dr. Jin Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese in the School of Modern Languages in Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature and Culture from Cornell University and her M.A. and B.A. from Beijing University. Her interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture from the perspective of language, writing, sound, voice, and music. She is the author of the book, Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium (2013), and the co-editor of the book Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China (2012). She has published peer-reviewed articles in journals including positions: Asia Critique, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), Twentieth-Century China, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (JMLC), and Chinese Language and Discourse.
Dr. Liu is the Director of the Chinese Program and the Director of the China LBAT study-abroad program at Georgia Tech. She is Board of Director of China Research Center. She is also the coordinator and committee chair of the prestigious Chinese Government Scholarships (each about $10,000), having sent 27 GT students studying in China for one year since 2011. She is co-PI of the SPAG Global Media Festival in 2017 and 2018 ($25,000 annually) and served as Assistant Director of the ROTC Chinese Flagship at GT, a grant of $720,000 from the National Security Education Program and the Institute of International Education (2011-2013). Dr. Liu received the Georgia Tech CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence in 2012, the Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award in 2012, and the Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effective Award in 2014 and in 2018.
Milos Prvulovic
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Computer Science Office: KACB 2332 Phone: 404.385.6364 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~milos/
Biography
Milos Prvulovic, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Computer Science, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on hardware and software support for program monitoring, debugging, and security. His research of side-channel emmanations and side-channel attacks has led to widespread interest from professional societies, the media and additional reserach sponsors -- most recently attracting a $9.4 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for continued study. In general, the goal of his research is to make both hardware and software more reliable and secure.
Prvulovic is a senior member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), served as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture in 2016, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the ACM/IEEE MICRO conference. Prvulovic received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
Arijit Raychowdhury
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: College of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: Klaus 2362 Phone: 404.894.1789 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/icsrl/
Biography
Arijit Raychowdhury is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he joined in January, 2013. He held the ON Semiconductor Jr Associate Professorship till 2019 and is the Associate Director of the Center for Co-Design of Chips, Packaging and Systems. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. His current research interests include high-performance and energy-efficient computing and circuit design. Prior to joining academia, he was a staff scientist at Intel's Circuit Research Labs for five years where he worked on mixed- signal and digital designs for energy-efficiency sensors and compute nodes. Before that, he spent one and a half years at Texas Instruments where he worked on developing the world’s first adaptive echo cancellation unit for DSL modems, which received the EDN industrial design award. Dr. Raychowdhury holds more than 25 U.S. and international patents and has published over 150 articles in journals and refereed conferences. He and his students have won multiple best paper awards, fellowships and best thesis awards, including the IEEE/ACM Innovator of the year award at DAC 2018, Outstanding Junior Faculty award from Georgia Tech in 2018, Early career awards from Intel and NSF in 2014-2015, the best thesis award from Purdue University, the Dimitri N Chorafas award from the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the SRC Technical Innovation Award in 2007.
Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Biological Sciences, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Office: Cherry Emerson, A118 Phone: 404.385.0286 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.biosci.gatech.edu/people/ingeborg-schmidt-krey
Biography
Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as a faculty member in the Parker H. Petit Instit ute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. She is currently serving as the chair of the graduate committee in the School of Biological Sciences and as the chair of the institute responsible conduct in research committee.
Dr. Schmidt-Krey’s research interests focus on eukaryotic membrane proteins, many of which have physiologically important roles and constitute drug targets. She employs electron crystallography and single particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to study the structure and function of eukaryotic membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes.
Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey obtained her doctorate in Biophysics and Structural Biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. After a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, she received a long - term EMBO Fellowship and subsequently a DFG young investigator grant for her research on membrane protein structure at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics.
Olga Shemyakina
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of Economics Office: Old CE Building Room 322 Phone: Email: [email protected] Web: https://econ.gatech.edu/people/person/olga-shemyakina
Biography
Dr. Shemyakina is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the effects of violent conflict and subsequent instances of protracted economic and political instability on the behavior of households in vario us geographical and institutional settings.
Dr. Olga Shemyakina received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2007 and joined the School of Economics in August 2007. Her research interests include applied microeconomics, development economics, labor economics, armed conflict, health, education, and gender.
Recent research studies and publications by Dr. Shemyakina have explored the short- and long- term effects of armed conflict on health and education of children, subjective well-being, migration, marriage, and labor market outcomes. Her particular focus has been on exploring gender-differentiated impact of conflicts. Dr. Shemyakina validates her research results by drawing on multiple sources of data and measures of conflict.
Dr. Shemyakina has been a Senior Affiliate with the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) since 2007 and was appointed as an IZA Research Fellow in 2014. Dr. Shemyakina also worked on several research consulting projects for the World Bank studying links between armed conflict, education and gender.
Jennifer Singh
MPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department: School of History and Sociology Office: Old CE Building G22 Phone: 404.894.0535 Email: [email protected] Web: https://singh.hsoc.gatech.edu/
Biography
Jennifer S. Singh is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of the book Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science, which explores a range of perspectives from scientists, activists, parents, and people with autism surrounding the rise and implementation of autism genetics research. Her current research investigates the quality of care provided by a community-based autism clinic that serves under-privileged communities, as well as an intersectional analysis of social, economic, and structural barriers to autism diagnosis and services. She also teaches services learning courses that focus on social determinants of health. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, Singh worked in the biotechnology field for eight years and was an Association of Schools of Public Health Research Fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Marilyn Smith
Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Nonlinear Computational Aeroelasticity Lab
Department: School of Physics Office: Weber-202 Phone: 404.894.3065 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.msmith.gatech.edu/
Biography
Dr. Smith is the director of the AE School's Computational Nonlinear Computational Aeroelasticity Lab, where she leads an internationally recognized and award-winning research team in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics and computational aeroelasticity using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for all vehicle types including rotary-wing, fixed wing and launch vehicles, as well as sustainable energy (wind and wave energy). She was appointed to serve a 2-year term as the academic representative to the Vertical Lift Center, a consortium of academic and industry partners who team together to fund Army needs for rotorcraft. As a member of the NASA FUN3D development team, Dr. Smith contributes to state-of-the-art unstructured algorithm development, in particular for overset, moving frames. As an affiliate of the Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), she helps to integrate high performance computing with the design process. She is also the director of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE), where she helps coordinate and organize rotorcraft-related research, education, and service, including acting as faculty advisor for the American Helicopter Society, International student chapter. Dr. Smith is the author or co-author of more than 200 technical publications in the fields of adaptive algorithms, vehicle aeromechanics and fluid structure interaction, sustainable energy, and biomimetic design. She participates in numerous international research partnerships including the NATO AVT 282 Technical Working Group and the US/French Rotary Wing Aeromechanics International Partnership Agreement. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Fluids and Structures, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Aeronautical Journal, and the AIAA Journal. She has been a guest expert in aviation for PBS and NPR.