Frank Hammond III

Frank  Hammond III
frank.hammond@me.gatech.edu

Frank L. Hammond III joined George W. Woodruff George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in April 2015. Prior to this appointment, he was a postdoctoral research affiliate and instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Ford postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University.

Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
Director, The Adaptation Robotic Manipulation Laboratory
Phone
404.385.4208
Office
UA Whitaker Room 4102
Additional Research

Hammond's research focuses on the design and control of adaptive robotic manipulation (ARM) systems. This class of devices exemplified by kinematic structures, actuation topologies, and sensing and control strategies that make them particularly well-suited to operating in unstructured, dynamically varying environments - specifically those involving cooperative interactions with humans. The ARM device design process uses an amalgamation of bioinspiration, computational modeling and optimization, and advanced rapid prototyping techniques to generate manipulation solutions which are functionally robust and versatile, but which may take completely non-biomorphic (xenomorphic) forms. This design process removes human intuition from the design loop and, instead, leverages computational methods to map salient characteristics of biological manipulation and perception onto a vast robotics design space. Areas of interest for ARM research include kinematically redundant industrial manipulation, wearable robotic devices for human augmentation, haptic-enabled teleoperative robotic microsurgery, and autonomous soft robotic platforms.

IRI and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Robotics > Core Faculty
Robotics
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Samuel Graham

Samuel Graham
sam.graham@me.gatech.edu

Samuel Graham is the Rae S. and Frank H. Neely Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also holds an appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech and a joint appointment with the Energy and Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. His research focuses on the packaging and reliability of electronic devices ranging from wide bandgap semiconductors to flexible organic electronics and wearable sensors. His is a member of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at Georgia Tech and a co-founder of the Heat Lab which provides thermal solutions for electronics packaging.

Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair, Woodruff School Mechanical Engineering
Professor, School Mechanical Engineering
Director, Electronics Manufacturing and Reliability Laboratory
Phone
404.894.2264
Office
Love 339
Additional Research

Heat Transfer; Nanostructured Materials; Electronic Systems, Devices, Components, & Packaging; Materials Failure and Reliability; Thermal Systems

IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Billyde Brown

Billyde Brown
billyde.brown@gatech.edu

Billyde Brown is a Senior Research Engineer, and External User Outreach Manager, of the Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Brown is currently recruiting new external users from industry (startups, SMEs and large corporations) and academia to take advantage of world-class nano-/microfabrication and materials characterization facilities currently available at Georgia Tech's IMS facilities. Please message me if you want to learn more about Georgia Tech fabrication and characterization capabilities or become a new user.

Brown is also an active researcher with over 20 peer-reviewed publications and earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. His research expertise areas include thin-film additive manufacturing, nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, and biosensors.

External User Outreach Manager
Senior Research Engineer
Additional Research
  • Nanomaterials
  • Sensors
  • Nano-bio interfaces
  • Small Business/Startup Partnerships
IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Research Faculty
Matter and Systems > Administrative Staff
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Built Environment Technologies

Muhannad S. Bakir

Muhannad S. Bakir
muhannad.bakir@mirc.gatech.edu

Muhannad S. Bakir is the Dan Fielder Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He and his research group have received more than thirty paper and presentation awards including six from the IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), four from the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC), and one from the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). Bakir’s group was awarded 2014 and 2017 Best Papers of the IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT). He is the recipient of the 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Award, 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2011 IEEE CPMT Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award, and was an Invited Participant in the 2012 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Bakir is the co-recipient of the 2018 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Exceptional Technical Achievement Award "for contributions to 2.5D and 3D IC heterogeneous integration, with focus on interconnect technologies." He is also the co-recipient of the 2018 McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards. In 2020, Bakir was the recipient of the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.  
 
Bakir serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (TCPMT) and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED). Dr. Bakir serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE EPS. 

Dan Fielder Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, 3D Systems Packaging Research Center
Phone
404.385.6276
Office
Marcus 4135
Additional Research

Advanced cooling and power delivery for emerging system architecturesBiosensor technologies and their integration with CMOSElectrical and photonic interconnect technologiesHeterogeneous microsystem design and integration, including 2.5D and 3D ICs and packagingNanofabrication technologies

IRI and Role
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies

Alex Abramson

Alex Abramson
aabramson6@gatech.edu

Alex Abramson is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research, which focuses on drug delivery and bioelectronic therapeutics, has been featured in news outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, and Wired. Abramson has received several recognitions for scientific innovation, including being named a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science List and the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 List. He is passionate about translating scientific endeavors from bench to bedside. Large pharmaceutical companies have exclusively licensed a portfolio of his patents to bring into clinical trials, and Abramson serves as a scientific advisor overseeing their commercialization. In addition to his scientific endeavors, Abramson plays an active role in his community by leading diversity and inclusion efforts on campus and volunteering as a STEM tutor to local students.

Abramson received a B.S. in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow under the direction of Professors Robert Langer and Giovanni Traverso. He conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford University as an NIH fellow with Professors Zhenan Bao and the late Sanjiv S. Gambhir.

The Abramson Lab develops ingestible, implantable, and wearable robotic therapeutic devices that solve key healthcare problems and provide measurable therapeutic outcomes. Our translationally focused research spans a multitude of areas, including (1) drug delivery devices for optimal drug adherence, (2) soft materials for bioelectronic sensors and therapeutics, and (3) preclinical drug screening technologies.

Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Office
MoSE 4120B
Additional Research

Biosensors

IRI and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Robotics > Core
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
Robotics
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas
Matter and Systems
  • Computing and Communication Technologies
  • Human-Centric Technologies