Dr. Chirico is a lifelong yellow jacket bringing over 20 years of sustainability experience as the inaugural Associate Vice President (AVP) of Sustainability at Georgia Tech. In this role, she oversees the Office of Sustainability and Utilities Management. She led the development and publication of the Institute’s first Climate Action Plan and co-led Georgia Tech’s Institute Sustainability Plan, Sustainability Next. In addition, she works across the Institute on emissions reductions, clean energy, water management, circular economy, sustainable technology and strategy. She holds a PhD in public policy from Georgia Tech, a master’s in public health (MPH) with a major in environmental health, and a Bachelor of Science in management from Georgia Tech. She is LEED GA accredited and holds certifications in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), WaterSense, Climate Action Planning, and Home Energy Survey Professional (HESP).

Dr. Rahnev received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University in 2012. After completing a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, he joined Georgia Tech in 2015 where he is currently Blanchard Early Career professor. His research focuses on perceptual decision making – the process of internally representing the available sensory information and making decisions on it. Dr. Rahnev uses a wide variety of methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), psychophysics, computational modeling, and deep neural networks (DNNs). Dr. Rahnev’s work appears in high-impact journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PNAS, Nature Communications, and Nature Human Behavior. He has received over $3.5M in funding, including PI grants from NIH, NSF, and the Office of Naval Research.