Karthik Menon is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Woodruff School and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Menon graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2021, where his doctoral work focused on the flow physics of fluid-structure interactions and vortex-dominated flows. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pediatrics and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. At Stanford, he worked on computational methods for accurate patient-specific cardio­vascular blood flow simulations and uncertainty quantification. Menon’s broad research interests include fluid mechanics, computational modeling, and data-driven methods. His research aims to advance interdisciplinary technology in a wide range of healthcare, engineering and energy applications. Fluid dynamics is central to some of the biggest challenges and opportunities in these domains – such as personalized treatments for cardiovascular disease, extracting renewable energy from flowing water and wind, and developing bio-mimetic flying and swimming robots. Menon’s work tackles these challenges by uncovering new physics and combining high-performance computing with data-enabled techniques.

Dr. Pamidighantam is associate director of the ARTISAN center under the Institute for Data Engineering and Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Pamidighantam had been a senior research scientist at Indiana University, Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center and NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supporting computational chemistry and science gateways development in support of molecular sciences faculty.

Nick Housley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech and a Member of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. He earned a BS in Kinesiology from The University of Georgia, a DPT from Georgia State University where he focused on clinical neuroplasticity, a Ph.D. in Applied Physiology from Georgia Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Neurobiology.

Nick started his independent career on the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025. The Housley Lab studies how the nervous system, cancer, and its treatment interact in mammalian systems through two overarching themes. First, they perform foundational studies on the role the nervous system plays in the initiation and progression of cancer. Second, they perform multi-scale preclinical studies to define the determinants of neurologic consequences of cancer treatment. In parallel, Housley lead clinical efforts to translate basic science findings to clinical practice.

The Housley lab also develops nanostructures for multimodal applications in solid tumor cancers including drug delivery and cancer detection. A major area of focus involves the use of their nanohydrogel platform to precisely delivery therapeutic payloads to primary and metastatic cancer sites and translate their technology from the laboratory into human clinical studies. My colleagues and I also investigate the interactions of nanostructures and biological environments that enable solid tumor targeting.

Greeshma Agasthya (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She leads the Computational Medical Physics Laboratory, and her research interests are: (1) developing multiscale digital twins for personalized radiation dosimetry for imaging, therapy, and theranostics, (2) modeling and simulations to assess novel radiation protocols from cancer diagnosis to cancer treatment, and (3) developing AI frameworks to model patient trajectories for early intervention and treatment in oncology.

Previously, she was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Advanced Computing for Health Sciences section. Agasthya received her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and completed her postdoctoral training at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute. She has experience in medical imaging research, modeling and simulation for radiation dosimetry, and AI and Machine learning for healthcare. Agasthya has developed and used multi-scale modeling and simulations of the human body for virtual clinical trials, radiation dosimetry, and optimization of medical imaging systems for cancer applications. She has worked on artificial intelligence (AI) for cancer surveillance, predicting disease outcomes, and clinical decision support. She has collaborated with experts in medical physics, radiology, cardiology, computer engineering, and statistics to tackle interdisciplinary challenges in medical physics and biomedical engineering. She has worked on imaging modalities including neutron imaging, x-ray radiography, computed tomography (CT), and tomosynthesis systems for cancer applications.

Alexander Vlahos is an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Alexander received his B.S. in Biochemistry from McMaster University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Michael Sefton. His Ph.D. work focused on developing an injectable bioartificial pancreas that could be delivered underneath the skin. He then transitioned to mammalian synthetic biology, where he conducted his postdoctoral work as an HFSP long-term fellow at Stanford University with Professor Xiaojing Gao.

His research integrates principles from synthetic biology, protein engineering, and tissue engineering to develop synthetic protein circuits for mammalian cellular engineering. The Vlahos lab synergizes synthetic biology and tissue engineering to create programmable gene and cell therapies for biomedical applications in regenerative medicine, cancer, and autoimmune disease. His lab has three main research themes, including 1) generating protein sensors to sense changes in internal cell states or the external microenvironment, 2) programming engineered cells to model cell-to-cell communication and elucidate the dynamics and expression of key signals that govern fibrosis and immune rejection, and 3) applying synthetic protein circuits to modulate the immune system and improve cell transplantation.

Anthony Harding is an environmental economist with research interests at the intersection of innovative technologies and climate policy. He uses economic theory and applied econometrics to analyze the extent of socioeconomic risks from climate change, how policy and technologies can moderate these risks, and what impacts, intended or otherwise, policies may have. Before returning to Georgia Tech, Harding was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Raghupathy "Siva" Sivakumar is the Vice President of Commercialization and Chief Commercialization Officer for Georgia Tech. As the Chief Commercialization Officer, Sivakumar leads the newly established Office of Commercialization that serves as the central engine that drives commercialization and entrepreneurship efforts on campus. The primary focus of the office is to inspire and support Georgia Tech faculty, students, and staff in their pursuit of commercialization activities. Thus, its functions range from evangelizing the commercialization and tech transfer pipeline, to filing invention disclosures, patent applications, licensing, prototyping, and launching startups. Comprised of the Office of Technology Licensing and VentureLab, the commercialization office also serves as the hub bringing together the various internal and external commercialization entities in the ecosystem.

Sivakumar holds the Wayne J. Holman Chair and is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He leads the Georgia Tech Networking and Mobile Computing (GNAN) Research Group, where he and his students do research in the areas of wireless networking and mobile computing. Previously, he served as the Founding Director of CREATE-X, a Georgia Tech initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in its students, as the Co-Founder and CTO for StarMobile, Inc. (now PowWow Mobile) between 2012 and 2016, as a Technologist for EMC Corporation between 2011 and 2012, as the Founder and CTO of Asankya, Inc. (now EMC), between 2004 and 2011, and as a Technologist for EG Technology, Inc. (now Arris), between 2001 and 2004.

Sivakumar received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and 1998 respectively, and his B.E. degree in Computer Science from Anna University (Chennai) in 1996. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the Georgia Tech Curriculum Innovation Award (co-recipient, 2019), the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2016), and the Georgia Tech Research Innovation Award (2015). He is the recipient of several other teaching and research awards including five best-paper awards. He is also the recipient of several awards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign including the David J. Kuck Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Department of Computer Science (2001), the Poppelbaum Award for Excellence in Creative Research and Academic Merit from the Department of Computer Science (2000), the Mavis Memorial Award Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching and Research from the College of Engineering (1999), and the David J. Kuck Best Masters Thesis Award from the Department of Computer Science (1998). He received the University Gold Medal from Anna University in 1996.