Larry Heck

Larry Heck
larryheck@gatech.edu

Larry P. Heck is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Schools of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds the Rhesa S. Farmer Distinguished Chair of Advanced Computing Concepts and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. His received the BSEE from Texas Tech University (1986), and MSEE and PhD EE from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1989,1991). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech and received the Distinguished Engineer Award from the Texas Tech University. He was a Senior Research Engineer with SRI (1992-98), VP of R&D at Nuance (1998-2005), VP of Search and Advertising Sciences at Yahoo! (2005-2009), Chief Scientist of the Microsoft Speech products and Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Research (2009-2014), Principal Scientist with Google Research (2014-2017), CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung (2017-2021).

Professor
Rhesa Screven Farmer Jr., Advanced Computing Concepts Chair
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Robotics > Core
Data Engineering and Science
Robotics
Tech AI > ITAB
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Christine Heitsch

Christine Heitsch
heitsch@math.gatech.edu

Christine Heitsch is Professor of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, with courtesy appointments in Biological Sciences and Computational Science & Engineering as well as an affiliation with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience.

She is also Director of the new Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB), an NSF-Simons MathBioSys Research Center, and finishing her tenure directing the GT Interdisciplinary Mathematics Preparation and Career Training (IMPACT) Postdoctoral Program.

Heitsch's research interests lie at the interface between discrete mathematics and molecular biology, specifically combinatorial problems "as motivated by" and "with applications to" fundamental biomedical questions like RNA folding.

Students interested in pursuing graduate studies in discrete mathematical biology can do so through a number of GT PhD programs including Bioinformatics or Quantitative Biosciences as well as Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO), Computational Science & Engineering (CSE), and (of course) Mathematics.
 

Professor
Phone
404-894-4758
Office
Skiles 211B
Additional Research
Heitsch's research interests lie at the interface between discrete mathematics and molecular biology, specifically combinatorial problems "as motivated by" and "with applications to" fundamental biomedical questions like RNA folding.
IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Sciences > School of Mathematics

Yiyi He

Yiyi He
yiyi.he@design.gatech.edu

Yiyi He is an assistant professor in the School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at the College of Design at Georgia Tech. Her research centers on the interdisciplinary fields of urban planning, GIScience, climate science, and artificial intelligence. She is interested in building a better understanding of the uncertainty and asymmetric impacts of climate-change-induced extreme weather events (e.g., flooding, wildfires, extreme heat) on critical components of the built environment (e.g., lifeline infrastructure networks, vulnerable neighborhoods). She leverages data-driven approaches, such as GIS, network science, hyperspectral remote sensing, machine learning, and spatial statistics to tackle complex challenges in climate change and resilience research and to inform more intelligent planning and policy directives.

Her previous work involves using 3D hydrodynamic flood models to simulate flooding under different climate change scenarios and analyze the impact of both coastal and inland flooding on critical infrastructure networks. She received her bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University and her master’s and Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research

GI Science Network ScienceEnvironmental Planning

IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
Sustainable Systems > Fellow
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Design > School of City and Regional Planning
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Harley Hamilton

Harley Hamilton
hjh@cc.gatech.edu

Harley Hamilton is a member of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science.

Senior Research Scientist
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Shkina Halbert

Shkina Halbert
shalbert@gatech.edu
Shkina Halbert joined IDEaS in 2016 to provide Administrative support. In 2019, she was promoted to IDEaS Program & Operations Manager. She has over eleven years of experience in the administrative field. She previously work at a successful immigration law firm that assisted the top partners of the company. She primarily handles planning and coordinating workshops/conferences, department HR duties, department operations, travel and various other tasks to support the team. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts in history.
Program & Operational Manager
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Staff
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Sung Ha Kang

Sung Ha Kang
kang@math.gatech.edu
Professor
Additional Research
Combinatorial Scientific Computing
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > TRIAD Associate
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Sciences > School of Mathematics

Subhro Guhathakurta

Subhro Guhathakurta
subhro.guha@design.gatech.edu
Chair, School of City & Regional Planning
Director, Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization
Professor
Phone
(404) 894-2351
Additional Research
  • City and Regional Planning
  • Cyber/ Information Technology
  • Strategic Planning
  • Visualizations
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Energy > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Design > School of City and Regional Planning

James Gumbart

James Gumbart
gumbart@physics.gatech.edu

My lab is focused on understanding how proteins and other biological systems function at a molecular level. To probe these systems, we carry out molecular dynamics simulations, modeling biological behavior one atom at a time. The simulations serve as a "computational microscope" that permits glimpses into a cell's inner workings through the application of advanced software and high-powered supercomputers. We are particularly interested in how bacteria utilize unique pathways to synthesize proteins and insert them into both the inner and outer membranes, how they import nutrients across two membranes, and how their cell walls provide shape and mechanical strength.

Associate Professor
Phone
404-385-0797
Office
Howey W202
Additional Research

Computational Chemistry

IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Sciences > School of Physics

Chris Gu

Chris Gu
ngu30@gatech.edu

Chris Gu is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the quantitative study of the behaviors of individuals and organizations under various types of information constraints and economic structures, with the goal of improving their well-being. His current work focuses on understanding how consumers search for products under partially revealed information, how consumers adopt sustainable technologies under the influence of government policies, how companies decide about internal technology adoption and upgrade, and how social network connections influence individual crowdsourcing behaviors. He is an AMS Mary Kay Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Competition Finalist, and his research has received the ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research

Business Analytics

IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Martha Grover

Martha Grover
martha.grover@chbe.gatech.edu

Grover’s research activities in process systems engineering focus on understanding macromolecular organization and the emergence of biological function. Discrete atoms and molecules interact to form macromolecules and even larger mesoscale assemblies, ultimately yielding macroscopic structures and properties. A quantitative relationship between the nanoscale discrete interactions and the macroscale properties is required to design, optimize, and control such systems; yet in many applications, predictive models do not exist or are computationally intractable.

The Grover group is dedicated to the development of tractable and practical approaches for the engineering of macroscale behavior via explicit consideration of molecular and atomic scale interactions. We focus on applications involving the kinetics of self-assembly, specifically those in which methods from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics do not provide closed form solutions. General approaches employed include stochastic modeling, model reduction, machine learning, experimental design, robust parameter design, and estimation.

Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
James Harris Faculty Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Member, NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution
Phone
404.894.2878
Office
ES&T 1228
Additional Research

Colloids; Crystallization; Organic and Inorganic Photonics and Electronics; Polymers; Discrete atoms and molecules interact to form macromolecules and even larger mesoscale assemblies, ultIMaTely yielding macroscopic structures and properties. A quantitative relationship between the nanoscale discrete interactions and the macroscale properties is required to design, optimize, and control such systems; yet in many applications, predictive models do not exist or are computationally intractable. The Grover group is dedicated to the development of tractable and practical approaches for the engineering of macroscale behavior via explicit consideration of molecular and atomic scale interactions. We focus on applications involving the kinetics of self-assembly, specific those in which methods from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics do not provide closed form solutions. General approaches employed include stochastic modeling, model reduction, machine learning, experimental design, robust parameter design, estIMaTion, and optimal control, monitoring and control for nuclear waste processing and polymer organic electronics

IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Energy > Research Community
Data Engineering and Science
Bioengineering and Bioscience
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering