Munmun De Choudhury

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munmund@gatech.edu

Munmun De Choudhury is a Professor at the School of Interactive Computing in Georgia Institute of Technology. She is renowned for her groundbreaking contributions to the fields of computational social science, human-computer interaction, and digital mental health. Through fostering interdisciplinary collaborations across academia, industry, and public health sectors. De Choudhury and her collaborators have contributed significantly to advancing the development of computational techniques for early detection and intervention in mental health, as well as in unpacking how social media use benefits or harms mental well-being. De Choudhury's contributions have been recognized worldwide, with significant scholarly impact evidenced by numerous awards like induction into the SIGCHI Academy and the 2023 SIGCHI Societal Impact Award. Beyond her academic achievements, She is a proactive community leader, a persistent contributor to policy-framing and advocacy initiatives, and is frequently sought for expert advice to governments, and national and international media.

 

Professor in the School of Interactive Computing; Director of Social Dynamics and Well-Being Laboratory; Co-Lead of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech's Patient-Centered Care Delivery
Phone
4043858603
Additional Research

Social Media; Social Computing; Computational Social Science; Mental Health; Natural Language

IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
People and Technology
Bioengineering and Bioscience
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Chuck Zhang

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chuck.zhang@isye.gatech.edu

Chuck Zhang is the Harold E. Smalley Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Zhang's research interests include scalable nanomanufacturing, modeling, simulation, and optimal design of advanced composite and nanomaterials manufacturing processes, multifunctional materials development, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and metrology. Most recently, he has initiated new research and education programs in advanced materials and manufacturing engineering for orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) applications. His research projects have been sponsored by a number of organizations, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers, as well as industrial companies such as ATK Launch Systems, Cummins, General Dynamics, GKN Aerospace Services, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens Power Generation.

Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. Prior to joining ISyE, Zhang served as a professor and chairman of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering.

Harold E. Smalley Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone
404.894.4321
Office
Groseclose 0205 334
Additional Research

CompositesManufacturingNanomanufacturing

IRI/Group and Role
Manufacturing > Affiliated Faculty
Manufacturing > AMPF
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
Manufacturing
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > School of Industrial Systems Engineering

Clint Zeagler

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clintzeagler@gatech.edu

While teaching textiles and fashion design studio classes at Savannah College of Art & Design, Zeagler realized his true passion lies in bridging the gap between the disciplines of Wearable design and Human-Centered Computing. A diverse background in fashion, industrial design, and textiles drive his research on electronic textiles and on-body interfaces with the Contextual Computing Group of the GVU center of Georgia Tech. As a Principal Research Scientist for the Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center and Instructor for the Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design he teaches courses on Wearable Product Design and an ID section of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MUC).  Zeagler enjoys working with corporations such as HP/Palm and Google to bring real-world experience into the classroom. He recently acquired a NASA Georgia Space Consortium grant to fund MUC student projects on wearable computing for space—a wonderful opportunity for undergraduate students. He is also a member of the NASA Wearable Technology Cluster a group of scientists and academics working together to give advice to those in NASA working on wearable computing or electronic textile projects. A deep understanding of the garment production process fosters innovation in his research. Zeagler’s company Pecan Pie Couture hand-dyed, embroidered, and screen-printed textiles and garments. Building upon that skillset, his recent research led to the creation of the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book (ESwatchBook) in collaboration with Thad Starner. The ESwatchBook is designed to help facilitate discussions between the skill and craft-based design disciplines (.i.e. fashion) and more technical disciplines (.i.e. computer science). To put the ESwatchBook’s capabilities to the test, he developed a series of workshops at multiple colleges with the purpose of bringing together designers with engineers/technology specialists. The workshops were funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, which he co-authored. Zeagler’s most recent endeavor FIDO: Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations is an exploration into using wearable electronics to enhance interactions between service dogs and their handler/owners.

Director of Strategic Partnerships (IPaT)
Principal Research Scientist
Additional Research
Wearable Computing; Textile Interfaces; Animal Computer Interaction
IRI/Group and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology > Leadership
People and Technology > Research Faculty
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology

Ellen Zegura

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ewz@cc.gatech.edu

Ellen Zegura, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications at the School of Computer Science, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Zegura’s research concerns the development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and mobile wireless networking.  Wide-area services are utilized by applications that are distributed across multiple administrative domains (e.g., web, file sharing, multi-media distribution). Her focus is on services implemented both at the network layer, as part of network infrastructure, and at the application layer.  In the context of mobile wireless networking, she is interested in challenged environments where traditional ad-hoc and infrastructure-based networking approaches fail. These environments have been termed Disruption Tolerant Networks.  She received a Bachelor's in Computer Science (1987) and Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (1987), a Master's in Computer Science (1990) and the D.Sc. in Computer Science (1993) all from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993, she has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech. She was an Assistant Dean in charge of Space and Facilities Planning from Fall 2000 to January 2003. She served as Interim Dean of the College for six months in 2002. She was Associate Dean responsible for Research and Graduate Programs from 2003-2005, and served as the first Chair of the School of Computer Science from 2005-2012.  Zegura is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.

Professor
Phone
404.894.1403
Additional Research

Mobile & Wireless Communications; Software & Applications; Computer Networking

IRI/Group and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Computing

W. Hong Yeo

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woonhong.yeo@me.gatech.edu

Dr. Yeo holds the titles of G.P. "Bud" Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Endowed Professor, as well as Harris Saunders Jr. Endowed Professor, in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the director of the Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center (WISH Center) and the KIAT-Georgia Tech Semiconductor Electronics Center (K-GTSEC). Dr. Yeo's research focuses on understanding the fundamentals of soft materials, deformable mechanics, interfacial physics, manufacturing, and the integration of hard and soft materials for the development of biomedical systems. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and genome sciences from the University of Washington in Seattle and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With over 180 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Yeo has contributed to many prestigious journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He is an IEEE Senior Member and has received numerous awards, including the Visiting Professorship from the Institute Jean Lamour at the Université de Lorraine in France, the Lucy G. Moses Lectureship Award at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the NIH Trailblazer Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award, the Emory School of Medicine Research Award, the Imlay Innovation Award, the American Heart Association Innovative Project Award, the Sensors Young Investigator Award, the Med-X Young Investigator Award, and the Outstanding Service Award from the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, as well as the Outstanding Yonsei Scholar Award. Dr. Yeo is also the founder of two startup companies: Huxley Medical, Inc. and WisMedical, Inc.

Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, WISH Center
Phone
404.894.9425
Office
Marcus Nano 4133
Additional Research

Human-machine interface; hybrid materials; bio-MEMS; Soft robotics. Flexible Electronics; Human-machine interface; hybrid materials; Electronic Systems, Devices, Components, & Packaging; bio-MEMS; Soft robotics. Yeo's research in the field of biomedical science and bioengineering focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of biomolecular interactions, soft materials, and nano-microfabrication for the development of nano-biosensors and soft bioelectronics.

IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Faculty
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
Robotics > Core Faculty
Matter and Systems > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
Robotics
Bioengineering and Bioscience
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Engineering > Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Yalong Yang

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yalong.yang@gatech.edu

I am an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Before joining Georgia Tech, I spent two wonderful years at Virginia Tech as a faculty member. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Visual Computing Group at Harvard University, and received my Ph.D. from Human-Centred Computing Department, Monash University, Australia.

My research encompasses a wide range of topics within the fields of Visualization (VIS), VR/AR, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I actively contribute to these communities and regularly publish my work in leading venues such as IEEE VIS, ACM CHI, IEEE TVCG, EuroVis, and IEEE VR. I am honored to have received three best paper honorable mention awards, notably from IEEE VIS in 2016 and 2022, as well as ACM CHI in 2021. I also serve as a program committee member for several prestigious conferences in my fields, including IEEE VIS 2022/23/24, ACM CHI 2023/24, and IEEE VR 2022/23/24.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research
  • Human-Data Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Immersive Analytics
  • VR/AR Data Visualization 
IRI/Group and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Computing > School of Interactive Computing
Research Areas
Data Engineering and Science
  • Machine Learning

Jeff Wilson

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jeff.wilson@gatech.edu

Jeff Wilson is a senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on human-computer interaction and interactive computing systems, including computer graphics, visualization, digital audio, game design, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality applications.

Wilson has contributed to a wide range of research and applied development projects involving immersive visualization systems, large-format virtual reality displays, mobile and head-mounted augmented reality applications, auditory interfaces for automotive and assistive contexts, educational games, and mobile health technologies. His work often bridges research and deployment, emphasizing practical systems that combine real-time graphics, interaction design, and scalable software architectures with instrumentation and analytics-ready infrastructure.

In addition to research, Wilson teaches courses in the College of Computing and the Online Master of Science in Computer Science program, including video game design, game artificial intelligence, computer graphics, user interface software, and prototyping interactive systems.

More information about his projects, software, and publications is available at: https://jeffwilson.dev

Senior Research Scientist
Additional Research

Graphics; Visualization; Digital Audio; Game Design; Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

IRI/Group and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology > Research Faculty
People and Technology

Danielle Willkens

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danielle.willkens@design.gatech.edu

She is an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Architecture and a practicing designer, researcher, and educator who is particularly interested in bringing architectural engagement to diverse audiences through interactive projects. Her experiences in practice and research include design/build projects, public installations, and on-site investigations as well as extensive archival work in several countries. As an avid photographer and illustrator, her work has been recognized in the American Institute of Architects National Photography Competition and she has contributed graphics to several exhibitions and publications. As an educator, she was recognized as one of two recipients of the 2017-2018 American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)/ Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) New Faculty Teaching Award and a 2021 AIAS Educator Honor Award. 

Her research and practice experiences span design/build, early intervention design education, transatlantic studies, and historic site documentation and visualization. She was an inaugural Mellon History Teaching Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in fall 2021 for the project "From Plantation to Protest: Visualizing Cultural Landscapes of Conflict in the American South," supporting research and development of the Race, Space, and Architecture in the United States seminar at Georgia Tech. 

Expanding experiences abroad to enrich both teaching and research agendas , she was the 2015 Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow. Between June 2016 and May 2017, she traveled to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Cuba, and Japan to research the impact of tourism on cultural heritage sites; research blog posts can be found here. 

Currently, she is working with Auburn University Associate Professor Liu and an interdisciplinary team from the McWhorter School of Building Science, the Department of History, and the Media Production Group on “Walking in the Footsteps of History”, an experimental survey and modeling project to digitally reconstruct the area south of the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 'Bloody Sunday' events of March 7, 1965. This project is working to record and represent the built environment through the use of 3D LiDAR scans, UAV photogrammetry, and digital modeling. The team was awarded a $50,000 grant 2019 National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grant Program to compile a Historic Structures Report on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Willkens serves as a Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology initiative lead for research activities related to just, resilient, and informed communities.

Associate Professor
IRI/Group and Role
Sustainable Systems > Initiative Lead
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology > Leadership
Sustainable Systems
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Design > School of Architecture
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Global Sustainable Development
  • Sustainability Education Research

David White

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drwhite@cc.gatech.edu

David White leads the Office of Academic Administration, which provides academic advising for the BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. Mr. White coordinates the schedule of classes with the College's three Schools and the Division of Computing Instruction, and works with the College's Technology Services Organization to provide student information systems. He also frequently represents the College on academic initiatives, including the Institute's steering committee for Complete College Georgia.

As Executive Director of the Online MS in Computer Science, Mr. White works closely with the faculty, many Georgia Tech administrative departments, and Udacity to ensure the goals and responsibilities of the program are met.

Mr. White came to Georgia Tech in 2001 as a student in the MS program in Human-Computer Interaction. He began working full time for the College of Computing in 2004 as academic advisor for the MS in Human-Computer Interaction and the BS in Computational Media. Since that time he has also served as Academic Programs Coordinator for the School of Interactive Computing and Director of Graduate Programs for the College.

Mr. White has a BA in English from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech.

Executive Director of OMSCS
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
IRI/Group and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > College of Computing

Leanne West

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lwest@gatech.edu

Leanne West is Chief Engineer of Pediatric Technologies at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Pediatric Innovation Catalyst at the Global Center for Medical Innovation where she leads innovation in pediatric medical devices. In her 25+ years working at Georgia Tech, she has led multimillion dollar programs and teams of researchers to develop products for government and industry partners. She also started her own company, Intelligent Access, to take her invention of a wireless personal captioning system to market. She serves as the technical liaison between Georgia Tech and pediatric hospitals around the world, with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Shriners Hospitals being the main partners. West works closely with clinicians to understand and identify problems that need a solution to allow them to take better care of their patients. She is an invited Judge for many medical device pitch competitions and serves on several Boards in the healthcare and technology arenas. 

West is the President of the International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN). Since 2014, iCAN fosters greater global understanding about the importance of the pediatric patient and caregiver voice in healthcare, clinical trials, and research. iCAN gives its members the opportunities to share their stories and experiences in front of organizations like the FDA, AAP, and CDC, and conferences. iCAN is an official partner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) as an official member organization of the Patient and Caregiver Connection Partner program and the Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program. West is also a patient advocate for one of her two rare diseases, serving on the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Patient Advisory Council and Speaker’s Bureau. 

She has served as the twice-elected Chair of the Georgia Tech Executive Board (2007, 2008) and was the GT Chair of the State Charitable Campaign (2017). She was recognized by Georgia Trend magazine as one of Georgia’s “40 Under 40” in 2004; she was selected for Leadership Georgia in 2008; she was a member of the team awarded the international Optical Society 2012 Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award; she received Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Enterprise Enhancement Award in 2014, and she was Women in Technology’s Woman of the year in 2014. In 2017, she was appointed to the board of the Georgia Technology Authority by the late Speaker of the House, David Ralston.

Chief Engineer, Pediatric Technologies, GTRI
Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Shriners Children's
Principal Research Scientist
Phone
404.407.6405
Office
Centergy Bldg 683
Additional Research

Assured Monitoring; Enhanced Mobility; Social Connectedness

IRI/Group and Role
Bioengineering and Bioscience > Staff
Data Engineering and Science > Research Community
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
People and Technology
Bioengineering and Bioscience
GTRI
Geogia Tech Research Institute
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