We are leaders in technology, and strive to find applications of our expertise to benefit society. At GTRI, we are dedicated to the primary mission of our parent institution, Georgia Tech, to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition.
We help educate future technology leaders through our dedicated K-12 STEM programs, professional education courses, vertically-integrated programs that give students experience solving real-world problems, and the involvement of graduate and undergraduate students throughout our research efforts. With a focus on underserved communities, we partner with K-12 schools across the state of Georgia, and invite high school students and teachers to participate in summer internships to be inspired and experience first-hand how science and math help address real-world problems.
The work we do to develop new agricultural and manufacturing technology, support our state government, and protect citizens from severe weather enhances the economic impact for the state of Georgia. Here, we partner with many of our state’s largest industrial companies, applying our research and development competencies to help position Georgia as the nation’s Southeast technology hub.
Finally, we often find that much of the expertise we apply across our broad portfolio of work can be leveraged to improve the human condition, including projects done for the Georgia Department of Public Health. Our expertise in information sciences enables advances in the medical field through intelligent health data analytics, sensing systems for detecting infectious disease, and new ways of analyzing and storing data in synthetic DNA. We are supporting the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as it adopts cutting-edge data technologies, working with NASA to advance its mission, and applying our tools and expertise to the biological sciences. As the world faces increased threat of food insecurity, our expertise in advanced algorithms and robotics is being applied to agriculture, enabling farmers across Georgia to efficiently maximize their crop yield. The breadth of expertise we have in sensing technologies, data architectures, and information privacy is enabling our state institutions to combat current and potential future epidemics.
Below are details and project examples for Application Areas 12 through 14. For more information on the overall Project Portfolio, please visit the homepage.
