Kavya Mohankumar and Pranavi Gogineni’s startup journey started on an evening bus ride as college students. As they talked, a bigger question emerged: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Today, they are co-founders and CEOs of Kintic, which provides training data for humanoid robots. But Kintic wasn’t what they originally set out to build. Their first stop? Three pivots.

When Thailand's government wrote artificial intelligence into its national roadmap, TSRB researcher Ploypilin Pruekcharoen started reading the news differently. She has spent the past year collecting and analyzing more than 100 Thai news articles about AI in tourism. Her question is simple: when a country stakes part of its economic future on artificial intelligence, how does its press explain that technology to the public, and who gets left out of the story?

When Sylvia Janicki set out to record the noise of Atlanta's data centers, she expected to find it everywhere. News stories described nearby communities living with constant humming, roaring generators and sleepless nights. So she drove to roughly 10 hyperscale facilities around metro Atlanta, the massive campuses built to power artificial intelligence and hit record.

Tech Square is full of people you'd want to know and mostly haven't met yet. Maestro is a new ecosystem connection platform built to help you find and reach the right people across the community, whether that's a co-founder, a collaborator, or just the person who runs your trail every morning.

Anish Cheekati spent years on the pre-med track, gaining experience as a medical assistant and volunteering in clinics. His plans shifted after working with patients who often struggled to manage their various medications without guidance. This inspired him to create Voyage Health, a free AI-powered health guidance platform.

Earlier this year, Hypepotamus covered ATDC’s push to become a launchpad for Georgia-based AI companies. One of the companies building currently inside ATDC isn’t just building AI tools. They are a team ensuring organizations don’t get left behind in the AI Age. 

To help adults with mild cognitive impairment maintain independence, quality of life, and prepare meals, what may seem like an obvious solution of either removing kitchen cabinet doors or labeling may not be the best option. This gap and Ibrahim Bilau’s evidence-based and human-centered research highlight why it is so important to engage with community members living with mild cognitive impairment and their care partners.

Atlanta is described in many ways: a logistics hub, a corporate headquarters city, a university city, a film city, and increasingly, a technology city.

Now there is a new question to answer:

What role should Atlanta play in artificial intelligence infrastructure?

Daniel Beecham switched majors, failed out twice and watched his first startup fold. Now his company Propagent is betting that AI can take the chaos out of proposal work, and ATDC is betting on him.

Starting a company had been an ongoing goal of Woonsun Song’s, including when he was previously working at a cryptocurrency startup. And being part of the winning team of DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge in August 2025 gave Song the opportunity to pursue his goal of founding QED Audit, which is focused on making critical software more secure.

Georgia Tech researchers are working on an oral bird flu vaccine that could transform poultry vaccination. Using artificial intelligence, the team is developing an edible vaccine that could protect birds from bird flu and reduce its spread to livestock and humans.

Last week, members of the Tech Square community gathered for a secret meeting of the minds. A new event series called Brains in the Bar convened to spark conversation about artificial intelligence. The question that both inspired the gathering and earned attendees their invitation: "Where would you choose a human over perfectly accurate AI?"

Buildings, lights, streets, and sidewalks. The built environment is the designed spaces that we live in, work from, and travel through. Seung Jae Lieu’s research at Georgia Tech focuses on the built environment, and specifically, where it is possible to walk from one place to another, known as walkability. Lieu developed the “Harmony of Amenities” metric to explore why people choose to walk or drive, even when an area has nearby amenities.

Every image you see online has already been shaped before it reaches you. It is filtered, ranked, and delivered through systems that decide what deserves attention. Hyunha Lim’s work starts there, inside that flow of images, and then pulls them out of circulation.

“You are not alone, and your experience is valued.” These are core messages that Dr. Ethan Trinh has for Asian LGBTQ+ immigrant and refugee communities in Atlanta. Dr. Ethan Trinh’s digital humanities project, Stories of In-Betweenness: An AI-Assisted Memory Map of Atlanta’s Asian LGBTQ+ Immigrant and Refugee Communities, has been awarded an Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence (AIAI) Network 2025-2026 seed grant.