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.

Mehul Jasti, a computer science sophomore at Georgia Tech, isn’t leaving his academic goals up to luck. Instead, he developed JustLmk, an application that lets you be the first to know when availability or restrictions change so you can sign up for the courses you need to graduate on time.

Georgia Tech researchers and community advocates with Propel ATL are attaching temperature and air quality sensors to their backpacks and bikes to get on-the-ground data that will show where the city is hottest. The goal of the Neutralizing Onerous Heat Effects on Active Transportation (NO-HEAT) Initiative, led by Dr. Rounaq Basu, is to mitigate the negative impact of extreme heat by providing city planners with actionable data to make design changes to make cities cooler where they are needed most, and by empowering people to find the coolest walking and biking routes as they move around the city.

Most people haven't realized smartphones can be part of clinical workflow. For Sixuan Wu, a PhD student in computer science and researcher at TSRB, that assumption is exactly the problem. It is also the starting point for a project reimagining how blood analysis can be done.

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.

In a typical smart home, intelligence comes at a cost. Cameras track movement. Sensors require batteries. Devices connect through fragmented systems that demand constant maintenance. TSRB researcher and PhD candidate Yibo Fu is exploring a different model. One where everyday objects quietly signal their use without electronics, cameras, or friction added to daily life.

In the middle of Tech Square at TSRB, a smartphone sits snug inside what looks like a slightly oversized case. A small cuvette of urine slides into place. The flashlight kicks on. A few seconds later, the screen displays something that a dipstick (or even a trained eye) simply cannot produce: a precise, quantitative number.

Ever wonder what light and shade sounds like? Or what would it be like to dance with artificial intelligence? Celebrating a semester of creativity, exploration, and interdisciplinary research, graduate students and professors from Georgia Tech’s Digital Media Program shared their latest creative innovations at the annual Digital Media Demo Day on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at the Tech Square Research Building.

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TSRB researcher and Georgia Tech PhD candidate Mohsin Yousufi, originally trained as an architect, is now working at the intersection of civic tech and epistemic justice. His research asks why lived experience is often dismissed in public systems and what it takes to make it count.

Artificial intelligence is increasingly stepping into the world of medicine. Large language models can summarize clinical notes, answer health questions, and assist physicians in diagnosing disease. In places where doctors are scarce and healthcare infrastructure is limited; these tools promise to expand access to care. But there is a problem hiding inside the data…

Deleon Technologies, a CREATE-X alumni company, is bringing daily metabolomics tracking of ten amino acids into homes by miniaturizing lab testing equipment and leveraging data-driven insights to provide athletes with personalized workout and recovery tips.

Last semester, faculty, students, and researchers gathered in the Hodges Room at Centergy One for the latest IPaT GVU Lunch Lecture. Dr. Carl DiSalvo, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, took the floor to pose a simple but unsettling question: What if the real power of design is not what we produce, but how we stand with people along the way?

Researcher, game designer, and creative technologist Audrey Chung embraces uncertainty as they explore new ways of telling stories through game design, where narratives unfold through player choice rather than fixed scripts.

On a summer Atlanta afternoon, the temperature can shift block by block. A street lined with trees feels bearable. Two intersections over, asphalt radiates heat and the air hangs heavy. Those differences are not incidental, nor are they harmless. For PhD candidate Ashley Boone, data provides a pathway to change that reality by mapping, interpreting, and mobilizing environmental patterns in the city.