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In 2014, Keysight made a $120 million in-kind donation of its software to Georgia Tech, which the Institute is deploying to help students become industry-ready engineers by using the same instruments and software used by customers in government and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;All of those things came together for us, making it \u0026nbsp;an obvious choice,\u0026rdquo; said Alexander. \u0026ldquo;We couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier with our decision.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Santa Rosa, Calif.-based company\u0026rsquo;s $13.9 million investment in Georgia is expected to create more than 200 software engineering jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tech Square has been a magnet for a number of promising startups, but we\u0026rsquo;re excited that it also has attracted companies with an impressive legacy like Keysight,\u0026rdquo; Georgia Tech President G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson said. \u0026ldquo;For Georgia Tech, it\u0026rsquo;s a point of pride and a significant achievement that a company of this caliber believes we can add value to its operations. It is the ideal type of industry leader we seek for Tech Square and Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompanies such as Keysight also are ideal for Institute alumni and students such as Jonathan Jones, who graduated from Tech in 2016 with a master\u0026rsquo;s degree in electrical and computer engineering from ECE. He obtained his bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in computer engineering in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Keysight, he will be part of a team of engineers who are building a new Keysight-wide software platform for rapid application development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve heard people compare it to being a heavily funded startup, and that\u0026rsquo;s how I like to think about being here in Tech Square,\u0026rdquo; said Jones, a 23-year-old Macon native. \u0026ldquo;It was very attractive to be with the company as it\u0026rsquo;s starting something new; I like new challenges and tackling something new every day, so when I saw this opportunity, I knew I had to grab it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeepika Narayanan, who is pursuing her master\u0026rsquo;s degree in electrical and computer engineering at ECE, echoed Jones\u0026rsquo; sentiments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The fact this is opening in Atlanta and it\u0026rsquo;s a software design center attracted me to apply for the position, and I\u0026rsquo;m really excited,\u0026rdquo; said Narayanan, who expects to graduate in December. The 23-year-old will be working on coding and software development, and she said she hopes to go into data specialization analytics and machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUday Ravuri, who also expects to obtain his master\u0026rsquo;s in electrical and computer engineering at ECE in December, said Keysight\u0026rsquo;s offerings and culture made it an ideal choice for him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I basically looked for three things \u0026mdash; a cultural fit, technical fit, and career growth,\u0026rdquo; said Raburi, who will be working as a software engineer for the company. \u0026ldquo;And from the feedback I received from the employees, all three of those important factors seemed to be perfect in this company, and that\u0026rsquo;s why I went for it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fortune 1000 firm becomes 15th major corporation to open innovation center in or near Tech Square"}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2016-10-17 16:30:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-17 19:25:59","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582688":{"id":"582688","type":"image","title":"Keysight Technologies opens Software Design Center at Georgia Tech III","body":null,"created":"1476731915","gmt_created":"2016-10-17 19:18:35","changed":"1476731915","gmt_changed":"2016-10-17 19:18:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222120","name":"IMG_6292.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6292.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6292.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1731761,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_6292.jpg?itok=BjhHqG-W"}},"582685":{"id":"582685","type":"image","title":"Keysight Technologies opens Software Design Center at Georgia Tech II","body":null,"created":"1476730886","gmt_created":"2016-10-17 19:01:26","changed":"1476730914","gmt_changed":"2016-10-17 19:01:54","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222119","name":"IMG_6287.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6287.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6287.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1153202,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_6287.jpg?itok=lYCBIyqD"}},"582681":{"id":"582681","type":"image","title":"Keysight Technologies opens Software Design Center at Georgia Tech I","body":null,"created":"1476730437","gmt_created":"2016-10-17 18:53:57","changed":"1476732258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-17 19:24:18","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222118","name":"IMG_6297.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6297.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6297.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1527013,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_6297.jpg?itok=PxbHNCqr"}}},"media_ids":["582688","582685","582681"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"}],"keywords":[{"id":"111961","name":"Keysight Technologies"},{"id":"170298","name":"Innovation Centers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}