{"663237":{"#nid":"663237","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Georgia Tech\/GTRI Researchers Recognized as DARPA Risers ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA dozen Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, including four from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), were recognized as DARPA Risers during the agency\u0026rsquo;s recent DARPA Forward conference in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDARPA Risers are up-and-coming standouts in their fields, whose research is related to national security and demonstrates the potential to lead to technological surprise\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; the heart of DARPA\u0026#39;s mission. The Risers program provides individuals in the early stages of their research career a unique opportunity to be recognized for their notable work and present their ideas directly to DARPA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERisers were nominated by DARPA program managers and stakeholders at their home universities, said Stefanie Tompkins, DARPA\u0026rsquo;s director. Their ability to create technological surprise, she said, \u0026ldquo;is something very special to us at DARPA.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn all, 20 DARPA Risers were invited to attend the recent conference. They presented posters, and five \u0026ndash; including four Georgia Tech faculty members \u0026ndash; were selected to make brief presentations on their research. From a broad range of disciplines, the DARPA Risers from Georgia Tech are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKonrad Ahlin\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research engineer in GTRI\u0026rsquo;s Aerospace, Transportation, and Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS), who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Hyper-Redundant, Flexible Manipulator for DoD Applications.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMathieu Dahan\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who was recognized for work on \u0026ldquo;Strategic Allocation of Heterogeneous Resources to Fortify Complex Networks and Detect Attacks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThomas Gartner\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Machine Learning-Enhanced Molecular Simulation Tools for Advanced Polymer Materials.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuinton Guerrero\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research scientist in GTRI\u0026rsquo;s Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL), who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Fractional Fourier Transformed Prolate Spheroidal Sequence Waveforms for MIMO Systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian McMahon\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research scientist in GTRI\u0026rsquo;s Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Experimental Work on Developing Trapped-Ion Systems for Quantum Computing and Simulation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAkanksha Menon\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Water and Energy Harvesting Using Thermally Responsive Materials.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVidya Muthukumar\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor jointly appointed in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Data-Adaptive Algorithms for Learning in the Presence of Strategic Behavior.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Algorithmic and Systems Foundations for IPv6 Internet Scanning.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Peterson\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research engineer in GTRI\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Concepts Laboratory (ACL), who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Symmetry-Breaking and Symmetry-Protection in Electromagnetic Structures.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAhmed Saeed\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Improving the Performance and Robustness of LEO Satellite Networks.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnqi Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Understanding the Brain Using Interpretable Machine Learning Models.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDanfei Xu\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, who was recognized for \u0026ldquo;Learning to Solve Long-Horizon Robotics Tasks with Human-In-The-Loop.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDARPA held one of its six DARPA Forward conferences on Oct. 25 and 26 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. The purpose of the meeting was to connect with academic and industry innovators with the goal of growing the agency\u0026rsquo;s community of talent and partnerships. The meeting was part of a series being held in key U.S. research and development hubs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: John Toon (john.toon@gtri.gatech.edu).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGTRI Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta, Georgia USA\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout GTRI\u003C\/strong\u003E: The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).\u202fFounded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,800 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $700 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.\u202fGTRI\u0026#39;s renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, the state, and industry. For more information, please visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A dozen Georgia Institute of Technology researchers, including four from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), were recognized as DARPA Risers during the agency\u2019s recent DARPA Forward conference in Atlanta."}],"uid":"35832","created_gmt":"2022-11-16 14:59:42","changed_gmt":"2022-11-16 14:59:42","author":"Michelle Gowdy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663233":{"id":"663233","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\/GTRI Researchers Recognized as DARPA Risers","body":null,"created":"1668610172","gmt_created":"2022-11-16 14:49:32","changed":"1668610350","gmt_changed":"2022-11-16 14:52:30","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251077","name":"konrad-ahlin-poster.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/konrad-ahlin-poster.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/konrad-ahlin-poster.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2588983,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/konrad-ahlin-poster.jpg?itok=wj-HBzy-"}}},"media_ids":["663233"],"groups":[{"id":"1276","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"166902","name":"science and technology"},{"id":"179395","name":"darpa risers"},{"id":"14242","name":"DARPA Forward"},{"id":"690","name":"darpa"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"189447","name":"developing future technology leaders"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E(Interim) Director of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMichelle Gowdy\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMichelle.Gowdy@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-407-8060\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michelle.gowdy@gtri.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}