Teams

This VIP offers data to understand English as spoken by diverse populations in Georgia.  We produce academic articles and presentations about regional and ethnic language variation; change over time; and accents as signifiers of identity and attitudes.  Students develop skills in human subjects research, sociolinguistic theory, phonetic measurements, statistics, data science, and...

The purpose of the Living Building Science team is to evaluate the impact of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design on the non-human living and nonliving environment using sustainable scientific methods.

To examine how small, low cost unmanned aerial vehicles can be used to deliver items, operate in constrained environments, and maximize efficiency.  To achieve this, we will develop electromechanical designs, avionics, and algorithms for small, low cost, aerial vehicles.  We will first focus on developing gliding vehicles that are catapult launched.  Once the platforms are...

The team explores financial markets with machine learning tools. Machine learning (ML) techniques are heavily employed in quantitative trading strategies to predict or price stocks and other asset markets such as bonds, options and other derivatives, commodities, etc. Students will not only do research in these areas, but they will also learn how to use ML tools to better understand and...

This VIP project aims to create physically-based neural graphics algorithms that can generate visually appealing computer animations depicting various natural phenomena and physical processes. Our research is at the intersection of computer graphics, computational physics, neural representation, and machine learning.

Modern electronic devices are powerful but uninspiring; they are ubiquitous but ephemeral. We will design and fabricate devices for music production, gaming, and computing sparked by real-world designs from the past as well as fictional formulations of imagined futures. The black-and-white, utilitarian minimalism of modern laptops and cell phones that blight the aisles of Best Buy with boredom...

Develop creative robots that can listen to, play, and improvise music.

To produce novel, creative media about recent scientific discoveries and engineering innovations. These include but are not limited to: interactive museum-style exhibitions, online articles and videos, and festival exhibits. Specifically, the team will create one exhibit or demo per semester, and each team member will publish bi-weekly in the online science magazine Charged. ...

To develop smart city infrastructure health and safety condition monitoring, assessment, and diagnosis with the use of emerging sensor technologies (e.g. smart phones, 2D imaging, 3D laser scanning, 3D LiDAR, 3D printing, UAV, GPS, Telematics, CV/AV, etc.) with machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, signal processing, multi-source/scale/frequency...