The College boasts top talent in every research department across all eight schools. Our best-in-class faculty with their many awards and grants is proof of our preeminence. Each faculty member excels at pushing the boundaries of innovation in engineering through interdisciplinary collaboration. 

Taking Big Swings

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded up to $21.8 million to Susan Thomas and Brandon Dixon (Mechanical Engineering) to develop a first-of-its-kind therapy for patients with lymphatic disease. More

Mark Styczynski (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) leads a $9.2 million project supported but the National Science Foundation to develop standardized cell-free modules for “plug-and-play” biomanufacturing. More

Early Career Faculty Awards

Many of our faculty are just beginning their careers when they come to Tech. They are on the cutting-edge of their research areas, studying the most current research methods and technologies. These outstanding early career faculty have been honored with awards for their work. 

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena (Materials Science and Engineering) has been honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his work on new kinds of solar cells. More

 

National Science Foundation CAREER Recipients

  • John Blazeck (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) for a project designing a method to evolve antibodies “from scratch” in yeast. More
  • Suhas Jain (Mechanical Engineering) to use supercomputers and an exascale simulation framework to advance understanding of difficult-to-predict gas-liquid flows. More
  • Aditya Kumar (Civil and Environmental Engineering) for building predictive models to study how the internal structure of composite materials determines how they fail. More
  • Da Pan (Civil and Environmental Engineering) for work combining monitoring, ground and satellite data, computer models, and machine learning to develop a more complete picture of nitrogen entering the atmosphere form agricultural and industrial sources. More
  • Emily Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) for her efforts to develop interlocking granular materials with both soft and rigid properties, depending on how they’re deformed. More
3D illustration of diamond-shaped perovskite structure in longs rows stacked in two layers.

An illustration of metal halide perovskites studied by Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena.

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Faculty Highlights

In the 2025-26 academic year, many of our faculty members were recognized by national and international organizations. A few highlights:

National Academy Inductees

David McDowell (Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering) was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. More

Deepakraj Divan and Arijit Raychowdhury (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were elected to the National Academy of Inventors. More

Significant Honors

The Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list includes nine engineering faculty members. These are researchers with work among the top 1% most cited in their fields. More

American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows

Raheem Beyah and Gabriel Rincón-Mora (Electrical and Computer Engineering) were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows

Andrés García (Mechanical Engineering) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More

Regents' Professors, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Researchers

Regents' titles are the highest academic and research recognition bestowed by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. In the last year, two additional engineering faculty members were named to these prestigious positions:

Rampi Ramprasad and three members of his research team discuss their AI models for generative polymer design in his office.

Rampi Ramprasad is among the engineering faculty members included on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list for 2025. His recent research includes creating the first AI for generative polymer design.

Nian Liu and a student pose with aluminum beverage can testing tools in the lab.

Nian Liu (right) also is included on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list for 2025. Liu also collaborates with Novelis to test the interactions of beverages with the thin coating inside the company's aluminum cans.