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. 

Cancer Moonshots

Our biomedical engineers were among the first to receive funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as part of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative. They're leading two projects worth up to $74 million.

Gabe Kwong leads development of a new generation of cancer tests capable of detecting multiple types of tumors earlier than ever. The goal of the up to $50 million effort is to create a new kind of multi-cancer early detection test that would allow oncologists to start treating the tumors sooner, when they’re still small and most responsive. More

Phillip Santangelo's $24 million initiative with Emory University aims to use mRNA to essentially turn genes on or off in individual immune cells. The idea is to reverse the suppression or dysregulation of the immune system that is common in chronic diseases like cancer. 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) is a 2024 recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship for his work to understand the chemical interactions in harvesting solar energy. In particular, he is investigating how hydrogen bonding stabilized crystalline structures. Sloan Fellows are exceptional, creative researchers who stand out as the next generation of leaders. More

Lily Cheung (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) has received a research grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to support her work on transporter proteins on the surface of cells. Curci grants fund emerging research that’s working toward a healthy and sustainable future. Cheung’s project has the potential to improve medical treatments and lead to more resilient crops. 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.

Lily Cheung holds a plant in a lab with many shelves of plants in the background.

Lily Cheung

Faculty Highlights

In the 2023-24 academic year, many of our faculty members were recognized by national and international organizations. A sampling:

National Academy Inductees

Patricia Mokhtarian (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and David Sholl (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) were elected to the National Academy of Engineering. More

Wilbur Lam (Biomedical Engineering) was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. More

Farrokh Ayazi (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Maohong Fan (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Christopher Jones (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Wilbur Lam (Biomedical Engineering), Susan Margulies (Biomedical Engineering) and Karthikeyan Sundaresan (Electrical and Computer Engineering) became members of the National Academy of Inventors, the largest group of honorees from any single organization in 2023. More

Natalie Stingelin (Materials Science and Engineering) joined the European Academy of Sciences. More

National Science Foundation CAREER Award Recipients

Christos Athanasiou (Aerospace Engineering), Ahmet Coskun (Biomedical Engineering), Callie Hao (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Vida Jamali (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Pan Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering), and Juba Ziani (Industrial and Systems Engineering) received National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows

Greg Durgin, Omer Inan, Shimeng Yu, and Fumin Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering) became fellows of IEEE. 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, 11 engineering faculty members were named to these prestigious positions:

Eva Dyer and Vidya Muthukumar outside the CODA building.

Eva Dyer and Vidya Muthukumar received Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation in 2023. They're also working together on an NSF project to train artificial intelligence models on more detailed, augmented datasets.

Wilbur Lam points at a computer screen image with lots of blue lines captured from a microfluidic chip while talking with Ph.D. student Kirby Fibben seated at the computer. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)

Wilbur Lam was elected a member of both the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Inventors. Among the tools he has developed in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is an open-source tool that lets researchers use artificial intelligence to analyze moving and still images collected by any imaging device.