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August 2020

ML@GT Buzz

Research

Georgia Tech, 6 Collaborators Receive $5.9 Million NIH Grant for National Center in AI-based mHealth Research

Working with six other institutions, Georgia Tech researchers will develop more effective and personalized treatment approaches for chronic health conditions under a new $5.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Georgia Tech's project will be led by ML@GT's Jim Rehg.

People
Meet ML@GT: Lehman Transitions from Navy Engineer to Machine Learning Ph.D. Student

Charles Lehman is a second-year machine learning Ph.D. student who is also in the United States Navy Reserves, and the president of a start-up geared towards accelerating children’s literacy. Get to know him in this month's edition of Meet ML@GT.

News
Sarkar Named as New School of Computer Science Chair

ML@GT's Vivek Sarkar has been named the new chair of Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science. We look forward to seeing the school continue to grow and innovate under his leadership.

News
Dellaert Wins Test of Time Award for a Second Time This Year

Winning one Test of Time Award is a big deal. This summer, Frank Dellaert has won two! Dellaert was recently awarded the 2020 Robotics: Sciences and Systems (RSS) Test of Time Award for his pioneering work on the SLAM problem and robot mapping. Congratulations, Frank!

News

Why We Need a G.I. Bill for the Covid-19 Era

In an Op-Ed for The Hill, ML@GT Associate Director Deven Desai and Arizona State University's Christos Makridis make the case for why a G.I. Bill for the Covid-19 era is necessary.

Research
New Training Data Labeling System for Machine Learning Helps Developers

Georgia Tech researchers, including ML@GT Associate Director Polo Chau and Assistant Professor Xu Chu, have created a system that allows users to more effectively label a machine learning dataset with higher accuracy than current methods.

News

ML@GT at ICML

Last month, ML@GT presented nine papers at the International Conference on Machine Learning. Learn more about the research from the researchers themselves and more about our virtual time at the conference.

News

The College of Computing on Equity in Computing

The College of Computing stands firmly committed to anti-racism in all of its policies, programs, and priorities. Read our full statement here.

Watch

Hear from the ML@GT Experts on Their Summer Conference Research

Even though conferences looked a lot different this summer, the changes didn't stop our students and faculty from presenting their latest work. Check out our Research playlist and playlists for each conference this summer via our YouTube channel to hear from the researchers themselves about their work.

News

Tech Moving Forward

Georgia Tech has announced plans for returning to campus this fall. For details, visit Tech Moving Forward.

Research
What Are the Odds of Being Infected with Covid-19?

Explore a new county-level calculator that estimates the daily risk of one or more individuals infected with Covid-19 being present in U.S. events of various sizes.
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