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Atlanta, GA | Posted: July 1, 2015
Tara La Bouff
Communications Manager
tlabouff@cc.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
Assistant Professor Bistra Dilkina (CSE) and Professor Ashok Goel (IC) begin three-year terms as newly selected, inaugural Brook Byers Fellows at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech.
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bistra/ashokAssistant Professor Bistra Dilkina (CSE) and Professor Ashok Goel (IC) begin three-year terms as newly selected, inaugural Brook Byers Fellows at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech. Ten other faculty across campus are among the new members who will provide essential advice about the direction of sustainability research at Georgia Tech.
Brook Byers Fellows serve as exclusive strategic and tactical advisors to the independent research institute. They also serve as ambassadors to communicate broadly the vision, mission, values, and objectives of the Institute to others. They bring to the Director’s attention individuals and organizations that share mutual interests in sustainability, and help facilitate partnerships when appropriate.
The program is named after Brook Byers -- a venture capitalist and senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1968 from Georgia Tech and later an MBA from Stanford University. He has helped build more than 110 companies in the life sciences area, and is particularly active in biotechnology incubation. His philanthropy supports the eponymous Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems.
In late August, the Fellows will begin mapping out a strategy for future years. Members are:
First | Last | School | College |
Baabak | Ashuri | Building Construction | COA |
Ellen | Dunham-Jones | Architecture | COA |
Atalay | Atasu | Business | SCOB |
Ashok | Goel | Interactive Computing | COC |
Bistra | Dilkina | Computational Science & Engineering | COC |
Randy | Guensler | Civil & Environmental Engineering | COE |
Tom | Fuller | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | COE |
Kevin | Caravati | Aero Trans Adv Sys | GTRI |
Dan | Matisoff | Public Policy | IAC |
Juan | Moreno-Cruz | Economics | IAC |
Marc | Weissburg | Biology | COS |
Kim | Cobb | Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | COS |
