BBISS Initiative Leads Projects Selected

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 9, 2023

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Brent Verrill, Research Communications Program Manager, BBISS

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Ten projects have been chosen involving 15 faculty members hailing from all 6 colleges at Georgia Tech and the campus in Shenzhen, China.

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Ten projects have been chosen involving 15 faculty members hailing from all 6 colleges at Georgia Tech and the campus in Shenzhen, China.

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Ten projects have been chosen for the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) Initiative Leads program. Project themes include climate adaptation and mitigation solutions, innovation and social impact, computation and design approaches to sustainability, sustainable development, and conservation. BBISS Initiative Leads receive $10,000 in discretionary funds to advance their project.

The projects chosen involve 15 faculty members hailing from all 6 of the colleges at Georgia Tech. Several of the projects are also joint initiatives with other Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IDEAS, IPAT, and SEI), the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, or the Office of Sustainability.

The Initiative Leads and projects are:

  • Michael Helms - ME, “Nature’s Voice: Amplifying the Narrative of Biologically Inspired Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech”
  • Josiah Hester - Interactive Computing, “Computational Sustainability”
  • Co-Leads Xiaoming Huo - ISYE, and Yi Deng – EAS, “Microclimate Monitoring and Predication at Georgia Tech's Shenzhen Campus”
  • Jian Luo - CEE, “Coastal Urban Flooding in a Changing Climate”
  • Brigitte Stepanov - Modern Languages, “Energy Today, Tomorrow: Illuminating the Effect of Energy Power Dynamics on the Environment”
  • Co-Leads Anjali Thomas – INTA, and Shatakshee Dhongde - ECON, “SEEDS (Southeast Exchange of Development Studies) 2023 Conference at Georgia Tech”
  • Co-Leads Danielle Willkens - Arch, and Junshan Liu – Auburn University, “Sustainable Tourism, Petra”
  • Co-Leads Yuanzhi Tang - EAS, and Hailong Chen – ME, “Sustainable Resources for Clean Energy”
  • Co-Leads Dori Pap - Institute for Leadership and Social Impact, and Neha Kumar – Interactive Computing/INTA, “Collaborative Social Impact”
  • Alex Oettl - COB, “A Sustainability-Focused Stream of the Creative Destruction Lab”

The Initiative Leads program has several overarching goals. BBISS aims to cultivate promising topics for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and/or high-impact outreach; to provide (mostly mid-career) faculty with leadership and community building opportunities; and to broaden and strengthen the BBISS sustainability community as a whole.

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Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Research Horizons

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Institute and Campus, Research
Related Core Research Areas
Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure
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  • Created By: Brent Verrill
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Feb 9, 2023 - 10:05am
  • Last Updated: Feb 27, 2023 - 11:35am