Affiliated Centers

The GT Neural Engineering Center (NEC) seeks to leverage revolutions in neuroscience, neuroengineering, and machine learning to create a shift in understanding the basic rules governing brain function as well as developing effective and ethical interactive technologies to shape brain activity and behavior. It also seeks to train interdisciplinary leaders prepared to work with academic, industry, and government practitioners and stakeholders and to educate the public about the evolving scientific, technical, and ethical landscape.

Contacts: Garrett Stanley 

The Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) is a joint venture of Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Center provides state-of-the-art neuroimaging facilities for studying brain-behavior relations in children and adults--including aged adults, and children with developmental disabilities like autism and ADHD. The CABI features a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system rated at 3 Tesla, which provides the power to observe details of electrical impulses and pathways in the brain, as well as other neuroimaging technologies, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial Doppler sonography, eye-tracking and other psychophysiological techniques.

Contact: Vince Calhoun 

The SimTigrate Design Lab is a research lab within the College of Design that investigates the ways that the environments we create effect our behavior, experience, and physiology, as mediated by our brains. SimTigrate plays a key role in the Charlie and Harriet Shaffer Cognitive Empowerment Program working to empower people affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI) through the design of the built environment and facilitating innovative research projects conducted in collaboration with people with MCI.

Contact: Hui Cai 

The McCamish Parkinson’s Disease Innovation Program aims to advance innovative, technology-driven research on Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders at the intersection of fundamental neuroscience, engineering and technology, and data and machine learning. With participation at Georgia Tech, Emory University, University of Georgia and across the state, the program is comprised of a community of scientists, engineers, clinicians, industry partners, community leaders, patients, and families collectively seeking to make Parkinson’s a disease of the past. 

Contact: Garrett Stanley 

Georgia Tech is part of the BRAIN (Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology) Center, an NSF-funded Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) based at the University of Houston. The BRAIN Center advances neurotechnologies by fostering collaboration between academia and industry and funding pre-clinical research projects of mutual interest. Research areas include neurorehabilitation, neuromodulation, AR/VR, microdevices, sensors, and treatments for neurological disorders, with cross-cutting efforts in data science, standards, regulatory issues, and neuroethics. Additionally, it offers students valuable connections to industry while also engaging the broader community through outreach and educational initiatives.

Contacts: Michelle LaPlaca , José Contreras Vidal, NSF BRAIN

The Tri-Institutional Georgia State/Georgia Tech/Emory TReNDS Center is focused on developing, applying, and sharing advanced analytic approaches and neuroinformatics tools that leverage advanced brain imaging and omics data to translate these approaches into biomarkers that help address relevant areas of brain health and disease. Large scale data sharing, modeling of brain dynamics, multimodal data fusion, and predictive neuroimaging techniques are the underpinnings of our approach. We develop and apply advanced analytic and machine learning approaches to study mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder depression), neurological (e.g., Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s disease) as well as brain development and aging. 

Contact: Vince Calhoun

The Center for Research and Education in Navigation (CRaNE) is an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional community for scholars interested in spatial processing, design, and navigation. Research and training includes basic and applied science in human and animal models, architecture, robotics, and artificial agents. CRaNE fosters inter-lab grants and projects as well as educational outreach, workshops, and trainee funding.

Contact: Thackery Brown 

The Center for Computational Cognition (CoCo) seeks to become a hub for research and education on computational cognition at Georgia Tech and nationally. CoCo holds a monthly talk series and runs a core facility that provides wearable technologies to observe and modulate brain and behavior. CoCo also supports educational initiatives, including a new minor in Cognition and Computation, as well as a planned 2-year Master’s degree in Computational Cognition.

Contact: Doby Rahnev