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: Dr. Garrett Stanley 

Georgia Tech is part of the BRAIN (Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology) Center, a NSF Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) based at the University of Houston, that focuses on neurotechnologies and brings academia together with industry. The BRAIN center works with companies and faculty to fund research of mutual interest before the clinical trial stage and facilitates bi-directional collaborations. BRAIN also connects students to industry and provides unique training opportunities, as well as links to the community through outreach and educational programs. BRAIN research areas are broad and include: neurorehabilitation, neuromodulation, augmented and virtual reality, microdevices and sensors, and novel methods and devices to study and treat neurological disorders, ranging from dementia to traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Cross-cutting implementation areas include data science, standards, regulatory issues, and neuroethics.

Contacts: Dr. Michelle LaPlaca , Dr. José Contreras Vidal, NSFBRAIN

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: Dr. Vince Calhoun 

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: Dr. Garrett Stanley 

The Tri-Institutional Georgia State/Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University TReNDS Center is focused on developing, applying, and sharing advanced analytic approaches and neuroinformatics tools that leverage advanced brain imaging and omics data, with a goal of translating these approaches into biomarkers that can 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: Dr. 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: Jennifer DuBose 

The Machine Learning Center includes over 190 affiliated faculty members and 60 Ph.D. students working to research and develop innovative and sustainable technologies using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that serve our community in socially and ethically responsible ways. The Center oversees an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in collaboration with the colleges of Computing, Engineering and Sciences.

Contact: Irfan Essa 

At Georgia Tech, developments in AI span many disciplines with dozens of campus centers and institutes. In 2023, the AI Hub at Georgia Tech was established to bring together faculty and research from across campus to collaboratively advance AI through discovery, interdisciplinary research, responsible deployment, and next-generation education to build a sustainable future.

Contact: Larry Heck