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Will Gutekunst, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, co-leads the interface of polymer science and wood-based materials initiative along with Blair Brettmann at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI).
Below is a brief Q&A with Gutekunst where he discusses his research focus areas and how they influence the interface of polymer science and wood-based materials initiative at Georgia Tech.
In a break from tradition, Explore students will live and learn in apartment-style dorms during the 2024-2025 school year. The Eighth Street West address will be new, but Explore’s mission to provide a science-focused hub where students thrive through academic support, career exploration, and engaging social activities remains unchanged.
Four College of Sciences alumni have been selected as members of the 2024 class of 40 under 40.
Berry, a Chemistry Ph.D. student, is one of 40 students in the U.S. to receive the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship awarded to emerging leaders in computational science. She is the sole student from Georgia Tech to earn the distinction this year.
Nine early-career professors will pursue cutting-edge climate mitigation research during the upcoming year as part of the initiative.
Neural networks do the opposite, making the same decisions each time. Now, Georgia Tech researchers in Associate Professor Dobromir Rahnev’s lab are training them to make decisions more like humans. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural network even closer to the actual human brain may make it more reliable, according to the researchers.
