Our Seed-Funded Research Centers
AI4Science
AI4Science is a college-wide center for artificial Intelligence and machine Learning (AI/ML) in sciences that fosters collaborations among faculty members across the college to drive innovation at the intersection of AI/ML and traditional scientific disciplines. AI4Science advances interdisciplinary research by organizing biweekly seminars, hosting biannual conferences, and providing seed funding for collaborative projects across Georgia Tech.
AI4Science capitalizes on the extensive infrastructure and diverse AI/ML landscape at Georgia Tech to support its mission, including faculty in the Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the IDEaS IRI, Tech AI, and the ML Center at Georgia Tech, etc. By providing infrastructure, expertise, and seed funding, the center empowers faculty members to apply state-of-the-art AI/ML techniques to tackle complex scientific challenges.
Center for Critical Mineral Solutions
The Center for Critical Mineral Solutions provides an interdisciplinary umbrella where critical mineral research and solutions can converge, and sets the stage for regional collaboration and development. Our mission is to develop innovative solutions and train the future workforce for sustainable critical mineral production, which will be achieved through three interwoven pillars: research and development, strengthening collaborations with regional universities, and developing regional resources and economy.
Center for Research and Education in Navigation
The Center for Research and Education in Navigation (CRaNE) is an interdisciplinary community for scholars interested in spatial processing, design, and navigation. CRaNE member research and training foci span basic and applied science in human and animal models, architecture, robotics, and artificial agents.
As part of its research mission, CRaNE aims to promote inter-lab grants and projects, through mechanisms including providing seed funds to members, and through working groups collaborating on research projects directly as well as large-scale funding applications. As part of its training mission, CRaNE aims to promote education at the frontiers of spatial cognition, computation, design, and navigation problems through workshops, educational outreach activities (e.g., K-12 STEM work) and pursuing sustained graduate training funds and establishing graduate trainee exchange programs between member institutions.
Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow
Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow (GT²) brings together Georgia Tech’s strengths in discovery science, engineering innovation, and AI-enabled decision tools to address urgent challenges at the intersection of environmental and community resilience in Georgia. We partner with state agencies, communities, industry, and nonprofits to turn research into outcomes.
Our state's wild and working lands are also central to our sense of place — shaping what Georgians value about living here and what visitors come to experience. Healthy ecosystems underpin major parts of our economy by supporting productive forests and farms, sustaining outdoor recreation and tourism, and helping communities manage climate and disaster risks.
GT² provides a clear front door for Georgia partners, coordination across colleges and Institute assets (IRIs, PIN, GTRI), evidence-based tools and pilots that partners can use, and helps tell our statewide story — from the coast to rural communities.
Georgia Tech Research Centers
Our faculty members lead research centers representing unique concentrations of talent and expertise in various fields:
- AI4Science
- Algorithms and Randomness Center
- Center for Advanced Brain Imaging
- Center for Biologically Inspired Design
- Center for Chemical Evolution
- Center for Critical Mineral Solutions
- Center for Integrative Genomics
- Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection
- Center for Nonlinear Science
- Center for Relativistic Astrophysics
- Center for Research and Education in Navigation (CRaNE)
- Center for the Integration of the Origins of Life
- Center for the Study of Systems Biology
- Georgia Tech for Georgia’s Tomorrow (GT²)
- Institute for Matter and Systems
(formerly Center for Nanobiology of the Macromolecular Assembly Disorders) - Radiation Effects on Volatiles and Exploration of Asteroids and Lunar Surfaces (REVEALS)
- Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB)
- Work Science Center
Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs)
Georgia Tech’s IRIs bring together researchers from the Institute’s seven colleges to focus on core research areas. IRIs also connect a large portfolio of research programs, support world-class research facilities and laboratories, engage Georgia Tech students, and collaborate with government and industry research partners. College of Sciences faculty members are affiliated with the following IRIs:
- Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
- Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
- Institute for Data Engineering and Science
- Institute for Matter and Systems
- Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society
- Institute for People and Technology
- Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
- Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
- Renewable Bioproducts Institute
- Strategic Energy Institute
- Space Research Institute
Interdisciplinary Research Centers (IRCs)
Georgia Tech’s IRCs bring together researchers from different disciplines to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech. College of Sciences faculty members are affiliated with the following IRCs:
- Cancer Technology Innovation Center
- Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems
- Center for ImmunoEngineering
- Center for Regenerative Engineering & Medicine
- Center for Space Technology and Research
- GVU Center (formerly Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center)
- Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces (STAMI) which coordinates activities of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, the Georgia Tech Polymer Network, the Center for Soft Materials, and the Community for Research on Active Surfaces and Interfaces
