Celebrate this season, Yellow Jackets🐝! You’ve earned it.
Three days of graduation ceremonies, the Dean’s Send-off Celebration, and thousands of friends and family to help you celebrate—we hope you enjoyed your official commencement activities, and the afterparties🎉!
Safe journeys on your next chapter in life. Put us on your short list of stops if you’re ever back in the area 🗺️. Yellow Jackets for life 💗🐝!
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When Mizan Rahman began his PhD, he’d already founded three startups and was an angel investor in numerous others.
The 52-year-old entrepreneur earned his PhD in human-centered computing this week 🎉. His daughter also got her bachelor's from Georgia Tech today!
Go Jackets🐝! Read more at the link in the bio.
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A common thread among many of our spring 2026 graduates is that they have become CS craftspeople during their time at Tech.
Meet Jack Hayley, a, um, jack of all trades. He's done robotic musicianship🤖🎶, game development🕹️, assistant teaching🏫, and more, refining his craft and working across teams to help prepare him for life.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) gets first crack at Hayley's talent, starting him as a full-time software development engineer. Hayley will also continue honing his creative work in film and game development.
Go Jackets🐝!
Read more at the link in the bio.
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Chengrui Li walked across the commencement stage today to receive his Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering. It marked his final, and perhaps easiest, performance at Georgia Tech.
Between orchestra concerts, magic shows, and yo-yo exhibitions, Li thrives in the limelight. In fact, not much rattles his nerves considering the five years of pressure he endured studying computational neuroscience at Tech.
Peek behind the curtain for highlights of Li's experience as a grad student. Go Jackets🐝!
Q&A at the link in bio.
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Agam Shah is a new graduate of Georgia Tech's Ph.D. in Machine Learning program and a standout in his peer group. Among his 20+ research papers, he contributed to a language model that's now actively used by economists at many of the world’s top central banks.
In the graduate program, Shah studied how public statements by businesses and financial institutions shape market behavior.
Now he will focus on his fintech startup ZettaQuant, which aims to solve one of the biggest challenges in using LLMs and agents: working effectively with massive underlying datasets.
Go Jackets 🐝!
Read more in the Q&A at the link in the bio.
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Film creator, teaching assistant, software engineering intern, video game artist—Kathy Tran did it all while at @georgiatech . On Thursday, she’ll receive her bachelor’s degree in computer science and take her toolkit with her on the next chapter in life as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in California.
Reflecting on her Tech experience, Tran says:
"Being surrounded by a highly motivated group of people forces you to try to be the best version of yourself. I’ve met people who achieve great things. Seeing them achieve their goals makes it seem like mine aren’t out of reach and only makes me work harder to achieve them."
Go Jackets🐝! Read her Q&A with more Tech tales at the link in the bio.
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Zoo Atlanta’s caretakers want their elephants happy 💗🐘.
A Georgia Tech computing team is helping by making the habitat for the zoo’s four elephants—Titan, Msholo, Kelly, and Tara—a more stimulating home.
Arianna Mastali, the team lead and a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, installed an audio system for the elephants’ enrichment wall, which helps stimulate the animals’ brains. So now, when an elephant sticks its trunk into one of the wall’s holes, it’s rewarded with a distinctive low-frequency tone from a nearby speaker🎶.
The elephants’ visits to the wall have increased 176%, and time spent at the wall jumped by 71%.
Caretakers said the elephants mainly fished for food through the holes when they knew it was there. But the new audio stimulation has given them more to do at the enrichment wall.
Go Jackets🐝...and Go Elephants🐘!
Read more at the news link in the bio.
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No. 7 is lucky for us this week.
The new 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings placed Georgia Tech No. 7 overall among Best Computer Science Schools with graduate programs 🎉.
Notable computing rankings include:
- No. 5 Artificial Intelligence, up from No. 6
- No. 6 Systems (tied)
- No. 13 Theory (tied)
- No. 15 Programming Language
Read more in the link in bio.
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We’re all abuzz after the exciting 2026 Inventure Prize finals where two teams with computer science students took home the competition’s big awards.
Congrats 🎉 to Marilyn Pelayo-Montufar @marilyn.pm_ and the Hearo team for winning the Inventure Prize and $20,000.
Hearo’s invention reimagines the otoscope for parents, enabling them to give their kids at-home ear exams and possibly avoid a trip to the doctor’s office.
Securing the People’s Choice Award and $5,000 was Arayna Saxena @arayna_saxena and her partners on DoorTix, a smart ticket purchasing platform designed to combat price gouging for live events.
Lily Chisholm @lavindex combined her love of Art+CS to help take her team all the way to the finals with Matareal, a system to convert digital mural designs into paint volumes.
Go Jackets 🐝💖!!
Read more at the link in the bio.
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Aibek Musaev's journey to Georgia Tech as a student and now a lecturer is a fascinating one.
He's accrued significant experience in industry, working at Siebel Systems on customer relationship management software. He also founded and managed a successful software company in his native Kyrgyzstan.
Musaev believes those experiences provide perspective that cannot be learned in a classroom alone.
“My advice may be nontraditional,” he said. “Spend time in industry. Seeing how the concepts you teach are applied in practice provides an invaluable perspective. This is something you simply cannot gain from textbooks alone.”
Read more at link in the bio.
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At Georgia Tech, several research groups are addressing the challenges presented by the explosive growth in data centers. Georgia is an AI data center hub, ranked fourth globally.
#GTComputing experts are highlighted in a new feature story for their work:
• Ahmed Saeed focuses on how data centers are built, operated, and regulated, and what their growth means for host communities.
• Jessica Roberts is involved on a browser-based game, Current Crisis, that puts players in the role of a utility decision-maker who has to confront tradeoffs in energy reliability and costs.
• Stella Quinto Lima is looking at how players of Current Crisis understand their own misconceptions about the power grid, energy use, and AI, and to engage players in critical thinking.
Read more at the 🔗 link in the bio.
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Need inspiration for spring break planning? Well, if you want to stretch past your comfort levels, you can always travel to disaster areas like this one group of dedicated students.
The spring 2025 cohort in the International Disaster Reconnaissance (IDR) course spent spring break along the Teesta River corridor in Sikkim, India, where a flood destroyed a dam and impacted downstream towns.
The group used Filio, an AI-powered visual reporting platform developed at Georgia Tech, to capture immersive photos and video in 360 degrees. Filio allowed the students to transform real disaster sites into living digital classrooms.
Read more at the link in the bio.
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