Lecture.  My  name  is  Michael  Best. I'm  Executive  Director  of  IPAC  and Professor  of  International  Affairs and  Interactive  Computing  Tech. And  I  think  I  see  Tim  Twisting  nobs, I  think  we're  working  to perfect  the  audio  levels  right  now. And  I'll  continue  to  talk. Til  the  Hm.  Really  delighted to  see  all  of  you  futures  are  coming  in. It's  exciting  to  fill  the  room  that always  bodes  well  for  the  energy of  this  semester  and  the  work  that we're  going  to  do  together  within the  Lung  fracture  series, but  also  hopefully  the  many  things that  will  join  us  across the  iPad  suite  of  events  and  activities  and  programs. This  is  not  a  vision  top  or  research  tp. It's  the  tradition  of  Pad  and  Brown  Back  series, which  was  the  story  historical  lecture  series  that  has been  occurring  in  this  room  for a  decade  or  more,  perhaps. That  the  first  lunch  lecture  for the  academic  year  and  even  for  the  semester  sometimes, is  sort  of  an  introduction  to the  programming,  the  facilities, and  sort  of  the  intellectual  activities that  organize  iPad. And  so  that's  what  today  is. So  if  you  can't  expecting a  research  talk  or  something,  I  apologize. This  is  more  about  what  we've got  going  and  exciting  things that  we  think  we  can  do  together  for  the  fall  semester. So  first  of  all,  I  said  a  little  bit  about  me. Now  I'd  like  to  ask  a  few  questions  to  get  to  know  you. How  many  of  you  are students  registered  in  the  Lunch  lecture  series? Show  of  hands.  How  many  of  you  are students  that  are  just  here  from  Georgia  Tech  students, not  not  in  the  series?  Great. Welcome.  How  many  of  you are  Georgia  Tech  faculty  or  staff? And  how  many  of  you  are  outside  of  Georgia  Tech? Alright.  Well,  welcome. How  many  of  you  have  never  been  to  an  iPad  event before?  Wow,  a  lot. A  lot  a  lot.  And  how  many  of  you are  always  at  IPD  events  and kind  of  getting  tired  of  them?  Oh,  y. The  IPad  team  immediately  shes  their  hands  up. Perfect.  So  a  lot  of  you, maybe  even  a  third  of  you  raise  your  hand, a  quarter  of  you  raise  your  hand  saying, this  is  your  first  PAD  event. So  I'm  going  to  start  with  just  a  little  bit  of description  of  what  in  the  world  is  PAD. IPD  is  one  of  the  ten interdisciplinary  research  institutes  at  Georgia  Tech. Those  are  APEX  organizations  structured  within the  executive  vice  president  of Research  Office  to  try  to  cross  units, cross  colleges,  cross  the  academic  programming  with  GTRI, cross  across  all  of  Georgia  Tech  and  even  connect to  other  parts  of  Atlanta  or  the  nation  or  the  world, bringing  our  research  strategies and  objectives  into  focus. So  the  point  is  for  us  to  connect  across  units. And  IPAT  or the  P  in  Technology  Interdisciplinary  Research  Institute is  the  only  one  of  the  ten  that even  mentioned  that  humans  exist  at  all. We  have  people  in  our  name. I'd  like  to  say  that  we're  the  heart  and  soul of  the  Georgia  Tech  research  enterprise. And  we  are  definitely  tasked  with  trying  to bring  our  social  scientists,  humanists,  designers, entrepreneurs,  innovators, in  conversation  with  our  engineers, computer,  folks,  and  natural  scientists. So  that  really,  I  think, is  our  core  reason  for  existing, is  to  try  to  have  those  conversations. And  hopefully,  this  room  is  the  kind  of place  where  that  conversation  will  happen. With  L  luck,  you're  sitting next  to  somebody  who  you  are  not. So  if  you're  a  social  scientist, maybe  you're  sitting  next  to  an  engineer,  for  instance. We  do  we  accomplish these  goals  by  catalyzing  a  communities. And  you'll  hear  about  ways  in  which  we  try  to engage  across  the  institute  to bring  conversations  in  play around  the  intellectual  areas  that  we're  focusing  on. We  also  create  systems. So  we  have  within  IPAT, a  large,  very  creative, skilled  research  faculty,  and  we  build  systems, we  maintain  systems,  we  deploy  systems. Also  educate,  just  like  any  part  of  Georgia  Tech, students  are  our  reason  for  being  here, and  many,  many  of  our  faculty are  in  the  classroom  quite  a  bit. And  we  advocate  for sociotechnical  change,  for  policy  advancement. We're  out  there  in  communities. We're  trying  to  make  change  and  in  ways  that  we believe  develop  more  people  centered  technologies. Our  vision  at  IPAT  is  an  inclusive,  equitable, and  just  future  supported  by  People  Center  Technologies, and  this  is  a  vision  that  we developed  over  the  last  year. In  fact,  speaking  of  the  last  year,  Okay, this  is  super  self  serving  and basically  boastful  of  me,  but  I'm  going  to  be  all, like  This  is  today marks  the  end  of  my  first  year  as  PAD  executive  director. And  I'm  really  just  excited  about  what  we accomplished  over  the  previous  academic  year  when I  was  in  my  initial  period of  time  as  as  executive  director. So  I  think  it  was  a  great  year  for  IPAT. And  for  those  of  you  who  are  not part  of  sort  of  what  we  were  doing, we  ran  a  lot  of  programs, including  this  panel  early  in  August  of  last  year about  sort  of  considering the  intersections  of  people  and  technologies. We  then  did  a  lot  of  strategic  visioning  work. And  that's  where  we  came up  with  the  new  vision  statement, and  with  the  initiatives  that  I'm  going  to  discuss and  introduce  our  initiative  leads  in  a  second. We  continued  the  exciting  work going  on  in  Savannah  at  the  SER  Hub, which  is  our  coastal  equity  facility for  environmental  justice, community  based  environmental  justice and  citizen  science  around  environmental  sciences. And  a  bunch  of  the  IPAT  research  leadership spent  a  couple  days  in Savannah  last  week  at  a  research  retreat. And  it  was  absolutely  very  interesting  to  go  to see  the  Seer  Hub  community  partners and  to  understand  sort  of  the  challenges  they  have, the  way  they're  framing environmental  justice  and  community  engagement, the  things  that  are  front  of  mind  for  them. I  mean,  I  catch  me  offline  because I  want  to  tell  you  about  it  because  it was  just  really  impactful. We  also,  you  know,  continue  to build  our  research  facilities. I'll  tell  you  more  about  that. But  here,  Tim  Trent. Also,  our  sound  Man  today is  working  with  the  new ultra  high  definition  three  D  printer. We  also  had  a  lot  of our  team  members  continue  to  grow  into significant  leadership  across  campus pictured  here  is  Mary  Beth  Coleman, who  was  made  Regents  researcher  and  is  also  now the  Associate  Assistant  vice  Provost for  Research  Faculty. Last  year,  we  announced  a  lot  of programming  with  our  partner  organizations, including  a  number  of  what  I  would  think  of as  the  City  of  Atlanta's  Tent  post  organizations. That  includes  the  first Georgia  Tech  Carter  Center  fellowship here  being  announced  with  Paige  Alexander, the  CEO  of  the  Carter  Center, and  our  own  president  An  Hel  Cabrera  and  Daniel  An  Camo, the  first  fellow  between  Georgia  Tech  and the  Carter  Center  focused  on  governance  and  technology. We  continue  to  run  a  very  exciting  K through  12  rural  education  program  across  the  state of  Georgia  trying  to  develop stem  capabilities  amongst  rural  high  school  students, and  we'll  hear  a  little  bit  more  about  that, but  I  think  that  was  a  real  milestone  last  year. We  launched  a  number  of  IPAC  global  initiatives. And  I  am  here  to  claim  without  any  particular  facts, but  I  just  think  it's  true. We  are  the  first  IRI  to  host  the  head  of  state. So  a  month  or  so  ago, we  hosted  the  President  of  Liberia  as  part  of an  IPD  initiative  in Liberia  with  the  College  of  Computing. Here's  a  photo  of  Senior  Georgia  Tech  leadership, along  with  the  President  of  Liberia and  the  Feign  minister  of  Liberia. We  were  having  lunch  across the  street  at  the  Georgia  Tech  Hotel. And  we  continue  to  work  with  our  students, including  a  summer  internship  program  for undergraduates  and  other  student  programs and  projects  across  the  year. So  I'm  just  here  to  thank the  IPAT  team  and the  broader  community  for  engaging  last  year. As  I  say,  was  my  first  year  as  executive  director, and  I  am  going  to boastfully  say  that  it  was  really  a  nice  success. We  got  a  lot  done,  and  I'm  thrilled  to be  entering  the  second  year  to  continue the  progress  that  we  I  think  laid  the  foundations for  in  the  2023  24  academic  year. So  thank  you,  everyone  who participated  in  last  year's  activities. So  now  onto  what's  happening  this  year. And  even  though  this  isn't  a  research  talk, what  I  want  to  start  with  is describe  some  of  the  research  foci, the  sort  of  intellectual  difficult  problems that  IPAT  is  really, really  focusing  on  and  concerned  about, and  that  we  think  are the  critical  global  challenges  that  sit within  the  people  and  technology  intersection. And  what  we  have  done Is  we  went  through  a  a  period  of listening  and  learning  from the  broader  IPAC  community  last  year  and a  bunch  of  ideation  and  brainstorming  sessions  to  develop these  four  initiatives  that  kind  of  serve  as our  way  of  framing  the  core  efforts  within  IPAT. We  did  that  last  semester  and  the  semester  before. And  then  today,  I'm  here  to, with  great  enthusiasm, introduce  you  to  the  four  initiative  leads. These  are  four  faculty  members across  the  institute  who  are  going  to  give  you one  to  two  minute  pitches  about their  initiatives  that  they  are  leading  and  how those  initiatives  will  be  used  to  engage across  Georgia  Tech  and  to  bring  you  in  to  programs, events,  workshops,  community  building  activities, specific  research  projects, and  also  fund  raising  and  development  activities. So  without  further  ado, these  are  the  four  reachers  Foci. These  are  the  initiatives  that  we  are  using  to  kind  of, again,  frame  some  of  the  research  work  within  IPAT. Global  health  equity  and  well  being, just  resilient  and  informed  communities, responsible  and  ethical  technologies  in art  expression  and  creative  technologies. So  what  we're  going  to  do  now  is  just  hear very  quickly  from  each  of  the  initiative  leads, asking  them  to  introduce  themselves  and  give their  one  or  two  minute  overview,  starting  with  Danielle. And  Tim  is  gonna  try  to  chase  you  with  a  mike. Okay.  Good  afternoon,  everyone. Welcome.  It's  great  to  see  so  many  faces. I'm  Daniel  Wilkins.  I'm  in  the  School  of  Architecture. Teach  Between  design,  architectural  history. And  a  lot  of  what  we're  going  to  focus  on within  the  resilient  and  Form  communities, is  basically  how  we  tell  the  stories  of  places and  how  we  document  sites  and  systems in  order  to  make  those  more  visible  and  enact a  real  sense  of  kind  of  community  leadership and  advocacy  within  those  sites. So  stay  on  board  and  kind of  stay  tuned  for  some  information about  how  to  get  involved. We've  got  some  fun  digital  documentation  projects ahead  and just  community  celebration  events  for  here  in  Atlanta. All  right.  Thanks. And  next,  we  hear  from  Rudy. Hey,  guys,  really  happy  to  be  here. When  Michael  asked  who's had  the  first  iPad  event  to  raise  their  hand. I  actually  rose  my  hand. So  this  is  my  first  time  here. I'm  kind  of  a  newbie  to  iPad. But  when  this  came  across  my  screen, this  opportunity  to  be an  initial  ad  for  global  health  equity, and  wellness,  the  goal  of  this  initiative is  it's  reached  when  no  one  is excluded  from  achieving the  highest  attainable  level  of  health  potential. So  that's  the  goal.  And  What  we're  doing  here  is  trying to  as  a  first  step  sort  of  gather community  interested  in  that  vision  and  that  goal. So  over  the,  you  know, over  this  semester,  we're  working  towards gathering  people  on  the  Georgia  Tech campus,  with  this  interest, with  this  passion  and  try  to  dream  big,  I  think, in  this  area  of  how  Georgia  Tech  can  be a  leader  in  Atlanta  and  the  US,  and  the  globe. So  that's  my  vision. Thank  you.  And  we  now  turn  to  Oh, no,  you  have  this  other  s.  Okay.  You  want  me  to  go  here. All  right,  good.  I  thought  maybe  it  was  coming up  later.  That's  great. And  so  really,  kind  of,  like  I  said, over  this  next  couple  of  months, if  you're  interested,  I just  encourage  you  to  reach  out  to  me. There's  my  Georgia  Tech  e  mail. And  we're  hoping  in  November to  assemble  people  in  this  room  with that  interest  and  use whiteboards  and  try  to  dream  about  where  we  can  go. So  thanks,  Michael. Okay,  Sure.  And  now  next,  Lisa. There  you  go.  Hello.  I'm  Lisa  Mark. I'm  a  professor  in  Industrial  Design, and  I'm  leading  Arts  Expression and  creative  technologies. So  this  is  going to  we're  going  to  focus  on  different  ways  that  we  can  use really  creative  ideas  across  every  discipline  to  kind  of come  up  with  new  and  different  solutions  to  problems. I  think  for  arts  Expression  and  creative  technologies, iPad  is  especially  useful  because  there are  just  so  many  labs,  so  many  resources. It's  been  such  a  huge  help  for  my  research, my  teaching,  my  students. So  there's  a  lot  of  engagement. If  you  can  I  think  I  give  you  a  second.  Next  slide. Are  just  some  of  the  examples  of  my  work, and  I  focus  on  craft  and  combining  that  with modeling  and  technology  to create  new  solutions  for  design. But  I  really  want  to  remain open  to  all  the  different  types of  solutions  across  disciplines. So  I  have  no  information  to  give  you  yet. But  the  first  event should  be  kind  of  a  round  table where  we  can  hear  from  somebody who  uses  arts  and  expression  in their  discipline  from  each  of  the  colleges  across campus  and  coming  together  to  start brainstorming  how  we  can  cross disciplines  with  creativity.  And  I'm  also Planning  and  hoping  to  have  some  really great  workshops  here  in  the  craft  lab and  some  of  the  other  labs  for different  skills  that  can  help  us  all.  Thank  you. Thank  you,  Lisa.  Finally,  Alan. Yes.  Thank  you. Hello,  everybody.  My  name  is  Alan  Hyde. I'm  an  associate  professor  in the  School  of  History  and  Sociology. I'm  a  sociologist,  and  so  I'll  be  leading the  Responsible  and  Ethical  Technologies  initiative. And  so  I  mean,  the  goal  of  this is  technology  can  create  a  lot  of  innovation, and  it  helps  move  humans  towards  progress. However,  it's  really  important  that  we  think about  ethics  and  responsibility  as  we  design, and  as  we  apply  technology. Otherwise,  there  can  be  negative  consequences. So  the  goal  of  this  initiative  is  to  maximize the  benefits  and  minimize the  negative  effects  for  everybody. That  means  across  different social  statuses  and  geographies. And,  you  know,  these  projects  that  might  be associated  with  this  particular  initiative  can range  from  the  design  of  technology  to  the  application  of technology  to  even  thinking  about knowledge  and  access  to  information  like  data, and  this  can  be  through  12  education  and  development. I'm  aiming  to  do  an  initial  informal  kind  of coffee  and  meta  around  October  18. That's  my  goal,  but  more  information  will  be  provided. And  thank  you. Thank  you,  Ellen.  Yeah.  And  these  initiative  leads started  two  weeks  ago. So  thank  you  to  them  for  stepping  in. And  just  stay  tuned because  all  of  them  are  going  to  be  putting together  workshops  and  programs  and  events  within their  initiative  and  funding  opportunities and  all  the  things  we've  already  discussed. So  stay  tuned  for  more, but  this  is  just  the  start,  and  I'm  really, really  thrilled  We  have  faculty, two  faculty  from  College  of  Design, one  faculty  from  Ivan  Allen and  one  faculty  from  engineering. Since  half  of  the  rest  of  us are  in  college  of  computing  already. The  only  thing  we're  really  missing  is  Sheller,  you  know, I'm  really  thrilled  at  the  intellectual diversity  we  have  and the  intellectual  and  substantive  importance of  these  particular  initiatives. So,  you  know,  again,  stay  tuned. How  many  of  you  even  know  what  GTRI  is? So  how  many  of  you  I  should  have  put  it  this  way. Do  not  know  what  GTRI  is. Uh  huh.  So  that's  not  a  small  number. So  let  me  turn  it  over  to  PADs  Deputy  Director, who's  going  to  tell  you  very  quickly  about  GTRI. IPAT  is  one  of  only  three  IRIs that  has  a  direct  lenk  to  GTRI. So  we'll  hear  a  little  bit  about  that  and  one  of the  important  programs  that  Lee  McCook, our  deputy  director  is  working  on. And  wow  to  this  crowded  room. It's  great  to  see  so  many  people  here. So  again,  I'm  Lee  McCook. I'm  a  principal  Research  Associate in  George  Tech  Research  Institute. I  GTRI.  I'll  take a  whole  hour  to  give  you  an  introduction  to  GTI, it'll  tell  you  there's  eight  labs, the  number  of  filled  offices. We  do  a  lot  of  work  around  DODBo, a  lot  of  state  agency  work, K  212  education  work, workforce  development,  health,  a  lot  of the  areas  that  are  important  to  PAD. But  specifically,  as  Mike  said, GTI  is  investing  in  PAD because  this  is  important  to  GTI  and  its  mission. Access,  providing  access,  ensuring  equity, ensuring  that  we  reach  the  people  we  need  to reach  with  health  care  with  education,  et  cetera. So  my  role  for  GTI  is to  kind  of  help  in where  we  have  opportunities  for  shared  resources. Richard  Stark  and  talk  to  you  more  about  PHDI, which  is  one  of  the  shared  resources, supported  by  GTRI  and  PAD, and  he  works  on  projects  across  campus. We  also  support  seed  grant  funding  G  with  PAD. So  we  put  seed  grant  funding into  PAP  projects  and  GTI  projects, bring  researchers  together  in  order  to  foster more  collaborations  and  partnerships for  building  those  researchers. You  can  also  approach  me  for  identifying subject  matter  experts  from across  TRI,  making  connections. Bringing,  I'm  trying  to  build  the  community  of GTRI  faculty  and  researchers who  participate  in  our  programs, fostering  state  industry  and federal  agency  engagement  and supporting  existing  funding  projects. There's  a  number  of  ways  we  could  do  that, whether  as  a  project  is  on  campus  or  is  it  at  GTRI, through  shared  appointments,  through  subcontracts, through  a  number  of  different  ways  that  we  can  explore. And  again,  developing  joint  programs  and participating  in  selling  opportunities and  networking  building  opportunities. Um,  so  for  the  next  slide, one  of  the  primary  activities we've  been  very  focused  on  working  on  is  some of  our  K  12  Youth  and  Workforce  Development  programs through  the  SIMI  GRI  program and  the  rule  Computer  Science  Initiative. I  have  two  slides  up  on  this. The  I'll  focus  on  the  rule  Computer  Science  Initiative. And  we  are  funded  by  the  Georgia  General  Assembly  in partnership  with  Seismic  to teach  computer  science  modules to  students  in  rural  classrooms  who  don't  have  access  to teachers  who  are  maybe  certified  in  computer  science  or maybe  don't  have  computer  science classes  in  their  high  schools. So  we  teach  the  modules, PAD  faculty,  Georgia  Tech  faculty,  GTI  faculty. We're  now  in  our  third  year, and  we're  in  36  rule  high  schools  as  of Fog,  today,  and  we'll  be  adding  eight  more  in  the  spring. So,  this  is  a  program that  across  campus  at  all  levels  is  about providing  access  across  the  state  to Georgia  Tech  expertise  and  to  computer  science  education. So  part  of  what  we  do  is  also  share everything  else  that  we're  doing  at Georgia  Tech  with  these  students. I  would  say,  one  of  the  counties  that  we're working  with  for  the  first  time  in  24  years  had two  students  apply  and  get  accepted  to Georgia  Tech  based  on  their  academic  credentials, and  they  both  participated  in  this  program, as  well  as  the  internship  program, which  IPAT  works  with  us  in  supporting a  high  school  internship  program  for  the  summer. Super  Thank  you,  Lee. And  I  think  that  the  fact  that  GTRI  and  PAD  have such  a  strong  partnership  allows  for  us to  facilitate  connections  between  campus  and  GTRI. So  for  those  who  raise  your  hands  saying  you don't  even  know  what  GTRI  is, come,  find  out  more. It's  huge.  There  are  thousands  of  32,000 offices.  It's  huge,  2000  plus  employees. It's  a  very  significant  operation doing  a  lot  of  research  and  development. So,  speaking  of  research  and  development, I'm  going  to  turn  it  over  to  Marybeth, our  Director  of  research  to  talk  about  a  little  bit. I  said  that  we  create  things, but  we  do  it  through  the  IPAT  way. So  we're  going  to  hear  a  bit  about  the  PAD  way  and some  of  the  work  of  our  research  faculty. Hello,  everyone.  Yes,  so  I'm  going  to  give  you a  quick  whirlwind  tour  of  what  we do  in  regards  to  supporting  the  research  enterprise. And,  you  know,  a  lot  of  times  where  IPAT  can  really  have the  most  impact  is  on these  really  ambitious  research  initiatives, where  cross  disciplinary  collaboration  is  key, where,  you  know, substantive  connections  to  the  people  is  key. And  Oftentimes,  our  real  value  comes from  being  the  connective  tissue in  those  kind  of  endeavors, where  we're  helping  bring in  the  expertise  that  you're  lacking, connect  you  to  the  services  or the  people  that  you  need  to  include. I  you  can  really  kind  of  categorize the  types  of  support  that  we  can  provide  as  facilities, and  I  won't  talk  about  those  in  depth. You're  going  to  hear  more  about  them  later, but  that  can  be  physical  things  like  on  campus, or  it  could  be  standing  up  and  supporting  field  sites, somewhere  else  in  the  world. Services.  You've  already  heard  mention  of  like  the  PDI, the  Protected  Health  Data  infrastructure  service. It  could  be  that  you  have  some  software  platform, you  need  to  be  created. You  know,  services  that  will help  you  and  your  team  over  the  years, or  it  could  be  something  you're  providing  out  to the  community  as  a  way  of  translating  your  research. And  the  people  making  all  this happen  are  the  personnel  of  IPAT, which  include  15  research  faculty. And  also  pretty  tight  connections  to the  600  campus  research  faculty  that  are  out  there,  too. So  when  I  wear  my  other  hat  as  the  AVP, I'm  connected  to  all  those  folks. So  we  can  bring  to  bear expertise  at  a  moment's  notice  to  complete  your  team. And  that  can  be  technology  people. Like,  I  need  someone  to  design  this  hardware  for  me. It  could  be  social  sciences,  it  could  be  design. You  know,  we  say,  people  come  to  us. They're  the  people  people,  and  they  don't  have  the  tech, or  they're  the  tech  people, and  they  don't  know  how  to  work  with  the  people, and  we  can  make  that  happen. And  in  particular,  we  can rely  it's  really  valuable  sometimes to  have  folks  like  me  research  faculty on  the  team  not  only  because  of  our  expertise, but  we  can  work  for  different  periods  of  time, including  years  at  a  time. We're  not  going  to  disappear when  we  graduate,  for  example. Alright,  next  slide,  I'm  not  going  to  go  through, you  know,  this  other  than  to  give  you a  flavor  of  kind  of  the  domains  that  we  work  in. And  this  is  not  exclusive,  and,  you  know, if  you  come  to  me  with some  project  that  doesn't  fit  in  these  three, we're  going  to  send  you  away. But,  you  know,  a  lot  of  the  center  of  mass  around our  activities  is  in  health  that's really  baked  into  the  DNA  of PAD  and  health  and  kind  of  all  the  things  that  means. Increasingly,  there's  a  lot  of  work  related to  sustainable  and  resilient  communities and  civic  engagement. And  everything  around  the  future of  education  and  the  future  of  work. And  as  you  know,  you  can  see, these  are  all  areas  of research  where  people  are  key,  right? And  if  you're  doing  your  research  without the  participation  of  the  people, you're  probably  not  going  to  be  effective. Okay.  And  then  the  last  slide,  You  know, we're  a  research  faculty  really  valuable  often  when  you need  to  translate  your  research  outputs. And  sometimes  that  means  building real  systems  and  deploying  them  long  term. Sometimes  it  means  things  like meeting  those  broader  impacts  like  Lise talking  about  all  of  these  great  opportunities to  work  with  school  systems. You  know,  so  all  kinds  of  dissemination  of  your  knowledge Um  or  tech  transfer  into  industry. So,  again,  we're  often  that  connective  tissue between  different  disciplines  like  within  our  institute, connective  tissue  with  like  GTRI, corporate  partners,  and  communities.  So  I'll  stop  there. Thank  you  very  much,  Mary  Beth. Yes,  you  know,  part  of  our  role  is  to  be your  handshake  partner  to  help  make  these  connections, whether  it's  to  a  community  or  to another  unit  at  Tech  or  to  GTRI. So  just  keep  us  in  mind  as an  institute  that  sees  that  as  a  role. So  you've  now  met almost  the  entire  research  leadership within  IPA,  save,  you  know, a  couple  of  folks  like  our  Director  of  Sustainability, who's  based  in  Savannah  and  isn't  here  today. I'm  now  going  to  shift  from  that  kind of  lightning  overview  of  sort of  how  we  structure our  research  activities  in some  of  the  main  areas  that  we  focus  on. To  give  you  a  sense  of  some of  the  events  and  some  of  the  facilities  we  have. Again,  this  is  this  weird  first  lunch  lecture where  rather  than  a  research  talk, you're  getting  kind  of  the  introduction  to  the  institute. So  the  first  thing  I  want  to  overview is  this  lunch  lecture  series  itself. It  is  open  to  the  entire  Georgia  Tech  community. When  we  get  a  sense  of  the  numbers, we'll  actually  have  enough  lunches  for  everyone. I  think  there  is  a  small  group  of you  who  maybe  came  in  late,  who  didn't  get  a  lunch. We  will  fix  that  once  we  kind of  reach  a  study  state  on  the  number. Is  an  amazing  lineup  already. There's  four  slots  that  we're  still  confirming  the  folks, but  this  is  a  really  exciting  lineup  of scholars  from  across  the  US  and  beyond, folks  from  Wahu,  Carnegie  Mellon, Cornel,  UC  Irvine,  and  of  course, a  few  faculty  from  across  Georgia  Tech  itself. All  these  folks  are  working  broadly at  the  intersections  of  people  and  technology. And  I  promise  you, last  semester  and  the  semester  before, the  lunch  lecture  series  was  just  extremely  good. This  is  going  to  be  just  as  good. Like,  the  talks  are  going  to  be  very  strong. Come,  have  lunch  but  mostly come  and  feed  off  of  the  information and  experience  of  these  faculty  members and  scholars  from  across  the  nation  and  the  globe. I'm  also  really  excited  that  one of  our  main  events  for  the  fall  semester is  a  workshop  on  wearable  innovations  and  health  equity. This  is  in  collaboration  with the  WISH  Center  here  at  Georgia  Tech, and  also  with  Emory's, both  Global  Diabetes  Research  Center and  Center  for  Diabetes  Translation. And  I'm  happy  that Mart  Hutchinson  is  here  today  from  Emory, representing  one  of  these  organizations  and  one  of our  co  sponsors  for  this  wearable  event. So  this  is  about  wearables,  for  health. And  we  have  a  great  couple  of  key  noters, including  Professor  Gow  from  Caltech, who's  a  real,  you  know, wearable  technologist, and  the  amazing  Professor  Tavia  Akin  Toby from  Moorhouse  School  of  Medicine, who  will  talk  about  structural  determinants of  health  and  health  equity  issues. Come.  You  have  to  register,  register,  and  then  come. So  a  couple  of  things  that we  have  on  the  slate  for  the  fall  semester. We've  started  a  program  of  what we  call  research  round  tables, where  we  come  to  various  units  on  campus to  have  a  conversation  much  like  this  today, but  specifically  trying  to find  ways  in  which  we  might  connect  to Ivan  Allen  or  the  College  of  Design or  aerospace  or  psychology. So  these  are  what  we  call  research  round  tables. And  if  you're  part  of  a  unit  that  you  would  like to  have  that  kind  of  conversation, we  generally  have  been  buying  lunch  for  everyone, but,  you  know,  we  don't  have  to  do  it  at  lunch. We  could  come  during  a  faculty  meeting, we  can  come  where  whenever. Um,  let  me  know,  and  we  will  organize a  research  round  table  between  PAD  N  and  your  unit. As  I  said,  we've  been  launching  a  number of  global  initiatives  within  IPad, including  the  work  we're  doing  in  Liberia  and the  visit  from  the  President  of Liberia  a  month  or  so  ago. We  also  are  taking  our convergence  innovation  competition  global. CIC  is  one  of  the  oldest  innovation  competitions and  programs  here  on  campus  started  in  2007, and  has  been  a  sort  of exciting  opportunity  for  students  to bring  their  entrepreneurial  ideas  and their  innovations  into  a  program  of  mentorship. To  develop  pitches,  to  then  go into  a  innovation  competition,  and  then  the  winner, of  course,  gets  money,  becomes  famous, does  a  start  up,  becomes  a  unicorn,  the  usual  thing. This  year,  under  the  Mantra of  global  teams  global  challenges, we  are  taking  CIC  to  Asia. We're  working  across  five  anchor  or  target  countries  and about  seven  anchor  universities  to  put  together a  competition  around  what focused  on  the  UN  sustainable  development  goals. So  framed  around  the  UN  SDGs. And  these  are  global  teams  working  on  UN  SDGs. That's  the  global  challenges. We  already  have  a  bunch  of  submissions  20. Currently  from  five  partner  universities. We're  undertaking the  first  round  of  competition  virtually, and  then  we  will  all  go  to  Taiwan  to  Taipei  Taiwan  in December  for  a  Gila  event and  the  final  round  of  this  competition, if  you're  in  or  want  to be  in  Taipei  Taiwan  on  December  7, let  us  know  because  you're  all  invited  to this  Ga  event  if  you're  available  in  the  region. For  2025,  we  plan  to  add a  few  additional  Asian  countries  into the  CIC  Asia  program,  India, for  sure,  Timor  Leste,  East  Timor, maybe  Brunei  and  almost  certainly  Japan. You  might  think  it's  a  strange collection  of  Asian  countries, but  it's  very  carefully  curated  to  be places  where  we're  trying  to  build  relationships. So  while  we're  focused  on  this  competition, it's  a  great  thing  to  bring global  teams  together  to  focus  on  global  challenges. This  is  really  an  excuse  for  creating that  connective  tissue  across the  Asian  region  for  IPAT  to sort  of  have  conversations  and look  for  opportunities  for  partnership and  to  develop  potential  research  engagement within  Asia  as  part again  of  our  emerging  global  initiatives. Let  me  take  a  pause.  Is  there  any, questions,  comments,  or  inputs  so  far? We've  been  throwing  a  lot  at  you. You're  all  stunned.  I  think. So  I  only  have  a  few  more  slides. So  we'll  go  through  these  and  then  really open  it  up  for  your  inputs. So  those  were  some  of  the  events  for  the  fall  semester, and  I'm  going  to  conclude  with  a  few  slides  about  some  of our  resources  and  other  infrastructure  and  opportunities. One  of  the  resources  we  have  is  money, and  Lee  already  mentioned  that  we  do  give  seed  grants, and  GTRI  is  one  of  the  co  sponsors  of  the  C  grants. So  announcing  publicly  for  the  first  time, these  are  the  four  C  grants  that  we are  just  giving  for  this  semester. The  first  one  these  are  the  PIs  of  the  C  grants. The  first  one  is  led  by  Yani  of  LMC, and  the  project  is  making sustainability  data  public  on the  Georgia  Tech  Library  Media  bridge. He's  working  with  the digital  Integrative  Liberal  Arts  Center, which  includes  a  lot  of  the  librarians. And  if  you  don't  know  what  the  media  art  bridge  is, get  on  the  campus  and  go  to  the  library. And  between  the  Crossland  Tower  and  the  Price  building, there  is  a  walk  like  a  bridge  that  you  walk  through. And  then  the  underside  of  the  bridge  is  a  huge  screen. Does  everyone  sort  of  know  what  I'm  talking  about? That  is  the  media  bridge. And  so  they're  coming  to  this  Scrant  is going  to  support  a  lot  of  creative  work  to  try  to think  of  ways  to  program  that  bridge  to develop  things  that  will  look  at  sustainability  issues. The  second  C  grant  is  going  to  Huan  Joe. Sorry,  for  mispronouncing  industrial  design  and IC  on  computational  design  AI  systems to  empower  maker  educators. This  is  going  to  be  a  web  based  AI  system to  help  educators  who  want, Oh,  sorry  for  the  bad  pronunciation. So  the  PI  is  right  here, a  colleague  and  friend  from  ID  and  IC. And  this  is  a  web  based  AI  system to  help  educators  who  want  to have  maker  experiences  like three  D  printing  within  their  class. Did  I  get  it  a  little? Is  a  little  different. The  third  grant  is  on  democratizing creative  agency  through interactive  technologies  and  music  education, Mini.  Is  he  here? Moy  Lenny?  J.  Moy. Just  Moy.  Nice  to  see  you. Do  you  want  to  give  your  11  or  two  sentences? I  am  a  research  technologist  for  TRI. I  work  very  closely  also  from  a  very  rural  area. Knowing  that  access  and accessibility  and  opportunity  is  really important  for  communities  that  don't have  that  education  perform. My  project,  democratizing  creative  agency  through interactive  technology  Music  education. I  did  also  that.  I'm  also a  first  year  human  Center  computing  PhD with  the  Scher  Computing. I've  seen  some  of  you  that  I  know  so  far.  Cool. The  whole  concept  of  hosting  the  movie  R  an  space. There's  a  moment  that  were  ready  experiences. Remember,  one  or  two  sentences. We're  going  to  capture  that  feeling. But  with  sensors,  digital  and  Thank  you,  Moy. We're  going  to  work  to  sharpen  the  pits, but  otherwise,  it's  really  good.  Really  good. And  finally,  in  Richmond  Wong, both  I  can  pronounce  it  and I  saw  you,  so  I  know  you're  here. There  you  are. Richmond.  You  one  or  two  sentences,  please. Is  the  landscape  of carriers  both  in  the  school  of literature  media  communications  and school  of  interactive  computing. The  idea  is  critical  computing  is looking  at  the  social  values  and  technologies, the  unintended  consequences,  the  social  power  structures, and  reimagining  them,  thinking  about  alternative  ways. We're  going  to  be  doing  a  working  group, we're  going  to  be  seminars. Thank  you.  Yeah,  and  that  is  sort of  includes  the  speaker  series, and  I  think  a  lot  of  things  that people  can  participate  in. So  one  thing  that  we  can  do  is  maybe  give  you  money. It's  very  competitive, like  all  of  these  C  grant  programs  on  campus. So  that's  the  maybe  part. But  if  you  get  through  the  program,  I  mean, get  through  the  application  process, then  you  get  the  funds, and  that's  the  money  part.  Other  things  we  can  do. We  have,  for  instance,  a  field  site, and  we  have  a  principal  field  site, which  is  our  program  in  Savannah. I  already  mentioned  a  good  bit  of  this. It's  focused  on  community  sustainability, environmental  justice  issues  and  citizen  science. It  includes  a  sensor  network. But  like  so  much  of  what  I  think the  PAT  WA  is,  the  shiny  objects, the  technology  is  kind  of  the  excuse  to  actually  work  on the  community  and  the  issues  of  justice, equity,  and  sustainability. So  the  project  really  is  more  about the  community  and the  sustainability  issues,  but,  you  know, we  fool  everyone  to  think  that it's  a  sensor  network  project, because  that  kind  of  gets  through  all  of the  hard  political  impediments  or  other  roadblocks. So  if  you're  in  Savannah, we  have  a  IPad  has  a  team  of  five,  I  think, full  time  team  members  based  in  Savannah. It's  a  very  I  mean, it's  a  thrilling  project. And  so  if  you  want  to  know  more  or  you're  having  to  be going  in  Savannah  and  want  to  get  connected, let  Russ  Clark  know  or  let  me  know. We  also  have  the  prototype  and  craft  lab. Lisa  definitely  made  mention  of  this. The  craft  lab  is  on  the  second  floor  and is  mostly  focused  on  things  that  don't  make  huge  messes. So  that's  things  like  sewing. There's  leather  tools. There's  some  three  D  printers there  that  they're  moving  maybe  to  the  ground  floor. Is  that  Maybe  there's, you  know,  stuff  that's  a  little  less  messy. So  it's  a  little  more  crafty  focused. And  then  the  prototyping  lab is  in  the  basement  of  the  building, and  there  you  can  make  messes. So  there's  bandsaws  and  CNG  and  a  laser  printer. And  I'm  looking  at  Tim  because,  of  course, if  you  want  to  make  use  of  these  facilities, all  you  do  is  e  mail  Tim. He  gets  you  trained  on  safety  things, then  then  your  buzz  card  gets  coded, and  then  you  can  use  the  facilities 247  to  do  a  class  project, or,  frankly,  you  know, to  do  a  hobby,  if  you  want  to. So  we  have  these  facilities  here  in  this  building,  TSRB. We've  also  already  heard  a  bit  about our  protected  health  data  infrastructure  and Richard  is  the  principal  behind  that. He  just  was  raising  his  hand. This  is  sort  of  if  you  have  HIPA  issues  with  data, like  you  have  patient  identifying  data, and  you  want  to  be  able  to  use it  in  a  H  IPA  compliant  way. We  have  a  lot  of  the  security  facilities. We  even  have  rooms  in  which  you  can  work  on your  secure  data  in groups  or  individually.  So  we  have  all  of  that Sorted  out,  so  you  don't  have  to. So  if  I  personally  am  a  user  of  this  facility. I  have  an  NIH  program. If  I  didn't  have the  PhDI  facilities,  I  don't  know  what  I  would  do, because  I'm  not  going  to  become  suddenly  an  expert  on building  HIPA  compliance  secure  data  facilities. So  this  is  a  service  that  IPAT  has  available  for  you. It  doesn't  have  to  be  just  health  data. I  also  am  a  user  of  the  system, where  I  have  war  crimes  data. And  so  this  is  also  secure  confidential  data. So  if  you  happen  to  want to  put  other  types  of  non  health, secure  confidential  data, whether  it's  war  crimes  or  otherwise, you  can  also  use  this  facility  for  that. We  also  have  a  house. Do  people  know  this?  Has  anyone  been  to  the  house? And  Brian  Jones  is  right  over  there. He's  the  manager  of  the  Aware  home. If  you  go  to  Tenth  Street, and  you're  next  to  well, across  the  street  from  the  paper  Museum. What  other  Huh? Police  st  Police  station. Oh,  across  the  street  from  the  police  station,  right? The  new  well,  not  that  new, but  a  little  bit  new  police  station. Then  if  you  see  this  duplex, then  that's  the  aware  home. It  is  a  duplex. It's  two  apartments  stacked  on top  of  each  other  for  research in  technologies  within  the  living  lived  environment. So  if  you  need  a  kitchen, a  bathroom,  a  living  space, bedroom,  not  because  you  want  to  cook  and  sleep  in  it, but  because  you  want  to  conduct  research  in  it, we  have  two  of  those  on  tenth. And  you  can  work  with Brian  to  see  how  you  can  use  the  aware  home. It's  an  amazing  piece  of research  infrastructure  that  allows you  to  really  do  honest  and  goodness  research in  a  I  mean, I  would  say  home  like  it  setting, except  for  he  just  was  built  for  homes. I  mean,  it  was  just  built  as  homes  that  now are  used  for  this  kind  of  in  home  research. So,  that  is  the  last  piece of  research  infrastructure  that  I'm  going  to  overview. We  haven't  told  you  everything  that  we  do, but  you've  gotten  a  very  good  sense of  many  of  the  events  we  have  programmed  for  the  fall, a  lot  of  the  resources  and infrastructure  that  we  have  available  for  you, and  the  way  we  are  sort  of  intellectually organizing  many  of  our  programs and  the  way  that  we  provide  research  capacity  within, in  particular,  our  research  faculty  members. A  that's  left  for  me,  and  we  have 10  minutes  left  for  sort  of  for  questions  and interaction  is  to  tell you  that  if  you're  not  already  signed up  for  our  newsletters  and our  now  weekly  highlights,  this  is  how  you  do  it. And  I  sure  hope  that  everyone  will  please  sign  up. If  you  don't  get  that  URL, just  go  to  the  PAD  home  page, and  then  at  the  top, if  you  click  on  about, you'll  see  how  to  sign  up for  these  e  mail  distribution  lists. We're  launching  on  Monday  our  now  weekly  highlights. So  some  of  you  maybe  have  been receiving  the  highlights  news  letter, but  this  is  now  going  to  target  funding  opportunities, events,  and  news  around  IPAT. So  when  you  sign  up  for  the  distribution  list, you  will  begin  to  get  this weekly  highlights  starting  on  Monday. It's  a  new  e  mail  service  that  we're providing  for  folks  who are  signed  up  for  our  e  mail  distribution. So,  with  10  minutes. I  just  want  to  thank  you  so  much  for  coming. Thank  you  for  your  attention, and  now  open  it  up, please  for  any  comments  or  questions  or  clarifications, things  that  we  can  tell  you  more  about. There  must  be  something. Yes.  I  don't  know  if  we  need  a  Mike. But  go  ahead  and  stand  up  and Assistant  Professor  Deco  public  policy.  My  name  is  Bra. So  you  mentioned  you  introduced  the  iPad  in  Asia,  right? And  then  there  were  like 20  submissions  from  five  p  universities. It  looks  like  there  is  a  Gala  event  plan. Can  you  give  us  more  contents  about  what those  submissions  of  competition  was  about? What  is  the  like  the  immediate  priority  for  a  future. Right.  So  you  hear your  brand  question  is  about  the  CSC  agent, really,  what  is  that  all  about? And  what  are  the  submissions? So  Our  goal  was to  work  with  partners  and  in  countries  in  Asia, where  we  don't  already,  we  mean,  in  this  case, Sergent  probably  have really  strong  established  connections. So  we  didn't  go  to  South  Korea. We  have  a  football  stadium  to  South  Korea,  essentially. We  didn't  We  didn't  go  to  Japan, B  we  have  strong  cations  already. So  we're  trying  to  really  as  I  said, CSC  is  an  excuse  to have  these  conversations  to  build  bridges. So  we  went  to  Thailand,  Taiwan, Sort  of  main  China  emulation. And  we  have  built connections  with  angry  universities in  those  five  countries. We  then  we  brought  up  what  we  call  CIC  faculty  fellow. So  in  each  of  the  angry  universities, we  have  a  faculty  fellow, and  they  then  worked  with students  at  the  Angry  Universities  to  submit innovations  to  the  CIC  competition that  are  solving  something  within  the  UNSDG. Those  are  have  started resubmitted  and  then  will  be  virtual  judging with  mentors  and  judges  that  we've  selected  across the  region  and  from  Pier  organ  I  think  you  sort  of  said, what  are  some  of  the  submissions? I  actually  don't  know.  I  have  a  Yeah. But  I  will  know  within  a  few  weeks  because  I  will  have  a. But  they're  going  to  be  something  about giving  SDG  so  each  one  of  them, you  know,  I  past  years,  I'll  say, there'll  be  things  that  focus  on  renewables  and, you  know,  energy  sustainability  or  food security  or  women's  health. You  know,  these  are  just  things  that I've  seen  before  in  somewhat  competition. Then  we'll  do  the  Gala  event  and final  round  of  judging  this  year  in  Taiwan. Next  year,  we  suspect  in  Malaysia. The  following  year,  wherever  you  want  to  go. So  you're  invited,  and  I  would  love  you  to  come. So  talk  to  me  and  we'll  figure out  if  we  can  make  that  happen. Hopefully,  you're  in  the  region  in December,  anyway.  Another  question. Ocon. I'm  serious.  Yes. Oh,  yes,  Janet. Yeah.  Thank  you. Okay.  So  oddly  or  maybe  not  oddly, but  due  to  historical  path  dependencies, I  I  think,  is  where  anyone  who  wants  to  go  via a  Tech  to  put  to  the  as  you  go. Yeah.  Yeah.  Thank  you. Why  are  there  not  questions  or?  I'm  sure  there  are. All  right.  One  last  seconds. Is  this  the  clarity  of  presentation? So  let  me  again  thank  you  so  much. We  are  all  available. You  saw  a  lot  of  the  T's  e  mail  addresses  and  met  many  of the  team  members  in  their  very  brief  interventions. We'll  be  around  for  another  bit. We'll  see  you  in  a  week  at  the  next  month  lure. Please  be  sure  to  attend  that. And  for  those  of  you  get  lunch, we'll  figure  out  the  number  better next  week  so  that  everyone  food  in  sub. Thank  you  so  much.  Re.