Postdocs@Tech and the Office of Postdoctoral Services are proud to recognize the winning presenters from the 5th Annual Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Research Symposium held on Sept. 20, 2018.

Best Talk Overall

• Seung Yup “Paul” Lee, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, “Noninvasive Bedside Monitoring of Microvascular Cerebral Blood Flow in Children with Sickle Cell Disease”

Best Poster Overall

• Jacqueline Palmer, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory,  “Interhemispheric Cortical Connectivity Between Lower Limb Motor Regions is Impaired in Stroke Survivors and Associated with Biomechanical Walking Deficits”

Best Talk from the College of Engineering

• Mohammed Hassan, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, “Probabilistic Assessment of Aviation CO2 Emission Targets”

Best Poster from the College of Engineering

• Mohammad Mofidfar, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Electrospun Transdermal Patches for Contraceptive Hormone Delivery”

Best Talks from the College of Sciences

• Katalin Dosa, Center for Teaching and Learning in collaboration with the School of Biological Sciences, “Comparison of Student Learning Gains Using Open Education Resources Versus a Commercial Online Biology Textbook”
• Abouzar Kaboudian, School of Physics, “Interactive Lightning-Fast Supercomputer-Complex Computations on Personal Computers”

Best Poster from the College of Sciences

• Qiliang He, School of Psychology, “Making Good Navigators Better: Revealing The Mechanisms of Cognitive Mapping Through Virtual Reality Interventions”

Best Presentation from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

• Aurora Tsai, School of Modern Languages, “Language and Identity for Mixed-Race and Mixed-Heritage Individuals”

Best Presentation from the College of Computing

• Harish Ravichandar, School of Interactive Computing, “Enabling Fluent Human-Robot Interactions”

Best Talk on Robotics Research

• Skanda Vivek, School of Physics, “Cyber-Physical Risks of Hacked Internet-Connected Vehicles”

Best Poster on Robotics Research

• In Bae Jeong, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, “Realization of Task Intelligence of Service Robots”

Thanks to the Executive Vice President for Research, the Deans of Computing, Engineering, Ivan Allen, and Sciences, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) and the Office of Postdoctoral Services for sponsoring the awards. We also thank the Postdocs@Tech symposium organizing committee and all of the judges for making these awards possible.