From the music setting the scene to educating the crowds, a little piece of ECE will be at one of the world’s largest pop-culture conventions.

Funding for the Georgia Tech and Emory University training program in computational neural engineering was recently renewed and increased by the National Institutes of Health, expanding opportunities for students and scholars.

Raychowdhury: Banning AI from School is a Mistake

AI remains an open mystery for many in academia with several school districts and colleges rushing to ban the use of ChatGPT in the classroom. The Georgia Institute of Technology has taken the opposite approach, welcoming the use of AI in study, essays, and other assignments—but with some guardrails. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Arijit Raychowdhury explained to Fortune Magazine why its embracing the new technology in the classroom.

The ECE professor received the two awards over the summer for her research on energy systems.

By encouraging joint appointments, the Institute breaks down traditional academic silos and enables researchers to revolutionize the energy landscape.

The ECE Ph.D. candidate will use the support from the fellowship to continue his research on vanadium dioxide reconfigurable metasurfaces.

Hernandez-Mejia, who has worked at ECE’s National Electric Energy Testing, Research, & Applications Center (NEETRAC) since 2017, brings extensive experience to the member-driven electric utility research center.