Office Space

  • Ben Zinn: Burning Passion

    Until his August 2010 retirement, Ben Zinn was the longest-tenured Regents’ professor at the Institute. But Zinn didn’t let a little thing like retirement keep him from his work. Previously the David S. Lewis Jr. Chair in the School of Aerospace Engineering, Zinn continues to conduct research at the Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory. Before more

  • Lisa Yaszek: Sci-fi Sage

    Georgia Tech and science fiction are a natural fit, with the campus being a center for cutting-edge research in science and technology. No surprise then that Tech is a perfect setting for Lisa Yaszek, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture. Yaszek has devoted her career more

  • Charlie Kemp: Master of Robotics

    Charlie Kemp builds robots. His office and an adjoining lab, on the second floor of a Technology Square building, are filled with functioning robots and the assorted computers and mechanical parts that accompany the task. Kemp, an assistant professor in biomedical engineering at Tech, founded the Healthcare Robotics Lab in 2007. His goal is to more

  • Nick Feamster: Networking Innovator

    Nick Feamster, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and leader of the Network Operations and Internet Security lab, was named one of the world’s top innovators under age 35 by Technology Review magazine. Feamster, who received undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees from MIT before coming to Tech, was selected for the prestigious more

  • Carol Senf: Haunted by Vampires

    Carol Senf sticks out like a sore thumb in her own office in the Skiles Classroom Building. Senf, a professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, is friendly and dresses in warm colors. Her office, meanwhile, is something of a shrine to the macabre. Ever since Senf began researching Bram more