Members
The lab is a mix of backgrounds – dynamics and control, high-performance computing, category theory, programming languages – and we are always looking for students and researchers who want to make scientific models composable enough to build out of parts.
We are hiring
The lab is accepting PhD students, postdocs, research scientists, and undergraduate researchers.
Current members
James Fairbanks
Principal investigator; assistant professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Richard Samuelson
Researching category theory, convex analysis, and high-performance computing.
George Rauta
PhD student focused on numerical linear algebra and high-performance computing; leads the Decapodes project.
Joana Bou Barcelo
PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering applying cellular sheaves to multi-agent control.
Itay Kadosh
PhD student working on distributed coordination for multi-agent systems, with a background in robotics and computer vision.
Austin Copeland
PhD student in mechanical engineering, co-advised between the GATAS Lab and the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics group.
Liam Kunzendorf
Undergraduate in mechanical engineering working on Decapodes.jl.
Alumni
Patrick Stokes
Research scientist on the DARPA ASKEM project, from a background in signal processing and system identification in computational neuroscience.
Benjamin Merlin Bumpus
Led the algorithms subproject; now heads the CUÍCA lab at the University of São Paulo.
Kris Brown
Postdoctoral researcher who built much of the categorical rewriting and algebraic theory machinery in AlgebraicJulia; now a research scientist at the Topos Institute.
Wilmer Leal
Postdoctoral researcher on categorical models of compositionality in chemistry; now a research scientist in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida.
Tyler Hanks
First GATAS PhD graduate – optimization, control theory, and machine learning; now on the faculty of the Florida Institute of Technology.
Luke Morris
Led development of CombinatorialSpaces.jl and Decapodes.jl; now an AI engineer at Symbolic Mind.
Micah Halter
Research programmer on the lab’s first modeling libraries, from SemanticModels through AlgebraicPetri; now a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Matt Cuffaro
Systems administrator and research programmer for the GATAS Lab; now a research associate at the Topos Institute.
Samuel Cohen
Undergraduate studying math and computer science; worked on AlgebraicOptimization.jl.
Trevor Gross
Undergraduate in computer science who worked on AlgebraicOptimization.jl; now a software development engineer at Amazon.
Past members
People who were in the lab and have moved on.
Lab mentees
People who were not employed in the lab, but who came through a mentorship program or a continuing mentoring relationship outside the university.
| Name | Program | Last Known Institution | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kris Brown | UF Post-Doctoral Researcher | Topos Institute, Research Software Engineer | 2021-22 |
| Anna Knoerr | ACT Adjoint School | ETH Zurich | 2021 |
| Grant Generaux | ACT Adjoint School | Bristol Myers Squibb | 2021 |
| Amy Searle | ACT Adjoint School | Oxford Physics, PhD (graduated 2024) | 2021 |
| Kris Brown | ACT Adjoint School | UF, Post-Doctoral Researcher | 2021-2022 |
| Sophie Libkind | Mathematics, Stanford University | Topos Institute, Mathematician | 2020-2022 |
| Owen Lynch | Statistics, University of Utrecht | Topos Institute, Research Software Engineer, PhD Student Oxford University | 2020-Present |
| Julian Perez | BS BME GT | Stanford, PhD Student | 2021-22 |
| Stephen Wellburg | BS DAS UF | Capital One, Software Engineer | 2021-22 |
| Sreenath Reparti | BS ISYE Georgia Tech | KPMG | 2018-19 |
| Kun Cao | MS CS Georgia Tech | GT | 2019 |
| Micah Halter | BS CS Georgia Tech | GTRI | 2016-19 |
| Nate Knauf | BS CS Georgia Tech | GT | 2016 |
| Rohit Varkey | MS CS Georgia Tech | 2016-18 | |
| Pushkar Godbole | MS CSE Georgia Tech | Yelp | 2015 |