Georgia Tech VIP Teams

Georgia Tech's Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program lets undergraduate and graduate students join a multi-semester, faculty-led research or design team and earn academic credit. Browse every active VIP team below — each listing links to the team's full description, majors sought, and how to apply.

• 2D Heterostructure Synthesis

  To develop 2-D to 2-D tunneling structures to enable for smaller, faster, more capable microelectronic devices applied to a broad range of…

• A-NEW TEAM: Insight Learning Lab

  The team’s vision is to create a sustainable, student-driven research ecosystem that advances understanding of how affective, reflective, a…

• AA-NEW TEAM: Tactile Media Alliance

  A collaborative hub advancing touch-based, physical–digital interactions through shared knowledge and tools. Our goal is to grow the foundi…

• AccessCORPS

  AccessCORPS will train students (and others) to systematically assess the accessibility of GT course materials, to determine any barriers a…

• ACT Driving Simulator

  The ACT (Autonomous and Connected Transportation) Driving Simulator Team addresses problems that arise in multiple dimensions due to the em…

• Active Safety for Autonomous and SemiAutonomous Vehicles

  The project aims to develop sensing and planning algorithms for autonomous driving tasks. Ultimately, the goal is to design autonomous vehi…

• Advanced Graphene Battery Technology

  For students to learn the theory and gain the skills necessary to fabricate next-generation batteries for EVs, spacecraft, and Smart Cities…

• Africa: Serve, Learn, Sustain

  This VIP team will focus on accelerating sustainable development in Africa. As the population rapidly increases (more than 2 billion projec…

• Agile Locomotion & Manipulation

  The Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR) at Georgia Tech focus on planning, control, and decision-making algor…

• AI for Financial Markets (NLP for Financial Markets)

  The Artificial Intelligence for Financial Markets team explores applications of AI in finance, a rapidly growing field with emerging challe…

• AI for Multidisciplinary Teams

  Develop an AI-driven tool to enhance collaboration within multidisciplinary teams. The AI (BrainBridge) will actively listen to team discus…

• AI in the Era of Supercomputing

  This course will develop a holistic learning and research environment for training students to run, benchmark, and analyze supercomputers a…

• AI Makerspace Nexus

  Empower campus and democratize accessibility to the AI Makerspace; Enable the AI Makerspace to be accessible by all students and instructor…

• AI-based Discovery and Innovation

  This VIP team aims to develop systematic AI approaches, particularly manifold-learning techniques, to uncover hidden governing rules across…

• Apache Airavata

  Airavata 2.0 is a pioneering project integrating local to supercomputing resources into a seamless computing continuum, funded by NSF and N…

• AquaBots: Maritime Robotics

  The VIP Team will look at the challenging domain of Maritime Robotics. The oceans cover over 70% of our planet’s surface and constitute a c…

• AR/VR for Multiphysics Learning

  Develop immersive VR environments around systems that involve multiple physical phenomena (mechanical stress and thermal effects, or therma…

• Autobots

  To design and instantiate autonomous mobile robots capable of performing non-trivial tasks in support of people, in life and in work. Empha…

• Automated Algorithm Design

  This project aims to revolutionize algorithm development by creating an automated framework that evolves hybrid algorithms outperforming ex…

• Automotive LIDAR

  To develop an automotive LiDAR system in support of the emerging technical area of vehicle autonomy and increased safety. Compact LiDAR des…

• AutoRobotics in Construction

  The proposed interdisciplinary team’s goal is to investigate how virtual reality can enhance the digital twin platform that will be used fo…

• Big Data and Quantum Mechanics

  Leverage advances in machine learning and data analytics to enable faster and more accurate calculations of chemical properties using quant…

• Biomedical Systems for Vascular Health

  Our goal is to create a new division of VIP undergraduate students focused on developing biomedical technology to contribute to vascular he…

• Birds in Arts and Media

  This VIP encourages students’ artistic expression and invites them to explore the rich and fascinating world of birds across art, media, an…

• Bits of Good

  *Only open to current members of the student Bits of Good organization* Bits of Good VIP partners with the Bits of Good student organizatio…

• Brain Trauma Assessment Protocols

  To build a suite of mobile applications for iOS and Android devices that will be used to administer and collect data from individuals who h…

• BrainBoost

  The goal of this VIP team is to leverage generative AI to develop educational technologies that improve the learning experience of college…

• Building with Communities

  This VIP has three goals: Incorporate equity as an important sustainability objective in engineering, technology, and architecture design p…

• Chemical Equity

  The goal of the chemical equity VIP team is to explore chronic chemical exposures in occupations tangentially using chemicals, such as agri…

• Chip Scale Power & Energy (U.S. Only)

  To develop nanostructured ‘chip scale’ power and energy storage devices for use in miniaturized sensing, communication, and energy harvesti…

• CineInnovate Studios: EarthSeed South

  CineInnovate Studios: EarthSeed South is a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) that integrates documentary media production, environmental…

• Coastal Georgia Climate Solutions

  The CEAR Hub enhances coastal communities’ resilience to climate hazards like flooding and extreme heat through inclusive, people-centered…

• Compound Semiconductor Products (U.S. Only)

  Design, simulate, fabricate, and characterize custom compound semiconductor devices and circuits (i.e. GaAs-, GaN-, or InP-based). The team…

• Concussion Connect

  To examine the problem of concussion from a multidisciplinary view that includes neuroscience, clinical assessment, sports engineering, hea…

• Configurable Computing & Embedded Systems

  The objective of the current class project, Configurable Computing and Embedded Systems, is to research and develop high assurance embedded…

• Cyber-Physical Systems

  Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate computational components with physical processes, e.g., robotics, automobiles, factories. Students…

• Data-Driven Education

  This team focuses on the effects that data are having in shaping education, on how new, rich, educational data sources can be used to impro…

• Diabetes and Chronic Disease Systems

  As the U.S. population ages, chronic diseases have become more prevalent. This has important implications for society in terms of healthcar…

• DIB Cyber Compliance (US Only)

  Develop and deploy strategies to help small companies with DoD contracts comply with new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certifications. Strat…

• Digital Deliberation

  The team develops apps for online debates and collaborative projects that focus on problem-solving and building consensus in conflicts. Cur…

• EcoATL

  EcoATL studies the intersection of the natural and built environments in and near the Georgia Tech campus, based in the Kendeda Building fo…

• EcoCAR Collegiate Competition Team

  To stimulate the development of advanced vehicle technologies that reduce the overall impact of transportation on the environment by design…

• Embedded System Cyber Security

  To examine and assess the existence of cyber security found within IoT hardware devices. In order to achieve this, we will implement a mult…

• Empathy Bytes

  Think outside traditional modes of communication and documentation to create radical experiences of empathy, an important component to succ…

• Engineering Education for K-12 Students

  Bridge the gap between K-12 education and cutting-edge engineering, computing, and design to empower educators and students alike. The team…

• Equity Research Boutique

  Create a student team that functions like an Atlanta based sell-side equity research boutique that analyzes stocks utilizing fundamental me…

• Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics

  The team will develop a cutting-edge exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver capable of high-fidelity and computationally effici…

• Experimental Bipedal Robotics and Control

  Develop a modular planar bipedal robot testbed to enable rapid experimental evaluation of hybrid system control and legged locomotion algor…

• Experimental Flights

  The class is currently designing, building and flying drones for various missions including commercial drone delivery, disaster relief for…

• Fire Research and Innovation

  Develop innovative tools and strategies to enhance fire monitoring, forecasting, and management of related challenges. This includes creati…

• Flow Dynamics of Soft Robotic Swimmers

  1) Innovation in Bio-Inspired Design: Advance the understanding of bio-inspired robotics by integrating biological principles into the desi…

• Gaming for Electric Power Grids

  The reliability of electric power grids is challenged by the rapidly increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters. This VIP is fo…

• Global Assistive Technology Innovation

  More than 2.5 billion people need assistive technology to live productive and dignified lives, yet nearly one billion still lack access. In…

• Graphic Medicine

  The goal of this course is to explore the intersections of health, storytelling, and visual communication. Collaborative projects might inc…

• Ground Breaking Infrastructure

  Underground infrastructure is responsible for the foundations of bridges and buildings and the construction of utilities, pavements and roa…

• GROWER (Grid Resilience, Outage, Weather, Emergency Response

  Our team seeks to create robust, comprehensive, and transparent real-time power outage data measured at multiple geographic scales for the…

• GT Cloud Robotics

  This course teaches students to build and deploy trustworthy robot autonomy systems at scale. Students will design the infrastructure for c…

• GT Energy Solutions

  This class supports the energy goals outlined in the Institute Strategic Plan’s SMART Campus priority area. It advances these goals by enga…

• GT Methane Experiment

  Profile and monitor methane emissions in Atlanta, with the long-term goal of developing a methane budget for the Atlanta metropolitan area.…

• Hands On Robot Safety

  The goal of this VIP is to build and control a mobile, bimanual manipulator robot that is capable of safely performing dexterous tasks in h…

• Health Care Consolidation Project

  To create and maintain an accurate, complete, publicly available, and timely panel database of US hospital mergers. Given the large number…

• Health Informatics On FHIR

  To develop, evaluate and deploy health applications that can help doctors take care of their patients and patients do their part. Electroni…

• HipHop2020 Innovation Archive

  The project is an ongoing project focused on designing a hip hop-based innovation archive of educational resources and online courses that…

• HumaniTech

  We are comprised of several teams, made up of both undergraduate and graduate students, all working on different projects to solve global d…

• Hypersonics (US Only)

  Support hypersonics research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts at GTRI. This will generally include (1) design and fabrica…

• I-WIN: Innovating Wearable Interfaces

  The I-WIN team aims to advance our existing research-grade exoskeletons by transforming them into highly professional wearable systems. The…

• ICEMAN

  The ICEMAN (Ice Management) Team addresses one of the core issues in existing sea-level rise and climate change predictive models – what is…

• Industry Innovation: Circular Economy

  Our goal is the development of a scalable circular product innovation system through the GENX Parametric Innovation Framework, a systems-ba…

• Innovation Management

  The first goal of this project is to analyze and evaluate the current state of research administration and innovation management at Georgia…

• Innovation-Led Economic Development

  Foster economic development around the world – Embedded in GT’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the team will assess the impacts of innova…

• Intelligent Robotics for Assembly & Design

  Develop intelligent robotic assembly systems integrating vision, sensing, adaptive toolpaths, rigorous documentation, and construction-scal…

• Interacting with Sound and Space

  Sound & Space aims at developing, evaluating, and applying new ways for humans to interact with immersive music and multimedia environments…

• Interactive Music Group

  Design musical instruments, installations, and interactive systems that will be showcased and/or used in performance. The Interactive Music…

• IODA

  Improve detection, investigation, and understanding of Internet outages and disruptions around the world by leveraging and improving the IO…

• IoT in Health

  Internet of things (IOT) has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Thus far, most IOT applications focus on improving mon…

• IP Advocacy and Outreach

  Cultivate a campus-wide culture of innovation and intellectual property awareness through a multi-faceted approach. The team will tackle re…

• Law, Data & Design Lab

  The Law, Data & Design Lab works to increase fairness, efficiency, transparency, and access to justice in the civil and criminal legal syst…

• Lighter-Than-Air Autonomy

  This project will develop autonomous lighter-than-air vehicles and new behaviors for those vehicles that allow them to play aerial soccer a…

• Lightning from the Edge of Space

  Ready to leave your Georgia Tech legacy at the edge of space? We build electronics and software for a high altitude (100,000 ft) balloon pl…

• Living Dynamical Systems

  WILL RETURN Spring 2027 To discover physical principles of how animals move in complex, challenging environments. Use tools from physics, n…

• Low Cost Aerial Autonomy (U.S. Only)

  To improve the performance of autonomous mobile systems, particularly aerial vehicles. Subteam 1: IGNTE (Inference and Guidance for Navigat…

• M.A.R.S: Martian Advanced Renewable Systems

  NASA, Georgia Tech, and GTRI are developing energy technologies to support future missions to Mars. The VIP M.A.R.S. Team will research, de…

• MATRIX: Makerspace Advancements…

  Development of an intelligent system to manage and maintain makerspaces. https://matrixlab.gatech.edu/ 1. How to train users and trainers f…

• Mechatronics and Motivation

  Develop, deploy, and study the effect of wearable haptic devices in K12 classrooms. Tactile receptors found in skin offer a versatile engin…

• Nature Inspired Engineering

  To provide the student with an overall understanding of the principles and methods of nature inspired engineering; To showcase and discuss…

• NeuroCScience Outreach

  Connect neuroscience and CS in K12 classrooms with interactive demonstrations. The team will design and build demos, do demonstrations at s…

• NO-HEAT

  This project aims to support multimodal transportation by making it safer and more comfortable for residents to walk and bike in their comm…

• PopSign: Sign Language Learning Games and Technologies

  This project aims to develop games, toolkits, and other technologies that help deaf children and their parents acquire language skills in A…

• Quantum Engineering

  Quantum engineering is a new interdisciplinary domain that focuses on the realization of quantum technologies, such as quantum computing, q…

• Responsible AI for Decision Making

  Develop AI tools that enable responsible decision-making in engineering and healthcare, with a focus on user-inspired research projects. Th…

• Retrofuturistic Hardware: Music, Gaming and Computing

  Modern electronic devices are powerful but uninspiring; they are ubiquitous but ephemeral. We will design and fabricate devices for music p…

• Robotic Human Augmentation

  The EPIC (Exoskeleton and Prosthesis Intelligent Controls) Lab research areas include automation & mechatronics and bioengineering with a f…

• Robotic Musicianship

  Develop creative robots that can listen to, play, and improvise music. The Robotic Musicianship Team aims to facilitate meaningful musical…

• Secure Hardware

  To design digital hardware which is highly resistant to: (i) reverse engineering and (ii) attacks by side channels, by malicious hardware o…

• Shape Machine

  1. Explore novel applications using Shape Machine, a new vector-based shape-rewrite modeling technology developed at the Shape Computation…

• Smart and Connected Bioelectronics

  To study soft, biocompatible materials to design low-profile, unobtrusive wearable and implantable electronics for advancing human healthca…

• Smart City Infrastructure

  To develop smart city infrastructure health and safety condition monitoring, assessment, and diagnosis with the use of emerging sensor tech…

• Smart Stadium

  Create a suite of integrated systems and applications within Bobby Dodd stadium to enhance the game-day experiences and safety of 50,000+ s…

• Soccer, Community, Innovation, Politics (SCIP)

  The SCIP VIP leverages the beautiful game of soccer and other sports to understand and to accelerate community and youth transformation. Te…

• Sports Performance Intelligence Platforms

  This team turns an athlete’s movements into measurements; their form into figures; and their strides into strategies. We store, analyze and…

• Sports Valuation and Analytics

  Adapt corporate valuation models to model the value of college sports; analyze the impact of transfers on team value; use fantasy/professio…

• STEMcomm

  To produce novel, creative media about recent scientific discoveries and engineering innovations. These include but are not limited to: int…

• Students as Partners in Education

  Use action research to identify the support Georgia Tech students need to be successful in the classroom to support faculty professional de…

• Surrogate Models for Urban Regeneration

  Conventional environmental simulation approaches in urban design are time-consuming and often incompatible with the fast-paced decision-mak…

• Tech in the Garden: Planting for Food Security & Resilience

  This VIP team will develop a socio-technical decision support system for designing resilient, nutrition aware, and pollinator supportive co…

• Trinity Neutrino Observatory

  – Operation of the Trinity Demonstrator – Analysis of the Trinity Demonstrator Data – Development of electronics and mechanical designs for…

• Trustworthy Distributed AI

  Design and evaluate trustworthy AI systems that learn, reason, and act on sensitive data reliably and securely in distributed, adversarial…

• Unlocking and Analyzing Historical Texts

  The human record is enormous, ranging from the text we produce on the internet today to ancient writings on clay like the cuneiform tablets…

• Voice + Research Lab

  This project proposes an ongoing interdisciplinary inquiry into the human voice to address a primary research question: How do young people…

• VR Cultural Heritage

  Use 3D lidar scans and photogrammetry to create virtual reality versions of world heritage sites, and develop an interactive online library…

• WELab

  The mission of the Workplace Ecology Lab (WELab) is to create sustainable and healthy human-centered environments. Our team conducts resear…

• Wellbeing and Mental Health

  Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness but the presence of meaning, engagement, and other factors that characterize a good…