Executive Director, IRIM​/Title Academic​/Research Faculty

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Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
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• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
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Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

IRIM's mission is to ignite collaborations across the Georgia Tech campus, our local communities, and around the world to realize robotic systems that sense and act to improve how people live, work, and play. Georgia Tech is home to one of the nation's most comprehensive robotics research portfolios, spanning foundational science, emerging technologies, and real-world applications, with specializations in Science of Robotics, Field and Service Robotics, Collaborative Robotics, Biorobotics, AI+ML in Robotics, and Ethics and the Societal Impact of Robotics.

IRIM helped create and continues to support Georgia Tech's M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Robotics, which offer students a multidisciplinary experience with collaborative faculty. IRIM engages in the wider community through STEM and robotics-focused educational programming, National Robotics Week, and outreach activities that broaden awareness of robotics and its societal impact. IRIM also fosters collaboration with industry and other external partners to accelerate research through the innovation stage to industry adoption of robotics technologies, further strengthening benefits to both Georgia Tech and IRIM's partners.

IRIM has dedicated university-level funding, a committed team of experienced staff members, a small faculty leadership team, as well as 150 affiliated faculty and 300 affiliated students.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is conducting a search to fill the position of Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). As one of Georgia Tech's Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs), IRIM brings together researchers from across Georgia Tech, including academic and research units, to advance and lead…