Data Science​/Cognitive Science​/Computer Science Graduate Assistant SEAL

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.

GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.

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:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

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.

This GTRI Graduate Assistant (GA) position offers you extensive opportunities to participate in diverse scientific and technological endeavors, use state-of-the-art equipment and rapidly improve your technical and leadership skills. This position is foronesemester (Spring 2027) of aquarter-time (25%) graduate assistantship.

Georgia Tech Research Institute's Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) seeks a GRA to join our Command, Control, and Communications (C3D) team for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. Students will assist Research Scientists in various Cognitive Science and Computer/Data Science related research tasks. Students should be interested in learning about C3 operations, design and development of human-centered artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, and simulation.

Students should also be capable of helping to conduct research under the direction of Research Scientists, participating in computational analysis using standard analysis packages such as R, SPSS, or others used in scientific research, and competently reporting the results of such analysis according to professional publication standards.

Computing studentapplicantsshould have software engineering and AI/ML experience, ideally with past work/project experiences developing in Python.

Psychology/Social Science applicants should have research experience such as guided literature reviews, research proposals, research design, data collection, data analysis and visualization, and research reporting.

Due to the nature of the work at GTRI, job duties will depend upon contract and sponsor needs. Students could participate in the following projects/tasks:

• Perform exploratory research(or human subjects research if applicable) to address sponsor interests
• Conduct and report on computational science/data analysis
• Coordinate with other research scientists/engineers to develop software for research testbed and experimental gaming platforms
• Contribute to technical reports and presentations

Graduate Assistant

• Pursuing a Master's or PhD degree at Georgia Tech in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Human…