Gratitude to the Georgia Institute of Technology faculty.

Thank you for leading Georgia Tech to record research and broader access, and for championing technology in genuine service of people.

Grateful for an Atlanta native and Georgia Tech alumnus who rose from student to chief academic officer while advancing critical-infrastructure security.

Thank you for leading the College of Engineering and for building the nation's top public aerospace program before taking the dean's chair.

Thank you for training generations of aerospace systems engineers and for building the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory.

Grateful for your leadership of Georgia Tech research and your foundational work on combustion and cleaner energy systems.

Thank you for engineering biomaterials that help the body heal itself and for mentoring the next wave of bioengineers.

Grateful for a physician-engineer whose devices bring diagnostics to the bedside and to the children who need them most.

Grateful for your foundational algorithms for convex optimization that quietly power so much of modern computing.

Thank you for inventing the process behind nearly every modern LED and laser diode, and for decades of teaching at Georgia Tech.

Thank you for writing the book on integer optimization and for mentoring so many of the leaders of operations research.

Thank you for guiding the College of Computing and for a career advancing parallel and high-performance computing.

Thank you for advancing computer vision and machine learning and for working to open computing to more learners.

Grateful for the factor-graph methods that help robots and cameras understand where they are in the world.

Thank you for teaching robots to learn from and work alongside people in everyday life.

Thank you for pioneering wearable computing long before it was common and for keeping it human-centered.

Grateful for a physical oceanographer who leads the College of Sciences and helped reveal how the ocean shapes our climate.

Grateful for your discoveries in laser chemistry and gold nanoparticles that reach from physics to cancer care.

Thank you for elegant results in number theory, including the breakthrough on the cap set problem.

Grateful for pioneering computational studies that let us see how matter behaves at the nanoscale.

Thank you for advancing genomics and for making the genetics of complex human traits clearer to all of us.

Grateful for computational methods that predict protein structure and function and speed the search for new medicines.

Thank you for leading Scheller and for connecting rigorous analytics with real business impact.

Grateful for building Georgia Tech's sustainable business community and for showing that good operations and good stewardship go together.

Thank you for keeping the humanities vibrant at a tech institute and for your generous scholarship of the Middle Ages.