Feb 12, 2024
At this year’s Career, Research, Innovation, and Development Conference (CRIDC), $41,000 worth of research travel grants were awarded in recognition of the outstanding and impactful work by student competitors.
The 15th annual CRIDC at Georgia Tech took place on Feb. 8, bringing together a diverse community of scholars. 116 graduate students participated in the CRIDC poster competition, presenting their research in front of their peers and faculty and staff judges alike. Online graduate students participated in CRIDC’s first-ever online poster competition as well.
Congratulations to the following poster competition winners.
Executive Vice President for Research winners
Jennifer Leestma, College of Engineering
Kelly Badilla, College of Engineering
Megan Andrews, College of Sciences
Anamik Jhunjhunwala, College of Engineering
Timothy Brumfiel, College of Engineering
Shreya Kothari, College of Sciences
Shehan Parmar, College of Sciences
Ximena Pizarro-Bore, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Xinyue Huang, College of Engineering
Shiqi Wei, College of Engineering
College of Engineering winners
Shaspreet Kaur
Bettina Arkhurst
Frederick Chung
Ranjani Narayanan
College of Sciences winners
Chad Pozarycki
Monica Monge Loria
Jiangpeiyun Jin
Kiera Ngoc Thuy An Tran
College of Computing winners
Varun Agrawal
Eric Greenlee
Office of the Provost’s Award
Eric Cole, College of Engineering
Walter Parker, College of Engineering
Chloe LeCates, College of Sciences
Jimin Park, College of Engineering
Patrick Owen Sizemore, College of Computing
CRIDC is the product of the collaborative efforts of the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) and the Graduate Career Development Team from the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Fifteen years ago, the event was created when the student-led poster competition, then known as the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Competition (GTRIC) was combined with the Graduate Career Symposium.
CRIDC also features an Innovation Competition, in which graduate student finalists offer three-minute presentations to a panel of judges. All participants met with Tech’s VentureLab to explore grants and programs that can help them pursue startup businesses and technology licensing opportunities.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 CRIDC Innovation Competition:
1st place: Mikaela Gray, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Runner-up: Alison Jenkins, Mechanical Engineering
Runner-up: Zhaonan Liu, Materials Science and Engineering
In addition to the poster competitions, this year’s CRIDC featured an employee networking lunch, featuring over twenty employers and four career panels. For more information about CRIDC, please visit grad.gatech.edu/cridc.