Dr. Hans Riess is a faculty research scientist and principal investigator in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Hans' research leverages category theory and algebraic topology to drive innovations in multi-agent systems, optimization, and artificial intelligence. At Georgia Tech, he was recently awarded a DARPA ARC grant for his research project "Sheaf Enriched Autonomous Multi-Agent Networks." He is a member of the Decision and Control Lab (DCL) and the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab. Hans earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Duke University in 2016 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, where he specialized in applied sheaf theory under the guidance of Professor Robert Ghrist. Before joining the research faculty at Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University where he worked on data-driven methods in the Autonomous Systems Lab.
Dr. Hans Riess is a faculty research scientist and principal investigator in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Hans' research leverages category theory and algebraic topology to drive innovations in multi-agent systems, optimization, and artificial intelligence. At Georgia Tech, he was recently awarded a DARPA ARC grant for his research project "Sheaf Enriched Autonomous Multi-Agent Networks." He is a member of the Decision and Control Lab (DCL) and the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab. Hans earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Duke University in 2016 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, where he specialized in applied sheaf theory under the guidance of Professor Robert Ghrist. Before joining the research faculty at Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University where he worked on data-driven methods in the Autonomous Systems Lab.
" The purpose of sheaf theory is quite general: it is to obtain global information from local information, or else to define “obstructions” which characterize the fact that a local property does not hold globally any more. "
" Every notion of constancy is relative, being derived perceptually or conceptually as a limiting case of variation. "
" Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. "
" It is only as the factors which have to be taken into account become so numerous that it is impossible to gain a synoptic view of them that decentralization becomes imperative. "
" What is lacking is not the technical virtuosity of mathematicians, but the audacity (or simply innocence) to free oneself from a familiar context accepted by a flawless consensus. "
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