There are many paths to joining the lab for graduate research, typically through a PhD program.

First you must find a graduate program at Georgia Tech or Emory that meets your background and interests and for which Prof Ting serves on the list of eligible training faculty members. You may apply to multiple programs.

While PhD student receive stipend support, these funds come from lab grants or fellowships to the student. Therefore it is important that students seek external funding to support their research. Not only will writing the application help sharpen your research focus and ideas, but having a fellowship will allow you more flexibility and independence in your research. Otherwise, it is critical that you discuss whether lab funding is available for research projects in the lab.

Here is a list of PhD programs to consider

Emory/Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering PhD Program

Georgia Tech Bioengineering Graduate Program

Emory Neuroscience Graduate Program

Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering PhD Program

Georgia Tech Robotics PhD Program

All eligible PhD applicants are expected to apply for external fellowships such as:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (US citizens or residents)

• Hertz Foundation Fellowship (US citizens or residents)

There are internal training programs offering fellowships for graduate students:

Computational Neural Engineering Training Program (for prospective PhD students)

Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance TL1 program (for enrolled PhD students)