Partnering with Human Augment Analytics Group (HAAG)
What is HAAG?
The Human Augment Analytics Group is a research community dedicated to democratizing AI and data science across diverse scientific domains. We believe partnerships between domain experts and AI practitioners are essential for ethical, impactful research, and we build the structures that make those partnerships work.
We operate as a virtual laboratory. Our researchers are drawn substantially from Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program and work in distributed teams under a defined management and mentorship structure.
Our mission is to train the next generation of computational leaders through hands-on interdisciplinary projects, develop experience-based leadership and project management skills for future faculty and researchers, create sustainable partnerships between computational and domain experts, and expand faculty research capacity through virtual laboratory collaboration.
Why Partner With HAAG
You bring the research problem. We build and run the team.
You contribute the scientific question, the domain expertise, and the direction. HAAG recruits student researchers, matches them to your project based on skill fit, and handles the day-to-day management, adding computational advisors and a student project manager when they’re available.
In practice:
- We recruit and place researchers for your project, so you skip the hiring process.
- We run the weekly or biweekly meetings, track progress, and escalate problems before they land on your desk. Computational advisors give technical guidance on methods. A student project manager may join too, through the CS 8803 track, if one’s available that semester.
- Our researchers come out of computing and data science backgrounds, so if the work needs machine learning or data engineering capability, that’s the gap we fill.
- Through our unit meetings program, your project can optionally join a group of others in the same research area to trade progress and feedback beyond your own team. Joining is your call, but once your project opts in, attendance becomes an expectation for your researchers. See our Unit Meetings page for details.
NOTE: most HAAG researchers participate through CS 8903 (Special Problems) or CS 6999 (Master’s Project) for course credit, or as volunteers, who are typically formerly researchers through the above courses but chose to continue with the project when they’ve exhausted their credit limits.
What We Ask of You / What You Can Expect From Us
What we ask:
- A clearly scoped research problem, and the domain expertise to guide it
- Reasonable responsiveness: questions will come up that only you can answer
What you can expect:
- A staffed, managed research team without a hiring or supervision burden
- Transparent communication about progress, including when things aren’t working
- Researchers operating under a written accountability framework
- Authorship rules explained upfront, with order confirmed at submission as contributions become clear, not negotiated after the fact
- Full direction over your own research
How It Works
Getting started
Interested faculty contact Bree (bshi42@gatech.edu) to begin the conversation.
Your project team
Each project is staffed with:
- Student researchers, matched to the work by HAAG based on skill fit
- Computational advisors, when one’s placed on your project: academic researchers, often early-career faculty or postdocs, recruited through open calls at Georgia Tech and other institutions. They give technical and methodological guidance, so you’re getting an academic collaborator with computational depth, not just student labor.
- A student project manager, when one’s available through the CS 8803 track, running weekly meetings and day-to-day coordination. This role depends on availability each semester and isn’t guaranteed on every project.
You’re welcome to share input on staffing, but final placement decisions rest with HAAG.
Authorship
See our Authorship Policy for how author order is determined.
Researcher Management
See our Researcher Management Policy for how we hold researchers accountable, manage continuity between semesters, and handle dismissal.
Meetings and cadence
| Meeting | Who runs it | Who attends | Your role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly lab meeting | Student project manager, when available; otherwise self-organized by the researchers or a lead researcher | Project researchers | Welcome whenever you can attend |
| Unit meetings | An assigned manager, though not strictly fixed | Researchers from other projects in the same unit | Optional to join; once your project opts in, attendance is expected of your team |
Meeting times are set at the start of each semester: HAAG admins collect each project’s preferred recurring time and schedule it centrally. Sessions are recorded by default.
We encourage active involvement, but we don’t require it. Some faculty attend every week; others check in monthly.
Course enrollment
Most student researchers enroll in CS 8903 (Special Problems) and CS 6999 for credit. Students on our management track enroll in CS 8803.