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Olga Menagarishvili directs the Charles E. Gearing Program in Engineering Communication at Georgia Tech. She began her career in 1999 and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in scientific, technical, and professional communication at the University of Minnesota and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She served as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow from 2012 to 2016, during which time she co-created and taught technical communication courses for Computer Science undergraduates. Before returning to Georgia Tech in 2025, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Metro State University, where she directed the Learner Experience Design graduate program and coordinated a Technical Communication Industry Advisory Board. Her research interests encompass engineering, technical, and scientific communication, with a focus on pedagogy and GenAI in technical communication, multimodality, rhetoric, and lexicography. Her work has been published in various renowned journals, including Technical Communication Quarterly and IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.