Vision

ARI aims to be agile, capable, efficient, and well-resourced in advancing technologies that improve the human condition.

Mission

ARI seeks to move the DECIMAL point, affecting an order-of-magnitude change to the status quo.

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Congratulations to Shannon Yee, who has been selected by The Rockefeller Foundation as a Bellagio Center Resident.

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced that 87 leaders from six continents are joining the Bellagio Center Residency Program’s 2026 Class, including Shannon Yee. Representing a range of critical expertise and professional backgrounds, the 2026 Class joins a program that has hosted more than 5,000 trailblazers and changemakers from more than 140 countries, including 18 Nobel Laureates, since 1959. The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency offers a combination of uninterrupted work time in a unique environment, alongside the opportunity for collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange. Participants are connected to a global network of alumni, all of whom have demonstrated a commitment to creating lasting impact in their communities and around the world. Dr. Yee will focus his time at the Bellagio Center to work on advancing solutions to humanity's critical challenges that deliver order of magnitude change to the status quo.

What is Advanced Research?

The time for "moving the needle" has passed. We must now move the DECIMAL point, affecting an order-of-magnitude change to the status quo. 

ARI's advanced research focuses on solving real-world problems. Our faculty use existing knowledge to develop practical solutions, technologies, or improvements that can be directly implemented in Defense, Energy, Climate, Intelligence, Medicine (i.e., health), Agriculture, and Life (i.e., biology). For ARI, advanced research spans the full spectrum of R&D, from deep-basic science competency (e.g., academics) to product designers / manufacturers that can rapidly respond to solving pressing problems facing the world with holistic expertise and solutions.

 

ARI By The Numbers

ARI by the numbers March 2026.
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Organizational Information

ARI operational offices are located in the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, Room194, 422 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30313