GE Aerospace Research


GE Aerospace Research, formerly GE Research, is the research and development division of GE Aerospace. Before 2024, it was a division of the General Electric Company, which split three ways between 2023 and 2024 and pivoted to aviation.
GE Global Research locations include the Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, established as the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady in 1900 and relocated to Niskayuna in 1955, and the John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore, India, established in 2000.

Notable employees

Researchers at GE Global Research include:
  • Ralph Alpher, cosmologist
  • William David Coolidge, physicist
  • Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate, physicist
  • Juris Hartmanis, Turing Award winner, computer scientist
  • Christopher J. Hardy, industrial physicist
  • Irving Langmuir, Nobel Laureate, chemist and physicist
  • James L. Lawson, physicist
  • David Musser, computer scientist
  • James Rumbaugh, computer scientist
  • Charles Proteus Steinmetz, mathematician and electrical engineer
  • Alexander Stepanov, computer scientist
  • Richard Stearns, Turing Award winner, computer scientist
  • Willis Rodney Whitney, chemist
  • Carl Woese, biophysicist

    Former locations

GE Global Research operations at all locations other than Niskayuna and Bangalore were discontinued in 2017 as part of a cost-cutting program of General Electric: