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Daiwei Lu, a third-year Ph.D. student in computer science at Vanderbilt, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study that aims to create computer vision and machine learning models to improve endoscopic treatment of kidney stones. Each year, over 100,000 patients require… Read More

Vanderbilt School of Engineering alumnus David Limp, CEO of Blue Origin and former senior vice president at Amazon, urged students during a packed-house campus event on Sept. 18 to “be curious” and become proficient in the use of artificial intelligence so they can remain competitive in the workforce. In conversation with Krish Roy, the Bruce […] Read More

The College of Connected Computing has developed a new speaker series called “Plot Twist” that invites Vanderbilt alumni from various backgrounds to share stories with current students about their paths to becoming technology leaders. “We strive to find alumni whose career paths have taken interesting twists and turns to… Read More

As far back as he can remember, Andy Schwartz has been fascinated by two things—how the brain works and how humans process natural language.   “I had always been interested in the mind and language, stemming from my own struggles with reading, dyslexia... Read More

The HLAB directed by H. Andrew Schwartz, which just moved to Vanderbilt’s new College of Connecting Computing, is running a key part of the annual worldwide artificial intelligence test, SemEval, which will evaluate how well current AI text systems understand human emotion. Each year, more than a hundred… Read More

David Hyde, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing, has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new, open-source software platform for “physical intelligence,” which is the combination of traditional physics simulation algorithms with artificial intelligence… Read More

Hirak Sarkar, a machine learning and genomics expert, recently became a new faculty member in the College of Connected Computing and also joined the Discovery Vanderbilt Center for Computational Systems Biology in the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Hirak Sarkar Sarkar’s research focuses on developing computational models for… Read More

Allen Karns, chief AI technology officer for Vanderbilt University’s Amplify GenAI Innovation Center, has been named a 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Champion by the Center for Digital Government (CDG) and the Center for Digital Education (CDE). Karns and his team were recognized at the AWS IMAGINE: SLG/EDU conference in… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a smart microscope system that uses artificial intelligence to help scientists better understand how cells behave, particularly in diseases like cancer. Yuankai Huo, assistant professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, is the grant’s principal investigator. Co-PIs are […] Read More

Shekhar Bhansali, an internationally recognized distinguished researcher and leader in electrical engineering, has accepted the role of chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering, effective July 1. He will also hold the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair. Bhansali comes to Vanderbilt after holding major leadership roles at Florida International University (FIU) […] Read More