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Most undergraduate students expect to wait until graduate school before tackling unsolved problems in mathematics. Manish Acharya didn’t want to wait. Acharya, a rising senior studying computer science and mathematics, is spending his summer as a research intern at Aalto University in Finland, where he is working on fundamental open… Read More

The Amplify Staff Fellows program is not a lecture series or a passive introduction to technology. It’s a hands-on innovation lab where small cohorts of staff with intermediate or above familiarity with generative AI meet every other week to experiment... Read More

College of Connected Computing faculty member and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions Dr. Jules White has reached a major milestone in global digital learning, with more than one million learners engaging in his AI and tech-based course offerings on Coursera. The achievement reflects Vanderbilt faculty’s growing influence in… Read More

Inspired by a childhood fascination with medical imaging, Vanderbilt Ph.D. graduate Michael Kim is using advanced brain imaging and AI to better understand Alzheimer's disease and healthy brain aging. His research is helping map the brain's communicati... Read More

Yu Huang, an assistant professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing, received the NSF CAREER Award in May 2026 for her research, “Enabling Human-Guided AI for Code.” The award is one of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious recognitions for early-career faculty, granted to… Read More

Eleven of Vanderbilt University’s most promising recently tenured faculty have been awarded spots in the 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. This year’s recipients demonstrate exceptional and innovative scholarly achievement. “These scholars repre... Read More

On June 3, Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing and Blair School of Music hosted an inspiring gathering at Vanderbilt University–New York City, bringing together alumni and friends to explore the future of music in the digital age. The evening highlighted the intersection… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing is launching a new Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence; a fully online degree built for working professionals across every field who want to influence how artificial intelligence is used in their organizations. The program starts from a premise that distinguishes it from… Read More

This article was originally posted in Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Read more.   Today’s large language models are trained on the aggregate writing of millions of authors. But that also means that LLMs like ChatGPT converge on a narrow, agreeable, mildly positive voice that flattens the variation between… Read More

Written by: Caitlynn Peetz Stephens This article was originally posted in Education Week. Read more.   For decades, the Metro Nashville schools in Tennessee created district-level jobs organically as the system started programs, responded to evolving student needs, or secured new funding. The result has been an organizational chart… Read More