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Amplify 2.0 ushers in a new era of AI-powered productivity at Vanderbilt
Amplify GenAI is taking a major step forward at Vanderbilt University. This spring, Vanderbilt is launching Amplify 2.0, a significant expansion of the university’s generative AI platform that will give every user access to a personal AI email assistant, scheduling agent, and intelligent note-taker—all within Vanderbilt’s secure, vendor-independent environment. Read MoreJanuary 6, 2026
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SPECIAL PODCAST EPISODE: Connecting our lives to AI and robotics with Matthew Johnson-Roberson
What does the future of AI and robotics look like in our daily lives and as a career field? In a special episode of Quantum Potential, Provost C. Cybele Raver talks with Matthew Johnson-Roberson, the inaugural dean of the College of Connected Computing... Read MoreDecember 11, 2025
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Vanderbilt University and EPB launch innovation institute to accelerate quantum science and technology breakthroughs
Vanderbilt University and EPB of Chattanooga, home of America’s most comprehensive quantum commercialization infrastructure, announced plans to establish the Institute for Quantum Innovation, further positioning Chattanooga—and Tennessee—as a national ... Read MoreDecember 10, 2025
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Daiwei Lu receives grant from National Institutes of Health to create models that improve treatment of kidney stones
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 MoreNovember 6, 2025
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Decoding Vanderbilt’s New College of Connected Computing
In this conversation with Vanderbilt Magazine, Dean Matthew Johnson-Roberson discusses his vision for the new College of Connected Computing, the integration of AI across disciplines and why “connected computing” represents the future of technology edu... Read MoreNovember 6, 2025
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Blue Origin CEO and alumnus David Limp urges students to be ‘curious,’ proficient in AI
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 MoreOctober 21, 2025
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College of Connected Computing launches ‘Plot Twist’ series to offer students advice about successful technology careers
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 MoreOctober 15, 2025
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Andy Schwartz: Leveraging AI to improve the human condition
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 MoreOctober 13, 2025
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College of Connected Computing researcher helps launch worldwide human-centered AI evaluation
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 MoreSeptember 10, 2025
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David Hyde receives $1.6 million NSF grant to develop open-source software platform for ‘physical intelligence’
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 MoreAugust 21, 2025