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Antonio Akins, BS’96, gave a generous donation to the inaugural Global Good Hackathon after conversations with the School of Engineering and the College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt’s first new college in 40 years. For Akins, the hackathon repres... Read More

The 19th annual Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Symposium on Oct. 14, 2025, brought together postdoctoral scholars from across Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center for a day of research, professional development and commun... 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 Human Language Analysis Lab 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 curr... Read More

H. Andrew Schwartz, whose “HLAB” research includes improvements to state of the art in artificial intelligence, has moved to the new College of Connecting Computing. Schwartz also specializes in investigating language, in all forms, as a window into the human condition – mental health, fundamental human traits, and… 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