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NSF unveils $20 million AI institute with Vanderbilt and partner institutions

Fri, 07/30/2021 - 10:51am

by Pam Coyle

Vanderbilt University engineering and education faculty are part of a new $20 million research institute funded by the National Science Foundation that aims to create artificial intelligence tools to advance human learning and education.

Computing the Biome amongst 3 VU projects highlighted at NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo

Wed, 07/28/2021 - 9:26am

Three ambitious, multidisciplinary projects led by Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty will be featured Wednesday and Thursday, July 28 and 29, during the NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo 2021.

Tran receives IEEE cyber-physical systems dissertation award

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 7:19am

Hoang-Dung Tran has received the 2021 IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

The IEEE TCCPS dissertation award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations that have contributed significantly to the advancement of theory and/or applications in cyber-physical systems. The award consists of a plaque and a citation.

Yanbing Wang named a Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Scholar

Mon, 06/14/2021 - 1:16pm

Please join me in congratulating Yanbing Wang in being named a Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Scholar at Vanderbilt!

Dan Work named Chancellor Faculty Fellow

Wed, 06/09/2021 - 7:06am

Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named a Chancellor Faculty Fellow. Dan and his research group employ sensing technologies, models, and advanced analytics to understand and improve mobility systems, including autonomous vehicles. Research projects include using large datasets to understand urban traffic congestion at city scales.

IBM will use Vanderbilt Model as End-user Scripting Assistant in its Open-source Command Line AI Project

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 12:27pm

A Vanderbilt computer science team - Jules White (associate professor of computer science), and graduate CS assistants Quchen Fu and Zhongwei Teng - shortened the distance with a top prize-winning computer model showcased in a high-powered competition at one of the two leading international conferences in artificial intelligence and deep learning—the 2020 Neural Information Processing Sys