Computer Science

Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, has announced outstanding 2023 engineering graduates, school and department award recipients at the school’s May 11 Commencement Reception. “It is among my favorite duties as dean to acknowledge our students’ accomplishments that we recognize by awards and honors they have earned at… Read More

Dean Philippe Fauchet announced May 9 the promotions of engineering faculty members at the final faculty meeting of the 2022-2023 academic year and presented four school awards at a reception following the meeting. Dan Work has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental… Read More

Two multidisciplinary teams from a new joint initiative between Vanderbilt’s Department of Computer Science and Peabody College have advanced to the “discovery round” of the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Devin Jean, a third-year CS Ph.D. student, presents his… Read More

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy, computer science and management, and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at the School of Engineering. Stassun and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt… Read More

  (Poster by Xu Liu) The Department of Computer Science will host a showcase of student artwork co-created with artificial intelligence on Tuesday, May 2, from 3 to 5 p.m. The event will be at the Sony Building, 1400 18th Ave. S., at the Computer Science space… Read More

Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have been honored by Vanderbilt University with endowed chairs. Koutsoukos has received the inaugural Thomas R. Walters Chair. This chair will be celebrated at the Investiture event… Read More

Kevin Leach, assistant professor of computer science, has won an Amazon Research Award in the fall 2022 awards cycle. Leach will receive gift funding and Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits to support his project, “DocumentNet: iterative data collection for building a robust document understanding dataset.’’ The Amazon… Read More

Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a nationally renowned researcher, will be the next Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver announced today. Read More

Gabor Karsai, a Distinguished Professor of computer science and professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Sciences Section. He will deliver an induction lecture on April 28, 2023. Gabor Karsai External and honorary members are elected by… Read More

Bradley Malin and Karl Zelik were among eight Vanderbilt faculty members who received 2023 Spring Faculty Awards at the Spring Faculty Assembly April 10. Recipients were recognized for their significant impact through scholarship, research, creative expression, service, teaching or mentoring. Malin received the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award. Read More