Computer Science

Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Hyde is one of five new 2022 SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program recipients. He joins a cohort of nine Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) science policy fellows. David Hyde The science policy program engages early career professionals in science policy and advocacy. Fellowship recipients learn… Read More

Two faculty members were among 26 Vanderbilt faculty who were honored by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during… Read More

A multidisciplinary team that includes a Vanderbilt computer science professor has established the foundation for an automated, up-to-date assessment of personal protective equipment across U.S. hospitals—work that got its start before the COVID-19 pandemic but took on greater urgency. Significantly, the team developed a secure, third-party system to operate independent… Read More

Vanderbilt computer engineers will collaborate with colleagues at North Carolina State University on a new $4.8 million project to develop technology to co-design and control microgrids. The award was among 68 grants exceeding $175 million announced this week by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy… Read More

VADL Senior Team, front row (l-r) Marissa Schwarz, Zachary Friedman, Joseph Aquino, Kai Malcolm, Thomas Colicci; back row (l-r) Ozgur Orun, Abdul-Latif Gbadmoshie, Sebastian Bond, Ethan Mayer, Kellen Lively, Brian Knapp. Emeritus trustee creates Dalton Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Laboratory Fund to support lab’s vision A devoted and longstanding Vanderbilt University… Read More

In thinking about developing an app for NetsBlox, a block-based programming language that introduces coding to young learners, Devin Cruz Jean asked himself a simple question: Would he, as a middle school or early high school student, be interested in the data sets NetsBlox could access? The answer was no. Read More

A virtual information session for undergraduates interested in the data science minor is Thursday, Jan. 20 at 4 pm. Data science has been hailed as the “sexiest job of 21st Century” by Harvard Business Review. Data science is the study of information–where it comes from, what it tells us and how… Read More

Sixteen Databuoy gunshot detection sensors are installed along a pedestrian mall in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of Databuoy. Janos Sallai, PhD’08, is company’s chief technology officer Gunshot detection technology developed by Vanderbilt engineers and commercialized by a longtime research partner recently helped lead to an arrest in a fatal shooting… Read More

Students in the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering cleanroom. High school students who want to explore engineering will find three courses of interest in the 2022 Summer Academy offered by the Vanderbilt Program for Talented Youth. The application priority window opens January 6. More may be offered as course… Read More

by Paul Govern Information based biomedical discovery, in particular the push toward precision medicine, depends on open-ended analysis of de-identified data from patients and research participants on the largest possible scale. Sharing data while controlling the risk of data reidentification under privacy attack is vital to the enterprise. Zhiyu Wan… Read More