Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Lori Troxel, associate professor of the practice, center, poses with a demonstration Tesla and some of her Cities of the Future seminar students. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) A chance meeting between a Vanderbilt University civil engineering professor and a Tesla product specialist resulted in students getting a closer… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering alumni Kendall Card and Perry E. Wallace Jr. will be inducted into the School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni at a special event in April. S. Shankar Sastry will be inducted as a member of the school’s Circle of Distinguished Friends. “The newest members of the Academy… Read More

Robert Grajewski A startup veteran whose ventures range from retail to manufacturing will be joining Vanderbilt University this spring as the inaugural executive director of the newly created Innovation Center. Robert Grajewski, president of Edison Nation Medical and co-founder of Heritage Handcrafted, both in Charlotte,… Read More

  A Vanderbilt study shows that anonymization algorithms can provide privacy protection across multiple institutions as clinical data are released for research. (photo by Susan Urmy) A new study, led by investigators at Vanderbilt University, confirms that the scientific pursuit of so-called big data from hospitals and… Read More

Three engineering professors have been named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The class comprises 14 highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as business, education and engineering. “This class of fellows represents… Read More

William H. Robinson, a rising academic leader and diversity advocate, has been named an associate dean of the School of Engineering, Dean Philippe Fauchet announced today. William H. Robinson Robinson, a member of the university’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Community, which Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos named in… Read More

Harnessing the power of computers to help create an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable future – that is the purpose of a major new grant issued by the National Science Foundation to a new network of universities and organizations that includes Vanderbilt University. Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt… Read More

Kenneth F. Galloway has been elected to the American Association of Engineering Societies Board of Directors for a term beginning Jan. 1, 2016. Galloway is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and former dean of the School of Engineering. Ken Galloway Galloway is a… Read More

Megan Woodruff (CE’17) and Phil Hawkins (CS’17) present Pocket Docket to the Human-Computer Interaction class. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Future engineers and others who excel in an increasingly popular computer science course must start by thinking past the coding challenges, past the array of possible devices, and all… Read More

  Padma Raghavan Following an extensive national search, Padma Raghavan, a distinguished researcher in high-performance computing and computational science and engineering and a proven academic research enterprise leader, has been named as Vanderbilt University’s next vice provost for research, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic… Read More