Electrical And Computer Engineering

Benoit Dawant has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024 conference in San Diego. Benoit Dawant Dawant is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor… Read More

When kidney stone surgery is performed using an endoscope, about a fourth of those patients will require a repeat surgery within 20 months due to residual stone fragments being left behind. These remaining pieces can lead to obstruction, pain, kidney injury and recurrent infections. Jie Ying Wu Gaining and assessing… Read More

The Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) and its collaborators are hosting a week-long summer school Aug. 12-15 focused on cutting-edge advancements and practical applications of deep learning and artificial intelligence. VALIANT is working with ADVANCE, CS, DSI, ECE, LIVE, VKC, VINSE, VISE and Jean and Alexander… Read More

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Yuankai Huo has received a 2024 Early Career Achievement Award in academia from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM). The award is presented annually in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions in imaging informatics to someone whose highest earned degree has… Read More

Vanderbilt University, the University of Cambridge, King’s College Cambridge, the White House and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters recently convened to showcase the power of academic collaboration on critical national security issues like the development of cryptographic algorithms that can hold up against quantum attacks. The May 21 event… Read More

Retired General Paul Nakasone, who was named as the founding director of the Vanderbilt Institute for National Security earlier this year, received the 2024 William Oliver Baker Award, given in honor of the former president of Bell Labs and a longtime Presidential science advisor. Nearly 700 intelligence, defense and… Read More

Four engineering faculty members have been selected for spring 2024 Seeding Success internal funding. Their projects are among 13 chosen across seven colleges and schools. This year’s cycle was highly competitive, with 29 applications. All applicants receive tailored feedback from reviewers, regardless of whether their proposals are funded. The engineering… Read More

Two engineering graduate students are winners of 2024 Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards presented recently by the Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council. Mentorship Award: Simon J. Ward, Electrical and Computer Engineering Simon Ward Simon Ward’s commitment to his research through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has helped form his legacy of… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have developed an innovative software system incorporating artificial intelligence that aims to improve the efficiency of public transportation for individuals with special needs. The research, led by Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, will be presented in a paper… Read More

Vanderbilt rocket team at the NASA USLI competition at Bragg Farms in Toney Alabama, April 13, 2024.   Rocket team members are staying in the lab this summer to work on two designs of the drone that netted the team a second place award in the coveted AIAA Reusable Launch… Read More