Electrical And Computer Engineering

This past summer, 13 Vanderbilt undergraduates were selected to work on projects focused on epilepsy, miniature soft climbing robots, stroke treatment, kidney disease research, cancer resection and surgical skill assessment as part of the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Summer Fellows Program (VSF). Read More

There’s a good chance many Middle Tennessee high school kids know more about nanotechnology than you do thanks to the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, which has been making strides in its educational outreach for more than a decade. Read More

Senior leadership from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently visited Vanderbilt University to learn more about the innovation ecosystem in Nashville and about translational research being conducted on campus. Read More

Provost C. Cybele Raver announced the formation of the Provost’s Science Space Planning Committee, a faculty- and staff-led initiative established to ensure that Vanderbilt’s physical spaces properly serve the needs and goals of scientific research and discovery. The committee, which was charged by the provost on Friday, includes faculty and… Read More

The Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt celebrated its 25th anniversary on Sept. 7 in a daylong event that showcased the institute’s national and international impact on cyber-physical systems, security, education, model-integrated computing and distributed large-scale system integration. The event was held in the Student Life Center ballroom… Read More

Biomedical engineering graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are recipients of highly competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awards from the National Institutes of Health and NIH Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Awards. A majority of the students are in the Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program (… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded the 2023 Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize for his commitment to teaching, mentoring, and community service. Justus Ndukaife At Vanderbilt, Ndukaife’s research includes the study of optically-resonant nanostructures, with an aim to confine and manipulate… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading innovative research that more effectively traps nanosized extracellular vesicles and particles to analyze their roles in cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Optical trapping of single extracellular vesicles and supermeres using optical anapoles. The research by Ndukaife and his collaborators was… Read More

Isabella Wynocker will travel to Toulouse, France in September to present her work on radiation effects on memory drives in space environments as the only undergraduate researcher of five authors to win best student abstract awards for RADECS 2023.  The RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems… Read More

Vanderbilt University, in collaboration with the University of Tennessee–Knoxville and more than 100 partner organizations across the state, celebrated the launch of the TEAM TN initiative to advance next-generation transportation and mobility solutions during an event at UT Knoxville. The June 26 showcase for Advancing… Read More