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Vanderbilt researchers are part of an artificial intelligence-driven project that has received a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to optimize bus service on one of Nashville’s busiest routes. Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University, is… Read More

Hiba Baroud, A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Faculty Fellow and associate chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst Award at the Society for Risk Analysis 2024 annual meeting’s awards luncheon on Dec. 10. The Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk… Read More

A new peer-reviewed study shows that a back-relieving exosuit originally developed at Vanderbilt University and then commercialized by spin-off company HeroWear can simultaneously increase lifting endurance and reduce injury risk. This has important implications for the future of workplace safety and for workers in civilian and defense sectors. The results… Read More

Ravindra Duddu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University, is among a team of researchers who have developed a novel approach to better predict fracture propagation in Greenland glaciers, which has implications for global sea level rise that impacts coastal communities around the world. Ravindra Duddu… Read More

Wellington Pham has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. The NAI announced today the election of 170 exceptional inventors from 135 research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutions worldwide into the 2024 Class of Fellows. Fellows… Read More

Four engineering Ph.D. students have received prestigious 2025 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships, a showing that highlights Vanderbilt’s strengths as a hub of transportation research, connected cities, resilience and sustainability. Eisenhower fellows will be recognized at the 104th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies in… Read More

Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial of a surgical robotic device developed by a Vanderbilt engineer to advance precision and control when removing kidney stones. The device is the first-known independently steerable kidney stone retrieval device, enabling more effective maneuvering… Read More

De-en Jiang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and of chemistry, is on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers. Jiang also was cited in the 2023 list. De-en Jiang He is among 6,636 “highly cited researchers” around the… Read More

Meiyi Ma, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Meiyi Ma, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt, is leading research funded by a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop what’s considered the world’s first Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) training system for 911 call takers and dispatchers. The work… Read More

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been selected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as an awardee of the Sprint for Women’s Health, an initiative to address critical unmet challenges in women’s health, champion transformative innovations and tackle health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women. VUMC will receive $3.3… Read More