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  by Ann Marie Deer Owens In the true spirit of an engineer, Krishnendu “Krish” Roy has always relished the role of a builder—whether that’s assembling an internationally renowned bioengineering center like the one he led before coming to Vanderbilt or bringing together experts from a vast array of… Read More

Soheil Kolouri, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to explore ways to make machine learning more efficient and possibly impact the next generation of such methods. Soheil Kolouri Despite the success of machine learning, scientists say many foundational… Read More

A front-end lens, or meta-imager (see below), created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher speed and using less power. The nanostructuring of lens material into a meta-imager filter reduces the typically thick optical lens and enables front-end processing that encodes… Read More

Hiba Baroud, A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Faculty Fellow and associate chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed as a fellow of the International Science Council in recognition of outstanding contributions to promoting science as a global public good. She is among the 100… Read More

Nisala Kalupahana, a senior computer science major in the BS/MS program, has received a distinguished 2024 Camelback Fellowship that will support an app he developed to improve people’s mental health. Nisala Kalupahana Kalupahana is among a cohort of 12 entrepreneurs from across the country who will each receive… Read More

Each year, the Vanderbilt School of Engineering brings in about $80 million through contracts and research grants from agencies like the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, as well as the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. Facilitating this vital research… Read More

The industry association, Healthcare Leadership Council, has named School of Engineering alumnus and Board of Visitors member Calvin W. Schmidt, BE’90, as Chairman of the Board for 2024-2025. Schmidt is currently a Senior Vice President at Johnson & Johnson. Over the course of his tenure… Read More

Daniel Balasubramanian, a senior research scientist at Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, will lead a four-year $6.89 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create realistic network environments used to train cyber agents to counter advanced and persistent cyber threats. Estimates have… Read More

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. Read More

A Vanderbilt University engineering professor affiliated with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named a Battelle Distinguished Inventor from ORNL. Justin Baba, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, was one of four scientists honored at the Lab’s annual Innovation Awards Dec. 1 in recognition of being… Read More