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by Lucas Johnson A new staff mentorship program is helping foster more connections, expand professional development opportunities and a greater sense of belonging and inclusion at the School of Engineering. Staffers participate in escape game activity. The program, launched fall of 2023, is available for all full-time staff members at… Read More

Pamela Wisniewski Pamela Wisniewski, associate professor in human-computer interaction and Flowers Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering, has been named to the 2024–26 class of nonresident fellows at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a leading nonpartisan nonprofit in Washington, D.C., working… Read More

Barge Design Solutions, an engineering and architecture firm, is collaborating with Vanderbilt University’s Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative to educate executives on how to embrace and harness this groundbreaking technology in business leadership. Jules White To kick off the collaboration, Jules White, senior advisor to Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier… Read More

Vanderbilt Class of 2024 profiles Schyler Rowland, Class of 2024 (John Russell/Vanderbilt) Biomedical engineering major Schyler Rowland doesn’t think you should be impressed by her accomplishments. And even though she’s spent all four of her undergraduate years working on research to make fighting cancer more successful and affordable, she’s… Read More

Professors say tools like ChatGPT can serve as a coach, tutor and critic, likening them to an ‘exoskeleton for the mind.’ by Lucas Johnson Gian Luca Lupica-Tondo never really gave much thought to using generative artificial intelligence as a coding assistant. But now that he’s taken an AI-assisted programming… Read More

A research endeavor that seeks to develop a new cancer immunotherapy utilizing nanobody delivery and targeted heating of tumors has received funding from the Waddell Walker Hancock Cancer Discovery Fund. The project to create an immunotherapy that will benefit more patients is led by John Tanner Wilson, left, and… Read More

Left to right: Matthew Mench, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Lin Li, Tennessee State University; Krish Roy, Vanderbilt University; Okenwa Okoli, University of Memphis Krish Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of the School of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, met with members of Congress in… Read More

Nashville’s Metro Center, an 850-acre complex in the bend of the Cumberland River just 13 blocks from downtown, is the home of the school’s largest lab, the Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability. The 20,000 square foot LASIR space houses an electrohydraulic vehicle simulator, a military helicopter, a cross… Read More

James Weimer, assistant professor of computer science and noted medical-device entrepreneur, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve the safety and efficacy of systems that use advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. Learning-enabled medical cyber-physical systems (LE-MCPS) are smart medical systems that provide actionable… Read More

Bob Higgins, president and CEO of Barge Design Solutions, Inc., says the absence of a peer as an organization’s CEO is a void felt most often in tough decision-making and strategic planning. Bob Higgins “The development of LLMs is changing this dynamic. LLMs offer CEOs something unprecedented—a personal advisor and… Read More