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  • Vanderbilt University

    Caldwell collaboration wins prestigious Office of Naval Research MURI grant

    Joshua Caldwell (Vanderbilt University) Josh Caldwell, director of the Interdisciplinary Material Sciences program and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The five-year grant, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding annually, will be shared… Read More

    Apr. 20, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineering’s Koutsoukos and Oskay honored with endowed chairs

    Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have been honored by Vanderbilt University with endowed chairs. Koutsoukos has received the inaugural Thomas R. Walters Chair. This chair will be celebrated at the Investiture event… Read More

    Apr. 19, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering seniors present capstone projects at annual Design Day event, April 24

    A team of engineering seniors has designed an embedded thermoelectric generator to convert that wavy shimmer of heat that rises from hot asphalt—waste heat radiation—into electrical energy. To protect soldiers’ hands from heat burns while rappelling from helicopters, another team has created ‘fast rope’ insertion gloves. These design projects and… Read More

    Apr. 18, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Leach receives Amazon Research Award to build a document understanding dataset

    Kevin Leach, assistant professor of computer science, has won an Amazon Research Award in the fall 2022 awards cycle. Leach will receive gift funding and Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits to support his project, “DocumentNet: iterative data collection for building a robust document understanding dataset.’’ The Amazon… Read More

    Apr. 18, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt names esteemed biomedical engineer Krishnendu Roy as next dean of School of Engineering

    Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a nationally renowned researcher, will be the next Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver announced today. Read More

    Apr. 17, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Herowear exosuit technology launches with on-campus departments

    An innovative exosuit developed by a team of Vanderbilt engineers comes full circle this… Read More

    Apr. 17, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Karsai elected External Member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

    Gabor Karsai, a Distinguished Professor of computer science and professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Sciences Section. He will deliver an induction lecture on April 28, 2023. Gabor Karsai External and honorary members are elected by… Read More

    Apr. 14, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Two engineering faculty members honored at Spring Faculty Assembly

    Bradley Malin and Karl Zelik were among eight Vanderbilt faculty members who received 2023 Spring Faculty Awards at the Spring Faculty Assembly April 10. Recipients were recognized for their significant impact through scholarship, research, creative expression, service, teaching or mentoring. Malin received the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award. Read More

    Apr. 13, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt engineer wins $2.7M NIH grant to develop AI-empowered 3D computer vision tool to better diagnose kidney diseases

    The 3D computer vision tool (called Map3D) can detect, track, and associate comprehensive pixel-level segmentation of renal tissue microstructures for 3D quantification. New applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to renal pathology have been driven by the widespread use of digital diagnostic imaging and interdisciplinary collaborations between computer scientists, nephrologists and… Read More

    Apr. 12, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    COVID on Twitter: town vs. country

    by Paul Govern Reported in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, a statistical analysis of sentiments expressed online by U.S. Twitter users captures the rural-urban divide regarding COVID-19. Bradley Malin Google software engineer Yongtai Liu, PhD’22 in computer science; Bradley Malin, professor of biomedical informatics and computer science, and colleagues created a… Read More

    Apr. 11, 2023