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Vanderbilt rocket team at the NASA USLI competition at Bragg Farms in Toney Alabama, April 13, 2024.   Rocket team members are staying in the lab this summer to work on two designs of the drone that netted the team a second place award in the coveted AIAA Reusable Launch… Read More

Two Vanderbilt computer science teams made impressive showings in recent competitions involving artificial intelligence and programming skills. The first group—comprised of Vanderbilt undergraduates Jason Hedman, JP Higgins, Vasco Singh, and Jake Underwood—won the Microsoft Generative AI Hackathon April 1 through May 6 for their creation of ChatEDU, a… Read More

A team of Vanderbilt researchers has developed a wirelessly activated device that mimics the wavelike muscular function in the esophagus and small intestine responsible for transporting food and viscous fluids for digestion. The soft-robotic prototype, which is driven by strong magnets controlled by a wearable external actuator,… Read More

A software system developed by Vanderbilt researchers to help improve operations of Nashville’s public transportation network won “Best Paper” at the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), held in Hong Kong May 13-16. Currently, WeGo Nashville has 160 buses that cover 35 routes. However, its ridership is… Read More

Pamela Wisniewski, a Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of computer science has been appointed to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group beginning in August 2024. Pamela Wisniewski The group brings 40 of the brightest scientists and engineers together… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Jules White, a leading computer scientist and expert on large language models and prompt engineering, visited Capitol Hill recently to share his expertise with lawmakers. As the Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions, he was invited to participate… Read More

Kristin O’Grady, MD, in Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) next to next to a scanner (CT or MRI). (Photo by Susan Urmy) By Bill Snyder Kristin Poole O’Grady, PhD’15, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and assistant professor of… Read More

Vanderbilt Department of Computer Science researchers Kevin Leach and James Weimer have been awarded a $2 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop technology aimed at improving software security in medical devices like insulin pumps,… Read More

Seven engineering graduate students and three undergraduates in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering are 2024 recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports students who are pursuing full-time, research-based graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering or math. Recipients receive financial support for their education and an annual stipend to support their research and career endeavors. Read More

LIVE, the Learning Innovation Incubator at Vanderbilt University, has awarded an inaugural LIVE Spark Grant to a project that leverages AI to aid in the care of people with dementia. It is one of three projects selected from a strong pool of applicants. The winning projects and their investigators show exceptional promise for addressing critical learning challenges and cutting-edge learning technologies to advance dementia care, literacy, and music education. Read More