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Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to advance research that uses artificial intelligence to improve communication between neurodivergent and neurotypical youth and adults with the goal of placing more neurodivergent individuals with conditions like autism in the STEM workforce. The three-year $900,000 award is through NSF’s… Read More

A surgical robot capable of performing an entire surgery without human intervention: That’s the goal of a landmark, multi-institution project being led by a Vanderbilt engineer that recently received an award up to $12 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Robert Webster and his… Read More

Professor Yiorgos Kostoulas has been selected to receive a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award for the 2024-25 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Yiorgos Kostoulas Kostoulas, director of the Division of Engineering Science and Management, will teach and conduct research in Trinidad… Read More

Group of capsules moving in tubular tortuous structures and sampling liquids.   Vanderbilt researchers have developed technology for sampling body liquids in tortuous and narrow spaces that could lead to early detection of diseases like cancer. The research led by Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering,… Read More

Vanderbilt engineering students Rais Nurhidajat, Jonathan Zak, Leo Brenes, and graduate student Andrew Noonan gained invaluable aerospace career experience this summer at the Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Laboratory (VADL). Their project, developing an autorotative lander, advanced their technical skills and provided a springboard for their future careers in the… Read More

Benoit Dawant has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024 conference in San Diego. Benoit Dawant Dawant is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor… Read More

The Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) is collaborating on research that is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to more accurately determine if a person has a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), or concussion. The research is being funded by a $1.4 million U.S. Department of Defense… Read More

Vanderbilt computer science students got some real-world experience in cybersecurity when they joined Retired General Paul M. Nakasone at DEF CON 32, considered the world’s largest conference of hackers. The conference, which took place Aug. 8-11 in Las Vegas, allows hackers to test the latest technology for… Read More

Vanderbilt University has formed a search committee to find a permanent director for the new Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate (VSEC). Launched earlier this year, VSEC primarily focuses on advancing multidisciplinary research that includes partnerships with communities, government, industry, national laboratories and other research universities. The center… Read More

The Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) and its collaborators are hosting a week-long summer school Aug. 12-15 focused on cutting-edge advancements and practical applications of deep learning and artificial intelligence. VALIANT is working with ADVANCE, CS, DSI, ECE, LIVE, VKC, VINSE, VISE and Jean and Alexander… Read More