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Vanderbilt’s Abhishek Dubey leads symposium on sustainable cities research

Nov. 13, 2023—Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, is leading a one-day symposium on Nov. 13 at Cornell Tech highlighting innovative research for sustainable cities. Called Urban Tech Academy day, the event sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Cornell Tech will focus on “clean electrified multimodal transportation systems.” Over two...

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Interdisciplinary team develops open-access computer programming course for high school teachers

Nov. 3, 2023—A modular, open-access curriculum created at Vanderbilt that’s designed to expand the ability of high school teachers to use technology in learning offers an engaging introduction to advanced topics that are currently accessible only to computer science majors in college. Programming for a Networked World is a beginner-level MOOC (massive open online course) on Coursera...

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Computer science major helps fight infectious diseases with AI-focused Immersion Vanderbilt project

Oct. 17, 2023—By Amy Wolf Today’s fight against infectious diseases is being waged in the computer lab as much as the wet lab. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Vanderbilt researchers and students like School of Engineering undergraduate Karen Pu are expanding the power of computer modeling to identify mutating viruses—and potentially improve vaccines. Karen Pu, class...

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Vanderbilt computer scientists develop community-based app for managing mobile privacy and security

Aug. 3, 2023—Mamtaj Akter, a Vanderbilt computer science graduate student in the lab of Pamela Wisniewski, Flowers Family Fellow in Engineering and associate professor of computer science, has co-authored a study  evaluating how technology can help people manage mobile privacy and security as a community. Managing mobile privacy and security as an individual is a constant challenge. “We...

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Two engineering alumna named to university’s alumni board

Jul. 28, 2023—The Vanderbilt Alumni Association has welcomed two new engineering alumna to its board for three-year terms that started July 1, and two returning board leaders who are engineering alumni. The Alumni Association’s mission is to engage Vanderbilt alumni in the life of the university, encourage lifelong connections and support the university’s goals. “Vanderbilt’s alumni community...

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Vanderbilt researcher wins NSF CAREER award to close a gap in network analysis by better modeling negative online interactions like unfollowing and blocking

Jun. 16, 2023—Tyler Derr, assistant professor of computer science, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance network analysis methods for data that inherently contain both positive and negative interactions, such as that found in e-commerce and online social media. The prestigious five-year award honors early career faculty with the potential to serve as role models in...

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Two engineering students named 2023 Goldwater Scholars

May. 15, 2023—Rising biomedical engineering senior Madison Albert and rising computer science junior Haoli Yin have been named 2023 Barry Goldwater Scholars. The Goldwater Scholarship Program, honoring U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Rising junior biochemistry major Rincon Jagarlamudi...

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Computer science alum Ashwin Kumar named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholar

May. 12, 2023—Vanderbilt alum Ashwin Kumar, MS’22, has been selected from a pool of more than 7,000 applicants for the 2023 cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Knight-Hennessy is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program, where scholars receive up to three years of financial support to pursue graduate studies at Stanford. Scholars are selected based on their...

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