Akos Ledeczi

  • Vanderbilt University

    Tracking gunfire with a smartphone

    Vanderbilt computer scientists have developed a smartphone-based system for identifying the location where gunshots are fired. (Courtesy of ISIS) You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired. The two of you duck behind the nearest cover and you pull out your smartphone. A map of… Read More

    Apr. 25, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    ISIS’ MarmotE team qualifies for DARPA Spectrum Challenge

    A team of engineers from Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems is one of 15 teams competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Spectrum Challenge. The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition to demonstrate a radio protocol that can best use a given communication channel… Read More

    Apr. 16, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    NSF grant to help engineers accelerate development of medical capsule robots

    Four Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty members have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create new tools, including a web-based modeling and simulation infrastructure, intended to help speed up the development of miniature medical capsule robots. The four-year project – Cyber-Physical Systems: Integrated Modeling,… Read More

    Dec. 6, 2012

  • Akos Ledeczi

    Google Research Award goes to engineering team for pinpoint location accuracy using smartphones

    A novel approach to improve location information to centimeter scale accuracy using the global positioning system has earned a Google Research Award for an engineering professor and his team. Akos Ledeczi The approach being developed by computer engineering associate professor Akos Ledeczi, graduate student Will Hedgecock, research… Read More

    Sep. 28, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    School of Engineering recruits 7 new faculty members

    The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of seven new faculty members to its full-time teaching staff. They are Jon F. Edd, W. David Merryman, Hak-Joon Sung, Craig L. Duvall, Bennett A. Landman, Yaqiong Xu and Akos Ledeczi. Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Jon Edd focuses his… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt software engineers, physicians pioneer an advanced sepsis detection and management system

    When Jason Martin gives a talk about his research, he begins with the dramatic story of Mariana Bridi da Costa: The young Brazilian supermodel died from severe sepsis in January after amputation of both her hands and feet failed to stop its spread. Martin, who is a fellow in allergy,… Read More

    Jun. 15, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mobile pollution sensors to be developed at Vanderbilt using Microsoft grant

    Vanderbilt engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations… Read More

    Apr. 14, 2007