Artificial Intelligence

  • Vanderbilt University

    Test project uses AI system to improve transit accessibility in Chattanooga

    Vanderbilt researchers have developed an innovative software system incorporating artificial intelligence that aims to improve the efficiency of public transportation for individuals with special needs. The research, led by Abhishek Dubey, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, will be presented in a paper… Read More

    Jun. 18, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt classes incorporate AI technology to enhance learning

    Professors say tools like ChatGPT can serve as a coach, tutor and critic, likening them to an ‘exoskeleton for the mind.’ by Lucas Johnson Gian Luca Lupica-Tondo never really gave much thought to using generative artificial intelligence as a coding assistant. But now that he’s taken an AI-assisted programming… Read More

    Feb. 28, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    NSF grant supports alliance’s effort to boost AI-imaging in Middle Tennessee

    Vanderbilt researchers are part of an alliance supported by the National Science Foundation that seeks to build on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging in Middle Tennessee. Called the Mid-TN AI for Interdisciplinary Imaging Interpretation Alliance (AI4A), it is comprised of the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Artificial intelligence researchers win international “social good” award for tool designed to optimize childhood vaccinations in Nigeria

    A team of Vanderbilt computer scientists, working in collaboration with Google Research and a global aid organization, HelpMum, received top honors in the “social good” category for a paper describing a new tool designed to optimize childhood health and wellness in Nigeria at the 2022 International Joint… Read More

    Jul. 29, 2022

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    Vanderbilt computer scientists awarded NSF grant to restructure research’s road to the public

    Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator 2020 Cohort Phase 1 grant to create a standardized platform that will streamline the development, testing and dissemination of technology that can improve human health. The nine-month project, “Scalable, Traceable AI for Imaging Translation: Innovation to Implementation for… Read More

    Sep. 22, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Using AI to optimize public transit for pandemic protocols and planning

    Abhishek Dubey, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is applying artificial intelligence (AI) to address how the essential public transit systems of Nashville and Chattanooga – WeGo Public Transit and CARTA, respectively – can maintain social distancing protocols and proactively plan bus routes and schedules in response to… Read More

    Jul. 10, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Senior creates app for orangutans with guidance from CS professor

    Ben Scheer jumps imagination-first into big projects, and he’s not afraid of a lot of trial and error. The Vanderbilt human and organizational development and economics double major has worked on dozens of entrepreneurial endeavors ranging from coding to music to virtual reality to photography, with his biggest focus being on connecting… Read More

    Feb. 24, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering faculty to lead two new University Courses

    School of Engineering faculty will lead two of the five newest University Courses, which are designed to promote new and creative trans-institutional teaching and learning and advance Vanderbilt’s mission. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be taught by Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and associate professor of… Read More

    Mar. 26, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Faculty partnerships explored by Army Research Lab’s chief scientist

    Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Hiba Baroud (left) discusses her research with Alexander Kott (foreground, center) and Jaret Riddick of the Army Research Lab. (Vanderbilt University) The chief scientist of the Army Research Lab visited Vanderbilt to explore research collaborations with faculty who are conducting research on robotics,… Read More

    Nov. 30, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    AI that thinks like people with autism will benefit software and learning tools

    A computer on the third floor of Vanderbilt’s Featheringill Hall scans geometric patterns, deciding which missing shapes would most likely fit in. It fills in those blanks about as well as a human 17-year-old would, and it’s getting smarter, thanks to a study of the way certain people on the… Read More

    Sep. 6, 2017