Computer Science

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… Read More

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… Read More

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and professor of astronomy, computer science and management, and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at the School of Engineering. Stassun and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt… Read More

Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have been honored by Vanderbilt University with endowed chairs. Koutsoukos has received the inaugural Thomas R. Walters Chair. This chair will be celebrated at the Investiture event… Read More

Kevin Leach, assistant professor of computer science, has won an Amazon Research Award in the fall 2022 awards cycle. Leach will receive gift funding and Amazon Web Services (AWS) promotional credits to support his project, “DocumentNet: iterative data collection for building a robust document understanding dataset.’’ The Amazon… Read More

An upcoming free, one-day conference on emerging technologies will focus on artificial intelligence and feature talks by top experts from H2O.ai, CGI, and Vandersall Collective, among others. The event is open to the public and offers raffle prizes and networking opportunities. Emerge 2023: I, Chatbot is Saturday, April 8,… Read More

Pamela Wisniewski has been named a Flowers Family Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow in Engineering. She is an associate professor of computer science and an expert in the interplay between social media, privacy, and online safety for adolescents. Pamela Wisniewski The award recognizes professors who have shown strong evidence of scientific… Read More

Vanderbilt University computer scientist Abhishek Dubey has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to design online decision procedures for societal-scale cyber-physical systems such as traffic networks, emergency response systems and power grids that are the critical infrastructure of  communities. The prestigious five-year award honors early career faculty who… Read More

By Lucas Johnson In the early months of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was scrambling university budgets and hiring plans across the country, Vanderbilt saw a golden opportunity to catapult its rapidly growing computer science program into the upper ranks of this booming field. CS Department chair Xenofon Koutsoukos. Read More

L to R, Jeff Harris, vice president, Keysight Corporate and Portfolio Marketing; Gray Aycock, Berke Lunstad, team leader Meredith Hunter, and Kaitlyn Phan. Four engineering juniors won $20,000 for EcoBuddy, a monitoring device that reports a car’s performance to its driver, and $10,000 in Keysight test equipment to Vanderbilt… Read More