Computer Science

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vorobeychik receives NSF career development award

    Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. The five-year, $518,000 grant – Adversarial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good – begins March 1, 2017. Eugene Vorobeychik Vorobeychik combines approaches from artificial intelligence and game theory to solve… Read More

    Feb. 28, 2017

  • Vanderbilt University

    Malin, Wan are winners in health data privacy competition

    A two-member team from Vanderbilt has won the 2016 iDASH Healthcare Privacy Protection Challenge, a competition open to international participants and devoted this year to privacy protection for genome analysis in a cloud computing environment. The competition’s two other winning teams were in large part composed of members from industry… Read More

    Dec. 1, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Research shows patient privacy, ‘big data’ can coexist

      A Vanderbilt study shows that anonymization algorithms can provide privacy protection across multiple institutions as clinical data are released for research. (photo by Susan Urmy) A new study, led by investigators at Vanderbilt University, confirms that the scientific pursuit of so-called big data from hospitals and… Read More

    Jan. 29, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering alum among youngest African American tenured professors in computer science

    James Hill, an associate professor of computer and information science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has become one of the youngest African Americans to become a tenured professor in computer science at a research university in the United States. Hill gained that distinction in August, when his tenure appointment in… Read More

    Nov. 5, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt undergrads create Bazaar, a Craigslist for universities only

    Vanderbilt engineering seniors Walton Seymour, left, and Alex Meyer today unveiled Bazaar, a sales app for university students, alumni and employees. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Just in time for college move-out season, two Vanderbilt University computer science seniors are introducing an app that should make selling all those… Read More

    Apr. 16, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    California’s solar incentive program has had only modest impact on adoption rates

      (iStock) Since 2007, California has had one of the most aggressive incentive programs in the country for putting solar-electric panels on the rooftops of homes and businesses. Its $2.2 billion California Solar Initiative (CSI) has provided a per-watt rebate for installing residential and commercial photovoltaic systems. Read More

    Apr. 7, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Two engineering students recognized by Goldwater Foundation

    Taylor Cannon and Eunice Jun have received honorable mentions in this year’s Goldwater Scholars competition. Cannon Cannon, from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is a sophomore in the biomedical engineering program. Her research focus in biomedical optics is guided by her interest in developing optically based, low-cost diagnostic equipment to detect curable… Read More

    Apr. 6, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Computer science student receives Symantec Graduate Fellowship

    Computer science graduate student Bo Li has been awarded a Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship. She is one of three recipients nationwide of the prestigious fellowship. The SRL Graduate Fellowship provides up to $20,000 that may be used to cover one year of a doctoral student’s tuition fees and to… Read More

    Apr. 6, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    New free Vanderbilt course to teach computer programming to beginners

    Register for Introduction to Programming with MATLAB on Coursera. A new free massive open online course, or MOOC, is being offered by Vanderbilt University that will teach computer programming to those with little or no previous experience April 14 to June 15. While the course is an introductory college-level… Read More

    Apr. 1, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    New Year’s card features Engineering and Science Building in augmented reality

    The Augment app allows users to see a 3-D image of the new Engineering and Science Building. Circumstances standing in the way of a traditional groundbreaking at the School of Engineering led to a high-tech solution – all in a day’s work for our professors and students. Read More

    Jan. 9, 2015