Newsletter

Dr. Allison Walker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biological Sciences Interested in learning how machine learning strategies are being applied applied to facilitate engineering and discovery of natural products for development of therapeutics? Join the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB) on Wednesday, October 26th from 12:15 pm –… Read More

Make your summer count! If you are a Rising Sophomore, Junior or Senior, you can apply for summer funding to carry out research with a faculty member. It’s ten weeks of full-time research, and includes special seminars on skills and best practices for data science. Applications will open in November,… Read More

Three Vanderbilt University professors from different academic fields—history, medicine, law and computing—will come together for a wide-ranging discussion on data privacy concerns on Oct. 6. The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will be at 5 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room. Read More

Free flu shots are now available for all students at the Student Health Center. Shots are available on a walk-in basis, and no appointment is necessary. You must bring your Vanderbilt ID. Read More

Friday, September 30 at 1:00pm the Data Science Institute will host Prof. Sasha Key in a discussion of applying transformer deep learning models to the problem of analyzing multichannel EEG in response to multiple stimulus/recording conditions (e.g., faces vs. objects, speech vs. nonspeech, attend vs. ignore, etc.). Transformers are powerful… Read More

We’re pleased to be able to introduce Abigail (Abbie) Petulante as a new DSI Postdoctoral Fellow! Abbie received her PhD in Astronomy this year at Vanderbilt where she applied a wide variety of machine learning and deep learning techniques to model the development of large structures comprised of dark matter… Read More

We’re pleased to be able to introduce Zhaoqian (Joshua) Su as a new DSI Postdoctoral Fellow! Joshua comes to us from the Einstein College of Medicine where as a Postdoctoral Fellow he applied deep learning to problems related to the formation protein structures such as peptide… Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and Vanderbilt Data Science Institute present: “Using Data Science to Investigate Important Questions in IDD Research” Friday, September 16 from 10:00 – 11:30, with catered lunch to follow. Vanderbilt Kennedy Center – Magnolia Place This workshop will include a presentation in current data science techniques with… Read More

Outstanding DSI – SRP Presentation Award 2022 Harrison Stuart, a senior with majors in Economics and Medicine, Health, and Society, presented his poster at the Undergraduate Research Fair and was selected as the winner of the Outstanding DSI – SRP Presentation Award (10 other DSI-SRP students also submitted presentations). Read More

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture and is a tradition across many Asian cultures. The Festival, dating back over 3,000 years, is often a time where families gather, give thanks, and celebrate. Come gather with your DSI family in the the DSI Common… Read More