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The Data Science Institute hosted an optional workshop for our AI Summer participants in which we discussed the algorithms and architectures that make transformer models possible. The workshop is now open to everyone on our YouTube page. During the workshop, the Data Science Team discusses the influential… Read More

Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute Senior Data Scientist, Myranda Shirk, is a member of the planning committee for the upcoming OceanHackWeek 2023 (OHW23) and invites any interested DSI students to apply. Myranda will be doing a special session at OHW23 on AI-assisted programming. The deadline to apply for the program… Read More

Vanderbilt Data Science’s AI Summer workshop is now in its second week. This free course is specially designed to provide researchers, educators, and students with a comprehensive understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, focusing on deep learning and transformers and their applications in solving diverse problems. Those unable… Read More

Discover the exciting potential of ChatGPT in education during our upcoming webinar, “ChatGPT: the Future of the Classroom.” Join us on Wednesday, May 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., as we explore how ChatGPT is revolutionizing educational experiences. Our panel of experts from Vanderbilt University includes Dr. Douglas Schmidt,… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute is working on a research project that aims to gain a better understanding of how story narratives evolve and how deep learning models capture and learn information. The project utilizes an open-source tool called the BERT model from HuggingFace to extract embeddings from the… Read More

Distinguished mathematician Wolfgang Dahmen will be the featured speaker at the upcoming International Conference on Approximation Theory and Beyond May 15-18 at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Dahmen is a professor at both the University of South Carolina and RWTH Aachen University, and his research focuses on approximation theory, numerical partial differential… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute made progress this semester on a research project to bridge the gap in language acquisition of low-resource languages through deep learning. The team is developing an AI assistant for language professors and tools that keep the curricula up-to-date with changes in the Hindi… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute made progress this semester on a research project to bridge the gap in language acquisition of low-resource languages through deep learning. The team is developing an AI assistant for language professors and tools that keep the curricula up-to-date with changes in the Hindi… Read More

Womens Basketball. (Photo by Joe Howell) The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute continued its project with the Vanderbilt Women’s Basketball strength and conditioning program to use data to improve athletic performance while reducing the risk of sport-associated injury. This semester, the focus was on making better use of… Read More

  Vanderbilt Data Science’s AI Summer workshop, from May 8 to June 2, is a free course designed to help researchers, educators, and students gain a deep understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, specifically deep learning and transformers, and how they can be used to solve a… Read More