About Us

Our Approach

  • Cultivating Expertise: We empower researchers by nurturing a foundation in informatics, AI, and workforce development, ensuring they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to lead the field.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Synergy: Our strategy transcends boundaries, promoting a flow of knowledge and innovation that dissolves the barriers of traditional academic silos.
  • Strategic Investment: By accelerating the innovation pipeline, we construct a structured ecosystem for discovery, primed by strategic investments in research capabilities.

Impact and Innovation

Our prioritization model is built on agile decision-making. We identify potential, prototype solutions, advance research, and deploy investments rapidly, all while redirecting and refining our focus based on real-world feedback and outcomes. At every step, active engagement with the VALIANT community and a keen eye for intellectual and societal returns drive us forward.

VALIANT Opportunities for Collaboration

VALIANT aims to foster the truly transformative potential of AI across the spectrum of human endeavor - from fundamental sciences to solving practical problems to improving the human condition. The challenge and opportunity for the AI community is to advance these technologies responsibly and deploy them for maximal societal benefit.

We look forward to identifying the many ways in which our core capabilities can serve to catalyze innovation and demonstrate how cross-disciplinary AI translation can be leveraged to tackle major global challenges.

As we foster collaboration, common themes across domains may emerge, for example:

  • Predictive modeling and forecasting could be applied to disease outbreaks, crop yields, and energy consumption.
  • Optimization of complex systems could be leveraged in manufacturing, smart grids, and financial portfolio management.
  • Detection of patterns and anomalies could be valuable in identifying particle tracks, network threats, and fraud.
  • Image and data analysis initially designed for medical scans could also advance remote sensing and systems design.

As an intellectual community, we look forward to learning of your specific areas of interest.  Please contact us if you are interested in having a conversation with VALIANT about opportunities for collaboration.

Contact Information

Lab Location: 385 Jacobs Hall (also known as “FGH”)
Office: 382 Jacobs Hall
Maps: Interactive PDF
E-mail: valiant@vanderbilt.edu
Phone: (615) 322-2338 FAX: (615) 343-5459

USPS / Regular Mail

Vanderbilt University / VALIANT
2301 Vanderbilt Pl.
PO Box 351679 Station B
Nashville, TN 37235-1679

Packages / Shipping

Vanderbilt University VALIANT
400 24th Ave So., Room 254
Nashville, TN 37235