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Becoming a better negotiator: applying deep learning for negotiation research
Nov. 8, 2022—Negotiation analysis can provide valuable information to scholars who research negotiation and conflict. What conditions help in overcoming differences to reach harmonious terms? What techniques can be used to soften firm positions and reach a mutually beneficial agreement? What role do long-term relationships play in coming to a settlement? Negotiation researchers aim to answer these...
AI Deep Dive Nov 11: State-of-the-art Audio Models – Speech to Text, but what else?
Nov. 7, 2022—Whisper is OpenAI’s new addition to the growing portfolio of open source artificial intelligence (AI) models for speech-to-text and audio processing. Capable of predicting audio text captions, the model leverages intermixed with special tokens which enables the single model to perform tasks such as language identification, phrase-level timestamps, multilingual speech transcription, and to-English speech translation....
Deadline to Apply to Join DSI Data Science Projects Sunday!
Nov. 7, 2022—Want to gain hands-on experience with data science? Ready to apply the skills you’ve learned in the classroom to real world projects? Curious about research opportunities offered by the DSI, and want to prepare for upcoming semesters? The deadline to apply round 1 for projects will be this Sunday, December 11th at 11:59p. Apply using...
Deep Learning in Archaeology: Understanding the Composition of Ancient Mortars
Oct. 27, 2022—Mortar is an essential part of construction, and has been used by builders for centuries. Ancient builders prepared them as members of changing communities of practice. But, to what degree did interactions among contemporaries lead to standardized mortars? Did builders learn from culturally different predecessors? In partnership with the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute, Dr. Markus...
VICB Seminar October 26th: Machine Learning Strategies in Chemical Biology
Oct. 6, 2022—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 – 1:15 pm CT in Room 1220 MBR III where Dr. Allison Walker will present Machine Learning...
Announcing: New Deep Learning Cohort for Fall 2022!
Sep. 8, 2022—Working on a research project and thinking that deep learning could provide a solid approach for your objectives? Using deep learning networks but wish you had more background or context? Trying your best to make it through online resources, but need a bit more consistency and support? Join the Fall 2022 DSI Deep Learning Cohort!...
Mchaourab Lab: Towards Enabling AI for Spectroscopy and Protein Folding
Apr. 11, 2022—Interested in biomedicine, protein folding, protein dynamics, biological function, or spectroscopy? Want to learn more about the intersection of these topics with artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), computation, and data science? This may be the opportunity for you! The Mchaourab Lab investigates mechanisms of protein folding, and currently welcomes skilled students at all levels...
Revolutionizing Learning Engagement through Technology: Talk to Einstein
Mar. 22, 2022—Looking to work with training transformers for revolutionizing learning engagement in the humanities? Read on to learn more about a novel application by Dr. Ole Molvig – assistant professor of History and founder of the Emergent Technology Lab at the Wond’ry! About Talk To Einstein is an experiment in algorithmically generated (or “synthetic”) media based...
AI Summer with the Data Science Institute
Mar. 9, 2022—Have a hard drive full of sequential data like audio, text, images, or even DNA and can’t figure out how to make the most of it? Have an innovative research solution or business objective in mind, but stuck in a quagmire of summarizing your data into a few condensed features? Need broad solutions that cover...
AI Fridays with the Data Science Institute
Feb. 23, 2022— Do you have data you’d like to use, but aren’t quite sure how to make the most of it? Running into issues with your models, data, or analytical approach and spinning your wheels about what to do? Looking for new partnerships with other people using or interested in data science? Join us Fridays from 11am-3pm...