Medical Sciences
Dr. Benjamin Collins to give talk on “Navigating the AI Future of Health Care” in the TEDxVanderbiltUniversity on April 18
Mar. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt University’s Employee Learning and Engagement Team will host the the seventh annual TEDxVanderbiltUniversity on April 18 and feature a talk on how artificial intelligence could reshape the future of healthcare. Dr. Benjamin Collins, a physician researcher, bioethicist and informatician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will discuss “Navigating the AI Future of Health Care” at...
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...
AI Deep Dive: Training a Transformer Model on EEGs
Sep. 29, 2022—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 sequence learners, and can be...
New DSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Joshua Su
Sep. 20, 2022—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 fibrils. As a member of the DSI Data Science...
Exploring Trends of Executive Dysfunction in ICU Survivors (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Aidan Wells to work within the research team of Dr. Jim Jackson in the VUMC Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center during the summer of 2021. Aidan is a senior with majors in Neuroscience and English. The project funded by this fellowship aims to identify the level of diversity...
Using Data Science to Reveal Host-Microbiota Interactions that Promote Obesity During Early Life (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Jessica Mo to work in the laboratory of Professor Mariana Byndloss in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center during the summer of 2021. Jessica is a senior with majors in Medicine, Health, and Society and minor in Earth and Environmental Sciences. This project centered around the...
Network Propagation to Enhance the Identification of Genetic Modifiers of Rett Syndrome (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Chetan Immanneni to work in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey L. Neul in the Department of Pediatric Neurology during the summer of 2021. Chetan is a senior graduating in May 2022 with majors in Neuroscience and Medicine, Health, and Society and a minors in Data Science. Chetan’s project focused on developing methods...
Addressing Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Andrew Gothard to work in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffery Blume in the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University during the summer of 2021. Andrew is a junior with majors in Mathematics and Computer Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to introduce Andrew to data science techniques and the...
Substance Uses and Prefrontal Cortex, Thalamus, and Cerebellar Volumes: An Integrative Investigation on Brain Shrinkage (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Qiaochu (Francis) Jiang to work in the laboratory of Neil Woodward in the Department of Psychiatry during the summer of 2021. Qiaochu is a senior with majors in Neuroscience and Psychology and a minor in Asian Studies. Substance use disorder (SUD), or substance abuse, is characterized by excessive and continued use of...
Understand Rare Disease by Aggregating In-House Data with Public Data from Pubmed, Social Media, and Search Engine (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Zheyu (Richard) Zhu to work in the laboratory of Professor Yuankai Huo in the Department of Computer Science during the summer of 2021. Zheyu is a senior with majors in Computer Science and Mathematics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the segmentation performance of four different feature extraction...