Artificial Intelligence
Project Grip A Gun-Related Injury Prevention Project.
Sep. 30, 2023—On September 29th, we had the privilege of hosting an AI Deep Dive Session with Dr. Krista Mehari, where insightful discussions unfolded around her project titled ‘Project GRIP’ (Gun-Related Injury Prevention). This session illuminated the potential of generative AI in organizing and analyzing qualitative data, particularly interview responses, to shed light on gun violence prevention....
Senior Data Scientist, Myranda Shirk, Leads Mentees to Create Chatbot-like Interface
Sep. 10, 2023—DSI Senior Data Scientist, Myranda Shirk, is a mentor for the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting) Code for Earth program. Her mentees this summer created a chatbot-like interface to search their data, based on some of Myranda’s previous work at NOAA. ECMWF has now put this interface on their website! It is accessible at: https://chat.ecmwf.int/....
Machine Learning–Based Identification of Lithic Microdebitage
Sep. 1, 2023—Dr. Markus Eberl, Associate Professor Archaeology at Vanderbilt University, speaks about his team’s use of a particle scanner to analyze micro-debitage. They used machine learning to analyze the data set and tried to learn more about early life than we could otherwise. Markus Eberl worked with the DSI team in 2022 on the Ancient Mortars project.
DSSG 2023: AI Storybook project aims to create AI tool to help parents teach their children to read with dialogic questioning
Jun. 13, 2023—Seeking to uncover novel methods for fostering meaningful interactions between parents and children during reading sessions, a team of researchers in the Data Science Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is currently engaged in an innovative project called AI Storybook. Led by Postdoctoral Fellow, Abigail Petulante, the project aims to develop an AI-based...
Announcing DSSG 2023 Projects: Fostering Classroom Tools and Assistive Technology
Jun. 6, 2023—The Data Science Institute is excited to announce the projects for this summer’s Data Science for Social Good 2023. This year, we are placing a special focus on developing tools for classrooms and assistive technology projects to cater to the needs of neurodivergent individuals. Classroom Projects: English as a Second Language: Caroline Miller, an ESL...
Data Science Institute’s AI Summer 2023 workshop series is now available to watch in its entirety on our YouTube page
Jun. 5, 2023—The AI Summer workshop series, hosted by the Data Science Institute, has successfully concluded on Friday, June 2. The workshops aimed to equip researchers, educators, and students with the latest knowledge in AI technologies and techniques, with a focus on deep learning, transformers, and their applications in solving various problems. For those who were not...
Data Science for Social Good project aims to combine AI and history with ‘revolutionary’ role-playing experience
May. 24, 2023—Rising Vanderbilt University junior, Logan A’Hearn, knew he would be learning about the French Revolution when he registered for Dr. Holly Tucker’s EUS 2230W class, but he didn’t know he’d be living it and certainly didn’t know he’d spend his summer working to bring it to life with artificial intelligence. Dr. Holly Tucker, the Mellon...
WATCH NOW: Deepen Your Understanding of Algorithms and Architectures with optional AI Summer workshop
May. 19, 2023—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 paper “Formal Algorithms for Transformers” by Mary Phuong...
AI News Roundup 5/15
May. 16, 2023—Quora CEO Launches Poe API Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo has announced the launch of the Poe API, which aims to provide broad access to LLM-based services. The API’s availability to all developers, including those from different language model providers, signifies a growing open-source LLM landscape. This development has the potential to impact the Vanderbilt University...
Data Science Institute makes strides in project aiming to create an AI Assistant for acquiring low-resource languages like Hindi
May. 2, 2023—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 language. Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies,...