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April 2026 Friends, Last Friday, we had the opportunity to #DiscoverAItogether with the VALIANT community including curious minds from six universities and 43 companies. Our centerpoint VALIANT PITCH session at Discover AI 2026 delivered exactly what we hoped for and more: a fast-moving, high-energy showcase of ideas… Read More

VALIANT Deeper Dive Seminar We invite you to join us for an engaging seminar with Mingxing (Ethan) Rao, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, whose research explores generative models, AI security, and data privacy. In this talk, Targeting Model Inversion from Generative Models, Ethan will examine how sensitive… Read More

We invite Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students to join us on Monday, April 27th from 1:30–2:30 PM (CST) in Featheringill Hall, Room 129 for an engaging seminar featuring Dr. Irvin Teh (University of Leeds). In his talk, “Diffusion MRI in the Heart – Challenges and Opportunities,” Dr. Teh will highlight recent advances in… Read More

March 2026 Friends, First… a breaking March Madness update from the VALIANT Attempt: VALIANT and VISE faced off in a kickball game organized by VALIANT Attempt and Women of VISE. Fourth year PhD student Michael “The Barefoot Bandit” Kim kicked a home run in the 5 inning leading… Read More

VALIANT Discover AIWe invite you to join us for Discover AI 2026, a dynamic, full-day event bringing the VALIANT community together to experience artificial intelligence in action. On April 24, 2026, Discover AI will feature interactive demos, industry and… Read More

⚽️ A VALIANT Attempt at… Kickball! ⚽️ We’re wrapping up Move It March with some fun in the sun ☀️—and you’re invited! Join VISE Vision, Women of VISE, and VALIANT Attempt for a friendly kickball game filled with laughs, light competition, and good vibes. Whether you’re… Read More

VALIANT Deeper Dive SeminarWe invite you to join us for an engaging seminar with Weifeng Yu, who will present innovative research on integrating multimodal imaging and non-imaging data through advanced graph learning techniques. In this talk, Integrating Multimodal Imaging and Non-Imaging Data… Read More

February 2026 Friends, It seems only fitting that in the shortest month of the year, we deliver one of our longest newsletters. To paraphrase Taylor Swift, we have a lot going on right now. I have just returned from the SPIE Medical Imaging conference,… Read More

Join us for the next VALIANT Deeper Dive! 🧠 Harmonizing Brain MRI Across Sites Without Paired Data 🎤 Mengqi Wu (UNC–Chapel Hill) 📅 Tuesday, Feb 24 | ⏰ 1–2 PM | 💻 Virtual/Zoom Register via the QR code. Read More

January 2026 Friends, As Vanderbilt resumes classes after the trying days of Winter Storm Fern, I find myself grateful for both the literal and figurative warmth of community. Widespread power outages, bitter cold temperatures, and downed trees challenged all of us. Yet across Vanderbilt and more broadly,… Read More