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Four Vanderbilt engineering students working in the fields of computer science and electrical and computer engineering won prestigious best paper awards at the 2025 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held Feb. 16-20 in San Diego. Read More

Benoit Dawant has been named a Senior Member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024 conference in San Diego. Read More

On 1 January 2024, Bennett A. Landman, Vanderbilt University, will become the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI). Landman, a professor and the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt, succeeds the journal’s current Editor-in-Chief, Maryellen Giger, who inaugurated the role in 2014. Read More

Four Vanderbilt engineering students working in the fields of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and biomedical engineering won best paper awards out of hundreds of papers presented at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held Feb. 19-23 in San Diego. Read More

  Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Brett Byram, joins a group of 77 international scholars who were named Senior Members of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in August. Read More

Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his achievements in medical image processing with robust and scalable methods for large-scale data analysis. Read More

The SPIE Faculty Fellowship will support a Vanderbilt University faculty member who is working in optics and photonics. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai “Kenny” Tao has been selected as the recipient of the first gift. Read More

Michael Miga, Harvie Branscomb Professor at Vanderbilt and professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for achievements in technology guided surgery and computational modeling for therapeutic and imaging applications. Read More

An assistant professor of biomedical engineering was part of the National Photonics Initiative delegation for Capitol Visit Day. L-R Kirby Campbell, St Jude; Carlos Lopez-Mariscal, Underwater Photonics; Phil Roe (TN-R); Tao; Imran Rizvi, UNC Yuankai Kenny Tao, a VISE affiliate and director of the DIIGI Lab, was invited by the… Read More

Rohan Vijayan, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student and a Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Research Fellow, was recently named lead author on a journal paper in the Journal of Medical Imaging.  Vijayan presented his conference paper in a platform session at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference… Read More