Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Two VISE affiliates among nineteen engineering students awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May. 2, 2022—Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships.
VISE Spring Seminar Natasha Sheybani, PhD
Feb. 8, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Natasha Sheybani, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Talk title: Immunoengineering Next-Generation Cancer Therapies with Focused Ultrasound Abstract: Despite the remarkable promise of cancer immunotherapy, a significant fraction of patients with...
10th annual VISE symposium features keynote on heart ‘digital twins’
Dec. 6, 2021—The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering hosts its 10th annual Surgery, Intervention and Engineering Symposium Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. CT. The event will feature a keynote lecture by Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
New departments answer growing demand in computer science, computational science, electrical engineering
Aug. 19, 2021—The School of Engineering has created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to encourage innovation, accommodate enrollment growth, and focus on areas of strategic excellence.
MASI Lab in the news! Q&A with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Their paper is entitled “PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images”. It was chosen not only because the authors share their pipeline code with their paper,...
Engineering Professor Michael Miga is 2021 SPIE Fellow
Feb. 23, 2021—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.
New $2 million NIH grant advances less invasive procedure for TLE
Feb. 18, 2021—A Vanderbilt research team has received a $2 million National Institutes of Health grant to further develop a needle-size robotic surgery system with real-time MRI guidance for drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
VISE affiliates developing a novel integrative approach for early detection of lung cancer
Jan. 20, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers have received a National Cancer Institute grant to develop a novel, integrative approach to detect early signs of lung cancer. The four-year project builds on a related, recent study that established the value of using three separate measures—structural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health records—to predict lung cancer in...
New engineering graduate program in surgery and intervention launches in fall 2021
Jan. 15, 2021—In fall 2021, Vanderbilt University will offer a graduate program that will equip engineers to improve translation of technology for medical procedures and surgery.
Nabil Simaan recognized as thought leader in health care robotics
Nov. 20, 2020—Vanderbilt University Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Otolaryngology Nabil Simaan has been named a top voice in health care robotics by technology discovery platform InsightMonk and market intelligence firm BIS Research.
Perfecting MRI images with deep learning, Vanderbilt researchers change the way we see the brain
Nov. 10, 2020—Vanderbilt and VUMC researchers have created a technique that corrects distortions in MRI images, which helps researchers and radiologists to better interpret brain scans.
VISE Seminar Fall Series – Amber Simpson, PhD
Sep. 21, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Amber Simpson, PhD Associate Professor in Biomedical Computing and Informatics Queen’s University, ON, Canada Date: Thursday, September 24, 2020 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title: Surgical Data Science in Colorectal Liver Metastases Abstract: Colorectal cancer is the second...
Vanderbilt Researchers Receive $3.1M Grant for Customizable Cochlear Implant Programming
Jun. 30, 2020—A team of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming, according to an article published on the Vanderbilt School of Engineering website.
VISE researchers receive $3.1M grant for customizable cochlear implant programming
Jun. 24, 2020—A team of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound quality as well as changes...
Simaan honored as IEEE Fellow for robotics advancements
Dec. 3, 2019—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Sandler, Landman Awarded Martineau Innovation Fund Grant
Dec. 2, 2019—Vanderbilt University Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology Kim Sandler, MD, and Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the Vanderbilt Thoracic Working Group for their project, “Utilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.”
VISE Fall Seminar – Kathryn Nightingale
Oct. 11, 2019—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Kathryn R Nightingale Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date: Thursday, October 31 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force Abstract: Elasticity imaging involves introducing a mechanical tissue perturbation, imaging the resulting tissue...
$2.3 million NIH grant allows collaborators to focus on advancing liver cancer surgical care
Oct. 10, 2019—A multi-year collective effort between engineers, surgeons and scientists has resulted in a $2.3 million, four-year grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to improve laparoscopic liver surgery and liver cancer ablation therapy. The grant, “Deformation Corrected Image Guided Laparoscopic Liver Surgery,” supports a next-generation...
VISE Summer Fellowship provides hands-on lab experience to seven outstanding undergrads
Oct. 2, 2019—Seven talented undergraduates spent 10 weeks over the summer working on research projects in areas that included endoscopic devices for gastroenterology uses, cochlear implant surgery, and brain, ultrasound and retinal imaging. The 2019 Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program provided students with hands-on experience in laboratory settings, and they worked alongside...
A Concentric Tube Robot System for Rigid Bronchoscopy
Aug. 14, 2019—A Feasibility Study on Central Airway Obstruction Removal
VISE affiliate receives Early Career Award
Jul. 25, 2019—Catie Chang, PhD, has received the 2019 Early Career Achievement Award from a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Chang, an assistant professor of computer science, electrical engineering and computer engineering, was honored this week at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) conference. Specifically, the award cites her “innovative contributions...
Researchers collaborate on $3.9 million NIH study of child-specific cochlear implant programming
Apr. 10, 2019—Researchers from the School of Engineering and Vanderbilt University Medical Center are working to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
VISE Spring Seminar – Catie Chang, PhD
Apr. 1, 2019—VISE Seminar to be led by Catie Chang, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering Vanderbilt University Date: April 11, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Multimodal imaging of human brain activity Abstract: Functional MRI is a powerful and...
Endowed chair holder celebration honors eight faculty members
Mar. 1, 2019—Vanderbilt University’s eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony at the Student Life Center.
VISE summer fellowship program supports nine outstanding undergraduates in 2018
Oct. 9, 2018—Nine students worked with VISE faculty and graduate students over the summer on research projects that ranged from cochlear implantation and modeling to vessel phantom creation and imaging, ultrasound beamforming and deep whole brain segmentation. They took part in the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s 2018 Summer Fellows program, which gives undergraduates hands-on experience...
VISE Summer Seminar: Kenneth B. Bader, PhD
Jul. 24, 2018—VISE Seminar to be led by Kenneth B. Bader, Ph.D. Department of Radiology and the Committee on Medical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Date: Thursday, July 31, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, 12:00 p.m. lunch Title: Passive Cavitation Imaging for Monitoring Histotripsy-Enhanced Thrombolysis Abstract:...
Vanderbilt Engineers Building Robots For Minimally-Invasive Lung Surgery
Jul. 20, 2018—Bouncing back from surgery is no easy task. But what if a robot could make an incision so small, you’d barely notice it? The next generation of medical robots are being built right here in Nashville.
New Video: Honoring Immigrant Researchers: Nabil Simaan
Jun. 25, 2018—Nabil Simaan is a professor of mechanical engineering, computer science and otolaryngology and leads the Advanced Robotics and Mechanism Applications lab. His research includes human-robot interaction, robotic systems for surgical assistance, robot-assisted manufacturing, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy...