Join Dr. Yuankai Huo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University and Director of the HRLB Lab, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be presenting "AI Basic: From Linear Regression to Neural Network" . Space is limited. Register here:

Join Michael McAllister, Research Facilitator at ACCRE, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be co-presenting "Introduction to ACCRE" alongside Lindsey Fox. Space is limited. Register here:

Join Lindsey Fox, Director of Research Services, Facilitation and Outreach at ACCRE, at AI Summer School! 🌟 She'll be co-presenting "Introduction to ACCRE" alongside Michael McAllister. Space is limited. Register here:

Join Dr. Jesse Spencer-Smith, Interim Director and Chief Data Scientist of the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University, at AI Summer School! 🌟 He'll be presenting "Transformers from 0 to 60". Space is limited. Register here:

🚀 Big news! We’re proud to welcome HP as our latest industry affiliate partner. Exciting opportunities lie ahead!.👉 Check out our June newsletter:

The 2025 AI Summer School is officially open for registration!.Students, faculty, staff & partners from Vanderbilt and beyond—this is your chance to dive into an immersive, hands-on AI learning experience. 🗓️ Register by July 31 to secure your spot!.👉

Meg Bobo (B.E. ’20) went from healthcare consulting to software engineering at Optum—thanks to curiosity, networking, and a love of learning. Now she’s using Microsoft-centric tools to automate tasks and build smarter solutions. Learn more here -

New on Valiant Pulse: Wired for Life — Landmark studies map white matter from birth to old age using nearly 30,000 brain scans. 🎧 📖 More info:

Alchemists’ Corner: Latest Highlights . Our community has been busy! Here’s a selection of recent publications indexed in Scopus since last month. Read more here:

Catch the newest Valiant Pulse: Anatomy Meets AI — ASIGN combines 2D molecular slices with 3D pathology to improve cancer diagnostics affordably. 🎧 📖 More info:

Congratulations to @Michael Kim for winning Best Poster: Applications at the ISMRM 2025 Diffusion Study Group in Honolulu, HI! 🏆🌺.📝 Read the full paper on bioRxiv:.

PhD students Michael Kim, Elyssa McMaster, and Chloe Cho (pictured left to right, with Landman behind/left) received ISMRM Trainee (Educational) Stipend awards to attend the conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Read more here:

Explore the latest episode of Valiant Pulse: States of Mind — AI reveals brain alertness from single fMRI scans without behavioral labels. 🎧

We had a fantastic time at VINSE Friends and Family Day—our VALIANT 3D TV was a hit! We're proud to partner with VINSE to share the joy of discovery—one pixel (and nanoparticle) at a time. Read more here:

Congratulations to Yichen (Henry) Liu (Computer Science) and Can Luo (Biomedical Engineering) on winning the Engineering Best Paper Award for their work on structural variant detection, published in Nature Communications (2024). Read more here:

New on Valiant Pulse: Signals in the Silence: White Matter and Memory Loss — This episode explores a groundbreaking study analyzing over 9,000 cognitive sessions from 4,467 participants. Listen here:

Welcome, University of Liverpool! 🌍 . We’re thrilled to announce a new international academic affiliate: the University of Liverpool has officially joined VALIANT. Read more here:

Welcome, Research Rank! . We’re excited to welcome Nashville-based startup Research Rank—founded at Vanderbilt—to the VALIANT Industry Affiliates Program. Together, we’re accelerating innovation at the intersection of AI and health. Read more here:

New on Valiant Pulse: Recording Health with Starch and Ingenuity — Low-cost hydrogel electrodes from agricultural waste for wearable biosensors. 🎧 📄

At OneOncology, Vandy Alum Curtis Schunk is using AI to turn buried clinical notes into life-saving cancer insights. With tools like Llama 4 and real-world data, his team alerts doctors to missed mutations, trial matches, and new therapies. Read more here: