¿Qué piensas? Graduate School program provides platform for idea-sharing with Latin American visitors

A group from the University of San Francisco d’Quito in Ecuador explored the research taking place at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke. The visit was part of an educational exchange organized by Virginia Tech’s Graduate School. Photo by Leigh Anne Kelley for Virginia Tech.

Academics from the University of San Francisco d’Quito in Ecuador were hosted by Aimée Surprenant, dean of the Graduate School, as part of the Future Professoriate Group from Latin America.

Among those they heard from on campus was Naren Ramakrishnan, the Thomas L. Phillips Professor of engineering at Virginia Tech, founder and director of the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics and director of the Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative in Efficient and Robust Machine Learning. Read full story here.