Thought leaders from academia and medical practice explored how artificial intelligence (AI) can advance children’s health care at the second annual Children’s National Hospital-Virginia Tech Symposium on AI for Pediatric Health at the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of international public sector health at Amazon […]

University Libraries at Virginia Tech and the University of California, Riverside, received a $115,398 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to create a generative artificial intelligence incubator program (GenAI) to increase the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the library profession and academic libraries.  The incubator program aims to train librarians in generative artificial […]

Murat Kantarcioglu is a professor and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a core faculty at the Sanghani Center. He is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab. Before joining Virginia Tech, he served as an Ashbel Smith Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas and […]

Thinh Pham is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  His advisor is Tu Vu. His research interest is in natural language processing and he is currently working on tool use for knowledge-enhanced large language models (LLMs).

Quyet Do is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science.  His advisor is Tu Vu. His ultimate research goal is to build a brain-like language model for the sake of efficiency and interpretability.

Pin-Jie Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor is Tu Vu. Lin’s research aims to develop efficient artificial intelligent (AI) models for communal and collaborative generalization. His work cuts across efficient transfer learning, modular learning, and model merging.

Aishwarya Kumaran is a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor is Naren Ramakrishnan. Kumaran’s research focuses on enhancing mathematical reasoning within large language models (LLMs) through the implementation of syntactical decorations.

Tu Vu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and core faculty at the Sanghani Center. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he held the position of research scientist at Google DeepMind for a year after receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Vu’s research […]

A recent trailer for the upcoming Francis Ford Coppola film “Megalopolis” made headlines, but not for the reasons it was supposed to. Meant to bolster the director’s image as an iconoclast, the trailer quoted negative critic reviews of some of Coppola’s masterpieces, such as “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather,” from the time the films were […]

Physician scientists and researchers from Children’s National Hospital and Virginia Tech will increase efforts to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to help children who are struggling with medical conditions. The innovators will meet in September at the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C. “It’s clear that harnessing the power of artificial intelligence is the way […]