Jared Clark is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics.  He is co-advised by Leanna House and Dave Higdon. Clark’s research focuses on building probabilistic emulators for computer models that simulate complex processes in areas, such as epidemiology. Computer models are often computationally expensive; emulators allow for computer model output to be estimated with […]

Shengkun Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. He is advised by Chang-Tien Lu. Wang’s research is focused on the application of natural language processing and time series forecasting in the financial sector.

Faculty are considering how AI models such as ChatGPT can customize learning by producing dynamic case studies or offering instant feedback or follow-up questions. Many are making AI the subject of assignments. They’re asking students to analyze and identify weaknesses in arguments produced by ChatGPT, for instance, or to edit an AI-produced essay with “track […]

Vanshaj Khattar, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering, is passionate about use-inspired research and solving real-world problems.  “More specifically, I am interested in how we can design trustworthy reinforcement learning algorithms that are safe, robust, explainable, and can continually adapt to non-stationarity in the real world,” said Khattar, who is advised by Ming Jin. Currently, he is working […]

Cyberattacks have led to substantial losses for both businesses and individual users in recent years raising an urgent need to strengthen protection against such threats,” said Wenjia Song, a Ph.D. student in computer science who is working to address the problem. “My research focuses on machine learning application and methodology development for improving accuracy on crucial […]

Anuj Karpatne, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering has won a five-year, $595,738 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program CAREER award to explore a unified approach for accelerating scientific discovery using scientific knowledge and data. Karpatne is also a core faculty member at the Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics. Read the […]

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors held its latest quarterly full-board meeting Sunday through Tuesday at the W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center in Wirtz and at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC in Roanoke. Following an orientation session Sunday morning, board members engaged in a retreat to discuss issues facing Virginia Tech and […]

Nikhil Abhyankar was a master’s degree student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His advisor was Ruoxi Jia. His research focus was on machine learning privacy and security.

Atop a new wave of support from the Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Peter Vikesland, the Nick Prillaman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is leading a research team in creating wireless sensor networks to survey microbial threats to water quality and to enable operational control and provide real-world feedback for public transparency. The project, Technology-enabled Water Surveillance and […]

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 […]