“Start by determining the problem you desire to solve, then decide on the technology to solve it,” said Subha Madhavan, vice president and head of clinical artificial intelligence/machine learning with global biopharmaceutical company Pfizer.  Madhavan was the keynote speaker at AI for Pediatric Health and Rare Diseases, an inter-institutional meeting of scientists and innovators co-led by Children’s […]

Ahmed Aredah is a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. He is advised by Hoda Eldardiry. She also serves on Aredah’s committee for the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering which he is pursuing simultaneously and advised by Hesham Rakha. His research focus is on implementing large scale simulators like NeTrainSim, human-in-the-loop simulators, autonomous vehicles, and […]

Summer offers an opportunity for graduate students at the Sanghani Center to gain real-world experience in their research focus areas by working at major companies and labs across the country. This year these include places like Amazon AWS in Seattle, Washington; JPMorgan Chase & Co in New York City;  the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bosch in […]

Xiaona Zhou was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Her advisor was Ismini Lourentzou. Her research focus is on the applications of data science and machine learning.    

In his biannual presentation to the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, updated the board this month on progress with the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus faculty recruitment, research areas of focus, and curriculum development. Collins said the Innovation Campus faculty are strong collaborators, bringing […]

Aditya Shah was a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. He was advised by Edward Fox. Shah’s research focus is on using Large Language Models (LLMs) for different downstream applications.

Dhanush Dinesh was a master’s degree student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was advised by Edward Fox. Dinesh’s research focus is on developing infrastructure on the cloud to support the processing of large datasets.  

Virginia Tech’s 2023 Commencement ceremonies are underway culminating with the university commencement in Blacksburg on Friday, May 12, and commencement in the Washington D.C. area on Sunday, May 14. “Once again we have come to that bittersweet time when we say farewell to our graduating students at the Sanghani Center and wish them continued success as they […]

Melissa Tilashalski was a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She was co-advised by Leanna House and Kimberly Ellis. Her research focus is urban computing.   

Xiaochu Li was a master’s degree student in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor was Lifu Huang. His research focus is deep learning-based natural language processing and information extraction, especially in entity linking and event extraction in the biomedical domain.