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Forget social distancing: House finches become more social when sick , articleMarissa Langager, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, led a new study about the social behavior of sick house finches.
Date: Nov 15, 2023 -
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Study aims to remove barriers to veterans seeking mental health services , articleSergio Ernesto Barrera, assistant economics professor, has received a two-year Suicide Prevention and Opioid Addiction Services Research Grant from the Virginia Department of Veterans Services.
Date: Oct 30, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech students test drive real-world industrial design at General Motors , articleGregory Borbon '19 helped provide 38 industrial design students a chance to put their skills to the test. A General Motors-sponsored design studio focused on the company’s commitment to accessibility and offered students a chance to tackle a real-world problem through innovative concepts, visit the company's headquarters, and meet with design professionals.
Date: Oct 23, 2023 -
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Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative announces support for two Amazon Fellows and five faculty-led projects for 2023-24 academic year , articleThe initiative, launched in 2022, is funded by Amazon, housed in the College of Engineering, and directed by researchers at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus and at the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria.
Date: Oct 02, 2023 -
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Study from School of Neuroscience urges more research into sex differences in depression , articleNeuroscientists Georgia Hodes and Dawson Kropp propose that future studies go beyond whether there are sex differences — the question researchers have focused on since 2016 — and start asking why there are sex differences and how these differences can help with developing personalized therapeutics.
Date: Aug 21, 2023 -
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Newport News Food Forest to reap benefits from Community Design Assistance Center’s efforts , articleWhen the Sarfan Food Forest is fully implemented, it will be the third-largest food forest in the United States and will help address food scarcity in the southeast neighborhood of Newport News. The community project invited the Community Design Assistance Center, an outreach center in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Design, to prepare a conceptual plan for the 5-acre site.
Date: Jul 30, 2023 -
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Alumnus Rodney Kimbangu challenges boundaries of creativity and composition , articleAward-winning artist and College of Architecture, Arts, and Design alumnus Rodney Kimbangu used his thesis to expand on his original idea of using evolving technology and coding to "softly" repatriate displaced Indigenous artifacts.
Date: Jun 23, 2023 -
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Pamplin Executive Ph.D. student successfully navigates the challenges of academia , articleWith 15 years of strategic consulting experience and an Executive MBA from Pamplin in 2011, Gelila Sebhatu entered the Executive Ph.D. program unaware of the biggest challenge she would face.
Date: Jun 09, 2023 -
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Lifu Huang receives NSF CAREER award to lay new ground for information extraction without relying on humans , articleAn assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, Huang is developing new extraction techniques that could help analyze millions of research papers, reports and emerging events around the world and preserve thousands of languages in danger of becoming extinct.
Date: May 05, 2023 -
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Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative showcases innovative approaches to robust and efficient machine learning , articleVirginia Tech and Amazon gathered for a Machine Learning Day held at the Virginia Tech Research Center — Arlington on April 25 to celebrate and further solidify their collaborative Amazon–Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning.
Date: May 02, 2023 -
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Makanjuola Ogunleye among eight students nationwide to receive Cadence Black Students in Technology Scholarship , articleOgunleye, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, researches the intersections of natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, and both conversational and embodied artificial intelligence.
Date: Apr 12, 2023 -
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Danfeng 'Daphne' Yao, pioneer and expert in enterprise data security, elevated to IEEE fellow , articleYao, professor in the Department of Computer Science, is among fewer than 0.1 percent of voting members in the institute that are selected annually for this career milestone.
Date: Feb 27, 2023 -
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Virginia Tech team selected for the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2 to advance task-oriented conversational artificial intelligence , articleThe team of five computer science Ph.D. students at the Sanghani Center, advised by Ismini Lourentzou, received a $250,000 grant to fund its work and are provided with Alexa-enabled devices, Amazon Web Services cloud computing services, and Alexa team support.
Date: Feb 15, 2023 -
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Sanghani Center research takes new approach to analyze depression, anxiety from Reddit posts to provide better care, lower suicide rate , articleThe team of three Ph.D. students and their advisor garnered the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining in November.
Date: Feb 06, 2023 -
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Beat the heat: Virginia Tech team to study best ways to survive heat waves , articleThe researchers will develop a proposal to create a citizen science program that will train youth to collect, monitor, and communicate data on temperatures in Roanoke and how residents experience heat.
Date: Dec 14, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech HokieBot competes in Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5 to develop advanced AI technology that enhances user conversation , articleA team of four graduate students at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics is one of nine international university teams selected to compete in the challenge sponsored by Amazon.com Services LLC.
Date: Dec 08, 2022 -
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Amazon Fellows and faculty-led projects advance innovations in machine learning and artificial intelligence , articleThe Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative for Efficient and Robust Machine Learning has announced support for two Amazon Fellows and four innovative research projects led by Virginia Tech faculty that further the program’s mission of advancing new directions in machine learning.
Date: Oct 11, 2022 -
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Neuroscience’s Matt Howe seeks to better understand how ingredients interact with people's dopamine system , articleTo figure out how individual foods affect the dopamine system and what happens when all of the ingredients are presented in combination, Matt Howe recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant.
Date: Oct 11, 2022 -
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Blake Johnson receives NSF CAREER Award to improve reliability of biosensors , articleJohnson, an associate professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will use the CAREER Award to develop biosensors with improved measurement confidence and speed.
Date: Jul 25, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech alumna named ethics co-chair for leading conference in artificial intelligence and machine learning , articleA principal investigator and subject matter expert for a private research consortium in the greater Houston metropolitan area, Cherie Poland focuses on researching and explaining complex adaptive dynamic systems. She holds six college degrees, the latest a Master of Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Date: May 19, 2022 -
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Lauren Childs to create improved models for tracking spread of disease , articleChilds, an assistant professor of mathematics, will use a five-year $550,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop mathematical frameworks that can decipher the dynamics of disease and suggest earlier, more effective interventions to mitigate the spread of disease.
Date: Apr 18, 2022 -
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Scientists partner on multi-university grant to establish a field of ‘imageomics’ , articleThe new institute will create a new frontier of biological information using vast stores of existing image data to characterize and discover patterns or biological traits of organisms and gain insights into how function follows form in all areas of biology.
Date: Mar 08, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech team selected as finalist in Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge to advance next-generation virtual assistants , articleWant breakfast delivered to your room? The SimBot being developed at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics should be able to understand the intention of a task and any instructions or feedback it receives from a user, interpret the environment, and predict and take the correct action to complete it.
Date: Mar 07, 2022 -
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Virginia Tech programs secure top placements in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Online Programs rankings , articleThe university’s online master’s degree in information technology moves up to No. 3 as the nation’s top-ranked program and retains its No. 1 position for veterans in U.S. News & World Report 2022 rankings, while online graduate programs in engineering maintain a top 20 placement.
Date: Jan 25, 2022 -
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Saifur Rahman voted 2022 IEEE president-elect , articleRahman is the first Virginia Tech faculty member to assume this position for IEEE – the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology – in the university’s 150-year history and the only resident of Virginia to do so in at least 50 years.
Date: Nov 17, 2021 -
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Researchers develop miniature optical fiber treatment device for more effective cancer immunotherapy , articleDeciding to merge their expertise to help combat cancer, two researchers are addressing problems with current immunotherapy delivery methods by developing a miniature optical fiber treatment device that can deliver cancer immunotherapeutic antibodies while monitoring treatment efficacy.
Date: Nov 08, 2021 -
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Virginia Tech researchers garner NSF grant to connect AI with urban planning to improve decision making and service delivery , articleUsing cities' data collection and algorithm deployment, this project will develop creative solutions to urban planning processes that have previously relied on traditional, analog approaches and potentially catalyze AI startup activity in the urban planning field.
Date: Oct 21, 2021 -
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Researchers receive grant to predict the mechanics of living cells , articleThe research has potential impact on several scientific disciplines that routinely involve predicting the trajectories of shape-shifting objects in dynamic physical environments, for example, hurricane prediction, bird migration, and ocean eddy monitoring.
Date: Oct 12, 2021 -
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Driver safety at forefront of VTTI research on hard-braking and other hard acceleration maneuvers , articleIn an interview with Fast Company, Director of Product Russell Dicker said that Google began by delving into research on the topic of hard-braking incidents and specifically mentioned VTTI.
Date: Aug 17, 2021
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