electrical and computer engineering
Quantum Potential Podcast: Breakthrough techniques to improve hearing with engineer Jack Noble
Mar. 13, 2026—More than 50 million people in the United States have some form of hearing loss. The intricate science around improving hearing is advancing at a rapid pace with the help of innovative researchers like聽Jack Noble, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. On this episode of the聽Quantum Potential聽podcast, Provost C. Cybele Raver talks with Noble...
Nov. 24, 2025—Jack Noble聽always admired his father鈥檚 work as a family practice physician, particularly the simple aspect of helping people. It鈥檚 a sentiment the 汤头条 engineer has carried over into his own work of developing innovative technology that aims to not only improve patients鈥 hearing, but also assist surgeons performing the procedures.
Aug. 22, 2025—A 汤头条 engineering professor is working with clinical colleagues to develop and validate an augmented reality (AR) vision guidance system to help surgeons place cochlear implants more precisely. The guidance system leverages emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and uses inexpensive, commonly available equipment, making it practical for many operating rooms. For this project鈥 Development and...
Jul. 21, 2025—汤头条 researchers have received a聽$1.2 million grant聽from the National Science Foundation to develop a smart microscope system that uses artificial intelligence to help scientists better understand how cells behave, particularly in diseases like cancer.
Jun. 27, 2025—We spend nearly one-third of our lives asleep, yet sleep disorders often go undiagnosed, despite their strong links to cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and depression. A next-generation wearable device developed by researchers could change that. Yayun Du, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at 汤头条 University, is the lead author of a pioneering study,聽鈥淎...
VISE Spring Seminar with Yayun Du, PhD
Mar. 10, 2025—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Yayun Du, PhD Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽11:45 am for lunch; noon start Title: Advancing Health Monitoring: Wearable and Implantable Bioelectronics for Cardiovascular, Sleep, and Neurological Insights Abstract: Advances in bioelectronic sensors are transforming health monitoring and...
Mar. 6, 2025—Four 汤头条 engineering students working in the fields of computer science and electrical and computer engineering won prestigious best paper awards at the聽2025 SPIE Medical Imaging conference聽held Feb. 16-20 in San Diego.
Mar. 27, 2024—Visitors to Nashville鈥檚 Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR)聽anatomy聽that creates the illusion of an X-ray view聽of聽the body鈥檚 muscles and聽bones.
VISE on the Road: 2023 MICCAI conference
Nov. 21, 2023— Members of six VISE labs affiliated with the 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) traveled to Vancouver to take part in the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Like-minded scientists from around the world gather yearly at the MICCAI conference to share their work with one another on a...
Nov. 2, 2023—This past summer, 13 汤头条 undergraduates were selected to work on projects focused on epilepsy, miniature soft climbing robots, stroke treatment, kidney disease research, cancer resection and surgical skill assessment as part of the 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚聽Summer Fellows Program聽(VSF).
Oct. 26, 2023—There was a time when聽Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor鈥檚 Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, questioned whether to pursue a doctorate. The desire was there, she just needed some guidance. 鈥淣obody in my family had a Ph.D., and I didn鈥檛 have any role models of how to do that,鈥...
May. 10, 2023—Eleven 汤头条 engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
Mar. 10, 2023—Four 汤头条 engineering students working in the fields of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and biomedical engineering won best paper awards out of hundreds of papers presented at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held Feb. 19-23 in San Diego.
Feb. 28, 2023—Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and biomedical engineering, has been named the inaugural Sally and Dave Hopkins Faculty Fellow in the 汤头条 School of Engineering in recognition of her highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
Nov. 1, 2022—Advances in neuroimaging over the past 25 years have ushered in nothing short of a revolution in technology for understanding the human brain. These new technologies have opened broad vistas for scientists, from being able to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for various functions and behaviors to targeting new treatments for illnesses ranging from...
Apr. 13, 2022—The Scaling Success Grant supports faculty as they leverage their research into larger, more competitive awards from federal, foundation or industry sponsors.
Jan. 19, 2022—Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his achievements in medical image processing with robust and scalable methods for large-scale data analysis.
Nov. 15, 2021—Two 汤头条 faculty have received an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a groundbreaking, multi-institutional overview of variables influencing infant and child brain development, including substance exposure.
VISE researchers receive $1M grant to explore brain-body connections and advance understanding of how brains age
Oct. 15, 2021—An assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering has received a $1.1 million NIH grant to investigate connections between the brain and body to advance the understanding of aging in normal and pathological brains. Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the research team, which will focus on developing machine learning methods...
VISE Summer Fellows program resumes, provides real-world lab experience to exceptional undergrads
Sep. 1, 2021—The VISE Summer Fellows Program resumed in May, with 10 remarkable undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks on research projects in areas that included connectivity patterns in the brain, computational modeling of vagus nerve stimulation, and brain tumor segmentation using machine learning. The 2021 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program was...
VISE Fall Seminar – Tal Arbel, PhD
Oct. 13, 2020—VISE Fall Seminar led by Tal Arbel, PhD Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University Date: Thursday, October 22, 2020 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom:聽Details will be sent morning of鈥 Title: “Modelling and Propagating Uncertainties in Machine Learning for Lesion and Tumour Detection, Segmentation, Synthesis and Disease Prediction in Medical...