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 Jack Noble, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. On this episode of the Quantum Potential podcast, Provost C. Cybele Raver talks with Noble...

Nov. 24, 2025—Jack Noble always admired his father’s work as a family practice physician, particularly the simple aspect of helping people. It’s a sentiment the ��ý engineer has carried over into his own work of developing innovative technology that aims to not only improve patients’ hearing, but also assist surgeons performing the procedures.

Aug. 22, 2025—A ��ý 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— Development and...

Jul. 21, 2025—��ý researchers have received a $1.2 million grant 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 ��ý, is the lead author of a pioneering study, “A...

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: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 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 ��ý engineering students working in the fields of computer science and electrical and computer engineering won prestigious best paper awards at the 2025 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held Feb. 16-20 in San Diego.

Mar. 27, 2024—Visitors to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR) anatomy that creates the illusion of an X-ray view of the body’s muscles and bones.

VISE on the Road: 2023 MICCAI conference

Nov. 21, 2023— Members of six VISE labs affiliated with the ��ý 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 ��ý 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 ��ý Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Summer Fellows Program (VSF).

Oct. 26, 2023—There was a time when Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s 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. “Nobody in my family had a Ph.D., and I didn’t have any role models of how to do that,”...

May. 10, 2023—Eleven ��ý 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 ��ý 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 ��ý 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 ��ý 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 ��ý 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: 12:15 p.m. Room Admittance, 12:25 p.m. start Zoom: Details will be sent morning of… Title: “Modelling and Propagating Uncertainties in Machine Learning for Lesion and Tumour Detection, Segmentation, Synthesis and Disease Prediction in Medical...

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