Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation

Editor’s Choice Award 🏅 Congratulations to AI Fellow Kurt Schilling! His work on preclinical diffusion MRI was selected as an Editor’s Pick in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Read more here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

The AI in the Classroom Faculty Seminar Series brings Vanderbilt and VUMC educators together for open, faculty-led conversations about how artificial intelligence is shaping teaching. Check out our newsletter: buff.ly/utKPGxG

Calling AI builders, researchers, and innovators! Pitch your AI research idea or demo your AI tool at Discover AI 2026. Students and postdocs are invited to showcase their projects and compete for funding and demo prizes. Full details: vu.edu/gn6ky

I Think My Student Used AI to Cheat. What Do I Do? ⚖️🤖 Faculty Seminar – March 24 @ 8:30 AM As AI tools become harder to detect and easier to access, faculty face new challenges around academic integrity. Read & Register here : buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

THRIVE-AI VALIANT is proud to be part of THRIVE-AI, a statewide initiative uniting Tennessee institutions to strengthen interdisciplinary expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Check out our newsletter: buff.ly/utKPGxG

When Code Works but the Student Didn’t Write It Faculty Seminar – March 18 @ 12 PM In technical courses, AI can generate working code in seconds. But if the solution works, how can we assess whether the student truly understands it? Read & Register here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

We’ve unified AI-related seminars and visits into a single shared calendar, making it easier for our community to discover ideas and join the conversations that spark the best new thinking. View the calendar here: buff.ly/DmsB8Bw Read more here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

Join us for our next VALIANT Deeper Dive seminar featuring Weifeng Yu! 📅 Tuesday, March 17 ⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM CST 💻 Virtual (Zoom) Register here: buff.ly/UDf99wz

Building Tools That Translate 🔬🤖 Our VALIANT profile series highlights AI Scholar Yimeng Dou, whose work bridges hardware, algorithms, and clinical care. Read more here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

Discover AI 2026 🤖 Join us on April 24, 2026 for VALIANT’s Discover AI, a day of interactive demos, industry partners, and conversations designed to spark new collaborations. Read more here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

Using AI to Improve Student Feedback ✍️🤖 Faculty Seminar – March 6, 2026 @ 12 PM Explore how AI can support the feedback process by generating summaries, drafting comments, and suggesting improvements. Read more here: buff.ly/xZMJ6OK

Join us for Discover AI 2026 on April 24th, celebrating AI research and innovation. For updates on the schedule, registration, and student competitions, visit our website: buff.ly/6xdcOHi . Register in advance at buff.ly/O4UETlN, as space is limited.

Alchemists’ Corner 🔬✨
Our community has been busy! Take a look at a selection of recent publications from VALIANT members indexed in Scopus since last month. Read more here: buff.ly/IQ9Yfb7

Congratulations to Can Luo on receiving the Graduate School Endowed Award – Lai Sulin Scholarship and successfully defending her dissertation, “From Reads to Variant: Method Development in Genomic Variant Detection.”🎉 Read more here: buff.ly/IQ9Yfb7

Congratulations to Yunfei Hu on receiving the Graduate School Endowed Award – Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award! 🎉 Our scientists continue to break new ground. Read more here: buff.ly/IQ9Yfb7

VALIANT’s faculty-only Spring Discussion Series creates space for candid conversations about AI’s role in teaching, assessment, and learning in today’s engineering classrooms. Check here for details: buff.ly/29xIArx

Join us for the next VALIANT Deeper Dive! 🧠 Harmonizing Brain MRI Across Sites Without Paired Data 🎤 Mengqi Wu (UNC–Chapel Hill) 📅 Tuesday, Feb 24 | ⏰ 1–2 PM | 💻 Virtual/Zoom Register via the QR code.

Join us for the next VALIANT Deeper Dive! 🧠 Harmonizing Brain MRI Across Sites Without Paired Data 🎤 Mengqi Wu (UNC–Chapel Hill) 📅 Tuesday, Feb 24 | ⏰ 1–2 PM | 💻 Virtual/Zoom Register via the QR code.

One Calendar, Many Conversations 🗓️
 We’re cutting through announcement overload by bringing AI-related seminars and visits across the school into one shared calendar (buff.ly/iCON87W ). Read more here: buff.ly/9RMyiBY

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Congratulations to Elyssa McMaster and Michael Kim, who have received travel grants to attend and present at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in Vancouver. Read more here: buff.ly/9RMyiBY