November 23, 2021
<p>RASL PhD students Akshith Ullal and Cadence Watkins have won the “Best student paper award” at the 2021 IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) conference.
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October 26, 2021
<p>Zhaobo (Kevin) Zheng’s dissertation defense will be November 2nd at 8:30 a.m. The defense will hybrid in both Zoom and FGH 313.
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October 12, 2020
<p>Vanderbilt’s research towards neurodiversity in the workplace–including work at RASL–featured in 60 Minutes on CBS.
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September 10, 2020
<p>Vanderbilt leads $5 million project to revolutionize neurodiverse employment through AI
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September 4, 2020
<p>Vanderbilt, Ohio State receive $3.1M NIH grant to develop social robots to encourage activity among older adults.
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September 11, 2019
<p>Sarkar will Lead New $1M Convergence Accelerator Project Funded by the National Science Foundation!
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August 9, 2019
<p>RASL grad Jing Fan now at Google
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August 2, 2019
<p>RASL members Deeksha Adiani and Joshua Wade presented several papers at the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction this week in Orlando, FL. The conference was held from Friday, July 26 to Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in Orlando, FL.
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March 19, 2019
<p>Robot-guided video game for older adults is a featured story by Vanderbilt Research News.
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June 1, 2018
<p>RASL Director Nilanjan Sarkar is the new chair of the department of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Sarkar accepted the position of chair beginning in the Spring semester 2018, following the distinguished tenure of Dr. Robert Pitz, who served as department chair for 18 years. More details are available here.
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