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🎉 VALIANT is celebrating 2 years!
From AI Summer School and Discover AI to seminars, workshops, BrainHacks, and student gatherings, we've spent more than 10,000 hours learning, building, and imagining the future together.
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Alchemists’ Corner: Check out our newsletter to see a selection of what has hit Scopus from our community since last month. 📄
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From Data to Gallery: VALIANT’s brain mapping work is now award-winning art displayed alongside a UC Berkeley 7T scanner. 🎨
A reminder that discovery doesn’t just inform science—it reshapes how we see it.
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VALIANT Ventures: Mingxing Rao presented a Deeper Dive on targeting model inversion from generative models. 🧠
Exploring emerging challenges in understanding and probing AI systems.
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Ideas in Conversation: VALIANT Dialogue brought together voices from across Vanderbilt to explore AI and discovery. 💡
From nursing to astronomy to philosophy, it sparked new collaborations rooted in shared curiosity.
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VALIANT PITCH: Edge AI-Enabled Ultra-Low-Field Body MR—advancing MRI with low-field hardware and AI-driven imaging
Built by a multidisciplinary team, it combines engineering, AI, and clinical insight to explore new possibilities in patient care
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VALIANT Ventures: Building on the Vanderbilt–Leeds partnership, Dr. Irvin Teh visited to discuss cardiac diffusion MRI. ❤️
Advancing dialogue at the intersection of imaging research and clinical science.
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VALIANT PITCH:RESILIO—using AI and reinforcement learning to optimize EV-grid coordination and V2G systems
Focused on multi-agent control under uncertainty, it enables smarter decision-making across connected energy networks
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VALIANT PITCH: LANTERN—an AI-powered tool helping K–8 teachers understand why students struggle with reading. 📚
By analyzing story retellings with network analysis and ML, it delivers insights for early intervention and targeted instruction.
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VALIANT PITCH at DiscoverAI 2026 brought fast-paced, high-energy ideas to life across disciplines.
SPINS by Wali Sadiqyar showcased a scalable pipeline for visualizing brain regions—building on real-world neuroimaging research experience.
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Third place at DiscoverAI Demos went to PhysAI—tackling neuroimaging’s data quality challenge head-on. 🧠
By using AI to assess physiological signals, it enables more reliable analysis and more confident discovery.
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VALIANT Ventures: Through the Vanderbilt–Liverpool partnership, Dr. Yalin Zheng visited to discuss AI in ophthalmology. 👁️
Highlighting growing collaboration in AI and vision science.
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Second place at DiscoverAI Demos goes to SchoolMe—reimagining medical education with short, adaptive, case-based learning. 🩺
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DiscoverAI Demos lit up the FGH Atrium—featuring everything from robotic arms to glowing coffee cups. 🧠✨
First place went to Dore-to-Dore, a real-time, adaptive crisis response system connecting people to resources when every second matters.
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We’ve got a lot happening, check out our newsletter to see what’s newly hit Scopus from our community since last month!
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We’ve unified AI-related seminars and visits into a single shared calendar, making it easier for our community to discover ideas beyond their home area
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Congrats to Hanfeng Jules Zou on presenting their MS thesis, “Enabling Electrical Properties Tomography with Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Exploration.”
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Congratulations to PhD student Yamin Li who has received the Sidney P. Colowick Graduate Student Scholarship!
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