Tyler Derr
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Four Vanderbilt School of Engineering faculty receive prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
Four faculty members from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering received prestigious CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation during the 2022-2023 academic year. The competitive NSF grant program is designed to support the early career development and new lines of academic research for the nation’s most promising up-and-coming scholars. “This is a remarkable achievement and... Read MoreJun 27, 2023
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Vanderbilt researcher wins NSF CAREER award to close a gap in network analysis by better modeling negative online interactions like unfollowing and blocking
Tyler Derr, assistant professor of computer science, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to advance network analysis methods for data that inherently contain both positive and negative interactions, such as that found in e-commerce and online social media. The prestigious five-year award honors early career faculty with the potential to serve as role models in... Read MoreJun 16, 2023
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New faculty at Data Science Institute engage in data science for the social good
Tyler Derr, Xin (Maizie) Zhou and Zhongyue (John) Yang, the newest faculty co-hires joining the Data Science Institute this fall, have more in common than an interest in revealing patterns through big data—these new faculty focus on research and innovation that positively impact society. Read MoreJul 24, 2020