The Vanderbilt Institute for Convergent Software Integrated Systems (ICONS) has contributed to Prevent, Contain, Prove: A Framework for Urgently Securing Critical Digital Systems, a new report…

Meiyi Ma, along with lab members Yvonne Zhou and Ziyan An, recently demonstrated their 9-1-1 training system at the GNTC Summit, an annual technology conference hosted by the Greater Nashville…

Meiyi Ma recently represented ICONS as a panelist at 3686, Tennessee’s flagship entrepreneurship and innovation conference organized by Launch Tennessee.During the panel, Ma joined the Nashville…

 An AI-powered training assistant developed by Professor Meiyi Ma and the ICONS team is helping Metro Nashville prepare the next generation of emergency telecommunicators.When someone calls 911,…

Vanderbilt Ph.D. student Chang-Yong Song, advised by David Hyde, recently presented research at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), one of the field’s leading international research…

Three Vanderbilt undergraduate students—Zachary Macaskill-Smith, Unmol Sharma, and Melissa Warner—recently presented their research at IEEE Quantum Week in Toronto, an international conference…

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly common in education and everyday life, understanding how to use these technologies safely and responsibly is becoming an important skill for teachers…

Congratulations to Sandeep Neema, who has been selected to receive Vanderbilt’s Excellence in Corporate Collaboration Award for his work on the Mission Autonomy Hackathon. Presented by the Center for…

A new name marks an exciting new chapter for our institute. The Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is now ICONS, reflecting the continued growth and evolution of our research…

Vanderbilt researchers will help drive the next phase of a major national effort to reimagine how artificial intelligence can support teaching and learning, following the National Science Foundation’s…

CivicAlert brings privacy-centered technology to community gunshot detection ICONS researchers are working with an Austin neighborhood to develop an affordable, AI-powered system that…

Congratulations to Agrima Khanna on receiving the Best Paper Award at IEEE SMARTCOMP 2026 in Messina, Italy!Agrima was recognized for the paper, "Dynamic Pickup-and-Delivery Routing with Early-Arrival…

Vanderbilt Institute for Software Integrated Systems founder János Sztipanovits was recently featured in Venture Nashville, reflecting on the growth of Nashville as one of the nation’s emerging…

Congratulations to Professor Yu Huang on receiving a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for her project, “Enabling Human-Guided AI for Code.” This award recognizes early-career faculty with the potential to…

Congratulations to Gautam Biswas on being named a recipient of the prestigious Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award. A visionary leader at the intersection of artificial intelligence,…

Innovation met impact at the second annual Global Good Hackathon at Vanderbilt’s College of Connected Computing (CCC), held March 28–29.Sponsored by Vanderbilt CS alumnus Antonio Akins, this year’s…

Excellence in undergraduate research was on full display at this year’s Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Symposium.Manish Acharya, an undergraduate researcher in the Simulation, Optimization, and…

Connect software engineering artifacts with the Continuous Assurance-Integrated Development CAID) tool framework. CAID provides dependency tracking and change management for artifacts such as models,…

A team of Vanderbilt University researchers has been awarded up to $7 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) through its UPGRADE program to develop ARMOR-H,…

We happily celebrate the outstanding achievements of Manish Acharya, an undergraduate intern in the Simulation, Optimization, and Learning (SOL) Laboratory. Manish has been awarded the SyBBURE Best…

The Twenty-Sixth High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Conference will be held May 11–13, 2026, at the Historic Inns of Annapolis in Annapolis, Maryland.HCSS brings together researchers,…

Congratulations to Junyi Ji on receiving the 2025 Graduate Leadership Anchor Award for Research from the Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council! Junyi’s remarkable research productivity—five journal…

Available on the ARCOS Tool Portal, the Rapid Assurance Curation Kit (RACK) is a vendor-agnostic data curation system for organizing and verifying complex certification artifacts.Developed by GE…