Welcome!

We are the Network and Data Science (NDS) lab at Vanderbilt University, led by Tyler Derr. Our research lies in data mining and machine learning, especially deep learning on graphs, social network analysis, and data science for social good with applications in drug discovery, education, political science, and autism research.

News

3/2023
Tyler was selected for the Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) of The Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) and its Information Institute (II)!
3/2022
Yuying is accepted to present her work ''Learning Beyond Utility for Social Good: Fairness, Explainability, and Diversity'' at SDM'23 Doctoral Forum and received a student travel award!
3/2023
Lance gave an invited talk at Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery (M2D2) organized by Mila and Valance Discovery presenting his work MolKGNN!
3/2023
Tyler will give an invited talk at ACM Web Conference during Knowledge Graph Day!
3/2023
CFP: Our workshop Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG) is accepted to IEEE ICDM'23!
3/2023
Yuying's paper ''ADEPT: Autoencoder with Differentially Expressed Genes and Imputation for a Robust Spatial Transcriptomics Clustering'' is accepted at RECOMB-Seq 2023!
1/2023
Welcome new BS members!
Catherine and Macharia join NDS Lab

1/2023
Yu's paper Collaboration-Aware Graph Convolutional Network for Recommender Systems is accepted at TheWebConf'23!
1/2023
Yuying passes her Preliminary Exam!
1/2023
Yu is awarded The American Bureau of Shipping Scholarship!

2022

12/2022
Yuying accepts her offer to join Visa as a PhD research intern for Summer'23!
12/2022
Yu accepts his offer to join Adobe as a PhD research intern for Summer'23!
12/2022
Yuying and Lance are awarded AAAI-23 Student Scholarships and selected as volunteers!

... see all News