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 such as drug discovery, education, political science, and autism research.
We are recruiting PhD students to work with us in the NDS Lab on topics in our general interests (see NDS Lab research interests below). Master’s and undergraduate students within Vanderbilt University and visiting scholars are also welcome. Please see here for position details.
We are grateful for our funding from the following:
News
11/2023
Out tutorial ''Data Quality-Aware Graph Machine Learning'' led by Yu, is accepted at SDM'24!
11/2023
Tyler invited to serve as an Associate Editor of Tsinghua Science and Techonology!
11/2023
Yunchao (Lance) Liu selected as a finalist in Vanderbilt's 3MT Competition!
11/2023
Tyler invited to serve as Student Travel Award Chair at KDD'24!
11/2023
Our Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG) Workshop was accepted at WSDM'24 (currently on its 5th iteration)!
11/2023
Tyler gave an invited talk ''Data-Centric AI for Real-World Graph Applications'' at the ORNL Core Universities AI Workshop at Georgia Tech!
10/2023
Yu's intern paper Knowledge Graph Prompting for Multi-Document Question Answering was accepted to NeurIPS 2023 GLFrontiers Workshop!
9/2023
Yuying accepts her return offer to join Visa as a PhD research intern for Summer'24 in Foster City!
9/2023
Yu's internship work with Adobe has been transformed into a medium article ''Knowledge Graph Prompting: A New Approach for Multi-Document Question Answering'' and it's now online!
9/2023
Tyler invited to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data!
8/2023
Our preprint A Survey on Privacy in Graph Neural Networks: Attacks, Preservation, and Applications is now online!
8/2023
Tyler invited to serve as Student Travel Award Chair at WSDM'24!
8/2023
Bo will join the NDS Lab as a new PhD in Spring 2024!
8/2023
Anne receives the Provost's Graduate Fellowship and will join the VeriVITAL and NDS Labs as a new PhD in Fall 2023!