The Power and Promise of Data Science and AI:

Johns Hopkins University’s  Transformational Investment in Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Investment
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The region
The opportunity
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AN INVESTMENT TO
Redefine What’s Possible.
Johns Hopkins has made a historic commitment to build the nation’s foremost destination for emerging applications, opportunities, and challenges presented by data science, machine learning, and AI.

The new Data Science and AI Institute will include a state-of-the-art facility on the Homewood campus and an expansion of our computing resource capacity to the scale required for an initiative of this dimension.

We’re also making an unprecedented investment in people:
  • 80 new tenure-track faculty, the largest cluster hire in the history of the Whiting School of Engineering, in the departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

  • 30 AI-FOCUSED RESEARCH SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS to support new engineering faculty projects.

  • 40 NEW TENURE-TRACK FACULTY outside of AI to strengthen all engineering departments.

  • A PROJECTED 750 NEW PHD STUDENTS across all areas of engineering.

Johns Hopkins University
The nation’s first research university never stops evolving.
Johns Hopkins University’s history is rooted in multidisciplinary collaboration and discovery.
‍It's a legacy of academic excellence and societal impact that spans nearly 150 years. In that time, we’ve defined and redefined the limits of innovation, developed the research that’s advanced our civilization, and discovered new worlds beyond and within our own.

We've helped change humankind for the better. 

And that's just the beginning.
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Johns Hopkins leads all U.S. universities in R&D spending—with a record-breaking $3.4 billion in the last fiscal year.
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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT THE WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
A computing powerhouse driving innovation in AI.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is accelerating knowledge and fueling innovations that push the limits of imagination. Our work continues to redefine technology’s role in society while serving humanity on a global scale.
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Our research in data science, machine learning, and AI addresses today’s most critical challenges—from disease diagnosis to national security.
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We partner across university divisions with colleagues at Johns Hopkins’ schools of Medicine and Public Health and scientists at the Applied Physics Laboratory. We also work closely with industry through innovative collaborations and funding opportunities.
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Here, the values of ethics, accessibility and humanity are integral—and our work is informed by the perspectives that reflect our diverse world.

BUILDING ON A DECADE OF GROWTH
IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

2012-2023

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178%
INCREASE IN
UNDERGRAD APPLICATIONS
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135%
INCREASE IN
MASTER'S APPLICATIONS
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197%
INCREASE IN
PhD APPLICATIONS
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32%
FACULTY GROWTH

AREAS OF FOCUS:

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LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
Leading innovations in areas including applied speech processing, human language technology, and audio classification, enabling spoken human-computer interaction, with applications in health, security, and education.
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MEDICAL IMAGING
Enabling image analysis that addresses from various modalities, providing unprecedented levels of detail and overcoming shortfalls of current imaging technologies.
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COMPUTER VISION
Advancing recognition for biometrics and biomedical image analysis detection, image restoration, user authentication, crowd analytics, cross spectrum face synthesis, domain adaptation, and remote sensing.
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REINFORCED LEARNING AND CYBERPHYSICAL SYSTEMS
Enabling sparse recovery, subspace preserving recovery, network tomography, and applications for autonomous vehicles and power as well as energy distribution.
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EDGE COMPUTING AND tinyML
Designing highly accurate and high-performance computing methods for emerging fields in AI, robotics and autonomous navigation, smart health monitoring, and cyber-physical systems.
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EMBODIED SYSTEMS
Designing and building intelligent systems that integrate seamlessly into our lives and environments while enabling secure interactions between intelligent machines and people.

A FOUNDATION FOR DISCOVERY

Our faculty are redefining their disciplines—and creating wholly new ones—through our 25 multidisciplinary research centers and institutes, which bring together collaborators from across the university.
Center for Language and Speech ProcessingInformation Security InstituteInstitute for Assured AutonomyInstitute for Data Intensive Engineering and ScienceLaboratory for Computational Sensing and RoboticsMalone Center for Engineering in HealthcareMathematical Institute for Data Science
THE REGION

Live. Work.
‍Transform.

BALTIMORE is a vibrant and diverse urban location with much to offer:

  • A rich history and cultural life

  • An abundance of nearby outdoor activities

  • Affordable and diverse housing, both in the city and surrounding areas

  • Excellent school options — both public and private

  • Consistently ranked among the nation’s top “foodie” cities

  • Professional sports — Ravens (NFL), Orioles (MLB)

  • Proximity to federal government agencies and government contractors, policy makers and advocates

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Located at the crossroads of the East Coast’s most influential cities and close to leading government, tech, health, and industry players, Hopkins provides unmatched proximity to power—an ideal environment to spark and showcase your work.
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ETA BY TRAIN:

Baltimore to Washington D.C.: 35 min

Baltimore to Northern Virginia: 1.25 hours

Baltimore to Philadelphia: 1.25 hours

Baltimore to NYC: 2.5 hours

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THE OPPORTUNITY
We’re seeking bold, interdisciplinary leaders who are redefining electrical and computer engineering.
Our goals are ambitious. So are the experts we’re searching for: Great minds in academia and industry who are as committed to redefining AI’s horizons as they are to making an exponential impact on humanity.
At Hopkins, you’ll shape curricula, inspire students, and spearhead innovative programs that will expand the vision and potential of the institute.

Our computer science faculty benefit from having the support for visionary cross-divisional research projects. They have access to the institution’s full resources, including those available through our top-ranked Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Arts and Sciences and the Applied Physics Laboratory.
If you’re looking to advance your professional trajectory and leave an outsized imprint on the field, we’d like to talk to you.
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