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Gregory Falco, an assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and a member of the Institute for Assured Autonomy, is part of a team recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence risks that can be used to…

Lauren Gardner 36, associate professor, civil and systems engineering, Johns Hopkins University As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard has tracked each of its movements since the tool’s creation in January. “We decided that there’s a lack of real-time data that’s dynamic enough that you can understand the…

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Gregory Falco and Dr. Jochen Mueller. Dr. Gregory Falco currently holds an appointment as an assistant research professor. In fall 2021, Falco will become an assistant professor in the department and in the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), a…

Ensheng Dong has been named a Louis M. Brown Fellow and a Dean’s Leadership Fellow by the Whiting School of Engineering.

Congratulations to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering team, particularly CaSE associate professor Lauren Gardner and graduate student Ensheng Dong, who recently received the Making a Difference Award from Esri, an international supplier of geographic information system software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. The Making a Difference Award honors organizations or individuals who,…

Congratulations to CaSE Associate Professor Lauren Gardner who recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the management and development of the COVID-19 online interactive dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).   The dashboard was first released publicly on January 22, 2020 to…

The team plans to develop statistical models that could reveal patterns explaining COVID-19’s rapid spread.

Congratulations to the following Department of Civil and Systems Engineering students who were recognized in the Whiting School of Engineering’s 2020 convocation program. American Society of Civil Engineers Maryland Section Scholarship The ASCE Maryland Section Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate member of Johns Hopkins’ student chapter in recognition of outstanding academic merit and achievement…

Congratulations to CaSE assistant professor Thomas Gernay, whose project “Behavior and Design of Concrete Structures under Natural Fires” was selected by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation as one of the eight projects to receive funding in 2020. Gernay will collaborate with co-principal investigator Patrick Bamonte of Politecnico di Milano on the project, which aims…

As a solution to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients who require ventilator-related care, James Guest, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials, is aiding in the development of a 3D-printed ventilator splitter system designed to…

Prof. Lauren Gardner is the creator of the interactive web-based dashboard being used by public health authorities, researchers, and the general public around the globe to track the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The dashboard, which debuted on January 22, has been shared by practically every major news outlet worldwide and now receives more than…

Michael Shields was promoted to Associate Professor in early 2020. Shields is an expert on uncertainty quantification for wide-ranging problems in computational mechanics and computational materials science. His group, the Shields Uncertainty Research Group (SURG), conducts methodological research in uncertainty quantification, machine learning, and stochastic methods to better understand the effects of uncertainties and random…