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A project led by Civil and Systems Engineering faculty member, Ján Drgoňa, will receive $750,000 for its potential to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

Supported by the Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards program, the team will analyze mosquitos’ biological data to identify infection prevention strategies

A data center design focused on sustainability and community wellbeing helped the team earn first place in this year's competition

Scientists get boost in funding to make housing more resilient to large urban fires

Gardner’s measles research uses a systems approach to understand disease risk by bridging population-level outbreak data, vaccination rates, and policy with individual-level information consumption and vaccination behaviors

The award recognizes Schafer’s significant contributions to the cold-formed steel industry

Rising energy needs throughout the U.S. come with the challenge of improving and innovating our energy infrastructure. For electrical power, this means the plants, power lines, equipment and other technology…

Civil and Systems Engineering faculty Susu Xu and Yury Dvorkin were featured in the Spring 2026 issue of Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine. Tapping AI to Improve Wildfire Evacuation Leading a team…

We recently caught up with Yuri Chia, who completed his bachelor’s in civil engineering and two master’s degrees in engineering management and systems engineering in 2021, to learn more about…

A team of researchers, including Johns Hopkins’ Ján Drgoňa, has developed a machine learning control method to make real-time operational decisions for chiller plants, reducing data center energy use by nearly 12%

The AI-integrated model links multiscale, microstructural changes to specific instances of failure before visible cracks can be detected

Quickly predicting how structures will respond to natural hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, has long been one of civil engineering’s toughest challenges, requiring significant computational resources and time-consuming simulations.…