Vishal Patel, an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to work on his project, titled “Active and rapid domain generalization.” Patel’s research will aim to construct meta-learning techniques to enable efficient adaptation to unseen domains, develop an optimal reinforcement learning strategy […]

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ECE professor James West was recently profiled in The Baltimore Sun! The article focused on his mentoring of elementary school students at Aberdeen High School’s Camp Invention. Click this link to read the story!

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Hynek Hermansky, the Julian S. Smith Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), has been named the recipient of the 2020 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Administered through IEEE’s Technical Field Council, this award is given annually in […]

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Muyinatu Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also the principal investigator of the Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering Lab (PULSE), was recently awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). She is one of 36 junior faculty members across the […]

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Archana Venkataraman, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named to this year’s MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Among the award’s past recipients are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the cofounders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook; JB Straubel, co-founder and CTO of Tesla Motors; and Cynthia Breazel, founder […]

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The recipients for the 2019 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards were recently announced, and in an extremely competitive year, ECE finished as the department with the most research projects selected across the entire university. In total, 10 different research projects featuring eight ECE faculty members were selected for a discovery award. Department Chair Ralph Etienne-Cummings, William […]

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Mounya Elhilali, the Charles Renn Faculty Scholar and associate professor who joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2008 as an assistant professor, was recently promoted to professor. Department Chair Ralph Etienne-Cummings describes Elhilali as part of a “new breed of ECE professors” because her work straddles two different disciplines. “Mounya is a […]

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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s involvement with the 2019 Corporate Fun Run was already a success before the race was even held when 21 participants signed up, the most ever for Team ECE. It was also the fifth largest group at this year’s race, which was raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma […]

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Vishal Patel, an ECE Assistant Professor and a member of Johns Hopkins University’s Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS), and Rene Vidal, the Herschel L. Seder Professor in JHU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (with a secondary appointment in ECE) and the director of MINDS, have joined a new interdisciplinary research consortium focused on advancing machine […]

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Jin Kang, a Jacob Suter Jammer Professor and former ECE Department Chair, recently received the Cohen Translational Engineering Award. The award functions as a six-month grant, with the funding going towards the translation of “Fiber Optic Distal Sensor Controlled Drug Injector” with the specific application for intraretinal cell transplant procedures using handheld robotic surgical tool […]

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