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ECE doctoral candidate Naresh Nandakumar is developing a painless, non-invasive approach using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to locate the eloquent cortex.

This story originally appeared in the Hub. Using a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University are creating the Center for Advanced Electro-Photonics with 2D Materials, a first-of-its-kind initiative with a dual mission: to develop two-dimensional materials for use by DoD, and to expand and diversify…

This story originally appeared in the Hub. Each year [email protected] awards seed grants to enable Johns Hopkins researchers to test and develop new ideas that enhance their ability to obtain external funding. For 2021 [email protected] will fund five teams representing the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences,…

A new system devised by ECE PhD candidate Drew Grant aims to make diagnosing COVID-19 as simple as saying a few words into a smartphone.

Alycen Wiacek, a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been selected as a Siebel Scholar for 2022, an award that recognizes her as being among the world’s top graduate students in terms of academic performance and demonstrated leadership in the fields of business, bioengineering, computer science, and energy science.…

Research conducted by Andreas Andreou, a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, as part of a $2 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will advance bio-inspired event based camera architecture with embedded computation. The work will continue…

The cover of the July 2021 edition of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) features a paper written by Muyinatu Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the principal investigator for the Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering (PULSE) Lab. The JBO is an open access journal that publishes…

Vishal Patel, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, has received the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA). IAPR is an international association of non-profit, scientific, and professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition,…

Wiacek was selected for the scholarship because of her research, the bulk of which focuses on developing new algorithms that will aid radiologists in diagnosing breast cancer.

The 1851 Research Fellowships give early career scientists or engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct a research project of their own initiation.

Madhavi W. Chandra received her ECE PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1998. She also earned her master’s from JHU in 1993.

Congratulations to all ECE 2021 Convocation award recipients!