Batteries and other energy storage could ease many of the woes currently faced by our power grid, notes Dennice Gayme, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Chris White, PhD ’09, has built Memex, a program that uses algorithms to extract content from text, images and videos, then brings that content back in an aggregate for analysis.
Seal-Bin Han ’17, a self-described “scrawny, nerdy kid,” came back from Johns Hopkins’ Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center one night last semester feeling down. “It’s a culture,” he says of the gym. “I didn’t know how to use the equipment, and people looked at me funny when I went to the weight room.”
Autoimmune disorders, like multiple sclerosis and lupus, are notorious for their unpredictability. The illness flares—often without any obvious trigger—and then recedes, and then flares again. Some patients deteriorate rapidly, while others can live for years before the most severe symptoms arrive. This fog of unpredictability can make it very difficult for doctors and patients to choose treatment plans.
EchoSure is a new imaging device that was developed by Jerry L. Prince and Devin O’Brien-Coon, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, that holds the promise in easy and quick detection of blood clots in patients recovering from reconstructive, transplant, and vascular surgery.
Professor Andreas Andreou and his PhD Graduate, Thomas Murray have devised a human action-recognition program technology that is less intrusive and expensive then the current method of tracking actions–using images made by cameras and infrared sensor–by using newer technology that identifies actions using sound.
The goal of the HEMI Seed program is to provide seed funding to advance the fundamental science associated with materials and structures under extreme conditions.
Brian Grubel–student of professors Amy Foster, Brint Cooper, and Mark Foster–was awarded a nine-month license for Photon Design’s OmniSim, a powerful and
flexible simulation package for the design and optimization of nano-photonic and plasmonic devices.
ShapeU has received a $10,000 grant from the Ralph S. O’Connor Fund.
Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Optical Society of America has elected its new officers for the 2015-2016 year.
