Ebuka Arinze has been selected by the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council (DLC) to receive a 2018 Diversity Recognition Award. Arinze, who is a PhD candidate in Dr. Susanna Thon‘s lab, will be presented the award on May 15, 2018, in the Glass Pavilion by Provost Sunil Kumar. The Diversity Recognition Awards seek to recognize outstanding contributions […]
Dr. Brian Grubel (PhD, 2017), Products Manager/Associate Technical Fellow for Advanced Technology Programs at the Boeing Company, Herndon, VA, has been appointed Fellow-by-Courtesy in the ECE Department, effective April 1, 2018. Dr. Grubel’s dissertation research, “Silicon Photonic Physical Unclonable Functions,” led to the first photonic physical encryption key that is unclonable, robust, fast, and unpredictable […]
On Wednesday, April 18th, JHU ECE PhD candidates, Kate Fischl and Ben Skerritt-Davis, accompanied a group of students from Baltimore’s Western High school to Baltimore’s Light City festival, all wearing Arduino-based light up necklaces. The students are participants in Kate and Ben’s after school workshop on wearable electronics. In the fall the students learned basic electronics […]
This July, the annual Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop will take place in Telluride, Colorado. This 3-week workshop brings together experts in neuroscience, machine learning, electrical engineering, signal processing, cognition, and robotics. This year’s workshop theme is Embodied Perception and Action. This year’s topics are Prediction and Surprise in Natural Sound Processing: Comparing DNNs to the […]
Michelle Graham, a graduate student in Professor Muyinatu Bell’s lab was recently awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). The NSF GRFP is awarded to graduate students who are pursuing research-based master and doctoral degrees in the United States. Fellows are awarded a three-year stipend and opportunities to conduct research internationally and also pursue professional development. Michelle’s […]
Yi Chen, who received her PhD in electrical and computer engineering in 2012, has been honored with the IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award for her article titled Hyperspectral Image Classification via Kernel Sparse Representation. Chen was the lead author on the paper and collaborated with ECE professor Trac Tran and West Virginia University professor Nasser M Nasrabadi. The […]
Three Johns Hopkins PhD students from the Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory recently presented posters at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), held April 4-7 in Washington, D.C. ISBI is a scientific conference dedicated to mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biological and biomedical imaging, across all scales of observation. Jeff Craley, Shimona D’Souza, and Naresh Nandakumar (all from […]
At Johns Hopkins Robotics Industry Day, visitors were transported to a world where robots are being developed for use everywhere—from the depths of the oceans to medical center operating rooms to living rooms.
This summer, Jeff Lai will be able to use his recently awarded Vredenburg Scholarship to fully-fund his summer research internship at the University of Edinburgh. While there, he will work on Anti-Spoofing, detection of synthetic and natural speech, and will be supervised by Prof. Simon King, director of Center for Speech Technology Research at the University of […]
The biomedical engineering program landed again in the No. 1 spot, which it has long held, and the Whiting School of Engineering moved up for the fourth consecutive year to 18th overall.
