{"id":23161,"date":"2019-06-12T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=23161"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:14:51","slug":"mounya-elhilali-promoted-to-professor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/mounya-elhilali-promoted-to-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounya Elhilali promoted to professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mounya Elhilali<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Department Chair Ralph Etienne-Cummings<\/a> describes Elhilali as part of a \u201cnew breed of ECE professors\u201d because her work straddles two different disciplines.<\/p>\n

\u201cMounya is a highly recognized research leader working at the interface of electrical and computer engineering and neuroscience. Multidisciplinary work is becoming the norm in ECE because ECE provides many tools that are useful to researchers in other areas,\u201d he said. \u201cIn particular, Mounya is a signal processing expert, which means that she is able to speak the language of experimentalists and theoreticians. As a result, her work has applications in many areas, such as engineering in health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elhilali\u2019s research combines engineering and brain sciences with the overarching goal of trying to understand how both humans and machines hears. Specifically, her group look at the processing of sounds by brain networks and its translation into smart-audio technologies.<\/p>\n

Elhilali\u2019s research has led to an improved understanding of the brain, as well as the creation of technologies that can emulate or even surpass biological intelligence. For example, she recently worked with James West<\/a>, another ECE professor, on a smart stethoscope<\/a> that can diagnose lung diseases, specifically pneumonia. The devices have already improved medical care in rural and impoverished areas of South America and Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese lung infections are the leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, causing more than one million deaths and 150 million infections each year. That is more than deaths from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined,\u201d Elhilali said. \u201cThough many are treatable, access to medical care is a real impediment. By developing affordable technologies that can be deployed widely and using intelligent analysis of lung sounds to flag abnormalities, we may able to save numerous lives in underserved communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elhilali is also known for being an excellent mentor. Ben Skerritt-Davis<\/a>, an ECE doctoral candidate, credits her for helping him land a grant from the National Institutes of Health by teaching him the importance of being able to describe his research accurately and understandably to a variety of audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it is about finding the right language and the right way of explaining your work so it has broad interest and impact,\u201d Skerritt-Davis said. \u201cShe reminded me that you never know who will be reviewing your grant proposals, so you cannot assume they have the same expertise as you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elhilali was drawn to Johns Hopkins by its reputation as a premier institution for both engineering and medical research, making it ideal for her area of expertise. Now, after 12 years, she says that the institution has lived up to that reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rich and cross-disciplinary work that goes on at Hopkins is a real asset to my work,\u201d Elhilali said. \u201cWe have fostered and tremendously benefited from collaborations with colleagues within the Whiting School of Engineering<\/a> and across multiple schools, including the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, Bloomberg school of Public Health and School of Medicine<\/a>. My work has also benefited from Johns Hopkins\u2019 diverse research centers and institutes, including the Center for Learning and Speech Processing<\/a>, the Center for Hearing and Balance and the Mind Brain Institute<\/a>, as well as the Applied Physics Lab<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-23161","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-department-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMounya Elhilali promoted to professor - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/mounya-elhilali-promoted-to-professor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mounya Elhilali promoted to professor - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/mounya-elhilali-promoted-to-professor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-01T16:14:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mounya Elhilali promoted to professor - 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