Vishal Patel<\/span><\/a>, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research focuses on computer vision and generative AI, with an emphasis on understanding the fundamental limitations of large-scale image and video generation models, with the goal of improving their performance and efficiency.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0<\/span>Amazon<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>AI PhD Fellowship\u00a0program <\/span>provides doctoral candidates with tuition, a stipend, research funding, mentorship from Amazon scientists, and cloud-computing credits. Each fellow is paired with an Amazon research liaison whose expertise aligns with the student\u2019s work.<\/p>\nJohns Hopkins is one of nine universities selected for the program, which will support more than 100 PhD students nationwide and represents an investment of nearly $68 million over two years. Several Whiting School of Engineering doctoral students were chosen in the program\u2019s inaugural year.<\/p>\n
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