Impact: Faculty Innovation

Wind farm data graphic

Spring 2026

‘Seeing’ the Air Move

Charles Meneveau is leading efforts to transform hard data into colorful swirls that offer insights into wind farm efficiency.

Illustrated portrait of Mark Dredze in glasses on an orange background, alongside text about using large datasets and leading collaborative AI research at Johns Hopkins.

Spring 2026

Signal and Noise

DSAI Director Mark Dredze and team are working to harness AI’s potential while keeping its applications grounded in real-world challenges.

Spring 2026

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Brain-Inspired Robot Dogs

Robot dogs designed by Tinoosh Mohsenin help first responders when all signals fail.

Black-and-white high-speed video frame capturing a materials testing experiment.

Spring 2026

Hitchhiking on an Interplanetary Journey

New research from Johns Hopkins suggests that life may be able to survive a journey between planets.

Abstract illustration featuring a large clock overlaid on a warped grid resembling a space-time diagram, surrounded by vivid red, orange, and yellow bursts of color.

Spring 2026

Tapping AI to Improve Wildfire Evacuation

A team led by Susu Xu is using AI to predict human behavior and decision-making under stress.

Spring 2026

How It Works

Bye-Bye Biopsies

Engineers have developed a microscopy method for faster diagnoses and fewer invasive biopsies.

Spring 2026

Impulse Control for Better Decisions

Haoyang Cao has developed a new mathematical framework helping to determine not just what action to take, but precisely when to take it.

Spring 2026

The Platinum Problem

Corey Oses is looking at high-entropy alloys as a more affordable and abundant energy alternative.

Spring 2026

Accelerating Pancreatic Cancer Detection

Hopkins researchers have developed a database aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence to spot pancreatic cancer earlier, when it is potentially treatable. 

close-up image of yellow and black spider with a green background

Spring 2026

Spider Senses

Hopkins engineers have created a spider robot that could inform next-generation robotic sensors.

Fall 2025

A New Approach to Healthy Aging

Bringing together a variety of disciplines to test technology-driven solutions to aging’s biggest challenges.

Fall 2025

A New Era for Organoids

By mapping the myriad cells in human organs with 3D precision, Denis Wirtz and his team are growing living human tissues in the lab.

Fall 2025

Pathways to Entrepreneurship

Faculty turn their discoveries into impactful commercial ventures.

Fall 2025

How It Works

Removing Carbon from Wastewater

Engineers find new way to reduce levels of CO2 by running treated water through a process that uses an electrical current.

Fall 2025

Sniffing Out Diabetes—and Air Pollution

A new type of wearable sensor can be used to detect acetone in human breath, a marker for diabetes.

Fall 2025

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Can AI Outperform Doctors?

An AI model is more accurate than doctors at spotting which patients are most likely to suffer from sudden cardiac death.

Fall 2025

A Greener Recipe for Ammonia

Two chemical and biomolecular engineers have developed a new catalyst that could improve how ammonia is made.

Spring 2025

Micro Marvels

Inspired by nature, David Gracias builds micromachines that fold, stick, swim, and sense—all inside the human body.

Spring 2025

On Fire

By better understanding heat transfer, Thomas Gernay is making structures SAFIR.

Spring 2025

Plankton Power

Generating energy from dissolved organic matter.

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