Impact: Faculty Innovation
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.
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.
Spring 2026
Hitchhiking on an Interplanetary Journey
New research from Johns Hopkins suggests that life may be able to survive a journey between planets.
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.
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.
