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More than 600 Whiting School of Engineering students participated in this year’s Design Day, the school’s annual celebration of innovation and creativity. Held on May 1, the event showcased students’ ability to apply theoretical knowledge gained in classrooms and laboratories to real-world problems. This year’s projects ranged from an acoustic device designed to attract (and…

Researchers from Johns Hopkins’ Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) and Morgan State University are teaming up with the State of Maryland’s Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to establish the state’s presence in a new national center supporting offshore wind energy. The effort—established through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of…

Chemicals—from antibiotics used to keep livestock healthy to pesticides that shield crops from insects—play an important role in modern agriculture. However, many of these substances accumulate in cow manure used as fertilizer, where they contaminate crops, leach into groundwater, and pollute waterways. A study led by Johns Hopkins environmental engineers suggests that anaerobic digestion—using microbes…

The FAA receives thousands of complaints every year about the loud buzzing produced by drone propellers slicing through the air. Experts believe noise pollution caused by these unmanned aerial vehicles will only worsen as they are increasingly used for package delivery, emergency response, and more. A research team led by mechanical engineering professor Rajat Mittal…

Scientists have long known that the cell membrane—the thin layer surrounding each cell—plays a crucial role in cell activities and communications. What hasn’t been clear, though, is how various proteins that are part of this membrane can dynamically change their location and grouping on the cell surface in response to various signals. Understanding this mechanism…

“Though there is a long way to go, the immediate application for our materials is to produce a retinal prosthetic that can be used to produce what we call a ‘vision-like’ experience for patients suffering from a loss of vision.” – Alexandra Patterson   Retinitis pigmentosa gradually steals the eyesight of an estimated 2 million…

‘Turning the Tide Against Superbugs’ Calling all superbug slayers! Meet RoboDrop, the miniature terminator dishing out droplet combos to decimate drug-resistant bacteria. Developed by a team led by Tza-Huei “Jeff” Wang, the Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering and member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, this robotic platform rapidly screens thousands of…

Gonzalo Pita, an expert on natural disaster risk modeling, has developed a reliable and affordable way for governments to estimate expected damage from river floods.

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Machine learning technologies hold the potential to revolutionize decision-making. But how can we ensure AI systems are free of bias? Our experts weigh in.

We increasingly rely on AI models in our daily lives—from traffic navigation and shopping apps to AI-informed care decisions made by our doctors. Given their ubiquity and influence, how and why should we trust these decisions? Can we be certain the models’ predictions are free of biases or errors?

Imagine a day when people focus their smartphone cameras on a sign language speaker and have their gestures instantly translated on their screens—that’s the research goal of Xuan Zhang, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Computer Science. Supported by a JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI (AI2AI) Fellowship, Zhang is researching sign…

PhD students Justin Opferman and Yaning Wang developed the Glow and Sew fluorescent suture to help improve surgical outcomes.

Undergraduate Ikshu Pandey strives to assist other students with disabilities and neurodegenerative conditions in both her academic work and through her extracurricular activities.

Hopkins Engineering student, Greg Wulffen, designed an EKG tool for chimps at the Maryland Zoo

Doctoral student Lidia Al-Zogbi created an autonomous system that can alert doctors to a hemorrhage via ultrasound and initiate diagnostics.

Johns Hopkins engineers are pioneering a new approach to creating a neuromorphic spiking neural network chip for machine learning and AI.

Jeong Kim ’82, MS ’89, received the National Medal of Technology an Innovation, the country’s highest award for technological achievement.

Fereshteh Aalamifar, Phd ’16, developed SoftSpot, an FDA-cleared mobile app for infant cranial measurements.

Quinton Smith, PhD ’17, recently recognized as one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10,” works at the intersection of engineering and stem cell biology.

Jessica Jeffery, MS ’19, provides technical direction and regulatory guidance to GM manufacturing facilities across the country.

Cathy Petrozzino ’80 sees the integrity and reliability of data used in AI as a defining limitation, describing the challenge as a form of “ethical debt.”

Alok Aggarwal, PhD ’84, is CEO and chief data scientist of ScryAI, an analytics firm that develops AI software solutions for the financial, technology, and health care industries.

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