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In August, Johns Hopkins announced a major investment in data science and the exploration of artificial intelligence.bThe heart of this endeavor will be a Whiting School of Engineering–based interdisciplinary data science and translation institute that will significantly strengthen the university’s capabilities to harness emerging applications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the explosion of available data and the rapid rise of accessible AI.

Two members of the Johns Hopkins Engineering faculty,  Jennifer Elisseeff and Alex Szalay, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

A team of Hopkins researchers at the Imaging for Surgery, Therapy, and Radiology (I-STAR) Labs is working on a less invasive solution that doesn’t require additional equipment or expose patients to the extra radiation or long scan times typically associated with live imaging.

Using powerful transmission electron microscopes, Ken Livi, an associate research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and director of operations for the Whiting School of Engineering’s Materials Characterization and Processing facility, examined samples of Blood Falls water and found an abundance of iron-rich nanospheres that oxidize, turning the water seemingly gory and solving a century-old mystery.

The chromosome associated with male development—the last mysterious piece of the human genome—has been fully sequenced by a global team of more than 100 researchers, including those at Johns Hopkins.

Not only may ChatGPT’s output “be factually incorrect,” Joseph Carrigan warns, but companies running these models might use your information in other unexpected ways.

Batteries often stop working at inopportune moments, and little is known about why they gradually lose their ability to store and deliver energy over time, a process known as degradation. Yayuan Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is working to shed light—literally—on why this process happens.

Scientists can’t peer directly into the high-pressure environment of the Earth’s crust, but the High-Pressure TriAxial COmpression Instrument, or “HP-TACO,” can help.

Inside the historic Stieff Silver Building, JohnsHopkins has built the world’s top facility forstudying the atomic structures of materials.Researchers across the Whiting School are usingit to reshape fields from energy to oncology.

Biomedical engineer Jennifer Elisseeff is known for asking bold questions and pursuing seemingly “outlandish” ideas that pay off big. Her latest cross-disciplinary pursuit? Unlocking the mysteries of aging.

In middle school, Erick Rocher watched a friend fight cancer. The experience proved formative. “There was no doubt I wanted to someday work to improve medical care,” he says. Now a senior biomedical engineering major, Rocher is immersing himself in wide-ranging research, from improving surgical outcomes and innovating training for robotic surgery to harnessing nanotechnology…

Kristen Corlay Sanmiguel arrived as a first-year student at Hopkins intent on improving life in communities like her home city of Monterrey, Mexico. Now a senior majoring in civil and systems engineering, she’s made big strides toward that goal—on a variety of fronts. Last June, Corlay Sanmiguel led a Whiting School undergraduate team to a…

Ice hockey analytics takes faceoffs into consideration, but current approaches don’t go much further than the idea that winning more faceoffs than losing is good for a team.

Yutong Bai, a fourth-year computer science PhD student, has been named a 2023 Apple Scholar in AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning). She is one of just 22 graduate students at universities around the world to be recognized by the fellowship program this year. Bai, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University in…

Access to dependable internet and technology can be a community’s gateway to economic, political, and informational resources. Emeka Ebo MS ’04 saw as much when he helped lay out the first broadband lines that brought internet access to rural communities in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania while working at Verizon and studying electrical engineering at Johns…

When Paige Senal ’17 was a first-year student at the Whiting School, she imagined a future working to save the planet. She never dreamed that six years later, she would be building analytics for the National Basketball Association (NBA). Senal is a software engineer on the Product Analytics Engineering team, where she designs, implements, and…

Craig Schwitter ’89 is a passionate advocate for integrating engineering, architectural design, and rapid advances in technology to improve people’s lives. And that means considering every aspect of a project’s possible impacts on a community—from health and the local economy to climate change. At Buro Happold, a global engineering and advisory practice with offices throughout…

The start of a new academic year is always exciting, but this fall—a time when AI and data science underpin so many of our endeavors—is particularly energizing.