{"id":50378,"date":"2025-07-17T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/?p=50378"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:34:04","slug":"boost-for-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/current\/intelligence\/boost-for-ai-research\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boost for AI Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thirty new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors (BDPs) are being recruited as part of the university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.jhu.edu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ai.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Science and AI Institute<\/a>, the Whiting School\u2013based hub for data science and artificial intelligence that drives research and teaching at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bdp.jhu.edu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bdp.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships<\/a> program, started by Michael Bloomberg, Engr \u201964, was created to fuel impactful research that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Every BDP has appointments in multiple Hopkins divisions, and establishing this new cohort in data science and AI will help ensure the impact of the new institute is felt across the university.<br><br>The faculty members will weave data science, data-driven research, and AI even more fully into the fabric and future of the university in areas such as medical diagnosis, foundational machine learning, natural intelligence, neuroscience, genomics, cancer research, and the computational social sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe BDP program has fueled impactful research in areas as diverse as machine learning, health equity, and cancer immunology by harnessing powerful insights that transcend disciplinary boundaries,\u201d says Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels. \u201cThe Data Science and AI Institute and its embedded BDPs will bring this tested approach to cross-disciplinary and cross-divisional collaboration, allowing us to harness the power and potential of AI to open new and powerful avenues of research that drive solutions to daunting societal challenges and aid human flourishing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Data Science and AI Institute is recruiting 30 new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"issue":[42],"class_list":["post-50378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligence","issue-spring-2025"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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