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Dust in the Lunar Wind: Engineers Study Little-Known Aspect of Landing on Moon - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Working with NASA, Hopkins engineers crack the code behind radiating dust patterns

The huge clouds of lunar dust and debris kicked up by moon landings act like "sandblasting jets"—and pose a threat to future lunar bases. MechE Assoc Prof Rui Ni is working w/ NASA to study and predict these plumes to protect the next generation of moon missions: engineering.jhu.edu/news/dust-in...

“I gotta be honest, the whole thing is pretty nuts,” says JHU CS’ @matthewdgreen.bsky.social. “My best hypothesis is the phones are seeing a Wi-Fi access point that is slightly off from where they are.”

Robot, Interrupted - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots.

By integrating LLMs, a @jhucompsci.bsky.social team built a conversational robot that handles interruptions like humans do—acknowledging quick agreements, answering clarifying questions, and pushing back when necessary. Uncovering the interrupter’s intent is key. engineering.jhu.edu/news/robot-i...

AI Model Slashes HVAC Energy Costs While Predicting Them with Precision - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering A new machine learning approach developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Mons could help property owners better predict and manage energy usage and costs, potenti...

Optimizing energy use in buildings is one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions. But HVAC systems are complex.
Assoc Prof Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin's new approach combines physics-based & AI models to save energy instead of just aiming for a specific temperature. engineering.jhu.edu/news/ai-mode...

Advisor Open House - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Virtual Graduate Advisor Open House August 13, 1 to 3:30 p.m. ET Hosted by our team of graduate program directors, senior academic advisors, and key faculty, attendees will engage in…

Johns Hopkins Engineering invites undergraduate academic advisors from across the country to join us for a virtual Advisor Open House, an informative and collaborative event designed to support your work in guiding students toward graduate education. Register: engineering.jhu.edu/advisor-open...

Think before you diffuse: DiffPhy from Assoc Prof Vishal Patel and team delivers realistic physics in AI video generation by enlisting LLMs to reason about the physical context. Multimodal LLMs evaluate and fine tune the model. GitHub page: bwgzk-keke.github.io/DiffPhy/

Steering Autism Research with Sensory Science - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering JHU and Kennedy Krieger researchers used new racing game to shed light on how children with autism learn

Paired with an off-the shelf sim steering wheel, the "HaptiKart" game from Assoc Prof Jeremy Brown and @kennedykrieger.bsky.social colleagues may serve as a quick, easy way to help therapists and educators tailor interventions for kids with autism. engineering.jhu.edu/news/steerin...

Exciting informational session on AI for congressional staff today at @jhu.edu Bloomberg Center in coordination with #HopkinsDSAI, Johns Hopkins Engineering Lifelong Learning, and Office of Federal Strategy.

From Sewage to Solution - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Hopkins researchers pioneer a method to capture carbon dioxide from treated wastewater—offering a surprising new way to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

Treating 22.5B gallons of sewage a day (in the U.S.) is carbon intensive. @johnshopkinsehe.bsky.social Asst Prof Ruggero Rossi has demonstrated 1st-ever electrochemical CO2 removal from treated wastewater—a major step forward in decarbonizing water infrastructure. engineering.jhu.edu/news/from-se...

Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering New research provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking

Clearing your cookies is not enough! Browser fingerprinting has always been a privacy threat, but now @jhucompsci.bsky.social Assoc Prof Yinzhi Cao and collaborators at Texas A&M have uncovered definitive evidence of websites using it to track your web activity. engineering.jhu.edu/news/website...

Technical diagram illustrating the EigenLoRAx methodology. Shows the flow from pretrained weights through LoRA adapters (labeled A and B) to multiple tasks, then extraction of principal components to create a unified EigenLoRAx system that generates task-specific coefficients for new tasks. Includes frozen and trainable components marked with snowflake and teddy bear icons respectively.

Comparison of LoRA (top) vs EigenLoRAx (bottom) generated anime-style characters, demonstrating maintained visual quality with significantly fewer parameters across different character designs and artistic styles

Comparison of LoRA vs EigenLoRAx in text-to-image generation. Top row shows images generated by individual LoRAs, bottom row shows equivalent quality images generated by a single EigenLoRAx with 18× memory reduction. Includes diverse styles: surreal forest scene, cyberpunk cityscape, 3D character portrait, and abstract street art.

Dramatically cutting the cost of fine-tuning AI: By recycling open-source low-rank adapters (LoRAs), PhD candidate Prakhar Kaushik and team are saving compute and energy with EigenLoRAx (named for the eco-minded Seuss character). Read more: engineering.jhu.edu/news/in-the-...

Don’t Scan that Scam! - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering QR code fraud is rising, so a Johns Hopkins team built a system to sniff out fakes

QR code scams are on the rise. Security informatics grad Luis Rivas '24 (MS) combined 4 machine learning models to detect and block malicious QR codes—from fake charity phishing emails to bogus traffic fine texts—before users get fooled. engineering.jhu.edu/news/dont-sc...

Photo of BDP Derek Cummings.

Welcome Derek Cummings, who joins @jhu.edu as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics. An esteemed epidemiologist, Cummings is joining the Preparing and Responding to Emerging Pandemics cluster.

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YouTube video by Juo-Tung Chen SRT-H: A Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Surgery via Language Conditioned Imitation Learning

Watch it work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYku...

Robot Performs First Realistic Surgery Without Human Help - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon

Realistic robotic surgery without human help! Assoc Prof Axel Krieger's SRT-H performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal w/ the expertise of a skilled human surgeon—even during unexpected scenarios that could cause emergencies. engineering.jhu.edu/news/robot-p...

AI Predicts Patients Likely to Die of Sudden Cardiac Arrest - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Model much better than doctors at identifying patients most at-risk

In @natcardiovascres.nature.com: One of cardiology’s hardest problems is IDing which patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are at risk of sudden cardiac death.
@ntrayanova.bsky.social's new AI model achieved 89% accuracy, offering a path for prevention. engineering.jhu.edu/news/ai-pred...

Yinzhi Cao receives multiple awards at IEEE Security and Privacy 2025 He received both a Distinguished Paper Award and a Test of Time Award at the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy.

Congratulations to Yinzhi Cao on the awards at #IEEESP25!

Egg-celent New Way to Take Your Daily Probiotics - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Researchers wrap probiotics in an egg-inspired shield, helping them survive stomach acid to boost gut health more effectively

That expensive probiotic pill you’re taking? The good bacteria are killed by stomach acid before they even reach your intestines. But Asst Prof Sangmoo Jeong in our Institute for NanoBioTechnology has a solution: egg-inspired coating to deliver them alive and well engineering.jhu.edu/news/egg-cel...

It’s OK to say “IDK” - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers show how different “odds” can teach AI models to admit when they’re not confident enough in an answer.

Why won't the LLM just admit it doesn't know instead of making stuff up?! @williamjurayj.bsky.social is combining test-time compute with confidence thresholds for better, safer answers—teaching LLMs that it's risky to be wrong. engineering.jhu.edu/news/its-ok-...

It’s AI Versus the ATS - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins computer science students are fighting back against a job hunter’s worst enemy: the applicant tracking system.

Does an actual human even SEE your resume in 2025? Seniors in @jhucompsci.bsky.social Innovation & Entrepreneurship course fight back against Applicant Tracking Systems with Jobiter: AI-powered resume & cover letter optimization, form filling, and recommendations. engineering.jhu.edu/news/its-ai-...

Excited to share a blogpost summarizing challenges, opportunities & reflections from a course @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social co-taught with @alexisbattle.bsky.social (and huge support from Seraj Grimes!) at the intersection of #deeplearning #genetics #genomics 🧪 🧬 💻

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From Classroom to Crisis: Students Develop Emergency Response Tech - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Computer science teams tackle critical gaps in EMS training and mass casualty response with innovative digital platforms

Seconds count! Teams in @jhucompsci.bsky.social's Innovation & Entrepreneurship course developed an AI-powered training platform for EMTs and a digital system to streamline patient tracking during mass casualty events. engineering.jhu.edu/news/from-cl...

Photograph of BDP Domenico Giannone.

Welcome to our newest Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, internationally recognized economist Domenico Giannone, who joins @jhu.edu as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Statistics.

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Multimodal AI to forecast arrhythmic death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Nature Cardiovascular Research - Lai et al. present the machine learning model MAARS to predict arrhythmic sudden cardiac death from multimodal imaging and clinical data in patients with...

So thrilled! Our paper is out in Nature Cardiovascular Research! We developed #multimodal #AI to predict #cardiacarrest in hyperthrophic #cardiomyopathy. The algorithm significantly outperformed clinical guidelines!
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Innovative Strides: Wearable Tech Helps Patients Improve Walking After Stroke - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Designed by BME master's students, a new rehabilitative tool helps recovering stroke patients improve their walking ability.

Most stroke survivors experience walking issues during recovery. BME master's students created GaitPro to correct post-stroke foot drop. Smart insoles detect pressure changes, triggering a motorized mechanism that lifts the foot to mimic healthy gait. engineering.jhu.edu/news/innovat...

Promo graphic for episode 915 of Public Health On Call podcast, titled America's Caregiver Crisis

24 states across the country are facing a caregiver crisis.

Health law attorney Stacey Lee talks about what led to this tipping point, the impacts of proposed cuts to Medicaid, and how to build a more supportive system for caregivers.

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Some personal updates:
- I've completed my PhD at @unccs.bsky.social! 🎓
- Starting Fall 2026, I'll be joining the CS dept. at Johns Hopkins University @jhucompsci.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor 💙
- Currently exploring options for my gap year (Aug 2025 - Jul 2026), so feel free to reach out! 🔎

Kaitlyn Kumar tore a ligament during a rehearsal for Sleeping Beauty — but powered through. Now a master’s student in robotics, she's part of a team developing PointeSense, a smart toe pad & ankle band designed to help prevent ballet injuries Read/watch! engineering.jhu.edu/news/enginee...

Johns Hopkins students thwart fitness tracker hackers In a new course, students prepare for the FDA’s ramped-up security requirements for insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other wearables.

A new course offered by @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social, Medical Device Cybersecurity, is preparing students for the @fda.gov’s revised approval process with its ramped-up requirements for #cybersecurity measures throughout the medical device design process. Read more: