JHU Computer Science

JHU researchers receive Best Paper Award at IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025 The forum focuses on advancing networking technology by encouraging innovative cross-domain studies, research, early deployment, and large-scale pilot showcases that address the challenges of future n...

Congratulations to our researchers on this accomplishment!

The Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Joanne Selinski YouTube video by Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Missed Joanne Selinski’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture last semester? Watch the recording here:

Featuring JHU CS’ Yinzhi Cao and Qi Sun, this work will be presented at @satml.org later this month:

Congratulations! David Mueller successfully defended his dissertation “Towards Understanding Conflict and Transfer in Multi-Task Deep Learning” under the guidance of advisors Mark Dredze and Nicolas Andrews. David has joined the Amazon Rufus team as an applied scientist. We in the department are extremely proud of our students who have successfully completed their PhD. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes as you begin an exciting new phase of life!

Congratulations, @david-mueller.bsky.social!

Check out our coverage of this awesome #ASL work here: www.cs.jhu.edu/news/handsha...

Computer Science Seminar Series: AI-Driven Scientific Discovery. March 10, 2026, 228 Malone Hall. Refreshments available 10:30 a.m. Seminar begins 10:45 a.m. Yuanqi Du, Cornell University.

Join us next week for a seminar on #AI driven scientific discovery 🔬 — learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...

Congratulations! Sepehr Abdous Successfully defended his dissertation “Taming the Beast: In-Network Congestion Management for Large-Scale Data Centers” under the guidance of advisor Soudeh Ghorbani. Sepehr plans to join Microsoft as a senior software engineer. We in the department are extremely proud of our students who have successfully completed their PhD. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes as you begin an exciting new phase of life!

Congratulations, Sepehr!

“This is private data on a private computer and they made the architectural choice to hold access to that data. They absolutely should be treating it like something that belongs to the user,” says @matthewdgreen.bsky.social.

“If Apple can do it, if Google can do it, then Microsoft can do it.”

Pava Center logo. AI & Software: CS + Entrepreneurship Networking Night. Wednesday, March 4, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Pava Center, 320 W. 29th St. Suite #200. Tito Porras, CEO, Semaphor Surgical. David Thomas, Software Engineer, Remark. Tom Jaklitsch, Co-founder & CTO, Order.co. Andrew Peng, Principal, Collide Capital.

JHU CS and the @pavacenter.bsky.social invite you to an evening at the forefront of AI, software, and entrepreneurship! Come curious—leave with connections, insights, and momentum. Register today: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/ai-sof...

Congratulations! Guangyao “Thomas” Zheng successfully defended his dissertation “Scalable AI for Health Care Across Real-World Clinical Modalities” under the guidance of advisor Vladimir Braverman. Thomas plans to continue research in healthcare AI for real-world impact, pursuing opportunities as either an applied research scientist in industry or as a postdoctoral researcher. We in the department are extremely proud of our students who have successfully completed their PhD. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes as you begin an exciting new phase of life!

Congratulations, Thomas!

Alexis Battle appointed Wu and Zhang Professor Battle specializes in unlocking secrets of the human genome, using machine learning to analyze large-scale genomic sequencing data to understand the impact of genetic variation on the human body.

Congratulations to @alexisbattle.bsky.social on being appointed the Wu and Zhang Professor of biomedical engineering and computer science!

Computer Science Seminar Series: Experimental Design for Data-Efficient Scientific Discovery. March 5, 2026, 228 Malone Hall. Refreshments available 10:30 a.m. Seminar begins 10:45 a.m. Quan Nguyen, Princeton University.

Join us next week for a new seminar with @princeton.edu’s Quan Nguyen! Learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...

Patricio Simari promoted to associate teaching professor, computer science.

Congratulations to Patricio Simari on his promotion to associate teaching professor! ✏️

His main research interests are in geometry processing and the computational understanding of shape with applications to computer graphics, vision, health, and robotics.

Congratulations! Kate Sanders successfully defended her dissertation “Event Semantics for Videos” under the guidance of advisor Benjamin Van Durme. Kate plans to join the Microsoft Copilot Tuning research team. We in the department are extremely proud of our students who have successfully completed their PhD. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes as you begin an exciting new phase of life!

Congratulations, @kesnet50.bsky.social!

Reuse and renew: Testing AI safety sustainably Johns Hopkins and Microsoft researchers have developed an efficient, reusable framework to evaluate the safety of LLMs before they go live.

To identify safety issues before they impact critical applications, @jhu.edu & @msftresearch.bsky.social researchers (including @danielkhashabi.bsky.social) have developed a renewable, sustainable framework for evaluating #LLMs that requires minimal human effort to run. ♻️

IASEAI - International Association for Safe and Ethical AI Building a global movement for safe and ethical AI. Join IASEAI to ensure AI systems operate safely and ethically, benefiting all of humanity.

In Paris this week for IASEAI (Feb 24-26). Tuesday: panel on the International AI Safety Report. Thursday: keynote on regulatory markets, a panel on AI assurance, and a talk in Seth Lazar’s workshop on normative competence. If you’re at IASEAI, come say hello!

Rendering speech into text is challenging even without translating to another language: Microphone quality, ambient noise or people talking over each other can all interfere with accurate speech recognition, says JHU CS’ @phikoehn.bsky.social.

Congratulations! April Kim successfully defended her dissertation “Computational Methods for Biological Complexity: From Genetic Risk Scores to Aging Phenotypes” under the guidance of advisor Alexis Battle. April plans to pursue a career in industry. We in the department are extremely proud of our students who have successfully completed their PhD. Congratulations on this achievement and best wishes as you begin an exciting new phase of life!

Congratulations, @aprilkim.bsky.social!

What to expect in AI in 2026 Mark Dredze, the director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, discusses what’s next for AI and what policymakers should keep in mind over the next year.

Check out this Q&A about the future of #AI with CS professor and @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social director @mdredze.bsky.social:

Science army mobilizes to map U.S. soil microbiome A massive endeavor including Johns Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet’s most biodiverse habitats.

“The soil is the most biologically active environment on the planet, yet we’ve sampled only a tiny fraction of the life that lives inside it,” says @jhu-bdps.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social.

Ben Langmead receives Hopkins Career Impact Award The award celebrates unsung heroes within the Hopkins community who have generously shared their time, expertise, and connections to support the professional and career growth of others.

Congratulations, @benlangmead.bsky.social!

Featuring Craig Jones (@imagingai.bsky.social):

Two people hold papers behind a table with "Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Department of Computer Science" on the tablecloth as a third person approaches.

Great seeing everyone at the JHU Majors Fair last week! 🩵

Science army mobilizes to map U.S. soil microbiome Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats

Johns Hopkins University geneticists like @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

A breakthrough study in @science.org provides clear evidence that social media algorithms shape political polarization. Researchers including @tiziano.bsky.social built a browser extension that reranked users’ X feeds, showing that algorithmic choices directly altered users’ political attitudes.

Missed @benlangmead.bsky.social’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture last semester? Watch the recording: www.youtube.com/live/pdVDfEf...

Hiring a postdoc for the Normativity Lab at Johns Hopkins (2026 start). Looking for multiagent systems expertise (RL/generative agents) + interdisciplinary background in AI and cognitive science/econ/cultural evolution.
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New faculty Q&A: Uthsav Chitra Get to know Uthsav Chitra, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science.

Read our Q&A with @uthsav.bsky.social to learn about his research in computational biology, the courses he’s teaching, and his hobbies! 🧗‍♂️

Featuring Zisheng Chen, Zirui Zhu, and Xiangyang Li from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute:

AI decoder: Unlocking cancer’s hidden patterns With her expertise in machine learning, Alexis Battle is working to sift through vast amounts of genetic and clinical data, revealing hidden patterns that can inform treatment strategies and improve p...

At @jhu.edu, @alexisbattle.bsky.social is leading the charge in harnessing #AI to decode the complexities of #cancer and other diseases.