We have observed a beautifully strange phenomenon of phase separation by human monocytes placed on soft matrix, which do it for survival. We model it by incorporating the Cahn–Hilliard equation with a Turing mechanism of local activation/global inhibition More here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂 Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about! Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!

Today at 4:30 in Glass Pavilion and on YouTube: The Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture recognizing Michael Shields as a professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering. "Navigating Uncertainty: Building Confidence in Science in the Age of AI." www.youtube.com/user/Hopkins...

ROSEI is excited to unveil its first ever annual report, highlighting a year of rapid growth, groundbreaking research, and expanding impact! Explore the report and learn more about how the future of sustainable energy starts at JHU 🌎🔋💡 #HopkinsEnergy Report: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/annual-repor...

ROSEI's @dankammen.bsky.social was featured in an article by DW that focused on Germany's decision to bet on nuclear for its energy future! Kammen noted that the "old adage" of nuclear fusion being five decades away for many decades is "no longer true." #HopkinsEnergy www.dw.com/en/nuclear-f...

Recently we lost three esteemed members of our alumni community: L. Gordon Croft, ’56, Richard A. Swirnow, ’55, and Michael J. Zinner, ’67. Read how their work, mentorship, advocacy, and creativity will continue to inspire generations of Hopkins Engineers. engineering.jhu.edu/news/in-memo...

Proud to be among 9 schools selected by Amazon Sci for $68 mil AI PhD Fellowship program, funding 10 of our students researching ML, comp vision, & NLP! Since '22, Amazon has funded fellowships & research through our JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI. www.amazon.science/news/amazon-...

Considering a PhD in NLP/Speech? 🤔 Need guidance with your application materials? @jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. 📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD... 📅 Deadline: Nov 20

In this Office Hours interview, second-year undergraduate Navya Mehrotra interviews CS’ Anton Dahbura about his experience as a @jhu.edu student, the Delineo Disease Modeling Project, and more:

There are 78 Siebel Scholars in '26—worldwide. And FIVE of them are Hopkins Engineers! Congrats to Akshaya Annapragada, André Forjaz, Jessica Stelzel, Kexin Wang, and Yining Zhu. Read about their work and accomplishments: engineering.jhu.edu/news/five-ho...

I'm almost through getting my D.Eng and it's been great. (I defend in the spring) Can't recommend it enough if you have a supportive employer!

Did you know? You can earn your doctorate while you work, as a research collaboration between your employer and Hopkins Engineering. Learn more at our next info session, Wed, Oct 22. Register: applygrad.jhu.edu/register/?id...

Biomedical engineering master's students won the top honor at @asmedotorg.bsky.social's Innovation Showcase for their invention, DINA—the Dynamic Infant Neurorehab Aid, a soft robotic suit created to help rehabilitate newborns with brachial plexus palsy (NBPP). engineering.jhu.edu/news/student...

Mark Dredze (@mdredze.bsky.social) has been named inaugural director of our Data Science and AI Institute. A member of the @jhucompsci.bsky.social faculty since '09, he is a pioneer in the application of AI for language analysis to public health and medicine. engineering.jhu.edu/news/compute...

Earth-bound telescopes can see much more of the sky than space telescopes, but the photos are blurry & noisy. Until now: @johnshopkinsams.bsky.social Assoc Prof Tamás Budavári's new algorithm removes atmospheric interference for clear views of faraway galaxies. engineering.jhu.edu/news/sharper...

Join Dean Schlesinger and the @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social community on November 13 for the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture recognizing @benlangmead.bsky.social as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science. Event details here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/inaugu...

It was thought tumors had unique microbiomes that might influence cancer progression or treatment. But with genomic sequencing and analysis of control samples, @stevensalzberg.bsky.social and team find it was just data contamination and computational artifacts. engineering.jhu.edu/news/in-exte...

"Uncalled4" from @jhu-bdps.bsky.social & @jhucompsci.bsky.social Prof Michael Schatz maps DNA and RNA modifications that regulate gene activity w/ unprecedented accuracy. The open-source tool could advance cancer research, drug discovery, and precision medicine. engineering.jhu.edu/news/researc...

Quantum sensing isn’t stuck in a lab. In Science Advances, Prof Ishan Barman’s team unveils "quantum vibropolaritonic sensing"— engineering light–matter interactions to make optical detection more sensitive, robust, and practical. engineering.jhu.edu/news/enginee...

Excited to be a partner in the first scalable federated learning platform for cancer research: "CAIA will enable unprecedented exploration of AI models for cancer patient data, through a privacy-aware technical framework and a collaborative research alliance."—Prof Alexis Battle

Polymers are lighter, more flexible, and easier to process than silicon—promising for future energy tech. Prof Howard E Katz's materials science and engineering team shows that adding a polymer’s own pure monomer can dramatically improve electrical performance. engineering.jhu.edu/news/a-small...

Learn from @drewprinster.bsky.social and more how @jhu.edu’s AI2AI partnership with Amazon advances technologies in machine learning, computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech processing:

ANOTHER Hopkins Engineer Astronaut! Rebecca (Becky) Lawler, ENG’18 (MS), was introduced Monday. She earned her master's in space systems engineering through our Engineering for Professionals online program. NASA's 2-year training could take her to the ISS, moon, or even Mars.

In Nature Materials: A promising new target for cancer therapy. ChemBE Prof Kostas Konstantopoulos and team discovered that two proteins crucial for cell division—anillin and Ect2—also enable cancer cells to invade tissues and spread. engineering.jhu.edu/news/johns-h...

Faux Polyglots: Although many hope that multilingual AI will further democratize knowledge, @jhucompsci.bsky.social researchers find LLMs actually reinforce language-specific information cocoons, further marginalizing viewpoints from lower-resource languages. engineering.jhu.edu/news/democra...

Tools break in the real world all the time, but not much attention has been given to how well LLMs deal with tool failures. We introduce HOHW, a tool-use benchmark where problems remain solvable even when tools break adversarially.

⏳Time is running out, and Hopkins Engineering is still relying on your support to help us reach our goals this academic year. Make your Hop into Fall gift now and receive your limited-edition Hopkins shirt! givecampus.com/s/g1iodv

High costs motivate efforts to predict spatial transcriptomics from H&E images w/ deep learning. In our recent preprint, we show that noise, sparsity & resolution in ST data impact performance, highlighting the importance of training data quality: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵1/n

Combing 3D X-ray technique, Assoc Prof Ryan Hurley reveals how grains move and stress builds inside rocks. This detailed view of rock mechanics could improve predictions for oil reservoirs, underground storage safety, and earthquake processes: engineering.jhu.edu/news/school-...

Our pioneering partnership with leading cancer centers and tech companies has been recognized by TIME magazine’s #TIME100AI 2025 for groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and cancer research!

When facial recognition can't see a face, surveillance systems use Person Re-ID to look at the whole body. But new research from Prof Rama Chellappa and team show the AI models lean heavily on BMI—a shortcut that can hurt accuracy and fairness. engineering.jhu.edu/news/ai-puts...

Body-centered cubic (BCC) compositionally complex alloys can not only RESIST radiation damage but may evolve to become MORE resistant over time. The discovery from Prof Mitra Taheri and team working in our MCP facility could transform nuclear reactor design. engineering.jhu.edu/news/what-do...

In the Magazine: This issue's "History Made" spotlights Hopkins engineers' contributions to electronic trading, racetrack betting, iPhone security, and deep-sea robotics. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/his...

The Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute Fall 2025 Symposium: AI in Daily Life on Tuesday, September 16. The event will explore how #AI is reshaping everyday life. Register to attend: ai.jhu.edu/event/fall-2...

"I want fewer girls to be in the situation I was at 16, not even knowing compsci was an option." Engineering For Professionals online master's grad Becky Selzer, Engr ’15 (MS), is protecting critical systems at United—and opening doors for women in tech. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/cha...

Advancements in gene therapies are diminishing pain and extending survival times for sickle cell patients. Sickle cell disease expert Dr. Mark Gladwin discusses how revolutionary new treatments work and the challenges to accessing to life-saving care. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/934-sickle-c...

“Currently, for every 20 defibrillators implanted, only one patient derives benefit." @ntrayanova.bsky.social talks about using AI to transform how we prevent sudden cardiac death on KPCW's Cool Science Radio: www.kpcw.org/show/cool-sc...

In the Magazine: ~90% of federal defendants rely on court-appointed lawyers. @jhucompsci.bsky.social alum Iris Gupta, Engr ’25, built CounselAI to help overburdened attorneys process case files, find evidence, & fight for their clients. It's in beta at 20 firms. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/inq...

It’s #cybersecurity season! Check out the work being presented this and next week at the upcoming USENIX and @iacrcrypto.bsky.social conferences by JHU CS and Information Security Institute researchers in this thread 🧵 (1/13)

In the Magazine: Students learning how things DON'T work. With his class exploring historical catastrophes like Chernobyl and Apollo 13, Prof Jim Bellingham is teaching future engineers to lead through crises. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/inq...

BME Asst Prof Annie Kathuria and team have grown a whole-brain organoid with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels. It could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and schizophrenia. engineering.jhu.edu/news/johns-h...

“We want to empower kids to become change-makers and messengers in their own communities." @johnshopkinsehe.bsky.social's @nataliegexum.bsky.social is working with high school MERIT scholars to supercharge community outreach to address lead pipes in Baltimore. engineering.jhu.edu/news/getting...

ROSETAS – a 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students from across the US interested in sustainable energy that is hosted by ROSEI – recently finished its first year with a well-attended final symposium! #HopkinsEnergy Story: energyinstitute.jhu.edu/rosetas-comp...

Introducing our redesigned and reimagined Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine. On the Cover: Micro Marvels - Inspired by nature, Prof David Gracias builds micromachines that fold, stick, swim, and sense—all inside the human body. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/?ut...

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.”

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...

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...

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...