JHU CS’ @phikoehn.bsky.social explains that nuance often disappears in the translation process: “Like if I slightly emphasize a word or hesitate somewhere a little bit, all that means something. Maybe I’m not certain, or I’m fishing for confirmation. Those subtle clues still get lost.”

🚀 SynthTextEval, our open-source toolkit for generating and evaluating synthetic text data for high-stakes domains, will be featured at EMNLP 2025 as a system demonstration! GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy... Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d... #EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData

Please join IAA on Tuesday, November 18 at 10:45 a.m. to hear Dr. @aliu33.bsky.social from @jhucompsci.bsky.social present her talk "Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts" as part of our seminar series. Details: iaa.jhu.edu/event/iaa-se...

A team from @jhu.edu including @danielkhashabi.bsky.social recently introduced a chatbot into a classroom of middle and high school students to act as a co-tutor and study the impact.

"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...

Join us for our next Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture on November 20! Learn more: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...

Xiaobin Wang will be working with our director, @alexisbattle.bsky.social, to synthesize and integrate mountains of complex child exposure data. Read more:

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...

Featuring JHU CS’ William Fleshman and Benjamin Van Durme:

A renowned expert in technology, law, and institutional economics, @ghadfield.bsky.social gives us an inside look at her current research and most significant findings in the field of AI governance.

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

Join @aliu33.bsky.social for “Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization: Performance Guarantees, Distribution Shifts, and Noise Robustness,” an invited talk from BCAM’s Santiago Mazuelas on Monday, November 10:

Join us on December 4 for the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture recognizing Joanne Selinski as a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science! Register here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/inaugu...

Join us on Thursday for our next seminar! More info here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...

Check out the cool work being presented by our students at Genome Informatics! This year’s event was co-organized by @benlangmead.bsky.social, & features talks from @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social & more, plus posters from @alexsweeten.bsky.social, @maojanlin.bsky.social, & @sinamajidian.bsky.social:

We’re excited to welcome Zongwei Zhou as our newest assistant research professor! A member of the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning research group, his research focuses on developing novel methods to reduce the annotation efforts for computer-aided detection and diagnosis.

Congratulations to @amarder.bsky.social, who has been awarded a grant through Cohen Translational Engineering Fund to identify manufacturers of radios on cell towers to secure safe cellular communications infrastructure and protect secure communications. Learn more about the grant:

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...

Don’t get spooked by BOOlean logic 😉 Happy Halloween from JHU CS! 🎃

CS’ @danielkhashabi.bsky.social joins as a co-investigator on this project:

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:

Join us for our next seminar on November 11—learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...

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

JHU CS’ @mathias-unberath.bsky.social presented an AI-powered app for diagnosing strep throat 😷 at @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social’s inaugural symposium last month.

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...

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-...

Johns Hopkins researchers are making major advances to the famed da Vinci Surgical System to help bring innovative techniques in robotic surgery research to reality.

What looks like a good image to humans isn’t always “good” for #AI. @mathias-unberath.bsky.social & @jhuapl.bsky.social’s Nathan Drenkow redefine image quality—not by how it appears to people, but by how AI models interpret & perform on those images. Read their work at @nature.com:

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-...

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:

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...

Congratulations to Pedro R.A.S Bassi and team on the Best Paper Award Runner-Up recognition and to @jienengchen.bsky.social for receiving @miccaisociety.bsky.social’s Doctoral Consortium 2025 Second Runner-Up Award at #MICCAI2025!

Congratulations to @mdredze.bsky.social on his new position as the director of @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social! Learn more about his new role:

Johns Hopkins researchers like @moberst.bsky.social are using #machinelearning to develop intelligent systems for optimizing and individualizing patient care.

JHU CS is ready for #ICCV2025! 🌺 Check out what our computer scientists are presenting at next week’s @iccv.bsky.social in this thread 🧵: (1/10)

Mark Dredze (@mdredze.bsky.social) has been named inaugural director of the 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. hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/13/m...

Congratulations, Junfei!

Mark Dredze (@mdredze.bsky.social) has been named inaugural director of the Data Science and AI Institute ( @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social)—a member of our faculty since ’09, he’s a pioneer in the application of #AI for language analysis to public health & medicine. Learn more: hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/13/m...

Join us on October 23 for our next Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture, featuring @upenn.edu’s @aaroth.bsky.social! Learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...

Congratulations, @sremedios.bsky.social!

The day after the iPhone’s June 29, 2007 launch, Aviel D. Rubin, computer security expert and professor emeritus of computer science, issued a challenge to researchers at his company, Independent Security Evaluators: Try to hack the device, and he’d buy them all iPhones.

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...

Researchers from @jhu.edu and @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social propose leveraging #AI to develop a comprehensive system that is capable of meticulously analyzing multiple abdominal CT scans across time.

10 new CS professors! 🥳 @anandbhattad.bsky.social @uthsav.bsky.social @gligoric.bsky.social @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social @tiziano.bsky.social

“It’s the nature of science to validate, confirm and reproduce findings,” says @stevensalzberg.bsky.social. “Over time, we see a more complete picture of new research, and in this case, we did not find any associations between microbiomes and many types of cancer.”

Happy #COLM2025! Check out some of the research our computer scientists are presenting at this week’s @colmweb.org conference this thread. 🧵 (1/3)

CounselAI allows attorneys to create AI-powered case folders to which they can upload raw discovery materials. Built on @amazonwebservices.bsky.social, the secure platform automatically identifies and organizes documents, summarizes key details, and enables users to pinpoint critical evidence.

Congratulations, @sremedios.bsky.social!

Join us for our first Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture of the semester next week! Learn more about the upcoming talk here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...

📲 Researchers from one of the Institute's newest labs, the Human-Centered Responsible AI (HRAI) Lab, recently teamed up with @jhucompsci.bsky.social sky.social to showcase a user-friendly tool aimed at transforming how users understand online privacy.