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Headshot of Joel Bader.

Joel Bader to serve as interim director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare

Bader will begin serving as the interim director for the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare on July 1.

An illustration of a silhouette of a human head with code and hexagons inside it.

Popular Deep Learning course goes beyond the fundamentals

In the popular “Machine Learning: Deep Learning" course created by Mathias Unberath, students team up to design, implement, and validate deep learning-based solutions to contemporary problems.

Seed grant awards. Johns Hopkins Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Overlaid over Malone Hall.

Announcing 2021 Faculty Seed Grant Awards

The new grants will fund engineering innovations that aim to: identify pediatric patients at high risk of developing COVID-19 complications; understand and reduce bias in deep learning algorithms for radiology; and uncover mechanisms responsible for inequitable health outcomes for COVID-19.

The Da Vinci Surgical Robot operates on colorful shapes.

The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now, The New York Times

Russ Taylor, Greg Hager, and Axel Krieger spoke to The New York Times about the future of AI and robotics in surgery. 

Mechanical Engineering Professor Jeremy Brown and graduate student Alexandra Miller demonstrate a sleeve used to give haptic feedback from prosthetics.

Get a grip: Adding haptics to prosthetic hands eases users’ mental load

Through neuroimaging, engineers discover that prosthetics that provide haptic sensory feedback lessen the mental energy users expend when using the device.

An illustration of a robot arm holding a coronavirus molecule.

Ready for duty: Health care robots get good prognosis for next pandemic

Robots helped hospitals confront the coronavirus pandemic. What lessons are engineers taking with them as they think about the next generation of health care robots?