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Headshot of Muyinatu Bell.

Muyinatu Bell receives SPIE’s 2021 Early Achievement Award

Bell, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently named the recipient of the 2021 Early Career Achievement Award – Academic Focus by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

Ilya Schpitser and three students gather around a Macbook in front of a blackboard with mathematical equations written on it.

Malone faculty win 2020 Discovery Awards

Of the 41 awarded projects, 6 projects involve one or more faculty from the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare.

An empty CT scanner.

Fighting COVID-19: Using ultraviolet light to decontaminate CT scanners

In an effort to streamline medical imaging workflow, researchers at Johns Hopkins are testing the use of UV light to disinfect CT scanners within a matter of minutes—an especially important goal amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mechanical Engineering Professor Axel Krieger works in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bio-Containment Unit to test a robot that adjusts ventilator settings while being controlled via a tablet from outside the patient's room in order to avoid unnecessary patient contact.

Hopkins-led workshop offers strategies to accelerate robot deployment in infectious disease crises

To prepare for the next pandemic and perhaps aid in the current one, the virtual workshop “The Role of Robotics in Infectious Disease Crises” was co-hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) in July.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital at dusk.

Clinicians use artificial intelligence to diagnose ear infections more accurately

OtoPhoto, the world’s first smart otoscope, takes images of the inner ear and uses machine learning to determine whether or not an infection exists.

Headshot of Naresh Nandakuma.

PhD student Naresh Nandakumar wins Best Paper Award at MICCAI workshop

He won the "Best Paper Award" at the 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging (MLCN 2020), held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020.