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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.

Headshot of Muyinatu Bell.

Muyinatu “Bisi” Bell appointed the John C. Malone Assistant Professor

The John C. Malone Assistant Professorship was endowed through the generosity of John C. Malone ’64, ’69 to support outstanding Whiting School faculty members within the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare.

Headshot of Ayah Zirikly.

Scientist Spotlights: Ayah Zirikly 

A new research scientist with both the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) and Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Zirikly builds AI-enabled models that analyze social media posts and word usage patterns to predict mental health disorders and symptoms.

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.

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Eli Sherman named 2020 Google Machine Learning Fellow

With the fellowship, Sherman, a PhD candidate advised by Ilya Shpitser, will investigate how machine learning can help improve clinical decision-making and allocation of healthcare resources.