"We're entering an era where the questions we can answer about the universe are limited not by data, but by our ability to extract information from it. That's exactly the challenge I want to tackle." Meet new Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Benjamin Wandelt. engineering.jhu.edu/news/renowne...
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Multimodal LLMs can read text in images, but why do they often perform worse than when the same text is given as tokens? Our work studies the modality gap of models perceiving text as pixels and shows how to close it.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.09095
🧵👇 #NLProc #LLM #ComputerVision
Computationally designed protein subunits self-assemble into higher-order structures that form the GEMINI scaffold. This engineered architecture provides the physical framework that enables the system to record cellular events over time.
Conceptual model of the GEMINI molecular recorder. As the protein assembly grows inside the cell, new layers capture signaling activity, creating ring patterns that preserve a chronological record of cellular events.
Fluorescence microscopy images of concentric hexagonal rings in different colors, with graphs showing signal intensity across ring positions corresponding to signaling events at different time points.
Fluorescence microscopy images showing square-shaped ring structures that expand over time in multiple color channels representing different molecular components.
In @nature.com: @dingchanglin.bsky.social's GEMINI uses a computationally designed protein assembly to capture cells' histories as fluorescent rings. It could support study of cellular dynamics across tissues and how drugs affect cells in diseased organs. engineering.jhu.edu/news/molecul...
Cheaper, widely available antibody testing: Assoc Prof Jamie Spangler and team built an assay that converts antibody binding into glucose. Results can be measured with the same handheld meters used by 100s of millions to monitor their blood sugar. engineering.jhu.edu/news/new-glu...
Featuring Bart Paulhamus, chair of our online master's program in Artificial Intelligence, and Leslie Hamilton, instructor in our online master's program in Applied Biomedical Engineering! ep.jhu.edu?utm_campaign...
Congratulations to our grad students on winning the @arize.bsky.social Sponsor Track at this year’s NexHacks! 🏆
"Are the big tech firms paying? Or is Grandma going to be left holding the bag?" @energyabe.bsky.social, researcher in @energyathopkins.bsky.social, talks data center costs in the New York Times. "Talk is cheap, power plants are expensive." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
.@soledadvillar.bsky.social, asst prof in Dept of Applied Math and Statistics, exploring how AI can generalize across varying data sizes or computational scales—especially emerging mathematical connections between any-dimensional machine learning and hyperparameter transfer. ams.jhu.edu/villar/
Yayuan Liu, asst prof in Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, working on energy and environmental sustainability: redox-active carbon capture and electrosynthesis, precision electrochemical interfaces for separations, and high-resolution imaging of electrochemical processes. yayuanliu.com
Mateo Díaz, asst prof in Dept of Applied Math & Statistics, studying the interaction between optimization, statistics, and geometry—focused on large-scale algorithms for applications across data science, machine learning, operations research, and signal processing. mateodd25.github.io
🧵Meet the 3 Hopkins Engineers selected as 2026
@sloanfoundation.bsky.social Fellows: “early-career scholars whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders.” JHU has had 92 Sloan Fellows since 1955! engineering.jhu.edu/news/3-hopki...
In @nytimes.com: Did life originate on Earth or hitch a ride from… elsewhere? ☄️ Prof. K.T. Ramesh and team fired metal plates at microorganisms, simulating asteroid impacts that could blast rocks (and life?) from one planet to another. The 🦠 survived! Read: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...
Join us tonight at 6 PM at the JHU Bloomberg Center in DC for a conversation with BDP James Bellingham and NPR correspondent @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social about the future of marine technologies.
hub.jhu.edu/events/2026/...
How safe is that LLM? Can it be “jailbroken”—coaxed into violating its safety constraints through clever prompting? Jingyu (Jack) Zhang’s "JBDistill" distills adversarial jailbreak prompts into standardized, reproducible safety evaluations. engineering.jhu.edu/news/a-new-b...
Reversing course on its surprise refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, the FDA has now agreed to consider the company’s application.
Jessica Malaty Rivera breaks down what the news means and outlines concerns from the flip-flop decision.
For more: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/risks-o...
Even more mushroom magic: Assoc Prof Carsten Prasse in
@johnshopkinsehe.bsky.social finds that the oyster and turkey tail varieties can break down 90%+ of antidepressant drugs left in biosolids—before they’re spread on farmland. engineering.jhu.edu/news/white-r...
A breakthrough study in @science.org provides clear evidence that social media algorithms shape political polarization. Researchers including @tiziano.bsky.social built a browser extension that reranked users’ X feeds, showing that algorithmic choices directly altered users’ political attitudes.
My son showed me one of the overflow vulnerabilities found in FFmpeg by Google/Deepmind’s security AI agents. And it was legit. I was thinking about how hard these things are to find, and at least this one didn’t seem deep — just required enormous focus and patience to read all that code.
ROSEI's @energyabe.bsky.social recently offered his insights in a @marylandmatters.org article focused on the impact of increased electricity use for national grid operators, and how much of the new demand will come from data centers to develop AI. #HopkinsEnergy
marylandmatters.org/2026/02/02/s...
New funding for the RENEW Lab, led by ROSEI's @dankammen.bsky.social, will support research in the DRC that tracks real-time electricity reliability in health facilities—critical data for improving care and advancing health equity. #HopkinsEnergy energyinstitute.jhu.edu/empowering-t...
Younan Xia, Bloomberg Distinguished Prof of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for research & leadership in the invention & rational development of advanced materials for nanomedicine & regenerative medicine." engineering.jhu.edu/news/younan-...
Chemical and biomolecular eng grad Ryan Alezz, '25, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, a highly selective program at Tsinghua University. Alezz plans to attend med school, where he will continue to combine his passions for medicine, engineering, & policy. engineering.jhu.edu/news/hopkins...
One more shot at Olympic 🥇 for speed skater Emery Lehman, '23 (MS), grad of our EP online master's program in civil engineering. Emery won bronze in Beijing in '22 and took home gold at the '25 Worlds in March. Watch him skate Feb 15 &🤞Feb 17! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJS...
Welcome to distinguished materials scientist, Younan Xia, who joins @jhu.edu as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
hub.jhu.edu/2026/02/05/y...
In @optica.org: "Back-Illumination Tomography" from Assoc Prof of Biomedical Engineering Nick Durr introduces a fast, label-free microscope that images unprocessed tissue and flowing blood cells in vivo, without dyes, stains, or slicing. engineering.jhu.edu/news/high-sp...
It is with deep sadness that we share that Michael J. Matunis, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has passed away. (1/4)
Safer, faster evacuation: With a new $1.2 million grant from NSF Fire Science Innovations, Asst Prof Susu Xu and colleagues will expand their AI-based FLARE model that predicts human behavior during the stress and urgency of a wildfire threat. engineering.jhu.edu/news/susu-xu...
JHU Friends! Living legend Vint Cerf is presenting on Tuesday Feb 10 @ 10:30. Vint is widely recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet" and will be presenting on where the internet came from, what’s happening to it now, and where it will go in the future:
www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...
