An article in the Summer 2014 issue of JHU Engineering Magazine highlights a promising iPad app designed by Hopkins undergrads to help train deaf adults with cochlear implants (CI) to understand speech from the electrical signals that CI devices provide. Student team members include Margo Heston, Rohit Bhattacharya, and Joanne Song, all of the Department […]
René Vidal has been named to the 2014 Class of IEEE Computer Society Fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important individual contributions to […]
Dr. Sridevi Sarma, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty member, guested on The Today Show with Kathy Lee & Hoda on Tuesday, May 27 in a segment promoting the National Geographic Channel series, Brain Games. Brain Games is a science entertainment television program that explores the components of the human brain. Episodes […]
Research by Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, was featured in the May 12 edition of Medical Device Daily. The story by Mark McCarty highlights her presentation at this year’s Heart Rhythm Society. From the story: “[Dr. Trayanova] remarked at the HRS session […]
Professor Donald Geman of the Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University will be offering a new course this fall, Statistical Models in Molecular Medicine (EN.550.650) As stated in the course announcement, “Computational systems biology has emerged as the dominant framework for analyzing high-dimensional […]
As part of the 10-Year Commemoration of the NIH Roadmap/Common Fund, the Trayanova lab is currently competing in an NIH-sponsored Video Competition. Recipients of funds from the NIH Common Fund (Natalia’s Pioneer Award) have been invited to make a video to explain their work in accessible but entertaining ways, and to promote what they do. […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) for a three year term. The mission of the HGVS is “To enhance human health through identification and characterization of changes in the […]
Research by Dr. Suchi Saria, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Health Policy & Management and core faculty member in the Institute for Computational Medicine, was featured in the Winter 2014 Magazine of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering for her use of machine learning techniques to improve the level of patient care in […]
The recent Journal Review article, “Placement of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in paediatric and congenital heart defect patients: a pipeline for model generation and simulation prediction of optimal configurations”, published in the September 1, 2013 issue of The Journal of Physiology 591, has been recommended as being of special significance in its field by Macdonald Dick and […]
Dr. Rachel Karchin, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Institute for Computational Medicine, has received a joint appointment in the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as membership in the Cancer Biology Program at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. These affiliations recognize Dr. Karchin’s productive […]
