News: Faculty News

Chellappa and Dredze Briefs Policymakers on the Future of AI

August 8, 2024

Hopkins’ experts highlight the potential and ethical challenges of AI in national security and medicine. CLSP’s Rama Chellappa and Mark Dredze played key roles in briefing congressional staffers on the transformative potential and ethical considerations of AI. Their insights underscored the importance of informed regulation as AI continues to advance in critical sectors. Read the full […]

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In Cross-Lingual Annotation, Three’s Company

April 3, 2024

By Dino Lencioni Hopkins engineers combine two automated alignment methods with a human annotator to provide best combination of accuracy and efficiency. A team of Hopkins engineers has developed a method of improving cross-lingual annotation projection, a machine learning and natural language processing data creation technique that helps computers understand and process information across languages.  […]

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Chellappa Honored with the 2024 Edwin H. Land Medal

March 23, 2024

Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has won the 2024 Edwin J. Land Medal,  given by Optica and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Chellappa is recognized for significant contributions to image/video processing, computer vision, and related fields. The Edwin H. Land Medal, established in 1992, honors scientists […]

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No Language Left Behind

June 29, 2023

Four billion people around the world speak languages not served by Siri, Alexa, or chatbots—to the detriment of global public health, human rights, and national security. Here’s how our experts are leveraging artificial intelligence to achieve digital equity for people the world over. In 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti. Relief workers poured in from around […]

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An AI illustration of the New York Stock Exchange done in an oil painting style.

This ChatGPT-inspired large language model speaks fluent finance

June 1, 2023

Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science and Center for Language and Speech Processing faculty member, discusses BloombergGPT, the first large language model built specifically for the finance industry. First there was ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence model with a seemingly uncanny ability to mimic human language. Now there is the Bloomberg-created BloombergGPT, the first large language […]

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Vishal Patel receives NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award

March 24, 2021

The National Science Foundation has selected Vishal Patel, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, for its Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Using the $500,000, five-year award, Patel and his team aim to […]

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Alan Yuille and Rama Chellappa added as members of CLSP

August 27, 2020

The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) enjoyed a boost to its ranks recently with the additions of two Bloomberg Distinguished Professors: Alan Yuille, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Computer Science, and Cognitive Science, and Rama Chellappa, who holds joint primary appointments with the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, […]

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