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Battling Online Misinformation with High-Tech Shields

July 17, 2024

By Dino Lencioni Researchers at Whiting School’s Center for Language and Speech Processing unveil a groundbreaking method to protect question-answering systems from disinformation Researchers at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Language and Speech Processing are tackling a crucial challenge in our hyper-expanding digital age: safeguarding question-answering systems that extract information from websites. These systems are […]

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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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New Johns Hopkins institute aims to make Baltimore an AI hub

January 30, 2024

Johns Hopkins University has launched an ambitious endeavor that the school’s leaders say will make Baltimore a hub of the booming artificial intelligence industry. The new Data Science and Translation Institute, announced several months ago and planned for the western edge of the Homewood Campus, is expected to be “the leading academic hub for data […]

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From CLSP to HEART: A conversation with Orion Weller on information retrieval systems

October 26, 2023

Orion Weller is a third-year doctoral student affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) advised by Benjamin Van Durme and Dawn Lawrie. He is currently teaching a Hopkins Engineering Applications and Research Tutorials (HEART) course titled Reasoning with ChatGPT in which he discusses the contexts and relevance of his research. In an interview with The […]

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Johns Hopkins + AI2AI announces Fellows and Faculty Research Awards

October 16, 2023

The Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI) announces the selection of its 2023-2024 Fellows and Faculty Research Awards. Exceptional JHU WSE PhD candidates have been selected based on their outstanding publication record, research proposal, and mentor support. They include Jiang Liu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematical Institute for Data Science; Ambar Pal, Department […]

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Chellappa honored with IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Researcher award

October 16, 2023

Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Researcher Award from IEEE Computer Society’s Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee. This award is presented to candidates whose research has significantly contributed to the progress of computer vision. Candidates are nominated based on […]

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New Faculty Q&A: Daniel Khashabi

November 18, 2022

Get to know Daniel Khashabi, who joins Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). Khashabi obtained a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was a postdoctoral […]

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Vishal Patel receives IAPR’s Young Biometrics Investigator Award

August 6, 2021

Vishal Patel, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, has received the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA). IAPR is an international association of non-profit, scientific, and professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition, […]

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