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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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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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Model moves computers closer to understanding human conversation

December 20, 2021

This story originally appeared in the Hub. An engineer from the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can distinguish functions of speech in transcripts of dialogues outputted by language understanding, or LU, systems in an approach that could eventually help computers “understand” spoken or written text in much […]

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Vishal Patel and Rajeev Yasarla win Best Paper Award at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

December 16, 2021

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) graduate student Rajeev Yasarla and ECE Associate Professor Vishal Patel have won the best paper award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) for their paper titled “Learning to Restore Images Degraded by Atmospheric Turbulence Using Uncertainty.” In the paper, Yasarla and Patel – who is a member of […]

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