Rapid advances are being made in conversational artificial intelligence, including systems that support so called full-duplex spoken interactions, i.e. permitting users to speak naturally, interrupt system responses, and signal engagement via back-channels, as they would do with a human interlocuter.  However, methodologies and benchmarks for evaluating such systems are not keeping pace: a major challenge […]

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Vishal Patel, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has been promoted to the rank of IEEE Fellow, one of the highest honors from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, starting January 1, 2026. Patel was recognized for contributions to image processing, computer vision, and biometrics. IEEE […]

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Tom Lippincott, associate research professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from Schmidt Sciences. The program is supporting 23 teams worldwide that are developing new ways to connect artificial intelligence with humanistic research. Lippincott’s work focuses on how machine learning can support and […]

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CLSP faculty Tom Lippincott and frequenty CLSP collaborator Anqi (Angie) Liu were recently featured among this year’s DSAI Seed Grant award recipients. Liu, working with sociologist Lingxin Hao, is studying how students use AI in the classroom and how AI tools can be redesigned to support stronger, more active learning. Lippincott is partnering with archaeologist […]

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Five researchers affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing have been selected for 2025–2026 Faculty Research Awards from the Johns Hopkins University + Amazon Initiative for Artificial Intelligence (AI2AI). Their projects span multimodal speech synthesis, inference-time scaling, retrieval-augmented generation, 3D vision-language reasoning, and structured data understanding. The AI2AI Faculty Research Awards support innovative […]

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By Dino Lencioni A paper authored by Amir Hussein, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), as well as a Fellow in the Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI (AI2AI) program, received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Spoken Language […]

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By Dino Lencioni Two Johns Hopkins electrical and computer engineering and CLSP faculty members briefed congressional staff at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center on Aug. 4. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, Engineering Lifelong Learning, and the Office of Federal Strategy, the session focused on advances and risks in AI systems that […]

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