JHU Computer Science
@jhucompsci.bsky.social
A diverse and collaborative community on the cutting edge of computing and technology within hopkinsengineer.bsky.social at the Johns Hopkins University.
cs.jhu.edu • Baltimore, MD
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JHU CS’ @phikoehn.bsky.social explains that nuance often disappears in the translation process: “Like if I slightly emphasize a word or hesitate somewhere a little bit, all that means something. Maybe I’m not certain, or I’m fishing for confirmation. Those subtle clues still get lost.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
JHU CS’ @phikoehn.bsky.social explains that nuance often disappears in the translation process: “Like if I slightly emphasize a word or hesitate somewhere a little bit, all that means something. Maybe I’m not certain, or I’m fishing for confirmation. Those subtle clues still get lost.”
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🚀 SynthTextEval, our open-source toolkit for generating and evaluating synthetic text data for high-stakes domains, will be featured at EMNLP 2025 as a system demonstration!
GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy...
Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d...
#EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData
GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy...
Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d...
#EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData
GitHub - kr-ramesh/synthtexteval: SynthTextEval: A Toolkit for Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data Across Domains (EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration)
SynthTextEval: A Toolkit for Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data Across Domains (EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration) - kr-ramesh/synthtexteval
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November 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
🚀 SynthTextEval, our open-source toolkit for generating and evaluating synthetic text data for high-stakes domains, will be featured at EMNLP 2025 as a system demonstration!
GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy...
Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d...
#EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData
GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy...
Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d...
#EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData
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Please join IAA on Tuesday, November 18 at 10:45 a.m. to hear Dr. @aliu33.bsky.social from @jhucompsci.bsky.social present her talk "Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts" as part of our seminar series.
Details: iaa.jhu.edu/event/iaa-se...
Details: iaa.jhu.edu/event/iaa-se...
IAA Seminar Series — Anqi Liu - Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy
When: November 18, 2025 @ 10:45 am – 12:00 pm Where: Malone Hall 228, Johns Hopkins University Title: Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts Abstract: Decision ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Please join IAA on Tuesday, November 18 at 10:45 a.m. to hear Dr. @aliu33.bsky.social from @jhucompsci.bsky.social present her talk "Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts" as part of our seminar series.
Details: iaa.jhu.edu/event/iaa-se...
Details: iaa.jhu.edu/event/iaa-se...
A team from @jhu.edu including @danielkhashabi.bsky.social recently introduced a chatbot into a classroom of middle and high school students to act as a co-tutor and study the impact.
Researchers explore how AI could shape the future of student learning
A new study reveals the strengths and pitfalls of incorporating chatbots into classrooms as a 'co-tutor'
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November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A team from @jhu.edu including @danielkhashabi.bsky.social recently introduced a chatbot into a classroom of middle and high school students to act as a co-tutor and study the impact.
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"Uncalled4" from @jhu-bdps.bsky.social & @jhucompsci.bsky.social Prof Michael Schatz maps DNA and RNA modifications that regulate gene activity w/ unprecedented accuracy. The open-source tool could advance cancer research, drug discovery, and precision medicine. engineering.jhu.edu/news/researc...
Researchers Build a Smarter Tool for Reading Genetic Code - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
The Hopkins team’s new, open-source software dramatically improves scientists’ ability to detect genetic modifications that control gene activity.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Uncalled4" from @jhu-bdps.bsky.social & @jhucompsci.bsky.social Prof Michael Schatz maps DNA and RNA modifications that regulate gene activity w/ unprecedented accuracy. The open-source tool could advance cancer research, drug discovery, and precision medicine. engineering.jhu.edu/news/researc...
Join us for our next Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture on November 20! Learn more: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Join us for our next Gerald M. Masson Distinguished Lecture on November 20! Learn more: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...
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Xiaobin Wang will be working with our director, @alexisbattle.bsky.social, to synthesize and integrate mountains of complex child exposure data. Read more:
Environmental toxins can cause neurodevelopmental problems, obesity, and more in kids. Researchers are working on strategies to identify exposures, new methods for understanding chemicals’ dangerous synergies, and better ways to minimize risks.
magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/decodin...
magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/decodin...
Decoding Environmental Exposures’ Lifelong Impacts | Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
Tracing the health impacts of chemical exposures decades after they happen is endlessly complex. Researchers are finding new ways to untangle the effects.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Xiaobin Wang will be working with our director, @alexisbattle.bsky.social, to synthesize and integrate mountains of complex child exposure data. Read more:
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In the Magazine: ~90% of federal defendants rely on court-appointed lawyers. @jhucompsci.bsky.social alum Iris Gupta, Engr ’25, built CounselAI to help overburdened attorneys process case files, find evidence, & fight for their clients. It's in beta at 20 firms. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/inq...
Wiser Counsel for Public Defenders - Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine
An AI-powered digital discovery tool could help public defenders manage overwhelming caseloads.
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August 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In the Magazine: ~90% of federal defendants rely on court-appointed lawyers. @jhucompsci.bsky.social alum Iris Gupta, Engr ’25, built CounselAI to help overburdened attorneys process case files, find evidence, & fight for their clients. It's in beta at 20 firms. engineering.jhu.edu/magazine/inq...
Featuring JHU CS’ William Fleshman and Benjamin Van Durme:
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Featuring JHU CS’ William Fleshman and Benjamin Van Durme:
A renowned expert in technology, law, and institutional economics, @ghadfield.bsky.social gives us an inside look at her current research and most significant findings in the field of AI governance.
New faculty Q&A: Gillian Hadfield
Learn about the research of Gillian Hadfield, who joins Johns Hopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A renowned expert in technology, law, and institutional economics, @ghadfield.bsky.social gives us an inside look at her current research and most significant findings in the field of AI governance.
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Excited to be a partner in the first scalable federated learning platform for cancer research: "CAIA will enable unprecedented exploration of AI models for cancer patient data, through a privacy-aware technical framework and a collaborative research alliance."—Prof Alexis Battle
The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) today unveiled its first collaborative #AI platform for #cancerresearch. The secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform uses federated learning, maintaining data security and privacy while learning from millions of clinical data points. https://bit.ly/4nvm3NF
Cancer AI Alliance unveils first collaborative AI platform for cancer research - Cancer AI Alliance
Secure, scalable, multi-cloud platform using federated learning aims to accelerate cancer discoveries and treatments
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October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Excited to be a partner in the first scalable federated learning platform for cancer research: "CAIA will enable unprecedented exploration of AI models for cancer patient data, through a privacy-aware technical framework and a collaborative research alliance."—Prof Alexis Battle
Join @aliu33.bsky.social for “Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization: Performance Guarantees, Distribution Shifts, and Noise Robustness,” an invited talk from BCAM’s Santiago Mazuelas on Monday, November 10:
Invited Speaker: Santiago Mazuelas, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - Department of Computer Science
Abstract The empirical risk minimization (ERM) approach for supervised learning chooses prediction rules that fit training samples and are “simple” (generalize). This approach has been the workhorse o...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join @aliu33.bsky.social for “Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization: Performance Guarantees, Distribution Shifts, and Noise Robustness,” an invited talk from BCAM’s Santiago Mazuelas on Monday, November 10:
Join us on December 4 for the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture recognizing Joanne Selinski as a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science! Register here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/inaugu...
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Join us on December 4 for the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture recognizing Joanne Selinski as a teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science! Register here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/inaugu...
Join us on Thursday for our next seminar! More info here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join us on Thursday for our next seminar! More info here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...
Check out the cool work being presented by our students at Genome Informatics! This year’s event was co-organized by @benlangmead.bsky.social, & features talks from @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social & more, plus posters from @alexsweeten.bsky.social, @maojanlin.bsky.social, & @sinamajidian.bsky.social:
Johns Hopkins researchers to present at Genome Informatics 2025
Students from the Department of Computer Science will give talks and present posters on their research in genome informatics.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Check out the cool work being presented by our students at Genome Informatics! This year’s event was co-organized by @benlangmead.bsky.social, & features talks from @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social & more, plus posters from @alexsweeten.bsky.social, @maojanlin.bsky.social, & @sinamajidian.bsky.social:
We’re excited to welcome Zongwei Zhou as our newest assistant research professor! A member of the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning research group, his research focuses on developing novel methods to reduce the annotation efforts for computer-aided detection and diagnosis.
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We’re excited to welcome Zongwei Zhou as our newest assistant research professor! A member of the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning research group, his research focuses on developing novel methods to reduce the annotation efforts for computer-aided detection and diagnosis.
Congratulations to @amarder.bsky.social, who has been awarded a grant through Cohen Translational Engineering Fund to identify manufacturers of radios on cell towers to secure safe cellular communications infrastructure and protect secure communications. Learn more about the grant:
Alex Marder awarded grant through Cohen Translational Engineering Fund
Grantees receive a maximum of $100,000 for a nine-month project.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Congratulations to @amarder.bsky.social, who has been awarded a grant through Cohen Translational Engineering Fund to identify manufacturers of radios on cell towers to secure safe cellular communications infrastructure and protect secure communications. Learn more about the grant:
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Faux Polyglots: Although many hope that multilingual AI will further democratize knowledge, @jhucompsci.bsky.social researchers find LLMs actually reinforce language-specific information cocoons, further marginalizing viewpoints from lower-resource languages. engineering.jhu.edu/news/democra...
Democratizing knowledge, or deepening divides? - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
A new study finds multilingual AI often privileges dominant languages, reinforcing bias instead of breaking it
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September 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Faux Polyglots: Although many hope that multilingual AI will further democratize knowledge, @jhucompsci.bsky.social researchers find LLMs actually reinforce language-specific information cocoons, further marginalizing viewpoints from lower-resource languages. engineering.jhu.edu/news/democra...
Don’t get spooked by BOOlean logic 😉 Happy Halloween from JHU CS! 🎃
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Don’t get spooked by BOOlean logic 😉 Happy Halloween from JHU CS! 🎃
CS’ @danielkhashabi.bsky.social joins as a co-investigator on this project:
Congratulations to Malone Center researchers Swaroop Vedula, Vishal Patel, Shameema Sikder, and Masaru Ishii on this grant, which funds the development of #AI capable of giving surgeons expert feedback based on videos of their performance.
Malone researchers awarded $1.2 million NSF grant
The National Institutes of Health awarded a Johns Hopkins team a four-year grant to develop AI capable of giving surgeons expert feedback based on videos of their performance.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
CS’ @danielkhashabi.bsky.social joins as a co-investigator on this project:
The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:
Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science
Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome nine new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anandbhattad.bsky.social, @uthsav.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @murat-kocaoglu.bsky.social, @tiziano.bsky.social, and more:
Join us for our next seminar on November 11—learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Join us for our next seminar on November 11—learn more here: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/cs-sem...
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Considering a PhD in NLP/Speech? 🤔
Need guidance with your application materials?
@jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD...
📅 Deadline: Nov 20
Need guidance with your application materials?
@jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD...
📅 Deadline: Nov 20
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Considering a PhD in NLP/Speech? 🤔
Need guidance with your application materials?
@jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD...
📅 Deadline: Nov 20
Need guidance with your application materials?
@jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD...
📅 Deadline: Nov 20
JHU CS’ @mathias-unberath.bsky.social presented an AI-powered app for diagnosing strep throat 😷 at @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social’s inaugural symposium last month.
Symposium spotlights AI’s potential to revolutionize health care
Robot-assisted surgery, an app for diagnosing strep throat, and a new tool to detect glaucoma are all on the health care horizon thanks to artificial intelligence innovators at the Johns Hopkins Unive...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
JHU CS’ @mathias-unberath.bsky.social presented an AI-powered app for diagnosing strep throat 😷 at @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social’s inaugural symposium last month.
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Clearing your cookies is not enough! Browser fingerprinting has always been a privacy threat, but now @jhucompsci.bsky.social Assoc Prof Yinzhi Cao and collaborators at Texas A&M have uncovered definitive evidence of websites using it to track your web activity. engineering.jhu.edu/news/website...
Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
New research provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking
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July 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Clearing your cookies is not enough! Browser fingerprinting has always been a privacy threat, but now @jhucompsci.bsky.social Assoc Prof Yinzhi Cao and collaborators at Texas A&M have uncovered definitive evidence of websites using it to track your web activity. engineering.jhu.edu/news/website...