René Vidal, the director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS) and the Herschel L. Seder Professor in Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, is a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2021 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. More information can be found here.

Doctoral student Joshua Agterberg, whose work focuses on theoretical problems in data science and statistics, won for his presentation on “Nonparametric Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing for Random Graphs with Negative and Repeated Eigenvalues.” More information can be found here.

Recordings: September 20th, 2021: Session 1: Overparameterization September 20th, 2021 Session 2: Optimization and robustness September 21st, 2021: Session 1: Learning on graphs September 21st, 2021: Session 2: Limits of learning

Recordings: September 20th, 2021: Session 1: Overparameterization September 20th, 2021 Session 2: Optimization and robustness September 21st, 2021: Session 1: Learning on graphs September 21st, 2021: Session 2: Limits of learning

MINDS would like to congratulate Associate Professor Vladimir Braverman, whose Nitrosketch method (SIGCOMM’19) has been adopted by Intel DPDK-based Dynamic Load Balancer and is now part of Intel Software Stack that is routinely used by cloud providers and telecom vendors. The solution, which was recently presented by Intel at the DPDK 2021

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Using a $7.5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, a multi-university team that includes Johns Hopkins engineers is tackling one of today’s most complex and important technological challenges: How to ensure the safety of autonomous systems, from self-driving cars and aerial delivery drones to robotic surgical assistants. “The

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Congratulations to MINDS Associate Professor Vladimir Braverman, whose paper “Adversarial Robustness of Streaming Algorithms through Importance Sampling” has won a Silver Best Paper Award at the 2021 ICML Workshop, “A Blessing in Disguise: The Prospects and Perils of Adversarial Machine Learning.” More information can be found here.

Congratulations to MINDS Assistant Professor Jeremias Sulam, whose paper “Fast Hierarchical Games for Image Explanations”, led by BME graduate student Jacopo Teneggi, has won a Best Paper Award at the 2021 ICML Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare. A short video on the paper can be found here.

/  May 5, 2021/  Uncategorized Congratulations to MINDS Assistant Professor Enrique Mallada, who has won the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award honoring extraordinary dedication to the university’s teaching mission, exceptional performance in the classroom, and a continuing commitment to tomorrow’s leaders. More information can be found here.

Congratulations to MINDS Assistant Professor Vishal M. Patel, who has won the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early-stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. More information can be found here.