News & Announcements Archive

An AI & Natural Intelligence BDP cluster is selected to advance the research efforts at the DSAI

An AI & Natural Intelligence BDP cluster is selected to advance the research efforts at the DSAI

The Data Science and AI Institute selected seven Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship research clusters to recruit senior faculty. Among them is an Artificial and Natural Intelligence cluster, led by Profs. Leyla Isik, Kyle Rawlins, and Alan Yuille that includes 3 BDP positions. Recruitment kicks off in 2025.

COLM Outstanding Paper Award

COLM Outstanding Paper Award

J. Hu and M. Frank were awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at the inaugural Conference on Language Modeling for their paper on “Auxiliary task demands mask the capabilities of smaller language models.”

Launching OneNeuro: Deciphering the brain’s mysteries

Launching OneNeuro: Deciphering the brain’s mysteries

OneNeuro is a new cross-disciplinary initiative at Hopkins that unifies a community of scientists across all scales of research from “molecules to mind” that includes neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and others.

Three Open Rank Cognitive Science Faculty Positions

Three Open Rank Cognitive Science Faculty Positions

As part of a strategic investment for a transformative expansion of the faculty, we seek candidates for three open-rank, tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in the following areas: high-level vision; interaction of language and vision; and language. These searches reflect the University’s commitment to faculty growth in Cognitive Science that contributes to large-scale investment in Data Science/AI and Neuroscience.

Have you met our new F24 grad students?

Have you met our new F24 grad students?

Please welcome Shisen Yue, Jessica Carter, Caitlin Sim, Tiezheng Zhang, Dylan Low, and Danielle Novak (pictured right to left) to the Department of Cognitive Science. Find out more about our […]

Best Oral Presentation Award @ LatinX in AI

Best Oral Presentation Award @ LatinX in AI

PhD student Kathy Garcia received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the LatinX in AI Workshop at the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) for her talk titled “Modeling […]

Profs. Bonner & Ménard Receive Seed Funding

Profs. Bonner & Ménard Receive Seed Funding

Profs. Mick Bonner (CogSci) and Brice Menard (Physics & Astronomy) received IDIES seed funding for their data-intensive computing project on “Exploring uncharted dimensions of human brain representation.”

Prof. Isik Receives Catalyst Award

Prof. Isik Receives Catalyst Award

Prof. Leyla Isik is among 35 early career faculty to receive a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award this year, “a prestigious recognition reflecting their accomplishments to date, creativity and originality, and […]

Recent Graduate’s Paper Published in PNAS

Recent Graduate’s Paper Published in PNAS

Hongru Zhu (PhD ’23) published a paper with Prof. Daniel Kersten (UMN) on Natural scenes reveal diverse representations of 2D and 3D body pose in the human brain in PNAS.

A Warm Welcome to New Faculty

We are excited to welcome two new faculty to the department in Summer 2024: John Hale and Margaret Renwick! John T. Hale, PhD Prof. Hale received his PhD in Cognitive […]