News & Announcements Archive

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.

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.

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 […]

Dr. Smolensky: One of AI Magazine’s Most-Cited Authors

Dr. Smolensky: One of AI Magazine’s Most-Cited Authors

Dr. Paul Smolensky‘s 2022 paper on Neurocompositional computing: From the Central Paradox of Cognition to a new generation of AI systems was recently celebrated by AI Magazine as one of […]

Jane Li Receives an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship!

Jane Li Receives an SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship!

Congratulations to PhD student Jane Li for receiving a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship! Project Title: Allomorph computation in language production: a cross-linguistic study of […]

2024 Glushko Prize Winner Announced!

2024 Glushko Prize Winner Announced!

This year, we name Woo Jin Choi as our 2024 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Scientist! Woo Jin will give a talk on May 22 at 12:30 pm.