Seed Funding Initiative Projects
2025 Seed Projects
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eStomach – A Data-Driven Multiphysics In-Silico Model of the Human Stomach for Application to Bariatric Surgery
Rajat Mittal Research Team: Michael Schweitzer (Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery) Jung Hee Seo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, ) Proposal The… »
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Artificial Intelligence-aided Video-based Assessment of Mastoidectomy Surgical Skills
Investigators Principal Investigator Francis X. Creighton Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Research Team George S. Liu,Jenny X. Chen School of… »
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Correcting for Bias and Uncertainty in AI Algorithmic Outputs Used in Global Child Mortality Estimates
Principal Investigator: Abhirup Datta Department of Biostatistics Bloomberg School of Public Health Research Team: Li Liu Department of Population, Family and… »
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Solving the Phasing Problem of Infection Complexity in Polygenomic Malaria with Machine Learning
Principal Investigator: Joel Bader Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Team: Matthew W. Ippolito Department of Medicine Proposal Malaria remains a major… »
2024 Seed Projects
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The Global Elections Dashboard: Harnessing Data Science to Enhance Electoral Oversight
PI: Adam Sheingate (Krieger School of Arts & Sciences) Efforts to weaken or undermine the electoral system are one of several… »
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Generating Digital Ocular Motor Biomarkers for Deep Learning-Based Neurologic Phenotyping
PI: Kemar Green (School of Medicine) Co-I: Vishal Patel Eye movement pathways are affected in various conditions owing to the widespread… »
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Playing with Chemical Lego Blocks: Rational Design of Semiconducting Polymers for Thermoelectric Materials
PI: Paulette Clancy (Whiting School of Engineering) Co-I: Howard Katz lan Heeger and colleagues won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for… »
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Hybrid Statistical AI for Identifying Neurosurgery Patients in Need of Critical Care
PIs: Tamas Budavari (Whiting School of Engineering) & Rohan Mathur (School of Medicine) Patients diagnosed with intracranial tumors, after consultation with… »
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Exploring Uncharted Dimensions of Human Brain Representation
PIs: Michael F. Bonner & Brice Ménard (Krieger School of Arts & Sciences) The human brain is one of the most… »
2023 Seed Projects
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AFLUX@JHU: Materials Search-API for the JHU aflow.org Data Repositories
William Shiber Mentored by Corey Oses Recent applications of machine learning to materials data repositories have accelerated computational materials design. Machine… »
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Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning Model for Pulmonary Embolism Prediction in Intensive Care
Sampath Rapuri Mentored by Robert D. Stevens Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a frequent and life-threatening complication in hospitalized patients. While statistical… »
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Intelligent Microscopy Methods for Characterizing Intermediate States Using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS)
Jay Kim Mentored by Mitra Taheri Advances in Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) resolution, precision, and collection rates have greatly improved our… »
2022 Seed Projects
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Data Dashboards for Individual Risk of Covid-19 — Integrating Local and Population Levels of Data
PI: Thomas Woolf (Professor, Department of Physiology | Secondary appointment, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry | Joint appointment, Department of… »
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Exploring Computer Vision Models and Developing Infrastructure for OCR and Image Clustering
PI: Thomas Lippincott (Assistant Research Professor, and Director of Digital Humanities, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute | Assistant Research Professor, Department of… »
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Development of a Searchable Database for Human Temporal Bone Otopathology Education and Research
Dr. Lauer is an Associate Professor in Otolaryngology-HNS and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins. Research in the Lauer Lab focuses on understanding… »
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A Technology Platform to Monitor Cognitive Fluctuations and Lucid Intervals in Dementia at Home
PI: Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences | Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience) Co-Is: Marilyn Albert,… »
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Coupling Active Learning Molecular Dynamics and Phase Field Simulations in an Investigation of GaN Thin Film Growth through a New Gas-phase Reactive Additive Manufacturing Process (GRAM)
In collaboration with researchers at APL, Drs. Nam Q. Le and Jarod Gagnon, the Clancy group will use an “on-the-fly” active… »
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Development of an Artificial Intelligence System for Phenotyping of Patients with Acute Stroke
PI: Rama Chellappa, PhD (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering) Co-I: Robert D. Stevens,… »
2021 Seed Projects
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Comprehensive Analysis of Public Sequencing Archives to Uncover Novel Mechanisms of Pathogenesis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
PI: Jonathan Ling (Pathology) Co-I: Benjamin Langmead (Computer Science) Transactive response DNA-binding protein 43kDa (TDP-43) is an RNA-binding protein known to… »
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Real-Time Prediction of Long-term Cardiovascular Complications in COVID-19 Patients Post Hospital Discharge
PI: Natalia Trayanova (Biomedical Engineering and Medicine) Co-I: Allison Hayes (Cardiology) It is now recognized that patients recovered from COVID-19, especially… »
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The Search for Elusive Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
PI: Nadia Zakamska (Physics and Astronomy) Co-I: Tamás Budavári (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) One of the most enduring mysteries of modern… »
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An Unsupervised Neural Framework for Multi-Modal Literary and Historical Scholarship
PI: Thomas Lippincott (Computer Science) Co-Is: Sharon Achinstein (English), Jacob Lauinger (Near Eastern Studies) Research in the humanities often involves richly-structured… »
2020 Seed Projects
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Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Malaria: Disentangling the in vivo Effects of Antimalarial Drugs using an Automated Malaria Microscopy Algorithm
PI: Rene Vidal (Biomedical Engineering, WSE) Co-I: Benjamin Haeffele (MINDS), Matthew Ippolito (Medicine, SOM) The current proposal will build on computer… »
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Development of Tools to Automate and Harmonize Spatial Open Source Urban Data
PI: Marc Stein (School of Education, BERC) Co-I: Julia Burdick-Will (Sociology, KSAS), Gerard Lemson (IDIES) The overarching goal for this project… »
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Towards the Development of Scale-Dependent, Non-Local, Turbulent Closures in Rotating Stratified Flows
PI: Thomas Haine (Earth & Planetary Sciences, KSAS) Co-I: Charles Meneveau (Mechanical Engineering, WSE) Postdoc: Miguel Jimenez-Urias (Earth & Planetary Sciences,… »
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An Artificial Intelligence Approach Towards Predicting Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Pulmonary Vein Isolation
PI: Natalia Trayanova (Biomedical Engineering, WSE) Co-I: David Spragg (Cardiology, SOM), Nikhil Paliwal (Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation) To… »
2019 Seed Projects
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Use of Whole Exome Sequencing to Find and Test Novel Candidate Genes in Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Janet Markle (Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health) Anthony Guerrerio (Pediatrics, School of Medicine) This project aims to… »
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Understanding Social Learning Using Big Data on Patent Examiners’ Search in Knowledge Space
Roman Galperin (Carey Business School) Marshall Shuler (Neuroscience, School of Medicine) How do people learn to search for information in unfamiliar… »
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Diagnostic Bias in Phonocardiographic Measurements Due to Body Habitus: Data-Enabled Analysis with In-Silco Virtual Populations
Rajat Mittal (Mechanical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering) Andreas Andreou (Pediatrics, School of Medicine) W. Reid Thompson (Pediatrics, School of Medicine)… »
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Global Methane Emissions Inferred from New, Massive Satellite Datasets
Scot Miller (Environmental Health & Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering) Darryn Waugh (Earth & Planetary Sciences, Krieger School of Arts &… »
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Expanding Data-Intensive Teaching at Johns Hopkins University by Hosting the Practical Genomics Workshop on SciServer
Sarah Wheelan (Oncology, School of Medicine) Jai Won Kim (IDIES, Krieger School of Arts & Science) Jonathon Pevsner (Neurology, Kennedy Krieger… »
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The History of Meter and the History of English Grammar
Chris Cannon (English & Classics, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences) Sayeed Choudhury (Sheridan Libraries) Mark Patton (Sheridan Libraries) The history… »
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Predicting Morphogenesis: Understanding the Role of Cell-to-Cell Variation in Collective Gradient Sensing
Brian Camley (Physics & Astronomy, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences) Andrew Ewald (Cell Biology, School of Medicine) In developing organisms,… »
2018 Seed Projects
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Harnessing Big Data for Population Health: Advancing Natural Language Processing Techniques to Extract Social-Behavioral Risk Factors from Free Text within Large Electronic Health Record Systems
Jonathan Weiner, Hadi Kharrazi, Elham Hatef (Center for Population Health Information Technology, Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health)… »
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Data-driven Prediction of Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Natalia A. Trayanova (Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, School of Medicine) Katherine C. Wu (Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,… »
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Modeling Dynamics of Social Networks: Data-intensive Structural Modeling and Analysis of Simulated Network Structures
Angelo Mele (Department of Economics, Carey Business School) Lingxin Hao (Department of Sociology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences) Gerard Lemson… »
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Can Geo-Located Tweet Sentiment Predict Stock Price Movement?
Jim Kyung-Soo Liew (Department of Finance, Carey Business School) Tamas Budavari (Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Whiting School of Engineering)… »
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A Big-Data Engine for Large-Scale Splicing Screens
Ben Langmead (Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering) Seth Blackshaw (Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine) Jonathan Ling (Neuroscience,… »
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Characterizing Key Factors Influencing Blood Pressure Variation and its Relation to Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Diseases Using Large-Scale Connected health and Clinical Datasets
Nauder Faraday (Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine) Alexis Battle (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering) Kasper… »
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Using Epidemiological and Simulation Data to Inform the Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
Johnathon Ehsani (Center for Injury Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg… »
2017 Seed Projects
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New Tools for an Old Problem: Building a Global and Historical Data Set of Social Unrest
Beverly J. Silver (Professor and Chair, Sociology Department; Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies) Sahan Savas Karatasli (Sociology and Arrighi Center… »
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An Iterative Approach to Integrating Environmental Genomics into Biogeochemical Models
Sarah Preheim (Department of Environmental Health and Engineering) Anand Gnanadesikan ( Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) Environmental policy is increasingly… »
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EchoSIM: Multiscale Acoustic Simulations Integrated with Free-Flight Experiments for Echo Scene Analysis of an Echolocating Bat
Rajat Mittal (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Jung Hee Seo (Department of Mechanical Engineering) Cynthia F. Moss (Psychological and Brain Sciences) Susanne… »
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Variational Bayes Gene Activity in Pattern Sets (VB-GAPS) bioinformatics algorithm for efficient precision medicine in oncology
Elana J. Fertig (Department of Oncology, School of Medicine) Raman Arora (Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering) Currently, scientists… »
2016 Seed Projects
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Towards the Johns Hopkins Ocean Circulation DataBase: Method Development and Prototype
Thomas Haine (Earth and Planetary Sciences) Gerard Lemson (Physics & Astronomy) This seed grant project will pave the way to implementation… »
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Data Analytics of Enormous Graphs: From Theory to Practice
Vladimir Braverman, PhD, (Department of Computer Science) Carey Priebe, Professor, (Applied Mathematics and Statistics) This research will aim to deliver new… »
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Fusion Transcripts Bridge Chromatic Loops to Create Novel Proteins
Sarah J. Wheelan, MD, PhD, (Institute of Genetic Medicine) Michael C. Schatz, PhD, (Department of Computer Science) The non-contiguous nature of… »
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Development of IOS App and AWS backed for New Data on Metabolic Syndrome
Jeanne Clark (SOM – General Internal Medicine) Thomas Woolf (Physiology & Computer Science) Yanif Ahmad (Computer Science) Dr. Clark’s team is… »
2015 Seed Projects
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Statistical Methods for Real-Time Monitoring of Physical Disability in Multiple Sclerosis
Vadim Zipunnikov (Biostatistics) Kathleen Zackowski (Motion Analysis Lab) The lack of sensitive outcomes capable of detecting progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)… »
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Genome-wide Prediction of DNase I Hypersensitivity and Transcription Factor Binding Sites Based on Gene Expression
Hong Kai Ji (Biostatistics) Ted Dawson (Neurology (SOM),Neurology (JHH), Neuroscience (SOM)) Valina Dawson (Neurology (SOM), Neuroscience (SOM), Physiology (SOM)) In this… »
2014 Seed Projects
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Highly Scalable Software for Analyzing Large Collections of RNA Sequencing Data
Ben Langmead, PhD (Dept. of Computer Science) Jeffrey Leek, PhD (Dept. of Biostatistics) Highly Scalable Software for Analyzing Large Collections of… »
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SIRENIC: Stream Infrastructure for the Real-time Analysis of Intensive Care Unit Sensor Data
Yanif Ahmad, (Dept. of Computer Science) Raimond Winslow (Dept. Biomedical Engineering) Yair Amir, (Dept. of Computer Science) We are designing Sirenic… »
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FragData—High-fidelity Data on Dynamic Fragmentation of Brittle Materials
Nitin Daphalapurkar (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) Lori Graham-Brady (Dept. of Civil Engineering) Professors Daphalapurkar and Graham-Brady of Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute… »
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The Elusive Onset of Turbulence And The Laminar-Turbulence Interface
Tamer A. Zaki (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) Gregory Eyink (Applied Math and Statistics) The Elusive Onset of Turbulence And The Laminar-Turbulence… »
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Alignment to The Cancer Genome Atlas Project Raw Sequencing Reads (8948 Samples and Counting)
Sarah Wheelan, (Dept. of Oncology) Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, (Dept. of Oncology) Alignment to The Cancer Genome Atlas Project Raw Sequencing Reads: With… »
