It was fantastic to meet the
@NSFDirector
in person this week at the 2024
@NSF
Awards gala. Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan is a very personable and approachable individual who was the first to share the news with me that I was selected to receive the Alan T. Waterman award. 🇺🇸
Two great things happened for me this week:
1. TENURE!! (effective July 1, 2022)
2. Catalyst Award from Johns Hopkins Provost’s Office
I’m immensely grateful. My students bought flowers to commemorate 🥰 My upcoming Professorship installation will celebrate all of this and more!
While on vacation a few weeks ago, I received the notice of award for my *first*
@NIH
R01 grant.🥇💸🤗
Here is a picture of sunrise in Cancun (my vacation spot), which symbolizes a new horizon for me. What a journey it took to get here… literally and figuratively, pun intended.
I’m so honored to receive this year’s
@NSF
Alan T. Waterman award, the highest honor in the USA 🇺🇸 to early-career scientists and engineers + $1M to advance my research. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this possible, and congrats to my fellow awardees!
👏👏Congratulations to the 2024 Alan T. Waterman Award recipients for their groundbreaking contributions in biomedical engineering, genetics and robotics.
Their innovative approaches and visionary leadership are instrumental in driving forward the frontier of scientific
😄 Very thrilled to receive my *second*
@NIH
R01 grant! 💵
We will develop technology for photoacoustic-guided hysterectomies, building on years of research, support from many individuals, and a collaboration initially funded by a JHU Discovery award.
The PULSE Lab is hiring!
I’m so honored to receive this year’s
@NSF
Alan T. Waterman award, the highest honor in the USA 🇺🇸 to early-career scientists and engineers + $1M to advance my research. Thanks for the awesome cover story and feature photo
@HopkinsEngineer
!
.
@MuyinatuBell
, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a recipient of the
@NSF
2024 Alan T. Waterman Award, regarded as the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers!
I'm very thrilled and honored to be elected as a Fellow of SPIE. 🥰 Looking forward to continue advancing optics, photonics, and imaging technologies! A great big THANK YOU to all of my supporters along the way. ❤️
Associate Professor
@MuyinatuBell
("Bisi") has been elected as a Fellow of
@SPIEtweets
, the international society for optics and photonics. Bisi is recognized internationally for her pioneering work in medical imaging technology.
Absolutely delighted and truly honored to be selected as an inaugural Science Diversity Leader 🤗 Many thanks to
@cziscience
and
@theNASEM
for leading this initiative! Inclusive science is the best science. Funding that recognizes & rewards this basic principle benefits everyone.
Science should be by and for everyone. In partnership with
@theNASEM
, we’re excited to welcome 25 Science Diversity Leadership grantees who are diversifying biomedicine through research + mentorship 🙌🏽🙌🏿🙌🏾
So very thrilled and honored to be elected to the Class of 2022 AIMBE Fellows! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 Thanks to everyone who supported me.
🤗 I’m looking forward to continue fulfilling the
@aimbe
mission. Onward and upward ❤️
Congratulations to the 153 individuals elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2022! We're so glad to welcome you to the AIMBE community. You can browse the full list of the new cohort, here:
Enjoying the first day of the
@CZI
Imaging 2023 Annual Meeting with my fellow Science Diversity Leaders. We’re at the iconic Fairmount Hotel in San Francisco, CA
#ImagingtheFuture
Very thrilled and honored to receive the 2022 IEEE UFFC Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award. I have many to thank for the small wins that led to this significant recognition. This short video expresses my compressed gratitude.
Congratulations to the amazing
@Lola_UMich
! Woohoo!! 🎉🎉🎉 This is well deserved.
Fun fact: We met 10 years ago at the inaugural NextProf event, and there are not enough words to describe Lola’s impact on my professional progression ever since!
Very thrilled to be elected as a 2024 Fellow of Optica! This distinction is a reflection of dedication to the discipline, fantastic mentees and collaborations along the way, and support from many in the field. I’m honored, I’m grateful 🙏🏾
Meet the Fellows
I’m honored to be recommended by my faculty colleagues and supported by my dean to receive this endowed professorship distinction and recognition. I also appreciate my community of scholars and friends within and outside
@JHUMCEH
who motivate me to keep moving forward. Thank you!
Many thanks to
@CNN
for featuring my work to address skin tone bias in photoacoustic imaging. 🤩 It’s very inspiring that the algorithm I invented as a graduate student continues to reveal benefits for more equitable imaging technology today.
I received my SPIE Fellow certificate at
#SPIEMedicalImaging
. Honored to be a part of two
#SPIE
communities + formally recognized here and earlier this year at
#PhotonicsWest
🥰
It was a nice experience watching the
@AIMBE
Fellow Induction Ceremony with my students and postdoc today. We took a group photo afterward. I received both the original and this cool edited version, which I am sharing with all of you! 😍 So thrilled to receive this great honor 🥰
🎉 Celebrating
@Lola_UMich
today at the Building Inclusive and Diverse Communities in Academia symposium, followed by the official Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering installation ceremony!
✨ Congratulations to Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso!!! ✨
The 2024 Johns Hopkins Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is accepting applications to support scholars from historically excluded groups
Applications are due Oct. 13th for a start date of July 15, 2024 or later
Apply here:
It was my pleasure to present Ultrasound Image Formation in the Deep Learning Age as a keynote
@midl_conference
. Photo: Summary of my motivation for pursuing this. Video: Coming soon! I am very grateful to
@NIBIBgov
for supporting my vision & funding this
@NIH
Trailblazer Award.
Thanks to all who made this possible... From nominators and referees, to advisors and mentors who helped me build a strong foundation, to my students pressing forward in challenging times, etc. I’m grateful for it all, and I share this award with all who helped & supported me. ❤️
ECE Assistant Professor and PULSE Lab Director
@MuyinatuBell
received a $1 million grant from the
@NSF
Smart and Connected Health program! Bell's project will focus on improving procedures pertaining to heart disease by using photoacoustic imaging. Story:
Thanks to
@CellcellPress
for sharing my story and the stories of some of my
#fundblackscientists
co-authors, which I am linking together on this thread.
🎉 Congratulations to PULSE Lab REU, Khadijat Kokumo, who won the Best Paper Award runner up at the SPIE Physics of Medical Imaging Conference. Khadijat spent summer 2022 with us as a CSMR REU student from
@NorthwesternU
and diligently worked to summarize her research since then.
It was a pleasure for me to present my work and my career trajectory as a keynote speaker at the
#BMEISPGR
#Symposium
today.
Thanks again
@KingsImaging
for this excellent opportunity! ❤️
🎉 Congratulations to Princess Imoukhuede (
@dr_princess
), the Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioengineering
@UWBioE
… now
@aimbe
2024 Professional Impact Awardee!!
I enjoyed my second
@GordonConf
in Ventura, CA: . Great science, company, views, food, and activities, including beach volleyball, vineyard exploration, and a coastal bike ride.
Now I’m off to San Diego for SPIE Optics + Photonics:
PULSE Lab PhD student Jiaxin Zhang delivers her first in-person poster presentation at SPIE
@PhotonicsWest
! Comparison of Flexible Array with Laparoscopic Transducer for Photoacoustic-Guided Surgery
Michelle Graham will defend her PhD dissertation this week. As the only one of my first three PULSE Lab PhD recruits to reach this milestone, her tenacity, stamina, and intellect are evident & abundant in all of her outstanding contributions to photoacoustic-guided neurosurgery.
At Capitol Hill with Prof. Kathleen Cullen to advocate for science, medical, and biological engineering research. Thanks to
@aimbe
for organizing meetings with our senators today!
Indeed, this excellent theoretical paper was not authored by Alexander Graham Bell... but rather Graham and Bell, as in Michelle Graham and Muyinatu Bell 😂
Was extremely surprised to scout a relatively fresh 2020 article on a theory of photoacoustics from Graham Bell.
It took me a while to realize that its not from "that" Alexander Graham Bell, but from two persons with surnames Graham and Bell!!!
It’s hooding ceremony day for three PULSE Lab PhD graduates!
🎓Eduardo Gonzalez, PhD, now at
@PhilipsHealth
🎓Alycen Wiacek, PhD, now at
@OUSECS
🎓Michelle Graham, PhD, now at
@Abiomed
✨Congratulations to all & keep shining!✨
Announcing an opportunity for Black students worldwide: the
#OpticaFoundation
Amplify Scholarship includes a US$7,500 and access to our network for 10 students. Learn more -
#NeurIPS2021
I fondly remember my 1st NeurIPS experience as a keynote speaker for the
@black_in_ai
workshop (which was fascinating again this year). I’m thrilled to return as an invited speaker for Deep Learning & Inverse Problems.
🏅Delighted to win a 2023
@JohnsHopkins
Discovery Award in collaboration with Sami Tuffaha, MD
@HopkinsPlastic
for our project “Photoacoustic Assessment of Peripheral Nerve Injury.”
The PULSE Lab is hiring! 🥳
Kudos to my amazing co-authors for this exceptional achievement and to all who helped us raise awareness! Now, it is my desire that we continue working together to ensure that we
#fundblackscientists
, which will benefit ALL scientists and the entirety of science as a discipline.
A paper co-written by ECE Asst. Prof.
@MuyinatuBell
calling for action to address the disparity of funding between Black and white scientists in the US finished in the top 5 of most popular papers for Feb. 2021 in
@NatureIndex
!
#fundblackscientists
The first ever internationally crowd-sourced database of raw ultrasound channel data + integrated beamforming and eval code is now available as a major outcome of the 2020 Challenge on Ultrasound Beamforming with Deep Learning.
✅
✅
It was my pleasure to present the latest PULSE Lab research to an inquisitive and delightful group of students and faculty at
@cmu_bme
. I enjoyed meeting with faculty and students throughout my visit. As I was heading out, it was lovely to see the sun ☀️ in Pittsburgh in January!
On my way to Venice, Italy ✈️ for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, where the PULSE Lab will present our seven accepted abstracts: . This will be the first in-person (and the first hybrid)
@ieeeius
since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Last week Friday, this amazing group of 14 future leaders toured the PULSE Lab and neighboring facilities in the Laboratory for Computational Sensing & Robotics in collaboration with
@Dr_Jdelaine
. My inspiration is renewed by their thoughtful questions, responses, and enthusiasm.
I am honored to win the inaugural IEEE UFFC Star Ambassador Lectureship Award. Looking forward to using it to connect with colleagues, students, national labs, and industry to create new collaborations & partnerships. Many thanks to
@IEEE_UFFC_Soc
for this support & recognition!
Congratulations to
@MuyinatuBell
on receiving an
@IEEEorg
UFFC Star Ambassador Lectureship Award. The honor, which provides travel support reimbursement for up to $2,500, looks to support future leaders in delivering technical talks in their region and highlighting research.
I had a fantastic start to
#PhotonicsWest
sharing breakfast this morning with these amazing professors! We traveled to San Francisco, CA from
@VandyBME
,
@MITMechE
,
@NCState
, and
@JohnsHopkins
.
(from left to right: me, Audrey Bowden, Loza Tadesse, Sharonda LeBlanc, Andrea Locke)
The PULSE Lab is virtually attending SPIE
@PhotonicsWest
this week. Here are some highlights so far, including my award celebration and our virtual watch party. We are thrilled to connect with colleagues, meet new friends, and ultimately make the most of this remote experience.
Today’s lecture was fun! ✨We took a field trip to the PULSE Lab, where each student had the opportunity to acquire their own ultrasound data, and the homework assignment is to convert the raw data into an image using the beamforming principles I taught earlier this semester.
Excited to share that our paper “Photoacoustic-guided laparoscopic and open hysterectomy procedures demonstrated with human cadavers” was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Excited to share our review of a previously deemed unachievable topic, “Photoacoustic Imaging and Characterization of Bone in Medicine,” co-authored with
@JHUBME
PULSE Lab PhD alum, Eduardo Gonzalez, published in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering:
Thanks
@SPIEtweets
@WomenInOptics
and
@jesswade
for inviting me to participate in this excellent series, for featuring my research and accomplishments, and for creating a safe space for Q&A and follow-up discussions surrounding representation matters, role models, and allies! ❤️
Meet the amazing Dr. Bell, the John C. Malone Asst. Prof. of Electrical & Computer engineering, Biomedical Engineering, & Computer Science at
@JohnsHopkins
where she founded the Photoacoustic & Ultrasonic Systems Engineering (PULSE) Lab.
to learn more.
The PULSE Lab is virtually attending the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium
@ieeeius
this week. We have 5 accepted papers, I will chair a Photoacoustics poster session, and I co-organized the Women in Engineering event for the conference this year.
Nice stance
@NIHDirector
, assuming we have the same definition. “Allyship is the practice of emphasizing social justice, inclusion, and human rights by members of an ingroup, to advance the interests of an oppressed or marginalized outgroup”
So,
#allyship
=
#fundblackscientists
During Black History Month we celebrate the invaluable contributions of the Black community at
#NIH
& beyond. Our
#BHM
theme this year highlights
#allyship
as a vital way to create a culture of inclusion and equity. Learn more from
@NIH_EDI
:
Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats to PULSE Lab PhD candidate
@AlycenWiacek
! She is a recipient of the 2022
@SiebelScholars
Award, an outstanding recognition for an outstanding scholar!
ECE PhD candidate
@AlycenWiacek
has been named a 2022 Siebel Scholar! The award recognizes Alycen as being among the world’s top graduate students in terms of academic performance and leadership in a select group of fields, including bioengineering. Story:
It was a pleasure to deliver a keynote presentation at the
@VisualSonics
Symposium at
@Georgetown
yesterday! Thanks to the organizers and hosts for warmly welcoming me as one of the newest customers and users of the Vevo product family.
"When I spoke with my guidance counselor about my interest in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he made it clear that MIT wasn’t for people like me."
@dr_princess
My experience too & my guidance counselor couldn't have been more wrong. Excellent read, check it out!
Join us for this discussion on Representation Matters... because representation indeed matters and I’ll discuss the representation matters of role models and allies. I’ll share my research, experiences, and allyship highlights throughout my career, including
#fundblackscientists
.
Today, my first (co-advised) PhD student, Arun Nair, will defend his dissertation. He will talk about most of the work in his Google Scholar profile (), including his novel contributions to ultrasound beamforming and image formation with deep learning.
Thanks
@SrirangManohar
for organizing a fantastic symposium on photoacoustic breast imaging () and for inviting me to share my thoughts during the panel discussion. We had a robust discussion, and I learned a lot from the entire PAMMOTH team and guests!
Prof. Rebecca Richards-Kortum just gave an insightful plenary talk at CLEO about using optical imaging to help reduce global inequities in cancer, backed by strong empirical evidence that we need more solutions to address health inequities worldwide
@OpticaWorldwide
Thrilled to see research from the PULSE Lab on the cover of JBO!
🎉Congrats to PhD candidate Michelle Graham & REU student Reese Dunne. This work compares simulation methods for patient-specific planning to precede photoacoustic-guided neurosurgery.
I’m in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 for the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, where the PULSE Lab will present our three accepted abstracts: . I’m also honored for the invitation to speak at the AI in Ultrasound Satellite Symposium, a first for
@ieeeius
!
The PULSE Lab is virtually attending
@ieeeius2020
this week, featuring 8 accepted papers (including two presentations by
@AlycenWiacek
), the long-anticipated revelation of CUBDL challenge winners, and an invited talk by yours truly.
Congrats to all of the new 2021 AIMBE Fellows! Welcome to the AIMBE community!! See our press release with the full list of 174 Fellows here:
Mark your calendar for their induction ceremony on March 26!
Just returned from an invigorating and inspiring week of science talks and conversations with this brilliant group of Science Diversity Leaders! 🤩 I look forward our collective accomplishments with amazing support from
@cziscience
. The future of science for everyone is bright 💡
We’re thrilled to welcome our Science Diversity Leadership grantees to CZI HQ! Over three days, scientists led panels + gave talks on how their labs are accelerating research across biomedicine
#DiversityInSTEM
Thanks
@yipenghu
&
@sulinlee1
for the invitation and opportunity to deliver a keynote presentation at the
@MICCAI_Society
ASMUS workshop. I discussed three key deep learning papers from our group, highlighted CUBDL outcomes, and appreciated the recording to view talks I missed.
PULSE Lab group photo 📸 taken yesterday after a full day of training on our new ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging system from
@VisualSonics
. Excited for all of the new research this system will enable!
Woohoo!! Congrats to Camryn Graham, my summer REU student from
@UMengineering
! 🎉🎉🎉It was an absolute pleasure for me to mentor her along with PULSE Lab PhD candidate Eduardo González. Camryn meticulously optimized our novel algorithm, and I am proud of her, too! ☺️
Thanks for this public acknowledgment
@NIHDirector
! I’m relieved that this no longer has to be an elephant in the room. Onward and upward to the next set of recommendations on our list:
#fundblackscientists
Congrats to PULSE Lab PhD candidate
@AlycenWiacek
on the successful completion of her thesis proposal seminar this week! Her excellent work is summarized in the following three journal publications:
1.
2.
3.
We’re thrilled to welcome our Science Diversity Leadership grantees to CZI HQ! Over three days, scientists are leading panels + giving talks on how their labs are accelerating research across biomedicine
#DiversityInSTEM
Last night, we celebrated the three Alan T. Waterman awardees whose hard work and dedication to advancing the progress of science is set to bring unparalleled benefits to society.
Congratulations to Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Katrina G. Claw and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio!
Our invited review Photoacoustic-Guided Surgery from Head to Toe is out!
Covers multiple aspects of photoacoustic imaging to guide surgical & related non-surgical interventions, including a discussion of complete systems/tools needed to maximize success.
New PULSE Lab paper discussing a novel approach to estimate concentration levels from a mixture of two photoacoustic-sensitive materials after only two laser wavelength emissions
Congrats to PULSE Lab grad student, Eduardo González, on his first-author paper being accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering:
This paper deepens our initial investigations of photoacoustic-guided spinal fusion surgeries.
🚨Now published🚨��Mitigating skin tone bias in linear array in vivo photoacoustic imaging with short-lag spatial coherence beamforming” Previewed during my talk, this paper summarizes one outcome of my work with a PULSE Lab visiting PhD student from Brazil
We have all heard the term “four eyes”. Well, it’s amazing what you can see with ten eyes!
#ARVRMR
😯
Candid photo 📸 taken at the
#PhotonicsWest
AR/VR/MR Expo, headset demo at the
@FraunhoferFEP
booth
Thanks
@cziscience
for the opportunity to participate in this amazing meeting! 🤩 I learned a lot about the frontiers of imaging, reconnected with colleagues, made new friends, discussed many innovative ideas, and left with an inspiring hope for the future of our discipline. 🤗
Check out the latest updates to the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging:
I was informed of the website update last night & I’m looking forward to serving as an AE. Thanks
@IEEE_TMI
for entrusting me with this important responsibility.
Here are 6 PULSE Lab journal papers recently accepted for publication (or published this year) for your reading leisure & pleasure:
1. Photoacoustic Spatial Coherence Theory and Applications to Coherence-Based Image Contrast and Resolution
@IEEE_UFFC_Soc
Thanks
@VU_Biophotonics
for hosting me! I enjoyed meeting with students and faculty, touring lab spaces, and sharing my lab’s latest research. Out of 37 invited talks in 2020-2021, this visit will forever be remembered as the first time I travelled for a talk since March 2020.
The next
@VU_Biophotonics
Center lecture is tomorrow at 4:15 pm in Stevenson Center 5326. Muyinatu Bell, Ph.D. will present for "Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries".
PULSE Lab PhD candidates Michelle Graham and Eduardo Gonzalez delivered two poster presentations at SPIE
@PhotonicsWest
this year. I was unable to attend, but I enjoyed seeing all of the updates, and I hope to return next year!
The 2022 REU students in Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics () will present the culmination of their summer projects this week Friday. This group picture (students + instructor) was taken during their weekly communications class today.