Joshua Berkowitz Unraveling a New Culprit in Alzheimer's Disease: PHGDH Transcriptional Regulation Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative condition, and while genetic factors like mutations in APP, PSEN, or MAPT and the APOE4 allele are known risk factors, they don't fully expl... BioChemistry NIH Funded
Joshua Berkowitz Machine Learning Helps in Predicting What Genes Do and How They Work Together The vast number of newly sequenced genomes presents a significant challenge: characterizing the functions of the encoded proteins. Traditional methods for assigning protein function often rely on simi... Computer Science Medicine NIH Funded
Joshua Berkowitz Nature's Tiniest Clock: Using Quantum Beats to Keep Perfect Time Imagine trying to photograph a hummingbird's wings or understand the exact moment chemical bonds form. Many crucial events in science and technology happen incredibly fast, unfolding in femtoseconds –... Physics Quantum
Joshua Berkowitz The Battle Within: How Salmonella Bacteria Survive Inside Our Immune Cells Imagine a constant battle happening inside our bodies, an evolutionary arms race between invading bacteria and the immune cells that protect us. Some bacteria, like Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimu... Biology Medicine
Joshua Berkowitz Microsoft Research proposes Deep Integration of Computer Use Agents in AgentOS for Windows The automation of desktop applications has long been a goal for improving productivity, traditionally relying on rigid and fragile script-based Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems. The emergence ... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Paving the Way for Room Temperature Quantum Information Exchange Superconducting qubits stand as a frontrunner in the race to build practical quantum computers , having demonstrated computational advantages over classical systems even amidst inherent noise. However... Computer Science Quantum
Joshua Berkowitz Advances in Lab Grown Tooth Replacement Techniques Tooth loss is a widespread oral health issue that significantly impacts individuals' lives by affecting chewing, speaking, and overall well-being. Although current replacement methods like dentures an... Biology Chemistry
Joshua Berkowitz Introducing SALTY an Explainable AI for Hardware Trojan Detection In an era defined by globally distributed supply chains and the increasing reliance on third-party intellectual property (IP) in semiconductor design, the threat of maliciously inserted hardware Troja... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Enhancing Automated Grading with Human Insight: The GradeHITL Framework Today’s academic environment is as challenging and providing teachers with tools to facilitate education is more important than ever before. Grading assignments, especially open ended text, is a time ... Artificial Intelligence Education
Joshua Berkowitz SpyCraft: Non-Contact Sound Recovery with Event Cameras and Deep Learning Today we take a look at some research straight out of Mission Impossible! The ability to recover sound from surfaces and objects. The new method suggests higher fidelity recovery is possible from pota... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Balancing Innovation and Ethics in Responsible AI Regulation As AI becomes an essential part of our work and personal lives, addressing the impact of regulation is essential in understanding how to develop a flexible framework to enable growth while maintaining... Artificial Intelligence NSF Funded Regulation
Joshua Berkowitz Automated Drug Discovery using Multifidelity Bayesian Optimization This research introduces a multifidelity Bayesian optimization (MF-BO) approach to accelerate the automated discovery of drug molecules by effectively leveraging experimental data of varying costs and... Chemistry Computer Science NIH Funded
