PULSE Lab Website
April 8, 2016
The website for the Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Systems Engineering (PULSE) Lab, directed by Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, is now live: http://engineering.jhu.edu/pulselab. All future news pertaining to Dr. Bell will appear on her lab webpage.
Dr. Bell Accepts a Tenure-Track Faculty Position
January 21, 2016
As of July 1, 2016, Dr. Bell will join the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) Departments at the Johns Hopkins University. She is looking for highly motivated, dedicated, and self-driven MS/PhD students and postdocs with interests and/or skills in circuit design, signal processing, machine learning, programming, biomedical imaging, optics, medical robotics, and human health (or any combination thereof).
Interested students should apply to the ECE Department and/or BME Department and mention Muyinatu Bell in the application.
Interested postdocs should email a CV and two representative papers to Dr. Bell at the following address: malb@jhu.edu.
New Online Course
August 20, 2015
Dr. Bell is pleased to announce the lauching of her first interactive online course, Introduction to Medical Imaging. Interested students may use this link to enroll in the course and receive a special discount.
Two "Best" Awards in One Week
July 31, 2015
- Dr. Bell's co-authored paper, System Integration and Preliminary In-Vivo Experiments of a Robot for Ultrasound Guidance and Monitoring during Radiotherapy, was the runner-up for the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics in Istanbul, Turkey. The paper received honorable mention.
- Dr. Bell's student, Alicia Dagle, received the Best Presentation Award at the 2015 NSF Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics Research Experience for Undergraduates (CSMR REU) Award Ceremony. Alicia is an undergraduate student at Clark University who will pursue a joint engineering program with Columbia University. She worked closely with Dr. Bell at Johns Hopkins University throughout the ten-week summer program.
Four Articles Published This Year, One Featured on Journal Cover
July 14, 2015
Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell published a total of three first-author and one co-author manuscripts in the following journals in 2015: JBO, Photoacoustics, PMB, and IEEE UFFC, which featured Dr. Bell's work on the front cover.
NIH K99 Pathway to Independence Award
April 1, 2015
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell received the NIH Pathway to Independence Award for her project entitled Coherence-Based Photoacoustic Image Guidance of Transsphenoidal Surgeries. This award promises support for 1-2 more years of postdoctoral training and the first 3 years of Dr. Bell's independent faculty position.
JHU Whiting School of Engineering Announcement
JHU Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) Announcement
Featured in Diversity Careers
July 6, 2014
Dr. Bell is featured in the STEM Minority Summer/Fall 2014 issue of Diversity/Careers. You can read her inspiring story here.
Thank You Video
December 18, 2013
Dr. Bell has a role in the Annual Johns Hopkins Thank You Video with the President of JHU.
Six Abstracts Accepted to SPIE
October 15, 2013
Dr. Bell's six abstracts were recently accepted to SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco, CA, February 1-6, 2014) and SPIE Medical Imaging (San Diego, CA, February 16-20, 2014). She is the first author on five of the six abstracts.
Dr. Bell Wins the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
April 18, 2013
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell is selected as an awardee in the Ford Foundation Fellowship 2013 postdoctoral competition, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The competition seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Two-Time UNCF-Merck Fellowship Recipient
April 1, 2013
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell was one of 10 postoctoral fellows to win the prestigious UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is officially a two-time recipient of the award, as she also won the graduate level award to complete her PhD dissertation entitled, Improved Visualization of Endocardial Borders with Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging. The postdoctoral award totals $92,000 for a maximum of two years.