Looking Forward @ Johns Hopkins: Michael Miller

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Michael Miller, director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and professor of biomedical, electrical, and computer engineering, presents a Looking Forward @ Johns Hopkins lecture entitled "Pointilism, Alzheimer's, and COVID-19: What Do They Have in Common?"

Miller, who is also director of the Center for Imaging Science and co-director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, is an international leader in medical imaging and brain mapping, having pioneered the field of computational anatomy as a modern theory of human anatomical shape and form. He is a biomedical engineer who specializes in data science and develops cutting-edge technologies in computational medicine to understand and diagnose neurodegenerative diseases. His research focuses on the functional and structural characteristics of the human brain in health and disease, including Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and epilepsy. By developing new tools for analyzing patient brain scans, derived from advanced medical imaging technologies, Miller aims to predict the risk of developing neurological disorders years before the onset of clinical symptoms. His lab is currently devising cloud-based methods to build and share libraries of brain images—and the algorithms used to understand them—associated with neuropsychiatric illness. Miller's research is highly translational, and he has co-founded four start-up companies in the past decade.