Michael Miller, Ph.D., named Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering

To the faculty and staff of the School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

With the utmost pleasure we would like to announce that Michael Miller, Ph.D., has been selected as the next director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective July 1. 

Mike was an undergraduate at SUNY Stony Brook, before matriculating at Johns Hopkins where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering. He joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where he rose to be a chaired professor while developing an international reputation in computational science and imaging. 

Mike was recruited back to Johns Hopkins as professor of biomedical engineering in 1998, and has been a leader in the department and university ever since, where he has held the Herschel and Ruth Seder Chair in Biomedical Engineering. 

Mike is the director of the Center for Imaging Science in the Whiting School of Engineering. The Center is focused on establishing worldwide analytical models for image and pattern understanding. Most prominently, this has been manifested through the creation of a cloud-based library of brain MRIs, in collaboration with Dr. Susumu Mori of the Department of Radiology, available for use in brain mapping for a broad range of medical and scientific purposes. The “brain cloud” is receiving more than 5,000 three-dimensional magnetic resonance brain scans per month from around the world.  

The author of more than 300 manuscripts and two textbooks, Mike 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 Gilman Scholar within Johns Hopkins University and is the co-director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, along with Rick Huganir of the Department of Neuroscience.

We would also like to thank Dr. Les Tung for his commitment and steadfast effort in serving as the Interim Director of BME. Les did a superb job of keeping the department moving forward, through hiring of new faculty and the elaboration of a faculty-led strategic planning process during the interim period. We are grateful to Les for his dedication and support.

Mike is a creative and passionate advocate for the department and university, and we are extremely excited to name him as the next director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Please join us in congratulating him.

Sincerely,

Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ed Schlesinger
Benjamin T. Rome Dean
Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University