@NajemJS

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State

 State College, Pa
me.psu.edu/najemlab
Joined August 2011
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Joseph S. Najem retweeted
Science Advances@ScienceAdvancesJul 24
Researchers introduce a class of tissue-like computing materials that allows a new approach to neuromorphic, energy-efficient, and adaptive information processing. @HridMSH @olemissengineer @NajemJS @PSUEngineering scim.ag/44HC6jN
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My latest for @nytimes -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. nytimes.com/interactive/2025…

How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling (Gift Article)

A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.

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Proud to share that my student Ahmed has published his 2nd paper! 🎉 His novel memcapacitor-based reservoir computing approach predicts complex nonlinear systems with high accuracy, all without traditional input encoding. #Research #ProudMentor pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…

Intrinsic Voltage Offsets in Memcapacitive Biomembranes Enable High-Performance Physical Reservoir...

Abstract. Reservoir computing is a brain-inspired machine learning framework for processing temporal data by mapping inputs into high-dimensional spaces. P

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Elio Challita@eliochallita11 Mar 2024
Excited to see our paper out today in @PNAS with @BhamlaLab! Our discovery that Cicadas pee in jets helped us develop a framework that unifies excretion across eight orders of magnitude, from cicadas to elephants. Brief thread below: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…

Unifying fluidic excretion across life from cicadas to elephants | PNAS

Can insects weighing mere grams challenge our current understanding of fluid dynamics in urination, jetting fluids like their larger mammalian coun...

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Joseph S. Najem retweeted
Amir Barati
@AmirBaratiF12 Feb 2024
#LLMs can help us understand the evolutionary design of G protein Coupled Receptors. In our work, we found out the correlation between NPXXY region (XX) and the binding pocket residues using attention mechanisms for protein sequences: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… @JCIM_JCTC

GPCR-BERT: Interpreting Sequential Design of G Protein-Coupled Receptors Using Protein Language...

Abstract. With the rise of transformers and large language models (LLMs) in chemistry and biology, new avenues for the design and understanding of therapeu

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Congrats to my student, Nick Armendarez, for publishing his 1st paper! He shows that physical reservoir computing systems, comprising various memristors with distinct dynamics, yield impressive time series prediction accuracy with a single data encoding. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

Brain-Inspired Reservoir Computing Using Memristors with Tunable Dynamics and Short-Term Plasticity

Abstract. Recent advancements in reservoir computing (RC) research have created a demand for analogue devices with dynamics that can facilitate the physica

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Biomembrane-Based Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing System for Energy-Efficient Temporal Data Processing (Md Sakib Hasan and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Biomembrane‐Based Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing System for Energy‐Efficient Temporal Data...

Reservoir computing is a highly efficient algorithm for processing temporal datasets by extracting input features and projecting them into a high-dimensional space. Biomembrane-based memcapacitors...

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We are looking for a #postdoc to join our awesome new collaboration on #biohybrid actuators with @lining_yao @RegenBio @ProfJosiah @jrivnay @CohenKarniLab! Please help share and retweet! Apply online here: tinyurl.com/BORGPostDoc
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Excellent presentation by Dor Tillinger!
Juan Pablo Gevaudan@JPGevaudan23 Mar 2023
Learning so much about micro fluidics today! Congrats @NajemJS on such exciting research to create multifunctional materials #pennstate #research @livMatS_UniFR @LiMC2_PennState
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Learning so much about micro fluidics today! Congrats @NajemJS on such exciting research to create multifunctional materials #pennstate #research @livMatS_UniFR @LiMC2_PennState
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livMatS@livMatS_UniFR22 Mar 2023
The second day of #LMS2023 conference @UniFreiburg started off with beautiful spring weather and the Plenary Talk of Prof. Zoubeida Ounaies @zounaies of @penn_state & @LiMC2_PennState on #polymer-based responsive #materials.
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Penn State’s Living Materials team, led by Professor Zoubeida Ounaies, is working across departments and continents to engineer adaptive, self-powering, living materials that respond to their environment. Learn more about the team's work ➡️ bit.ly/3mls6cP
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There is still time to register for our National #Biomechanics Day activities @CarnegieMellon! Check out the attached flyer. @BiomechanicsDay
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Come join our team at @PSUEngineering: My lab has two Ph.D. openings for projects related to the development of bio-inspired soft power sources (details below). If you are interested please send me an email with your cv. @PennStateMRI @PennStateMatSE @PSUMechEng
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Make sure to register to attend Prof. Zarzar’s e-seminar tomorrow at 12 pm EST. I am very excited to host you @LaurenZarzar!
Joseph S. Najem@NajemJS10 Feb 2023
Looking forward to hosting Prof. Lauren Zarzar from @penn_state @PSUEngineering @psu_chemistry in our e-Seminar Series on Living Materials "LIMtalks" (Seminar #5). Date/Time: 2/15/2023 (12 pm EST) Please register here: psu.zoom.us/webinar/register… @PennStateMRI @PSUMechEng
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Looking forward to hosting Prof. Lauren Zarzar from @penn_state @PSUEngineering @psu_chemistry in our e-Seminar Series on Living Materials "LIMtalks" (Seminar #5). Date/Time: 2/15/2023 (12 pm EST) Please register here: psu.zoom.us/webinar/register… @PennStateMRI @PSUMechEng
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Very honored to be a recipient. What a great way to end 2022. Excited to get this started in 2023 🎉
AFOSR
@AFOSR14 Dec 2022
Congratulations to this year's AFRL/AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award recipients! 🎉 @AFResearchLab #BasicResearch #AFOSRBoldResearch #AFOSRYIP #EarlyCareer #Grants #Science #Engineering afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Dis…
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Abby Drey@ADreyPhotos18 Nov 2022
Light Up Night got downtown State College in the holiday spirit!
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Looking forward to hosting Prof. Andy Sarles from @UTKMABE in our e-Seminar Series on Living Materials "LIMtalks" (Seminar #4). Date/time: 10/27/2022 (11 am EST) Please register here: psu.zoom.us/webinar/register… @PennStateMRI @AndySarles @DeanEngTCE @PSUMechEng
Center for Living Multifunctional Material Systems@LiMC2_PennState14 Oct 2022
Join us via zoom for our next LIM talk with professor Stephen Andy Sarles on October 27th at 11 AM EST. Register now: psu.zoom.us/webinar/register… Hope to see you there!
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Join us via zoom for our next LIM talk with professor Stephen Andy Sarles on October 27th at 11 AM EST. Register now: psu.zoom.us/webinar/register… Hope to see you there!
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