News & Announcements
Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Dec 06, 2023 - The inaugural award recognizes his 40-plus years of advancing technical achievements and educational tools focused on databases, data structures and algorithms, solid modeling, computer graphics, geographic information systems, computational geometry, robotics, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia and image databases, image processing, visualization, information retrieval, natural language processing, and more.
Barg Awarded IEEE Medal for His Contributions to Quantum Error Correction
Dec 04, 2023 - He is the 2024 recipient of the Richard W. Hamming Medal, the highest IEEE-wide award for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology.
UMD Team Wins DOE Award to Advance AI Using Supercomputers
Nov 29, 2023 - The award provides significant run-time on supercomputers managed by the U.S. government.
Holmes Hustles Behind the Scenes at UMIACS
Nov 13, 2023 - As the facilities coordinator for UMIACS and the Department of Computer Science, it is Holmes’ responsibility to make sure faculty, staff and students have the proper space and equipment to get their work done.
Tianyi Zhou Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Humans and AI
Nov 10, 2023 - He is working at the intersection of machine learning and natural language to make AI more human-like by teaching it to learn and make decisions like people do.
Colwell Honored with Builders of Science Award from Research!America
Nov 10, 2023 - The award is one of the top Advocacy Awards given each year by Research!America, a nonprofit alliance that supports increased funding and better policies related to medical and health research.
AI Workshop Brings Researchers Together to Discuss Rapid Progression of Large Pre-Trained Models
Nov 08, 2023 - "Riding the LPM Wave: The Future of Academic Research in the Era of Pre-Trained Models," a University of Maryland workshop held on November 3, 2023, brought together researchers across disciplines to discuss the future of natural language processing, computer vision, human-computer interaction and robotics research; and provide a forum to exchange ideas, share experiences, and form collaborations.
Huang Receives Microsoft Award for Innovative Work in Sequential Decision-Making
Nov 03, 2023 - The award recognizes and funds innovative projects that push the boundaries of foundational models and their potential applications.
Reinforcement Learning Is All a Game for Kaiqing Zhang
Oct 30, 2023 - Zhang's research lies at the intersection of machine learning, reinforcement learning, game theory, and control theory.
Quantum Computers Run on Just the Right Amount of Connectivity
Oct 19, 2023 - QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov and Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow Dominik Hangleiter have found a partial answer to the conundrum of what powers quantum complexity.