News & Announcements
UMD Leads New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
Sep 02, 2021 - The new institute—with UMIACS faculty member Andrew Childs as director—will significantly add to the vibrant quantum research ecosystem established in the mid-Atlantic region.
After a Three-Decade Odyssey, Noted Quantum Error Correction Theorist Returns to Maryland
Aug 29, 2021 - Daniel Gottesman has returned to his native Maryland as a Fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) and the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science.
Mazurek Part of Award-Winning Team Studying the Digital Safety of Sex Workers
Aug 25, 2021 - The study examines how sex workers—who tend to have especially salient security and privacy risks—conceptualize and manage their digital safety across multiple devices.
Roy Receives $150K NSF Award to Expand Wi-Fi Access in Regional Parks
Aug 20, 2021 - The one-year project will be tested in several recreational areas in Montgomery County and Prince George’s County, Maryland.
This New Algorithm Lets You Explore Virtual Reality by Walking Naturally
Aug 19, 2021 - The project is led by third-year computer science doctoral student Niall Luke Williams, a researcher in the Geometric Algorithms for Modeling, Motion, and Animation (GAMMA) lab.
UMD Team Wins Distinguished Paper Award for Uncovering New Type of Cyberattack
Aug 12, 2021 - The team used artificial intelligence algorithms to uncover a distinctive form of DDoS attacks—known as non-trivial TCP-based amplification attacks—on a scale that hasn't been seen before.
Srinivasan Wins Distinguished Career Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences
Aug 10, 2021 - The Distinguished Career Award is the organization’s highest honor, acknowledging scientists and scholars who have a significant impact on their respective fields of study.
UMIACS Announces Eight New Faculty Appointments
Aug 09, 2021 - These new faculty swell the ranks of the UMIACS research community to more than 75 full-time faculty and research scientists hailing from eight departments in six schools and colleges across the Maryland campus.
Two CLIP Graduate Students Named 2021 Computing Innovation Fellows
Aug 06, 2021 - Supported by the National Science Foundation, the CI Fellows program aids recent and soon-to-be Ph.D. computing graduates whose job search was hampered by COVID-19 and its continued disruption on academic job hiring practices and the economy.
CBCB Researcher Jamshed Khan Wins Outstanding Student Paper Award
Aug 06, 2021 - The paper introduces a new algorithm for efficiently building a compacted de Bruijn graph from collections of input genome or transcriptome sequences.