News & Announcements
Gumerov and Duraiswami Receive Funding from Facebook Reality Labs
May 12, 2021 - The spatial audio experts have been funded to improve computational models used to simulate the human perception of auditory signals.
New QuICS Fellow Plumbs the Depths of Quantum Information Problems
May 10, 2021 - Victor Albert, a physicist at NIST and one of the newest QuICS Fellows, loves getting to the bottom of things, distilling problems to their most basic and general mathematical root.
Resnik and Shrivastava Receive Amazon Research Awards
May 06, 2021 - Proposals for an award are reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, their creativity, and their potential to impact both the research community and society in general.
UMD Graduate Student Awarded DOE Computational Science Fellowship
May 04, 2021 - Joy Kitson’s research is focused on developing large-scale epidemic simulations that are used to model a wide variety of diseases and public health interventions.
Gumerov Receives CMNS Distinguished Research Scientist Award
May 03, 2021 - He has been recognized for his longstanding research and scholarship involving multidimensional data, spatial audio, wave scattering, and more.
Feldman Wins Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award
May 03, 2021 - She is one of 10 UMD faculty chosen to receive this honor in 2021.
CBCB Researchers Develop Tool that Makes Reconstructing Microbial Genomes Easier
Apr 30, 2021 - The open-source software was described in a paper recently published in the online journal, Frontiers in Microbiology.
JQI/QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov to Receive Flemming Award for Outstanding Federal Service
Apr 19, 2021 - He was honored for his pioneering research at the crossroads of quantum optics and atomic and condensed matter physics.
Four UMD Graduate Students Receive Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
Apr 13, 2021 - The fellowship is named for Ann Wylie, a professor emerita in geology who has served in numerous roles at the university for almost 50 years, including her current role as interim senior vice president and provost.
Jack Minker (1927–2021)
Apr 12, 2021 - The founding chair of the UMD Department of Computer Science and strong advocate for human rights for scientists worldwide passed away on April 9, 2021.