News & Announcements
Evaluating the Use of LLM Agents to Provide Better Software Security
Nov 08, 2024 - Yizheng Chen has received a $1.7M award to study the efficacy of using AI-infused technology for cyberdefense applications.
UMD Team Is Finalist for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Nov 08, 2024 - The researchers made the final cut for their innovative work in developing a scalable distributed training framework called AxoNN, which rapidly trains AI-based large language models on thousands of GPUs.
UMD Team Receives $10M to Help Students with Disabilities Thrive After High School
Nov 06, 2024 - The funding supports a team of education and computing experts focused on developing an analytical tool to improve post-high school outcomes for students with disabilities.
UMIACS Team Aims to Boost High-Performance Computing Software Development Using AI
Oct 28, 2024 - The multi-institutional, open-source project—expected to increase software development productivity by at least tenfold—is supported by a $7M award from the Department of Energy.
CLIP Graduate Student Merges Psycholinguistics and Technology to Enhance Large Language Models
Oct 21, 2024 - Sathvik Nair’s work is supported by a competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Tracking Transgenic Crop-Produced Mutations in the Corn Earworm
Oct 16, 2024 - Supported by a USDA grant, two UMIACS researchers have teamed up to study the corn earworm’s growing resistance to non-chemical pesticides.
Reimagining the Future of Historical Research, One Box at a Time
Oct 11, 2024 - UMD information experts are developing novel methods to track down paper documents at the National Archives in College Park.
UMD Researcher Awarded $364K to Make Data Analysis Faster and More Accessible
Oct 09, 2024 - The three-institution collaborative project aims to develop advanced algorithms that will enable clustering over massive datasets and allow scientists, companies, and government agencies to solve complex problems.
ACES Awarded $5M Grant Renewal to Strengthen Cybersecurity Workforce
Oct 09, 2024 - The funding will support 30 students over the next five years as they prepare for careers in cybersecurity.
Protecting Our Region’s Poultry Industry with Advanced Technology
Oct 08, 2024 - Mostafa Ghanem is using new genomic tools to improve our understanding and the prevention of infectious poultry diseases.