News & Announcements
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community
Dec 11, 2023 - Six emerging scholars traveled to College Park to present their research and engage with UMD’s machine learning community, with two other researchers participating via Zoom.
MIXR Partnership Seeks to Expand Its Research and Outreach Efforts
Dec 11, 2023 - The Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality (MIXR), a unique multi-institutional partnership that focuses on extended reality technologies for clinical procedures and medical training, is ramping up efforts to expand its research, outreach and impact.
MC2 Researchers Circumvent China’s Latest Form of Internet Censorship
Dec 08, 2023 - The team won first place in the applied research competition at the 2023 CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference, the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event in the world.
Flowers Finds Her Way Back to UMIACS
Dec 08, 2023 - Carolyn Flowers has returned to work in the unit where she began her UMD career 11 years earlier.
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.
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.
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.