News & Announcements
Cummings Reappointed as Director of CBCB
Jul 21, 2022 - He will continue to lead the highly successful multidisciplinary center, which is ranked fourth in the nation for bioinformatics and computational biology.
Machine Learning Experts Presenting Multiple Papers and Workshops at ICML
Jul 20, 2022 - The UMD researchers—a mix of faculty, postdocs and students—are presenting 18 papers and are featured in 18 workshops.
Zapf Keeps the Money Moving at UMIACS
Jul 14, 2022 - As the director of finance, Zapf is vital to the operations at UMIACS—a multidisciplinary institute that uses innovative computing techniques and infrastructure to address pressing scientific and societal challenges in national defense, precision medicine, big data, cybersecurity, language, and more.
UMD Team Wins Award for Designing a Navigation Sensor for Mini Robots
Jul 11, 2022 - They were recently recognized for their innovative work in developing a low-powered acoustic sensing system for miniature robots.
CLIP Lab Presents a Plethora of Papers and Workshops on Human-Centered NLP
Jul 11, 2022 - The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics is a top-tier conference for natural language processing.
MC2 Researchers Design First Comprehensive Framework for At-Risk Users
Jul 08, 2022 - A new paper by researchers from the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and Google presents the first comprehensive framework that can be used to reason about at-risk users’ needs during the technology creation process.
Hall Develops Device to Measure Gut Microbial Metabolism
Jul 05, 2022 - Hall has been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a wearable device that will potentially lead to therapeutic interventions for patients suffering from gastrointestinal disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Parallel Algorithm Designer Dhulipala Joins UMIACS
Jun 28, 2022 - The overarching goal of Laxman Dhulipala's research is to design, analyze and implement parallel algorithms that are faster and more efficient.
Mihai Pop Reappointed as Director of UMIACS
Jun 28, 2022 - He will continue to lead 76 UMIACS faculty members and almost 200 graduate students from eight departments across the UMD campus.
Researcher Awarded $1M From NASA to Develop Disease Forecasting Center and App
Jun 23, 2022 - Rita Colwell’s distinguished career culminates in project predicting and preventing cholera.