Two faculty members affiliated with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) were recently named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
He is one of four faculty in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences to receive one of the most distinguished honors within the scientific community.
With the NSF funding, Nirupam Roy foresees a new frontier in ambient computing by enabling advanced acoustic sensing and inference on low-power and battery-free computing platforms embedded in everyday objects and the environment—creating a paradigm called acoustic ambient computing.
Distinguished University Professor Dinesh Manocha is a co-PI on the project, leading efforts to develop ground and aerial autonomy related to human-machine teaming.
Twenty-three papers were accepted to the main conference while 16 were presented at its affiliated workshops. Assistant Professor Furong Huang received an Outstanding Paper Award.
The multidisciplinary effort is intended to reduce hunger, food waste, barriers to food access, and food deserts in the state of Maryland and Mid-Atlantic region.
Jason Fan’s current goal is to design small data-structures—or indexes—to support fast sequence queries against tens of human scale genomes, or tens of thousands of bacterial genomes.
