In this role, Varshney will provide strategic leadership to support the continued growth of the University of Maryland's more than $1 billion research enterprise.
He was recognized by the SMA for his longstanding work involving quadtrees and other multidimensional spatial data structures for sorting spatial information.
He is collaborating with researchers from Yale University and the University of Chicago on the five-year project funded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Participating students were supported by the IMD New Works Incubator, a new summer program that provides students with resources to develop immersive projects for NextNOW.
The new institute—with UMIACS faculty member Andrew Childs as director—will significantly add to the vibrant quantum research ecosystem established in the mid-Atlantic region.
Daniel Gottesman has returned to his native Maryland as a Fellow in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) and the Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science.
The study examines how sex workers—who tend to have especially salient security and privacy risks—conceptualize and manage their digital safety across multiple devices.
