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Their work will focus on actionable solutions, transparency and civic engagement for lower-income residents that rely on bus and light rail systems.

She is joined on the project by UMD faculty members Shihab Shamma, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Behtash Babadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Cong Zhang is the inaugural recipient of the MC2 fellowship, which was established earlier this year to attract highly-motivated candidates to UMD to conduct research and scholarship.

The program, with administrative support provided by the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and participation by several UMIACS faculty, kicked off this fall with one introductory course.

He has been funded to develop algorithms that prioritize who to test and when, and provide fundamental new insights to how future epidemics can be controlled.

His lab is working to improve functional annotation across gut microbiome species, combining computational and wet-lab techniques to identify genes responsible for health-relevant functions, and developing new strategies to measure the metabolic output of the gut microbiome.

He has received NSF funding to develop computational methods to advance our understanding of how decisions are made, particularly in the context of the political arena.

He is leading an effort to develop fundamentally improved data structures and algorithms to enable large-scale sequence search across public repositories of genomic data.

Bera and Manocha are working with psychiatric experts in Baltimore to develop AI tools to improve mental health diagnoses for children via webcam.

The project, which ended this summer, has produced innovative software that can be used by medical professionals.