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CLIP Graduate Student Advised by Daumé Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

UMIACS will welcome Xiaodi Wu, Daniel Abadi, Furong Huang, Jordan Boyd-Graber and Max Leiserson.

The research covers topics including cryptography usability, efficient certificate revocation, privacy-preserving machine learning, and verifiable cloud databases.

The global contest focuses on testing and improving natural language processing systems, encouraging participants to build and challenge each other’s models

A team of computational biologists from the University of Maryland has been recognized by leading technology corporation NVIDIA for their role in the development of innovative software that provides a rapid analysis of biological sequence data.

Amir Kalev is investigating new methods for assessing quantum systems using quantum measurement theory and tomography.

His research ranks among the top-cited security papers, including works on data possession, encryption and blockchains.

The fellowship will help support his research in natural language understanding.

Hanan Samet and Shangfu Peng are using big data analytics to improve travel distance calculations with their new software, Distance Oracle.

He is retiring on June 30 after 41 years at the University of Maryland. A pioneer in human-computer interaction, his work on hyperlinks, touchscreen technology, and treemaps has had a lasting impact.