CLIP Alumni Harness AI to Transform Translation at Google
Sweta Agrawal and Eleftheria Briakou are helping millions communicate across languages with advanced AI.
UMD and Capital One Team Up to Reinvent AI Guardrails
The novel DynaGuard system replaces rigid, one-size-fits-all AI safeguards with a customizable framework that adapts to real-world risks.
Director's Message to UMIACS October 2025
At the end of October, the University of Maryland plans to publicly launch its next capital campaign. One major fundraising priority focuses on raising the university’s reputation as a top-tier institution for research and scholarship in artificial intelligence.
Study Reveals How an $800 Satellite Dish Captured Sensitive Communications
MC2 faculty member Dave Levin and student Annie Dai helped uncover a significant internet security flaw.
Sociolinguist and Natural Language Processing Expert Joins UMIACS
Julia Mendelsohn is combining language, politics, and computer science to better understand implicit language in political discourse.
Zhang Receives Award from Open Philanthropy to Enhance Safety in Generative-AI Agents
The research combines principles from reinforcement learning and game theory to better understand and enhance Generative AI-Agents’ safety.
UMD Team Develops Novel Method to Recycle 3D Printed Circuit Boards
UMD researchers developed a low-cost, fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit board that dissolves in water, making electronics prototyping more eco-friendly.
When Physics and Math Go Viral
Raunak Dey uses math to model how viruses interact with microbial communities to inform health and policy.
To Make Better AI, Stop Tackling Problems ‘Whack-a-Mole’-Style, UMD Researcher Says
Philip Resnik argued in a new paper that chatbot biases reflect how large language models learn rather than a simple technical problem.
UMD Group Shares Sparsity Expertise at Upcoming Symposium on Microarchitecture
Bahar Asgari and her students are presenting four papers on sparsity at this year’s MICRO symposium.