Emerging Technologies

Our researchers are active in emerging areas of scientific discovery—quantum, autonomy, and microbiome sciences, to name but a few—which have the capacity to transform digital communications, pharmaceutical testing, agriculture and the environment, and much more. While AI itself is not new, our work in changing the way AI systems are designed, developed, deployed and governed is expected to reap significant dividends in science and society. Much of this activity takes places in the multiple centers and several large interdisciplinary labs that UMIACS supports.