News & Announcements

Searching the Nighttime Sky Brings Peace of Mind and New Ideas

Dec 11, 2023 - A recent Ph.D. graduate has taken a series of stunning nighttime images as part of his journey into the world of astrophotography.

Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community

Dec 11, 2023 - Six emerging scholars traveled to College Park to present their research and engage with UMD’s machine learning community, with two other researchers participating via Zoom.

Flowers Finds Her Way Back to UMIACS

Dec 08, 2023 - Carolyn Flowers has returned to work in the unit where she began her UMD career 11 years earlier.

MC2 Researchers Circumvent China’s Latest Form of Internet Censorship

Dec 08, 2023 - The team won first place in the applied research competition at the 2023 CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference, the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event in the world.

Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award

Dec 06, 2023 - The inaugural award recognizes his 40-plus years of advancing technical achievements and educational tools focused on databases, data structures and algorithms, solid modeling, computer graphics, geographic information systems, computational geometry, robotics, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia and image databases, image processing, visualization, information retrieval, natural language processing, and more.

Barg Awarded IEEE Medal for His Contributions to Quantum Error Correction

Dec 04, 2023 - He is the 2024 recipient of the Richard W. Hamming Medal, the highest IEEE-wide award for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology.

UMD Team Wins DOE Award to Advance AI Using Supercomputers

Nov 29, 2023 - The award provides significant run-time on supercomputers managed by the U.S. government.

Holmes Hustles Behind the Scenes at UMIACS

Nov 13, 2023 - As the facilities coordinator for UMIACS and the Department of Computer Science, it is Holmes’ responsibility to make sure faculty, staff and students have the proper space and equipment to get their work done.

Colwell Honored with Builders of Science Award from Research!America

Nov 10, 2023 - The award is one of the top Advocacy Awards given each year by Research!America, a nonprofit alliance that supports increased funding and better policies related to medical and health research.

Tianyi Zhou Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Humans and AI

Nov 10, 2023 - He is working at the intersection of machine learning and natural language to make AI more human-like by teaching it to learn and make decisions like people do.

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