Student Spotlight

  UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research   Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer...

Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in...

Dissertation Defense The Lightweight Virtual File System Navid Golpayegani 10:00-12:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 325, UMBC   A data center today is responsible for safely managing big...

Dissertation Defense Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation Abhay L. Kashyap 11:00-1:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 346 In the age of music streaming,...

Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Visualization Filip Dabek 11:00-1:00 Thursday 13 July 2017, ITE 346, UMBC History is nothing but a...

  Every day, people interact with large amounts of text online, including legal documents they might quickly skim and sign without full, careful review. In an article recently published in The...

An article on Forbes’ site this week cites UMBC’s Professor Marie desJardins as one of 21 women who are advancing A.I. research. The article notes that artificial intelligence is “eating the...

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Ting Zhu, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, its prestigious CAREER Award for his work to significantly...

Information Systems Eminent Scholar Talk Big Microbiome Data Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University 10:00am Tuesday, 2 May 2017, ITE 459, UMBC We know little about the microbial world. Microbiome...

Tinoosh Mohsenin, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance her research on energy...