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Omar Shehab (CS Ph.D) awarded NSF travel grants for upcoming conferences
Congratulations to Omar Shehab (CS Ph.D.), who has been awarded two NSF travel grants to attend research conferences this June. First, Omar has received an NSF travel grant to attend the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity. The conference celebrates research in all areas of computation complexity theory, taking a look at the absolute and relative…
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CSEE professor Marie desJardins continues reign as crossword champ
UMBC CSEE Professor Marie desJardins joined hundreds of puzzle pros at the 36th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, NY and placed 24th out of 570 solvers, finishing 5th in the “B” division.
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CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee wins Microsoft SEIF award to fund research
CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee has received a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation (SEIF) Award. The award comes with a $25,000 grant to help fund a research project that uses inventive wearable computing devices to help paraplegics and quadriplegics get around their homes. It’s called “Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients”. Dr. Banerjee’s…
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Professor Anupam Joshi to speak at Security & Privacy Symposium
CSEE professor Anupam Joshi–director of the new UMBC Center for Cybersecurity–has been invited to give a keynote talk at the Security & Privacy Symposium. The symposium will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur India from February 28 to March 1. His talk is entitled “A Semantically Rich approach to Cybersecurity”. The…
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App-ademics: Dr. Banerjee's Intro to Mobile Computing course teaches Smartphone app development
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Dr. desJardins and team win Hrabowski Innovation grant for ACTIVE
It was a case of lab envy that inspired professor Marie desJardins to dream up ACTIVE, the new dynamic laptop lab that will sprout up in the Engineering/Computer Science building next fall. The culprit? CASTLE, the Active Science Teaching and Learning Environment created by the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences in 2010 (pictured below).…
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Meet new CSEE Lecturer, Dr. Sadeghian
New Computer Science Lecturer, Pedram Sadeghian, always knew that teaching was for him. It was figuring out what to teach that was the challenge. Dr. Sadhegian studied Psychology as an undergraduate. It wasn’t until after college, when—out of curiosity—he took a class in C programming, that he fell in love with the subject. “I liked…
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CSEE Department welcomes Don Engel as Affiliate Assistant Professor
The CSEE department welcomes Dr. Don Engel as an Affiliate Assistant Professor. Dr. Engel currently works as UMBC’s Assistant Vice President for Research, where he manages prospective internal and external research partnerships. “I believe this [new appointment] will make me better at my core duties by putting me in the same situations that UMBC students,…
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Spring 2013 Note from the Chair
This semester we have a departure and arrival to announce. Professor Yung-Jui (Ray) Chen has retired. Ray has been with UMBC for twenty-four years. He taught courses in electronics and circuit theory and initiated research in compound semiconductors here at UMBC. He served as Program Director for the Electrical Engineering program in its early days.…
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talk: Phlypo on Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation, 1pm Fri 2/1
1pm Fri 2/1: Dr. Ronald Phlypo from the UMBC MLSP Lab will talk about his research on “Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation” at 1:0pm on Friday, February 1, 2013 in room 227 of the ITE Building.