Category: Alumni
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Alumni startup at bwtech@UMBC earns unique award for AI work with UMBC research team
Alumni startup RedShred earns unique award for AI work with UMBC research team The artificial intelligence startup RedShred—cofounded by two UMBC alumni and housed in the bwtech@UMBC incubator—has received a rare Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Award from the National Science Foundation to expand in a new direction, in collaboration with UMBC faculty and…
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talk: SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption, 12pm Fri 4/27
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption Russ Fink Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 12:00–1:00pm Friday, April 27, 2018, ITE 237, UMBC In the newly coined Privacy Age, researchers are building systems with homomorphic algorithms that enable “never decrypt” operations on sensitive data in applications such as computational private information…
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🗣️talk: Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 11am Mon 3/12
Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Dr. David Chapman, Oceaneering International 11:00-12:00 Monday March 12, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned and unteathered submarine vehicles with a variety of applications from bathymetry survey to naval warfare. Attenuation and scattering of light and electromagnetic radiation through water severely restricts wireless communications as…
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UMBC Giving Day #BlackandGoldRush, February 28
On UMBC Giving Day, alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends will join the #BlackandGoldRush by giving to their favorite UMBC causes, and by inspiring others to give. Throughout this marathon day of giving, participants will have chances to help unlock giving challenges to drive additional support for areas they want to help. Your gift will…
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Congratulations to CSEE’s December 2017 graduates
Congratulations to CSEE’s 158 new alumni. They include ten Ph.D., 47 M.S., 29 M.P.S. and 72 B.S. graduates.
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UMBC faculty, alumni and partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges
UMBC faculty, alumni and corporate partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised, whether through a breach, hack, or threat. On Thursday, December 7, UMBC hosted experts from industry and academia at the National Press Club to discuss the…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award
CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association celebrates UMBC graduates and faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the University, their fields, and their communities. This year, CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli was chosen for the Rising Star award, which is given to an outstanding…
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UMBC CSEE Alumni Semmel and Hill address UMBC’s Class of 2017
Global leaders in research and industry to address UMBC’s Class of 2017 UMBC will welcome two alumni—known today as global leaders in their fields—as commencement speakers at this spring’s undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies. On Wednesday, May 24, Dr. Ralph D. Semmel, ‘92, computer science, will speak at the graduate commencement ceremony. Semmel is the…
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UMBC CSEE alumnus Josiah Dykstra receives PECASE award for cybercrime work
Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. ‘13, computer science, has received the prominent Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) for his work on digital forensics cloud computing, with applications in tackling cybercrime. While he was a graduate student at UMBC, Dykstra worked full-time at the National Security Agency, where he remains a cybersecurity researcher, but…