Category: Alumni
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Vote for CSEE's Homecoming decorations in alumni association contest
The CSEE office staff did a great job of decorating the ITE325 suite for UMBC’s 2013 Homecoming week, October 7-11. See some pictures of their Maryland Beach Picnic themed display and stop by ITE325 during the week to experience the full multimedia effect and let the Department’s staff know what you think of their effort.…
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CSEE alumna Jeehye Yun honored by UMBC Alumni Association
CSEE Alumna Jeehye Yun (BS CS, 1997) has been chosen by the UMBC Alumni Association as the 2013 Outstanding Alumnus from Engineering and Information Technology.
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CSEE Alumni Donald Miner and Adam Shook publish book on MapReduce
UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS ’06, PhD ’10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS ’09, MS expected ’13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized the way collections of computers are used to process large amounts of data in parallel. Their book, MapReduce Design Patterns Building Effective Algorithms…
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How undergraduate research spelled success for alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan
Research Proactive A Computational Biologist and Dartmouth professor, Alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan says his undergraduate research at UMBC was crucial to his success. Kids typically see college as a chance to get away from their parents. That wasn’t the case with alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan (B.S. CS, BioChem ’02), who did research with his dad in UMBC’s…
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CSEE alumna Kyla McMullen becomes first U Michigan African American woman to earn CS Ph.D.
One of a Kind A Computer Science alumna becomes the first African-American woman in history to get a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. “Bittersweet.” That’s how Kyla McMullen (CS, B.S. ’05) describes what it feels like to be the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with…
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CS alumna Stephanie Hill ('86) to be honored at UMBC's Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards
Computer Science alumna (’86) Stephanie C. Hill will be honored at this year’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards on October 11, 7:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Hill is the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil division. In May, she submitted a guest post to the Washington post entitled…
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UMBC alumnus Sean Kennedy featured on InTheCapital.com for BeerGivr app
"I owe you a beer" is a phrase that's thrown around a lot with very little follow through. UMBC Alumnus Sean Kennedy (Information Systems '06) created a smartphone application that could change that. BeerGivr allows you to virtualy send your buddy a brew. When a friend wants to buy you a drink but can't make…
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Computer Science Alumni on working at Google
It's got a bowling alley, a piano in the lobby, a T-Rex skeleton, and eighteen cafeterias. It might sound like a theme-park, but it's the Googleplex, a.k.a. Google headquarters, located in Mountain View, California. This extremely enlightened workplace, which features a slew of employee benefits like a free shuttle to work, laundry services, and even…
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Computer Science Alumnus, Harry Chen, featured in UMBC Magazine
Photo Courtesy UMBC Magazine In its latest issue, dubbed "Tech Trekkers", UMBC Magazine features Computer Science alumnus Harry Chen, one of the key players in the development of the iPhone 4S's digital assisant, Siri. While you may have heard about Harry through an article we posted last year, the UMBC Magazine article goes deeper into…
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CSEE Students Take Part in 34th Annual Graduate Research Conference
photo courtesy www.umbc.edu/gsa More than two-dozen Computer Science and Electrical Engineering graduate students are slated to present at the Graduate Student Association's annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC). The GRC will be held this Friday, April 27 and features a keynote presentation from Dr. Michael I. Nishimura, a UMBC alumnus who now works at Loyola University…