Category: CSEE
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Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers
Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers The latest special section on education in The Baltimore Sun highlights several UMBC programs that prepare students to succeed in careers in rapidly growing and already high-demand industries. The Sun highlights how the flexibility of these programs makes them particularly accessible and…
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UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research
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 science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
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 order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…
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PhD Defense: The Lightweight Virtual File System
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 data volumes and balancing the complex needs between data producers and consumers. This balance often involves reconciling the needs of easy access and rapid retrieval in ways…
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PhD defense: Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation
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, the need for effective recommendations is important for music discovery and a personalized user experience. Collaborative filtering based recommenders suffer from popularity bias and cold-start which is…
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PhD Proposal: Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning & Visualization
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 catalogued series of events organized into data. Amazon, the largest online retailer in the world, processes over 2,000 orders per minute. Orders come from customers on a recurring…
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PhD defense: ACCESS: Adaptive Contactless Capacitive Electrostatic Sensing System
Dissertation Defense ACCESS: An Adaptive Contactless Capacitive Electrostatic Sensing System Alexander Nelson 10:30-12:30 Thursday, 13 July 2017, ITE 325, UMBC Technological miniaturization and low-power systems have precipitated an explosive growth in capability and adoption of wearable sensors. These kinds of sensors can be applied to many medical and rehabilitative applications, including as an assistive interface.…
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UMBC computer scientists explain how AI can help translate legalese before online users click “agree”
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 Conversation, Karuna Joshi, research associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, and Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, explain how…
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Workshop on Solvers for Large, Sparse Linear Systems, July 17-18
Workshop on Solvers for Large, Sparse Linear Systems Monday and Tuesday, 17-18 July 2017 Engineering Room 022, UMBC UMBC will host a free, two-day workshop for faculty and students on solvers for large, sparse linear systems on Monday and Tuesday, July 17-18 in Engineering 022 at UMBC. Thanks to UMBC Prof. Matthias Gobbert for organizing…
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Cybersecurity Scholarships for UMBC students
Applications sought for major UMBC cybersecurity scholarships NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service (SFS) Scholarships for careers in cybersecurity. Earn full tuition, fees, stipends ($22,500 – $34,000), and more ($2000 books, up to $3000 health benefits, $4000 professional expenses). For BS, MS, MPS, or PhD in CS, CE, IS, Cyber or related fields. USA citizenship or…