Category: CSEE

  • Apply for a Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, courtesy Facebook

    Photo: Gracehopper.org Facebook has announced that it will award scholarships to 25 women who wish to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference that will take place at the Baltimore Convention center October 3-6. This year's theme is "Are We There Yet?" Applicants must be women studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering,…

  • Amey Sane MS defense: Predicting the activities of mobile phone with HMMs

    9am Tue 8/28: Amey Sane defends his MS thesis, Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models, at 9:00am Tuesday, 28 August 2012, in room ITE 325b at UMBC.

  • Nikhil Puranik MS defense: Classification of Column Data, 8/24

    Nikhil Puranik will defend his MS thesis, A Specialist Approach for Classification of Column Data, at 1:30pm on Friday August 24 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.

  • Sherman and Forno receive $2.5 Million NSF grant for Cybersecurity scholarships

    CSEE Professor Dr. Alan Sherman (PI) and Dr. Rick Forno (Co-PI), Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity have received an NSF grant of $2.5 million over five years to fund 22 students studying Information Assurance (IA) and Cybersecurity. The scholarships are part of the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Future scholars will come from UMBC’s…

  • PhD Defense: Yasaman Haghpanah

    Yasaman Haghpanah will defend her Ph.D. dissertation, A Trust and Reputation Mechanism Through Behavioral Modeling of Reviewers, at 11:0am on Tuesday 21 August 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.

  • Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.) wins best student paper award at IEEE conference

    Congratulations to Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.), who won the best student paper award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. The conference, which took place last weekend in Las Vegas, is a forum to discuss how we can maximize the reuse of information with the creation of simple, rich, and reusable…

  • PhD dissertation proposal: Albert Kir

    Albert Kir will present his PhD dissertation proposal, On Optimizing Contrast Quality and Acquisition Time of SSFP-Sequence-Based techniques for Structural and Functional MR Imaging via Extended Phase Graph (EPG) Analysis, at 1ppm on Wednesday August 15 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.

  • Internship: Web Developer for MD FiRST

    Photo Courtesy governor.maryland.gov Motorola Solutions is looking for an intern to work on the state's new Maryland FiRST website. Maryland FiRST, or Maryland First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team, will connect Maryland's first responders over a secure 700 MHz radio system. The following is a job description,  taken from a UMBC News post: It will…

  • Northrop Grumman and UMBC's Cync program a success after first year

    Photo Courtesy bioparks.aurp.net A year ago, Northrop Grumman partnered with bwtech@UMBC to form the Cync program with the goal of “identifying, developing, and commercializing technologies that will meet the cybersecurity needs of the DOD, DHS, DOJ and Intelligence communities,” says the website. Since then, the program has supported five technology startups—AccelerEyes, Five Directions, KoolSpan, Oculis…

  • Getting to Know CSEE at UMBC

    Welcome class of 2016! We're so glad you chose to study Computer Science or Computer Engineering at UMBC! Now that you're here, we thought you might like a little tour of our department so that you can make the most of the next four years. We don't promise they'll be easy, but we do promise…