Category: Faculty and staff
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Talk: What can a Humanoid Robot Learn?, 10am Fri 4/2 UMBC
UMBC Professor Tim Oates will talk on What can a Humanoid Robot Learn? at 10:00am on Friday, April 2 in ITE346 at UMBC. The talk is sponsored by the UMBC ACM Student chapter.
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Prof. Marie desJardins is UMBC’s Presidential Teaching Professor for 2014-17
CSEE Professor Marie desJardins has been named as UMBC’s Presidential Teaching Professor for 2014-17. Dr. desJardins joined the UMBC faculty in 2001 after earning her Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley and spending ten years at SRI International as a research scientist. She has made significant contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and…
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Prof. desJardins interviewed in VOA story on Int. Women's Day
CSEE professor Marie desJardins was interviewed by the VOice of America for a story on International Women’s Day.
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Professors Adali and Westlake receive grant to improve treatment for stroke victims
CSEE Professor Tülay Adali and Professor Kelly Westlake from the University of Maryland School of Medicine received an award from the joint UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation Partnership Seed Grant Program for a project that ultimately will improve the recovery of stroke victims.
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Prof. Marie desJardins receives NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
UMBC CSEE professor Marie desJardins has been selected by the National Center for Women & Information Technology as one of four recipients of their 2014 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.
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Prof. Fow-Sen Choa Elected SPIE Fellow
UMBC CSEE professor Fow-Sen Choa has been selected as a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, for “achievements in the development of standoff chemical sensing using quantum cascade lasers.”
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Tim Finin appointed co-editor of CACM Viewpoints
UMBC professor Tim Finin has been appointed as a co-editor of the Viewpoints section of the Communications of the ACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Prof. Charles LaBerge cited for work on advancing aviation safety
CSEE Professor Charles Laberge was recently recognized for more than thirty years of service helping to develop technical standards critical to aviation safety by RTCA, the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics.
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter receives NSF award for self-powered biosensing microsystems
Prof. Gymama Slaughter wins prestigious NSF award for research on self-powered biosensing microsystems to simultaneously generates bioelectricity and monitor glucose.
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UMBC to compete in 2013 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
CSEE Professor and director of the chess program Alan Sherman with the team that will represent UMBC at the 2013 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship next month in Lubbock, Texas. The top four qualifying schools from the PanAms go on to compete in the Final Four of college chess, held in the spring. The…