Category: Faculty and staff
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Prof Marie desJardins talks on teaching and diversity in CS education and research
CSEE Professor Marie desJardins was one of three UMBC professors who spoke at a recent UMBC Provost’s luncheon and new faculty seminar on Great Teachers Talk about Teaching. She was joined by Professor James Grubb (History) and Manil Suri (Mathematics & Statistics), who also spoke at the seminar. Dr. desJardins will also be talking on…
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter receives NSF award to develop nanoelectrode probe arrays
CSEE Professor Gymama Slaughter received a two-year research research award from the National Science Foundation to develop and evaluate nanoelectrode probe arrays to better detect and extract intracellular signals. Data from these signals will help in restoring functional loss of limb control of individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke.
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Tim Finin elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
UMBC CSEE Professor Tim Finin was elected as a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for "significant contributions to the theory and practice of knowledge sharing in multiagent systems and on the Web, and for sustained service to the AI community."
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Curtis Menyuk gets IEEE Photonics Society Willm. Streifer Scientific Achievement Award
UMBC CSEE Professor Curtis R. Menyuk has been awarded the IEEE Photonics Society 2013 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award "for seminal advances in the fundamental understanding and mitigation of polarization effects in high-performance optical fiber communication systems."
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CSEE professor Dr. Tulay Adali receives USM Regents’ Faculty Award for Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
More than twenty years ago, Tulay Adali stepped onto UMBC’s campus as an assistant professor right after receiving her PhD. Much has changed since then. Now a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Dr. Adali runs a highly active Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSPLab). Her recent appointment as an IEEE Signal Processing…
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Rick Forno gives CISPA Guest Lecture
5/7: Rick Forno gave a lecture on the proposed CISPA law to UMBC’s Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
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CSEE professor Marie desJardins continues reign as crossword champ
UMBC CSEE Professor Marie desJardins joined hundreds of puzzle pros at the 36th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, NY and placed 24th out of 570 solvers, finishing 5th in the “B” division.
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UMBC’s Anthony Johnson appointed to NAS committee on atomic, molecular and optical sciences
CSEE Professor Anthony Johnson has been appointed by the National Research Council to the National Academies’ Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences. The CAMOS committee’s goals include providing active stewardship of the agenda laid out in the National Academies study Controlling the Quantum World and interacting with and advising U.S. federal agencies on science and…
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CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee wins Microsoft SEIF award to fund research
CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee has received a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation (SEIF) Award. The award comes with a $25,000 grant to help fund a research project that uses inventive wearable computing devices to help paraplegics and quadriplegics get around their homes. It’s called “Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients”. Dr. Banerjee’s…
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Professor Anupam Joshi to speak at Security & Privacy Symposium
CSEE professor Anupam Joshi–director of the new UMBC Center for Cybersecurity–has been invited to give a keynote talk at the Security & Privacy Symposium. The symposium will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur India from February 28 to March 1. His talk is entitled “A Semantically Rich approach to Cybersecurity”. The…