Category: Faculty and staff
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Anthony Johnson, Professor CSEE, Physics, elected to APS Executive Board
Dr. Anthony Johnson, a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Physics, was elected to serve on the American Physical Society’s (APS) Executive Board. With over 50,000 members, APS is one of the world’s leading organizations of physicists. It is dedicated to advancing research in the field through journals, scientific meetings, education, outreach, advocacy…
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Banerjee, Lachut receive best paper nomination for work with green homes
“Minimizing Intrusiveness in Home Energy Measurement”, a paper written by CSEE Assisant Professor Nilanjan Banerjee, Computer Science graduate student David Lachut, and their colleagues at the University of San Francisco, was nominated for the best paper award at ACM's BuildSys workshop. The paper outlines the design of a system that will analyze and manage energy…
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Penny Rheingans interviewed on WYPR for Ada Lovelace Day
CWIT Director and CSEE professor Penny Rheingans was interviewed by Sheila Kast on today's Maryland Morning show on WYPR as part of a segment on Ada Lovelace Day (October 16). You can listen to the WYPR interview here. Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical…
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Computer Science Mini-Summit reveals trouble with high school CS curricula
Filling the Black Hole On August 8, 2012, Computer Education for the 21st Century’s Computer Science Education Mini-Summit revealed the problem with high school Computer Science curricula, and, more importantly, what’s being done to fix it. Photos: Shelby Clarke “High School is a black hole for most students with respect to Computer Science,” says Jan…
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Meet the new professors in UMBC's CSEE Department
New Kids on the Block The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department welcomes three new professors starting Fall 2012. Learn what makes them tick. Nilanjan Banerjee Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s…
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Environmentally Aware
New CSEE assistant professor Nilanjan Banerjee works on building renewable energy-driven devices. Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s not infallible. For a generation that’s come to rely on technology, what do we…
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Visualize This
New CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen creates visualizations to represent large data sets. Few things are more daunting than an excel spreadsheet full of data. Even scientists can react to massive data sets with blank stares. That’s where the work of new CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen comes into play. As a designer of visualization…
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Ultimately Academic
New CSEE lecturer John Park shares a little bit about his research and teaching career, and what he loves most about being a professor. Even though this will be my first real term as a full-time lecturer at UMBC, I'm actually an old hand here. I have been teaching part-time at UMBC for 4 years,…
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CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta featured in Journeys to Data Mining
CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta is one of fifteen Data Mining experts featured in a new book: Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers (Springer, 2012). The book assembles the career journeys of fifteen experts in the field, answering questions like: “What are your notable success stories”, “What did you learn from your failures”,…
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Marie desJardins in UMBC Magazine
Photo: UMBC Magazine CSEE Professor Marie desJardins' success at the 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament last March was highlighted in the latest issue of UMBC Magazine: "I didn't realize I could be this good at crossword puzzles," says desJardins. She adds that her development as a crossword competitor also highlights the hurdles to bringing more…