Category: Faculty and staff
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Prof. Tülay Adali receives prestigious Humboldt Research Award for advanced data analysis
Prof. Tulay Adali has received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award for her research on machine learning applied to signal and image processing.
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UMBC’s Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER Award to develop long-lasting security for cryptographic chips
Prof. Naghmeh Karimi received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her work to investigate how device-aging related risks compromise the security of cryptographic devices.
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CSEE Prof. LaBerge receives USM Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
E. F. Charles LaBerge, Professor of the Practice in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department, has been awarded the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Prof. Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER award for research on the security of cryptographic chips
Investigating the Impact of Device Aging on the Security of Cryptographic Chips Professor Naghmeh Karimi received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research on Investigating the impact of device aging on the security of cryptographic chips. CAREER awards are among NFS’s most prestigious awards and are intended to support early-career faculty…
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UMBC faculty poised to help shape national policies in computing
UMBC faculty poised to help shape national policies in computing Adam Bargteil, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, has been named chair-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). He will lead SIGGRAPH as chair starting Fall 2020. With Bargteil’s election, UMBC’s College…
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Dr. Forno discusses the Baltimore Ransomware attack on Maryland Public TV program
Maryland Public Television’s Charles Robinson reports on how Baltimore continues to recover after city computers were infected with ransomware in the May 2019 Baltimore ransomware attack and interviews Dr. Rick Forno, associate director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and graduate director of UMBC’s Cybersecurity MPS degree program. From Wikipedia: On May 7th 2019, most…
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New NSF award will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments
Prof. Ferraro in UMBC’s Pi2 visualization laboratory talking to a virtual robot, modeled using a combination of Unity, ROS, and Gazebo. Image from a recent paper on this research.. New NSF project will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments UMBC Assistant Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new NSF research…
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Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro, 12-1 Mon 3/25, ITE 239
Prof. Ferraro’s teaching and research areas include AI, language understanding and machine learning Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro Find out about Machine Learning and NLP classes 2:00-1:00 Monday, 25 March 2019, ITE 239 Next Monday, March 25th, join the Computer Science Education Club for its second installment of the “Meet Your Professor” Spring 2019…
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Tim Finin named ACM fellow for contributions to knowledge sharing
Prof. Tim Finin named ACM Fellow for contributions to knowledge sharing UMBC’s Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a distinctive honor granted to less than one percent of all ACM members. ACM fellows are selected based on their work…
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Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems
Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems Forbes has an article on Professor Yelena Yesha, Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems, in their Cognitive World section, a “knowledge hub and ecosystem for AI transformation”. The piece, which is the first in a two-part…