Category: Faculty and staff
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Meet the Staff: Rebecca Dongarra
Name: Rebecca Dongarra Educational Background: Bachelor of Arts in Biology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Instructional Systems Development through UMBC Hometown: West Friendship, Maryland Current role: Academic Affairs Manager Rebecca moved from the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences as the Data and Events Coordinator to join CSEE.…
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch
Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch UMBC CSEE Professor Cynthia Matuszek was named as one AI’s 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The designation is given every two years to a group of “10 young stars who have demonstrated outstanding AI achievements”. IEEE Intelligent Systems accepts nominations from around the world, which…
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Prof. Milton Halem receives UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award
Professor Milton Halem receives UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award Dr. Milton Halem, Research Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award. The award recognizes overall excellence in research, and where appropriate, significant contributions to teaching and service/leadership while at UMBC.…
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UMBC recognizes Marie desJardins for lasting commitment to inclusive computing education
UMBC recognizes Marie desJardins for lasting commitment to inclusive computing education Marie desJardins, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) and professor of computer science and electrical engineering, will be leaving UMBC to take up a new position as founding dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences at…
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talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…
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Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools
Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools Marie desJardins, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology and professor of computer science, recently wrote a piece for The Baltimore Sun about the importance of computer science education in K–12 schools. She is a leader in the artificial…
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talk: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition, 1pm Fri 2/23, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, February 23, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC We are interested in learning representations (features) that are discriminative for semantic image understanding tasks such as object classification, detection, and segmentation in images. A common approach to obtain such features is…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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CSEE Professor Marie desJardins interviewed for Voices in AI podcast
Voices in AI – Episode 20: A Conversation with Marie desJardins Byron Reese interviewed UMBC CSEE Professor Marie desJardins as part of his Voices in AI podcast series on Gigaom. In the episode, they talk about the Turing test, Watson, autonomous vehicles, and language processing. Visit the Voices in AI site to listen to the…
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talk: Ferraro on Understanding What We Read and Share, 1pm Fri 11/10, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Understanding What We Read and Share: Event Processing from Text and Images Dr. Frank Ferraro, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 10 November 2017, ITE 325, UMBC A goal of natural language processing (NLP) is to design machines with human-like communication and language understanding skills. NLP systems able to represent knowledge…