Category: Graduate

  • Applications Open for 2018 CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women

    The upcoming CRA-Women Graduate Student Cohort for Women will be held April 13-14, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women is a two-day workshop for female students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school in computing fields. The application is available here and closes November 30. The workshop is generously funded by sponsors from industry, academia, the…

  • Winning projects at the HackUMBC 2017 Hackathon

    HackUMBC was a 24-hour tech innovation marathon where students across the East Coast collaborate on new ideas to build mobile, web and hardware projects. HackUMBC involved a diverse group of students, undergraduate, graduate and high school students over 18, who enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and other fun activities. At the…

  • DevFestMD ’17: a day of talks, workshops and networking, Fri Oct 27, Baltimore

    Want to learn about blockchain or machine learning? Like to get hands-on experience building software for IoT? Participate in DevFestMD ’17 and do all of that and more! DevFestMD is a day-long tech event filled with talks and hands-on workshops. So whether you’re thinking about joining the tech community or a seasoned software engineer, they…

  • HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017

    HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017 HackUMBC is a 24-hour tech innovation marathon where students across the East Coast collaborate on new ideas to build mobile, web and hardware projects. HackUMBC invites diverse groups of students, undergraduate, graduate and high school students over 18, to enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and…

  • talk: Results from the SFS Summer Research Study on NetAdmin, 12p Fri 9/8

    UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Results from the SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 8 September 2017 ITE 228 (or nearby), UMBC In summer 2017, UMBC held a cybersecurity research workshop that featured the UMBC Scholarship For Service (SFS) cohort working with the cooperation of the UMBC Department of Information Technology…

  • UMBC researchers develop AI system to design clothing for your personal fashion style

      AI system designs clothing for your personal fashion style Everyone knows that more and more data is being collected about our everyday activities, like where we go online and in the physical world. Much of that data is being used for personalization. Recent UMBC CSEE Masters student Prutha Date explored a novel kind of…

  • PhD defense: Prajit Das, Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices

    Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices Prajit Kumar Das 8:00-11:00am Tuesday, 22 August 2017, ITE325b, UMBC There are ongoing security and privacy concerns regarding mobile platforms which are being used by a growing number of citizens. Security and privacy models typically used by mobile platforms use one-time permission acquisition mechanisms.…

  • PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution

    Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…

  • UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research

      UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research   Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…

  • PhD Defense: The Lightweight Virtual File System

    Dissertation Defense The Lightweight Virtual File System Navid Golpayegani 10:00-12:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 325, UMBC   A data center today is responsible for safely managing big data volumes and balancing the complex needs between data producers and consumers. This balance often involves reconciling the needs of easy access and rapid retrieval in ways…