Category: News
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Sherman and Forno receive $2.5 Million NSF grant for Cybersecurity scholarships
CSEE Professor Dr. Alan Sherman (PI) and Dr. Rick Forno (Co-PI), Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity have received an NSF grant of $2.5 million over five years to fund 22 students studying Information Assurance (IA) and Cybersecurity. The scholarships are part of the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Future scholars will come from UMBC’s…
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Finin and Joshi receive NSF award to study linked data privacy
Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi have received a $400,000 research award from the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for a three year project to investigate how to better manage security and privacy constraints while querying semantically annotated linked data sources. The project, Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data, is a collaboration with…
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PhD Defense: Yasaman Haghpanah
Yasaman Haghpanah will defend her Ph.D. dissertation, A Trust and Reputation Mechanism Through Behavioral Modeling of Reviewers, at 11:0am on Tuesday 21 August 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.) wins best student paper award at IEEE conference
Congratulations to Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.), who won the best student paper award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. The conference, which took place last weekend in Las Vegas, is a forum to discuss how we can maximize the reuse of information with the creation of simple, rich, and reusable…
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PhD dissertation proposal: Albert Kir
Albert Kir will present his PhD dissertation proposal, On Optimizing Contrast Quality and Acquisition Time of SSFP-Sequence-Based techniques for Structural and Functional MR Imaging via Extended Phase Graph (EPG) Analysis, at 1ppm on Wednesday August 15 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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IEEE Colloquium on Energy Harvesting Devices, September 25
The IEEE Baltimore Electron Devices Society chapter, in collaboration with ARL, will be hosting a one day Colloquium on Energy Harvesting Devices at the University of Maryland, College Park on Tuesday, September 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Stamp Student Union Building, Benjamin Banneker Room (Room 2212). Invited speakers include: Dr. Edward Shaffer,…
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Baltimore unWIREd tackles the city's social ills
Photo: devanwells.blogspot.com While The Wire has been referred to by critics as “the greatest TV drama of all time,” its portrayal of Baltimore isn’t exactly an all-encompassing one. Because despite its reputation, Charm City has a lot that makes it charming: a growing entrepreneurial spirit, top-notch universities, and a pool of untapped talent. The brains…
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Dissertation proposal: Design and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Networks with Reflected Links
Mon 8/13 Lloyd Emokpae will present his dissertation proposal, "Design and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Networks with Reflected Links", at 2:00pm Monday, 13 August 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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A Map of Baltimore Start-ups
Photo courtesy baltimoretech.net Take a look at the interactive map developed by Baltimoretech.net. The map identifies the locations of Baltimore startups, accelerators, incubators, investors, and more. It even shows which start-ups are hiring.
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5 Ways to Plug into Baltimore’s Tech Community
You know the saying: It’s not what you know, but who you know that matters. Well, it’s a saying for a reason. If you want to have an edge in today's economy, having friends in high places can only help. Baltimore is a growing hotbed of startups with a burgeoning technology community. Whether you’re a…