Category: News

  • Talk: Cyber Lessons, Learned and Unlearned, 1-2 pm ET 4/20/21

    The UMBC Center for Cybersecurity (UCYBR) & The Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Present: “Cyber Lessons, Learned and Unlearned” Professor Eugene SpaffordProfessor of Computer Science & Executive Director Emeritus of the Purdue CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)Purdue University Tuesday 20 April 2021 1-2PM ET WHEREhttps://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m576a3dada9e0c63c07beb51fedbff3d1 Dr.…

  • UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program, apply by May 3

    UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program is designed for students from all majors who are interested in solving important societal problems. The program fosters a vibrant interdisciplinary community to help tackle the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Grand Challenges and gives students experiences and skills to create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of…

  • talk: MeetingMayhem: Teaching Adversarial Thinking through a Web-Based Game, 12-1 ET 4/9

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents MeetingMayhem:  Teaching Adversarial Thinking through a Web-Based Game Akriti Anand, Richard Baldwin, Sudha, Kosuri, Julie Nau, and Ryan Wunk-FinkUMBC Cyber Defense Lab joint work with Alan Sherman, Marc Olano, Linda Oliva, Edward Zieglar, and Enis Golazewski 12:00 noon–1 pm ET, Friday, 9 April 2021online via WebEx We present our progress…

  • talk: Human-in-the-Loop Entity Mining from Noisy Web Data, 1-2 4/6

    Human-in-the-Loop Entity Mining from Noisy Web Data Professor Eduard Dragut, Temple University 1-2 pm, Tuesday, 6 April 2021online via WebEx Recognizing entities that follow or closely resemble a regular expression (regex) pattern is an important task in information extraction. Due to a vast diversity of web documents and ways in which they are generated, even seemingly…

  • UMBC Cyber Dawgs win 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

    Congratulation to the UMBC Cyber Dawgs team, which took first place in the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC) finals. UMBC’s team was one of eight teams out of an initial 23 that qualified for the final competition. UMBC’s Cyber Dawgs will move on to compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC),…

  • talk: Mining social media data for health, public health & popular events, 1-2pm ET 4/2

    Mining social media data for health, public health, and popular events Anietie Andy, University of Pennsylvania 1:00-2:00 pm ET, Friday, 2 April 2021 online via WebEx Increasingly, individuals are turning to social media and online forums such as Twitter and Reddit to communicate about a range of issues including their health and well-being, public health concerns,…

  • talk: Enabling Computation, Control, and Customization of Materials with Digital Fabrication Processes, 1-2pm 3/31

    Enabling Computation, Control, and Customization of Materials with Digital Fabrication Processes Michael Rivera, Carnegie Mellon University  1:00-2:00 pm Wednesday, 31 March 2022 via WebEx Low-cost digital fabrication technology, and in particular 3D printing, is ushering in a new wave of personal computing. The technology promises that users will be able to design, customize and create any…

  • UMBC grad students present new ideas at GEARS Ideathon: 9 April 2021

    UMBC GEARS Ideathon 11:30-1:30 Friday, April 9, 2021 GEARS, UMBC’s Graduate Experience, Achievements, and Research Symposium, bring you its first-of-a-kind event IDEATHON that invites graduate students to describe how new or existing problems can be better tackled by using their new idea. Participants will present their ideas to the jury and fellow graduate students in UMBC. …

  • UMBC researchers work to advance neurotechnology through emerging consortium

    CSEE’s Ramana Vinjamuri is proposing that UMBC join the Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology (BRAIN) Center, a consortium led by Arizona State University and the University of Houston. His vision is to establish an East Coast BRAIN research hub to develop technologies that can help scientists better understand the nervous system and aid…

  • UMBC offers new Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Smart Computing, Big Data

    Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are critical for students in that they serve to bring the world of research to anyone interested in research at UMBC. Nirmalya Roy, an associate professor of information systems at UMBC, is principal investigator leading a new REU in Smart Computing and Communications funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).…