Category: Profiles
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Kirit Chatterjee (CE MS '12) helps build innovative temperature sensor for neonatal care
For his Master’s thesis, Computer Engineering student Kirit Chatterjee worked with scientists from UMBC’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on an innovation temperature sensor for premature babies.
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How undergraduate research spelled success for alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan
Research Proactive A Computational Biologist and Dartmouth professor, Alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan says his undergraduate research at UMBC was crucial to his success. Kids typically see college as a chance to get away from their parents. That wasn’t the case with alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan (B.S. CS, BioChem ’02), who did research with his dad in UMBC’s…
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CS Ph.D. student, Adrian Rosebrock, talks about website/iPhone app, Chic Engine
Fashion Forward Chic Engine, a website and iPhone app created by Computer Science Ph.D. student Adrian Rosebrock helps you find clothes you see on friends, strangers, or online. Just snap a photo, and let Chic Engine do the rest. CSEE: Tell us about your “ah-ha” moment with Chic Engine. What inspired you to start it?…
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CSEE alumna Kyla McMullen becomes first U Michigan African American woman to earn CS Ph.D.
One of a Kind A Computer Science alumna becomes the first African-American woman in history to get a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. “Bittersweet.” That’s how Kyla McMullen (CS, B.S. ’05) describes what it feels like to be the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with…
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Environmentally Aware
New CSEE assistant professor Nilanjan Banerjee works on building renewable energy-driven devices. Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s not infallible. For a generation that’s come to rely on technology, what do we…
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Visualize This
New CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen creates visualizations to represent large data sets. Few things are more daunting than an excel spreadsheet full of data. Even scientists can react to massive data sets with blank stares. That’s where the work of new CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen comes into play. As a designer of visualization…
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Ultimately Academic
New CSEE lecturer John Park shares a little bit about his research and teaching career, and what he loves most about being a professor. Even though this will be my first real term as a full-time lecturer at UMBC, I'm actually an old hand here. I have been teaching part-time at UMBC for 4 years,…
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Meet the Students: CS Ph.D. Student Yu Wang
Meet Yu Wang, a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Originally from China, Yu came to UMBC in 2009 to study for her Master's in Computer Science. She's part of UMBC's VANGOGH research lab and the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). Once she graduates, Yu hopes to one day work in a…
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Need Homework Help? Ask Dan…
A Sophomore Computer Science major, Dan Maselko has been a tutor in the Computer Science Help Center since last fall. Dan Maselko got hooked on computer science in high school. “When I took my first computer programming course in tenth grade,” he says, “I realized how easy and fun it was for me to get…
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He dances, he climbs, he teaches Computer Science: Meet Max
Meet Max, a Teaching Assistant who loves climbing mountains, swing dancing, and Artificial Intelligence. “I’ve never been bored in my life,” says Maksym Morawski (call him Max), a Computer Science graduate student who spends most of his free time scaling mountains. Originally from Silver Spring, Max moved to Baltimore in 2006 to study Computer Science…