Category: Research
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Profs. Sherman and Oliva receive NSF award to study cybersecurity education
UMBC Professors Alan T. Sherman (PI, CSEE) and Linda Oliva (CO-PI, Education) received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study and improve how cybersecurity is taught at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy.
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UMBC faculty Karimi and Yus help team win 2nd place in Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust
A research team that includes UMBC CSEE faculty Naghmeh Karimi and Roberto Yus won the second place prize in the 2022 INCS-CoE Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust. The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE) is an international collaboration of government, industry, and academic organizations that have partnered to explore pioneering efforts to address cybersecurity…
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talk: Model Validation for DARPA DPRIVE
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Model Validation for DARPA DPRIVE Ian BlumenfeldUMBC and Two Six Technologies (joint work with Eric Bond, William Harrison, Chris Hathhorn, Paul Li, Matthew Torrence, and Jared Ziegler) 12–1 pm ET, Friday 6 May 2022, via WebEx Commodity hardware description languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog present a challenge from…
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talk: Iterative Preconditioning for Accelerating Machine Learning Problems, 12-1 4/27
ArtIAMAS Seminar SeriesCo-organized by UMBC, UMCP, and Army Research Lab Iterative Preconditioning forAccelerating Machine Learning Problems Nikhil Chopra Mechanical Engineering, UMCP 12-1 ET Wed. 27 April 2022, WebEx We study a new approach to accelerating machine learning problems in this talk. The system comprises multiple agents, each with a set of local data points and…
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Prof. Matuszek receives prestigious NSF CAREER award for robotics research
CSEE professor Cynthia Matuszek received a presigeous NSF CAREER award to support her research on improving the ability of robots to interact with people in everyday environments. The five-year award provides nearly $550,000 to support research by Dr. Matuszek and her students in the Interactive Robotics and Language lab.
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talk: Ted Selker on Voting Technology, 12-1, Fri 3/4
Dr. Ted Selker describes voting-process problems and technological problems, and some possible solutions for voting improvement. 12-1 ET March 4, 2022 online.
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talk: Interactive Natural Language Processing, 12-1 Wed. 2/23
Prof. Hal Daume describes how systems that help real-world users with tasks need to be able to communicate bi-directionally with people.
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talk: Semantically Rich Knowledge Graphs to Automate Cloud Data Security & Compliance, 12-1 Feb 22
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Semantically Rich Knowledge Graphs to Automate Cloud Data Security and Compliance Prof. Karuna JoshiInformation Systems, UMBC 12-1 pm ET, Friday, 18 February 2022, via WebEx To address data protection concerns, authorities and standards bodies worldwide have released a plethora of regulations, guidelines, and software controls to be applied to cloud…
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UMBC ascends to the nation’s highest level as a research university
UMBC has officially reached the nation’s highest level of research performance. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education today announced that UMBC has been placed into the category of doctoral universities with very high research activity, popularly known as Research 1 (or R1). UMBC is now ranked as one of only 146 R1 institutions nationally,…
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talk: Building Resilience against Cyberattacks, 12pm ET, Dec 15
ArtIAMAS Seminar Series, Co-organized by UMBC, UMCP, and the Army Research Lab Building Resilience against Cyberattacks Aryya Gangopadhyay, UMBC 12-1 PM ET Wednesday, 15 December 15, 2021Online via webex In this talk, we will address the issue of building resilient systems in the face of cyberattacks. We will present a defense mechanism for cyberattacks using…