Category: Research
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UMBC receives NSF support to enhance data science courses, research and student experiences
Two recent NSF awards will enhance data science courses, research, and student experiences at UMBC
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URCAD 2020 Applications are now open
UMBC’s 24th Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day will be held on 22 April 2020; apply to present by Feb. 14
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JHU/APL CIRCUIT internship program information session, 3pm Fri 1/31
There will be a special information session on the JHU/APL CIRCUIT internship program from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm on Friday, 31 January 2020 in room ITE 459.
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Prof. Tim Oates Receives IARPA Contract under TrojAI Program
Prof. Tim Oates funded to work on the IARPA TrojAI program to help protect AI models from malicious actors
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talk: Bringing Social, Information, and Natural Sciences together to Understand Human Transformation of Earth
Department of Geography and Environmental Systems Bringing Social, Information, and Natural Sciences together to Understand Human Transformation of Earth Dr. Earle Ellis, UMBC 12:00-1:00pm Wednesday, 25 September 2019, ITE 229 The principal investigator of a UMBC-led “massively collaborative” project published in Science Magazine will describe how archaeologists, geographers, and information science came together to show…
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New NSF award will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments
Prof. Ferraro in UMBC’s Pi2 visualization laboratory talking to a virtual robot, modeled using a combination of Unity, ROS, and Gazebo. Image from a recent paper on this research.. New NSF project will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments UMBC Assistant Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new NSF research…
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Prof. Oates receives NSF grant to develop distributed machine learning technology
Future machine learning systems will learn from multiple datasets without requiring that they be shared or consolodated in one location. UMBC CSEE Professor Tim Oates recently received a grant from NSF, “Truly Distributed Deep Learning: Representation and Computation”, to develop new architectures for deep learning systems that are distributed, allowing greater scale and control over…
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CSEE faculty Ben Shariati co-author of NIST guide on mobile device security and privacy
Dr. Ben Shariati co-author of NIST guide on mobile device security and privacy Dr. Behnam Shariati, Assistant Director of the UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program, is one of the authors of a new NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide guide on how organizations can use standards-based, commercially available products to help meet their mobile device security and privacy…
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UMBC welcomes Donna Ruginski as executive director for cybersecurity initiatives
“Cybersecurity research is important because we live in a connected world. As a society, we have an expectation to conduct professional business in a safe and secure technology environment,” says Donna Ruginski, UMBC’s new executive director for cybersecurity initiatives. “Research is thriving at UMBC, and some of the nation’s leading cybersecurity research is being conducted…
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IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop, 9-5 May 3
IBM Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm Friday, May 3, 2019 UMBC will host an all-day IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm on May 3 taught by Prof. Anand Singh of NCSU. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. We also welcome government and industry partners. Register for the free workshop here. The workshop will…