Category: Research
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IBM-UMBC Day, 9-3pm April 6
IBM-UMBC Day, 9am-3pm April 6, 2018 9:00am-3:00pm Friday, 6 April 2018 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Performing Arts and Humanities Building 1000 Hilltop Circle | Baltimore, MD 21250 UMBC is pleased to host the first ever IBM-UMBC Day on Friday, April 6th. IBM-UMBC Day will create connections and enhance collaboration between UMBC faculty, students, and…
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UMBC launches NSF Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics
UMBC launches Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics to tackle data-intensive challenges from disease tracking to online privacy The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected UMBC to lead a new $3 million research partnership that will deploy next-generation computing hardware to solve major infrastructure challenges. UMBC will launch the Center for Accelerated Real Time…
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🎓 Applications open for UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program
2017 UMBC Grand Challenge Scholars Applications open for UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program UMBC is recruiting undergraduate students for the third cohort for its Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP). UMBC’s GCSP is an exciting opportunity that is open to students from all majors who are interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to making the world a…
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talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…
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talk: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition, 1pm Fri 2/23, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, February 23, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC We are interested in learning representations (features) that are discriminative for semantic image understanding tasks such as object classification, detection, and segmentation in images. A common approach to obtain such features is…
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Professors Banerjee & Robucci on developing wearable sensors for people with limited mobility
UMBC’s new Public Research for Public Good site features videos that highlight faculty research that provides real impact on the communities they are working with. In one, CSEE Professors Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci discuss their research on developing wearable sensors to help people with limited mobility, allowing them to more easily interact with things…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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talk: A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning, 1pm Fri 11/17
ACM Tech Talk Series A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning Ashwin Kumar Ganesan, PhD student 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 17 November 2017, ITE325, UMBC In recent years, Deep Neural Networks have been highly successful at performing a number of tasks in computer vision, natural language processing and artificial intelligence in general. The remarkable performance gains have led…
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talk: Ferraro on Understanding What We Read and Share, 1pm Fri 11/10, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Understanding What We Read and Share: Event Processing from Text and Images Dr. Frank Ferraro, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 10 November 2017, ITE 325, UMBC A goal of natural language processing (NLP) is to design machines with human-like communication and language understanding skills. NLP systems able to represent knowledge…
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UMBC upgrades High Performance Computing Facility through new NSF grant
UMBC upgrades High Performance Computing Facility through new NSF grant, expanding possibilities for data-intensive research The National Science Foundation recently awarded UMBC a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award totaling more than $550,000 to expand the university’s High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF). The funding will go toward upgraded hardware and increased computing speeds for…