Category: research awards
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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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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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UMBC and Georgia State receive $3M NIMH grant to improve data-driven diagnosis of mood disorders
UMBC and Georgia State receive $3M NIMH grant to improve data-driven diagnosis of mood disorders UMBC and Georgia State University have received a $3 million five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for research supporting the diagnosis of mood disorders. Tulay Adali, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE) and distinguished…
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UMBC partners with UMD, Army Research Lab to advance AI and autonomy through $68M collaboration
This post was adapted from a story was written by UMBC News staff that first appeared on news.umbc.edu. From surveillance tools to autonomous machines, countries around the world are ramping up their military artificial intelligence (AI) assets. Such robust technologies are necessary to protect the United States from surprise attacks, which occur these days not only…
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Prof. Sherman receives Hrabowski Fund for Innovation award to develop quantum computing teaching material
CSEE Professor Alan Sherman received a seed award from UMBC’s Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to develop educational material for quantum algorithms. The project, Evaluation and Enhancement of a Learning Unit on Quantum Algorithms, will involve a multidisciplinary team that will assess and enhance materials for a two-week learning unit for quantum algorithms.
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New NSF grant to improve human-robot interaction
Drs. Matuszek, Ferraro and WInder received an NSF award for research on semi-supervised deep learning for domain adaptation in robotic language acquisition.
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UMBC collaborates with MxD to develop cybersecurity curriculum for workers in manufacturing
A grant from the Dod will support UMBC researchers in collaborating with MxD to develop a curriculum and online platform for manufacturing professionals to increase their cybersecurity skills and to protect manufacturing plants from cyber attacks.
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UMBC researchers receive NSF RAPID grant to speed COVID-19 detection through a deep neural network
A research team from UMBC and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to detect COVID-19 infections earlier through deep learning models applied to CT images.
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UMBC’s Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER Award to develop long-lasting security for cryptographic chips
Prof. Naghmeh Karimi received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her work to investigate how device-aging related risks compromise the security of cryptographic devices.
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Prof. Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER award for research on the security of cryptographic chips
Investigating the Impact of Device Aging on the Security of Cryptographic Chips Professor Naghmeh Karimi received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research on Investigating the impact of device aging on the security of cryptographic chips. CAREER awards are among NFS’s most prestigious awards and are intended to support early-career faculty…