Category: research awards
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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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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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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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UMBC’s Alan Sherman and colleagues receive over $5M in NSF support for cybersecurity education
UMBC’s Alan Sherman and colleagues receive over $5M in NSF support for cybersecurity education The National Science Foundation recently awarded Alan Sherman, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), and his colleagues, two grants totaling over five million dollars to support students and research at UMBC. Tools to assess learning One of the two…
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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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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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Prof. Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors for life-saving organ transplants
UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors that could pause the clock for life-saving organ transplants UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter will develop a bioreactor to extend the viability of lifesaving human organs as they await transplant through a major new grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Funding for the project totals nearly…
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UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research
UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…