Category: research awards
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Prof. Ting Zhu receives NSF CAREER award to develop Internet of Things technology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Ting Zhu, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, its prestigious CAREER Award for his work to significantly improve the existing sensing capabilities of common technologies, such as cell phones. The five-year grant will total nearly $500,000. “We congratulate Dr. Zhu on his NSF CAREER Award,…
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UMBC Prof. Tinoosh Mohsenin receives NSF CAREER Award for Deep Learning Technologies
Tinoosh Mohsenin, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance her research on energy efficient implementation of deep learning technologies and machine learning algorithms that are developed to function similarly to the brain. Her award totals $475,104 over five years. Mohsenin’s research…
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CSEE lecturers receive grant to reduce academic integrity violations in CS classes
CSEE lecturers Gibson and Dixon received a Hrabowski Fund for Innovation seed grant will look at ways in which the campus can reduce academic integrity violations in CS classes
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Prof. Tinoosh Mohsenin gets NSF grant for wearable biomedical computing technology
CSEE Professor Tinoosh Mohsenin received a $212,000 NSF grant to develop a heterogeneous ultra low-power accelerator for wearable biomedical computing.
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Ting Zhu receives NSF grant to develop localization and mapping techniques
UMBC CSEE professor Ting Zhu received a $250K award from NSF to develop a holistic approach for real-time, light-weight and accurate relative positioning to detect peers in both indoor and outdoor environments.
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UMBC partners to develop utility-driven smart energy services
UMBC CSEE Prof. Nilanjan Banerjee is part of a $1M NSF grant to develop intelligent, utility-driven smart energy services.
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UMBC awarded NSF grant to automate energy assement for low-income Baltimore neighborhoods
UMBC Professors Nirmalya Roy, Nilanjan Banerjee, and Ryan Robucci were awarded a $500K NSF CPS grant to develop sensing systems to automate energy consumption and wastage estimation in low income homes in Baltimore
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UMBC to build immersive virtual reality system with NSF Major Research Infrastructure award
UMBC will build a new immersive virtual reality system with funds from a NSF Major Research Infrastructure award to support research in science, engineering, mathematics and arts and humanities.
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CSEE Prof. Curtis Menyuk wins Humboldt Research Award
CSEE professor Curtis Menyuk was recently awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award. This award is a significant honor, and comes with 60,000 euros in funding to support research in with German research collaborators. The Humbolt Research Award award is given to recognize the lifetime research achievments of academics "whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or…
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UMBC receives DoD grant to develop cybersecurity education tools
CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out…