Category: research awards
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter receives NSF award to develop nanoelectrode probe arrays
CSEE Professor Gymama Slaughter received a two-year research research award from the National Science Foundation to develop and evaluate nanoelectrode probe arrays to better detect and extract intracellular signals. Data from these signals will help in restoring functional loss of limb control of individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke.
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CSEE professor Dr. Tulay Adali receives USM Regents’ Faculty Award for Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
More than twenty years ago, Tulay Adali stepped onto UMBC’s campus as an assistant professor right after receiving her PhD. Much has changed since then. Now a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Dr. Adali runs a highly active Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSPLab). Her recent appointment as an IEEE Signal Processing…
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CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee wins Microsoft SEIF award to fund research
CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee has received a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation (SEIF) Award. The award comes with a $25,000 grant to help fund a research project that uses inventive wearable computing devices to help paraplegics and quadriplegics get around their homes. It’s called “Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients”. Dr. Banerjee’s…
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Joshi and Finin receive NSF award to study information extraction
Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin have received a $200,000 research award from the NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems for a two-year project focused on extrating information from tables.
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Sherman and Forno receive $2.5 Million NSF grant for Cybersecurity scholarships
CSEE Professor Dr. Alan Sherman (PI) and Dr. Rick Forno (Co-PI), Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity have received an NSF grant of $2.5 million over five years to fund 22 students studying Information Assurance (IA) and Cybersecurity. The scholarships are part of the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Future scholars will come from UMBC’s…
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Finin and Joshi receive NSF award to study linked data privacy
Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi have received a $400,000 research award from the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for a three year project to investigate how to better manage security and privacy constraints while querying semantically annotated linked data sources. The project, Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data, is a collaboration with…
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UMBC receives NSF award to develop new freshman seminar for computing majors
UMBC received a three year award from NSF that provides $154,000 in funding to develop and evaluate an innovative first-year seminar for computing majors aimed at increasing retention, completion, and success.
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CSEE faculty receive NSF grant to study computing education in Maryland high schools
Drs. Marie desJarins, Penny Rheingans and Susan Martin received an 18 month research award worth $200,000 from NSF to study computing education in Maryland high schools.
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New T-SITE scholarship program targets tech transfer students
Next fall, a new scholarship program geared toward transfer students majoring in technology fields will offer ten students the support—both financial and otherwise—that they need. It’s called T-SITE (Transfer-Scholarships in Information Technology and Engineering), and similar to the previous SITE (Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering) program, is supported by an NSF S-STEM grant. The…
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NSF awards UMBC $1.8M for Global Collaboration Engine for Land Change Science
A group of UMBC faculty members was recently awarded a 4-year, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant totaling $1.8 million to pursue work with “Global Collaboration Engine” (GLOBE), a “globally relevant search engine.” “Our objective is to change the way land change scientists do business,” explains Dr. Erle Ellis, associate professor of Geography and Environmental Systems,…