UMD Department of Computer Science

Recent News

Clubs, Code and K-pop

Senior computer science major Nandini Shah co-leads several campus clubs, including the Association for Women in Computing and the Korean pop dance group Ganji.

Nandini Shah has always been a “joiner”—someone who loves the camaraderie of clubs. So when Shah enrolled in the University of Maryland’s undergraduate computer science program in 2021, she wasted no time getting involved in...read more

Students Tackle Real-World Problems at Bitcamp’s 11th Hackathon

More than 1,000 high school and college students gathered at Reckord Armory from April 11–13 for the 36-hour event, building projects in cybersecurity, machine learning, quantum computing and more.

The University of Maryland hosted the 11th anniversary of Bitcamp , one of the East Coast’s largest collegiate hackathons, from April 11–13, 2025, at the Reckord Armory . Over 1,000 students from across the region,...read more

UMD CS Alumni Return to College Park for Reunion Event

The Brendan Iribe Center gathering included a brunch, a visit to Bitcamp and the unveiling of the newly relocated Alumni Hall of Fame wall.

Alumni of the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science returned to campus on Saturday, April 12, for a community brunch and the unveiling of the newly relocated Alumni Hall of Fame wall. The event,...read more

UMD Team to Lead Six-Week Workshop on Advancing Audio-Based AI Models

Ramani Duraiswami , a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, has been selected to lead one of three research topics at a workshop organized by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Language and...read more

Career Q&A with Computer Science Major Nathan Addai

Addai sought University Career Center support for internship applications and interviews and landed an M&T Tech internship.

Why did you decide to study computer science at UMD and what do you hope to do with your degree? In high school, I developed a passion for computer science, especially building tools and leveraging...read more

CS Ph.D. Student Advances AI Agent Research in the Real World

Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay investigates the potential of planning-based AI agents in applications such as autonomous vehicles, AR, climate conservation and logistics.

While most artificial intelligence (AI) applications today focus on generating text or identifying images, one University of Maryland Ph.D. student is exploring how AI can be designed to act. Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay , a fifth-year doctoral...read more

Yu Joins Recipients of Best Paper Award at ASPLOS

Professor Cunxi Yu is the co-author of “ SmoothE: Differentiable E-Graph Extraction ”, which received the Best Paper Award at the 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages...read more