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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
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
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
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
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
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
The program ranks No. 9 among the country’s public institutions and 16th overall, climbing a notch from last year.
The University of Maryland’s computer science graduate program ranks No. 9 among the country’s public institutions in the 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” The program ranks 16th overall, climbing...read more
For Howard Elman , research is a collaborative experience—one that can produce scientific discoveries that are far greater than the sum of their parts. A professor of computer science with an appointment in the University...read more
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04.17.2025 11:00 to 12:00
Knowledge-guided and Trustworthy Decision Making for Practitioners
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Knowledge-guided and Trustworthy Decision Making for Practitioners
Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
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04.17.2025 11:30 to 13:30
MS Defense: Bridging the Gap Between Biomechanics and Modern Computer Architecture: Analyzing Bottlenecks in a Human Eye Simulation
Hana Chitsaz
IRB-4107 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9044992425?pwd=SnRpL3R0ams5T09ucW9HSjF2eGIxQT09&om...
MS Defense: Bridging the Gap Between Biomechanics and Modern Computer Architecture: Analyzing Bottlenecks in a Human Eye Simulation
Hana Chitsaz
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04.17.2025 14:00 to 15:30
MS Defense: Scaling Parallel Full-Graph GNN Training to Thousands of GPUs
Aditya Ranjan
IRB IRB-5105 or Thursday, April 17 2:00:00 PM EST IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/aranjan2
MS Defense: Scaling Parallel Full-Graph GNN Training to Thousands of GPUs
Aditya Ranjan
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04.18.2025 15:00 to 16:30
PhD Proposal: A Principled Approach to AI Alignment: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Algorithms
Souradip Chakraborty
IRB IRB-4109
PhD Proposal: A Principled Approach to AI Alignment: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Algorithms
Souradip Chakraborty
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04.18.2025 15:00 to 17:00
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy AI: Model Interpretability, Failure Mitigation, Alignment, and Verification
Atoosa Malemir Chegini
IRB-4105 or https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86454639997?pwd=ya7FDm539ULa6TBg3Qw4oOdACsu756.1
PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy AI: Model Interpretability, Failure Mitigation, Alignment, and Verification
Atoosa Malemir Chegini
Talk
04.22.2025 09:30 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
Mollie Shichman
IRB IRB-4107
PhD Proposal: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
Mollie Shichman
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04.24.2025 11:00 to 12:30
PhD Defense: Toward Integrating Intelligence into Everything Around Us
Nakul Garg
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98107720850?pwd=pQmN1UriXp6vFQUe8RmSqHv6LJYWPS.1
PhD Defense: Toward Integrating Intelligence into Everything Around Us
Nakul Garg
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04.17.2025 11:00 to 12:00
Knowledge-guided and Trustworthy Decision Making for Practitioners
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Knowledge-guided and Trustworthy Decision Making for Practitioners
04.17.2025 14:00 to 15:30
MS Defense: Scaling Parallel Full-Graph GNN Training to Thousands of GPUs
IRB-5105 or Thursday, April 17 2:00:00 PM EST IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/aranjan2
MS Defense: Scaling Parallel Full-Graph GNN Training to Thousands of GPUs
04.18.2025 12:30 to 13:30
Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors with neutral atoms
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09
Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors with neutral atoms
04.18.2025 15:00 to 16:30
PhD Proposal: A Principled Approach to AI Alignment: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Algorithms
IRB-4109
PhD Proposal: A Principled Approach to AI Alignment: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Algorithms
04.22.2025 09:30 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
IRB-4107
PhD Proposal: Advancing Object Understanding in Large Language Models
04.23.2025 11:00 to 12:00
Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96428021347?pwd=wAV09WU7OsAy3P8pLoF1wWpirg5AyY.1
Rapid quantum ground state preparation via dissipative dynamics
04.24.2025 11:00 to 12:30
PhD Defense: Toward Integrating Intelligence into Everything Around Us
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98107720850?pwd=pQmN1UriXp6vFQUe8RmSqHv6LJYWPS.1
PhD Defense: Toward Integrating Intelligence into Everything Around Us
05.02.2025 13:00 to 14:00
Certified Randomness from a Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09
Certified Randomness from a Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor