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The Department of Computer Science staff members will receive grants to support job-related skill development.
The University of Maryland recently named Department of Computer Science staff members Yizhan "Joseph" Ao and Migo Gui among the 10 recipients of this year’s RISE Grant , an initiative of the Division of Academic...read more
Yan earns recognition for research on the sustainable reuse of printed circuit boards.
University of Maryland computer science Ph.D. student Zeyu Yan earned a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) for his work on the sustainable reuse...read more
Awardees receive up to $19,000 and a paid 10-week internship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Growing up in Oregon, University of Maryland sophomore computer science major Bhavika Buddi witnessed firsthand how extreme weather events transformed her home state. Year after year, she watched wildfires grow more intense and heat waves...read more
Inspired by a childhood fascination with programming, Cupps developed a course planning tool now used by thousands of University of Maryland students.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools and confined many indoors, University of Maryland computer science major Andrew Cupps found an opportunity to deepen a childhood interest: programming. Years later, that interest culminated in the launch...read more
A federal scientist working in the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) is being recognized by the Washington Academy of Sciences for his groundbreaking research and scholarship involving quantum information science. Yi-Kai...read more
Ghosh shares insights on his latest research and the potential of multimodal reasoning.
When Sreyan Ghosh began his journey in computer science, he found himself drawn to a topic with limited academic visibility in the United States—speech processing. After completing his undergraduate studies in India and working with...read more
Mirani becomes UMD’s 11th Truman Scholar, recognized for public service, leadership and academic achievement.
A University of Maryland junior who has built an impressive record of service at the city, county and state levels has been awarded a Truman Scholarship , the nation’s most selective award for underclassmen with...read more
Anand Idris, Sachin Shah and Adam Yang recognized for their research contributions under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Chris Metzler.
Three students working with Chris Metzler , an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, have been awarded the prestigious Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Adam...read more
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PhD Defense: Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
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Haozhe An
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Reducing the Memory Cost of Long Context Transformers
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PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
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PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
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PhD Proposal: Towards Enabling GPU Performance Portability
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05.09.2025 14:00 to 16:00
PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
Mara Levy
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PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
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05.12.2025 09:00 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
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PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
Ruijie Zheng
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05.12.2025 11:30 to 13:30
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation
Jiuhai Chen
IRB IRB-5107
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation
Jiuhai Chen
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05.13.2025 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Proposal: Graded Judgments of Plausibility in Commonsense Reasoning
Shramay Palta
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PhD Proposal: Graded Judgments of Plausibility in Commonsense Reasoning
Shramay Palta
05.08.2025 09:30 to 11:30
PhD Defense: Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
IRB-4109
PhD Defense: Uncovering, Understanding, and Mitigating Social Biases in Language Models
05.08.2025 11:00 to 12:00
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
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The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid
05.09.2025 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
IRB-5137 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/vsingla
PhD Defense: Towards Trustworthy AI: Methods for Enhancing Robustness and Attribution
05.09.2025 10:30 to 11:30
Advancing Efficient and Trustworthy AI for Science, Engineering, and Medicine
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/94340703410?pwd=rrXaGSXSpabcMTtDNmeCNf2Ih2fQYE.1
Advancing Efficient and Trustworthy AI for Science, Engineering, and Medicine
05.09.2025 12:00 to 13:00
Probing Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 via Attractive Polaron Spectroscopy
ATL 2400
Probing Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 via Attractive Polaron Spectroscopy
05.09.2025 14:00 to 16:00
PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
IRB 4105 OR https://umd.zoom.us/j/6692219114?omn=94335880707
PhD Defense: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
05.12.2025 09:00 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/furongh?pwd=MDI4NFRBZXhjNGlCc3RKUThCTTlDUT09
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalist Embodied Agents via Representation Learning
05.12.2025 11:30 to 13:30
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation
IRB-5107
PhD Proposal: Towards Unifying Multimodal: Perception, Reasoning and Generation