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One Robot, Many Bodies: New System Helps Four-Legged Robots Adapt

A four-legged robot can learn to run and recover from a shove through reinforcement learning, a form of artificial intelligence in which a system learns through trial and error by receiving rewards for useful behavior...read more

Ritwik Gupta Joins UMD CS, Studies AI in Complex Environments

His research focuses on computer vision, active sensing and policy for dual-use artificial intelligence across civilian and defense settings.

Artificial intelligence systems often rely on clear images and predictable conditions to understand their surroundings. However, first responders and emergency crews may work amid smoke, damaged infrastructure, poor visibility and incomplete information, all conditions that...read more

Dissolvable Circuit Board Designed for Reuse Earns Design Recognition

UMD Associate Professor Huaishu Peng and CS alum Zeyu Yan helped develop DissolvPCB, a recyclable circuit board designed to recover materials and electronic components for reuse.

Before an electronic device reaches its final form, engineers may build and test multiple versions of its circuit board. Those prototypes can help refine a design, but once they are no longer needed, recovering their...read more

Always-On System Unmasks Covert Signals Across the Radio Spectrum

Modern security systems have a dangerous blind spot: a rogue wireless signal can leak sensitive data or disrupt critical infrastructure in less than a millisecond, yet conventional monitors consume too much power to remain constantly...read more

UMD Students Explore the Mokhtarzada Hatchery Program

The annual event introduced students to Hatchery’s funding, mentorship and workspace, while offering a chance to hear from its alumni founders.

The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science held its annual Fall Mokhtarzada Hatchery Kick-Off Event on Sept. 8, giving students an opportunity to learn how the program supports student-led startups from early ideas through...read more

When AI Goes on Defense

CS Ph.D. student Manan Suri and Professor Dinesh Manocha are part of a research team developing CyberForge, a framework that generates realistic vulnerabilities to train AI agents for software defense.

For a cyberattacker, one overlooked weakness can be enough. For a defender, the challenge is broader: find weaknesses and fix them before attackers exploit them. That imbalance is becoming more consequential as artificial intelligence agents...read more

6 Faculty Members Join UMD’s Department of Computer Science

New tenure-track and professional-track faculty bring expertise in high-performance computing, internet measurement, computer vision, artificial intelligence, data science and scalable systems.

The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science is welcoming six faculty members during the 2026-27 academic year, adding research and teaching expertise in high-performance computing, computer networks, computer vision, artificial intelligence, data science and...read more