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The promotion took effect in the summer of 2025 and recognizes Roy’s contributions to wireless networking, mobile computing, and sensing.
The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science has announced the promotion of Nirupam Roy to associate professor. His promotion took effect in the summer of 2025 and reflects his record of research, teaching and...read more
The Department of Computer Science student organization expands hands-on learning in computing.
On a weeknight in the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, students gather in teams around laptops, reviewing system designs and debugging code. What appears to be a corporate engineering meeting is, in...read more
Like a news editor planning for the front page stories, Matthew Baney starts each day by scanning his key information resources—email, Jira tickets, or Slack messages—ready at a moment’s notice to respond to any overnight...read more
The $1.86 million project led by UMD will develop advanced artificial intelligence tools for detection and forecasting.
Each year, wildland fires burn across millions of acres in the United States, threatening communities, wildlife and natural resources. Forecasting where and when those fires will spread remains one of the most difficult challenges for...read more
The three-year award supports programming language research on secure computation methods.
University of Maryland Department of Computer Science assistant professors Leonidas Lampropoulos and Ian Miers have received nearly $600,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study how programming languages can better support secure computation. The...read more
Researchers gathered at UMD’s Iribe Center to explore algorithms and machine learning tools for genomics and systems biology.
The University of Maryland will host an international conference this week that explores the latest in computational tools and methods used for research involving genomics and systems biology. The 25th annual Wonderful Algorithms for Bioinformatics...read more
He joins the inaugural cohort in a new B.S.-M.D. program, aiming to apply computational skills to emergency and neurological care.
I n a small gym in College Park, between sets on the bench press, Neal Vittal Rangarajan opened an email that would change the course of his academic career. It was confirmation of his acceptance...read more
CS Ph.D. student Vishnu Dorbala and UMD researchers advance embodied AI with situational queries for smarter household robots.
A team of researchers from the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) has introduced a pioneering approach that helps robots understand the world more like humans do, by taking context into account. Their paper, Is the...read more
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09.04.2025 14:00 to 16:00
PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
Mehrdad Saberi
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PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
Mehrdad Saberi
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09.04.2025 15:00 to 16:30
PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
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PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
Jing Liang
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09.04.2025 16:30 to 18:00
PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
Keivan Rezaei
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PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
Keivan Rezaei
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09.05.2025 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
Hadi Alzayer
IRB 3137
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
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09.05.2025 11:00 to 12:00
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
Michelle Mazurek
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
Michelle Mazurek
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09.08.2025 11:30 to 13:00
PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
Rupak Sarkar
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PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
Rupak Sarkar
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09.10.2025 11:00 to 12:00
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond
Zhengzhong Tu
IRB 4105
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond
Zhengzhong Tu
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09.04.2025 14:00 to 16:00
PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925
PhD Proposal: Building Trust in GenAI: Robust Provenance, AI-Detection Limits, and Multimodal Reliability
09.04.2025 15:00 to 16:30
PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
IRB-5165 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
PhD Defense: Robot Navigation in Complex Scenarios
09.04.2025 16:30 to 18:00
PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/9719759070
PhD Proposal: Knowledge Localization, Editing, and Unlearning in Foundation Models
09.05.2025 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
IRB 3137
PhD Proposal: Generative Operators: Diffusion Models as Data Processing Machines
09.05.2025 11:00 to 12:00
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93754397716?pwd=GuzthRJybpRS8HOidKRoXWcFV7sC4c.1
Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Human-Centered Security Beyond End Users
09.05.2025 12:00 to 13:00
Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models
ATL 2400
Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models
09.08.2025 11:30 to 13:00
PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/rupak
PhD Proposal: Understanding Implicit Content in NLP
09.10.2025 11:00 to 12:00
"It sounded like a good idea" -- Non-asymptotic running-time analysis of quantum convex optimization algorithms
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"It sounded like a good idea" -- Non-asymptotic running-time analysis of quantum convex optimization algorithms
09.10.2025 11:00 to 12:00
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond
IRB 4105
From Pixels to Systems: How Generative and Agentic Techniques Reshape Computational Imaging, and Beyond