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The annual hackathon brought students together to develop technology projects, explore new skills and connect with industry mentors.
Students gathered at the College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center on Oct. 17-18 for Technica 2026, a student-organized hackathon that brought together participants with different levels of programming experience for a weekend of coding,...read more
How Phil Crosby (B.S. ’06, computer science; B.A. ’06, economics) made his lifelong tech startup dream a reality as co-founder of the mobile advertising platform Liftoff.
In June 2026, California tech company Liftoff went public on the Nasdaq Stock Market. For the company, it was a milestone 14 years in the making. For Phil Crosby (B.S. ’06, computer science; B.A. ’06,...read more
For Jacqueline Deprey (B.S. ’20, computer science; B.S. ’20, operations management and business analytics), a personal loss and a passion for problem-solving inspired Perpetua, a digital toolkit designed to simplify estate settlement.
From her first coding experience in high school, Jacqueline Deprey (B.S. ’20, computer science; B.S. ’20, operations management and business analytics) has always been drawn to the problem-solving power of computing. “I don't know that...read more
He will collaborate with the University of Melbourne on artificial intelligence risks, national security and policy development.
As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used in national security, government operations and other critical areas, questions about its safety and reliability are drawing increased attention. University of Maryland computer science Professor William Regli (Ph.D...read more
A glass wall can look like an open path to a robot. Reflections and transparency can fool its sensors, leaving it with a faulty map—and a route that could end in a collision. University of...read more
Eric Gilerson’s single-author paper explores a method for performing exact arithmetic within language models.
When asked to multiply two numbers, a language model may predict the answer based on patterns in its training data rather than perform the calculation directly. University of Maryland undergraduate Eric Gilerson is investigating a...read more
Huang develops methods to reduce data demands and address hardware errors in scientific computing and artificial intelligence systems.
As scientific facilities and artificial intelligence systems process growing amounts of data, researchers must contend not only with computing speed but also with the cost of moving and storing information and the possibility of hardware...read more
The four-year initiative will use AI and automation to support remotely accessible biomanufacturing experiments, with Liu co-leading the lab's data and AI systems.
Biomanufacturing underpins products ranging from vaccines to cancer therapies, but developing those products can require experiments that are time-consuming, costly and difficult to reproduce. A new University of Maryland-led project is bringing together artificial intelligence,...read more
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Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems
Matt Sinclair
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
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Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
Kathi Fisler
Brown University
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From Pixels to Physics: Learning to Reason, Act, and Explore
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Tan Dat Dao
CS Department, University of Maryland
MS Defense: Structured World Models: Predict, Remember, Act
Tan Dat Dao
CS Department, University of Maryland
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11.06.2026 10:00 to 11:00
What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI
Niklas Elmqvist
Aarhus University
IRB 4105
What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI
Niklas Elmqvist
Aarhus University
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10.21.2026 15:30 to 16:30
Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems
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Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems
10.23.2026 10:00 to 11:00
Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
IRB 1116 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99365998212?pwd=CEJUNoBeooaDkYchGXoRdmGyCMESLM.1
Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
10.23.2026 11:00 to 12:00
From Pixels to Physics: Learning to Reason, Act, and Explore
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
From Pixels to Physics: Learning to Reason, Act, and Explore
10.27.2026 14:00 to 15:00
Formal Methods for Safe and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
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Formal Methods for Safe and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
10.28.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states
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Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states