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The third-place finish secures the South Division title and advances the team to the World Finals in Dubai.
A student team from the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science earned a silver medal at the 2026 North America Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) , held March 22 at the...read more
The partnership aims to develop standards and tools to evaluate safety, reliability and long-term performance of AI-driven health technologies.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled medical devices are advancing at an unprecedented pace—from software that helps interpret medical images to detect cancerous growths or identify biomarkers for specific diseases to algorithms that analyze ECGs for potentially fatal...read more
The award honors alumni whose work and achievements have made a significant difference in their communities and fields.
David Mount , a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, was named a recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Science Alumni Award from Purdue University. Mount earned his doctorate in computer science from...read more
Symposium at the University of Maryland highlighted advances in microbiome engineering and data-driven research.
More than 120 researchers convened at the University of Maryland on Friday, March 20, for the 10th annual Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up. The one-day symposium, held at the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering,...read more
Inside the University of Maryland lab, researchers design small, interactive devices that explore how people engage with technology through physical experience.
At the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science, the Small Artifacts Lab , or SMART Lab, focuses on designing and studying technology as physical objects. Led by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Huaishu Peng...read more
Mohammad Hajiaghayi leads DARPA-backed GENIUS initiative at UMD to develop AI systems that can reason alongside mathematicians and advance complex problem-solving.
The University of Maryland will lead a new cross-institutional research effort designed to dramatically accelerate mathematical discovery by combining advanced artificial intelligence (AI) with deep human expertise in computer science and mathematics. As mathematicians tackle...read more
A UMD postdoctoral researcher explores how cryptography and machine learning can work together to enable secure AI systems trained on encrypted data.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence depends on access to vast amounts of data—much of it deeply sensitive. From medical records to financial histories, these datasets fuel powerful machine learning models while raising a fundamental...read more
In collaboration with Adobe, CS Ph.D. student Sonal Kumar advances audio timestamp captioning to improve how AI understands speech and complex sounds.
From voice assistants answering questions to automated captions appearing on videos, artificial intelligence increasingly relies on audio to interact with people. Yet many systems still struggle to interpret sound the way humans do, especially when...read more
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04.02.2026 11:00 to 12:00
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04.07.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
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Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
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04.07.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
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PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
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PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi
03.30.2026 10:00 to 11:30
PhD Proposal: Architectural Approaches to Reasoning in Language Models
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95765075269?pwd=8CSiFgr2JEKK4KBPHAyKMi1agxAeKt.1
PhD Proposal: Architectural Approaches to Reasoning in Language Models
03.30.2026 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Defense: Improving the Scalability and Applicability of Cryptographic Proof Systems
Remote (http://meet.google.com/oor-qivy-iai)
PhD Defense: Improving the Scalability and Applicability of Cryptographic Proof Systems
03.31.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Towards Instance-Customizable Operating Systems
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Towards Instance-Customizable Operating Systems
04.01.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Architecting Physical Intelligence: Cross-Stack Co-Design from Systems to Silicon
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Architecting Physical Intelligence: Cross-Stack Co-Design from Systems to Silicon
04.01.2026 11:00 to 12:00
How and Why Speakers Code-Switch: Insights for Naturalistic Multilingual Speech Generation
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How and Why Speakers Code-Switch: Insights for Naturalistic Multilingual Speech Generation
04.02.2026 11:00 to 12:00
Rethinking AI Systems Through Efficient Model Communication
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Rethinking AI Systems Through Efficient Model Communication