Talia Ringer (B.S. ’12) will be an assistant professor at Illinois Computer Science beginning in October.
Alumni
We are a department of excellence. The University of Maryland’s computer science faculty continually embarks on cutting edge research, produces award winning papers, and teaches students a foundation of skills to launch their own accomplishments.
We graduate qualified students that earn competitive jobs. Many UMD alumni have become professors at high ranked universities, researchers at well-known industrial labs and software engineers at successful Internet start-ups. Some of our notable alumni include Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; Gary Flake, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and founder of Yahoo! Research Labs; and Naresh Gupta, senior vice president of Adobe’s Print and Publishing Business Unit. In an effort to expand the online Alumni Hall of Fame, if you would like to nominate a UMD CS alumnus or alumna to be highlighted on these pages, please send an email to the chair's office (cschair@cs.umd.edu) and to Professor Ashok Agrawala (agrawala@cs.umd.edu). Our department wants to recognize the achievements of as many alumni as possible.
Additionally, we would like to keep alumni up-to-date on CS events once a semester through a newsletter! If you have not been invited by email to the alumni mailing list (cs-alumni@cs.umd.edu), you can sign up here. For giving opportunities, please click here.
Recent Class Notes
June, 2021
Truebill’s Idris Mokhtarzada (B.S. ’10) and his brothers and fellow Terps Haroon and Yahya put $45M Series D to work helping people take control of their personal finances.
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William Regli (M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’95), UMD professor of computer science and director of the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), was appointed to the Computing Community Consortium by the Computing Research Association, in consultation with the National Science Foundation.
Anthony Casalena (B.S. '05) launched Squarespace in his dorm room at UMD and took the company public last month
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Rafael Telahun (B.S. '11) joined TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, as a vice president in its Menlo Park office and as a member of the firm’s North America Services Group.
Aya Soffer (M.S. ’92, Ph.D. ’95) was appointed director of the IBM Haifa Research Lab. She will also continue in her role as IBM's VP of AI.
Sujal Patel (B.S. ’96), CEO of next-gen proteomics company Nautilus Biotechnology, announced the company would list on Nasdaq through a merger with Arya Sciences Acquisition Corp III.
Jean Parker (B.S. ’82), general manager of Merriweather Post Pavilion, received the Daily Record’s 2021 Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award.
Roy Kapani (B.S. ’90), acquired Systems Engineering Associates Corporation (SEACORP), a leading provider of engineering services and technology to the United States Navy, in a private transaction.
January, 2021
Abheek Anand (M.S. ’04), managing director at Sequoia Capital, discusses with Bloomberg his outlook for startups in 2021, his investment strategy and where he’s finding opportunity.
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