Anthony Casalena (B.S. ’05), founder and CEO of Squarespace, spoke with Yahoo! Finance about how COVID-19 is impacting e-commerce.
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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
November, 2020
October, 2020
Donald Welch (Ph.D. ’98) was named permanent vice president for IT and chief information officer at Penn State University.
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Jagdeep Singh (B.S. ’86), founder of QuantumScape, spoke with Reuters about the company’s plans to go public with a $3.3 billion valuation.
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Pooja Sankar (M.S. ’04), founder of Piazza, was quoted in an Entrepreneur article on “How 8 Founders Are Preparing for Continued Economic Uncertainty.”
Read More Shravan Goli (M.S. ’94), chief product officer at Coursera, spoke with Money about the surging enrollment of online certification programs.
Read More Jennifer Golbeck (Ph.D. ’05), professor of information studies at UMD, spoke at the UMDemocracy 2020 event on “Dis information and Fact Checking.” UMDemocracy 2020 aims to provide resources and information on things to know before the election this November.
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Dave Baggett (B.S. ’92), founder of INKY, spoke about “AI in Email Security” on the Darius Gant Show podcast.
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Anthony Casalena (B.S. ’05) was named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40: Technology list.
Read More Craig Abod (B.S. ’86), president of Carahsoft Technology Corp., received the Institute for Excellence in Sales’ 10th Lifetime Achievement in Sales Award.
Read MoreJuly, 2020
Sujal Patel (B.S. ’96,) co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, was interviewed by serial entrepreneur and host of the DealMakers podcast, Alejandro Cremades about how he sold his first business for $2.6 Billion and then raised $108M to improve medical diagnostics.
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