Department Highlights
A Place Where Innovation Thrives
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Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland is a four-year, cross-disciplinary undergraduate program that prepares students to excel in digital creativity and innovation using the latest immersive media tools and technologies.
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A Hub for Technology, Collaboration, and Discovery
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UMD's Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering to Transform Region’s Tech Corridor
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Turning Ideas into Reality
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Recent News
How CS major Amedeo Ercole helped develop a minimalist social app.
Social networking platforms are built to keep users scrolling, liking and reacting, often delaying direct interaction in favor of curated feeds. For Amedeo Ercole , that structure raised a simple question: What if conversation came...read more
Anirud Aggarwal, Grace Cai and Steven Su were named honorable mentions for work spanning computer vision, micro-mobility modeling and privacy research.
Three undergraduate students from the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science have received honorable mention recognition from the 2025–2026 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award . Recent graduate Anirud Aggarwal (B.S. ’25,...read more
His broader goal is to expand his research into actionable solutions to improve human health.
From understanding our genomic traits to monitoring how diseases spread, genomic data has become a powerful tool for science and medicine. But analyzing this data quickly and accurately remains a major challenge. For example, sequencing...read more
Jim Purtilo discusses why protecting data now matters as quantum computers move closer to real-world use.
There has been speculation for several years that quantum computing would deliver a revolutionary advance, capable of solving complex problems exponentially faster than classical computers. It could also tackle problems that have so far been...read more
He was selected from a national pool for a two-year fellowship supporting research in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Ming Li , a Ph.D. student in the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science, has been named a 2026 recipient of the Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship , a competitive national program that...read more