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
Ming Lin and Dinesh Manocha recognized for multi-agent navigation research with lasting impact.
Nearly two decades after its publication, a research paper on how moving systems avoid collisions continues to influence fields ranging from robotics to computer-aided design to digital gaming. That work by Ming Lin , Distinguished...read more
As AI becomes deeply integrated into our daily lives—offering everything from productivity hacks to emotional support—a critical challenge has emerged: ensuring these tools do not become weapons for abuse. At the University of Maryland, Julio...read more
Sisters Aydina and Sufyana Johnson used skills developed through UMD’s CompSciConnect to build a native plants app that gained recognition across Maryland.
On any given day, Aydina and Sufyana Johnson might be reading, baking, hiking, riding horses or heading to karate class or choir. Like many middle and high school students, they have days shaped by school...read more
Whether he’s arranging a melodic progressive house track or developing rigorous security benchmarks to test AI-generated code, Chihao (Steven) Shen is driven by a desire to turn abstract concepts into tangible results. A first-year computer...read more
The Department of Defense-funded award will support research in neuromorphic and unconventional computing systems.
University of Maryland Department of Computer Science Ph.D. student Ian Whitehouse has received a 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship , a three-year award that supports graduate study in fields related to national...read more