Welcome | UMD Department of Computer Science

Recent News

UMD to Launch 2 Bachelor’s Degrees to Explore Technical, Human Dimensions of AI

New majors aim to ethically advance AI tech, prepare students to address Its societal impact.

The University of Maryland will launch two new undergraduate degrees in artificial intelligence (AI), including one of the nation’s first interdisciplinary majors focused on the impact of AI on humans, with courses spanning philosophy, ethics,...read more

Meet Yasmine Tajeddin, the Programmer of the Opera

The senior computer science and music double major never performed publicly before coming to UMD. Now, she’s eyeing a career as a professional opera singer.

Unlike most music majors at the University of Maryland, Yasmine Tajeddin had never performed in front of a crowd before arriving on campus. She never had vocal lessons, took a music class in high school...read more

Can AI and People Play Nice?

Jordan Boyd-Graber uses a fast-paced trivia competition to study how people decide when to trust AI and when to rely on their own judgment.

Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed from a novelty into a powerful tool capable of outperforming even expert humans in some knowledge-based tasks. In “Can AI and People Play Nice?,” Terp explores how University of Maryland...read more

UMD Study Finds Critical Cloud Security Patches Often Never Reach Their Destination

Computer science Ph.D. student Simge Tekin led the study, which analyzed more than 750,000 container images and found gaps that can leave cloud systems exposed.

A software patch may be available, but that doesn't mean it's protecting the systems that need it. A new study from the University of Maryland and Google Research reveals that critical security updates often become...read more

Mohammad Hajiaghayi Earns ACM SIGecom Test of Time Honors

Mohammad Hajiaghayi , the Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, will be recognized with two Test of Time Awards from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest...read more

UMD Team Develops Precise “Undo Button” for AI Memory

Led by Soheil Feizi, researchers developed a method that can remove specific information from AI models without diminishing their broader abilities.

Imagine trying to remove a single drop of red dye from a gallon of purple paint without ruining the color entirely. For developers of large language models (LLMs), that has long been the challenge of...read more

Alan Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Monitoring of AI and Cloud Systems

The five-year project will develop new telemetry methods to help operators monitor large-scale AI and cloud systems more efficiently.

Alan Liu , an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to advance research on telemetry and observability...read more

Ashok Agrawala to Retire After 55 Years

Agrawala’s career spans the department’s early years, decades of work in systems, networking and mobile computing, and the program’s growth into a top-ranked computer science program.

When Ashok Agrawala arrived at the University of Maryland in 1971, computer science at the university was still taking institutional shape. The Department of Computer Science had not yet been formally established, the personal computer...read more

Are you an alum with news to share?
We want to hear about it!