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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

Rob Patro Makes Biological Data Easier to Search

He discusses his path into computing, his work in computational genomics and advice for students interested in computational biology.

University of Maryland Associate Professor of Computer Science Rob Patro works in computational genomics, where his research addresses the growing need to process and interpret large amounts of biological sequencing data. He leads the COMBINE...read more

CS Students Receive Grant Family and Ben Shneiderman Awards

The awards recognize undergraduate double majors in computer science and mathematics and doctoral research in human-computer interaction.

The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science recognized four undergraduate students and one doctoral student with awards honoring work across computer science, mathematics and human-computer interaction. Recent computer science and mathematics majors Nishkal Hundia...read more

UMD CS Celebrates More Than 1,100 Graduates

CS students who graduated with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in August 2025, December 2025 and May 2026 were honored at last month’s commencement ceremonies.

For many students, commencement is measured in brief moments: a name called from the stage, a handshake, a photo with family or a final walk with classmates. Behind those moments are years of coursework, research,...read more

CS Ph.D. Student Hillary Owusu Receives ACM-W Scholarship

Her research examines how irrelevant information can influence reasoning in large language models.

University of Maryland Department of Computer Science Ph.D. student Hillary Owusu received an ACM-W scholarship to attend the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , where she will present research examining irrational...read more

UMD Researchers Take on AI’s Hardest Problem: Teaching Machines to Reason

Mohammad Hajiaghayi and CS Ph.D. students are developing AI systems that can generate, test and refine mathematical ideas.

At the University of Maryland, researchers aren’t just building smarter AI—they’re trying to teach machines how to reason. Led by computer science professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi , a UMD team is working toward an ambitious goal:...read more

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