Recent News & Accomplishments
2013
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Eytan Ruppin will join us as the Director of the Center for BioInformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB), starting in July, 2014. Ruppin is currently a professor in the Schools of Computer Science and Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. He is world-renowned for his research involving neural networks, systems biology and personalized cancer research. His current focus involves systems biology, which works to construct empirical models of protein interactions within a cell. Professor Ruppin graduated from Tel-Aviv University with his Ph.D. in... read more
Paul Capriolo (B.S. '06) has been named the winner of the Maryland Region Ernst & Young "Entrepreneurs of the Year 2013 - Emerging" award. Capriolo founded Social Growth Technologies (SGT) with Patrick Jenkins (B.S. '06) in 2009, and in May 2010 the company was the top winner at the 5th annual Cupid’s Cub Business Challenge. The awards winners were announced at the Awards Gala held June 26 in Baltimore, MD. read more
Dr. Azarakhsh Malekian (Ph.D. '09) is joining the University of Toronto Business School as an Assistant Professor. Malekian recently completed a postdoc at MIT. Her research is in algorithms, social networks and game theory. She was advised by Samir Khuller. read more
Dr. P.J. Narayanan (Ph.D. '92), has been elected as the Director of IIIT at Hyderabad. His research is in Computer Vision. Narayanan was advised by Larry Davis. read more
Dr. Glen Ricart who received his Ph.D. from the Department in 1980, with Ashok Agrawala, is being inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Glen also served as the Director of the Computer Science Center for 8-9 years in 1980's and brought about many innovations for computing on campus. http://www.internethalloffame.org/blog/2013/06/26/internet-hall-fame-ann... To see the other inductees, visit http://internethalloffame.org/inductees read more
Aravind Srinivasan was an invited speaker at the SIAM Workshop on Network Science, which was co-located with the SIAM Annual Meeting in July, 2013. He was one among two invited speakers; in addition, there were 22 contributed talks and a poster session. read more
The Department is pleased to announce that David Van Horn will join our faculty this coming Fall. David is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. David's research focuses on program analysis and its applications to programming languages, software engineering, verification, and security. Specifically, he works on the design, implementation, and use of programming languages to enable the production of software that can be mechanically reasoned about, with the ultimate goal of enabling the construction of reusable, trusted software components. He has developed new... read more
Ph.D. student Rajesh Chitnis is a co-author of "List H-Coloring a Graph by Removing Few Vertices", which was recently selected as a winner of the European Symposium on Algorithms' Best Paper Award. The paper will be formally recognized at ESA's Annual Symposium held in Sophia Antipolis, France in September. Chitnis is advised by Professor MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi. read more
Zia Khan will be joining as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, UMIACS, and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB) in December of 2013. Zia has a Ph. D. from Princeton University's Department of Computer Science where he was a student in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Zia also holds a dual B.S. degree in computer science and biology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago's Department of Human Genetics. Zia's research focuses on quantitative and... read more
The University of Maryland and AOL, one of the world’s largest producers of digital content and a leader in advertising technology have, announced a partnership to explore areas of research and innovation that will prove beneficial to both parties. The alliance, part of the university’s Corporate Partners in Computing Program, puts AOL researchers in touch with UMD faculty and students involved in social media analysis, software engineering, machine learning, mobile computing, artificial intelligence, parallel computing, visual analytics and more. The partnership is hosted by the Department... read more