News & Announcements
UMD Joins U.S. Cyber Command’s Academic Engagement Network
Jan 13, 2022 - The initiative's goal is to create a robust and accessible pool of qualified cyber professionals that can assist CYBERCOM in its mission of defending critical U.S. information networks.
Cummings Receives BBI Seed Funding to Study Hearing Loss Using Machine Learning
Jan 12, 2022 - The project was one of five that received seed funding from the UMD Brain and Behavior Institute this year.
Postdoctoral Scholar Sanket Receives Drones Ph.D. Thesis Award
Jan 10, 2022 - The annual award recognizes a doctoral thesis that shows great potential and aligns with the scientific mission of Drones, an international open-access journal.
Measuring How Malware Behaves in the Real World
Jan 04, 2022 - MC2 researchers have been recognized for their analysis of malware behavior in the first large-scale study of its kind.
QuICS Researchers Receive 2021 NISQ Computing Paper Award
Dec 20, 2021 - The researchers were recognized for their work involving quantum optimization.
UMD Team Wins Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2021 Workshop
Dec 17, 2021 - It was recognized as the best paper presented at SafeRL, a workshop that was part of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), held virtually from December 6–14.
Lin Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Dec 08, 2021 - She was recognized for her contributions in virtual reality, computer graphics and robotics.
Humans vs. Machines: Examining the Effectiveness of Automated Topic Modeling Evaluations
Dec 06, 2021 - In a paper being presented this week, authors affiliated with the CLIP Lab argue that topic model developers should reassess the increasing use of machine learning to evaluate their work.
Hartree Fellow Cultivates New Perspectives on Quantum Computing
Nov 29, 2021 - Dominik Hangleiter, one of the newest Hartree Postdoctoral Fellows, develops theoretical frameworks to identify problems where quantum computers can be proven to dominate.
Cleaveland Is Named IEEE Fellow
Nov 29, 2021 - Being conferred Fellow status is the highest grade of IEEE membership, and one that is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.