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UMBC announced the launch of "Sam," an autonomous AI Virtual Engagement Officer. Developed in partnership with Givzey, a leader in AI solutions for non-profits, Sam will provide UMBC alums with personalized updates on campus news, faculty research, and upcoming events. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CBEE Prof. David Garcia presents his research on 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁-𝗼𝗳-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 in a seminar hosted by UMBC's Biological Sciences Dept, 12-1 pm Wed., Feb. 18, in Biological Sciences 004. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

ACM Distinguished Speaker Ram D. Sriram from the National Institute of Science and Technology will give a talk on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 in person at UMBC from 12-1:30 on Friday, February 6, in room 325b of the ITE Building. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC has an open tenured/tenure-track position at an assistant or associate professor level to bolster its strengths in cybersecurity. An area of interest mentioned is the intersection of cybersecurity with AI and machine learning. Get more information and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/178333

UMBC CSEE prof. Manas Gaur has a new book co-authored with Amit Sheth, published by Cambridge University Press on their work on developing neurosymbolic AI for explainability, interpretability, and safety. Both digital and hard-copy versions will be available this spring. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Eric Brown will teach a new undergraduate course this Spring on "Robots, AI, & Transhumanists: Exploring the Uncanny Valley" as part of UMBC's Human Context of Science and Technology program. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Eric Stokan, Director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, leads a session on best practices in prompt engineering using ChatGPT to perform image detection in R via an API. 12-1:30 pm Fri Dec 12, in person. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Alan Sherman, Enis Golaszewski, and Jeremy Romano talk about their work analyzing the design & implementation of the SecureDNA system, 12–1 pm EST Fri., Dec.12, online. This system enables DNA synthesizers to screen order requests against a database of hazards. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

UMBC's Ramana Vinjamuri and his students used Bharatanatyam Mudras, Indian classical dance hand gestures, to help train robot systems to recognize and use human hand gestures. Their work is described in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Md Tariqul Islam from UMBC's Information Systems Dept. discusses his work on self-defending ledgers, where nodes enforce ledger security through multi-agent reinforcement learning grounded in game-theoretic principles. 12–1pm ET, Wed. Dec. 3 in UMBC ITE459 & online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Houbing Herbert Song talks on The Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: Neurosymbolic AI at UMBC in ITE325b and online from 11:15-12:45 EST Tue. Nov. 25. In the 3rd wave, machines perceive and understand the world on their own and learn by reasoning with it. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Alexander Martin from JHU will speak at UMBC and online, 4-5:15 pm EST on Mon., Nov. 24. He will discuss building systems capable of retrieving, reasoning over, and synthesizing information from diverse, multimodal sources such as news articles and social media videos. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC Training Centers and AFCEA Central MD Chapter will provide a condensed 2-hour free version of UMBC Training Centers AI Essentials survey for relative newcomers to AI, delivered through a blend of lectures and live demonstrations.
5-7:30 pm in person in Columbia, MD. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Alexander Martin talks in person at UMBC & online on "Wikipedia from the World: Grounded Articles from Any Source", 4-5:15 pm EST, Mon., Nov. 24. He will cover both retrieval of relevant multimodal evidence and generating coherent, verifiable, Wikipedia-style articles. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CBEE professor Tyler Josephson was selected as a 2025 Pivot Fellow by the Simons Foundation. He leads the AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS), which develops computational methods for molecular simulation and automated discovery of scientific theories. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases 11:30-12:30 EST Tue., Nov. 11, Public Policy 204 and online Building on the first session in the series of Generative AI and Teaching, this interactive session highlights applied skills and practical ...

UMBC's John Schumacher on Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases at 11:30-12:30 EST Tue., Nov. 11, Public Policy 204 and online. Learn effective prompting, discipline-specific scenarios, assignment strategies, and advanced teaching features. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Institute of Politics released results from a poll of 810 Maryland adults on their "Attitudes toward artificial intelligence". Nearly all said they were aware of AI and had some concerns. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

AI is reshaping industries, workflows, and the skills that matter most. The future belongs not to machines, but to humans who adapt alongside them. Learn what skills can't be automated, how to future-proof your career through learning & how to use AI as a partner rather than a threat. bit.ly/AIwOrK

Dr. Eric Stokan, director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, discusses methods for processing and handling unstructured data like text & images. It will take place in person in room 438 in UMBC's Public Policy building from 12-1:30 pm on Friday, Nov. 7. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini are transforming how we work, communicate & create, but also pose serious privacy concerns. While GenAI can compromise our privacy, it can also be harnessed to help protect it. Roberto Yus explores both sides of that paradox in this talk. bit.ly/4hBMsqN

UMBC's Prof. Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a Trustworthy AI Fellow featured in a Computing Research Association article UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow was featured on the Computing Research Association site this month. The fellowship is intended to help scholars shape framewor...

UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow is featured on the CRA site. The fellowship will help scholars shape frameworks for more trustworthy AI systems through structured interdisciplinary training, collaborative research, and visibility. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

@umbc-ai.bsky.social Shawn Bender from Dickinson College talks on 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 at UMBC, 4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, addressing the potential of robotics to assist in the care of older adults and people with disabilities and how it will drive innovation. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Dr. Reetam Majumder of the Univ. of Arkansas leads a short course on AI for Statistical Analysis, 2:00-5:00 pm Fri., Oct. 31, 2025, in room 104 of UMBC's Math & Psychology building. It will give a hands-on introduction to deep learning models using the Keras package in R. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Mohammad Mohammadisiahroudi from UMBC's Math/Stat Department talks on Applications of Quantum Computing and Optimization in Cybersecurity, 12–1pm, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, online via Webex. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

Nina-Simone Edwards, JD, from the Georgetown University Institute for Technology Law and Policy, will address ethical issues in AI policy for libraries and higher education in an online Webex session, 12-1pm EDT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Federal Shutdown Deals Blow To Already Hobbled Cybersecurity Agency - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Richard Forno of UMBC explains how the federal shutdown is impacting U.S. cybersecurity.

UMBC's Dr. Richard Forno published an article in The Conversation on the impacts of the US federal government shutdown on cybersecurity, especially on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s leading civilian cybersecurity agency. umbc.edu/stories/fede...

Bryan Li (UPenn) on how LLMs handle knowledge-intensive tasks, given uneven coverage and differing perspectives on knowledge across multiple languages, by examining their internal parametric information and use of external contextual knowledge. 2-3 pm Tue Oct 14, 2025, ITE 325b, UMBC bit.ly/3KEEnW4

This first session of the UMBC series on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 introduces the basics of generative AI and its implications for teaching and learning. Faculty will see short demos of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity plus time for Q&A. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... What AI skills do employers actually want from new graduates? This session explores the real-world competencies that drive today's hiring decisions. Dean Merritt (Mindgrub) and Dr. Karolyn Babalola (Booz Allen Hamilton) share insights. 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 8. via Zoom.