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bit.ly/seai25 New AI systems are creating significant disruption in many career areas, including software engineering & computer programming. Dr. Mohammad Samarah, graduate program director of UMBC’s Software Engineering graduate program, explains why human professionals are needed more than ever.

bit.ly/43HmLjr AAAI hosts a free online webinar, AI Perception vs. Reality, 12-1pm EDT, Thurs., June 19. Panelists are Rodney Brooks, Tom Dietterich, Gary Marcus, Peter Stone, and moderator Francesca Rossi. Topics include: AI history, hype cycles, current AI impact, and critical evaluation tools.

Top Game Design Schools and Colleges in Maryland - 2025 College Rankings Our 2025 ranking of the top game design school programs in Maryland. For an explanation of the ranking criteria, click here.

UMBC is recognized as a leader in game design education in the 2025 Game Design School Rankings in Animation Career Review. UMBC is #1 in Maryland based on academic reputation, admission selectivity, program depth & breadth, and graduate employment data. www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top...

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Two UMBC CSEE professors were funded by UMB for research on new healthcare technology. Dong Li will develop a way to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone and Kostas Kalpakis heads a project using machine learning to allow ER physicians to make treatment decisions quickly.

bit.ly/3SSwjlg The Internet2 NET+ Program selected Jack Suess (BS ‘81, MS ‘92), UMBC’s VP of information technology and CIO, to receive its 2025 Cloud Superhero Award. The award recognizes community members who possess cloud superpowers and share them with the research and education community.

Evan McRae ’25 Paired His Computer Science Degree With A Music Focused-individualized Studies Major And Followed His Family’s Retriever Legacy - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Evan McRae shares how early exposure to UMBC’s Game Developers Club as a legacy Retriever led to an exec. board position and the creation of games and memories.

UMBC featured an article on UMBC senior Evan McRae, who is graduating this week with majors in both computer science and individualized studies. He’s also been involved with the UMBC Game Developers Club. umbc.edu/stories/evan...

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UMBC CSEE Professor Anupam Joshi was interviewed by aecc india on the evolving roles of AI, data science, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He covered their impact on jobs and careers in many fields, and the opportunities to master the technologies at UMBC.

CSEE Research Day 2025 Awardees The UMBC Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) proudly hosted its annual Research Day event this May, celebrating a year of groundbreaking research and innovation. This high...

The 2025 UMBC CSEE Research Day featured talks and posters by faculty and students on their research. Awards were given to the best BS, MS, and PhD student research work and the top three student research posters. Read more about the recipients here. www.csee.umbc.edu/csee-researc...

Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25: A First-generation Engineering College Grad Uplifts Fellow Students - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25, electrical engineering, studies electrical signals in the brain, looking for patterns that might help doctors diagnose or treat

Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25 EE, studies electrical signals in the brain, looking for patterns that might help doctors diagnose or treat mental disorders. As a first-generation college student, she forged her own path, mastering complex subjects to produce new knowledge. bit.ly/4jOWDIS

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UMBC CSEE Professor E. F. Charles LaBerge was honored as the UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor for 2025–2028. His teaching excellence had previously been recognized at the college & USM levels, and the UMBC Alumni Association.

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

Quanta's article on LLM technology's impact on Natural Language Processing tells the story with quotes from interviews with 19 senior NLP researchers. In my 50+ years of working on AI and NLP, this has been the biggest change I’ve seen. It’s well worth reading. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

2025 CSEE Research Day The 2025 CSEE Research Day will take place from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday, May 2nd, on South Campus in the main seminar room. A celebration of selected research accomplishments from 2024–2025 by UM...

The 2025 CSEE Research Day takes place from 9-4 on Friday, May 2, on South Campus in the main seminar room and online. A celebration of selected research accomplishments by UMBC CSEE faculty, staff, and students for the CSEE community and pubic. csee.umbc.edu/2025-csee-re...

talk: Why and How to Teach Yourself Data Science Prof. Ergun Simsek, UMBC Data Science program director In a recent Paws and Pivot online seminar, Dr. Ergun Simsek gave a presentation on "Why and How to Teach Yourself Data Science.  Dr. Simsek is a ...

UMBC CSEE Professor Ergun Simsek gave a presentation on "Why and How to Teach Yourself Data Science". The video of his talk and his presentation slides are now available. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

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UMBC Prof. Rebecca Williams talks on Charting Student Misconceptions About Data Visualization from 12 to 1 pm EDT on Friday, May 2, in UMBC ENGR102 & online. She will share results and insights on addressing persistent student misconceptions in data visualization courses.

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UMBC CSEE professor Manas Gaur published an article in The Conversation on the DeepSeek AI R1 and OpenAI o1 generative AI systems, comparing their quality of reasoning and accuracy in generating citations.

Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD As a senior in high school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Randi Williams ’16, computer engineering, was almost certain she was going to MIT for undergrad. Since middle school she’d had the under...

UMBC alumna Randi Williams, Ph.D. (’16 B.S. computer engineering) is the keynote speaker for UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day. She earned a Ph.D. from MIT where she was a member of Media Lab's Personal Robots Group and will join CMU next year. umbc.edu/stories/rand...

UMBC's Center for Ethics and Values will hold a public forum on the Ethics of AI on Tuesday, April 8 from 7pm to 8:30pm. It will be a moderated, informal discussion hosted by Blake Francis with panelists Kathy Baxter, David Danks, and Gabriella Waters. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14...

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Manas Gaur, Edward Raff, and Ali Mohammadi helped present a half-day tutorial at 2025 AAAI on Neurosymbolic AI and how it can be applied to LLMs to help solve key challenges in NLP tasks like explainability, grounding & instructability. See their slides & material here.

Dr. Virginia Dignum, Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden, discusses the often contradictory nature of AI, exploring how its advancements highlight the irreplaceable qualities of human intelligence and the importance of governance. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14...

McKenna McCall (CMU) discusses static analysis tools for home IoT users from a usable security lens and a project focusing on formal methods proposing a new technique for preventing undesirable information flows on the web; 11:45 ET Mon. Feb 17, UMBC & online. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

Dr. Xiaomin Lin (JHU) talks on Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean Monitoring at UMBC 4:00–5:15pm ET Wed, Feb. 19, 2025, ITE 231 & online. He will cover the challenges and emerging technologies in subsea sensing and low-power autonomous operation. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14...

Is DOGE A Cybersecurity Threat? A Security Expert Explains The Dangers Of Violating Protocols And Regulations That Protect Government Computer Systems - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County Richard Forno explains the dangers of DOGE violating security protocols that protect government computer systems.

UMBC CSEE cybersecurity expert Dr. Richard Forno discusses the dangers of violating protocols and regulations that protect government computer systems in this article from UMBC Magazine that originally appeared in The Conversation.

Talk: From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging Problems Huan Liu, ASU, 12-1pm ET Wed. Feb 5, ITE 459 & online UMBC Distinguished SpeakerFrom Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging ProblemsHuan Liu, Arizona State UniversityWedn...

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Huan Liu (Arizona State University) talks on From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging Problems, 12-1pm EST Wed. Feb. 5 in ITE 459 at UMBC & online. He'll present emerging opportunities in AI and Big Data through the lens of social media.

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CSEE's Naghmeh Karimi received a grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation to study the security of computer chips whose design and structure allow computing-in-memory (CiM) and are promising for speeding up the use of AI and machine learning algorithms.

The Parallel Evolution Of Milt Halem And The Third Pillar Of Science - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County For almost 70 years, Milt Halem has deployed the latest computing technology to tackle some of science’s toughest problems.

For almost 70 years, Milt Halem, now a research professor in UMBC'S CSEE department after a career at NASA, has deployed the latest technology, from vacuum tubes in the ’50s to AI today, to tackle some of science’s toughest problems. Read more here. umbc.edu/stories/milt...

Mohamed Younis honored by IEEE for contributions to modern communication technologies Mohamed Younis, professor and chair of the CSEE Department, has been honored by the IEEE Communications Society for his significant and lasting contributions to the advancement of modern communication...

Mohamed Younis, CSEE professor and chair, was honored by the IEEE Communications Society for his significant and lasting contributions to the advancement of modern communication technologies. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

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Students in Prof. Lara Martin's special topics class on Interactive Fiction and Text Generation present their projects in a public poster session, 10:30-12:30 on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, at UMBC in Sherman Hall 150. Votes for the audience favorite give extra credit!

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UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department has new positions for 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 in Computer Science in addition to open tenured or tenure-track positions in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Electrical, Optical, or Computer Engineering. Apply online. #jobs

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UMBC Prof. Zhiyuan Chen talks online, 12-1pm ET, Fri, Dec. 6, on his research on Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Intrusion Detection Systems. He'll describe how datasets used to train intrusion detection systems can be modified to protect privacy, enabling them to be widely shared.

FWIW: Gartner published a hype cycle for Generative AI and predicts that by 2026, more than 80% of enterprises will have used generative AI APIs or models,
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