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...

UMBC's Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science and DoIT will hold a series of five tutorials this Spring for both new and experienced users on using UMBC's high-performance computing clusters, including a session on AI and deep learning applications. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC’s AOK Library invites UMBC students to student-only in-person sessions to share thoughts on the campus use of AI. Faculty won’t be present & conversations will be anonymous. Free pizza, drinks & swag. Sessions: 12-1 pm in AOK room 259 on Wed. Feb. 12 & Wed. March 4. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CSEE Prof. Mehdi Kiani applies machine learning and AI to create a CyberGut to treat stomach disorders. The NIH-funded project is in collaboration with colleagues from New York Institute of Technology and Penn State University. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Tim Oates explores ways that LLMs can be force multipliers in startups, from ideation to marketing to customer acquisition, based on lessons he learned using AI to scale his own data science company. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

When AI Gets in the Way: Designing for Struggle in the Age of the Helpful Assistant, 12-1 pm ET Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026, online. 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's Faculty Development Center will host an online discussion for faculty and staff of three chapters from the newly revised book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. 12-1 Tue. Feb. 24. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC Profs Eric Brown & Blake Francis will hold a conversation to address questions about AI & the Humanities, like What do Humanities Professors think about AI? How do historians and philosophers think about AI? How can the Humanities bring a critical perspective on AI ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC Physics professor Fabio Anza has won an Amazon Research Award to develop 𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝘾𝙤-𝙋𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙩, a scientific AI assistant that combines LLM orchestration with reliable computational algorithms to address critical bottlenecks in modern physics research. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Discover how AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) makes AI more accessible with minimal coding needed. Gain insight into using AutoML to create, deploy, and test ML models for your use case. Exclusively for UMBC faculty and the bwtech community. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

The UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship will hold a workshop series this Spring on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC will hold an online conversation with the scholars who created Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies, 12-1pm ET Wed, Feb. 11, online. The speakers will share why they wrote it, arguments for GenAI adoption, and strategies to address the challenges in education. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Maryland Art Place Inc opens ARTificial, an exhibition in critical discourse with the use, implementation, and innovation of AI in art making, on January 22. The exhibition includes a number of prints by UMBC Visual Arts professor Timothy Nohe. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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 Faculty Development Center is holding a hands-on, in-person workshop to revisit basic course design principles while exploring practical ways to use Gen AI to sharpen course objectives. Join John Schumacher and Kerrie Kephart from 9-12 on Friday, January 16. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

This UMBC session on a reframed Bloom's Taxonomy enabling learners to apply knowledge for real-world & social impact. Expanding on Blackboard's 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗺'𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜, it shares strategies for AI literacy, fostering critical thinking, & academic innovation. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC researchers are discovering the building blocks of hand motions to enable more effective programming of robots using classical Indian dance, and exploring whether and how dancing robots might be new tools to improve mental health. umbc.edu/stories/stra...

Google offers many free online short courses on AI-relevant topics. Here's a list os some you might explore over the holidays. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Blake Francis teaches a new course on the Ethics of AI, covering the development, use, and regulation of AI and related technologies, including surveillance, algorithmic fairness, self-driving cars, social media, the future of work, and environmental impacts. 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...

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...

UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities has a new working group on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 led by Professor Tim Phin. The group will hold open sessions next week in the Dresher Center's conference room (PAHB 216) and online, to discuss and identify issues to work on. 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...

What should faculty know, even if they're not adopting AI in their teaching? Topics include Gen AI literacy, a critical examination of student AI tool use, equity & access, ethical concerns, credible sources of Gen AI information, & implications for assessment & pedagogy. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Dr. John Bai (U. Canterbury): "On Language Models and the Dangers of an Algorithmic View From Nowhere", 2-3pm EST Mon, Dec 1, 2025, online. This talk aims to demystify language modelling & support critical, de-colonial analyses of human and artificial knowledge systems. 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...

The Computing Research Association 2025 Summit explored perspectives on how AI is reshaping computing research, undergraduate and graduate education, and workforce development. A short summary and the detailed 78-page report are now available. 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...

bit.ly/44oC6oc AI Agent Computing is a new special topics class in UMBC's graduate Software Engineering Program this fall. Topics include open-source AI libraries; personal small LLMs and special-purpose models; AI agents: AI agents with LLMs; ML models & reasoning; AI-enhanced robotics; and more.

bit.ly/44ihP3z Diane Alonso, a teaching professor and director of UMBC’s psychology program at the Universities at Shady Grove, has been named one of two senior fellows for generative AI pedagogy at the William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation.

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.

UMBC faculty James Foulds, Phil Feldman & Shimei Pan have a article on the recent problem where xAI’s Grok chatbot was compromised to mention white genocide in South Africa when responding to unrelated queries. They explain how it was done and how to prevent it in the future. bit.ly/40bBNLV

The research and advisory firm Gartner released its 2025 Hype Cycle for AI last week. Its hype cycles represent the maturity, adoption, and social application of technologies that are important to business and the economy. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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.

AAAI has a free online webinar 12-1 pm EDT on Monday. June 16, with a panel of AI experts on the evolution and future implications of Artificial General Intelligence. Panelists are Holger Hoos, Eric Horvitz, and Stuart Russell, moderated by Francesca Rossi. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... 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.

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... UMBC Prof. Anupam Joshi was interviewed by aecc india on the evolving roles of AI, data science, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He discussed their impact on jobs and careers in many fields, and the opportunities to master them at UMBC.

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

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14... UMBC will hold a “study day” panel 12-1pm on Wed, May 14, to explore how generative AI systems can help students prepare for exams. Faculty Sarah Bass (Chemistry), Tim Finin (CS/EE), & John G. Schumacher (ANTH/SOCY) discuss how GenAI tools can be used for learning.

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...

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...

The Maryland Center for Computing Education will hold a free event at UMBC on Sat. June 21, on AI in education, covering PreK-12 to higher ed stakeholders, & features student voices, opportunities, and educational resources for MD educators, school districts, colleges & universities. bit.ly/44dp0f3

In a Mic’d Up episode, Dennise Cardona chats with Abdullah Karasan, a faculty member in UMBC’s Data Science program and founder of Leveragai, about the intersection of AI, finance, and education. Listen to this video to explore the future of AI & finance! ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14...

UMBC hosts AI and Artistic Practice, Mon. April 28, 4-5:30pm. Composer Sam Pluta, visual artist Brea Souders, & video artist Eryk Salvaggio introduce their work and experiences, doubts, & breakthroughs using AI. UMBC Art prof. Eric Millikin leads a discussion. More info & register at bit.ly/artBC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBY6... Mohammad Samarah, Director of UMBC's Software Engineering Grad Program, on "AI Demystified: The 7 As of AI and How You Can Use It to Your Advantage". He covered key AI concepts and explored how you can leverage them in your personal and professional life.

my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csee/... 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.

Good article in the New Yorker magazine on Bluesky and its history www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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...

The final AI in Practice session sponsored by U. Baltimore, JHU, and UMBC is 12-1 pm EDT on April 9, 2025. Join online to hear students talk about how generative AI systems have changed their higher education experiences. Register and get the Zoom link here: ubalt.zoom.us/webinar/regi...