UMBC CSEE Professor Tim Oates explores how LLMs can be a force multiplier in startups, from ideation to marketing to customer acquisition, drawing on lessons learned using AI to scale his own data science company, Synaptiq LLC, in-person 12-1pm Wed. March 4 at UMBC. www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/...

Entinex and Design Rosetta LLC will host a Lean Coffee AI conversation, 7:30-9:30am Tue. March 17 at BWTech South campus. No speakers. No slides. Just structured, participant-driven discussion about the AI topics people actually care about right now. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Wondering where your IT degree can take you? Join Kamran Fayyaz, Chief Section Officer at the National Institutes of Health and adjunct faculty in the UMBC IS department, for a conversation on Health IT Careers, 12-1 pm, Wednesday, February 25, at UMBC in ITE 459. www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/...

UMBC alum Ralph Semmel, Ph.D. '92, CS, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Semmel, JHUAPL director emeritus, is recognized for leadership in generating innovative & disruptive engineering advancements in defense, national security & space exploration www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/...

Enis Golaszewski and Neal Krawetz present their work on Verifying Provenance of Digital Media: Security Analysis of C2PA and its Implementation, 12–1 pm ET, Fri., Feb. 20 via WebEx. They uncovered three major weaknesses and suggest ways to strengthen C2PA. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

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 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...

Laura Mateczun, associate director of Digital Trust and assistant director of the UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, talks about her research on cybersecurity management at the local level, 12-1 pm ET, Friday, February 6, 2026, online via webex. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

UMBC CSEE professor Curtis Menyuk has been elected a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. The distinction recognizes both his technical contributions to the field and his long-standing service to the optics community. Read more at csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

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...

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...

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 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...

bit.ly/3Jt03UW GenAI systems like ChatGPT 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, 12-1pm EST Wed. Nov. 5, online.

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... This month's AI in Practice webinar shares proven strategies for building robust AI literacy in higher ed classrooms and equips you with concrete strategies to better prepare for the AI-driven research landscape.

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's Manas Gaur and Yash Saxena talk on Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia, 12-1 PM EDT on Wed., Oct. 29 online. They present a retrieval-augmented LLM agent designed to generate verifiable responses with sentence-level source attribution. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Jennifer Posada holds an online session on making sense of data with AI, 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 22. She'll cover how LLMs changed her data workflow, streamlined analysis, and lowered barriers to iteration and exploration. 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...

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...

AI Innovation: Data Science Students in the Field, 6-7 pm, Wed. Oct 25. UMBC-Shady Grove students/alumni present their research on real-life challenges and data science trends. Hear about the MPS in Data Science from Prof. Ali Yousuf and ask questions. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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.

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... In this podcast episode, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, UMBC undergrad CS major Adam Baji is interviewed about his interests in the intersection of AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

hackUMBC is a 24-hour hackathon on September 27-28 on the UMBC campus for high school & university students of all skill levels, offering workshops, mentorship, networking opportunities with sponsors, and prizes. Get more information and register at hackumbc.tech

We are proud to share that CSEE alum Emily Brown (B.S., M.S. ’14, Computer Science) has been named one of UMBC’s 2025 Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award recipients by the UMBC Alumni Association Board of Directors. csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

Fortune magazine has an article on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀, now known as CAIOs. UMBC CSEE Professor Anupam Joshi, who was appointed as UMBC's CAIO and Vice Provost in June, was extensively quoted in the piece. bit.ly/CAIOjoshi

UMBC CSEE Prof. Yiwen Hu talks online about her research on the security of US 911 services, 12-1pm EDT on Fri., Sept. 5. She will discuss design defects in cellular emergency services standards & the challenges of safeguarding next-generation emergency services. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...

Good story in UMBC News: When students think of working in technology, they may dream of moving to Silicon Valley and landing jobs at companies such as Google or Meta. But the traditional tech giants aren’t the only employers offering careers to computer science grads. umbc.edu/stories/inte...

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.

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...

bit.ly/44Vt3Ns 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.

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...

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.

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 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

csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/... 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.

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...

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/...

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14... 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.

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.

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...

ai.umbc.edu/news/post/14... 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...