Alumni

We are a department of excellence. The University of Maryland’s computer science faculty continually embarks on cutting edge research, produces award winning papers, and teaches students a foundation of skills to launch their own accomplishments.

We graduate qualified students that earn competitive jobs. Many UMD alumni have become professors at high ranked universities, researchers at well-known industrial labs and software engineers at successful Internet start-ups. Some of our notable alumni include Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; Gary Flake, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and founder of Yahoo! Research Labs; and Naresh Gupta, senior vice president of Adobe’s Print and Publishing Business Unit. In an effort to expand the online Alumni Hall of Fame, if you would like to nominate a UMD CS alumnus or alumna to be highlighted on these pages, please send an email to the chair's office (cschair@cs.umd.edu) and to Professor Ashok Agrawala (agrawala@cs.umd.edu). Our department wants to recognize the achievements of as many alumni as possible.

Additionally, we would like to keep alumni up-to-date on CS events once a semester through a newsletter! If you have not been invited by email to the alumni mailing list (cs-alumni@cs.umd.edu), you can sign up here. For giving opportunities, please click here.

Recent Class Notes

 July, 2024

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (Ph.D. ’93) was named founding chair of computer science at IU Indianapolis.

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 June, 2024

Andrew Sears (Ph.D. ’93) was named provost and senior vice president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

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 May, 2024

Zvi Band (B.S. ’06) was named the first chief technology officer (CTO) of Keep Company

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 April, 2024

Roger Pierson (B.S. ’84) has been featured in Marquis Who's Who. 

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Martín Farach-Colton (Ph.D. ’91) was inducted as a 2023 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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 March, 2024

Juan Navarro (B.S. ’82) was named President/CEO of Advanced IT Concepts LLC.

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Craig Abod (B.S. ’86) was named Virginia’s 50 most powerful execs by Virginia Business. 

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 February, 2024

Samuel Hui (B.S. ’20) joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a Programmer and Analyst in the Systems Development and Implementation branch of the Information Technology Directorate.

 August, 2023

Rick Kuhn (M.S. ’85), a computer scientist in NIST's Computer Security Division, was elected a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

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 October, 2022

Debanjan Saha (Ph.D. ’95) was named CEO of DataRobot.