Three Faculty Receive Academic Promotions

Three faculty members, Marine Carpuat, Michelle Mazurek and Rob Patro have been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure. 

The academic promotions of Carpuat, Mazurek and Patro are in recognition of their outstanding research, excellent teaching, and strong commitment towards service.

Carpuat’s research focuses on multilingual natural language processing and machine translation to help people communicate across languages.  Her work aims at designing computational models and methods to detect and explain nuanced differences between words and sentences in various languages.

In addition to her joint appointment in the department of computer science and  UMIACS, Carpuat is a core faculty in the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab.

Mazurek’s research focuses on human-centered computer security and privacy. Her work aims at understanding and influencing security and privacy behaviors, both for end users and for information technology professionals.

Mazurek holds joint appointments in the department of computer science and UMIACS, is a core faculty member in the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL),  and is affiliated with ECE.

Patro’s research focuses on the design of algorithms, data structures and computational methods for processing, organizing,  indexing and querying high-throughput genomics data. He also investigates topics at the intersection of efficient algorithms and statistical inference, especially as they relate to the recovery of high-dimensional biological signals like gene expression.

Patro holds joint appointments in the department of computer science and UMIACS and is a member of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB).

The academic promotions for Carpuat, Mazurek and Patro are effective on July 1, 2020