Recent News & Accomplishments
2014
Computer Science Department Affiliate Professor Dr. Rama Chellapa has been named a 2014 ACM fellow for his contributions to image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. read more
Computer Science Department Alumnus and Affiliate Senior Research Scientist Dr. David Doermann, Ph.D. ’93, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for contributions to research and development of automatic analysis and processing of document page imaging. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Learn More: Dr. David Doermann 's Website Listing of 2014 IEEE Fellows read more
Computer Science Ph.D. student Mohammad Rastegari was awarded the Facebook Fellowship for 2014-2015. read more
Dr. Moustafa Youssef has been named an ACM Distinguished Speaker as part of the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program. Dr. Youssef graduated with his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2004. He was advised by Dr. Ashok Agrawala; he concentrated on wireless networking. Dr. Youssef is now an Associate Professor at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology and the Alexandria University in Egypt. He is also the Director of The Wireless Research Center at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program is an ACM outreach program... read more
Justin Searles graduated from UMD in 2008 with a B.S. in Computer Science. During his time at UMD he founded the UMD Startup Shell, a student startup accelerator, with fellow Computer Science department students Eric Rosenberg and Deonna Hodges. Most recently, Justin founded VentureBoard, a web platform that allows startup founders to build their teams, stay organized and motivated and leverage a variety of tools such as Google docs, Heroku, and MeetUp.com. Justin co-founded VentureBoard with UMD students Avi Eisenberger and Scott Block. Computer Science department Staff Writer Elissa... read more
Dr. Eytan Ruppin (incoming UMD Computer Science Department Professor and Director of the UMD Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) and his Ph.D. student Keren Yizhak (Tel Aviv University, Israel) have developed an algorithm that predicts which metabolic genes need to be 'switched off' to prevent aging. Their work was motivated by previous research that has shown the efficacy of caloric restriction as a mechanism to increase life span in a variety of mammals, including humans. Dr. Ruppin and Ms. Yizhak sought to determine which combinations of genes should be targeted by drugs... read more
Computer Science Department Senior Lecturer Dr. Jan Plane is a Finalist in the 15th Annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards. Women in Technology is a Washington-D.C. area women's technology community organization, which is honoring Dr. Plane and the 30 other finalists from the Washington D.C. area for their exemplary and leading work in the technology arena. “We’ve received many outstanding nominations in our 15th year of the Leadership Awards; our finalists distinguish themselves through the unprecedented impact they are having on the technology industry,” says Phyllis Kolmus, President... read more
CS Welcomes New Professors David Van Horn & Zia Khan Grad Students: Learn About Zia & David's Courses and Enroll! read more
INFILTRATE is a cybersecurity conference focusing on offensive R&D, and is the "single-most important event for those who are focused on the technical aspects of offensive security issues." Computer Science Department Emeritus Professor William Arbaugh has been invited to be a Keynote speaker for this prestigious conference, to be held from May 15-16, 2014. The title of Dr. Arbaugh's Keynote is: "Red Team Deadwood: Why Red Teams are useless." Dr. Arbaugh is the founder of Komoku Inc. a provider of advanced rootkit security detection solutions. Acquired by Microsoft, the Komoku technology... read more
Computer Science Department Professor V.S. Subrahmanian has co-authored "Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy". This book presents the "Policy Computation Algorithm", a collection of policy analysis methods that utilize programming techniques which can be applied to counter-terrorism problems . This algorithm can be used to to predict terror attacks, such as those committed by the Indian Mujahideen terrorists, by analyzing data from text messages and social media posts. The methods presented by V.S. in "Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy" have... read more