Recent News & Accomplishments
2013
Alumnus Suman Banerjee, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, has received ACM SIGmobile's "Rockstar" award. The award recognizes early career achievements in the field of mobile computing. He will accept the award and deliver a talk at MobiCom 2013 this Fall. Banerjee received his Ph.D. in 2003 and was advised by Ashok Agrawala and Bobby Bhattacharjee. More about the award: http://www.sigmobile.org/awards/rsa.html More about Mobicom2013: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/ read more
Lise Getoor, Michael Hicks and Jonathan Katz have been promoted to Full Professor. Dr. Khuller and the Department extend congratulations and thanks to all three. read more
The Department's Human-Computer Interaction Lab hosted its 30th Annual Symposium on May 22nd and 23rd. The event featured dozens of talks, tutorials and workshops in multiple tracks. Sponsorships were provided by Deloitte, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, Optimal Solutions Group, Oracle Health Sciences, SAP, Spotfire, Virtusa, Yahoo!, ACM, The Hive Group, MicroStrategy, IBM Research and a number of units on campus. Visit http://beta.seen.co/event/hcil-30th-symposium-university-of-maryland-2013-52/ for a useful event summary. A Flickr stream of the event is also available. read more
Professor Hal Daume III was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2013. Dr. Khuller and the Department offer their congratulations. read more
Dr. Jandelyn Plane is the new Associate Director of the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES) for the next 12 months starting July 1. She will be leading new efforts in CMSC for women's involvement in computing. ACES is the nation's first undergraduate honors program in cybersecurity, representing an innovative new model for cybersecurity education. read more
VisiSonics, a company Dr. Duraiswami co-founded with Adam O'Donovan (a graduate student co-advised with Larry Davis) was recently given an award by University of Maryland ventures. For more information, please visit: http://umventures.org/news.html , http://www.biohealthinnovation.org/index.php/bhi-news-section/bhi-press-releases/1457-visisonics-named-first-um-ventures-start-up-prize-winner and http://www.bmoremedia.com/innovationnews/visisonics05072013.aspx read more
Dr. Evan Golub has been promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer. In addition to teaching undergraduate courses, Dr. Golub has been an Assistant Director at HCIL. He has also been involved in student advising and mentoring, conducting research projects, and working on various student projects and teams. In addition, Dr. Golub has been involved in the High School Programming Contest as well as summer programs on campus. read more
Associate Professor Lise Getoor is an invited speaker at the graduation ceremony for the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University today, May 10. She is also an invited speaker at the Santa Fe Institute workshop on Structure, Statistical Inference, and Dynamics in Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data. read more
Professor V.S. Subrahmanian was the keynote speaker at the 2013 Sentiment Analysis Symposium in New York City on May 8. He spoke on "Sentiments, Signals, and Action: Some Stories". read more
CS undergrad student Elissa Redmiles was selected as an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for 2013. The June 2013 issue of Computing Research News will include an article on the awards. An announcement of the awards will be posted on CRA's website ( www.cra.org ) later this week. read more