Recent News & Accomplishments
2020
The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) will be held February 7-12, 2020 at the Hilton New York Midtown, New York, USA.
One of the oldest and most prestigious artificial intelligence (AI) conferences will take place next week in New York City. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI) will bring together researchers and practitioners in AI, machine learning (ML), and related fields for a week of paper presentations, invited speakers, workshops, and tutorials. Additionally, collocated conferences such as the ACM/SIGAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society ( AIES ) will attract a diverse set of participants to discuss the impact of AI, and AI hype, on society. UMDCS researchers will... read more
Alireza Farhadi is advised by Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi
Alireza Farhadi fourth-year PhD student, advised by Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi was recently awarded the 2020 Facebook fellowship. The Facebook fellowship program aims to encourage and support promising doctoral students, engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering.Farhadi secured the fellowship under the Economics and Computation category. His research work focuses on Combinatorial Optimization, Algorithmic Game Theory, and Algorithmic Graph Theory. As a winner of the fellowship, Farhadi will receive tuition and fees paid for the 9 months of... read more
The department recognizes with gratitude the following faculty and staff for their tireless leadership and extraordinary contributions in preparing and moving to our new home, The Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering. The Staff & Faculty Award Committee (Chaired by Jim Reggia) made several recommendations. read more
Three graduate assistants from the department were among the award's distinguished winners
Three Computer Science graduate students win the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Awards out of approximately 4,000 UMD graduate students who serve the campus as administrative, research, or teaching assistants. The award established by the Graduate School recognizes and honors the outstanding contributions that Graduate Assistants provide to students, faculty, departments, administrative units, and the University as a whole. Kevin Hogan - Outstanding Research Assistant award Kevin Hogan’s research interests focus on Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Security. He is currently a... read more
This year THREE of our Computer Science students have been selected for Honorable Mention for the 2020 Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Mark Keller: Advisor : Max Leiserson Keller has been working on two projects with the Leiserson Research Group ( https://lrgr.io ) focusing on visualizing mutation signatures (patterns of mutation corresponding to distinct mutational processes) in human cancer, and benchmarking algorithms for the decomposition of cancer genomes into mutational signatures and their activities. Keller plans to begin graduate... read more
Todd Holden , Senior Web Services Developer, has been selected to receive the Staff Service Award for Fall 2019 in recognition of his exceptional contributions in developing and managing the AV equipment in the Iribe Building. In addition to serving as a primary point-of-contact for the contractors and Division of IT as a building expert for the AV systems, Todd contributes his expertise as a web administrator by leading the campus Drupal User's Group. Todd’s efforts in updating data to csrankings.org elevated the department's ranking from 16th to 10th during 2019. read more
2019
Mihai Pop, professor of computer science and director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS),was recently named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. Among the 58 researchers from universities, companies and research centers in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States, Pop was... read more
Professor Donald Perlis along with his team, Justin Brody and Timothy Clausner (both visiting scientist, UMIACS ) received $980 K Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) award for their project titled -- "Toward Knowledge of Cooperative Agency: A Foundation for Task-General Teaming.” The project will take the first steps towards an initial theory of cooperative agency as the bedrock on which general autonomous teaming can be built. The DARPA award came through the recently launched CREATE (Context Reasoning for Autonomous Teaming) program, which aims to explore the utility of... read more
Professor Hal Daumé III and Associate Professor Tom Goldstein have been unanimously selected as the inaugural Pier Giorgio Perotto Endowed Professors by a committee, consisting of distinguished faculty members within and outside of the Department of Computer Science. Daumé’s research focuses on developing efficient machine learning algorithms to build natural language processing systems based on interactions with people. This involves designing techniques that can actively interact with human experts to learn to mimic their behavior, as well as methods that can actively request information... read more
Computer Science majors Hassan Syyid and Sandeep Ramesh are developing an app to find the safest route for the commuters
For people who live in crime-ridden neighborhoods, walking to work, school or even the grocery store safely can be stressful, if not outright dangerous. Two UMD computer science majors want to put an angel on their shoulders—or in their phones. Freshmen Hassan Syyid and Sandeep Ramesh are developing Path Angel, an app to help commuters find the safest route to their destination. It took triple honors last month at Cornell University’s Big Red Hacks: Hack to Save Your Community! The duo was inspired to create their app while walking around the Cornell campus and trying to find a shady path to... read more