Computer Science News

MAY 2021

The Monthly Build

A newsletter for the alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science.

Features

Senior Sam Bannan Turns Internship Into a Career
He will begin a full-time position as associate algorithm development engineer at tech company Alion Science and Technology upon graduation. Read More »

Cybersecurity Success Story
How Ruvi Kitov (B.S. '97) built a multimillion-dollar company that’s changing the way large companies manage network security policy. Read More »

"It Led to My Dream Job"
First class of machine learning and data science professional master’s students graduates from UMD’s Science Academy this May. Read More »

Faculty & Research

Mihai Pop Leads Development of Tool that Makes Reconstructing Microbial Genomes Easier
The open-source Binnacle software represents a first step toward effective metagenomic analysis tools that can leverage all the information contained in one or more samples. READ MORE »

Philip Resnik and Abhinav Shrivastava Receive Amazon Research Awards
Their work focuses on advanced topic modeling to support the understanding of COVID-19 and discovering and localizing new concepts using dual memory. READ MORE »

Students

First-year Ph.D. Student Joy Kitson Awarded DOE Computational Science Fellowship
Her research focuses on developing large-scale epidemic simulations used to model diseases and public health interventions. READ MORE »

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Four CS Graduate Students Received Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
Kianté Brantley, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Greg Davis and Marina Knittel received the campus fellowship. READ MORE »

Student-run Technica Hackathon Won Second Place at 2021 Pitch Dingman Competition
Led by CS majors Hugo Burbelo and Utsa Santhosh, Technica won $10,000 and took home the $1,000 audience choice prize for an online event platform for hackathons and tech events. READ MORE »

Alumni

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Events

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Science Academy
Apply by June 30 for our professional master's programs in machine learning or data science. Evening classes and no GRE required. More »

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