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JUNE 2021
The Monthly Build
A newsletter for the alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science.
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Features
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In Perfect Sync
CS Ph.D. candidates Soheil Behnezhad and Mahsa Derakhshan met in high school, married and share parallel paths. Read More » |
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CS Majors Excited to Compete in “Not-a-Boring Competition”
UMD Loop team is one of 12 chosen to compete in The Boring Company’s tunnel-boring competition this summer. Read More » |
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Jose Calderon Sees Teaching as a Craft to Work On, Not a Skill to Master
CS lecturer received the 2021 Dean’s Outstanding Lecturer Award. Read More »
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Faculty & Staff
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UMD, UMBC, ARL Announce $68M Cooperative Agreement to Accelerate AI, Autonomy in Complex Environments
Dinesh Manocha is co-lead researcher on the agreement. READ MORE » |
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Modeling and Troubleshooting 2D and 3D Audio Technologies
Ramani Duraiswami and Nail Gumerov were awarded $270K from Facebook Reality Labs. READ MORE » |
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Promoting Diversity and Fairness in AI Systems
John Dickerson and a Tulane collaborator received a $60,000 award as part of the Google Research Scholars program. READ MORE » |
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UMD Pushes New Technologies to Improve VR/AR
Amitabh Varshney and Matthias Zwicker are advancing a concept known as foveated rendering, a computational technique that uses innovative eye-tracking software to replicate natural human eye function in VR/AR. READ MORE » |
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Dinesh Manocha and Ming Lin’s Group Awarded Best Paper and Honorable Mention at IEEE VR 2021
They developed a transformer-based learning method that can simulate emotive human gestures from natural language text inputs and a redirected walking algorithm. READ MORE » |
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UMD Has Strong Showing at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
UMD researchers presented 15 papers at the conference this month. READ MORE » |
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UMD Researchers in the Top Scientists World Ranking By Guide2Research
Ten break into top 1,000 rankings for computer science & electronics based on research output. READ MORE » |
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Kate Atchison and Maria Johnson Receive Staff Service Awards for Spring 2021
Atchison was honored for her extensive contributions to students and Johnson received the award in recognition of her work in developing and expanding the department's relationships with corporate partners. READ MORE » |
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Students
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Senior CS Major Hannah Rhee Served as Campus Commencement Speaker
Graduating during an ongoing pandemic affirmed Rhee’s confidence that she gained the tools to help build a better world through technology. Watch Rhee’s speech » | Read More » |
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Senior CS Majors Yaelle Goldschlag and Shiv Patel Named Senior Marshals
These students demonstrated the highest levels of scholarship, service, extracurricular activity and personal growth. READ MORE » |
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Congratulations to Spring 2021 CS Graduates
More than 125 graduates visited the Brendan Iribe Center to celebrate their graduation with faculty and staff and a photo op. READ MORE » |
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Senior CS Majors Adharsh Babu and Neil Johnson Awarded 2021 Do Good Medallions
Awardees were recognized for their extraordinary commitment to social impact and innovation and their efforts to bolster UMD’s impact as the nation's first Do Good Campus.
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Machine Learning Security Needs New Perspectives and Incentives
CS Ph.D. student Yigitcan Kaya's work with Tudor Dumitras featured in VentureBeat. READ MORE » |
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Alumni
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Harnessing the Power of AI, One Project at a Time
Aya Soffer's (M.S. '92, Ph.D. '95) game-changing success story at IBM.
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Jagdeep Singh (B.S. '86) Cuts Ribbon on Makerspace
5,400-square-foot "Singh Sandbox" in Brendan Iribe Center provides valuable education and experiences not available in the traditional classroom.
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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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