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April 2022
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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Graduate Program Earns High U.S. News Rankings
Computer science ranks No. 9 among public universities and No. 17 overall. Specialties in artificial intelligence, programming language, theory and systems also rank in the top 25. Read More » |
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Six Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate students Joshua Davis, James Mullen, Joel Rajakumar and Max Springer; senior Naveen Raman; and alum Ethan Cheng (B.S. '21) received the prestigious awards. Read More » |
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Senior Yong Li Networked His Way From an Internship to Full-time Job at Bloomberg
As an intern, Li developed an extension to help the news infrastructure team resolve bugs before news stories go live. Read More »
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Faculty & Staff
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Ming Lin Named to IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy
She joins alums Michael Antonov and Brendan Iribe in receiving the honor. READ MORE » |
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Efficiently Processing Single-Cell and Single-Nucleus RNA-Sequencing Data
Multi-institutional team that includes Rob Patro and Ph.D. student Dongze He released a toolkit for the efficient processing of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing data. READ MORE » |
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Ensuring Human Control Over AI-Infused Systems
Ben Shneiderman shares his thoughts on this issue in an NAE Perspectives article. READ MORE » |
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World Traveling Postdoc Finds a Home at Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Andreea Alexandru is working with Jonathan Katz on privacy-preserving protocols with applications in cyber-physical systems and machine learning. READ MORE » |
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New Postdoc Aims to Mitigate Machine Learning Bias
Jieyu Zhao is working with Hal Daumé to build accountable and trustworthy natural processing language models. READ MORE » |
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Students
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Sophomore George Li Named Goldwater Scholar
Li conducts research with Aravind Srinivasan and Furong Huang. Read More » |
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Four Ph.D. Students Receive Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
Alexander Levine, Chahat Singh, Leonidas Tsepenekas and Weijia Xu received the awards. Read More » |
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Ph.D. Student Niall Williams Awarded Honorable Mention, Best Paper at 2022 IEEE VR
Williams, who is advised by Dinesh Manocha, is one of only four graduate students to receive the award. READ MORE » |
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Ph.D. Student Daochen Wang Wins Quantum Chess Tournament at Conference on Quantum Information Processing
Wang, who is advised by Andrew Childs, enjoyed this variation of the classic board game that added quantum features. READ MORE » |
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Alumni
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From Scholarship to Successful Career
For David Doggette (M.S. '94), a National Security Agency scholarship, hard work and an entrepreneurial spirit came together in his Maryland tech company, 2HB Inc.
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A Quest to Complete a Critical Genomics Puzzle
Adam Phillippy (M.S. '08, Ph.D. '10), a bioinformatics engineer at NIH, has helped finally complete a human genome sequence.
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Job Opportunity
The Department is hiring a full stack web developer. READ MORE » |
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Events
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CMNS Commencement Ceremony
We invite August 2021, December 2021 and May 2022 graduates to walk across the stage and have their names announced at the college commencement ceremony. More »
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