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SEPTEMBER 2025
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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CS Major Neal Rangarajan Combines Computer Science and Medicine
He joins the inaugural cohort in UMD’s new B.S.-M.D. program, aiming to apply computational skills to emergency and neurological care. Read More » |
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Heng Huang Receives NSF Funding for Wildland Fire AI Research
The $1.86 million project led by UMD will develop advanced artificial intelligence tools for detection and forecasting. Read More »
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Dana Nau Publishes New AI Book on Acting, Planning and Learning
The Cambridge University Press release examines essential cognitive functions for AI systems. Read More »
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Students
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Sanjoy Chowdhury’s Vision for Smarter, Multimodal AI
The third-year CS Ph.D. student advances context-aware, efficient multimodal audio-visual learning for fine-grained understanding and reasoning. READ MORE »
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New Research Helps Robots Grasp Situational Context
CS Ph.D. student Vishnu Dorbala and UMD researchers advance embodied AI with situational queries for smarter household robots. READ MORE »
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Faculty & Research
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Leonidas Lampropoulos and Ian Miers Receive NSF Funding for Zero-Knowledge Computation
The three-year award supports programming language research on secure computation methods. READ MORE » |
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Yizheng Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Secure Code Generation Research
Her work focuses on developing the next generation of secure large language models for programming. READ MORE »
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Sarah Wiegreffe Joins the CS Faculty as an Assistant Professor
Her research interests center on interpretability in language models and their connections to interdisciplinary fields. READ MORE »
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Can Firtina Joins the CS Faculty With a Focus on Bioinformatics and Computer Architecture
His research focuses on genome analysis through intelligent computing systems. READ MORE »
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Dave Levin and Erik Rye (Ph.D. ’25) Win 2025 Caspar Bowden Privacy Award
UMD researchers were recognized for uncovering global risks in Wi-Fi tracking and advancing privacy protections. READ MORE »
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UMD Hosts International Conference on Bioinformatics Research
Researchers gathered at the Brendan Iribe Center to explore algorithms and machine learning tools for genomics and systems biology. READ MORE »
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ALUMS
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Bediako George ’03 on Tech, Startups and Staying Focused
George reflects on his path from the University of Maryland to founding Georgetown Software House. READ MORE » |
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Events
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Mon
SEPT
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Computer Science Career & Internship Fair
Employers hiring for internships, part-time and full-time positions are invited to attend and connect with computer science undergraduate and graduate students. LEARN MORE »
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We are grateful to alumni and friends whose generosity supports current and future students. To learn more about how you can make a difference, please visit cs.umd.edu/giving.
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