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JULY 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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Five CS Grads Turned Internships into Full-time Jobs
Students took advantage of on- and off-campus resources to advance their careers at Adobe, Amazon, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Salesforce. Read More » |
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Senior Lecturer Fawzi Emad Receives Provost's Excellence Award for Professional-Track Faculty
The award, established in 2015, recognizes the contributions of professional-track faculty members in teaching, research or service. Read More » |
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Bringing Data Together to Solve Problems
Mike Grove (B.S. '02) and Evren Sirin (M.S. '04, Ph.D. '06) are on a mission with their knowledge graph platform company Stardog. Read More »
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Faculty & STAFF
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Daniel Gottesman Joins as Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science
The expert in quantum information joins from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. READ MORE » |
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Erin Molloy Designs Efficient Algorithms for Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees
New assistant professor uses powerful computational tools to unlock the full breadth of information available in genomic data, designing efficient algorithms to estimate evolutionary trees. READ MORE » |
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Recording Brainwaves to Measure "Cybersickness"
Amitabh Varshney and Eric Krokos (B.S. '13, M.S. '15, Ph.D. '18) used electroencephalography to better understand and work toward solutions for VR-induced discomfort. READ MORE » |
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Leonidas Lampropoulos Receives NSF Award to Advance Proof Engineering Software and Protocols
He will advance the development and maintenance of large and evolving software verification projects that use proof assistants. READ MORE » |
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Dave Levin Selected to Serve on National Academies' Forum on Cyber Resilience
The network security expert has been chosen to serve on a national forum focused on emerging critical challenges to the nation’s IT infrastructure. READ MORE » |
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William Regli Appointed to Computing Community Consortium Council
The council aims to encourage innovative and high-impact research. READ MORE » |
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Alumni
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Moses Namara (B.S. '16) Named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 List
Namara co-created Black in Artificial Intelligence to help students applying to graduate school.
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Truebill, Co-founded by Idris Mokhtarzada (B.S. '10), Named to Forbes' Fintech 50 List
The company’s free app helps millennials better manage their money by creating budgets, monitoring credit, canceling subscriptions and negotiating bills.
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Department
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Matthias Zwicker Named Department Chair
The computer graphics and artificial intelligence expert has been serving as interim chair for the past year. Read More » |
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