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February 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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Senior Naveen Raman Wins 2022 Churchill Scholarship
He will work with Jon Crowcroft at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab on fairness of AI and ML algorithms. Read More » |
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UMD Students Kickstart Their Tech Careers with Micro-internships
Break Through Tech DC at UMD facilitates its first Sprinternship™ program with 15 companies and 58 undergraduates. Read More » |
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Video Games, Flight Search and an Octopus Named Inky
Read about the eclectic adventures of Dave Baggett (B.S. '92) as a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Read More »
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Faculty
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Jonathan Katz Named ACM Fellow
He was recognized for his contributions to cryptographic protocol design and cryptography education. READ MORE » |
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Ramani Duraiswami's Company VisiSonics Featured in Baltimore Business Journal
The article highlights how the company uses math to create fully immersive soundscapes. READ MORE » |
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Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi Named Editor-in-Chief of Algorithmica
The Springer-Nature journal is the oldest international journal dedicated to algorithms. READ MORE » |
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UMD Joins U.S. Cyber Command's Academic Engagement Network
Michelle Mazurek will help identify new research opportunities for Maryland students and faculty to explore as part of this new initiative to increase the nation’s capabilities in cybersecurity education and workforce development. READ MORE » |
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STUDENTS
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Ph.D. Student Trisha Mittal Named 2022 Adobe Research Fellow
She specializes in affective computing—the study and development of intelligent systems that can understand, interpret, and respond to human emotions and behavior. READ MORE » |
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Nitin Sanket Received Ph.D. Thesis Award
Sanket (Ph.D. '21) received the Drones 2021 Ph.D. Thesis Award for his work on "Active Vision Based Embodied-AI Design for Nano-UAV Autonomy." READ MORE » |
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Senior Vatsal Agarwal Honored by Computing Research Association
Agarwal received a 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention Award from the organization. Senior Naveen Raman was also a finalist for the award. READ MORE » |
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UMD Team Wins Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2021 Workshop
Ph.D. student Yanchao Sun, undergraduate Ruijie Zheng and assistant professor Furong Huang developed an algorithm that helps combat adversarial attacks on ML models involving real-time sequential decision-making systems. READ MORE » |
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Alumni
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Two Alums Named ACM Fellows
Martin Farach-Colton (Ph.D. '91) and Glenn Ricart (Ph.D. '80) received the honor, which recognizes the top 1% of ACM members.
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Katherine Calvin Named NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor
Previously, Calvin (B.S. '03) was an Earth scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland. READ MORE » |
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Job Opportunity
The Department is hiring a full stack web developer (apply by 2/23 for best consideration).
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