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JUNE 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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Celebrating Ashok Agrawala's 50 Years at UMD
During a two-day celebration in May, Ashok Thareja (Ph.D. '82) and his wife Kimberly announced a new scholarship to honor Agrawala's legacy: the Professor Ashok Agrawala Students Maryland Promise Scholarship. See Celebration Photos and Videos » | Donate to the Scholarship Fund » |
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Champion for Women and Underrepresented Students in Computing Retires from UMD
Jan Plane leaves a 30-year legacy of building computing programs and promoting diversity. Read More » | See the Photos » |
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Kianté Brantley Addresses Graduates at College's Commencement Ceremony
Brantley (Ph.D. '22) spoke about failure and making life and career decisions in his speech to the graduates. Watch the Video » |
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Faculty & Staff |
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| Hal Daumé III Part of Team Receiving ACL Test of Time Award
The award was given for a paper he co-authored 10 years ago that uses computer vision to produce descriptions of images. READ MORE » |
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| Bringing Health Care's Vision of Tomorrow into Focus
Amitabh Varshney leads new Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality, known as MIXR, with $5M funding from NSF, Google, Microsoft and Meta. READ MORE » |
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| Deepfake Detection Invention Discerns Between Real and Fake Media
Dinesh Manocha's invention could help prevent the spread of deepfake media and misinformation. READ MORE » |
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| Faculty Present Three Papers at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
The papers involve security education, online protection for at-risk users and "blocklisting." READ MORE » |
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| Computing Innovation Fellow Working to Improve Robotic Sensing Capabilities
Troi Williams is working with Pratap Tokekar on machine learning algorithms to dynamically predict the bias and uncertainty of a robot's sensors. READ MORE » |
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| Amol Deshpande Named to Washingtonian's List of 2022 Tech Titans
Deshpande is chief scientist of WireWheel, a data management and privacy management software company. READ MORE » |
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Students |
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Celebrating Our Graduates
August 2021, December 2021 and May 2022 computer science graduates attended a departmental commencement celebration on May 20. See the photos » |
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Mokhtarzada Hatchery Hosts First Demo Day
More than 50 students, faculty members and alumni attended the event, which included demos by the 2021-22 student teams and remarks by Dave Baggett (B.S. '92), founder and CEO of INKY. SEE THE PHOTOS » |
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Hugo Burbelo Named Senior Marshal
Burbelo served as co-executive director of Technica, the largest hackathon in the world for underrepresented genders. READ MORE
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Alumni |
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Alums Named to TIME Magazine's List of 100 Most Influential People
Adam Phillippy (Ph.D. '10) and Michael Schatz (Ph.D. '10) were honored for their landmark work completing the sequencing of the human genome. READ MORE» |
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UMIACS' Jack of All Technical Trades
Edward "Joe" Ridge (B.S. '06) serves as UMIACS' senior IT operations manager, handling tough technical problems with supercomputers to fielding questions from student staff members who are learning on the job. READ MORE» |
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