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July 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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Taking Big Risks and Hatching a New Kind of Stock Trading Business
Mokhtarzada Hatchery team Quandry has been on a wild ride to startup success. Read More » |
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Rajiv Gandhi (Ph.D. '03) Receives 2022 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
He was honored for outstanding contributions to mentoring and teaching students from different, often non-traditional backgrounds. Read More » |
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Ph.D. Student Niall Williams Awarded Link Foundation Fellowship
Williams was selected for his cutting-edge research and publications in augmented and virtual reality. Read More » |
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Faculty & Staff |
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| Laxman Dhulipala Joins the Department as Assistant Professor
He designs, analyzes and implements parallel algorithms that are faster and more efficient. READ MORE » |
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| Bahar Asgari Joins the Department as Assistant Professor
Asgari is an expert at optimizing sparse problems. READ MORE » |
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| Ramani Duraiswami Joins MURI Soundscape Project Team
The project aims to understand how animals, including humans, understand their environment using their hearing and to replicate this learning in data-driven approaches. READ MORE » |
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| Pratap Tokekar Receives Amazon Research Award
Tokekar will continue developing algorithms to advance teams of autonomous robots. READ MORE » |
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| Three Faculty Members Promoted
Abhinav Bhatele, John Dickerson and Pratap Tokekar were promoted to associate professor with tenure. READ MORE » |
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| Mihai Pop Reappointed as Director of UMIACS
Pop, who is noted for his scientific research and advocacy for equality and inclusion in academia, has been reappointed to a second three-year term as director. READ MORE » |
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| 2022 Summer Reads
The college’s summer reading list includes Ben Shneiderman's book titled "Human-Centered AI." READ MORE » |
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Students |
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Mahsa Derakhshan Receives SIGecom 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
Derakhshan (M.S. '18, Ph.D. '21) received the award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation by designing new models and algorithms for auctions and matching markets. READ MORE » |
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Megan Shen Helped Develop App at JPMorgan's Code for Good Hackathon
Shen (B.S. '21) helped develop a tech solution for Global Nomads, a nonprofit that connects young people. Now she's a full-time software engineer at JPMorgan. READ MORE » |
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Alumni |
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Brothers' Truebill Pays Off, Truly
Entrepreneurial Terps, including Idris (B.S. '10) and Zeki (B.S. '01), sell financial planning app for $1.275B. READ MORE » |
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EVENTS |
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Science and Computational Sciences Research Day
Check out the latest research projects faculty and students in the department and UMIACS are working on. Sign Up » |
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