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August 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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From "I’m Not a Robot" to Semi-autonomous Mega-machines
Vinay Shet (M.S. '03, Ph.D. '07) is on a mission driven by computer vision.
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Driven to Make an Impact
Kate Atchison, associate director of the Iribe Initiative for Inclusion and Diversity in Computing, wins Board of Regents Staff Award.
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Elizabeth Qiu Makes Major League Hacking's Top 50 Hackers List
The incoming CS major collaborated with the Iribe Initiative to create the largest high school hackathon in Maryland. Read More » |
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Faculty & Staff |
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| Michael Hicks Honored with ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
He was recognized for his longtime contributions to the programming languages community.
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| Hanan Samet Receives Solid Modeling Association Bézier Award
The SMA's highest honor recognizes stellar contributions of a technical and leadership nature made to solid, geometric or physical modeling and its applications.
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| Designing the First Comprehensive Framework for At-risk Users
Led by Michelle Mazurek, a new paper presents the first comprehensive framework that can be used to reason about at-risk users' needs during the technology creation process.
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| UMD Machine Learning Experts Featured Prominently at ICML 2022
Tokekar will continue developing algorithms to advance teams of autonomous robots. READ MORE » |
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| CS Faculty Members and Students Presented Five Papers and Contributed to Several Workshops on Human-Centered NLP
Marine Carpuat was also program co-chair for the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Students |
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UMD Team Wins Award for Designing a Navigation Sensor for Mini Robots
Graduate students Yang Bai and Nakul Garg and their advisor Nirupam Roy were recognized for their low-powered acoustic sensing system for miniature robots.
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REU Summer Interns Tackle Big Problems in Bioinformatics
Ten students mentored by CS students and faculty members are researching real-world problems in metagenomics, machine learning, single-cell RNA sequencing and parallel computing. READ MORE » |
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Alumni |
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Dan Bugos (B.S. '18) Discusses the Future of the Internet of Things
The director of product at Origin Wireless also talks about how IoT may improve our health and lives.
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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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UMD Computer Science Career and Internship Fair
Alums interested in employment opportunities or recruiting our students are invited to attend this in-person event. Learn More » |
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Tech Together
The first-ever Tech Together event brings all tech programs, organizations and opportunities together to help students find their tech community at UMD.
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