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October 2026
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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The program ranks in the Top 10 among public institutions overall and for the specialties of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, according to U.S. News & World Report. |
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New tenure-track and professional-track faculty members bring expertise in high-performance computing, internet measurement, computer vision, artificial intelligence, data science and scalable systems.
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Their new book, co-authored with MIT’s Erik Demaine, examines how computer scientists determine the limits of solving computational problems. |
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Students
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The fall 2026 event connected more than 1,000 students with 59 employers seeking candidates for internships and full-time positions.
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The five student-led startups focus on job searches, home-service calls, neighborhood equipment sharing, engineering workflows and passive health monitoring. |
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CS Ph.D. student Manan Suri and Dinesh Manocha are part of a research team developing CyberForge, a framework that generates realistic vulnerabilities to train AI agents for software defense. |
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CS Ph.D. student Aritrik Ghosh and Nirupam Roy developed a low-power system that detects brief covert radio transmissions that conventional systems can miss. |
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Faculty and Research
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His research focuses on computer vision, active sensing and policy for dual-use artificial intelligence across civilian and defense settings. |
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Huaishu Peng and Zeyu Yan (Ph.D. ’26) helped develop DissolvPCB, a recyclable circuit board designed to recover materials and electronic components for reuse. |
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Philip and Rebecca Resnik used computer-assisted analysis to examine more than 16,000 personal accounts describing reasons people choose to continue living. |
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Dinesh Manocha and collaborators developed the MorFiC framework, which allows a locomotion policy trained on a single robot design to adapt to four-legged robots with different weights, shapes and motors. |
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The institute focused on robust quantum simulation will launch a new phase of research with a five-year award expected to total $37.5 million. |
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IN PICTURES
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The Computing Catalyst’s annual event brought students together with campus organizations, UMD programs and industry representatives at Hornbake Plaza. |
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The annual fall event brought students, faculty and staff together at the Brendan Iribe Center to mark the start of the fall semester. |
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ALUMS
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Jared Wolinsky (B.S. ’09) credits his UMD education and the QUEST Honors Program for preparing him for his role as group vice president of software engineering at SiriusXM. |
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With seven alumni members, the board will provide industry perspectives, support student programming and strengthen connections among students, alumni and professionals. |
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We are grateful to alumni and friends whose generosity supports current and future students. To learn more about how you can make a difference, please visit cs.umd.edu/giving.
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