News & Announcements
Wei Ai Part of $1.5M NSF Grant to Improve Middle-Grade Math Education with AI
Oct 06, 2023 - The multi-institutional project combines cutting-edge technology with knowledge of effective mathematics education and human feedback to assist teachers in writing quality lesson plans.
QuICS Fellow Advocates for Quantum Simulation of Extreme Physics
Oct 04, 2023 - Zohreh Davoudi has co-authored several whitepapers laying out the case for funding quantum simulation research in nuclear and particle physics.
Chop & Learn: Teaching Computers to Recognize Food in All Forms
Oct 03, 2023 - Researchers in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) came up with an innovative project to satisfy their appetite for advancing computer vision systems based in machine learning.
Cyber Sleuth Yonghwi Kwon Joins MC2
Sep 25, 2023 - The cybersecurity expert studies both the successes and failures of the tools he develops to thwart cyberattacks.
AI Student Startup Streamlines Social Media Engagement
Sep 25, 2023 - A user-friendly web-app designed by University of Maryland students and alumni empowers brands that are struggling to engage with messages and comments on social media by streamlining creation and then deploying conversational AI.
Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users
Sep 22, 2023 - Huaishu Peng is part of a team developing a palm-sized robot to help visually impaired people use touchscreens for tasks like ordering a bubble tea.
Designing an Innovative Drone System for Disaster Recovery
Sep 20, 2023 - UMIACS faculty member Nirupam Roy is working with undergraduate Neil Sorkin on the project.
Asgari Receives $1M NSF Award for Optimizing High-Performance Computing
Sep 14, 2023 - Asgari is collaborating on her award with faculty from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she earned her doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering 2021.
AI Security Expert Yizheng Chen Joins UMIACS
Sep 11, 2023 - She will focus her research on developing AI models that protect billions of users from malicious activities such as malware, phishing and other cyber scams.
QuICS Researchers Develop Novel Formal Verification Tools for Quantum Algorithms
Sep 07, 2023 - A paper highlighting their work, “A formally certified end-to-end implementation of Schor’s factorization algorithm,” was published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.