Quantum Security Proof Earns Ph.D. Student Top Conference Acceptance
Joseph Carolan’s new proof framework helps resolve a long-standing question about the quantum security of a classic method in cryptography.
A New Kind of Entanglement Helps Quantum Sensors Tune Out Noise
Alexey Gorshkov co-developed an entanglement-based approach that helps quantum sensors reject noise for more precise measurements.
Burner and Dessalene Earn Prestigious Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Former members of the Perception and Robotics Group receive two-year awards to support research in AI and machine perception.
Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance AI and Cloud Infrastructure
The award will support the development of new data-mapping methods that help system operators monitor massive AI networks and prevent infrastructure failures.
Can AI and People Play Nice?
Through high-stakes quizbowls, Jordan Boyd-Graber is uncovering what makes human-AI partnerships succeed—and why trust may matter more than intelligence.
New Endowment Advances Yarwood’s Soil Health Research
The Ray R. Weil Endowed E-Nnovate Professorship will support research on soil carbon, agricultural waste recycling and sustainable farming.
Bringing Human Language Back Into AI
Naomi Feldman is bringing together linguists and AI researchers to build language technologies informed by how humans learn and use language.
UMD Study Finds Critical Cloud Security Patches Often Never Reach Their Destination
Six years of data reveal why known vulnerabilities can remain exposed long after fixes are available.
UMD Researchers Enable Robots to Learn from Human Experience
HumanEgo learns robot skills from just 30 minutes of human demonstrations captured with smart glasses, reducing the need for costly robot training data.
Hajiaghayi Earns ACM SIGecom Test of Time Honors
Two award-winning papers helped shape research in online auctions, mechanism design and digital markets.