UMIACS Researchers Help Drive University's Latest Grand Challenges Awards
Institute-affiliated faculty are leading and contributing to projects tackling pandemics, cancer, infectious diseases and environmental health.
UMD Faculty Join Two NSF Projects to Advance Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Alexey Gorshkov, Victor Albert and Xiaodi Wu are contributing to two $4 million projects through the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory initiative.
UMD Researcher Discusses Beach Bacteria Risks on FOX Weather
Kyle Brumfield shares how researchers are tracking and forecasting bacterial contamination in coastal waters as beachgoers head to the shore this summer.
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.