News & Announcements

UMIACS Team Aims to Boost High-Performance Computing Software Development Using AI

Oct 28, 2024 - The multi-institutional, open-source project—expected to increase software development productivity by at least tenfold—is supported by a $7M award from the Department of Energy.

CLIP Graduate Student Merges Psycholinguistics and Technology to Enhance Large Language Models

Oct 21, 2024 - Sathvik Nair’s work is supported by a competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Tracking Transgenic Crop-Produced Mutations in the Corn Earworm

Oct 16, 2024 - Supported by a USDA grant, two UMIACS researchers have teamed up to study the corn earworm’s growing resistance to non-chemical pesticides.

Reimagining the Future of Historical Research, One Box at a Time

Oct 11, 2024 - UMD information experts are developing novel methods to track down paper documents at the National Archives in College Park.

UMD Researcher Awarded $364K to Make Data Analysis Faster and More Accessible

Oct 09, 2024 - The three-institution collaborative project aims to develop advanced algorithms that will enable clustering over massive datasets and allow scientists, companies, and government agencies to solve complex problems.

ACES Awarded $5M Grant Renewal to Strengthen Cybersecurity Workforce

Oct 09, 2024 - The funding will support 30 students over the next five years as they prepare for careers in cybersecurity.

Protecting Our Region’s Poultry Industry with Advanced Technology

Oct 08, 2024 - Mostafa Ghanem is using new genomic tools to improve our understanding and the prevention of infectious poultry diseases.

Medical Training Comes to Life in UMD’s VR Simulation

Oct 02, 2024 - UMD visualization experts are working with medical experts at UMB to develop immersive training tools for stroke assessment.

UMIACS Team Part of $2.8M DARPA Award to Advance Autonomous Robotics

Sep 26, 2024 - Their work, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin, will lead to robust autonomous robotic systems based on symbolic reasoning, allowing the machine’s AI neural networks to mimic human thought processes.

UMD Alumna Wins Best Thesis Award for Machine Translation Research

Sep 25, 2024 - Eleftheria Briakou received the award from the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas for her innovative work on enhancing translation accuracy through algorithms detecting subtle shifts in meaning.

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