News & Announcements
Amitabh Varshney and his student, in collaboration with Joseph JaJa, win the Best Scientific Visualization Paper Award at IEEE VisWeek
Sep 26, 2012 - A paper by Amitabh Varshney and his student, Cheuk Yiu Ip, in collaboration with Joseph JaJa, has won the Best Scientific Visualization Paper Award that will be presented at the IEEE VisWeek Conference to be held during October 14-19, in Seattle.
Rita Colwell attends dinner with King Harald of Norway at Kavli Prize Week 2012
Sep 04, 2012 - Dr. Colwell attended the dinner at Kavli Prize Week 2012 with King Harald of Norway.
Rita Colwell invited to the Stockholm Water Prize Banquet at the 2012 World Water Week
Aug 30, 2012 - Dr. Colwell was invited to the Stockholm Water Prize Banquet held during the 2012 World Water Week
V.S. Subrahmanian and team publish "Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba", the first book to do a comprehensive analysis on the behavior of terrorist groups.
Aug 28, 2012 - V.S. Subrahmanian, Aaron Mannes, Amy Sliva, Jana Shakarian and John Dickerson publish "Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba", the first book to do a comprehensive analysis on the behavior of terrorist groups.
Amitabh Varshney, Satyandra Gupta and their students win Best Paper Award at the Chicago ASME CIE conference
Aug 23, 2012 - A paper by Dr. Amitabh Varshney (UMIACS) and his student, Sujal Bista, in collaboration with Dr. Satyandra Gupta (ME and ISR) and his student, Sagar Chowdhury, won the Best Paper Award at the ASME Computer and Information in Engineering Conference held during August 12-15, in Chicago.
CBCB Students Win Best "KDD-Madness" Video Contest
Aug 20, 2012 - CBCB Ph.D. students Rob Patro, Geet Duggal, Emre Sefer, Hao Wang, and Darya Filippova won an award for the best 30-second "KDD-Madness" video which promoted their paper "The Missing Models: A Data-Driven Approach for Learning How Networks Grow" at the recent KDD 2012 conference.
Bhattacharyya and Shen Graduate from NSF's new Silicon Valley Incubator
Aug 16, 2012 - University of Maryland's team, consisting of Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Chung-Ching Shen and Dean Chang, graduated from NSF's new Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) start-up accelerator program.
Dr. Jon Froehlich wins 2012 University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award
Aug 14, 2012 - Dr. Jon Froehlich – UMIACS faculty and a 2011 University of Washington CSE Ph.D. alum – has been named the recipient of the 2012 UW Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Dr. Ashok Agrawala Honored with VITA™ Wireless Samaritan Award
Aug 02, 2012 - In recognition for creating "Escort-M", a virtual campus safety app, Dr. Ashok Agrawala was honored by The Wireless Foundation and CTIA with a VITA™ Wireless Samaritan Award at the 18th Annual Achievement Awards dinner on July 23.
Larry Davis appointed Director of CFAR
Aug 01, 2012 - Larry Davis was appointed as the Director of the Center for Automation Research (CFAR), for a five year term starting August 1, 2012. Dr. Davis is an outstanding scholar in the field of computer vision.