News & Announcements
Hunt for Quantum Speedups Closes a Door But Opens a Window
Nov 11, 2020 - A paper by Daochen Wang (in photo) and Andrew Childs in QuICS explores current boundaries—and possible future advances—involving exponential quantum speedups.
Feizi Funded by DARPA to Develop Adversarial Counterattack Program
Nov 03, 2020 - Feizi is designing Reverse Engineer Deceptions (RED), a program that will not only be able to identify the origin of the attack and its sophistication level, but also the most effective defense to use against future attacks.
Peng Receives Award to Develop Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired Coders
Oct 30, 2020 - He aims to develop new tools that will enable blind and visually impaired coders to create visual layout and frontend programs independently.
Plaisant Honored with IEEE Visualization Career Award
Oct 27, 2020 - She is being recognized for her comprehensive body of work within the field of data visualization, including her contributions to evaluation, benchmarks and case studies, and her specific research focus on event sequence visualization.
QuICS Welcomes Two New Fellows to the University of Maryland
Oct 26, 2020 - Victor Albert and Michael Gullans arrived this fall and are now embedded within the QuICS research community.
UMIACS Faculty Share Expertise and Knowledge at Tech + Research Workshop
Oct 22, 2020 - The workshop offers a team-based setting that provides a positive intellectual, social and emotional environment for participants interested in computing.
QuICS Member Christopher Monroe Is Elected a Fellow of The Optical Society
Oct 16, 2020 - The fellowship is an acknowledgment of accomplishments and contributions within the community of scientists who study light.
MC2 Doctoral Student Takes on the Steep Challenge of Developing Secure Software
Oct 14, 2020 - Kelsey Fulton, an avid rock climber, puts discipline and determination into her research, which explores the human factors of information security with a focus on software developers and security professionals.
Goldstein Part of $7.5M MURI Award to Study Theoretical Aspects of Deep Learning
Oct 06, 2020 - The researchers will focus their efforts on developing a theory of deep learning based on rigorous mathematical principles.
UMD Center for Machine Learning Announces 2020 Class of Rising Stars
Sep 30, 2020 - The University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning will host four outstanding female researchers this fall as part of a program that encourages and supports underrepresented doctoral candidates whose research and scholarship is focused on machine learning.