News & Announcements
QuICS Co-Hosted Two Major Quantum Cryptography Conferences in August
Aug 28, 2023 - Two major conferences on quantum cryptography were held on the Maryland campus in August.
Novel Quantum Speed Limits Tackle Messy Reality of Disorder
Aug 21, 2023 - QuICS fellow Alexey Gorshkov is working with other researchers to explore how quickly information can travel through collections of quantum particles.
Asgari Receives DOE Early Career Research Award
Aug 15, 2023 - The award will support an innovative approach to allow diverse computing workloads to reach their peak performance without sacrificing performance for common cases.
Deep Learning Expert Haizhao Yang Joins UMIACS
Aug 14, 2023 - Haizhao Yang, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics who recently started a new appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), is paving the way for more dependable machine learning systems by advancing its subset of deep learning.
Mazurek and Akgul Win Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX
Aug 11, 2023 - Their award-winning paper delves into the challenges faced by bug bounty hunters—ethical hackers who discover and report vulnerabilities or bugs to a platform’s developer.
UMIACS Researchers Develop and Test AI Text-Detector Tools
Aug 08, 2023 - Researchers in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are developing and testing a variety of novel methods to distinguish human-made content from machine-generated text.
Recent MC2 Alum Kelsey Fulton Receives John Karat Award
Aug 07, 2023 - The award is given in honor of John Karat’s contributions to the usable privacy and security community and his dedication to mentoring students.
Keeping Up with the Crises: Buntain Builds Digital Tools to Combat Misinformation
Jul 25, 2023 - UMIACS affiliate faculty member Cody Buntain is focused on developing innovative tools to bring more clarity and truth to online media.
Feizi Receives Prestigious ARO Early Career Program Award
Jul 19, 2023 - The funding supports efforts to provide a comprehensive and fundamental understanding of provable robustness in dynamic and adaptive learning setups, leading to practically useful methods with theoretical guarantees.
UMD Researchers Uncover Privacy Risks in Cellphones Purchased at Police Auctions
Jul 17, 2023 - Their two-year study found that 27% of the phones they successfully bid on contained personal data like Social Security numbers, credit card and banking information, passport data, pictures of driver’s licenses, and more.