UMD Team Develops Novel Method to Recycle 3D Printed Circuit Boards
UMD researchers developed a low-cost, fully recyclable 3D-printed circuit board that dissolves in water, making electronics prototyping more eco-friendly.
When Physics and Math Go Viral
Raunak Dey uses math to model how viruses interact with microbial communities to inform health and policy.
To Make Better AI, Stop Tackling Problems ‘Whack-a-Mole’-Style, UMD Researcher Says
Philip Resnik argued in a new paper that chatbot biases reflect how large language models learn rather than a simple technical problem.
UMD Group Shares Sparsity Expertise at Upcoming Symposium on Microarchitecture
Bahar Asgari and her students are presenting four papers on sparsity at this year’s MICRO symposium.
Humans and AI Join Forces
Jordan Boyd-Graber and his students have revamped their quizbowl competition to better gauge trust and collaboration between people and machines.
UMD Faculty Member Co-Hosts Workshop to Advance Automated Speech Recognition Systems Used for Education
Education policy and data science expert Jing Liu helped organize the event on improving children’s speech datasets for education.
UMD to Host Microsoft Quantum Research Center in Discovery District
New partnership strengthens university’s quantum ecosystem, which includes the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS).
Director's Message to UMIACS September 2025
As announced earlier in the summer, Mihai Pop completed his term as the director of UMIACS on June 30, having served in that role since 2018. I'm deeply grateful to Mihai for his steadfast leadership of the institute.
TRAILS Summer Fellows Develop Technology to Enhance Reliability in AI Responses for Blind Users
The undergraduate researchers created a system with a built-in verification layer that makes AI-generated answers more reliable for blind and low-vision users.
Heng Huang Leading Cross-Institutional Effort to Advance AI-Powered Wildfire Forecasting
The NSF-funded project leverages AI and diverse environmental data to better predict and manage wildfires.