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Director's Message to UMIACS November '24

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There’s lots to reflect upon as our fall semester is rapidly nearing its end—leaves are turning, a national election has left its imprint, and for those that choose to participate, the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving is but a few weeks away.

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Evaluating the Use of LLM Agents to Provide Better Software Security

Yizheng Chen has received a $1.7M award to study the efficacy of using AI-infused technology for cyberdefense applications.

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From left to right: Abhimanyu Hans, John Kirchenbauer, Aditya Ranjan, Tom Goldstein, Prajwal Singhania, Abhinav Bhatele, Neel Jain, Siddharth Singh and Yuxin Wen. Not pictured: Manli Shu

UMD Team Is Finalist for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize

The researchers made the final cut for their innovative work in developing a scalable distributed training framework called AxoNN, which rapidly trains AI…

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Illustration of three people in a meeting. The background features a map of Maryland, representing the UMD team's efforts to support students with disabilities in thriving post-high school.

UMD Team Receives $10M to Help Students with Disabilities Thrive After High School

The funding supports a team of education and computing experts focused on developing an analytical tool to improve post-high school outcomes for students with…

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Cheng-Ju (Jacob) Lin

Postdoctoral Fellow
Quantum Information & Many-body Physics
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Aleksander Lasek

Postdoctoral Scholar
Quantum
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Junfeng Guo

Postdoctoral Associate
Security & Privacy
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Megan Steeley

Technical Students Program Coordinator

Computing & Society

Our researchers are active on multiple fronts that involve education, transportation, accessibility, equality, ethical AI, and much more. We’re developing powerful machine learning tools to advance K–12 classroom outcomes. We’re focused on building new technology to assist those that are sight impaired or have mobility issues. We use powerful data science tools to improve transportation systems. And we’re at the forefront of research and scholarship involving trustworthy and ethical AI.

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Donovan Buterakos

Postdoctoral Scholar
Machine Learning for Quantum
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