Director's Message to UMIACS November '24

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.

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.

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…

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…

Cheng-Ju (Jacob) Lin



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.