Feizi Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The prestigious award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are early in their careers.
UMD Researchers Organize NeurIPS Competition to Improve AI Watermarks
A UMD-led team organized a competition during NeurIPS 2024 to test the robustness of watermarks for AI-generated images.
Quantum Physicist Alexey Gorshkov Tackles the Big Problems
He is profiled in a feature article published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Novel ‘Quantum Refrigerator’ is Great at Erasing Quantum Computer’s Chalkboard
Nicole Yunger Halpern is part of a team that’s developed a new technique that can reset qubits in quantum computers highly effectively, a critical task for…
UMIACS Organization Plan
Director's Message to UMIACS December '24
My first job at the University of Maryland—it’s been more than 20 years now—was as an assistant research scientist in UMIACS. Like many when they first arrived here, I was quite impressed with the scope and efficiency of the institute’s operations.
UMIACS Policy on Professional-Track Faculty
This policy was originally approved by UMIACS faculty in March 2019. It was revised in response to feedback from Faculty Affairs in November 2019. This revised policy was presented to UMIACS faculty and went into effect in April 2020. The document history was added in August 2022.
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Diverse Voices in Machine Learning
Five emerging scholars traveled to College Park to present their research and connect with UMD’s machine learning community, with one researcher joining…
Merit Pay Distribution Plan for UMIACS Faculty
In compliance with the University of Maryland Policy on Faculty Merit Pay Distribution revised in May 2010, this document provides a merit pay distribution plan for tenured and tenure-track faculty in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Aloimonos Is Named IEEE Fellow
Being conferred Fellow status is the highest grade of IEEE membership, and one that is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an…