A team of researchers, including UMIACS faculty member Nirupam Roy, demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.

He discussed the potential recovery of deleted emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server and the privacy concerns surrounding wearable technologies like smartwatche

Daumé and other faculty at Maryland will use the funding to spearhead a program that arms UMD doctoral students with unique tools and skill sets to advance language technology and language learning.

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.

The team won first place in the applied research competition at the 2023 CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference, the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event in the world.

The honor adds to Wu's list of accolades for her contributions in the field of signal processing.

Papamanthou will provide leadership to the unique center that joins computer scientists and engineers with researchers from across campus in fields such as economics, supply-chain management and the social sciences.

Michelle Mazurek and Nathan Reitinger were recognized for their research on challenges to privacy.

The award is given in honor of John Karat’s contributions to the usable privacy and security community and his dedication to mentoring students.

Nicole Yunger Halpern brings a vast intellectual curiosity to physics, from tackling abstract theory to collaborating with experimentalists, all the while drawing distinct connections between diverse disciplines of physics.