She was recognized as a visionary for her work in making AI more trustworthy, and developing models that can perform tasks safely and efficiently in unseen environments without human oversight.

The paper describes a novel method for classifying the emotions of individuals based on 3D video captures of their walking and other physical traits.

Jordan Boyd-Graber and Nirupam Roy will each use their Meta funding to further projects that are based in artificial intelligence (AI).

It will support Maryland Cybersecurity Center students and postdocs traveling to academic conferences, workshops or other research events focused on cybersecurity or privacy.

He will help grow the college’s annual sponsored research funding, which currently exceeds $200 million.

Dong An is using his background in applied mathematics to design better quantum algorithms.

The NSF-funded research will expand employment, education opportunities for blind data users.

In addition to his UMIACS appointment, he will be the first Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor in Computer Science.

Jason Fan’s current goal is to design small data-structures—or indexes—to support fast sequence queries against tens of human scale genomes, or tens of thousands of bacterial genomes.

The multidisciplinary effort is intended to reduce hunger, food waste, barriers to food access, and food deserts in the state of Maryland and Mid-Atlantic region.