News & Announcements
Patro Awarded $350K to Improve Genomics Processing Tools
Nov 10, 2022 - He will use the funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve upon a “constellation” of inter-related tools his lab has developed to process genomic data.
Cleaveland Named CMNS Associate Dean for Research
Nov 10, 2022 - He will help grow the college’s annual sponsored research funding, which currently exceeds $200 million.
$1M NSF Award to Support Data-powered Fight Against Pandemics
Nov 09, 2022 - UMIACS faculty are using social media, GPS, and government data to improve predictive models, communications for future pandemics.
Resnik Selected for Prestigious MPower Professorship
Nov 07, 2022 - The appointment includes $150K in research funding spread over three years.
CLIP Researchers Seek to Curb AI-Generated Stereotypes
Nov 03, 2022 - The team, led by graduate students Yang “Trista” Cao and Anna Sotnikova, presented their work at the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Improving Machine Learning Systems for the Visually Impaired
Nov 02, 2022 - The UMD team won a best paper award for their efforts to make visual question answering systems more effective for people with visual impairments.
UMD Center for Machine Learning Announces 2022 Class of Rising Stars
Oct 26, 2022 - The center’s leadership selected six winners for the first time due to a record number of applicants with impressive backgrounds.
Breaking Barriers for Blind Web Designers
Oct 20, 2022 - Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a novel device that lets blind users design a web layout with their hands, brackets and a baseboard.
Researchers Develop Wearable Sensor System that Traverses Your Body
Oct 12, 2022 - Huaishu Peng's mini robot can track a variety of exercises through sensors, and instruct dance moves.
Vishkin Featured in Communications of the ACM Point/Counterpoint
Oct 10, 2022 - The informative debate was published in Communications of the ACM, sent to more than 100,000 members of the Association for Computing Machinery, with scores more reading the publication online.