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What should faculty know, even if they're not adopting AI in their teaching? Topics include Gen AI literacy, a critical examination of student AI tool use, equity & access, ethical concerns, credible sources of Gen AI information, & implications for assessment & pedagogy. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What should faculty know, even if they're not adopting AI in their teaching? Topics include Gen AI literacy, a critical examination of student AI tool use, equity & access, ethical concerns, credible sources of Gen AI information, & implications for assessment & pedagogy. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
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UMBC's Houbing Herbert Song talks on The Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: Neurosymbolic AI at UMBC in ITE325b and online from 11:15-12:45 EST Tue. Nov. 25. In the 3rd wave, machines perceive and understand the world on their own and learn by reasoning with it. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
UMBC's Houbing Herbert Song talks on The Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence: Neurosymbolic AI at UMBC in ITE325b and online from 11:15-12:45 EST Tue. Nov. 25. In the 3rd wave, machines perceive and understand the world on their own and learn by reasoning with it. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
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Alexander Martin talks in person at UMBC & online on "Wikipedia from the World: Grounded Articles from Any Source", 4-5:15 pm EST, Mon., Nov. 24. He will cover both retrieval of relevant multimodal evidence and generating coherent, verifiable, Wikipedia-style articles. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Alexander Martin talks in person at UMBC & online on "Wikipedia from the World: Grounded Articles from Any Source", 4-5:15 pm EST, Mon., Nov. 24. He will cover both retrieval of relevant multimodal evidence and generating coherent, verifiable, Wikipedia-style articles. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
bit.ly/3Jt03UW GenAI systems like ChatGPT are transforming how we work, communicate, & create, but also pose serious privacy concerns. While GenAI can compromise our privacy, it can also be harnessed to help protect it. Roberto Yus explores both sides of that paradox, 12-1pm EST Wed. Nov. 5, online.
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
bit.ly/3Jt03UW GenAI systems like ChatGPT are transforming how we work, communicate, & create, but also pose serious privacy concerns. While GenAI can compromise our privacy, it can also be harnessed to help protect it. Roberto Yus explores both sides of that paradox, 12-1pm EST Wed. Nov. 5, online.
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... This month's AI in Practice webinar shares proven strategies for building robust AI literacy in higher ed classrooms and equips you with concrete strategies to better prepare for the AI-driven research landscape.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... This month's AI in Practice webinar shares proven strategies for building robust AI literacy in higher ed classrooms and equips you with concrete strategies to better prepare for the AI-driven research landscape.
UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow is featured on the CRA site. The fellowship will help scholars shape frameworks for more trustworthy AI systems through structured interdisciplinary training, collaborative research, and visibility. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's Prof. Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a Trustworthy AI Fellow featured in a Computing Research Association article
UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow was featured on the Computing Research Association site this month. The fellowship is intended to help scholars shape framewor...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
UMBC professor Yasmine Kotturi's selection as a CRA Trustworthy AI Fellow is featured on the CRA site. The fellowship will help scholars shape frameworks for more trustworthy AI systems through structured interdisciplinary training, collaborative research, and visibility. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's Manas Gaur and Yash Saxena talk on Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia, 12-1 PM EDT on Wed., Oct. 29 online. They present a retrieval-augmented LLM agent designed to generate verifiable responses with sentence-level source attribution. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
UMBC's Manas Gaur and Yash Saxena talk on Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia, 12-1 PM EDT on Wed., Oct. 29 online. They present a retrieval-augmented LLM agent designed to generate verifiable responses with sentence-level source attribution. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Jennifer Posada holds an online session on making sense of data with AI, 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 22. She'll cover how LLMs changed her data workflow, streamlined analysis, and lowered barriers to iteration and exploration. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Jennifer Posada holds an online session on making sense of data with AI, 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 22. She'll cover how LLMs changed her data workflow, streamlined analysis, and lowered barriers to iteration and exploration. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Dr. Reetam Majumder of the Univ. of Arkansas leads a short course on AI for Statistical Analysis, 2:00-5:00 pm Fri., Oct. 31, 2025, in room 104 of UMBC's Math & Psychology building. It will give a hands-on introduction to deep learning models using the Keras package in R. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dr. Reetam Majumder of the Univ. of Arkansas leads a short course on AI for Statistical Analysis, 2:00-5:00 pm Fri., Oct. 31, 2025, in room 104 of UMBC's Math & Psychology building. It will give a hands-on introduction to deep learning models using the Keras package in R. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Nina-Simone Edwards, JD, from the Georgetown University Institute for Technology Law and Policy, will address ethical issues in AI policy for libraries and higher education in an online Webex session, 12-1pm EDT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Nina-Simone Edwards, JD, from the Georgetown University Institute for Technology Law and Policy, will address ethical issues in AI policy for libraries and higher education in an online Webex session, 12-1pm EDT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
AI Innovation: Data Science Students in the Field, 6-7 pm, Wed. Oct 25. UMBC-Shady Grove students/alumni present their research on real-life challenges and data science trends. Hear about the MPS in Data Science from Prof. Ali Yousuf and ask questions. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
AI Innovation: Data Science Students in the Field, 6-7 pm, Wed. Oct 25. UMBC-Shady Grove students/alumni present their research on real-life challenges and data science trends. Hear about the MPS in Data Science from Prof. Ali Yousuf and ask questions. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
This first session of the UMBC series on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 introduces the basics of generative AI and its implications for teaching and learning. Faculty will see short demos of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity plus time for Q&A. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
October 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This first session of the UMBC series on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 introduces the basics of generative AI and its implications for teaching and learning. Faculty will see short demos of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity plus time for Q&A. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... What AI skills do employers actually want from new graduates? This session explores the real-world competencies that drive today's hiring decisions. Dean Merritt (Mindgrub) and Dr. Karolyn Babalola (Booz Allen Hamilton) share insights. 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 8. via Zoom.
October 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... What AI skills do employers actually want from new graduates? This session explores the real-world competencies that drive today's hiring decisions. Dean Merritt (Mindgrub) and Dr. Karolyn Babalola (Booz Allen Hamilton) share insights. 12-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 8. via Zoom.
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... In this podcast episode, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, UMBC undergrad CS major Adam Baji is interviewed about his interests in the intersection of AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
September 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15... In this podcast episode, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀, UMBC undergrad CS major Adam Baji is interviewed about his interests in the intersection of AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity.
hackUMBC is a 24-hour hackathon on September 27-28 on the UMBC campus for high school & university students of all skill levels, offering workshops, mentorship, networking opportunities with sponsors, and prizes. Get more information and register at hackumbc.tech
September 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
hackUMBC is a 24-hour hackathon on September 27-28 on the UMBC campus for high school & university students of all skill levels, offering workshops, mentorship, networking opportunities with sponsors, and prizes. Get more information and register at hackumbc.tech
We are proud to share that CSEE alum Emily Brown (B.S., M.S. ’14, Computer Science) has been named one of UMBC’s 2025 Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award recipients by the UMBC Alumni Association Board of Directors. csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...
September 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are proud to share that CSEE alum Emily Brown (B.S., M.S. ’14, Computer Science) has been named one of UMBC’s 2025 Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award recipients by the UMBC Alumni Association Board of Directors. csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...
Fortune magazine has an article on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀, now known as CAIOs. UMBC CSEE Professor Anupam Joshi, who was appointed as UMBC's CAIO and Vice Provost in June, was extensively quoted in the piece. bit.ly/CAIOjoshi
September 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Fortune magazine has an article on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀, now known as CAIOs. UMBC CSEE Professor Anupam Joshi, who was appointed as UMBC's CAIO and Vice Provost in June, was extensively quoted in the piece. bit.ly/CAIOjoshi
UMBC CSEE Prof. Yiwen Hu talks online about her research on the security of US 911 services, 12-1pm EDT on Fri., Sept. 5. She will discuss design defects in cellular emergency services standards & the challenges of safeguarding next-generation emergency services. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
UMBC CSEE Prof. Yiwen Hu talks online about her research on the security of US 911 services, 12-1pm EDT on Fri., Sept. 5. She will discuss design defects in cellular emergency services standards & the challenges of safeguarding next-generation emergency services. www.csee.umbc.edu/recent-news/...
Good story in UMBC News: When students think of working in technology, they may dream of moving to Silicon Valley and landing jobs at companies such as Google or Meta. But the traditional tech giants aren’t the only employers offering careers to computer science grads.
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Computer Science Students Snag Tech Internships In UMBC’s Backyard - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
When students think of working in technology, they may dream of moving to Silicon Valley and landing jobs at companies such as Google or Meta. But the traditional tech giants aren’t the only employers...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Good story in UMBC News: When students think of working in technology, they may dream of moving to Silicon Valley and landing jobs at companies such as Google or Meta. But the traditional tech giants aren’t the only employers offering careers to computer science grads.
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bit.ly/seai25 New AI systems are creating significant disruption in many career areas, including software engineering & computer programming. Dr. Mohammad Samarah, graduate program director of UMBC’s Software Engineering graduate program, explains why human professionals are needed more than ever.
June 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
bit.ly/seai25 New AI systems are creating significant disruption in many career areas, including software engineering & computer programming. Dr. Mohammad Samarah, graduate program director of UMBC’s Software Engineering graduate program, explains why human professionals are needed more than ever.
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bit.ly/43HmLjr AAAI hosts a free online webinar, AI Perception vs. Reality, 12-1pm EDT, Thurs., June 19. Panelists are Rodney Brooks, Tom Dietterich, Gary Marcus, Peter Stone, and moderator Francesca Rossi. Topics include: AI history, hype cycles, current AI impact, and critical evaluation tools.
June 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
bit.ly/43HmLjr AAAI hosts a free online webinar, AI Perception vs. Reality, 12-1pm EDT, Thurs., June 19. Panelists are Rodney Brooks, Tom Dietterich, Gary Marcus, Peter Stone, and moderator Francesca Rossi. Topics include: AI history, hype cycles, current AI impact, and critical evaluation tools.
UMBC is recognized as a leader in game design education in the 2025 Game Design School Rankings in Animation Career Review. UMBC is #1 in Maryland based on academic reputation, admission selectivity, program depth & breadth, and graduate employment data. www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top...
Top Game Design Schools and Colleges in Maryland - 2025 College Rankings
Our 2025 ranking of the top game design school programs in Maryland. For an explanation of the ranking criteria, click here.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
UMBC is recognized as a leader in game design education in the 2025 Game Design School Rankings in Animation Career Review. UMBC is #1 in Maryland based on academic reputation, admission selectivity, program depth & breadth, and graduate employment data. www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top...
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Two UMBC CSEE professors were funded by UMB for research on new healthcare technology. Dong Li will develop a way to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone and Kostas Kalpakis heads a project using machine learning to allow ER physicians to make treatment decisions quickly.
Two UMBC CSEE professors were funded by UMB for research on new healthcare technology. Dong Li will develop a way to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone and Kostas Kalpakis heads a project using machine learning to allow ER physicians to make treatment decisions quickly.
May 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Two UMBC CSEE professors were funded by UMB for research on new healthcare technology. Dong Li will develop a way to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone and Kostas Kalpakis heads a project using machine learning to allow ER physicians to make treatment decisions quickly.
Two UMBC CSEE professors were funded by UMB for research on new healthcare technology. Dong Li will develop a way to monitor blood pressure with a smartphone and Kostas Kalpakis heads a project using machine learning to allow ER physicians to make treatment decisions quickly.
bit.ly/3SSwjlg The Internet2 NET+ Program selected Jack Suess (BS ‘81, MS ‘92), UMBC’s VP of information technology and CIO, to receive its 2025 Cloud Superhero Award. The award recognizes community members who possess cloud superpowers and share them with the research and education community.
May 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
bit.ly/3SSwjlg The Internet2 NET+ Program selected Jack Suess (BS ‘81, MS ‘92), UMBC’s VP of information technology and CIO, to receive its 2025 Cloud Superhero Award. The award recognizes community members who possess cloud superpowers and share them with the research and education community.
UMBC featured an article on UMBC senior Evan McRae, who is graduating this week with majors in both computer science and individualized studies. He’s also been involved with the UMBC Game Developers Club. umbc.edu/stories/evan...
Evan McRae ’25 Paired His Computer Science Degree With A Music Focused-individualized Studies Major And Followed His Family’s Retriever Legacy - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
Evan McRae shares how early exposure to UMBC’s Game Developers Club as a legacy Retriever led to an exec. board position and the creation of games and memories.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
UMBC featured an article on UMBC senior Evan McRae, who is graduating this week with majors in both computer science and individualized studies. He’s also been involved with the UMBC Game Developers Club. umbc.edu/stories/evan...