UMDCS

UMDCS has been a member of Linktree for 2 months and joined in May 2026. The social media accounts linked to from UMDCS are: • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • X Besides social media accounts, UMDComputerScience has populated their site with: • CS Faculty Take Leading Roles at Global Conference • UMD Computer Science Graduates Report 95% Job Placement Rate • Three CS Terps Received CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Awards • New Tool Reveals Hidden Security Risks in AI Systems • Michelle Mazurek Builds People-Centered Security Tools • Searching the World’s DNA Data • Nakul Garg Receives 2026 ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award • Summer REU Students Apply Algorithms to Real-World Problems • Remembering G.W. “Pete” Stewart (1940-2026) • Teaching AI to See Faster • Tiny Insects, Big Ideas for AI • Department of Computer Science Recognizes 2025–26 Teaching Award Recipients | UMD Department of Computer Science • David Jacobs Named Director of UMIACS • Department of Computer Science Announces 11 Faculty Promotions • CS Ph.D. Student Eadom Dessalene and Postdoc Levi Burner Earn Intelligence Community Fellowships • UMD to Launch 2 Bachelor’s Degrees to Explore Technical, Human Dimensions of AI • Meet Yasmine Tajeddin, the Programmer of the Opera • Can AI and People Play Nice? • Mohammad Hajiaghayi Earns ACM SIGecom Test of Time Honors • Alan Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Monitoring of AI and Cloud Systems • Ashok Agrawala to Retire After 55 Years at UMD CS • Rob Patro on Making Biological Data Easier to Search • UMD CS Recognizes Class of 2026 • CS Ph.D. Student Hillary Owusu Receives ACM-W Scholarship • UMD Researchers Take on AI’s Hardest Problem: Teaching Machines to Reason • Marine Carpuat on the Role of Language in AI Research • CMNS Undergraduate Commencement • CMNS Graduate Commencement • Creating a Virtual World that’s a Feast for the Eyes…and Ears • Rethinking the “Charisma Trap” in Human-AI Interaction • Mokhtarzada Hatchery Showcased Student Startups at Fifth Annual Demo Day • Milijana Surbatovich Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study Battery-Free Devices • CS Majors Build Construction Safety App at Ironsite Hackathon • UMD Professors Receive IEEE ICRA Most Influential Paper Award • Growing Ideas Through Code • CS Ph.D. Student Ian Whitehouse Receives 2026 NDSEG Fellowship • Abhinav Bhatele on Advancing AI Through High Performance Computing • Furong Huang Builds AI Systems Designed to Act Reliably • Bitcamp Brings Weekend of Coding to UMD • UMD Students Present Startup Ideas at Annual Pitch Perfect Event • CS Ph.D. Student Kyungyeon Lee Studies Haptics to Reshape How People Learn Physical Skills • From Code to Campus Housing • Exploring Controllable Generative AI Through Storytelling • David Mount Receives Purdue Distinguished Science Alumni Award • In Pictures: The SMART Lab • Teaching AI to Listen: UMD Advances Audio Timestamp Captioning with Adobe Research • Prospective CS Ph.D. Students Visit UMD | UMD Department of Computer Science • Testing AI Before It Touches the Network • Ten Ph.D. Students Receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award • UMD CS Team Wins ICPC Silver, Extends Medal Streak • In Pictures: The iCoSMoS Lab • High School Students Compete at UMD’s 36th Annual Programming Contest • Sarah Wiegreffe on Understanding AI Systems • CS Students Explore Career Opportunities • In Pictures: The Embodied Dynamics Laboratory • When AR Knows Before You Ask • From UMD to Silicon Valley • REU-CAAR Student Researchers Earn Acceptance to International Robotics Conference • Building Connection With Fewer Taps • CS Ph.D. Student Ming Li Named 2026 Apple Scholar • Alan Zaoxing Liu on Building Reliable Systems for the AI Era • Nirupam Roy Connects AI and the Physical World • Three CS Majors Receive CRA Honors for Undergraduate Research • CS Majors Rethink How Users Interact With AI • CS Alum Dave Baggett on Computing, Game Development and Building Startups • UMD Students Build 33 Projects at Gemini Hack Night • CS Majors Launch Platform to Protect Vacant Properties • Technica Marks Another Year of Innovation in Tech • Huaishu Peng on Blending the Digital and Physical Worlds • CS Majors Revive Communal Saving Through Technology • Q&A with Leo Zhicheng Liu on Bridging AI and Human Insight • Two Former Graduate Students Receive Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Awards • UMD CS Majors Develop AI System to Improve School Safety • UMD Students Create Gamified Mindfulness App for Kids • UMD Workshop Examines How AI Is Redefining the Tech Workforce • Code:BLACK Strengthens Community and Career Readiness in Computer Science • Can Firtina on the Future of Bioinformatics and Real-Time Genomic Analysis • UMD Student Recognized on MLH Top 50 List • UMD Students Win First Place at hackUMBC 2025 Game Jamathon • Ruohan Gao on Multi-Sensory AI • UMD Team Wins Prestigious Best Paper Award for Solving 35-Year Mathematical Puzzle • UMD CS Announces Hatchery Teams for 2025-2026 • UMD CS Students Network With Employers at Career Fair • Remembering Howard Elman (1954–2025) • Aravind Srinivasan Honored with Test of Time Award for Civil Unrest Forecasting • UMD Students Explore Startup Resources at Hatchery Kick-Off • UMD CS Team Achieves Best-Ever Finish at ICPC World Finals • Huaishu Peng Receives NSF Award to Advance Semiconductor Learning • AI Robotics Research at UMD Puts Safety and Trust First • UMD Computer Science Graduates Report 93% Job Placement Rate • In Pictures: 2025 Fall Welcome Back Social • Nirupam Roy Promoted to Associate Professor • UMD’s App Dev Club Bridges Gap Between Classroom and Industry • Heng Huang Receives NSF Funding for Wildland Fire AI Research • Lampropoulos and Miers Receive NSF Funding for Zero-Knowledge Computation • CS Major Neal Rangarajan Combines Computer Science and Medicine • Sanjoy Chowdhury’s Vision for Smarter, Multimodal AI • Yizheng Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Secure Code Generation Research • CS Alum Bediako George on Tech, Startups and Staying Focused • Sarah Wiegreffe Joins UMD’s CS Faculty • UMD Wraps Up 13th Annual Summer REU Program • Can Firtina Joins Computer Science Faculty With Focus on Bioinformatics and Computer Architecture • New Faculty to Join UMD’s Department of Computer Science • CS Ph.D. Student Logan Stevens Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship • UMD Researchers Present 16 Papers at ICML 2025 • Department of Computer Science Recognizes 2024–25 Teaching Award Recipients • CS Ph.D. Student Yuran Ding Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship • Four CS and Math Double Majors Honored with Inaugural Grant Family Award • UMD Computer Science Team Medals at ICPC North America Championship for Third Consecutive Year • Department Celebrates 2025 Graduates • Coding Their Own Way • Startup Progress on Display at 2025 Hatchery Demo Day • UMD Honors Yizhan Ao and Migo Gui with the RISE Grant • CS Ph.D. Student Zeyu Yan Receives Honorable Mention at CHI 2025