USM's William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation holds an online Generative AI Virtual Showcase Fri. April 24 9am-3:30pm ET. Faculty, staff & student teams from MD higher ed institutions will demonstrate innovative approaches to generative AI in teaching & learning. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Dr. Jessica Standbury, Dr. John Donahue, and Dr. Allison Papadakis will answer questions and discuss how AI is reshaping our inner lives and relationships, and its impact on our mental health. 12-1pm ET Wed. April 8, online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Adobe Senior Security Researcher Sai Kiran Uppu will discuss his research on extracting cybersecurity threat intelligence from unstructured reports, 12–1 pm ET on Friday, March 27, 2026, via WebEx. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...
LLMs are surprisingly capable coding partners. UMBC Prof. Tim Oates gives a short, technical overview of why and how coding assistants work and where they fail, supported with live, terminal-based demos using Claude Code. 1-2:30pm ET, April 3, ITE 325b and online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosts a talk by Cori Lathan, PhD, on Wed., March 25, in University Center 310, titled "Inventing the Future: Astronauts, Robots, and Zebras". ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Understanding Data Centers 8:30-10am Tue. March 24, University Center 312, UMBC. MD policymakers and UMBC experts discuss the science behind data centers, key policy and ethical debates about their construction, & how leaders can communicate their costs & benefits. www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/...
The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence will hold an online seminar on the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and safety from 7:00-8:30am ET on Thurs., March 19, with three short presentations by its members, including Anupam Joshi, UMBC's Chief AI Officer. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC Prof. Sanorita Dey discusses her work on how adolescents handle interactions that escalate into phishing attacks. Many can recognize obvious scams, but they often struggle to explain why a message is manipulative or what protective actions should follow. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...
UMBC announced the launch of "Sam," an autonomous AI Virtual Engagement Officer. Developed in partnership with Givzey, a leader in AI solutions for non-profits, Sam will provide UMBC alums with personalized updates on campus news, faculty research, and upcoming events. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC CBEE Prof. David Garcia presents his research on 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁-𝗼𝗳-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 in a seminar hosted by UMBC's Biological Sciences Dept, 12-1 pm Wed., Feb. 18, in Biological Sciences 004. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
ACM Distinguished Speaker Ram D. Sriram from the National Institute of Science and Technology will give a talk on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 in person at UMBC from 12-1:30 on Friday, February 6, in room 325b of the ITE Building. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC has an open tenured/tenure-track position at an assistant or associate professor level to bolster its strengths in cybersecurity. An area of interest mentioned is the intersection of cybersecurity with AI and machine learning. Get more information and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/178333
UMBC CSEE prof. Manas Gaur has a new book co-authored with Amit Sheth, published by Cambridge University Press on their work on developing neurosymbolic AI for explainability, interpretability, and safety. Both digital and hard-copy versions will be available this spring. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's Eric Brown will teach a new undergraduate course this Spring on "Robots, AI, & Transhumanists: Exploring the Uncanny Valley" as part of UMBC's Human Context of Science and Technology program. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Prof. Eric Stokan, Director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, leads a session on best practices in prompt engineering using ChatGPT to perform image detection in R via an API. 12-1:30 pm Fri Dec 12, in person. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Alan Sherman, Enis Golaszewski, and Jeremy Romano talk about their work analyzing the design & implementation of the SecureDNA system, 12–1 pm EST Fri., Dec.12, online. This system enables DNA synthesizers to screen order requests against a database of hazards. cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...
UMBC's Ramana Vinjamuri and his students used Bharatanatyam Mudras, Indian classical dance hand gestures, to help train robot systems to recognize and use human hand gestures. Their work is described in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
Prof. Md Tariqul Islam from UMBC's Information Systems Dept. discusses his work on self-defending ledgers, where nodes enforce ledger security through multi-agent reinforcement learning grounded in game-theoretic principles. 12–1pm ET, Wed. Dec. 3 in UMBC ITE459 & online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
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...
Alexander Martin from JHU will speak at UMBC and online, 4-5:15 pm EST on Mon., Nov. 24. He will discuss building systems capable of retrieving, reasoning over, and synthesizing information from diverse, multimodal sources such as news articles and social media videos. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC Training Centers and AFCEA Central MD Chapter will provide a condensed 2-hour free version of UMBC Training Centers AI Essentials survey for relative newcomers to AI, delivered through a blend of lectures and live demonstrations.
5-7:30 pm in person in Columbia, MD. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
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...
UMBC CBEE professor Tyler Josephson was selected as a 2025 Pivot Fellow by the Simons Foundation. He leads the AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS), which develops computational methods for molecular simulation and automated discovery of scientific theories. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's John Schumacher on Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases at 11:30-12:30 EST Tue., Nov. 11, Public Policy 204 and online. Learn effective prompting, discipline-specific scenarios, assignment strategies, and advanced teaching features. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
UMBC's Institute of Politics released results from a poll of 810 Maryland adults on their "Attitudes toward artificial intelligence". Nearly all said they were aware of AI and had some concerns. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
AI is reshaping industries, workflows, and the skills that matter most. The future belongs not to machines, but to humans who adapt alongside them. Learn what skills can't be automated, how to future-proof your career through learning & how to use AI as a partner rather than a threat. bit.ly/AIwOrK
Dr. Eric Stokan, director of UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship, discusses methods for processing and handling unstructured data like text & images. It will take place in person in room 438 in UMBC's Public Policy building from 12-1:30 pm on Friday, Nov. 7. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...
GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini 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 in this talk. bit.ly/4hBMsqN
