Join
@UofMaryland
's CS Dept. as an instructional faculty member at the rank of Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, or Principal Lecturers. Teach our core CS curriculum, mentor bright students, and be part of our vibrant dept. Apply now!
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Join
@UofMaryland
's CS Dept. as an instructional faculty member at the rank of Lecturers, Senior Lecturers, or Principal Lecturers.
Teach our core CS curriculum, mentor bright students, and be part of our vibrant dept. Apply now!
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Career Opportunity:
@UofMaryland
's CS Dept. is hiring tenure-track faculty for AI, Machine Learning and Quantum Computing. But will also consider exceptional candidates in all areas. Open to all ranks for July 2024 start. Apply now!
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Are you ready to teach bright students and be part of a vibrant department? We're looking for a passionate Professional Track Faculty (PTK) member to teach Immersive Media Design & Computer Science courses for our innovative IMD major.
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@_anniebao
From the
@umdcs
Department Chair, Professor Ming Lin: The TA Handbook posted on the CS website contained highly inappropriate, stereotypical characterizations of women. The handbook has been removed from the site, and we apologize for its offensive contents.
The February issue of our monthly newsletter, “The Monthly Build” is available now. Get all of the latest news and updates from the Department of Computer Science!
Newsletter:
Congrats to two UMD undergraduates, George Li and Aditya Ranjan, for being named top undergraduate computer science researchers by
@CRAtweets
. Your contributions to computing research are truly inspiring. Keep up the fantastic work!
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The March issue of our monthly newsletter, “The Monthly Build,” is available now. Get all of the latest news and updates from the Department of Computer Science!
Newsletter:
Three
@umdcs
faculty, Marine Carpuat (
@MarineCarpuat
) , Michelle Mazurek (
@mmazurek_
) and Rob Patro (
@nomad421
) have been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure-
.
@UofMaryland
assistant professor Leo Zhicheng Liu has received an NSF CAREER Award for Data Visualization Research. Liu's work explores new abstractions, techniques and tools to democratize the creation of interactive data visualizations.
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We are so pleased and proud to announce that
@MarineCarpuat
is the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award for her work 'Semantic Divergences Across the Language Barrier.' She kindly permitted us to interview her on her research and the problem of translation.
@_anniebao
We denounce all misogynistic attitudes toward women and will continue to work diligently to provide all students a warm and welcoming environment to learn and succeed.
Here are three wonderful aerial photographs of the
#Iribecenter
from Justin Derato of By Accident Photography. From here, you can see the rooftop space!
#comingsoon
#umdcs
Congratulations to Associate Professor David Van Horn (
@lambda_calculus
) on the receiving the Most Influential Paper award at the 25th ACM SIGPLAN, ICFP, for his paper titled “Abstracting Abstract Machines.”-
@umdcs
is pleased to welcome our new faculty- bringing in research expertise ranging from cybersecurity to data visualization, from cryptography to natural Language processing and more-
.
@FeiziSoheil
, an associate professor of computer science at
@UofMaryland
, has won the Army Research Office's prestigious Early Career Program Award. The award will support Feizi in developing provable methods to improve dynamic AI systems' robustness.
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aww my advisees are so thoughtful+awesome!!!! as a congrats for promotion they got me the ultimate prof fashion accessory: a scarf w titles/abs of my papers! now i will never forget to self-cite ;). thank you SO much
@raosudha89
@amr_n_sharaf
@khanhxuannguyen
Kiante &
@ihsgnef
!!
The April issue of our monthly newsletter, “The Monthly Build,” is available now. Get all of the latest news and updates from the Department of Computer Science!
Newsletter:
Iranian and Ukrainian PhD applicants with financial hardships will be considered for fee waivers for Fall 23.
Start an application and let us know when your materials are ready to submit so we can review your application for eligibility
Today we are celebrating the retirement of Brenda K. Chick, our beloved staff member. After twenty-two years at
#umdcs
, she will enjoy making stained glass sculptures, reading, and travel! We will miss you, Brenda!
'
@furongh
received the
@Microsoft
Accelerate Foundation Models Research award for her work that aims to revolutionize how foundation models are used in sequence decision-making across various domains.
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Congratulations to CS graduate students Sweta Agrawal (
@swetaagrawal20
), Nakul Garg (
@nakulgarg22
), Pranav Goel (
@Pranav__Goel
), and Shoken Kaneko on being awarded the prestigious Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024.
Associate Professor Jordan Boyd-Graber (
@boydgraber
) will be on Jeopardy on September 26th! Learn more about his appearance and his work on Quanta—a question answering system for
#quizbowl
on our podcast:
.
@UofMaryland
's Graduate School has awarded the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship to Computer Science Ph.D. students
@nakulgarg22
, Shoken Kaneko and
@gowthami_s
in recognition of their outstanding research. Congrats! 👏
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We are saddened to announce the passing of Jack Minker, founding chair of
@umdcs
. Jack was a pioneer in AI, deductive databases, logic programming & nonmonotonic reasoning. He also fought hard for human rights for scientists. He will be missed by so many.
Congratulations ! Assistant Professor
@leibatt
receives The Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) 2019 Ralph E. Power Junior Faculty Enhancement Award -
Congratulations to Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (
@MTHajiaghayi
) on being named the new Editor in Chief of Algorithmica, the oldest existing international journal dedicated to algorithms. Read More:
Co-Directors of
@gotechnica
.
#Inclusivity
advocates. Champions of change in computer science. Friends. Brilliant
#umdcs
undergraduates. Thank you,
@sofia16fernan
and Virginia Melandri for welcoming diverse people into tech.
The November issue of our monthly newsletter, “The Monthly Build” is available now. Get all of the latest news and updates from the Department of Computer Science!
Newsletter:
'
@FeiziSoheil
, an assistant professor of computer science at the
@UofMaryland
, received an
@Amazon
Research Award to continue his work on mitigating spurious correlations in deep learning.
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(5 of 6) Edward Mancho
@vizardvalor
created a student organization,
@codeblackUMD
, at
@UofMaryland
to battle imposter syndrome and cater specifically to minorities in tech. Since it's creation Code: Black has now grown to over 100 members.➡️
Distinguished University Professor & department chair Ming Lin has been named to the 2020 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy in recognition of her contributions in collision detection, physics simulation, natural phenomena, crowd animation, haptics, and sound rendering-
Twitter editor note: For the last several years, I (
@bkadams
) have had the pleasure of curating the
#umdcs
twitter feed. I will be leaving the Department tomorrow, so I shall now turn the feed over to Richa Mathur (
@arnavbali
). It has been a joy to share our news with you all!
We are shocked and saddened to share news of the sudden passing of our esteemed colleague, great researcher and caring adviser Rance Cleaveland.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and loved ones during this profoundly sad time.
We are pleased to announce that
@red_abebe
will be visiting
#umdcs
for our Inclusion Speaker Series on Tuesday, March 5th at 5pm. We look forward to learning about her research.
#umdcsincludes
Congrats to
@haldaume3
, who was recently honored at the 2024 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. Daumé was recognized for his leadership and extensive work in artificial intelligence. 👏
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We are pleased to share that the Brin Family has given a generous gift to
#umdcs
including The Brin Family Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Computer Science as well as The Brin Family Robotics and UAV Laboratory in the new Brendan Iribe Center.
Big congratulations to UMD Researchers for their outstanding performance at
@icmlconf
. With an impressive lineup of 24 papers and an Outstanding Paper Award, they continue to push the boundaries of AI and Machine Learning research!-
The department is pleased to announce our newest professors of computer science. The new faculty will contribute to the department's research in the areas of Cybersecurity, AI and Machine Learning, Immersive Media Design, and Quantum Computing. -
Today is
#InternationalWomensDay
! We are grateful for the women who make computer science a vibrant, creative, field. Inspired by their brilliance and tenacity, we celebrate the women Assistant Professors of Computer Science:
@MarineCarpuat
@furongh
@leibatt
and Michelle Mazurek.
Today, Assistant Professor
@MarineCarpuat
gives a talk entitled “Introduction to Neural Machine Translation,” to a packed room of undergraduates. She is a superstar!
#umdcsincludes
Many congratulations to Assistant Professor
@johnpdickerson
and Professor Aravind Srinivasan who are the recipients of
@Google
Faculty Research Awards!
On
#InternationalWomensDay
,we celebrate our dynamic, brilliant assistant professors,
@MarineCarpuat
, Michelle Mazurek, and Furong Huang. We are inspired by the breadth and depth of their research, excellent teaching abilities and thoughtful contributions to the community.
Straight out of UMD’s handbook for TAs:
Female TAs should expect to have their authority challenged more than males, yet they have to be “patient” and tolerant and constantly have to prove their worth. Why do we accept and normalize this discriminatory behavior?
The
@UofMaryland
's Department of Computer Science honors its top teachers for 2022-23. Jose Calderon, Jason Cavanaugh, Jason Devers, Julio Gomez, Aditya Patil, and David Van Horn received teaching awards in four categories.
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Four female researchers describe what they’ve learned about how departments and institutions can best communicate that they are welcoming to women and to those from other marginalized and under-represented groups.
Ming C. Lin will be the next
@umdcs
department chair. A noted educator and expert in
#virtualreality
, computer
#graphics
and
#robotics
, Lin comes to Maryland from
@UNC
, where she was a faculty member for 20 years.
'
@UofMarylandMaryland
computer science students earn a silver medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest. Colin Galen, Mohammed Mahdavi and Keivan Rezaei advance to the World Finals, which will be held in Egypt in November 2023.
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Congratulations to Professor Dinesh Manocha
@dmanocha
and Professor Aravind Srinivasan for being named 2020 -Distinguished University Professors by
@UofMaryland
-
Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science, Ming C. Lin was named the Distinguished University Professor, the University's highest academic honor
Bahar Asgari receives a $1M NSF grant to advance High-Performance Computing. The funding comes from NSF's PPoSS Program, aimed at fostering interdisciplinary research covering the full spectrum of hardware and software interactions.
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The room is packed as
@lambda_calculus
gives his
#umdcs
department colloquium on his research in PL: “From Scripting to Proving: Gradual Verification
for Expressive Programming Languages.”
Helping UMD students find belonging in computing majors, Elias Gonzalez, an alum and current computer science lecturer at UMD, leads inclusive teaching efforts in the department.
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