News & Announcements
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Diverse Voices in Machine Learning
Dec 16, 2024 - Five emerging scholars traveled to College Park to present their research and connect with UMD’s machine learning community, with one researcher joining virtually.
Aloimonos Is Named IEEE Fellow
Dec 13, 2024 - Being conferred Fellow status is the highest grade of IEEE membership, and one that is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Optimizing Computational Dataflow with Machine Learning
Dec 12, 2024 - Sanjali Yadav has developed a novel machine learning approach that enables adaptive and intelligent hardware, boosting dataflow efficiency and reducing energy consumption.
UMIACS Researchers Honored with Best Paper Awards
Dec 11, 2024 - The papers highlight new innovations involving electric vehicles and the use of digital watermarks in large language models.
Vishkin Named to National Academy of Inventors
Dec 10, 2024 - Vishkin joins fellow UMD faculty member Yang Tao, a professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, honored by election to the academy this year.
Remembering Johanna Weinstein
Dec 06, 2024 - Weinstein retired in 2016 after having served for more than 30 years as the director of administration and operations of UMIACS.
Bridging Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning for a Greener Future
Nov 25, 2024 - To help improve our environment, Phillip Pope is developing machine learning methods to accelerate chemical simulations, with the goal of discovering new materials to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels.
UMD Team Uses AI to Enhance Mnemonic Learning
Nov 20, 2024 - The team has developed an AI-driven keyword mnemonic generator designed to make learning more efficient and effective for students.
New Haptic Hardware Offers a Waterfall of Immersive Experiences for Gamers
Nov 11, 2024 - UMD researchers are using measured water jets to provide lifelike sensory experiences for gamers in virtual reality.
UMD Team Is Finalist for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Nov 08, 2024 - The researchers made the final cut for their innovative work in developing a scalable distributed training framework called AxoNN, which rapidly trains AI-based large language models on thousands of GPUs.