News

We use the UMBC group umbc-ai to share news about AI research, events, and opportunities at UMBC. UMBC faculty, staff, and students can join the group to receive email messages. Anyone can view past news on the group or on the AI.UMBC.EDU website. Below are short summaries of recent messages from the UMBC AI Center.


AI in Graduate & Postdoctoral Research: Leveraging Gemini, 10/24

Online session with Dr. Anupam Joshi, 2:30-3:30 Fri. Oct 24

Dr. Anupam Joshi, UMBC's Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer, will lead an interactive session to help graduate students and postdocs see how they can enhance their scholarly work with Google's...

Posted: October 22, 2025, 10:57 AM

google gemini ai systems

AI in Graduate & Postdoctoral Research: Leveraging Gemini, 10/24

Online session with Dr. Anupam Joshi, 2:30-3:30 Fri. Oct 24

Dr. Anupam Joshi, UMBC's Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer, will lead an interactive session to help graduate students and postdocs see how they can enhance their scholarly work with Google's...

Posted: October 22, 2025, 10:24 AM

Google Gemini AI system

Tracking and Branding AI at UMBC

Register your efforts to create a common UMBC AI identity

Are you involved in an artificial intelligence related activity, project, or program at UMBC? Organizing a lecture or lecture series? Running workshops or training sessions? Have a research...

Posted: October 20, 2025, 8:13 AM

Talk: Caring Robots in an Aging World, 11/6

4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, 2025, AOK Library Gallery, UMBC

Caring Robots in an Aging World A lecture with guest speaker Shawn Bender, Ph.D. 4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, 2025, AOK Library Gallery, UMBC The potential of robotics technologies to assist in...

Posted: October 17, 2025, 9:43 AM

Poster for a talk on Caring Robots in an Aging World by Shawn Bender from Dickinson College

Talk: Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings, 11/5

12-1:30pm Wednesday, November 5, 2025, Commons 329

Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings Prof. Dustin Stoltz, Lehigh University Word or text embeddings are a central component in modern language models, including those powering generative...

Posted: October 16, 2025, 12:31 PM

Image of Dustin Stoltz, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cognitive Science at Lehigh University.