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.
UMBC Prof. Karen Chen appointed USM Senior Fellow for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Dr. Karen Chen, Associate Professor in UMBC’s Department of Information Systems, was appointed as a Senior Fellow for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) by the University System of...
Posted: July 1, 2026, 10:55 AM
UMBC Cybersecurity MS student wins best prototype award in Generative AI Hackathon at Universities at Shady Grove
Chinwe Okpala, a UMBC MS in Cybersecurity student, and Daniela Pineda Iriarte received the Best Real-World Potential award for their MedBridge project in the Prompt to Prototype: A Generative AI...
Posted: June 28, 2026, 5:41 PM
AI-powered fitness and nutrition IPhone app released by UMBC MS Data Science student Manikanta Sirumalla
Manikanta Sirumalla is an MS student in the UMBC Data Science program who recently released RepTrack Pro, an AI-powered fitness and nutrition app for iPhones. He’s currently building it out...
Posted: June 26, 2026, 6:24 PM
Tyler Josephson receives Amazon Research Award to make scientific software more reliable
UMBC CBEE professor Tyler Josephson received an Amazon Research Award to improve the accuracy of scientific computing. His “Autoformalization for Scientific Computing in Lean” project will help...
Posted: June 25, 2026, 11:27 AM
UMBC PhD student Shubhashis Roy Dipta receives Google Cloud research grant
UMBC CS PhD student Shubhashis Roy Dipta received a $20k Google Cloud research grant through the Gemini Academic Program to support his LLM agentic research in the final year of his PhD program....
Posted: June 24, 2026, 1:19 PM
UMBC IS spotlights Sri Kavya Penta, MS '26
Her work focused on AI, data analytics, and HCI
UMBC's Department of Information Systems shared an alumni spotlight for Sri Kavya Penta, M.S. ’26. As a teaching assistant, researcher, and published scholar, she explored the intersection of...
Posted: June 17, 2026, 8:51 AM
How should colleges prepare students for an AI-driven world?
In this episode of UMBC Mic’d Up, Dennise Cardona and Professor Ron Wilson from UMBC’s Geographic Information Systems MS program discuss how AI is reshaping education, critical thinking, and the...
Posted: June 12, 2026, 9:59 AM
UMBC MS student Venkata Sai Harsha Kothapalli is UMBC's Intern of the Week
UMBC's Career Center featured UMBC Computer Science MS student Venkata Sai Harsha Kothapalli as its Intern of the Week. During the 2026 Spring semester, he interned at Platinum Business Services,...
Posted: June 9, 2026, 3:11 PM
Prof. Roberto Yus receives NSF CAREER award: Towards a Sensorless Internet of Things through Sensor Data Management Abstraction
UMBC CSEE Professor Roberto Yus received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support his research on democratizing the Internet of Things (IoT) by introducing a semantic abstraction framework that...
Posted: June 4, 2026, 9:06 AM
UMBC faculty receive NSF grant to help faculty and students cultivate AI-related competency
Rebecca Williams (PI) and Edward Dillon (CO-PI)
UMBC faculty Rebecca Williams (PI) and Edward Dillon (CO-PI) have been awarded a four-year NSF grant to build industry and academic partnerships and establish a set of recommendations, resources,...
Posted: June 3, 2026, 12:09 PM
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