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UMBC CSEE researchers win Best Paper Award at ACM CSCW Conferece
UMBC CSEE students MD Nazmus Sakib, Naga Manogna Rayasam, and Professor Sanorita Dey received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social...
Posted: August 31, 2026, 3:46 PM
UMBC Prof. Tim Oates receives prestigious USM Elkins Professorship
UMBC CSEE Professor Tim Oates was awarded the Wilson H. Elkins Academic Transformation Professorship for fiscal year 2027. The professorship, which includes a $10,000 award, was granted by the...
Posted: August 19, 2026, 9:45 AM
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 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
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 student Caly Ferguson receives NBSE "25 Under 25" award
Recognized for his robotics research and NBSE service
UMBC mechanical engineering senior and Meyerhoff Scholar Caly Ferguson was selected for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) "25 Under 25" award in March 2026 based on his research and...
Posted: March 30, 2026, 7:14 PM
UMBC physicist wins Amazon award for AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
Physics Co-Pilot to be an AI assistant for physics research
Fabio Anza, an assistant professor in UMBC's Department of Physics, Quantum Science Institute and Cybersecurity Institute, has won an Amazon Research Award to develop Physics Co-Pilot—a scientific...
Posted: January 30, 2026, 9:52 AM
UMBC Professor Tyler Josephson chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow
Leads AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab
UMBC CBEE professor Tyler Josephson was selected as a 2025 Pivot Fellow by the Simons Foundation. At UMBC, Prof. Josephson leads the AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS), which...
Posted: November 14, 2025, 12:14 PM
Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to promote AI equity for students and faculty
UMBC Professor Eric Stokan, director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, has been awarded the Elkins Professorship for Academic Transformation to address the significant barrier that...
Posted: October 10, 2025, 12:26 PM
UMBC Prof. Yasmine Kotturi chosen for CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship
UMBC Information Systems professor Yasmine Kotturi was one of the researchers selected in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) new Trustworthy AI Research fellowship program which is...
Posted: July 23, 2025, 10:28 AM
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