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.
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Talk: I'm Not Teaching with Generative AI, But What Do I Still Need to Know?
12-1pm EDT Monday, October 27, online
This session highlights what faculty need to know, even if they are not adopting AI in their own teaching. Topics include basic Gen AI literacy, a critical examination of student use of AI tools,...
Posted: October 27, 2025, 11:11 AM
Talk 10/29: Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution
Manas Gaur and Yash Saxena, 2-1 pm EDT Wed., Oct. 29, online
UMBC Professor Manas Gaur and Ph.D. student Yash Saxena talk online on Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution,...
Posted: October 23, 2025, 9:05 AM
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
Participate in an online research study of how users interact with an AI chatbot
We are conducting a research study to explore how users interact with AI. Use an AI chatbot to answer 3 quiz questions! Here is the study link: https://llm-frontend-9fnt.onrender.com/signup Who...
Posted: October 20, 2025, 4:40 PM
Talk: Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates
12-1pm EDT, Wednesday, October 22, online
As part of UMBC's AOK Library series of AI Symposia, Jennifer Posada will hold an online session via Webex on making sense of data with AI from 12-1 pm EDT on Wednesday, October 22....
Posted: October 19, 2025, 12:47 PM
UMBC undergrads invited to participate in study on reliance on AI for writing
Shahin Hossain, a PhD student in Language, Literacy, and Culture, is conducting a research study on how undergraduate students use generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, and the impact on their...
Posted: October 15, 2025, 11:01 AM
Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases
12-1 pm EDT Monday, October 13, 2025 online via WebEx
Building on Gen AI & Teaching I, this online Webex interactive session led by UMBC professor John Schumacher highlights applied skills and practical use cases. Faculty will practice effective...
Posted: October 12, 2025, 7:03 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
Talk: Towards Multilingual Evaluations of Knowledge for LLMs
2-3pm EDT Tue., Oct. 14, 2025, ITE 325b, UMBC
Language Technology Seminar Series (LaTeSS) Towards Multilingual Evaluations of Knowledge for Large Language Models Bryan Li, University of Pennsylvania 2-3pm Tue., Oct. 14, 2025, ITE 325b, UMBC...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 3:07 PM
UMBC Faculty Development Center: Introduction to Generative AI in Teaching Webinar Series
Three sessions: 12-1pm Mondays, Oct. 6, 13, & 27, online
UMBC's Faculty Development Center will host a series of three webinars for UMBC faculty on teaching and generative AI systems from 12:00-1:00 p.m. on October 6, 13, and 27. For more information,...
Posted: October 2, 2025, 9:47 PM
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