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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NSF launches Open Knowledge Network
open-data platform connecting over 40 knowledge graphs
The NSF announced the launch of its Open Knowledge Network, a national open-data infrastructure linking 43 interconnected knowledge graphs and tens of billions of connected facts across health,...
Posted: September 25, 2026, 4:59 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
NSF BRAIN (June 5-6) and AccelNet (June 6-8) meetings at UMBC
UMBC will host the in-person annual meeting of the NSF IUCRC BRAIN Industry Advisory Board on June 5-6. Its members include universities leading cutting-edge research in neurotechnologies by...
Posted: May 28, 2025, 11:43 AM
UMBC faculty receive NSF award for digitial twins to study neurodegenerative diseases
UMBC Professors Ansu Chatterjee, Karuna Joshi, and Animikh Biswas received an NSF award to study the use of digital twins to diagnose, treat, and increase the understanding of neurodegenerative...
Posted: October 19, 2024, 12:03 PM
Prof. Lujie Karen Chen wins wins 5-year NSF Career award
Focus: undergraduate data science & data literacy education
UMBC Information Systems Professor Lujie Karen Chen recently won an NSF CAREER award that puts students at the center of learning analytics—not just as subjects who supply data, but also as the...
Posted: July 24, 2024, 11:37 AM
Prof. Vinjamuri receives NSF IUCRC Phase II award
Supports UMBC's partnership in the BRAIN Center
UMBC CSEE Professor Ramana Vinjamuri received a new NSF IUCRC Phase II award to support participation as a partner in BRAIN, the Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies...
Posted: March 19, 2024, 1:28 PM
NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot
Connecting U.S. researchers and educators to AI resources
The NSF launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot on January 25. Its goal is to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources...
Posted: February 14, 2024, 1:32 PM
Prof. Cynthia Matuszek to chair NSF Robotics PI meeting
To be held in Baltimore, 28-30 April 2024
UMBC Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new award from the National Science Foundation to support the 2024 joint Principal Investigator Meeting for NSF's two research programs on robotics...
Posted: February 9, 2024, 9:53 AM
Sanjay Purushotham wins NSF CAREER award for AI & healthcare
Harnessing AI to improve healthcare: Sanjay Purushotham wins $590,000+ NSF CAREER award Today, a plethora of technologies, from image recognition tools to chatbots, are powered by machine...
Posted: August 4, 2023, 7:01 PM