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 Lunchbox: The Art of AI Visualization, 12-1 ET, March 14

Turning Data Into Insightful Narratives

Lunchbox Series The Art of AI Visualization: Turning Data Into Insightful Narratives Dhruv Ratra will demonstrate the incredible power of AI (ChatGPT, Microsoft's Power BI, and Tableau)...

Posted: March 11, 2024, 3:26 PM

Build Assessments with Blackboard AI Course Design Assistant

Online session on using new AI tools, 12pm Thur. March 28

Have you wondered how to use AI tools for course and assessment design, but weren’t sure where to get started? What if you could begin by opening your Blackboard Ultra course?  The Blackboard...

Posted: March 11, 2024, 11:33 AM

Talk: Machine Learning for Parent-Child Interactions, 3/15

Applications in education and social work; 2-3 Fri. March 15

UMBC Mathematics & Statistics Machine Learning Seminar Multimodal Machine Learning and Analytics for Characterizing Parent-Child Interactions: Applications in Education and Social Works...

Posted: March 10, 2024, 2:23 PM

AI Lunchbox: Insightful Data Analysis Through AI, 12-1pm 3/7

Online via Zoom, 12-1pm ET Thursday March 7, 2024

UMBC Center for Applied AI Lunchbox Series We'll dig into data this Thursday with Insightful Data Analysis Through AI: A New Era of Understanding! Our presenter, Dhruv Ratra, is an experienced...

Posted: March 6, 2024, 12:09 PM

Online course on applying AI and HPC to cybersecurity

Apply by March 30, starts on May 20, 2024

UMBC Professor Houbing Herbert Song, in collaboration with Dr. Jiawei Yuan of UMass Dartmouth, will offer an online course on applying AI and high-performance computing knowledge and skills to...

Posted: March 5, 2024, 2:29 PM

Talk: Event Reasoning with Large Language Models, Tue 3/5

2:15-3:15 pm ET Tue. March 5, 2024 in ITE325b & online

Structured Event Reasoning with Large Language Models Li "Harry" Zhang University of Pennsylvania 2:15-3:15 pm ET March 5, 2024 ITE 325b and Webex Reasoning about real-life events...

Posted: March 2, 2024, 9:57 AM

UMBC Prof. Tejas Gokhale gives new faculty talk at AAAI 2024

Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition to Reasoning

UMBC Assistant Professor Tejas Gokhale delivered an invited talk at the New Faculty Highlights session at the 2024 AAAI conference. The talk, "Towards Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition...

Posted: February 27, 2024, 3:45 PM

Talk: GotCHA: CAPTCHAs for an AI Era, 12-1 ET Friday Feb 23

Creating CAPCHAs that challenge AI systems

UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents GotCHA: CAPTCHAs for an AI Era Mario Yaksetig Cryptographer, GotCHA Labs 12-1pm ET, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 via WebEx In the rapidly evolving digital...

Posted: February 19, 2024, 12:18 PM

AI Lunchbox: Ethical Hacking & Cybersecurity with HackerGPT

Free online session, 12-1pm ET Thursday Feb 22, 2024

The next event in the UMBC Training Centers AI Lunchbox series is on Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity with HackerGPT.  It will be held online from 12-1:00pm ET on Thursday, February 22, 2024....

Posted: February 17, 2024, 1:18 PM