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.

Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction

via multimodal fusion and deep learning

UMBC Ph.D. student Farshad Safavi presented his dissertation proposal on recognizing emotions for better human-robot interaction on February 9, 2024. Emotion Recognition via Multimodal Fusion...

Posted: February 10, 2024, 10:15 AM

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

Webinar: results of Educause AI Landscape Study, 1pm March 6

Wednesday, March 06, 1:00–2:00pm ET, Online

Webinar - The 2024 AI Landscape Study from EDUCAUSE 1-2 pm Wednesday, March 6, online  This webinar (1-2pm on Wed. March 6) will highlight key findings from a recent EDUCAUSE survey focused on...

Posted: February 8, 2024, 10:25 AM

UMBC faculty participate in NIH ethical AI workshop

Focus on ethical and transparent AI in biomedical research

UMBC faculty Karuna Joshi (IS) and Ansu Chatterjee (Math & Statistics) were invited to participate in the  NIH's Office on Data Science Strategy (ODSS) workshop on ethical and transparent...

Posted: February 2, 2024, 11:24 AM

FDC session: Academic Integrity in the Era of AI, 12-1 2/14

Revisit best practices given the rise of generative AI tools

The UMBC Faculty Development Center will hold a one hour online session on Encouraging Academic Integrity in the Era of AI vis WebEx from 12-1 pm on February 14, 2024. While fostering and...

Posted: February 1, 2024, 6:09 PM

Talk: Visual Concept Learning Beyond Appearances, 3:30pm 2/8

Modernizing a couple of classic ideas

PPR Distinguished Speaker Visual Concept Learning Beyond Appearances: Modernizing a Couple of Classic Ideas Dr. Yezhou Yang Arizona State University 3:30-4:45 pm ET, Thur. Feb. 8, 2024...

Posted: January 31, 2024, 2:22 PM

New Center for Applied AI at UMBC Training Centers

Its curated courses & micro-courses invite you to unravel AI

  UMBC Training Centers established a new Center for Applied AI as a dedicated hub for advancing skills and fostering innovation in the ever-changing field of Artificial Intelligence. It will...

Posted: January 30, 2024, 10:41 AM

Graduate student sought for NLP/Speech project

Opportunity for an hourly research position

Dr. Shimei Pan from the Information Systems department is looking for a graduate student to work on an NLP and spoken language processing project. This position will start immediately and last for...

Posted: January 27, 2024, 9:59 AM

UMBC CARTA Center for data analytics research

NSF continues funding the IUCRC for five years

UMBC's Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) team will advance its work in investigating data analytics using next-generation computing hardware with the launch of the next phase of...

Posted: January 26, 2024, 11:20 AM

Talk: Towards Democratizing AI, 12-1 Tue 1/30, ITE 325b

Scaling & Learning (Fair) Graph Representations

Towards Democratizing AI: Scaling & Learning (Fair) Graph Representations in an Implementation Agnostic Fashion 12-1 pm ET, Tue. 30 January 2024, ITE 325b Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio...

Posted: January 19, 2024, 5:22 PM