News – ai.umbc.edu

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.

UMBC adds New AI-Powered Search Bar to myUMBC

Students can get personalized answers to searches

UMBC's Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has been exploring how new generative artificial intelligence systems can make the myUMBC platform better for students, faculty, and staff, all...

Posted: February 11, 2025, 6:57 PM

UMBC Dept. of English: AI and the Humanities, 12-1 Wed. March 5

Workshop with Virginia Dignum, in person, 216 PAHB UMBC

Increasingly, companies spearheading artificial intelligence technology are relying on those with humanities expertise to engage in discussions about the design and deployment of AI. In recent...

Posted: February 10, 2025, 1:40 PM

Academic Integrity in the Era of AI, 12-1pm ET, Tue, Feb. 18 online

Encouraging Academic Integrity in the Era of AI Rescheduled to 2/18 Best practices in course design and clear AI policies Tuesday, February 18, 12-1pm ET, online While fostering and...

Posted: February 9, 2025, 12:53 PM

UMBC's Faculty Senate Seeks Input on AI in the Classroom; 2/17

12-1pm Monday, February 17, 2025 Online

The UMBC Faculty Senate's Ad Hoc Committee on the Integration of AI has the two goals of: Formulating evidence-based policy recommendations to guide the ethical and responsible integration of AI...

Posted: February 7, 2025, 3:21 PM

Talk: From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging Problems

Huan Liu, ASU, 12-1pm ET Wed. Feb 5, ITE 459 & online

UMBC Distinguished Speaker From Social Media Mining to Generative AI: Asking and Solving Challenging Problems Huan Liu, Arizona State University Wednesday, Feb. 5, 12-1pm EST, ITE 459, UMBC...

Posted: February 3, 2025, 1:18 PM

Talk: AI and the Metabolism of Knowledge, 2/12

12-1pm ET Wednesday, February 12, 2025, online

Vince Kellen (chief information officer for the University of California, San Diego), will apply a metaphor taken from microbiology, namely metabolism, and examine how knowledge management and AI...

Posted: February 3, 2025, 9:18 AM

Talk: Machine learning for scientific computing, Felix Ye, 2/3

12-1pm EST Mon., Feb. 3, 2025, 409 Sondheim Hall, UMBC

UMBC Joint Statistics and Applied Mathematics Colloquium Machine Learning for Scientific Computing Felix Ye, SUNY Albany 12-1pm EST Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 409 Sondheim Hall, UMBC The...

Posted: January 30, 2025, 5:50 PM

Talk: Do LLMs Exhibit Cybersecurity Misconceptions? 1/31 online

Evaluation of LLMs on Cybersecurity Concept Inventories

Do LLMs Show Cybersecurity Misconceptions? Evaluation of LLMs Performance on Cybersecurity Concept Inventories Shan Huang, UIUC Joint work with Jeffrey Herman and Alan Sherman, et al....

Posted: January 28, 2025, 11:53 AM

Naghmeh Karimi funded to study computing-in-memory AI accelerators

Naghmeh Karimi, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, was recently granted more than $300,000 in funding from the Semiconductor Research...

Posted: January 26, 2025, 6:33 PM

Talk: Securing Networks with Reinforcement Learning & Game Theory

10-11am Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025; ITE459 and online

Securing Distributed Networks: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory for Attack Detection and Mitigation Dr. Md Tariqul Islam, Syracuse University 10-11am January 30, 2025; ITE 459,...

Posted: January 23, 2025, 10:32 AM