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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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AI in Practice: How Faculty and Entrepreneurs Are Actually Using Generative AI

12-1 pm EST, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, online

The next online session of the AI in Practice series will be "How Faculty and Entrepreneurs Are Actually Using Generative AI: “Use Case” Lightning Round" on 12-1 pm EST, Wednesday, November 13,...

Posted: November 4, 2024, 6:18 PM

PhD student position for research project on evaluating scientific claims

The UMBC AI and Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS) led by Professor Tyler Josephson in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering. has two fully-funded...

Posted: October 25, 2024, 11:42 AM

UMBC students sought for LLM hallucination research project

Available to both undergraduate and graduate students

UMBC students studying Information Systems, Computer Science or Human-centered Computing are invited to join a research project exploring how users with different characteristics engage with Large...

Posted: October 24, 2024, 2:49 PM

Talk: Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications

1-2pm EDT, Thur 10 Oct 2024, UMBC ITE 325b & online

Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications Dr. Anupam Datta, Co-Head of Snowflake AI Research 1-2pm EDT, Thur. 10 Oct. 2024, ITE 325b, online via WebEx We have seen a...

Posted: October 9, 2024, 11:51 AM

Talk: Introduction to Generative AI, 4-5 pm Wednesday, Sept. 25, online

Dr. Ali Yousuf, director of UMBC's M.P.S. Data Science program at Shady Grove, will present online an Introduction to Generative AI on Wednesday, September 25, from 4-5pm EDT. He will cover the...

Posted: September 19, 2024, 3:21 PM

talk: AI Resilient Interfaces for Code Generation and Efficient Reading, Dr. Jonathan Kummerfeld

3-4pm EDT, Tue. 10 Sept. 2024, ITE 325b at UMBC & online

The UMBC Language Technology Seminar Series (LaTeSS – pronounced lattice) showcases talks from experts researching various language technologies, including but not limited to natural language...

Posted: September 7, 2024, 12:03 PM

AI Lunchbox: Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG

12-1 pm EDT, Thursday, September 5, 2024, online

The UMBC Training Centers Center for Applied AI will hold an AI Lunchbox session on Empowering Language Models: Exploring the Capabilities of RAG from 12-1pm EDT on Thursday, September 5, 2024....

Posted: September 2, 2024, 5:50 PM

AI Technical Meetup and Networking event, 5-7pm Thursday, August 29

UMBC Training Centers, Columbia, MD

The UMBC Training Centers will hold an AI Technical Meetup and Networking event from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT on Thursday, August 29, at their facility in Columbia, MD. Speakers Ommo Clark,...

Posted: August 26, 2024, 7:47 PM

NSF funds UMBC faculty to develop tools for data science education

UMBC Professors Lujie Chen (PI) and Shimei Pan (Co-Pi) received an NSF award of over $365,000 from the NSF Innovations in Graduate Education program in collaboration with the University of...

Posted: August 17, 2024, 3:20 PM

Blackboard's Ally now suggests alt text descriptions for images without them

Example of Ally's AI generated image description. Here's an interesting application of new GenAI systems: helping instructors make their course materials more accessible. A best practice for...

Posted: August 13, 2024, 9:24 PM