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 PhD student Ommo Clark featured in VoA Realities of Women in AI episode

The VoA Africa’s Our Voices program on the Realities of Women in Artificial Intelligence includes a seven-minute interview with Ommo Clark. Clark is a second-year PhD candidate in Information...

Posted: September 6, 2024, 6:25 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

talk: Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education through Design Science and AI

12-1pm EDT Friday, September 11, 2024, online

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Cyber4All: Innovating Cybersecurity Education Through Design Science and AI Blair Taylor and Paige Zaleppa, Towson University 12–1pm, Friday, September 6, 2024 via...

Posted: August 29, 2024, 5:32 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

Deepfake Detection Technologies Survey

Lunch & Learn talk, 12-1pm ET, Thur. 22 August 2024, online

A Survey of Deepfake Detection Technologies 12-1pm ET Thursday, 22 August 2024, online The Center for Applied AI wIll hold an online Lunch & Learn series talk on Deepfake Detection...

Posted: August 14, 2024, 5:19 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

Hilltop Institute study on predictive healthcare models

New paper in Medical Care journal

A research group from UMBC's Hilltop Institute has a new paper in the Medical Care journal, Behind the Curtain: Comparing Predictive Models Performance in 2 Publicly Insured Populations. ...

Posted: August 6, 2024, 12:38 PM

UMBC faculty receive NSF award for audio deepfake detection

UMBC professors Vandana Janeja, Anita Komlodi, Christine Mallinson, and Sanjay Purushotham received an NSF award to develop a prototype Community Infrastructure to Strengthen AI for Audio Deepfake...

Posted: August 1, 2024, 6:31 PM

Teaching with AI: a New Era of Human Learning

Three one-hour online sessions in Fall 2024

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will hold a series of online discussion sessions on Teaching with AI, based on the book Teaching with AI: (2A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning 024),...

Posted: July 31, 2024, 5:55 PM