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.

 

 

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

Talk: Creative Visual Storytelling, Fri 2/23, 2:30-3:30

Laying the Foundations and Pushing the Boundaries

Creative Visual Storytelling: Laying the  Foundations and Pushing the Boundaries Dr. Stephanie Lukin U.S. Army Research Laboratory 2:30-3:30 pm, Friday, February 23, 2024, ITE 325b...

Posted: February 16, 2024, 9:49 AM

HS student William Gao a finalist in Regeneron Talent Search

Developed AI diagnostic system with UMBC Professor Yi Huang

William Gao, a senior in the Centennial High School, was selected as one of the 40 finalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search from among more than 2,000 entrants. Each finalist was...

Posted: February 14, 2024, 6:10 PM

NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot

Connecting U.S. researchers and educators to AI resources

The NSF launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot on January 25. Its goal is to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources...

Posted: February 14, 2024, 1:32 PM

AI, Privacy & Ethics Symposium with Dr. Ray Pun, 12-1 4/8

The Librarian is In: Q&A with Dr. Ray Pun

The Librarian is In: Q&A with Dr. Ray Pun 12-1 pm ET Monday, April 8, 2024 Join online via WebEx UMBC librarians will interview Dr. Ray Pun on all things AI! Do you have any burning...

Posted: February 12, 2024, 1:48 PM

EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study report

Findings from

The EDUCAUSE AI Landscape report summarizes the higher education community's current sentiments and experiences related to AI in higher education. It is based on a survey was distributed from...

Posted: February 12, 2024, 12:44 PM

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