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.

 

 

Maryland governor signs executive order guiding AI use

Order creates an AI subcabinet to develop guardrail plans

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed an executive order calling for the state to develop guardrails to protect residents from the risk of bias and discrimination as artificial intelligence becomes...

Posted: January 9, 2024, 11:03 AM

Dr. Chenchen Liu interviewed about her AI hardware research

Developing better hardware models and architectures for AI

UMBC News interviewed CSEE professor Chenchen Liu about her research on developing better hardware models and architectures to support current and future AI systems, supported in part by a recent...

Posted: December 26, 2023, 10:47 AM

Apply: Spring '24 AI4ALL Ignite program

deadline: January 22, 2024

What is AI4ALL Ignite? The AI4ALL Ignite program gives undergraduates the opportunity to  Work on an AI portfolio project with mentorship and guidance from AI industry experts Present their AI...

Posted: December 26, 2023, 10:43 AM

OpenAI research grants: agentic AI systems & Superalignment

deadlines: 1/20/2024 and 2/18/2024

Open AI's Research into the Agentic AI Systems program is accepting applications until midnight ET on January 20, 2024. Grants will be between $10,000 and $100,000 for research for 3-8 month...

Posted: December 26, 2023, 10:39 AM

Prof. Tülay Adali recieves NSF award for fMRI research

CSEE professor Tülay Adali has received an NSF award for $400k to support her research on drawing inferences from large-scale,  multi-subject fMRI analysis datasets. In many disciplines today,...

Posted: August 7, 2023, 10:05 PM

AI x Education Conference, free online Aug 5-6

Designed for K12 and Higher-Ed Educators & Administrators, the AI x Education Conference aims to provide a platform for educators, administrators, AI experts, students, parents, and EdTech...

Posted: August 3, 2023, 1:01 PM

PhD defense: Knowledge Graphs & Reinforcement Learning

a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning: a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks Aritran Piplai 10:00am -12:00pm ET, Monday July 10, 2023...

Posted: July 31, 2023, 12:47 PM