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.

AI4ALL Ignite free AI program, apply by August 19, 2024

Starts in September 2024

AI4ALL Ignite offers a virtual, no-costopportunity for undergraduate students in computing and STEM-related majors who are interested in artificial intelligence as a career option. By the end of...

Posted: July 31, 2024, 2:42 PM

UMBC faculty at Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

This week three UMBC faculty had papers in the Second Teaching and Learning with AI Conference held in Orlando and organized by the University of Central Florida. To Create or Poison?...

Posted: July 24, 2024, 2:33 PM

Prof. Lujie Karen Chen wins wins 5-year NSF Career award

Focus: undergraduate data science & data literacy education

UMBC Information Systems Professor Lujie Karen Chen recently won an NSF CAREER award that puts students at the center of learning analytics—not just as subjects who supply data, but also as the...

Posted: July 24, 2024, 11:37 AM

Talk: Introduction to Generative AI, 6:30-7:30 Mon July 15

Cascades Library, Potomac Falls, VA

Introduction to Generative AI 6:30-7:30 Monday July 15, 2024 Cascades Library 21030 Whitfield Pl, Potomac Falls, VA Dr. Muhammad Ali Yousuf from UMBC-Shady Grove explores the...

Posted: July 14, 2024, 5:05 PM

Talk: Networked Systems and Security in the age of AI

IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecture, 9am ET July 17

UMBC Professor Houbing Song will give an online distinguished lecture on Networked Systems and Security Research in the Age of AI/Machine Learning at 9:00am ET on Wednesday, 17 July 2024,...

Posted: July 7, 2024, 4:48 PM

Free class: Programming in Lean for Scientists and Engineers

1-3pm ET July 9 – Aug 21, in-person & onlne, non-credit

Lean for Scientists and Engineers Meets twice weekly, 1-3pm ET, July 9 – August 21, 2024 in-person at UMBC and online UMBC’s AI & Theory-Oriented Molecular Science Lab (ATOMS) will...

Posted: July 5, 2024, 12:52 PM

AI Lunchbox: Organizational Design in the AI Age, 12-1 6/27

Experimenting with Organizational Design in the Age of AI Erwin Godoy, Freddie Mac 12-1pm ET, June 27, 2024 How AI will transform organizations is still to be determined. No doubt, AI...

Posted: June 27, 2024, 10:19 AM

AI Technical Meetup & Networking, 5-7pm June 13

UMBC Training Centers

The UMBC Training Centers will hold a Summer AI Meetup in Columbia, MD, on Thursday, June 13th, from 5 to 7 pm. The event will include networking with drinks and snacks included, two...

Posted: June 9, 2024, 6:59 PM

10th Mining and Learning from Time Series workshop at KDD

UMBC Professor Sanjay Purushotham is one of the organizers of MILETS'24, the 10th Mining and Learning from Time Series workshop. It will be held on August 25, 2024 in conjunction with KDD'24, the...

Posted: June 5, 2024, 12:36 PM

AI Lunchbox: HuggingFace Tour, 12-1pm ET Thur. June 6, 2024

HuggingFace is a popular open-source machine learning platform and community that enables people to share and download AI models, datasets and tools for many AI areas, including NLP, vision,...

Posted: June 5, 2024, 10:17 AM