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Shrivastava Wins NSF CAREER Award to Advance Temporal Phenomena

His research has the potential to transform applications in security, health and robotics.

UMD Receives ARL Funding Renewal Focused on AI and Autonomy

Manocha is leading efforts to develop ground and aerial autonomy related to human-machine teaming.

Hajiaghayi Named 2022 AAAS Fellow

He was specifically noted for his significant contributions to the fields of algorithmic graph theory and algorithmic game theory.

UMD Researchers Present 39 Papers at NeurIPS 2022

Twenty-three papers were accepted to the main conference with 16 presented at affiliated workshops.

Huang Named to Prestigious List of 35 Innovators Under 35

She is being recongnized by MIT Technology Review Asia for making AI more trustworthy.

Feizi Funded to Advance Underexplored Areas of ML

He recently received two separate $300K research awards from NSF and Meta.

Announcing the 2022 Cohort of Rising Stars in Machine Learning

The program is designed to support machine learning researchers from underrepresented groups.

Creating an Unremovable Watermark to Protect Intellectual Property

Our researchers developed an advanced watermark that's impossible to remove without detection.

Summer Interns Dive Into Solving Algorithmic and AI Problems

They participated in a prestigious 10-week undergraduate research program at UMD.

Goldstein Named Interim Director

He plans to hire several new faculty, expand the center’s infrastructure, and establish a new postdoctoral research position.

Researchers Present Multiple Papers and Workshops at ICML

A mix of faculty, postdocs and students presented 18 papers and 18 workshops in Baltimore.

Tokekar and Dickerson Receive Promotions

They have both been promoted to associate professor with tenure.

Williams Working to Improve Robotic Sensing Capabilities

Postdoc Troi Williams uses machine learning to improve sensors on drones.

Tokekar Awarded $100K from Amazon Research

The funding will support his work developing algorithms to advance teams of autonomous robots.

Improving Accessibility and Equity for COVID-19 Vaccinations

Aravind Srinivasan is developing algorthims to determine the most equitable vaccination sites.

Huang Advances Fairness in AI for College Admissions

She's leading the $1M project that's jointly supported by NSF and Amazon.

Lin Inducted into IEEE Virtual Reality Academy

Her research focuses on multimodal interaction, physically-based animations and simulations, as well as algorithmic robotics.

Optimizing Facebook Notifications Pumped Up Blood Donations

Researchers’ algorithm could help increase global supply of a precious resource.

Feizi Receives Young Investigator Award to Advance Reliable AI

The half-a-million dollar grant will support his efforts to study both natural and adverserial threats.

Lin Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

She is the 10th UMD Faculty member to be honored.

2021 Cohort of Rising Stars in Machine Learning Announced

The program was designed to support machine learning researchers from underrepresented groups.

Duraiswami's Startup To Improve Pilot Performance

VisiSonics has partnered with Andrea Systems to improve aviators' helmets with 3D audio.

Srinivasan Recieves Distinguished Career Award

The award is the Washington Academy of Science's highest honor.

UMD Part of $68M Army Research Labratory Cooperative Agreement

Four Center for Machine Learning researchers will drive transformational advances in AI and autonomy.

Dickerson Funded by Google to Promote Diversity and Fairness in AI

He will operationalize and incorporate responsible AI practices and techniques into real-world systems.

Duraiswami Receives Funding from Facebook Reality Labs

The spatial audio expert will improve models and simulations of 2D and 3D audio technologies

Shrivastava Receives Amazon Research Award

His project investigates how computer memory can be used to represent knowledge.

New Seminar Series Explores Fairness in Artifical Intelligence

The weekly talks will cover bias in AI, ML and theoretical computer science.

IEEE Intelligent Systems Names Dickerson One of AI’s 10 to Watch

He was selected for his outstanding AI achievements including improving kidney exchange networks.

Feizi Funded by NIST to Develop Standard Evaluations of Robustness

His metrics will also evlauate a defenses's scalability in deep neetworks and transferability across models.

Capital One Supports Research at the UMD Center for Machine Learning

The fiancial and technology leader is supporting the development of a system that identifies bank fraud.

Goldstein Part of $7.5M Award to Study Deep Learning Theory

The researchers will develop a theory of deep learning based on rigorous mathematical principles.

Feizi Funded by DARPA to Develop Adversarial Counterattack Program

He is leading the $971K project that will be able to identify the origin and sophistication level of attacks.

Meet the 2020 Class of Rising Stars in Machine Learning

These researchers have been selected to present their work at the Reinforcement Learning Seminar Series.

Google Funds Srinivasan to Advance Contact Tracing Methods

He is developing algorithms that can identify superspreaders and prioritize who to test and when.

Jacobs Named Director of UMD Center for Machine Learning

The inagural director is intent on expanding the center's research, education and diversity.

UMD Part of $10M NSF Award to Thwart Disease Outbreaks

Machine learning expert Aravind Srinivasan is leading the computational foundations research.

Hajiaghayi Named EATCS Fellow

The expert in theoretical computer science was noted for his contributions to algorithmic graph theory, game theory and distributed computing.

DARPA Awards $3.1M to Counter Attacks on AI Systems

The money supports research to improve the security of various artifical intelligence applications.

Dickerson Wins Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award

The students who nominated Dickerson for the award noted the great deal of respect he has for their ideas.

Srinivasan Named SIAM Fellow

He has been recognized for his contributions to randomized algorithms & probabilistic methods with applications to network & computational science.

Feizi Recieves NSF CAREER Award

The funding supports his efforts to develop a comprehensive and fundamental understanding of modern generative models.

Hajiaghayi Named IEEE Fellow

Election as an IEEE Fellow is recongnized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and important career achievement.

Rising Stars Talk Features Gintare Karolina Dziugaite from Element AI

Her research combines theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding deep learning.

Huang Tackles Challenges in Deep Neural Networks

Watch how she applies classical ML algorithms to solve problems within deep neural networks.

Rising Stars Talk Features Adji Bousso Dieng from Columbia University

Dieng is the second speaker selected to present her work as a Rising Star in Machine Learning.

Rising Stars Talk Features Surbhi Goel from UT Austin

Goel is one of three speakers chosen to present their work as a Rising Star in Machine Learning.

University of Maryland Launches Center for Machine Learning

Researchers will train computers to figure out challenges in big data, finance and health care.

Rising Stars Program Will Support Female Reseachers

Three women have been selected to present their research at the Brendan Iribe Center.

Hajiaghayi Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

He has been named a 2019 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Dickerson Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Market Systems Using AI

He will use the award to develop methods to improve existing market systems and enable new markets.

Huang Receives NSF and J.P. Morgan Research Awards

She has received two separate research awards from the NSF and J.P Morgan to study neural networks and trading behavior over financial data streams.

Srinivasan Awarded 2019 Dijkstra Prize

The award recognizes outstanding academic papers whose impact on distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade.