JaJa Retires Following Four Decades of Stellar Research and Service

He plans to remain active in UMIACS, continuing his longstanding commitment to supporting key research endeavors and exploring potential collaborations.

Director's Message

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

—Stephen Covey

Andrew Childs Awarded Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize

Awarded to one UMD faculty member annually, the prize recognizes his significant work in developing both theoretical foundations and practical applications for quantum computers.

Partnering with Creative Scholars to Combine Quantum and the Arts

QuICS researchers are active in several interdisciplinary projects that explore novel ways to engage people in thinking about the counterintuitive aspects of quantum physics.

Novel Study Explores the Useability and Efficacy of AI Translations

TRAILS researchers collaborated with a local immersive museum, exploring how people from different backgrounds rely on imperfect language translations generated by artificial intelligence.

TRAILS AI Summer Academy Empowers Future AI Innovators

The two-week academy featured mentoring from UMD faculty, a field trip to the Planet Word museum, and group projects that covered hot topics like neural networks, machine learning and large language models.

Music Video 'Immerses' Viewers in Virtual Performance

IMD Technician Ian McDermott has produced a virtual reality music video highlighting the D.C. indie band, The North Country.

Safeguarding Our Salads From the Roots Up

Researchers in the UMD Center of Excellence in Microbiome Sciences are taking on the E. Coli contamination of produce.

Innovative Approach to Cryptography Makes Privacy More Personal

New to UMD, Gabe Kaptchuk is developing privacy systems that go beyond traditional, abstract methods, emphasizing a human-centered approach that responds to how people actually interact with technology.

Combining AI and Earth System Research to Improve Climate Forecasting for Underserved Communities

Maria Molina and Chris Metzler are developing novel AI-based approaches that can help address systemic inequities and improve the lives of populations that are vulnerable to extreme weather events.

Hartree Fellow Uses Cryptography to Test Quantum Physics

Atul Singh Arora is using techniques from cryptography and computational complexity theory to develop methods for certifying the properties of quantum systems that are otherwise hard to investigate.

TRAILS Faculty Launch New Study on Perception Bias and AI Systems

Michelle Mazurek and Adam Aviv are studying the level of bias that users expect from AI systems, and how AI providers explain to users that their systems may include biased data.

A New Link Between Generalized Quantum Error-Correcting Codes, Complexity and Physics

Daniel Gottesman is part of a team of current and former Perimeter Institute researchers exploring a new universal boundary that separates "nontrivial" quantum error-correction codes from the rest.

REU Bioinformatics Program Immerses Students into Interdisciplinary Research

Sponsored by NSF, the summer internship program exposes visiting undergraduates to interdisciplinary training needed to process and analyze large scale genomic datasets.

On the Right Tract: Hall Studies the Gut Microbiome, Gastrointestinal Diseases

Brantley Hall’s lab develops innovative tools that can measure gut microbes in real time.

Graduate Student Balances Research, Service and Mentoring

Levi Burner, a sixth-year doctoral candidate in electrical and computer engineering, multi-tasks in his role as lab manager for the Perception and Robotics Group.

High School Student Earns Accolades for 2023 Summer Research with Gorshkov Group

His project focused on calculations to help scientists investigate how quantum computers can perform certain tasks significantly faster than their traditional counterparts.

MC2 Researchers Present Eight Papers at USENIX/SOUPS

The accepted papers exemplify a commitment to human-centered security research and scholarship from MC2 faculty, postdocs, students and alumni.

A Day in the Life of the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Abhinav Bhatele and other UMD researchers are using Frontier—the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory— to develop open-source LLMs as a counterbalance to industry models.

County Agencies Alerted to Threat of Malware in Public Information Act Requests

Cybersecurity expert Dave Levin weighs in on recent malware scam attempts targeting county attorney offices in Virginia.

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