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UMD Model Joins ‘Arms Race’ to Develop AI-Powered Tech that Understands Music

The platform breaks down songs based on personal taste, emotion and mood.

UMD and Capital One Team Up to Reinvent AI Guardrails

Their system replaces rigid, one-size-fits-all AI safeguards with a customizable framework that adapts to real-world risks.

Zhang Receives Award to Enhance Safety in Generative-AI Agents

He will combine principles from reinforcement learning and game theory to enhance the safety of generative AI-agents.

UMD Researchers Sketch Out Path to Smarter Robots

They’ve developed a novel system that teaches complex tasks to robots using simple drawings.

UMD Researchers Part of Team Receiving $1.8M DARPA Award to Make AI More Trustworthy

They are making AI-driven LLMs more consistent, adaptable and secure for high-stakes settings.

Feizi Receives $1M Award to Advance Foundations of Reasoning AI Models

The funding is a result of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

UMIACS Researchers Investigate Security Threats to Web AI Agents

Their study uncovered crucial factors underlying vulnerabilities, and a need for enhanced security.

UMD Team Solves Math Puzzle That Stumped Scientists for 35 Years

The resulting 126-page proof and algorithm could help create more efficient computer and AI chips.

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Goldstein's work is featured in Quanta Magazine.

UMD Team to Lead Six-Week Workshop on Audio-Based AI Models

Ramani Duraiswami will lead a workshop in Czechia to drive advances in audio-based AI models.

Incentivizing AI Companies to Prioritize Safety

Furong Huang made the first auction-based AI regulation system to priotize safety over capability.

Zhang Wins NSF CAREER Award to Advance Multi-Agent Learning

He will improve how autonomous AI agents learn and collaborate in complex, real-world environments.

UMD Researchers Organize NeurIPS Competition to Improve AI Watermarks

The global competition had more than 2,700 entries.

Feizi Receives Presidential Early Career Award from President Biden

The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on early-career scientists and engineers.

Rising Stars Workshop Engages Diverse Voices in Machine Learning

Five scholars from underrepresented groups traveled to College Park to present their research.

Bridging Quantum Chemistry and ML for a Greener Future

Phillip Pope is developing ML methods to accelerate chemical simulations and reduce fossil fuel reliance.

UMIACS Team Is Finalist for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize

They developed a scalable distributed training framework that rapidly trains AI-based LLMs.

UMIACS Team Aims to Boost HPC Software Development Using AI

With $7M from DOE, the project aims to increase software development productivity by tenfold.

UMD Duo Part of $2.8M DARPA Award to Advance Autonomous Robotics

Their work will enhance how robots reason, plan and engage in complex, real-world scenarios.

Developing a Robotic System to Improve Autonomy for Mobility Issues

Innovative work from Pratap Tokekar's Lab was honored at an IEEE robotics conference.

Furong Huang Part of New Federal Initiative to Advance AI

She will develop and test novel technologies and protocols to strengthen the ethical foundations of AI.

Shrivastava to Advance AI Using Federal Computing Resources

He will improve AI-based visual recognition models using one of the world's fastest supercomputers.

Goldstein Leads Team to Invention of the Year Honors

The technology can detect text generated by large language models at an almost 90% success rate.

UMIACS Expands Data Center to Support Research Growth

The institute's data center is undergoing renovations to expand its physical footprint by 50%.

These UMD Researchers Want to Read Your Mind

Duraiswami is examining how the unspoken words we form in our minds can be decoded.

Dutta Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Reliable and Trustworthy AI

The $666K award supports her work in advancing reliable and trustworthy AI for social good.

Manocha Elected to National Academy of Inventors

His research spans computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics and GPU computing.

Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community

Eight emerging scholars from underrepresented groups were selected to present their research.

UMD Team Wins DOE Award to Advance AI Using Supercomputers

The award provides significant run-time on supercomputers managed by the U.S. government.

Tianyi Zhou Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Humans and AI

He works at the intersection of machine learning and natural language to make AI more human-like.

Microsoft Recognizes Huang for Novel Work in Sequential Decision-Making

The award funds innovative projects that push the boundaries of foundational models.

Reinforcement Learning Is All a Game for Kaiqing Zhang

A self-described games enthusiast, Zhang is one of the center's newest members.

Chop & Learn: Teaching Computers to Recognize Food in All Forms

Shrivastava's dataset is advancing generative AI by teaching systems to recognize fruits and vegetables.

Li Honored by IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems

Li is the 2023 winner of IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems' Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

Deep Learning Expert Haizhao Yang Joins UMIACS

His research aims to improve predictive data science and scientific computing via intelligent computation.

Researchers Develop and Test AI Text-Detector Tools

Feizi, Goldstein, Huang and Manocha are developing and testing the reliablity of AI text-detectors.

Feizi Receives Prestigious ARO Early Career Program Award

He is advancing provable robustness to develop practical methods with theoretical guarantees.

Baras Wins $850K Award from Army Research Laboratory

Distinguished University Professor John Baras is a co-PI of the project 'Integrated Data-Driven and Model-Based Systems Engineering.'

Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative

John Dickerson, Furong Huang, and Pratap Tokekar are part of a new center that prioritizes values in AI.

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.

AI and Computational Health Expert Heng Huang Joins UMIACS

He was the first researcher to propose theoretically guaranteed algorithms for breaking backward locking in backpropagations.

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.

Girvan Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

Professor Michelle Girvan was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.

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.