UMD Department of Computer Science
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Excited to be part of the Artificial Intelligence Quantified (#AIQ) program, which aims to advance the mathematical foundations for evaluating and optimizing LLMs and agentic AI. How and when can we trust AI in high-stakes decisions? AIQ aims to find out.
When and why can AI be trusted to make decisions in the high stakes settings where it can have the most value? The @DARPA Artificial Intelligence Quantified (#AIQ) program kicked off before the holiday, aiming to developing mathematical foundations for AI evaluation.
📢 Don't miss innovative research by our @umdcs students at the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Conference. calendar.umd.edu/summer-undergr…
📢 @umdcs is welcoming 8 new faculty in 2025–26 with expertise in AI policy, robotics, bioinformatics, vision, language models, simulation & sound design. They’ll strengthen research & teaching across computing. Read more: go.umd.edu/New-Faculty7-2…
🤖 Dinesh Manocha, @umdcs professor, has spent decades blending graphics, robotics & simulation. A @siggraph attendee since 1993, he now develops mobile robots that navigate any terrain using GPU computing & physics-based models. Read more: go.umd.edu/Manocha7-2025
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🚗✨ I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Research Engineer at @Waymo today! 🎓✨ This comes shortly after defending my PhD at @umdcs, where I had the privilege of working with and learning from amazing collaborators at @gammaumd. A heartfelt thank you to my…
🦾💻 Logan Stevens (@theataripunk), @umdcs Ph.D. student, received an @NSF GRFP for research on how XR, wearables & sensory input—sight, touch, sound—can enhance learning & cognition. He aims to design tech that supports how we think & learn. 🔗 go.umd.edu/Stevens7-2025
👏 Embodied AI may help blind individuals better interpret nonverbal cues at work. @UMDCS researchers @huaishup and Jiasheng Li are expanding their wearable robot project, #Calico, through TRAILS funding and a partnership with @NFB_voice. Read more: go.umd.edu/TRAILS7-2025
📢 @umdcs researchers are presenting 16 papers at @icmlconf 2025, covering topics in AI robustness, interpretability, human-AI interaction, and multimodal learning. The 42nd annual #ICML conference runs July 13–19 in Vancouver. Read more: go.umd.edu/ICML7-2025
💼Junior CS & finance major Rugved Zarkar is interning at @NIST’s IT Lab, building Python tools to automate AI-driven SEM measurements of integrated circuits. He’s applying AI to real-world problems with guidance from NIST’s Peter Bajcsy.
Welcome back to @ClipUmd Mohit Iyyer (@MohitIyyer)! After earning his Ph.D. @UofMaryland and working at @UMass, he’s returned as an associate professor, bringing his lab and cutting-edge work on LLMs and web agents. Read more: go.umd.edu/20fy
We at @nvidia and @gammaumd are excited to release Audio Flamingo 3, the most powerful, open, and capable large audio-language model to date! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.08128 Open-source model, code, and data: research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/AF3/ Try it out here: huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/…
Second Panel at WiML @ ICML 2025! Join @__alucic, @_beenkim, @furongh & @MeganRisdal as they share what’s missing, what’s broken, and what still needs to change in AI. 🎙️ With Natasha Jaques as a moderator 🗓️ July 16 | 2:00 PM #WiML #ICML2025 #WomenInML
💻🦾🐢@umdcs honors five teaching awardees for 2024–25: Congrats to Laxman Dhulipala, Justin Olav Wyss-Gallifent, Shaobo Cui, Christina Xu and Christian Nygard for their contributions across faculty and TA roles! Read more: go.umd.edu/TeachingAwards…
🔒Alexander “Sasha” Frolov, a Ph.D. student in @umdcs and @CollegeParkMC2, has been named a 2025–26 ARCS Scholar for his work in cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs. The $15K award recognizes top grad students in STEM. Read more: go.umd.edu/Frolov7-2025
🎉 Our lab is proud to present 4 papers at #ICML2025! Here's a quick look at our contributions:
Thanks for the recording! It was a great workshop!
You cannot really train all these models to cater to different preferences. Can you have one model that caters to all? @furongh unveils a technique to customize AI models on-the-fly to user goals, reducing the computational cost of tailoring AI systems to individual needs.
Sometimes telling AI to “think harder” backfires. 🧠🤖 @gammaumd researchers found that more thinking can lead to worse answers in generative AI—and propose a better approach: parallel thinking. Read more: go.umd.edu/GenAI7-2025
🚨 New M.S. in AI at @UofMaryland! Launching this fall, the University of Maryland’s new master’s program in artificial intelligence offers evening, in-person courses for working pros—no GRE required. Apply by Aug. 15. Learn more: go.umd.edu/AI7-2025
👏@umdcs Ph.D. student Yuran Ding has received a prestigious @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her work on intelligent systems that respond to human intent through gesture, speech and touch. 🧠🤖 Read more: go.umd.edu/Ding7-2025
