News & Announcements
Cummings and Resnik Receive MPower Seed Funding
Mar 08, 2022 - The two UMIACS faculty members are active in three of the 17 projects recently chosen to split $3 million in seed funding from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State.
New Perspective Blends Quantum and Classical to Understand Quantum Rates of Change
Mar 08, 2022 - In a paper published in the journal Physical Review X, QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov and postdoctoral scholar Luis Pedro García-Pintos provide a new perspective for investigating quantum changes.
QuICS Researchers Have a Dozen Papers Accepted to QIP
Mar 03, 2022 - In addition to paper presentations and poster sessions, QuICS researchers will help lead two of the three highly competitive plenary talks at this year’s conference.
QuICS Graduate Student Is Finalist for Hertz Fellowship
Feb 18, 2022 - First-year doctoral student Elizabeth Bennewitz is one of 45 finalists with a chance of receiving up to $250,000 in support from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.
Manocha Receives Verisk AI Faculty Research Award
Feb 10, 2022 - The funding will support his work on the generation and use of synthetic datasets to improve the accuracy of machine learning methods.
Maryland Cybersecurity Center Kicks Off Third Year of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Feb 09, 2022 - The two-year fellowships offer an opportunity to work closely with MC2 faculty and graduate students in multiple areas of cybersecurity and privacy.
Optimizing Facebook Notifications Pumped Up Blood Donations
Feb 03, 2022 - Machine Learning Researchers’ Algorithm Could Help Increase Global Supply of a Precious Resource
Newest QuICS Fellow Ponders Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Everything Else
Feb 02, 2022 - Nicole Yunger Halpern brings a vast intellectual curiosity to physics, from tackling abstract theory to collaborating with experimentalists, all the while drawing distinct connections between diverse disciplines of physics.
Feizi Receives ONR Young Investigator Award to Advance Reliable AI
Feb 02, 2022 - The grant will support his efforts to develop a comprehensive and fundamental understanding of robust machine learning algorithms against both natural and adversarial threats.
Nail Gumerov (1960–2022)
Feb 01, 2022 - His research interests were broad and included scientific computing and algorithms related to applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, acoustics, electromagnetism, plasma physics, nanoscience, and more.