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A free online workshop at 10-11 am ET on Sat., Oct. 17, covers the shift from static prompts to dynamic, decision-making AI agents. Concrete examples using Python & ReACT will show how to build systems that can think, act, and adapt. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The AI NEXTGEN America Conference takes place Oct. 9–10 at the Baltimore Convention Center, bringing together employers, educators, professionals, & students through an integrated National Workforce Summit, a National Career Expo for recruiting, & an Innovation Festival. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UMBC NSF-funded online program in Spring 2027 on AI + High-Performance Computing + Atmospheric Sciences for grad students, postdocs & junior faculty from US institutions. Includes instruction in data, computing & atmospheric sciences, plus faculty-guided project research. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Over 1/3 of entry-level job postings & 1/2 of all tech roles call for AI skills. Join this session with a panel of student alumni & industry partners to explore the rise of AI, its growing role in the workplace, & how classroom lessons drive career success. More info & register at bit.ly/3TsCSik

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NSF launched the Open Knowledge Network at okn.us, a national open-data infrastructure that links 43 interconnected knowledge graphs and tens of billions of connected facts across health, environment, justice, manufacturing & national security. It's live and open to all. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Bridging AI and Quantum Symposium brought together UMBC researchers and external collaborators to explore opportunities at the intersection of AI and quantum science. The program included talks, networking & breakout discussions. A short summary report is available. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

UMBC Campus Portal Architect Collier Jones describes how he crunched the numbers in his 2025–2026 myUMBC report. He'll cover how AI tools helped parse search query behavior, evaluate search response times, and categorize topics. 12-1pm Thur Sept 24 in ENGR 102 and online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our economy is shifting from routine tasks to work requiring judgment, autonomy, collaboration & accountability. AI is speeding the transition but exposing gaps. David Long offers a way to understand the changes & how we can help. 12:00- 12:35pm ET Wed. Sept. 23. online ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AIhub interviewed UMBC PhD student Yash Saxena about his research focused on how AI systems use external knowledge. His IKnowFlow system traces how evidence moves from its original source to the final AI-generated claims. Prof. Manas Gaur advises Yash in the KAI2 Lab. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

UMBC's Vandana Janeja co-authored an article by the CCC AI Research Ecosystem Task Force on the strains facing academic AI research. It calls for updated academic reward structures, modernized tech-transfer policies, and agile funding for a sustainable future. medium.com/.../envision....

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

UMBC students, faculty, staff, & recent alumni can register free for Google's professional certificate programs for practical skills, including AI & data analytics. googlecerts.umbc.edu

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UMBC PhD student Roy Dipta was the Career Center's Intern of the Week. "What I've loved most about my time at Amazon Alexa AI is getting to push the boundaries of agentic LLM reasoning alongside brilliant mentors." Read more on his summers working on AI here. my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/caree...

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Intern of the Week: Shubhashis Roy Dipta

Name: Shubhashis Roy Dipta Pronouns: He/him Semester of Internship: Summer 2026 Major: Computer Science (Ph.D.) Current Class Level: Doctoral Student This semester I...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An AI and History Conference on Oct. 15–16 brings together historians at all career stages to evaluate how AI and computational methods are transforming historical research, analysis & teaching. In-person attendance is full, but free virtual registration remains open. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The first session in a Fall UMBC online series on integrating AI tools into scholarly work focuses on Google's Gemini Notebook, formerly known as NotebookLM. It analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions based on documents, links & media you upload. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

UMBC's Tanya Olson discusses how she reframes interactions with generative AI systems as a rhetorical act in her ENGL 211 Writing with AI course. Students learn to treat models as thinking partners rather than text generators. Online 2-3pm ET, Mon. Sept. 21 ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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LLMs in English Departments: Teaching Rhetoric as AI Literacy

Online 2-3pm ET, Monday, September 21, 2026 Dr. Tanya Olson from UMBC’s Department of English discusses how she reframes interactions with generative AI as a rhetorical act within language-driven sys...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UMBC's Collier Jones covers how AI systems helped him process the data and generate his 2025–2026 myUMBC report, 12-1pm Thur. Sept. 24 in ENGR 102 and online. This is a hybrid event with lunch provided for in-person participants. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

UMBC Prof. Tim Oates was awarded the Wilson H. Elkins Academic Transformation Professorship for 2027 by the University System of Maryland to support his project, Persistent Cognitive Support for Student Success: A Generative AI Approach to Academic Transformation. my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/coeit...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

UMBC Assistant Professor Clement Fung will teach a special topics class this fall on Applied AI for Cybersecurity. It is open to both undergraduate and graduate students and covers the intersection of AI with a broad selection of cybersecurity topics. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NIST seeks feedback on its TEVV-Athlon Framework, a flexible, four-stage methodology designed to help organizations develop customized Test, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation assessments aligned with the real-world risks and objectives of AI systems. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

UMBC Prof. Justin Brooks talks on Our Bodies, Our Minds in a Profs & Pints event at Section 771 in Baltimore, 6-8:30 Mon. Aug, 17. He'll explore the relationship between our biology & thought processes and how evolution shaped how our minds & bodies converse. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Registration's open for hackUMBC 2026, which includes a workshop and special track on AI & machine learning. The 24-hour event brings together graduate, undergraduate & high school students of all backgrounds and skill levels to learn and collaborate on creative projects. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

UMBC hosts an IEEE Colloquium on Creativity in an Era of AI with submissions due by August 31 in one of four tracks. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Six faculty received awards supporting AI-related research through UMBC's START & SURFF programs. Congrats to Anderson Frailey (Economics), David C. Garcia (CBEE), Dong Li (CSEE), Tera Reynolds (Information Systems), Eric Stokan (Political Science), & Roberto Yus (CSEE). ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Karen Chen, Assoc. Professor in UMBC's Dept of Information Systems was appointed a Senior Fellow for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by the University System of Maryland William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation for the 2026-2027 academic year. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Manikanta Sirumalla is an MS student in UMBC's Data Science program who recently released RepTrack Pro, an AI-powered iPhone app. He’s now building it out with an award from UMBC's Launchpad Accelerator program, which helps student founders start early-stage ventures. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Online talks on AI, cybersecurity & safety, June 24, 7-8:45am ET: ▶️ Cyber-Resilient Emergency Response Systems: Integrating Digital Twins, Zero-Trust Architecture, & Reinforcement Learning ▶️ Abstraction in Critical Infrastructures Considered Dangerous cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/po...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

UMBC's Information Systems shared an alumni spotlight for Sri Kavya Penta, M.S. ’26. As a TA, researcher, and scholar, she explored AI, data analytics, & human-centered computing while developing skills & confidence to tackle complex real-world challenges. informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/faculty...

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Sri Kavya Penta, M.S. ’26

Finding Confidence Through Research and Discovery The Department of Information Systems is proud to present the next alumni spotlight, Sri Kavya Penta, M.S. ’26, information systems, whose experience ...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

UMBC Professor Roberto Yus received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support his research on democratizing the Internet of Things (IoT) by introducing a semantic abstraction framework that hides the complexity of raw sensor data. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

UMBC faculty Rebecca Williams (PI) and Edward Dillon (CO-PI) received an NSF grant to build industry-academic partnerships and create recommendations, resources, and upskilling materials for undergrad computing faculty and students to cultivate AI-related competencies. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

UMBC staff & faculty have a paper in the Online Learning Journal special issue on Higher Ed in an AI-Transformed World. It examines how UMBC is exploring the use of AI to personalize, scale, and nudge students toward becoming more self-regulated learners. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Learn how to use cutting-edge generative AI tools to design, build, & pitch a real product—no technical background needed. Free to community college & USG students; $20 for others. Must be 18 or older. Online 4-6 pm June 25; in person 8:30-6:30 at Shady Grove. shadygrove.usmd.edu/news-events/...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

UMBC's new MS program in AI in the CSEE department offers a focused, rigorous pathway into AI research, development, and deployment, equipping graduates to drive innovation across industry, government, and academia. It's enrolling for the fall '26 semester, apply by Aug 1 ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

UMBC's Center for Precision Aquaculture is an interdisciplinary effort on land-based fish production. Rebecca Williams is a co-investigator and worked with Don Engel to advise Beamlak Bekele in developing vision tools to extract fish info. in underwater environments. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

After struggling with fitness apps and generic workout plans, UMBC grad student Manikanta Sirumalla built something better. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/16...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

UMBC CSEE Prof. Dong Li won 1st place at the Maryland NEW VENTURE Pitch Competition held at bwtech@UMBC. He received the $5,000 grand prize for his work on Pocket Cardio, an AI-driven healthcare system to improve the detection & prevention of cardiovascular disease. www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This workshop helps students think critically about data. Through discussions, case studies, & hands-on storytelling, participants explore how numbers can both reveal & obscure truth, how AI shapes interpretation, & how human judgment is essential to data understanding. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Entinex & Design Rosetta LLC host a Lean Coffee: AI conversation for people working with or thinking about AI at bwtech@UMBC. No speakers or slides, just structured, participant-driven discussions about the topics people care about. 7:30-9:30 am, May 19. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship holds an AI seminar from 12-1:30 pm ET, on Wed. May 5, 2026, in person in Public Policy 438. Dr. Eric Stokan, Roy Prouty, and Sai Vikas Amaraneni will discuss and demonstrate the use of ML and LLM models on UMBC's HPC systems. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Faculty will practice effective prompting, explore discipline-specific scenarios, &consider strategies for assignment design. Examples cover advanced teaching features, including custom GPTs/GEMs, Canvas Mode, Deep Research Mode, & agent mode. 12-1 Mon., May 4, 2026. my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/calt/...

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Generative AI in Teaching II: Applied Skills and Use Cases

Building on Gen AI & Teaching I, this interactive session highlights applied skills and practical use cases. Faculty will practice effective prompting, explore discipline-specific scenarios,...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

UMBC CSEE holds its annual Research Day on Friday, April 17, 9:00am to 2:30pm in University Center 312, featuring presentations, posters, and community engagement. Three faculty members present their AI-related research, along with many other talks and a poster session. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

UMBC is currently holding tutorials on its High Performance Computing Facility, both in person and online. Upcoming sessions 4 and 5 will focus on running AI applications on the HPCF’s new server with GPUs and pre-installed AI tools. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

USM's William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation holds an online Generative AI Virtual Showcase Fri. April 24 9am-3:30pm ET. Faculty, staff & student teams from MD higher ed institutions will demonstrate innovative approaches to generative AI in teaching & learning. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Professor Amber Spry from Brandeis University and a UMBC Alumna (BA, Political Science, '10), talks on "The Technological Future: Shifting the Focus from What We Build to Who We Build it For" in the UMBC AOK Library Gallery, 4-5:30 pm this Wednesday, April 8, 2016. my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Dr. Jessica Standbury, Dr. John Donahue, and Dr. Allison Papadakis will answer questions and discuss how AI is reshaping our inner lives and relationships, and its impact on our mental health. 12-1pm ET Wed. April 8, online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

UMBC senior & Meyerhoff Scholar Caly Ferguson was selected for the National Society of Black Engineers "25 Under 25" award for research & service. He works in Vinjamuri's lab and helped develop a prosthetic forearm & hand that uses machine learning. bit.ly/4bE9HiM

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Senior Caly Ferguson Recognized With National Society Of Black Engineers’ ‘25 Under 25’ Award - UMBC

Mechanical engineering senior Caly Ferguson will be honored with a “25 Under 25” award at the upcoming meeting of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), held March 18 – 22 in Baltimore.

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Prof. Walter Scheirer talks on “Open Issues in Open World Learning”, 11:30-12:30 ET, Monday, March 30, in UMBC ITE 459 & online. He'll describe progress in enhancing agents' ability to detect, characterize, and learn novel concepts and objects in dynamic environments. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

LLMs are surprisingly capable coding partners. UMBC Prof. Tim Oates gives a short, technical overview of why and how coding assistants work and where they fail, supported with live, terminal-based demos using Claude Code. 1-2:30pm ET, April 3, ITE 325b and online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

UMBC's Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosts a talk by Cori Lathan, PhD, on Wed., March 25, in University Center 310, titled "Inventing the Future: Astronauts, Robots, and Zebras". ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Join us for a conversation with Maryland policymakers and UMBC experts as they unpack the science behind data centers, key policy and ethical debates surrounding their construction, and how leaders can effectively communicate their costs and benefits to the public. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC AI @umbc-ai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence will hold an online seminar on the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and safety from 7:00-8:30am ET on Thurs., March 19, with three short presentations by its members, including Anupam Joshi, UMBC's Chief AI Officer. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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