UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

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 Thurs. Sept. 24 in ENGR 102 and online https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/163177/

Christiana Chamon Garcia, Ph.D. presents an uncertainty-aware, physics-informed perspective on sensor trust, combining stochastic modeling, system constraints, multimodal fusion, & machine learning to judge if a measurement is unusual, plausible explanations, and if a discrepancy can lead to a security or safety problem. 1–2pm, Friday, Sept. 25, online https://cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/post/163114/

Our economy is shifting from routine tasks to work requiring judgment, autonomy, collaboration, and accountability. AI is speeding the transition while exposing gaps in how we educate, hire, and develop people. In this talk in the AI in Practice series, David Long gives a practical way to understand the changes and how institutions can help. 12-12:35pm ET Wed. Sept 23. online https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/163095/

AIhub published an interview with 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 documents to the final AI-generated claims. Prof. Manas Gaur advises Yash in the KAI2 Lab. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/162884/

🎉 Please join us in celebrating the generosity of Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, and the Java-Rijhwani family, who recently established the COEIT Computing for Social Good Award, to be given annually to one or more students in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) who have conducted substantial research with the goal of harnessing technology to make positive social change.

Read more at umbc.edu/stories/computing-for-social-good-award.

UMBC CSEE 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 about Roy and his two summer internships working on AI at Amazon here.

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...

UMBC CSEE students Nazmus Sakib and Manogna Rayasam, and their advisor, Professor Sanorita Dey, received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing for Expecting Too Much, Getting Too Little: Exploring the Challenges and Design Opportunities of Asynchronous AI Interviewers. The team will present their work at CSCW 2026 in October in Salt Lake City, Utah. https://csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/162191/

The CSEE department’s Fall Welcome Research Event is this Friday, August 21, and includes short “Lightning Talks” by CSEE faculty on their research from 9:30am to 11am in ITE 102 and a Lab Open House from 11am to 1pm when people can visit the labs. Details at https://bit.ly/CSEE26

Shruti Dharmani, a CSEE MS in Cybersecurity major, was selected as UMBC's Intern of the Week. She interned at Technuf, where she worked on cybersecurity analysis, threat monitoring, and internal R&D for the company's products. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/posts/161184

UMBC hosts an IEEE Colloquium on Creativity in an Era of AI on Nov. 7, with submissions due by August 31 in one of four tracks:
• AI Applications in Biology and the (Bio)medical Field
• AI Software Systems: Design, Engineering, & Deployment
• AI Meeting Physical Reality
• AI and the Future of Work
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/161109/