Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

On the last Saturday in September, the basketball courts in the RAC were filled with teams of a different sort than usual. Hundreds of students from UMBC and other universities huddled around...

A new initiative, which the organizers hope to expand, matched students from Baltimore City Community College with UMBC researchers. This summer the teams worked on projects advancing...

On Sunday, August 30, after more than a decade of development, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope, with a field of...

Akshay Java (Photo courtesy of Java) Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, is a seasoned technology leader whose career spans key roles across the tech industry, including...

Dong Li (Photo courtesy of Li) A common saying is “Health is wealth.” Its meaning—that good health gives people the vitality to succeed in life—is found in stories and phrases across cultures...

David Mountain, Ph.D. ’17, computer engineering, can’t tell you much about his job. It still sounds exciting. As a researcher at the National Security Agency (NSA)—sometimes jokingly called the...

Meet Rishav Gupta. After spending five years as a mobile engineer, he decided to pursue his Ph.D. in computer science at UMBC to deepen his expertise and choose projects with the clear objective...

Meet Rishav Gupta. After spending five years as a mobile engineer, he decided to pursue his Ph.D. in computer science at UMBC to deepen his expertise and choose projects with the clear objective...

This summer, six rising juniors from UMBC are among the 176 undergraduates nationwide selected for the inaugural cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Cech Fellows program. Named...

AI is poised to reshape nearly every sector of the economy in the coming years and UMBC is adapting its curricular offerings in a variety of ways. One specific change: The university is launching...