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🗣️ @UMDCS' @MarineCarpuat studies how multilingual AI systems can support cross-language communication, including in settings where translation errors can affect care instructions and other information. Read more: go.umd.edu/Carpuat-5-2026

🎓 One week to go! We’re ready to celebrate the accomplishments of our @UMDCS graduates! Follow the links for program-specific details. CMNS Graduate Commencement: go.umd.edu/1zb9 CMNS Undergraduate Commencement: go.umd.edu/1zbb

🎭🎮 More than 25 @UofMaryland IMD seniors presented final projects at the May 8 Senior Capstone Showcase, featuring work in VR, games, interactive installations, animation and projection mapping. The showcase highlighted student work across art, design and computing.

🔊@UofMaryland CS Assistant Professor @RuohanGao1 and Distinguished University Professor @MingCLinCS developed SonoWorld, a system that turns a single image into an explorable 3D world with spatial sound. The paper will be presented at CVPR in June. Read more: go.umd.edu/Gao-5-2026

🔊@UMDCS' Michelle Mazurek and collaborators are studying the “charisma trap” in human-AI interaction, where polished chatbot responses can lead users to mistake confidence for reliability. Their work was accepted to ACM FAccT 2026. Read more: go.umd.edu/Mazurek-5-2026

🔊 Student startups in the Mokhtarzada Hatchery program presented ventures focused on mindfulness, financial access, property monitoring and AI-supported research during the initiative’s fifth annual Demo Day. Read more: go.umd.edu/DemoDay-2026

👏 @UMDCS alum @rohanchandra30 was recognized with an Early Career Award from the Washington Academy, honoring his early contributions and impact in the field. Congratulations, Rohan!

Are you missing out on @UMDCS' End of Year Social? Stop by before it ends at 2 p.m.

🔊 Milijana Surbatovich, an assistant professor of @umdcs, received an @NSF CAREER award to advance research on battery-free devices that can operate correctly and securely despite repeated power failures. Read more: go.umd.edu/SurbatovichNSF…

👏 @UofMaryland celebrated faculty members whose work has earned them election to national academies and other leading organizations. @umdcs faculty and affiliates @MingCLinCS, @dmanocha, Uzi Vishkin and John Baras were among those recognized. Read more: go.umd.edu/NationalAcadem…

🦾 @UofMaryland computer science faculty members Thomas Goldstein, Myungin Lee and Haizhao Yang were among those honored at the @UMDscience 2026 employee awards ceremony. Read more: go.umd.edu/CMNSEmployeeAw…

🎉 Congratulations to our college's 2026 Employee Award recipients! This year's awardees were selected from a pool of hundreds of nominations from the #ScienceTerp community: go.umd.edu/awards26

🏗️ Three @UofMaryland CS majors took first place at the Ironsite Hackathon, building an AI-powered dashboard that analyzes construction footage to flag safety risks. The 36-hour project earned $10K and explores how machines interpret the physical world. Read more: go.umd.edu/Ironsite-5-2026

Only 15 days left until the big day! 🎓

Capy’s Journey is sharing its work on a gamified mobile app designed to support mindfulness, attention training and daily wellness through guided exercises and lessons.

ThinkEx is taking the stage at Mokhtarzada Hatchery Demo Day with a digital workspace that helps users organize questions, notes and insights from large language model use into connected idea maps.

Vacant real estate sites can be difficult to monitor consistently. At Mokhtarzada Hatchery Demo Day, SenseGuard is showcasing a sensor-based system with a dashboard and automated alerts to help track site conditions.

How can group savings become more accessible? Cube is presenting its digital platform at Mokhtarzada Hatchery Demo Day, showing how users can pool money and take turns receiving lump-sum payouts without interest or debt.

Student founders, mentors and supporters are gathered on the Iribe Center rooftop with @UofMaryland President Darryll J. Pines (@President_Pines) to celebrate the 2026 Mokhtarzada Hatchery Demo Day and the next wave of student-led startups.