UMD Department of Computer Science

🔊 Don't miss out on official CS Merch! Store closes on March 15. Buy now: go.umd.edu/SpringMerch2026

🎧 Teaching AI to better understand sound @UofMaryland CS Ph.D. student Sonal Kumar is advancing audio language models to improve speech recognition, accents and real-world sound interpretation, enabling more accurate captions and smarter #AI systems. 🔗 go.umd.edu/Kumar-3-2026

🔊@UMDCS receives an #NVIDIAGrant supporting research on audio intelligence for omni-modal AI, led by Prof. Dinesh Manocha (@dmanocha). The award provides 32K A100 GPU hours, expanding compute access for audio-language and multimodal systems. @NVIDIAAIDev

Prospective Ph.D. students visited @UMDCS for Visit Day, meeting faculty, exploring labs and connecting with current students at the @iribecenter. The event offered a closer look at research opportunities ahead of enrollment decisions. Read more: go.umd.edu/VisitDay-3-2026

🔊 @UofMaryland TRAILS announced 11 Broader Impact Awards, funding projects up to $25K to expand access to trustworthy #AI. Initiatives span AI literacy, community engagement and governance across schools, libraries and local communities. Read more: go.umd.edu/TRAILS-3-2026

For the next two days (3/18-19), @umdcs and finance double-degree senior Shasshank Sethuraman will take over our Instagram story from a @questumd #SiliconValley field trip. Follow along to see his experience visiting companies and meeting #UMD alums ➡️ instagram.com/umdscience

🔊 Last Call- Don't miss out on official CS Merch! Store closes on March 15. Buy now: go.umd.edu/SpringMerch2026

🔊 Prospective Ph.D. students hear from current graduate students during today’s panel at the @UofMaryland’s Department of Computer Science, learning about research, community and life in the program.

🐢 We’re glad to welcome prospective Ph.D. students to the @UMDCS for Visit Day. Students are meeting faculty one-on-one, touring labs and connecting with current students during a graduate student panel.

🎉 Ten @UofMaryland Ph.D. students received the Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2025–2026, recognizing them among the top 2% of graduate assistants at the university. Read more: go.umd.edu/GAaward2026

How safe are #AI agents managing critical systems? @UofMaryland CS Ph.D. student Yajie Zhou developed NetArena, a benchmark that tests the reliability and safety of AI agents in network operations. Her work was accepted to ICLR 2026. Read more: go.umd.edu/Zhou-3-2026

🤖 @UofMaryland CS Ph.D. student Seungjae “Jay” Lee is studying how large-scale human data can help robots perform everyday household tasks. His work explores ways to improve reliability as robots move from lab demonstrations to real homes. Read more: go.umd.edu/Lee-3-2026

Fenil Gholani (B.S. '21, @umdcs; M.Eng. '22, cybersecurity engineering) persevered in his job search and landed a #SoftwareEngineering role at @Yahoo. Check out this #QandA to see how Fenil made the most of our career services during undergrad and beyond: go.umd.edu/qa-gholani

🔊 Research by @UofMaryland Associate Prof @NeeeRooo9 and @UMDCS alumni Yang Bai and Nakul Garg has been featured as a Research Highlight in @CACMmag. Their work introduces SPiDR, a sensing approach that helps extremely small robots perceive their surroundings. 🔗 go.umd.edu/SPiDR-2026

🐜 @UofMaryland researchers are building a digital library of ants using high-resolution 3D scans. Now, @umdcs students in Associate Professor James Purtilo’s CMSC 435 course are using #AI to transform scanned specimens into lifelike models. Read more: go.umd.edu/Antscan-2026

Take a look inside the 36th Annual High School Programming Contest at the @UofMaryland. More than 100 students from 24 schools gathered at the @iribecenter to test their coding and problem-solving skills. youtube.com/watch?v=i5teR6…

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Relive the Spring @UMDCS Career & Internship Fair 💼 youtube.com/watch?v=dOvzM7…