UMBC AI

Three UMBC Department of Information Systems students teamed up in their IS 636 class, taught by Prof. Lei Zhang, to design and prototype an AI-powered chatbot for myUMBC. Their project aimed to improve how UMBC students find answers to questions about campus services. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Entinex and Design Rosetta LLC will host a Lean Coffee AI conversation, 7:30-9:30am Tue. March 17 at BWTech South campus. No speakers. No slides. Just structured, participant-driven discussion about the AI topics people actually care about right now. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC announced the launch of "Sam," an autonomous AI Virtual Engagement Officer. Developed in partnership with Givzey, a leader in AI solutions for non-profits, Sam will provide UMBC alums with personalized updates on campus news, faculty research, and upcoming events. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Dr. Rua Williams (Purdue) explores how AI systems can manifest many forms of eugenics, from overt to covert, through Metaeugenics—the internalized beliefs driving eugenic behaviors at personal, interpersonal, and political levels. 4:30-6pm ET Mon. March 2, 2026, online ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CBEE Prof. David Garcia presents his research on 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁-𝗼𝗳-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 in a seminar hosted by UMBC's Biological Sciences Dept, 12-1 pm Wed., Feb. 18, in Biological Sciences 004. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science and DoIT will hold a series of five tutorials this Spring for both new and experienced users on using UMBC's high-performance computing clusters, including a session on AI and deep learning applications. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC’s AOK Library invites UMBC students to student-only in-person sessions to share thoughts on the campus use of AI. Faculty won’t be present & conversations will be anonymous. Free pizza, drinks & swag. Sessions: 12-1 pm in AOK room 259 on Wed. Feb. 12 & Wed. March 4. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

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UMBC CSEE Prof. Mehdi Kiani applies machine learning and AI to create a CyberGut to treat stomach disorders. The NIH-funded project is in collaboration with colleagues from New York Institute of Technology and Penn State University. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Tim Oates explores ways that LLMs can be force multipliers in startups, from ideation to marketing to customer acquisition, based on lessons he learned using AI to scale his own data science company. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

When AI Gets in the Way: Designing for Struggle in the Age of the Helpful Assistant, 12-1 pm ET Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026, online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

ACM Distinguished Speaker Ram D. Sriram from the National Institute of Science and Technology will give a talk on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 in person at UMBC from 12-1:30 on Friday, February 6, in room 325b of the ITE Building. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Faculty Development Center will host an online discussion for faculty and staff of three chapters from the newly revised book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. 12-1 Tue. Feb. 24. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC Profs Eric Brown & Blake Francis will hold a conversation to address questions about AI & the Humanities, like What do Humanities Professors think about AI? How do historians and philosophers think about AI? How can the Humanities bring a critical perspective on AI ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC physicist wins Amazon award for AI-orchestrated scientific assistant Fabio Anza, an assistant professor in UMBC's Department of Physics, Quantum Science Institute and Cybersecurity Institute, has won an Amazon Research Award to develop Physics Co-Pilot—a scientific AI ...

UMBC Physics professor Fabio Anza has won an Amazon Research Award to develop 𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝘾𝙤-𝙋𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙩, a scientific AI assistant that combines LLM orchestration with reliable computational algorithms to address critical bottlenecks in modern physics research. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Discover how AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) makes AI more accessible with minimal coding needed. Gain insight into using AutoML to create, deploy, and test ML models for your use case. Exclusively for UMBC faculty and the bwtech community. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

The UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship will hold a workshop series this Spring on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC will hold an online conversation with the scholars who created Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies, 12-1pm ET Wed, Feb. 11, online. The speakers will share why they wrote it, arguments for GenAI adoption, and strategies to address the challenges in education. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Maryland Art Place Inc opens ARTificial, an exhibition in critical discourse with the use, implementation, and innovation of AI in art making, on January 22. The exhibition includes a number of prints by UMBC Visual Arts professor Timothy Nohe. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC CSEE prof. Manas Gaur has a new book co-authored with Amit Sheth, published by Cambridge University Press on their work on developing neurosymbolic AI for explainability, interpretability, and safety. Both digital and hard-copy versions will be available this spring. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Faculty Development Center is holding a hands-on, in-person workshop to revisit basic course design principles while exploring practical ways to use Gen AI to sharpen course objectives. Join John Schumacher and Kerrie Kephart from 9-12 on Friday, January 16. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Reframing Bloom's Taxonomy for the Age of AI 1:30-2:30 Monday, January 12, 2025, ENGR 102 at UMBC Reframing Bloom's Taxonomy for the Age of AIBlackboard White Papers and Research: From Insight to Impact1:30-2:30 Monday, January 12, 2025, ENGR 10...

This UMBC session on a reframed Bloom's Taxonomy enabling learners to apply knowledge for real-world & social impact. Expanding on Blackboard's 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗺'𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜, it shares strategies for AI literacy, fostering critical thinking, & academic innovation. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Strange Dance Partners - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots.

UMBC researchers are discovering the building blocks of hand motions to enable more effective programming of robots using classical Indian dance, and exploring whether and how dancing robots might be new tools to improve mental health. umbc.edu/stories/stra...

Google offers many free online short courses on AI-relevant topics. Here's a list os some you might explore over the holidays. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Blake Francis teaches a new course on the Ethics of AI, covering the development, use, and regulation of AI and related technologies, including surveillance, algorithmic fairness, self-driving cars, social media, the future of work, and environmental impacts. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Eric Brown will teach a new undergraduate course this Spring on "Robots, AI, & Transhumanists: Exploring the Uncanny Valley" as part of UMBC's Human Context of Science and Technology program. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Ramana Vinjamuri and his students used Bharatanatyam Mudras, Indian classical dance hand gestures, to help train robot systems to recognize and use human hand gestures. Their work is described in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities has a new working group on 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 led by Professor Tim Phin. The group will hold open sessions next week in the Dresher Center's conference room (PAHB 216) and online, to discuss and identify issues to work on. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Prof. Md Tariqul Islam from UMBC's Information Systems Dept. discusses his work on self-defending ledgers, where nodes enforce ledger security through multi-agent reinforcement learning grounded in game-theoretic principles. 12–1pm ET, Wed. Dec. 3 in UMBC ITE459 & online. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

What should faculty know, even if they're not adopting AI in their teaching? Topics include Gen AI literacy, a critical examination of student AI tool use, equity & access, ethical concerns, credible sources of Gen AI information, & implications for assessment & pedagogy. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...

Dr. John Bai (U. Canterbury): "On Language Models and the Dangers of an Algorithmic View From Nowhere", 2-3pm EST Mon, Dec 1, 2025, online. This talk aims to demystify language modelling & support critical, de-colonial analyses of human and artificial knowledge systems. ai.umbc.edu/news/post/15...