UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

UMBC CSEE's new MS program in AI offers a focused, rigorous pathway into AI research, development, and deployment, equipping graduates to drive innovation across industry, government, & academia. It's now enrolling for the fall 2026 semester; apply by Aug 1. https://csee.umbc.edu/graduate/master-of-science-in-artificial-intelligence/

AI-powered fitness apps are transforming personalized training by combining data, recovery insights, and adaptive workout planning into a single experience tailored to individual goals. For UMBC Data Science graduate student Manikanta Sirumalla, that realization came from years of personal experience in the gym. After struggling with fitness apps and generic workout plans, he built something better. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160292/

UMBC's Center for Precision Aquaculture is an interdisciplinary effort to revolutionize land-based fish production through real-time monitoring and smart technology. CSEE professor Rebecca Williams is a co-investigator on the grant and worked with CSEE professor Don Engel to advise Beamlak Bekele in developing computer vision tools to extract information about fish in underwater environments for her Computer Science MS thesis. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160234/

Associate Professor Naghmeh Karimi received the 2026 College of Engineering and Information Technology Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award for overall excellence and promise in scholarship, teaching, service, and leadership. Her research areas include hardware security and design for trust, reliability, and testability; hardware design and synthesis; VLSI design; computer architecture; and electronic design automation tools. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/160105/

UMBC's news and stories site featured graduating Computer Engineering senior Carter Gerhardt. For most of his time at UMBC, he was a student worker in the Division of Information Technology.

Carter Gerhardt ’26, Computer Engineering, Navigated A Mid-degree Major Change And His Community Provided The Support He Needed To Succeed - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County In February 2020, Carter Gerhardt visited the UMBC campus as a newly admitted student. Six years later, he attended the same event, this time as a senior...

UMBC CSEE Professor Naghmeh Karimi and her students in SECRETS Lab, along with their collaborators, won the Best Hardware Demo award at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust. They demonstrated their research using PUFs ("physical unclonable functions") that use microscopic manufacturing variations in a semiconductor to generate a unique, unforgeable digital fingerprint for a specific device. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csee/posts/159893

The UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology holds its annual Research Day event from 9am to 4pm on Friday, May 1st, in the University Center. The event features talks, posters, and panel discussions by COEIT faculty and students, as well as industry and agency partners. See the agenda for more information.

COEIT Research Day 2026 – Agenda The COEIT Research Day 2026 agenda is also available as a printable PDF. COEIT Research Day 2026 — Agenda Schedule at a glance Friday, May 1, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Parallel Session Program Organized by Time (Schedule version)   Panel Session Program Organized by Time (Text Version) COEIT R...

From May 27th - June 3rd, UMBC is waiving the $50 application fee for graduate master’s and doctoral programs. That means you can apply to UMBC's graduate school for FREE! Free Graduate Application Week is open to all domestic and international graduate degree-seeking applicants and will end on June 3, 2026 at 11:59pm EST. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48ZhRAi

CSEE will hold its annual Research Day on Friday, April 17, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm in University Center 312, featuring presentations, posters, and community engagement. Three faculty will present their research, along with many other talks from alumni and students, and a poster session of CSEE student research. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csee/posts/158707

Dr. Josephine Namayanja and Rhoda Nankabirwa will lead a two-hour workshop seminar on The Foundations of Large Language Models from 2-4 pm ET on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 as part of the UMBC iHARP AI Workshop Series. The seminar will take place on the UMBC campus in Suite 103, at 900 Walker Avenue, and will also be available online via Webex.

iHARP AI Workshop Seminar on the Foundations of Large Language Models 2-4 pm ET Tuesday, April 14 at UMBC and online iHARP AI Workshop Seminar Foundations of Large Language Models 2-4 pm ET Tuesday, April 14 at UMBC and online Dr. Josephine Namayanja and Rhoda Nankabirwa will lead a two-hour workshop seminar on The Foundations of Large Language Models from 2-4 pm ET o...