UMBC's CSEE dept. has 71 faculty and more than 2500 students in computer science, computer engineeri and Ph.D. We have awarded 340 Ph.D.
The CSEE department is research-oriented and multi-disciplinary with programs in Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Data Science, and Cybersecurity. Our faculty (37 tenure-track, 16 teaching, and 18 research) enjoy collaboration, working across our specializations as well as with colleagues from other STEM, humanities and the arts departments, and extern
05/29/2026
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/
05/20/2026
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/
05/13/2026
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...
05/09/2026
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