UMBC Center for AI

UMBC Professor Roberto Yus received a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support his research on democratizing the Internet of Things (IoT) by introducing a semantic abstraction framework that hides the complexity of raw sensor data. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160538/

UMBC faculty Rebecca Williams (PI) and Edward C. Dillon, Jr., Ph.D. (CO-PI) received an NSF grant to build industry & academic partnerships and create recommendations, resources, and upskilling materials for undergrad computing faculty & students to cultivate AI-related competencies. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160528/

UMBC staff & faculty John Fritz, Josh Abrams, Sarah Bass, Suzanne Braunschweig, Tara Carpenter, Nancy McAllister, and Tom Penniston have a paper in the Online Learning Journal’s special issue on Higher Education in an AI-Transformed World. Their paper, "Asked & Answered: Using AI to Nudge Student Metacognition and Responsibility for Learning," examines how UMBC is exploring the use of AI to personalize, scale, and nudge students toward becoming more self-regulated learners. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160499/

Learn how to use cutting-edge generative AI tools to design, build, and pitch a real product—no technical background needed. Free to community college students and students at USG; $20 for all others. Must be 18 or older. Online 4-6 pm June 25; in person 8:30-6:30 at Shady Grove campus. https://shadygrove.usmd.edu/news-events/events/prompt-prototype-generative-ai-hackathon-experience-0

UMBC's new M.S. program in AI in the CSEE department offers a focused, rigorous pathway into AI research, development, and deployment, equipping graduates to drive innovation across industry, government, and academia. It's now enrolling for the fall 2026 semester. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/160426/

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/

UMBC CSEE Assistant Professor D**g Li won first place at the Maryland NEW VENTURE Pitch Competition hosted by bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park. Dr. Li received the competition’s $5,000 grand prize for his groundbreaking work developing Pocket Cardio, an AI-driven healthcare system to improve the early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/160115/

This workshop empowers students from all majors to think critically about data—learning how to interpret, question, and communicate insights without requiring coding or statistical expertise. Through interactive discussions, case studies, and hands-on storytelling, participants explore how numbers can both reveal and obscure truth, how AI shapes interpretation, and how human judgment remains essential in making data meaningful. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/159909/

Entinex and Design Rosetta LLC host another Lean Coffee: AI conversation for people working with or thinking about AI at the Glenmore Cafe in the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park. No speakers or slides, just structured, participant-driven discussions about the topics people care about. 7:30-9:30 am, May 19. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/159599/