UMBC Center for AI

09/05/2026

UMBC students, faculty, staff, & recent alumni can register free for Google's professional certificate programs for practical skills, including AI & data analytics. https://googlecerts.umbc.edu/

09/04/2026

🎉 Please join us in celebrating the generosity of Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, and the Java-Rijhwani family, who recently established the COEIT Computing for Social Good Award, to be given annually to one or more students in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) who have conducted substantial research with the goal of harnessing technology to make positive social change.

Read more at umbc.edu/stories/computing-for-social-good-award.

09/03/2026

UMBC PhD student Roy Dipta was the Career Center's Intern of the Week. "What I've loved most about my time at Amazon Alexa AI is getting to push the boundaries of agentic LLM reasoning alongside brilliant mentors." Read more about Roy and his two summer internships working on AI at Amazon here. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/posts/162135

08/30/2026

An AI and History Conference on Oct. 15–16 brings together historians at all career stages to evaluate how AI and computational methods are transforming historical research, analysis & teaching. In-person attendance is full, but free virtual registration remains open. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/162143/

08/29/2026

The first session in a Fall UMBC online series on integrating AI tools into scholarly work focuses on Google's Gemini Notebook, formerly known as NotebookLM. It analyzes, summarizes, and answers questions based on documents, links & media you upload. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/162132/

08/28/2026

UMBC's Tanya Olson discusses how she reframes interactions with generative AI systems as a rhetorical act in her ENGL 211 Writing with AI course. Students apply principles of audience, purpose, tone & revision to AI interactions, learning to treat models as thinking partners rather than text generators. Online 2-3pm ET, Mon. Sept. 21

Online 2-3pm ET, Monday, September 21, 2026 Dr. Tanya Olson from UMBC’s Department of English discusses how she reframes interactions with generative AI as a rhetorical act within language-driven systems. In her ENGL 211 Writing with AI course, students apply principles of audience, purpose, tone,...

08/27/2026

The 2026 UMBC–Stanford Workshop on Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science will be held at UMBC on Sept. 18–19. Its theme, From Statistical Rigor to AI-enabled Decision-making, reflects the impact of AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Free student registration is available through 8/30. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/162051/

08/26/2026

The Brookings Institution and ZERO TO THREE will hold an online symposium, "Generation AI Starts Early," that explores the opportunities and risks of AI-embedded technologies for children from birth to age eight on Wednesday, 9 September, 9–11:45 am EDT. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/162022/

08/24/2026

UMBC's Collier Jones covers how AI systems helped him process the data and generate his 2025–2026 myUMBC report, 12-1pm Thur. Sept. 24 in ENGR 102 and online. This is a hybrid event with lunch provided for in-person participants. https://ai.umbc.edu/news/post/161894/

08/19/2026

UMBC Prof. Tim Oates was awarded the Wilson H. Elkins Academic Transformation Professorship for 2027. The professorship was granted by the University System of Maryland to support his project, Persistent Cognitive Support for Student Success: A Generative AI Approach to Academic Transformation. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/coeit/posts/161420