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| • | Maryland
Cybersecurity Center (MC2) Symposium to be hold on
May 15-16 in the Riggs Alumni Center. Features cutting edge research on
cybersecurity being done at the University of Maryland, tutorials by
Maryland faculty, and panels and keynotes from outside experts.
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| • | OMICS Day
to be hold on May 22 in the Institute for
Bioscience and Biotechnology Research. Provides a
unique and premier forum to learn about the high throughput “systems”
biology research at University of Maryland and to foster new synergistic
partnerships with researchers and practitioners.
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| • | Ashok Agrawala's M-Urgency was featured in the New York Times amongst a
select group of high-impact campus
life mobile apps. More about M-Urgency, here.
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| • | Dianne O'Leary
was a Cray Distinguished Speaker at the University of Minnesota. Her distinguished lecture was on
"Image
Restoration from a Machine Learning Perspective."
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| • | Inspiring students from a small college in India
participate in online lectures with Ashok
Agrawala. See the video of this international outreach experience
here.
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| • | Carl Kingsford received one of 12 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards in evolutionary and computational molecular
biology. These fellowships are given to early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.
Kingsford is an expert in graph algorithms as applied to systems biology.
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| • | Ben Shneiderman and
Philip Resnik were quoted in the Wall Street Journal article,
“Mining Tweets for Public Opinion.” Shneiderman has developed techniques for analyzing social media, such as
the NodeXL Graph Gallery. Resnik, who is now lead
scientist for social-media analysis firm Converseon Inc, was also featured on
another WSJ article
about Twitter.
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| • | Philip
Resnik has made a mobile app for
responding to live TV events second-by-second in real time using your
smartphone. He was featured on the
Kojo Nnamdi show talking about his
React Labs project.
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| • | The M-Urgency App
was released to the broader UMD community today (Jan 25). The app for Android
phones, allows students and staff to share video,
audio and location information about their emergency with university police
dispatchers. For more information, click
here.
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| • | Samir
Khuller's mentee, Montgomery Blair HS
senior Frederic Koehler, is a 2012 Intel
Science
Talent Search Finalist . His award-winning project "Quick and
Efficient: Fast Algorithms for Completion Time and Batch Minimization on
Multiple Machines" is the only project representing the state of Maryland.
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| • | Two former PhD students, Ravi Garg and Avinash L. Varna and
Dr. Min Wu received a Best
Student Paper
Award in the ACM Multimedia 2011
Conference . Their
paper
“’Seeing’ ENF: Natural Time Stamp for Digital Video via Optical sensing
and Signal Processing" was ranked as top 3 out of 335 paper
submissions.
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