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Building Artificial Intelligence That You Can Trust Backed by a $20 million award from NSF and NIST, the new Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) receives technical and administrative support from UMIACS. In a Q&A with Terp magazine, Director Hal Daumé III discusses what it means to trust AI systems.

Wei Ai Part of $1.5M Grant to Improve Lesson Plans with AI Supported by NSF, the multi-institutional team is using machine learning to improve the quality of math lesson plans in the middle grades.

Cyber Sleuth Yonghwi Kwon Joins University of Maryland Kwon studies how hackers have previously succeeded in order to build practical and secure systems that can withstand future attacks.

Teaching Computers to Recognize Food in All Forms Doctoral candidates advised by Abhinav Shrivastava came up with an innovative project to satisfy their appetite for advancing computer vision.

Student Startup Streamlines Social Media Engagement Powered by AI, their app is a cutting-edge conversational marketing solution for brands struggling to keep up with their followers on social media.

Asgari Receives $1M NSF Award for Optimizing High-Performance Computing Part of a larger grant awarded to her alma mater George Tech, the funding supports Asgari's work to improve communication overheads in high-performance computing applications.

Roy Designs Innovative Drone for Disaster Recovery Inexpensive yet efficient, the drone system can quickly detect radio frequencies from smartphones and relay that information back to emergency responders.

QuICS Fellow Advocates for Quantum Simulation of Extreme Physics A whitepaper co-authored by Zohreh Davoudi that makes the case for funding quantum simulation research in particle physics was published in the journal PRX Quantum.

Feizi's AI Watermark Study Featured in Wired Magazine In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives.

Palm-sized Robot Helps Visually Impaired Users Navigate Touchscreens Huaishu Peng is developing new technology that can help people who are sight-impaired with tasks like ordering a bubble tea.

Using Machine Learning to Follow the Money in Politics Philip Resnik and recent Ph.D. graduate Pranav Goel are collaborating with UMD faculty to track connections between 23 years of congressional speeches and political donations.

NIH Funding to Make Maternal Care Chatbot Bilingual Working with an interdisciplinary team of UMD researchers, Jordan Boyd-Graber is developing an AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions on infant and maternal health in English and Spanish.

Director's Message  The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. —Albert Einstein

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