UMBC Department of Information Systems

UMBC Department of Information Systems Professor Karen Chen recently won an NSF CAREER Award that puts students at the center of learning analytics—not just as subjects who supply data but also as the designers of analytical tools and users of their insights. Her 5-year project, Teaching to Empower with Learning Analytics for College Students by College Students, will empower students to become productive learning analytics users and creators. https://lnkd.in/eqaQi4Te

📢 2024 Online Distinguished Lecture Series: "Networked Systems and Security Research in the Age of AI/Machine Learning" by Houbing Herbert Song. 🗓️ 17 July 2024 🕘 9:00 AM EDT 🔗Register now: https://loom.ly/YCV7UPg #DistinguishedLecture #OnlineDistinguishedLecture #ODL #SystemsEngineering #SystemsCouncil

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is hiring fall interns Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paid Opportunities Please follow the link below for the specific application. The positions are located on GAO’S Office of Information Systems and Technology Services (ISTS) team that provides the agency’s technology support. ISTS promotes the effective and efficient design and operation of all major information resources management processes. This team also identifies and addresses challenges and risks to the agency’s IT systems. The internship application will close on Friday, July 26, 2024. Below are links to the applications: Specific duties include: • Support IT investment analysis and decision making in support of business priorities. • Obtain an understanding of the GAO IT governance process to capture changes to the technology architecture. • Perform duties associated with technology data analysis, maintenance, and publication of roadmaps. • Solicit and collaborate with stakeholders for updates to the strategic initiatives sequencing plan. • Capture, analyze, and report quantitative measures. • Attend and collaborate in Enterprise Architecture meetings. • Execute self-study and professional research related to enterprise architecture standards and new technology related to the IT Strategy and/or GAO business requests. https://lnkd.in/ez6W5tVa #UMBC #UMBCInformationSystems #InternshipOpportunities #Technology

Infrastructure of support after Key Bridge collapse Amazing work from Upal Ghosh, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering, "whose research includes examining the effects of toxic pollutants in soils, sediments, and aquatic environments, was among the experts who weighed in on assessing the potentially hazardous effects of the containers that were resting at the bottom of the river." https://lnkd.in/e_Qgmif8 #UMBC #UMBCInformationSystems #KeyBridge #COEIT Image: Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman and representatives of the Office of the Governor take a tour of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site on a Maryland Department of Natural Resources police boat. (Photo source: Corey Jennings ’10, Maryland Comptroller/Flickr)

Look closely at the familiar sights on UMBC's campus, and you’ll see faculty and students turning the everyday infrastructure and green oases of UMBC into out-of-the-ordinary laboratories. Beeswax sculptures, tactile maps, robots helping other robots—read on to discover some of the amazing ways Retrievers are using the campus itself for experiential learning and diverse research. https://lnkd.in/eXa_Rkm8

Explore a cross section of some of the key areas of achievement across our research community with the latest edition of Inquiring Minds, UMBC’s 2024 research and creative achievement annual report. Read more about UMBC’s “Public Research for Public Good”: https://lnkd.in/eupWQktG

Leonard Traeger, Ph.D. ’25, information systems, recently won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). The title of his paper is “Scoping: Towards Streamlined Entity Collections for Multi-Sourced Entity Resolution with Self-Supervised Agents.” Read more about this achievement and his research by visiting the link below. https://lnkd.in/ebaN-8Mu #UMBC #UMBCInformationSystems #HigherEd #ICEIS #Research

Exciting news update!! Thrilled to share that the CARDS - UMBC AI and Robotics Center (CARDS) has been featured in a recent UMBC story! Innovative research and impactful projects from CARDS are making waves in the field of real-time distributed sensing and autonomy. This recognition highlights the dedication to advancing technology and contributing to meaningful research. Check out the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eXa_Rkm8 Watch the video to see CARDS' work in action: https://lnkd.in/eeJJmJW8 Thank you to everyone involved for your hard work and commitment to excellence. Aryya Gangopadhyay, Biplab Pal, PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County, UMBC Department of Information Systems #UMBC #CARDS #Research #Innovation #Technology #RealTimeSensing #Autonomy #ProudMoment

COEIT convenes inaugural research day to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations On April 19, more than 150 people gathered for the inaugural College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) Research Day. The event was an opportunity for faculty and students to showcase their research and forge interdisciplinary collaborations, including with potential industry partners in attendance. Close to 100 COEIT researchers presented work, either in talks during four concurrent morning sessions or in the afternoon poster session. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHzB_G8D

Some of our favorite memories captured at #UMBCgrad 2024 💛 🖤