photo courtesy www.umbc.edu/gsa More than two-dozen Computer Science and Electrical Engineering graduate students are slated to present at the Graduate Student Association's annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC). The GRC will be held this Friday, April 27 and features a keynote presentation from Dr. Michael I. Nishimura, a UMBC alumnus who now works at Loyola University [...]
Category: Alumni
posted Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
posted Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Photo courtesy www.retrieverweekly.com Left: Computer Engineering Alumnus Delali Dzirasa speaks with a student during the Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Entrepreneurship Lecture back in March. The Retriever Weekly talked to UMBC alumnus Delali Dzirasa (CE, '04) about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Dzirasa, the founder of Fearless Solutions, LLC–a team of software engineers [...]
posted Monday, April 16th, 2012
Photo Courtesy g4tv.com Computer Science alumnus Joshua Barczak (B.S. ’03, M.S. ’06) will be a featured speaker at this year’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). Now a Senior Graphics Engineer at the Maryland-based game development studio Firaxis Games, Joshua studied computer graphics at UMBC and carried out research under professors Dr. Marie desJardins [...]
posted Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Be sure not to miss CSEE alumnus Delali Dzirasa speak during the Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Entrepreneurship Lecture tomorrow, March 28, at noon in Commons 329. After graduating from UMBC with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2004, Dzirasa went on to found Fearless Solutions, LLC, a team of software engineers and web developers that [...]
posted Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
If you were among the millions who bought the new iPhone 4S, then you can thank Dr. Harry Chen, the UMBC alumnus who helped develop the phone’s most notable new feature: Siri. For those not among the millions, here’s a bit of background: Siri is a virtual assistant that responds to voice commands. “She” can [...]
posted Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Some of this text was adapted from a press release and a post from the Scantegrity blog UMBC Professor Alan Sherman, UMBC alumnus Rick Carback (Ph.D. 2010) and many former and current UMBC students helped to develop Scantegrity, an an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. In 2009, their Scantegrity II [...]
posted Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Computer Engineering Alumna, Angelique Johnson is making waves with her new company MEMStim, which recently won $27,000 in award money from the Michigan Business Challenge. According to a statement on the University of Michigan’s website, Johnson and her business partners, Christopher Cadotte and Andrew Smith, received $20, 000 for the Pryor-Hale award for best business, [...]