Three CSEE faculty receive UMBC internal research awards

Two UMBC CSEE faculty members received Strategic Awards for Research Transitions (START) awards of $25,000 for the 2026-27 academic year. 

• Associate Professor Roberto Yus received the award to support his project  "Optimizing AI Workflows for Reliable, Low-Cost Agentic Systems."
• Assistant Professor Dong Li received the award to support his project "Securing Smartphones Against Voice Scams with Real-Time Vocal-Acoustic Watermarking."

Assistant Professor Yiwen Hu received an $8,000 Summer Research Faculty Fellowship (SURFF) award to support her research on "Securing Lost/Stolen Device Revocation Systems in 5G/6G Networks via Cross-Domain Evidence Attestation". 

Read more about UMBC's latest internal research awards here.