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TRAILS Announces Second Round of Seed Funding
Five interdisciplinary projects, funded with seed grants ranging from $115K to $150K apiece, will advance novel AI research and scholarship that can impact education, transportation, emergency preparedness and health care.
Furong Huang Part of New Federal Initiative to Advance AI
UMD’s Furong Huang is part of a new federal initiative that provides powerful computing resources to researchers focused on innovative research and scholarship involving AI.
TRAILS Researchers Discuss How AI Will Change the Way We Live
UMD’s Hal Daumé, Furong Huang and Katie Shilton were interviewed for a podcast series on how AI will impact education, work, culture and creativity.
TRAILS Announces First Round of Seed Funding
The eight funded projects, totaling just over $1.5 million, will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship that spans AI design, development and governance.
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community
TRAILS is a sponsor of the University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning’s 2023 Rising Stars in Machine Learning Workshop, designed to support researchers from underrepresented groups. This year’s committee included UMD’s Soheil Feizi, Hal Daumé, Marine Carpuat and Tom Goldstein.
Researchers Develop and Test AI Text-Detector Tools
UMD’s Soheil Feizi, Tom Goldstein and Furong Huang are publishing groundbreaking research on the reliability of AI text-detectors.
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
Hal Daumé, Katie Shilton, Hernisa Kacorri, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Furong Huang and Huaishu Peng are members of UMD’s new Center for Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which is focused on developing conceptual and technical frameworks to advance AI in a way that is not only ethical, but also places the well-being of people at the forefront.
Huang Receives Microsoft Award for Innovative Work in Sequential Decision-Making
UMD’s Furong Huang received an award from Microsoft for her novel work in sequential decision-making.
Huang Named to Prestigious List of 35 Innovators Under 35
UMD’s Furong Huang was recognized as a visionary for her work in making AI more trustworthy, and developing models that can perform tasks safely and efficiently in unseen environments without human oversight.
UMD Machine Learning Experts Presenting Multiple Papers and Workshops at ICML 2022
UMD’s Hal Daumé III, Tom Goldstein and Soheil Feizi are among a mix of UMD faculty, postdocs and students presenting 18 papers and featured in 18 workshops at the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning in Baltimore.
Researchers Work to Make Artificial Intelligence Genuinely Fair
UMD’s Marine Carpuat is part of a $1.6 million project funded by Amazon and the National Science Foundation to make college admissions more fair through the us of AI.
$3.1M Award Aims to Prevent Attacks on AI Security Measures
Supported by a $3.1 million DARPA award, UMD’s Tom Goldstein and Abhinav Shrivastava are working to develop safeguards against deception attacks on machine learning algorithms.