UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

UMBC CSEE Professor Naghmeh Karimi and her students in SECRETS Lab, along with their collaborators, won the Best Hardware Demo award at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust. They demonstrated their research using PUFs ("physical unclonable functions") that use microscopic manufacturing variations in a semiconductor to generate a unique, unforgeable digital fingerprint for a specific device. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csee/posts/159893

The UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology holds its annual Research Day event from 9am to 4pm on Friday, May 1st, in the University Center. The event features talks, posters, and panel discussions by COEIT faculty and students, as well as industry and agency partners. See the agenda for more information.

COEIT Research Day 2026 – Agenda The COEIT Research Day 2026 agenda is also available as a printable PDF. COEIT Research Day 2026 — Agenda Schedule at a glance Friday, May 1, 2026 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Parallel Session Program Organized by Time (Schedule version)   Panel Session Program Organized by Time (Text Version) COEIT R...

Dr. Josephine Namayanja and Rhoda Nankabirwa will lead a two-hour workshop seminar on The Foundations of Large Language Models from 2-4 pm ET on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 as part of the UMBC iHARP AI Workshop Series. The seminar will take place on the UMBC campus in Suite 103, at 900 Walker Avenue, and will also be available online via Webex.

iHARP AI Workshop Seminar on the Foundations of Large Language Models 2-4 pm ET Tuesday, April 14 at UMBC and online iHARP AI Workshop Seminar Foundations of Large Language Models 2-4 pm ET Tuesday, April 14 at UMBC and online Dr. Josephine Namayanja and Rhoda Nankabirwa will lead a two-hour workshop seminar on The Foundations of Large Language Models from 2-4 pm ET o...