Vote for First Year Representative!
It's time to cast your vote for your 2024-2025 First Year Representative!!!
Voting will close on October 11th at 11:59pm.
Form to vote is linked below, please review the applicants applications video's linked on the VoiceThread on the form.
Good luck to all of the applicants!!
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It's time to cast your vote for your 2024-2025 First Year Representative!!! Voting will close on October 11th at 11:59pm. Form to vote is linked below, please review the applicants...
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:01:23 -0400
Submit to the 2024 HALLOWZINE!
It's the scariest time of the year! Entries are NOW OPEN for our 2024 Hallowzine!!
Submit your spooky short stories, ghoulish crossword puzzles, haunted haikus, photos of you as an adorable child dressed up in your costume...even better, your PETS IN COSTUMES! Students, Staff, Faculty and Alumni are all welcome to submit.
You may submit up to 3 pieces. Submitted pieces will be included in the Hallowzine 2024 Zine + Digital Gallery.
The first 25 people to submit pieces will get a special goodie!! What will it be? Stay tuned to our social media to find out!
For best consideration, enter by October 20, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Entries submitted after this time will be accepted on a case-by-case basis.
Design by Thomas.
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:40:12 -0400
Transfer Student Week is upon us
"From Transition to Triumph: Celebrating Transfer Students!"
Join us for **Transfer Student Week**—a week full of exciting events designed just for you! Whether you’re looking to connect with fellow transfer students, learn about campus resources, or simply have fun, we’ve got something for everyone. Don’t miss this chance to build new friendships, explore opportunities, and celebrate your transfer journey. Come be part of the community!
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Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:30:40 -0400
NEW: The IRB Newsletter
Hot off the Press: IRB News for UMBC!
Are you anticipating involvement in human subjects research at UMBC?
Check out some top tips in the
attached newsletter (PDF) and ensure you join the myUMBC Group Page for Office of Research Protections and Compliance (
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/compliance) for future newsletters, upcoming events, and guidance on research compliance.
Attention Graduate Students!Join us for the
Graduate Student Fest on
October 16th, 2024, from
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at the
UC Ballroom!!!
This exciting event will bring together all the resources grad school has to offer, including Graduate Student Organizations (GSOs), the Career Center, the Library, and many other campus resources.
Enjoy free food, grab a
t-shirt, and enter our exciting
raffle for a chance to win amazing prizes!
Make sure to register for the event by clicking on the
RSVP formDon’t miss this opportunity to connect, network, and discover everything UMBC has to offer. We can’t wait to see you there!
#GSFest2024 #UMBCGradLife #UMBCEvents #GSA #GraduateStudentSuccessCommitte
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Today at 4PM we will be holding a GBM at the garden! We will go over what to do/plant in the Fall, give a sneak peak into our next field trip, and do a clean up!
Hope to see everyone there!
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Hello Sprouts! Today at 4PM we will be holding a GBM at the garden! We will go over what to do/plant in the Fall, give a sneak peak into our next field trip, and do a clean up! Hope to see...
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Attend the UMBC Facilities Accessibility Presentation
Wednesday, October 16, 12 - 1 PM
On Wednesday October 16th at noon Facilities Management and the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services are presenting on recent, current and potential construction projects that enhance physical accessibility, improve the physical environment of UMBC, and benefit the entire community while supporting people with disabilities. Get the latest info and expand our circle of allies-bring a friend or colleague, and share this information broadly.
Facilities Management and the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services are hosting a review of recent, current and potential construction projects that enhance accessibility, improve the physical environment of UMBC, and benefit the entire community while supporting accessibility for people with disabilities.
Learn about elevator replacement progress, accessible design within renovation, and more! Current/planned projects will be discussed and campus members (especially those with disabilities) are encouraged to share ideas, some may inform the proposal process for UMBC's participation with the AccessMD Program. The presentation goes beyond that program - and ideas from the lived experience of people with disabilities are especially important to this event.
We understand that synchronous attendance can be a challenge for anyone with a disability and have flexible options for participation.
UMBC's Accessible Route Map is linked here as a resource.
ASL is available for people attending in-person upon request. Masking is welcome. Captioning will be provided, Asynchronous options will be communicated to registered attendees after the event. Contact slazar@umbc.edu with event questions, access needs or accommodation requests.
Ideas for additional projects are also welcome at any time, please share them with Celso Guitian in FM Campus Planning via cguitian@umbc.edu and Stephanie Lazarus, ADA/Section 504 Coordinator via slazar@umbc.edu / 410-455-5745. Bring UMBC accessibility concerns to the attention of Accessibility & Disability Services at any time via this linked reporting form.
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:55:41 -0400
Fundraiser Being Held This Friday in Commons Breezeway!
Good afternoon everyone!
This Friday, October 11th, we will be holding a fundraiser in the Commons Breezeway. We will be there from 12 - 2pm! We will have chicken pastelitos, alfajores, and bread pudding!
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:54:25 -0400
Talk: Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications
1-2pm EDT, Thur 10 Oct 2024, UMBC ITE 325b & online
Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications
1-2pm EDT, Thur. 10 Oct. 2024, ITE 325b, online via WebEx
We have seen a tremendous surge of interest in enterprises for generative AI applications – from chatbots and summarization to agents and multi-modal apps. Yet most of these apps remain in the prototype and experimentational stage. To move apps into production and keep them there, it is critical to make them efficient and to address common failure modes – hallucinations, retrieval failures, safety issues such as toxicity and bias and more, all while providing robust governance.
In this talk, we will share learnings from building and maintaining production-grade apps. Using two concrete examples –
Cortex Search (which incorporates hybrid search to power question-answering over unstructured data) and
Cortex Analyst (which enables business users to talk to their structured data with SOTA accuracy) – we will examine key design patterns to build efficient and trusted generative AI apps. Building on
TruLens, our open source project, we will also present a methodology for evaluating, experimenting, and monitoring generative AI apps that enables developers to measure app quality, identify and debug failure modes, and build the trust that’s needed to move apps into production and keep them there. Specifically, we will discuss evaluation methodologies based on the RAG Triad -- context relevance, groundedness, and answer relevance -- that can surface flaws in LLM apps and guide iteration to improve them. We will also show how this can be done practically using our open source framework, TruLens, leveraging both LLMs-as-a-judge and smaller, custom models that scale better to production monitoring workloads.
Anupam Datta is Co-Head of
Snowflake AI Research. He joined Snowflake as part of the acquisition of TruEra where he served as Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist from 2019-2024. Datta was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007-2022, most recently as a tenured Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Datta's current research focuses on Trustworthy AI and includes pioneering work on evaluation, explainability, fairness, and adversarial robustness of ML models and GenAI applications. His research has also had significant product impact at TruEra and Snowflake. Datta served as Chair of the National Academies Workshop on Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness, on the Steering Committee of of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, and the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, and as an Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security. He obtained a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, all in Computer Science.
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Talk: Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications
1-2pm EDT, Thur. 10 Oct. 2024, ITE 325b, Webex TBD
Trust but verify, building production ready Gen AI applications
Dr. Anupam Datta, Co-Head of Snowflake AI Research
1-2pm EDT, Thur. 10 Oct. 2024, ITE 325b, Webex TBD
We have seen a tremendous surge of interest in enterprises for generative AI applications – from chatbots and summarization to agents and multi-modal apps. Yet most of these apps remain in the prototype and experimentational stage. To move apps into production and keep them there, it is critical to make them efficient and to address common failure modes – hallucinations, retrieval failures, safety issues such as toxicity and bias and more, all while providing robust governance.
In this talk, we will share learnings from building and maintaining production-grade apps. Using two concrete examples –
Cortex Search (which incorporates hybrid search to power question-answering over unstructured data) and
Cortex Analyst (which enables business users to talk to their structured data with SOTA accuracy) – we will examine key design patterns to build efficient and trusted generative AI apps. Building on
TruLens, our open source project, we will also present a methodology for evaluating, experimenting, and monitoring generative AI apps that enables developers to measure app quality, identify and debug failure modes, and build the trust that’s needed to move apps into production and keep them there. Specifically, we will discuss evaluation methodologies based on the RAG Triad -- context relevance, groundedness, and answer relevance -- that can surface flaws in LLM apps and guide iteration to improve them. We will also show how this can be done practically using our open source framework, TruLens, leveraging both LLMs-as-a-judge and smaller, custom models that scale better to production monitoring workloads.
Anupam Datta is Co-Head of
Snowflake AI Research. He joined Snowflake as part of the acquisition of TruEra where he served as Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist from 2019-2024. Datta was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007-2022, most recently as a tenured Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Datta's current research focuses on Trustworthy AI and includes pioneering work on evaluation, explainability, fairness, and adversarial robustness of ML models and GenAI applications. His research has also had significant product impact at TruEra and Snowflake. Datta served as Chair of the National Academies Workshop on Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness, on the Steering Committee of of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, and the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, and as an Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security. He obtained a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, all in Computer Science.
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