Applications are open until 04/30/2015; however, interviews may begin on a rolling basis once applications have been COMPLETED. Priority will be given to those who apply by APRIL 3rd.  To learn more and/or apply, see the link below.  If you have any questions, contact Eloise Grose at elgrose1@umbc.edu. 

UMBC’s 37th Annual Graduate Research Conference will take place between 9:00am and 5:00pm on Wednesday, 25 March 2015. The GRC program includes both oral and poster presentations, lunch and a keynote panel, a research information fair and a reception. The event is free, but online registration is requested.

Here is a summary of the presentations from Computer Science and Electrical Engineering students. See the GRC program for abstracts and a complete list of presentations and posters from all UMBC graduate programs.

Session I 9:00am-10:15am in UC 312

• Prajit Das – Computer Science
  FaceBlock: Semantic Context-Aware Privacy for Mobile Devices
• Ari Rapkin Blenkhorn – Computer Science
  Real-time GPU Rendering of Atmospheric Glories
• Tanmay Kulkarni – Electrical Engineering
  Palladium Nanowire Based Enzymatic Biofuel Cell
• Robert Weiblen – Electrical Engineering
  Increased Laser Damage Threshold in As2S3 Motheye Structures
• Muhammad Rahman – Computer Science
  Semantic Information Extraction from RFP Documents

Session II 10:30am-11:45am in Commons 329

• Muhammad Rahman – Computer Science (Oral Presentation)
  Open Information Extraction and Topic Modeling on Academic Profiles
• Vladimir Korolev – Computer Science (Oral Presentation)
  PROB: A Tool for Tracking of PRovenance of Big data Computational Experiments
• Jennifer Sleeman – Computer Science (Oral Presentation)
  Improving Entity Disambiguation for Wild Big Data Through Contextualization and FineGrained Entity Type Recognition

Session II 10:30am-11:45am in Sherman Hall 145

• Jon Ward – Electrical Engineering (Oral Presentation)
  Distributed Beamforming Relay Selection to Increase Base Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Yin Huang – Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
  An Eigensolver for large sparse graph with Accumulo and D4M
• Abhay Kashyap – Computer Science (Oral Presentation)
  Rapalytics: When Data Science meets Rap!
• Zheng Li – Computer Engineering (Oral Presentation)
  Tongue-n-Cheek: Non-contact Tongue Gesture Recognition

Session II 10:30am-11:45am in Sondheim 103

• Piyush Waradpande – Computer Science (Work in Progress)
  Use of Doppler Radars in Activity Recognition
• Genaro Hernandez – Computer Science (Work in Progress)
  Toward Category Detection for Physically-Grounded Language
• Deepak Krishnankutty – Computer Engineering (Work in Progress)
  Multi Vantage Point Analysis of Power Supply Signatures
• Jorge Teixeira – Electrical Engineering (Work in Progress)
  Advantages and Improvements of BER/WER Performance Evaluation of Error Correcting Codes Using Dual Adaptive Importance Sampling (DAIS)

Session II 10:30am-11:45am, Poster Presentations in Library 7th floor

• Shaokang Wang – Electrical Engineering
  Soliton Wake Instability in a SESAM Modelocked Fiber Laser
• Isaac Mativo – Computer Science
  Clinical Predictive Modeling with Patient Reported Data
• Yichuan Gui – Computer Science
  A Pairwise Algorithm to Overcome the Local Minimum Problem in Training
• David Harris – Computer Science
  Developing User Interface Frameworks to Facilitate Usage Amongst Technologically UnderServed Populations
• Hsiao-Chi Li – Electrical Engineering
  Progressive Band Processing of Orthogonal Subspace Projection in Hyperspectral Imagery
• Lisa Mathews – Computer Science
  A Collaborative Approach to Situational Awareness for CyberSecurity
• Yu Wang – Computer Science
  Isosurface Smoothing using Marching Cubes and PN-Triangles
• Yue Hu – Electrical Engineering
  Impact of the Coulomb Interaction on the Franz-Keldysh Effect in a High-Current Photodetector
• Hadis Dashtestani – Computer Science
  Massively Distributed Online Neuroscience for Improving Virtual Experience

Session III 1:45pm-3:00pm, Poster Presentations in UC 312

• Bryan Wilkinson – Computer Science
  A Resource for Evaluating Adjective Scales
• Adam Price – Computer Science
  Big Data Analytics for Expanding Alice Analysis for the United States
• Seyed Ehsan Jamali Mahabadi and Yue Hu – Electrical Engineering
  Gain Recovery in Quantum Cascade Lasers
• Brian Stevens – Computer Engineering
  Characterization of Glucose Responsive Phenylboronic Acid-Based Hydrogel Using Optical Coherence Tomography