Dear UMBC community,

I am pleased to announce Anupam Joshi has been named vice provost and chief AI officer beginning July 1. Anupam brings almost three decades of experience at UMBC to the new role. For the last two years he has served as the interim dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology in addition to his position as the Oros Family Professor and director of the UMBC Cybersecurity Institute.

While I had previously announced Anupam would be serving as a special assistant to the provost for AI and computing, I was continually impressed with his forward-thinking leadership as we worked to fill out the provost leadership team. In light of Anupam’s ongoing contributions to the leadership team, as well as budgetary considerations, I have made the decision to eliminate the open senior vice provost for academic affairs position and appoint Anupam as vice provost and chief AI officer.

In this newly created role, Anupam will oversee various areas previously managed by the vice provost for academic affairs (e.g., academic resource planning and management, space management), provide leadership to academic affairs strategic initiatives, and lead the university’s strategy for AI and computing. This includes coordinating and leveraging current efforts in AI and computing, leading the strategic planning for university goals in this area, and leveraging new resources and university partnerships.

A prolific scholar, Anupam obtained a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)  Delhi in 1989, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993. His research interests are at the intersection of AI and systems. He is a pioneer in data management and security for mobile and ad-hoc networks using AI approaches.

Over the last decade, Anupam has explored this intersection to improve cybersecurity – using distributed AI approaches for attack detection and resilience in CPS/IoT systems that undergird critical infrastructure and policy-driven approaches to security and privacy. He has worked with scholars from areas as diverse as medicine, psychology, linguistics, gerontology, and public policy to explore AI-based approaches in those domains that have led to publications and extramural funding.

Anupam is an affiliate faculty in the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and in UMBC’s Erickson School of Aging Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT Delhi’s School of IT. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the Maryland Cybersecurity Council chartered by the Maryland legislature. Anupam has published more than 300 technical papers with an h-index of 97 and over 34,000 citations (per Google scholar), been granted nine patents, and has obtained research support totaling more than $22 million from the National Science Foundation, NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Dept of Defense, NIST, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin amongst others.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank Peggy Re who has served for the past year as interim vice provost for academic affairs. Peggy has been an incredible resource as I started my first year as provost and has been instrumental in academic affairs making significant progress this past year. I look forward to continuing to work with Peggy as she returns to her position as associate provost for academic affairs. 

Please join me in congratulating Anupam on his new role as vice provost and chief AI officer.

Sincerely,

Manfred H.M. van Dulmen

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs