UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department UMBC's CSEE dept. has 71 faculty and more than 2500 students in computer science, computer engineeri and Ph.D. We have awarded 340 Ph.D.

The CSEE department is research-oriented and multi-disciplinary with programs in Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Data Science, and Cybersecurity. Our faculty (37 tenure-track, 16 teaching, and 18 research) enjoy collaboration, working across our specializations as well as with colleagues from other STEM, humanities and the arts departments, and extern

al partners. We have more than 2,000 undergraduate CS and CE majors and more than 560 M.S. students in our CS, CE, EE, Data Science, and Cybersecurity graduate programs. degrees since our establishment in 1986. Our research is supported by a growing and diverse portfolio from government and industrial sponsors with over $6M in yearly research expenditures. We work to help new colleagues be successful by providing competitive startup packages, reduced teaching loads, and active mentoring.

09/04/2026

🎉 Please join us in celebrating the generosity of Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, and the Java-Rijhwani family, who recently established the COEIT Computing for Social Good Award, to be given annually to one or more students in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) who have conducted substantial research with the goal of harnessing technology to make positive social change.

Read more at umbc.edu/stories/computing-for-social-good-award.

UMBC CSEE PhD student Roy Dipta was the Career Center's Intern of the Week. "What I've loved most about my time at Amazo...
09/03/2026

UMBC CSEE PhD student Roy Dipta was the Career Center's Intern of the Week. "What I've loved most about my time at Amazon Alexa AI is getting to push the boundaries of agentic LLM reasoning alongside brilliant mentors." Read more about Roy and his two summer internships working on AI at Amazon here.

Name: Shubhashis Roy Dipta Pronouns: He/him Semester of Internship: Summer 2026 Major: Computer Science (Ph.D.) Current Class Level: Doctoral Student This semester I...

UMBC CSEE students Nazmus Sakib and Manogna Rayasam, and their advisor, Professor Sanorita Dey, received a Best Paper Aw...
08/31/2026

UMBC CSEE students Nazmus Sakib and Manogna Rayasam, and their advisor, Professor Sanorita Dey, received a Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing for Expecting Too Much, Getting Too Little: Exploring the Challenges and Design Opportunities of Asynchronous AI Interviewers. The team will present their work at CSCW 2026 in October in Salt Lake City, Utah. https://csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/162191/

The CSEE department’s Fall Welcome Research Event is this Friday, August 21, and includes short “Lightning Talks” by CSE...
08/19/2026

The CSEE department’s Fall Welcome Research Event is this Friday, August 21, and includes short “Lightning Talks” by CSEE faculty on their research from 9:30am to 11am in ITE 102 and a Lab Open House from 11am to 1pm when people can visit the labs. Details at https://bit.ly/CSEE26

Shruti Dharmani, a CSEE MS in Cybersecurity major, was selected as UMBC's Intern of the Week. She interned at Technuf, w...
07/24/2026

Shruti Dharmani, a CSEE MS in Cybersecurity major, was selected as UMBC's Intern of the Week. She interned at Technuf, where she worked on cybersecurity analysis, threat monitoring, and internal R&D for the company's products. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/posts/161184

UMBC hosts an IEEE Colloquium on Creativity in an Era of AI on Nov. 7, with submissions due by August 31 in one of four ...
07/17/2026

UMBC hosts an IEEE Colloquium on Creativity in an Era of AI on Nov. 7, with submissions due by August 31 in one of four tracks:
• AI Applications in Biology and the (Bio)medical Field
• AI Software Systems: Design, Engineering, & Deployment
• AI Meeting Physical Reality
• AI and the Future of Work
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/161109/

Three CSEE faculty received internal UMBC research awards: Roberto Yus for "Optimizing AI Workflows for Reliable, Low-Co...
07/10/2026

Three CSEE faculty received internal UMBC research awards: Roberto Yus for "Optimizing AI Workflows for Reliable, Low-Cost Agentic Systems”; D**g Li for "Securing Smartphones Against Voice Scams with Real-Time Vocal-Acoustic Watermarking; and Yiwen Hu for "Securing Lost/Stolen Device Revocation Systems in 5G/6G Networks via Cross-Domain Evidence Attestation". https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/161055/

Manikanta Sirumalla is a student in CSEE's Data Science MS program who recently released RepTrack Pro, an AI-powered fit...
06/29/2026

Manikanta Sirumalla is a student in CSEE's Data Science MS program who recently released RepTrack Pro, an AI-powered fitness and nutrition app for iPhones. He’s currently enhancing it with an award from UMBC's Launchpad Accelerator, a 10-week summer program that helps student founders launch early-stage ventures. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/160864/

06/22/2026

The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence explores AI, cybersecurity, & safety on June 24 with 2 online talks, 7-8:45am ET:
▶️ Montasir Abbas: Cyber-Resilient Emergency Response Systems: Integrating Digital Twins, Zero-Trust Architecture, and Reinforcement Learning for Critical Infrastructure Protection
▶️ Stephen Wolthusen: Abstraction in Critical Infrastructures Considered Dangerous
https://cybersecurity.umbc.edu/home/news/post/160577/

CSEE's new MS in AI program prepares students to lead in a field reshaping education, computing, energy, data analysis, ...
06/20/2026

CSEE's new MS in AI program prepares students to lead in a field reshaping education, computing, energy, data analysis, information systems, and nearly every sector of the modern economy. It offers a focused, rigorous pathway into AI research, development, and deployment, equipping graduates to drive innovation across industry, government, and academia. Apply by August 1 for Fall 2026. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/news-events/recent-news/post/160791/

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