UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
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The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department aims to maintain a program of excellence in teaching, research, and service for all of its programs. At the undergraduate level, we will provide students with a firm foundation of both the theory and practice of Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Our curricula also give students the social, ethical, and liberal education needed to make significant contributions to society. Students receiving a bachelor’s degree are ready to enter the work force as productive computer scientists or computer engineers, or to continue their education at the graduate or professional level.
At the graduate level, we are committed to developing the research and professional capabilities of students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Cybersecurity. Our programs provide a deeper mastery of the basics of these fields, as well as opportunities to collaborate on leading-edge research with our faculty. Our faculty are engaged in both practical and theoretical research, often in partnership with government agencies, private industry and non-governmental organizations. The aim of this research is to advance knowledge within our disciplines and also to contribute to solving problems faced by our society.
Recent Submissions
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Generating Videos with Scene Dynamics
(2016)We capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled video in order to learn a model of scene dynamics for both video recognition tasks (e.g. action classification) and video generation tasks (e.g. future prediction). We propose a ... -
Improving Safety in Reinforcement Learning Using Model-Based Architectures and Human Intervention
(2019-03-22)Recent progress in AI and Reinforcement learning has shown great success in solving complex problems with high dimensional state spaces. However, most of these successes have been primarily in simulated environments ... -
Extending Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems With Bayesian Abductive Reasoning
(2019-03-28)Evolving cybersecurity threats are a persistent challenge for system administrators and security experts as new malwares are continually released. Attackers may look for vulnerabilities in commercial products or execute ... -
Hybrid Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Source Systems
The use of artificial intelligence in clinical care to improve decision support systems is increasing. This is not surprising since by its very nature, the practice of medicine consists of making decisions based on ... -
On the use of Deep Autoencoders for Efficient Embedded Reinforcement Learning
(2019-03-25)In autonomous embedded systems, it is often vital to reduce the amount of actions taken in the real world and energy required to learn a policy. Training reinforcement learning agents from high dimensional image ... -
Modeling Optical Time and Frequency Generation and Transfer Systems
(2019-02-01)We describe the results of a project to carry out theoretical and computational modeling of frequency comb sources in support of experimental efforts in the DARPA PULSE program. This work had two thrusts. The first was ... -
Dynamic Local Vehicular Flow Optimization Using Real-Time Traffic Conditions at Multiple Road Intersections
(IEEE, 2019-02-21)Dynamic management of vehicular traffic congestion to maximize throughput in urban areas has been drawing increased attention in recent years. For that purpose, a number of adaptive control algorithms have been proposed ... -
CCID: Cross-Correlation Identity Distinction Method for Detecting Shrew DDoS
(Hindawi, 2019-02-20)This study presents a new method for detecting ShrewDDoS (DistributedDenial of Service) attacks and analyzes the characteristics of the Shrew DDoS attack. Shrew DDoS is periodic to be suitable for the server’s TCP ... -
Private Virtual Infrastructure: A Model for Trustworthy Utility Cloud Computing
Private Virtual Infrastructure is a security architecture for cloud computing which uses a new trust model to share the responsibility of security in cloud computing between the service provider and client, decreasing the ... -
Punchscan: Introduction and System Definition of a High-Integrity Election System
(2006-05)Punchscan is a unique hybrid paper/electronic voting system concept. As a receipt-based system, Punchscan provides high voter privacy and election integrity, yet it does not rely on the complex and fragile electronic voting ... -
Developing and Delivering Hands-On Information Assurance Exercises: Experiences with the Cyber Defense Lab at UMBC
(IEEE, 2005-06-10)In summer 2003, we developed four new hands-on information assurance educational exercises for use in the UMBC undergraduate and graduate curricula. Exercise topics comprise buffer overflow attacks, vulnerability scanning, ... -
Automating Privacy Compliance Using Policy Integrated Blockchain
(MDPI, 2019-02-05)An essential requirement of any information management system is to protect data and resources against breach or improper modifications, while at the same time ensuring data access to legitimate users. Systems handling ... -
Multi-modal data fusion using source separation: Application to medical imaging
(IEEE, 2015-08-17)The Joint ICA (jICA) and the Transposed IVA (tIVA) models are two effective solutions based on blind source separation that enable fusion of data from multiple modalities in a symmetric and fully multivariate manner. ... -
Multimodal Data Fusion Using Source Separation: Two Effective Models Based on ICA and IVA and Their Properties
(IEEE, 2015-09)Fusion of information from multiple sets of data in order to extract a set of features that are most useful and relevant for the given task is inherent to many problems we deal with today. Since, usually, very little ... -
Calculation of the impulse response and phase noise of a high-current photodetector using the drift-diffusion equations
(OSA, 2019)We describe a procedure to calculate the impulse response and phase noise of high-current photodetectors using the drift-diffusion equations while avoiding computationally expensive Monte Carlo simulations. We apply this ... -
The CATS Hackathon: Creating and Refining Test Items for Cybersecurity Concept Inventories
(2019-01-29)For two days in February 2018, 17 cybersecurity educators and professionals from government and industry met in a "hackathon" to refine existing draft multiple-choice test items, and to create new ones, for a Cybersecurity ... -
Scantegrity II Municipal Election at Takoma Park: The First E2E Binding Governmental Election with Ballot Privacy
(2009-11-03)On November 3, 2009, voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, cast ballots for the mayor and city council members using the Scantegrity II voting system—the first time any end-to-end (E2E) voting system with ballot privacy has ... -
An Examination of Vote Verification Technologies: Findings and Experiences from the Maryland Study
(2006-04-15)We describe our findings and experiences from our technical review of vote verification systems for the Maryland State Board of Elections (SBE). The review included the following four systems for possible use together ... -
Punchscan with Independent Ballot Sheets: Simplifying Ballot Printing and Distribution with Independently Selected Ballot Halves
(2007-06-15)We propose and implement a modification to the Punchscan protocol that simplifies ballot printing and distribution. In this improved version, each voter creates a ballot at the polling location by combining independently ... -
Catching the Cuckoo: Verifying TPM Proximity Using a Quote Timing Side-Channel
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011-06-22)We present a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) application protocol that detects a certain man in the middle attack where an adversary captures and replaces a legitimate computing platform with an imposter that forwards ...
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