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Faculty Positions: Cyber Security and Software Systems
Faculty positions in Cyber Security
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has two openings for faculty positions effective July 1, 2012 or earlier in Cyber Security or a related area. The openings are at the tenure-track Assistant Professor level and at the "junior-level" tenured Associate Professor level. Applicants will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Faculty position in Software Systems
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has one opening for faculty positions effective July 1, 2012 or earlier in Software Systems or a related area. The opening is for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or "junior" tenured Associate Professor. Applicants will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Faculty position and Director of CBCB
The University of Maryland invites applications for Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Candidates are expected to be prominent scholars with publications and research experience at the interface of biological science and computing. Their primary responsibility will be to lead a nationally visible research program complementing existing strengths in computational genomics, proteomics, and molecular evolution. They will also be expected to promote the CBCB, and help build collaborative relationships, both on and off-campus.
Research Spotlight: Software Engineering
The Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland has focused in two areas experimentation and quality assurance. The group is a strong believer in empirical study and experimentation. Empirical software engineering involves the scientific use of quantitative and qualitative data to understand and improve the software product, software development process and software management. Our history has been in isolating problems faced by software organizations in developing and analyzing systems, identifying or proposing solutions, and empirically validating if, when and where the solutions are effective.
UMD M-Urgency App Becomes Publicly Available
On Wednesday the University of Maryland’s emergency smartphone application, M-Urgency, gets its long-awaited public launch, when the app becomes available for free download to the university community. The app -- currently available only for android phones -- allows students, faculty and staff to instantly share video, audio and location information about their emergency with university police dispatchers. The M-Urgency app was developed by UMD Computer Science Professor Ashok Agrawala and his team in collaboration with the university's Department of Public Safety. Together they have been conducting a test deployment for some time and are now ready to share the application university-wide. Though the app is currently only for android phones and the UMD community, the technology could be applied to any phone and any community across the nation, according to its developers. Apps for other phones are planned. The M-Urgency technology is based on Adobe software infrastructure, and the commercial applications are being developed by AlphaTrek, a Maryland company started by Agrawala.BEN SHNEIDERMAN NAMED IEEE FELLOW
Prof. Ben Shneiderman has been named an IEEE Fellow. This award is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. 321 individuals have been elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2011. The IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. Through its 385,000 members in 160 countries, the association is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. Dedicated to the advancement of technology, the IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, and has developed more than 900 active industry standards. The association also sponsors or co-sponsors nearly 400 international technical conferences each year. If you would like to learn more about IEEE or the IEEE Fellow Program, please visit www.ieee.org.Professor Khuller's Student Named Intel Finalist
Frederic Koehler, of Montgomery Blair High School and a student of Professor Samir Khuller, has been named a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a national pre-college competition. Recognized for his work Quick and Efficient: Fast Algorithms for Completion Time and Batch Minimization on Multiple Machines, Koehler is the only finalist representing the State of Maryland.
