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Faculty

Dr. Cynthia Matuszek's research is in the intersection of robotics and natural language for HRI. She is an associate professor in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department and the founder of the IRAL research lab. Dr. Frank Ferraro's research is focused on natural language processing, computational event semantics, and unlabeled, structured probabilistic modeling over very large corpora. He is an assistant professor in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department.
Dr. Don Engel's research spans robotics, vision, and immersive human-robot interaction. He is UMBC's Assistant Vice President for Research, and an assistant professor in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department. Dr. Lara J. Martin does research in applied natural language processing, looking at neurosymbolic methods to solve particular tasks. Some of the tasks she has looked at include story generation, AAC (accessibility tools), and affective speech processing. They are an assistant professor in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department.
Dr. Edward Raff performs research in a number of areas, including machine learning, malware analysis, adversarial ML, fingerprint biometrics, and fairness in AI. He is a Chief Scientist with Booz Allen Hamilton, and a visiting affiliate professor at UMBC computer science.

Postdocs

Ruchen "Puck" Wen

Students

Ph.D.

Christian Angel
 Ryan Barron
Adam Berlier
 Nadja Bzhilyanskaya
Kasra Darvish
 Shubhashis Roy Dipta
Mohammad Eskandari
 Padraig Higgins
Maithili Kadam
 Michael Majurski
Ekele Ogbadu
 Mehdi Rezaee
Luke Richards
 Sai Vallurupalli
Roy Prouty

Masters

Sinclair Fuh
 Aidan Newell
Jacob Rubinstein

Research Undergraduates

Abby Joseph
 Zack Margulies
An May
 Sianna Serio

Alumnae

Ph.D.

M.S.

Undergraduates