David Jacobs, a professor of computer science, has been named director of UMIACS, effective Sept. 6, 2026. Jacobs has been a @UofMaryland faculty member since 2002 and works in computer vision and machine learning. Read more: go.umd.edu/Jacobs-7-2026

[1/n] Recent OpenAI research has demonstrated the ability of LLMs to solve frontier problems in mathematics. We design a simple pipeline (using GPT 5.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4.8) that resolves 9 challenging open problems, including open problems from prominent theoretical computer science venues—4 from COLT open problem list and 1 from FOCS —as well as 4 problems from the commutative algebra. Project link: github.com/Pengbinghui/pipel…, joint work with @runzhou_tao, Steven Wang & @HantaoYu_Theory

🔊 @UofMaryland Computer Science announced 11 faculty promotions, effective July 1, including four professors, five associate professors, one principal lecturer and one senior lecturer. go.umd.edu/FacultyPromotions…

👏 Congrats to Eadom Dessalene and Levi Burner who have earned the prestigious Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to advance AI research in human-machine understanding and atmospheric turbulence prediction. Read more: go.umd.edu/ICpostdocAward-6-…

🔊 @UofMaryland will launch two new undergraduate AI degrees, including one focused on human-centered AI and another on computational structures for AI systems. Read more: go.umd.edu/AI-6-2026

🎶 After growing up in Iran, where women can’t sing in public, CS and music double major Yasmine Tajeddin came to @UofMaryland with no public performance experience. Now, she’s preparing for a possible career in opera. Read more: go.umd.edu/Tajeddin-6-2026

Can AI and people work better together? @UofMaryland CS professor Jordan Boyd-Graber (@boydgraber) uses quizbowl to study when people trust #AI, when they rely on their own judgment and what makes human-AI collaboration effective. Read more: go.umd.edu/Boyd-Graber-6-202…

🔊 Congrats to @UofMaryland Professor of CS Mohammad Hajiaghayi (@MTHajiaghayi), who will receive two ACM SIGecom Test of Time Awards for papers that helped shape online mechanism design and algorithmic economics. Read more: go.umd.edu/Hajiaghayi-6-2026

Alan Liu (@Alan_Lau), an assistant professor of computer science at @UofMaryland, has received an @NSF CAREER award to develop new telemetry methods that can help operators monitor large-scale AI and cloud systems more efficiently. Read more: go.umd.edu/Liu-5-2026

After 55 years at the @UofMaryland, Professor Ashok Agrawala is preparing to retire, closing a faculty career that began before the Department of Computer Science was formally established in 1973. Read more: go.umd.edu/Agrawala-5-2026

In a new Q&A, @UofMaryland Associate Professor of @UMDCS Rob Patro (@nomad421) discusses his path into computing, his work in computational genomics and how his lab is making biological data easier to search, organize and analyze. Read more: go.umd.edu/Patro-5-2026

🔊 The @UofMaryland Department of Computer Science recognized 1,191 graduates during the 2026 @UMDscience commencement ceremonies, held May 19 and 20. Congratulations to the Class of 2026 and our newest lifelong CS Terps. Read more: go.umd.edu/UMDCSGrads2026

A few more memories from @UofMaryland's Class of 2026 🐢

Got my master-along-the-way lol @umdcs might actually be the best cs school in the US

🎓🌟 We are so proud of our college's senior marshals, who just led the procession of graduates into this evening's main Commencement Ceremony! Read about the 23 accomplished #ScienceTerps who were selected as senior marshals: go.umd.edu/marshals-26 #UMDgrad

"Today, you join a global community of 60K #ScienceTerps who have dedicated their lives to advancing knowledge and improving the world around them," Dean @VarshneyAmitabh said to the 1,700 graduating seniors at our Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony. #UMDgrad

Congratulations to the #ClassOf2026 🎓🎉 You have tackled complex challenges, advanced your knowledge of scientific disciplines and made lasting contributions to our #ScienceTerp community. Celebrating your accomplishments at @UofMaryland and wishing you all success! #UMDgrad

We call this the CS Walk 🎓🦾 Today, our @UMDCS undergraduate students cross the stage and step into what’s next as @UofMaryland computer science graduates. Congratulations, #CSTerps. You earned this moment.

Soon, @UofMaryland CS undergraduates will cross the stage and join an alumni network that includes Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov and Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena. Congrats, future Terp alumni 🎓

Great conversations, laughter and celebration filled the commencement social as graduating @umdcs students mingled with faculty, family and friends 🎓 The evening even included some unexpected guests, including @brendaniribe, joining the celebration. Congrats, CS Terps!