Welcome to the Department of Information Systems at UMBC. Our interdisciplinary program helps students develop in demand skills, preparing them for careers in IT and IS. Located near technology hubs, our suburban campus is an exciting place to be for students in tech. With a variety of degree programs to choose from, we offer programs designed to give you options for applying information systems to your career. To learn more, please contact us with any questions.
Student Opportunities
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The department now uses a central form to collect research interests from our undergraduate and graduate students to help match students with projects (or opportunities) supervised by IS faculty.
Upcoming Events
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Attention Grad Students!
Join us for a Spring BBQ!
Friday, April 25 – 3-6pm
Walker Apartment Courtyard
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This Saturday, April 19th, the UMBC Game Developers Club will be hosting its annual Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) from 12:00pm to 6:00pm in Lecture Hall 1. DEC is the largest annual game development-focused event that happens on UMBC campus. We will be hosting 5 different game industry veterans to come out and speak about their expertise in the field. This is a wonderful chance to learn what working in the game industry actually looks like, with many presenters sharing their unique perspectives in their respective career fields. If you’ve ever thought about making video games professionally, we highly encourage you to come out! We will also be providing free sandwiches and soft drinks!
Schedule:
- 12pm – 1pm: “Making a Game Ready 3D Prop”, presented by Ryan Griffin (3D Environment Artist at Bit Reactor)
- 1pm – 2pm: “Technical Music Design in Ara: History Untold”, presented by Michael Curran (Former Audio Director at Oxide Games) and Phillip Klassen (Audio Designer at Oxide Games)
- 2pm – 2:30pm: LUNCH (will be provided!)
- 2:30pm – 3:30pm: “Accessibility and Tooling”, presented by Derrick Lin (Former Tools Engineer at Oxide Games)
- 3:30pm – 4:30pm: “Yes, the Games Industry is Volatile. My Journey Through the Industry”, presented by Katie Hirsch (Senior UI Engineer at Zenimax Online Media)
- 4:30pm – 5:30pm: “Bits and Bytes: Engineering AAA Games Across 20 Years”, presented by Tronster Hartley (Team Lead at Firaxis Games)
- 5:30pm – 6:00pm: Network and Playtest!
Misan Ayomike, a informations systems senior is profiled in a recent article about nonlinear internships. Read about how she spent the summer at the University of Chicago in an economics internship with Pietro Veronesi, a preeminent economist and a dean at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Leah N
arat ’24, business technology administration lands elite NASA internship in business intelligence
Ommo Clark is a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate in Information Systems. She is an AI Researcher in the KNaCC Lab at UMBC under the direction of Dr. Karuna Joshi.
Clark was recently featured on the Our Voices program in an episode titled, “The realities of women in Artificial Intelligence.” Our Voices is where African women bring the continent’s most pressing issues to the table, building a community of inclusion and empowerment.
Clark’s segment begins at the 10:10 mark of the video.
Leonard Traeger, Ph.D. ’25, information systems, recently won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). The title of his paper is “Scoping: Towards Streamlined Entity Collections for Multi-Sourced Entity Resolution with Self-Supervised Agents.” Read more about this achievement and his research.
COEIT Students Win Info Challenge 2024 – Leon Tang, Oluwatimilehin Olayinka, Dale Neumeister, and Christopher Humbert recently won the University of Maryland’s Info Challenge 2024 award for Outstanding Cybersecurity Project. In this Q&A, the team took the time to talk to us about how they first became interested in cybersecurity and share details on what they worked on during their Info Challenge project. They leave us with advice for undergraduate students looking to get involved in the field and share their upcoming plans for the student organization Information Systems Security Association, UMBC Chapter.
Chris Fortney is currently enrolled in our Online MS program. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in 2014 concentrating in graphic design and painting. Fortney is currently the Project/Lab Manager for the Immersive Simulation Program (ISP) at the National Human Genome Research Institute where he develops custom virtual reality simulations for conducting experimental human trials. He takes the time to talk about his work at NHGRI, his interest in the cross section of technology, research, and design and why it is important to value and nourish your creative process.
Congratulations to Faisal Quader, Ph.D. ’20, information systems and Zhensen Huang, M.S. ’00, Ph.D. ’04, information systems on each receiving an alumni award tonight!
Faisal is receiving the Distinguished Service Award. This award may be given to a UMBC graduate who has demonstrated dedication to UMBC through exceptional service to UMBC, its students, and alumni.
Zhensen is receiving the Outstanding Alumni Award. This award is given to a UMBC graduate who has brought distinction to the University through personal and professional achievement.
Chris-Anne Correa ’13, M.S. ’16, our newest Advisory Board Member, is a Senior User Experience Designer at Amazon Prime Video. She focuses on creating experiences using customer input and measures impact every step of the way to iteratively improve the product. She takes time to share her experiences as a student, why UMBC is so important to her, and offers advice for those interested in pursuing UX Design as a career.
Kara Freeman ’91, engineering and information technology and advisory board member talks with President Emeritus Freeman A. Hrabowski III and Vice President Emerita for Administration and Finance Lynne Schaefer about their book, The Resilient University: How Purpose and Inclusion Drive Student Success.
Devin Price ’14, information systems, is an information security professional, writer, educator, and thought leader with over 9 years of experience in the tech industry. Price took the time to answer some questions about his time as a student and why it is important to never stop learning.
Mihir Patel, M.S. ’22, information systems, earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from K.J Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology (Mumbai, India) and is a recent graduate of our M.S. in Information Systems program, data science track. Patel took the time to tell us about his passion for technology and how his internship at VITG turned into a full-time DevOps Engineer position. He also offers advice to students as they prepare for a new semester at UMBC.
Chuck Miller ’11, musical composition, M.S. ’23, information systems is recent graduate of our Online MS program and is active in the InfoSec community. He recently presented at DEFCON31 and mentions how all the televisions in the hotel were hacked during the event. Miller also talks about how he transitioned from a musical career to cybersecurity and how he got involved with fundraising for the American Cancer Society.
The UMBC team staffed a well-trafficked booth in the Expo Hall. As an extension of the meeting, they also visited IITs at Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Tirupati, and met with the directors of these institutions to discuss institutional agreements and lay the groundwork for international faculty and student exchanges.
“This work builds on long-term engagement with community partners and transdisciplinary collaboration with experts in participatory design, learning sciences, and special education,” says Hamidi. “The projects will prioritize centering young learners’ and their families’ perspectives and interests through a participatory, community-engaged approach.”
Striving for more efficient and equitable healthcare: Ian Stockwell wins major NIH grant
“As a career-long UMBCer, I’m excited that this project helps broaden the footprint of NIH funding at the university. It also pushes the boundaries of what an interdisciplinary collaboration can mean,” Associate Professor Ian Stockwell says.
“Quantum computing is the next industrial revolution, and there will be an urgent need for skilled professionals in quantum information science and technology,” says Assistant Professor Lei Zhang.
Read about Zhang’s project supported by the Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grant.
Dr. Tera Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in the department and leads the Consumer heAlth infoRmatics for Engagement (CARE) research lab on campus.
Read our interview with Dr. Reynolds as she talks with us about her courses in the Online MS program, how students can get involved with her research, and the similarities between the online and on campus MS programs.