Please join us as we bring you a series of talks highlighting department research and topical issues in our field. If you like these talks, be sure to check out the ISRC research series.
Wednesday Information Systems Seminars (WISS)
Please visit our event page for information on individual presentations and RSVP links. Each happen at Noon in ITE 459 on the day below, unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2025
January 29 – Chaminda Hewage and Rajkumar Singh Rathore, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
April 2 – Pedro Pedrosa Rebouças Filho, Federal Institute of Ceará, Brazil
Fall 2024
October 30 – Janelle Clark, Mechanical Engineering
November 4 – Tejas Gokhale, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
November 11 – Kai Sun, Information Systems
November 18 – Edward Dillon, Information Systems
Monday, November 25 – Catherine Ordun, Ph.D. ’23, information systems – please note event is on Monday
December 2 – Yasmine Kotturi, Information Systems
Previous Seminars
2023
Dr. Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor and William Norris Endowed Chair, CSE, University of Minnesota
Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning: A New Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery and Addressing Global Environmental Challenges
Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 12-1 pm • ITE 459 and Virtual
Click to view Dr. Kumar’s abstract and full bio on myUMBC.
Dr. Shaukat Ali, Chair and Chief Research Scientist, Simula Research Lab, Norway
Noise-Aware and Noise-Free Quantum Software Testing
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 12-1 pm
Click to view a PDF of Dr. Ali’s presentation abstract and full bio.
2022
Dr. Abdullah Mueen
Mining and Learning from Big Time Series Data
Wednesday, November 16, Noon • Virtual
Click to view a PDF of Dr. Mueen’s presentation abstract and full bio.
Dr. Tiffani J Bright, FACMI
Developing and Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion in Informatics
Thursday, November 10, Noon • ITE 459
Click to view a PDF of Dr. Bright’s presentation abstract and full bio.
Dr. Govind Rao
Disruptive Innovation to Reduce Health Care Costs
Wednesday, October 19, Noon • ITE 459
Click to view a PDF of Dr. Rao’s presentation abstract and full bio.
Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay
Research Challenges and Opportunities in the Center for Real-Time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy
Thursday, March 10, Noon • Virtual
Dr. Jeff Bardzell
Aesthetic Rationality in Design Research
Friday, March 4, Noon • ITE 459
2021
Dr. Andrea Kleinsmith and Dr. Karuna Joshi
Introduction to the Center of Accelerated Real-Time Analytics (CARTA) and the Interactive Systems Research Center (ISRC) at UMBC
Wednesday, December 8, Noon • Virtual
Dr. Mirela Alistar
Personal Biochips
Monday, September 27, 3pm • Virtual
Dr. Silvia Lindtner
Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation
Monday, April 19, 3pm • Virtual
Dr. Nazanin Andalibi
Towards Accounting for the Human in Emotion Recognition/AI Technologies
Monday, March 29, 3pm • Virtual
Dr. Edward Raff, Booz Allen Hamilton
Machine Learning for Malware: Challenges and Progress
Wednesday, February 17, Noon • Virtual
Dr. Erwin Gianchandani
Advancing the Frontiers of Computer and Information Science and Engineering – and Translation, Innovation, and Partnerships at the National Science Foundation
Wednesday, February 10, Noon • Virtual