Anupam Joshi and Yelena Yesha working with several UMBC students. Photo by Mitro Hood/Feature Photo Service.

UMBC and IBM Research have announced a collaboration to create the Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Lab (ACCL), opening at UMBC in fall 2016. Housed in the College of Engineering and Information Technology and supported with a multi-year commitment from IBM, it will advance scientific frontiers in cybersecurity and machine learning. Anupam Joshi, director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and chair of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, will lead the ACCL.

The lab will build on UMBC’s prior research on AI, high performance computing, data visualization and cybersecurity and work IBM researchers to apply IBM’s cognitive computing systems and tools, including the Watson computer system.

You can read more about the new partnership from IBM’s press releases (here and here), UMBC’s announcement and other new media (e.g., here).