AI as Your Design Sidekick workshop 5:30-7:30pm on Thursday, October 23, 2025, UMBC IRC

AI as Your Design Sidekick is a free, hands-on, interdisciplinary workshop for founders, designers, and programmers interested in applying AI tools effectively and responsibly. It will be held 5:30-7:30pm on Thursday, October 23, 2025, in the UMBC Imaging Research Center. 

Sponsored by bwtech@UMBC and the UMBC Arts+ Initiative, the event invites students and researchers from all disciplines to explore how AI can enhance innovation, from startup development to web design and technical workflows. The event will include 

Register here.

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UMBC-Shady Grove will hold two free AI-related online workshops this summer featuring collaborative and hands-on examples and real-world applications.

Introduction to Machine Learning, 1-4 pm EDT, June 17-18, 2025

This two-day workshop provides an introduction to machine learning for participants from all backgrounds and experience levels. While a basic understanding of Python is required, participants will receive introductory materials to help them get started, covering essential Python concepts and the key libraries used in machine learning, ensuring that even those new to programming can confidently follow along. The workshop covers the entire process—preparing data, building, evaluating, deploying machine learning models, and displaying results in colorful plots.

Introduction to Generative AI, 1-5 pm EDT, Wednesday, July 2, 2025

This workshop explores the rapidly evolving world of LLMs and generative AI systems, building upon the foundational knowledge gained in the machine learning workshop.  Participants will learn how to use Python API calls to generate text, images, and videos with state-of-the-art generative AI models. The workshop will guide them through practical examples and real-world applications, enabling them to experiment with cutting-edge tools and understand the underlying principles of generative AI.

Get more information and register here.

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UMBC Campus Life will hold workshops on Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Commons 331. The workshop is aimed at students, but faculty and staff are welcome to attend as well. To accommodate schedules, the 90-minute workshop will be held starting at 10 am, Noon, and 2 pm.

The workshop will address what it means to engage with AI systems in an increasingly digital world and cover the principles of ethical leadership, AI challenges and governance, ethical dilemmas with AI, and more.

Register here for one of the three sessions and answer a few optional questions to let the organizers know more about what you want to learn. You will then receive a confirmation email with some additional information.



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Recent advances in generative AI, including large language models, can create new content, including text, images, code, audio, and video, by learning from existing data and guided by prompts from users. This have led to many new new applications that can revolutionize industries by boosting creativity, automating tasks, and improving efficiency. 

From fundamentals to hands-on practice, UMBC's data science program director Dr. Ali Yousuf will guide interactive activities for all skill levels. Learn valuable applications of generative AI and see how UMBC's graduate programs in data science can help you advance in this growing field. 

 Register here for this free online workshop.

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Can We Trust AI-Generated Code?

Workshop sponsored by UMBC & Army Research Laboratory
Feb. 25-26, 2025 UMBC Training Centers, Columbia, MD & online

position paper deadline extended to 1/20/2025

The era of generative AI is upon us, and chatbots such as chatGPT are being used by programmers at all levels of experience to produce code.  Some generative AI systems, such as Gemini Code Assist, specialize in code generation.  Unfortunately, AI-generated code often contains errors in the form of functionality that fails to meet specifications or vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.  People have been working on program verification and secure coding for sixty years, but even so, the skill needed to find such errors is possessed by only a fraction of software engineers, and these skills are not being passed on to student programmers as they should be.

The goal of this FREE workshop is to gather and produce actionable ideas and suggestions that may be of use to the IT profession.  The workshop will consist of invited speakers, panels, and open discussion. 

We invite would-be participants to submit short position papers offering comments, observations, experiences, and suggestions that pertain to any or all of the following workshop themes:
  1. What is or could be done to make AI-generated code more trustworthy, from the perspective of functionality and/or cybersecurity?
  2. How can we do better at instilling the ideas and tools of secure development into the software profession?
  3. Being able to produce quality code, with or without the aid of AI, seems to be related to system skills in general. How can we do better at giving students these skills before (or as) they enter the workplace?
Position papers should limited to three pages and submitted according to this template.  Submit your position paper via email to codebot25@umbc.edu after registering for the workshop.

The organizing committee will select several papers for live presentation at the workshop. Selection will be based on relevance to the workshop themes, technical merit, and perceived interest to the audience.  Position papers that are mere marketing pieces will not be considered, but descriptions of hardware and software solutions tying into the themes described above are welcome. Limited travel support may be available for non-local speakers. Position papers and summaries of the discussions that follow will make up the core of the workshop report.

UMBC students, both graduate or undergraduate, are welcome to submit position papers that describe their own personal experience and observations with AI-generated code in their own words.  Students may include their resumes with position papers if they wish to have their work/resume circulated to other attendees.  Domestic and international students are welcome to participate in this workshop.

Important Dates:
  Position paper submission deadline: January 20, 2025
   P̶o̶s̶i̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ p̶a̶p̶e̶r̶ s̶u̶b̶m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ d̶e̶a̶d̶l̶i̶n̶e̶:̶ J̶a̶n̶u̶a̶r̶y̶ 7̶, 2̶0̶2̶5̶
  Notice of acceptance: January 31, 2025
  Registration deadline: February 18, 2025
    (no registration fee, but space is limited)
  Workshop dates: February 25-26, 2025

The workshop will take place at UMBC Training Centers, 6996 Columbia Gateway Dr #100, Columbia, MD 21046

REGISTER @ https://forms.gle/CipmPbbBVBLfHc728

In-person space is limited, so register early! Based on RSVPs received, the organizing committee reserves the right to be selective in whom it selects to join the in-person meeting.

Instructions for virtual participation will be made available prior to the workshop.

Organizing Committee:
  Prajna Bhandary, UMBC
  Mike De Lucia, Army Research Laboratory
  Richard Forno, UMBC
  Lindsay Gaughan, UMBC Training Centers
  Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC
  Charles Nicholas, UMBC
  Steve Simske, Colorado State University
  Larry Wagoner, Dept. of Defense
  Linda Kidder Yarlott, UMBC
  Paul Yu, Army Research Laboratory

Questions? Send email to codebot25@umbc.edu
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UMBC Professor Lara Martin is one of the organizers of the Wordplay: When Language Meets Games workshop, which will be held at the annual Association of Computational Linguistics conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 16, 2024.

The workshop will focus on exploring the utility of interactive narratives, think everything from classic text-adventures like Zork to modern Twine games, to fill a role as the learning environments of choice for language-based tasks including but not limited to storytelling. Previous iterations of this workshop took place successfully, with hundreds of attendees at NeurIPS 2018, NeurIPS 2020, and NAACL 2022. Since then, the community of people working in this area has rapidly increased. 

This workshop aims to be a centralized place where all researchers involved across many fields can interact and learn from each other. Furthermore, it will act as a showcase to the broader NLP/RL/Game communities on interactive narrative’s place as a learning environment. The program will feature a collection of invited talks in addition to contributed talks and posters from each of these sections of the interactive narrative community and the wider natural language processing and reinforcement learning communities.

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CSEE assistant professor Manas Gaur and CSEE adjunct professor Ed Raff are two of the organizers of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge-Infused Learning, which will be held in conjunction with the ACM KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Barcelona in August 2024.

Knowledge-infused learning (KIL) is a class of AI techniques that enhance machine learning models by integrating structured external knowledge, such as facts, rules, and relationships from various sources. The method aims to improve a model's ability to understand complex concepts, generalize from limited data, and provide interpretable decisions. By combining the pattern recognition capabilities of traditional data-driven models and large language models (LLMs) with the reasoning power of knowledge-based systems, KiL seeks to create more robust, capable, and understandable AI systems, with applications including natural language processing, robotics, and healthcare applications.

The theme of of the 2024 KIL workshop is on developing and using metrics, methods, and datasets for consistent, reliable, explainable and safe LLMs.

Professor Gaur was also an organizer of the three previous KIL workshops, held at KDD in 2023, the knowledge Graph conference in 2021, and at KDD 2020.
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