Directory
New INFO Faculty & Staff
Melissa E. Wertheimer
Adjunct Lecturer
Myriam Paul
Assistant Director of Sponsored Projects
Ramita Shrestha
Program Manager - BSIS@Shady Grove
Ronaisha Ruth
HR Coordinator
Lee J. Tiedrich
AIM Fellow, Visiting Professor of the Practice, Co-Director Tech Policy, Research & Education Hub
Keke Wu
Assistant Professor
Samantha McDonald
Lecturer
A UMD-led multidisciplinary team is developing a large-scale, open-source dataset for AI model training tools focused on K–12 math education that aims to increase accuracy and representation in educational AI systems. Photo by Adobe Stock.
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Project Funded by $4.5M Philanthropic Grant Aims to Help Teachers, Students, Researcher and Edtech Industry
Hornbake Library, a University library in College Park, Maryland
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A profile of Ben Igwe, INFO’s first Black PhD graduate
“If you ask policymakers, ‘How big is the attack surface on a state or national level?’ they would say, ‘I don’t know,’” said UMD Associate Research Professor Charles Harry. His research team used open-source tools to find the answers. Illustration by iStock.
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Scholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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Project co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories
The American flag waves in the breeze beside the NC State Memorial Belltower. At LAS, teams of industry, academic and government partners work side-by-side to enhance intelligence analysis through innovative technology. (Roger Winstead/NC State University)
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Seventeen faculty from 11 universities and three companies will conduct LAS research projects this year
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Researchers created a motion dataset to train autonomous vehicles on how blind individuals move
Renee Hill Principal Lecturer; Associate Dean for OACES
Mia K. Hinckle Associate Director of Communications
Twanna Hodge PhD Student
Alicia Holloway Payroll & Administrative Coordinator
Ruipu Hu PhD Student
Eric Hing-Tao Hung Adjunct Lecturer (Executive Director of the Music of Asian America Research Center (MAARC))
Khandaker “Swad” Tasnim Huq PhD Student
Bryan Hwang LAN Systems Administrator
Sungjin Hwang PhD Student
Katherine Izsak Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Scott Jackson Lecturer; Assistant Director, BS in Social Data Science
Paul T. Jaeger Professor; Director, Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Certificate
Greg Jansen Senior Research Software Architect
Shawn Janzen PhD Student
Jainaba Jawara PhD Student
Zubin Jelveh Assistant Professor
Allison Jennings-Roche PhD Student
Shannon Jette Affiliate Associate Professor