Jin Kang (B.S. ’86), president of WidePoint, joined the McDaniel College board of trustees.
Alumni
We are a department of excellence. The University of Maryland’s computer science faculty continually embarks on cutting edge research, produces award winning papers, and teaches students a foundation of skills to launch their own accomplishments.
We graduate qualified students that earn competitive jobs. Many UMD alumni have become professors at high ranked universities, researchers at well-known industrial labs and software engineers at successful Internet start-ups. Some of our notable alumni include Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; Gary Flake, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and founder of Yahoo! Research Labs; and Naresh Gupta, senior vice president of Adobe’s Print and Publishing Business Unit. In an effort to expand the online Alumni Hall of Fame, if you would like to nominate a UMD CS alumnus or alumna to be highlighted on these pages, please send an email to the chair's office (cschair@cs.umd.edu) and to Professor Ashok Agrawala (agrawala@cs.umd.edu). Our department wants to recognize the achievements of as many alumni as possible.
Additionally, we would like to keep alumni up-to-date on CS events once a semester through a newsletter! If you have not been invited by email to the alumni mailing list (cs-alumni@cs.umd.edu), you can sign up here. For giving opportunities, please click here.
Recent Class Notes
January, 2021
Sam Noh (Ph.D. ’93), dean of the UNIST Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence in Korea, was elected fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery “for contributions to storage system software, including flash and byte-addressable non-volatile memory.”
Adam Perer (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’08) joined Blue Spark Technologies’ TempTraq Advisory Board. Perer is an assistant research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Dheeraj Sanghi (M.S. ’89, Ph.D. ’93) will step down as director of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, in March 2021.
November, 2020
Shamik Sharma (M.S. ’98), who heads the digital initiatives at Cure.Fit, was quoted in a CNN article on “Indian health platform wants to nourish mind, body and soul.”
Read More Preeti Bhargava (M.S. ’12, Ph.D. ’16, computer science) and Nitesh Shroff (M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’12, electrical engineering) launched a health-tech startup Arintra that aims to free up doctors’ time and improve patient outcomes.
Read More Vinay Shet (M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’07), Teleo co-founder and CEO, was quoted in a BBC article on “The forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks.”
Read More Jonathan Mevs (B.S. ’18, computer science; M.A. ’19, education) is a computer science teacher at the Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Bongshin Lee (M.S. ’02, Ph.D. ’06) was inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy (Vis Academy)
Namita Dhallan (B.S. ’89) has been appointed Brightcove’s new chief product officer