UMIACS

About to grab the wrong tool on the job? UMD's Kyungyeon Lee, Kirti Kishore, Adrien Ramsamy, @KikumotoAtsushi & Jun Nishida (@umd_emd) built a wearable AI system that tracks your gaze & motion to physically nudge your head or arm before you make a mistake. Presented at #UIST2026, it acts as a physical guardrail for training, rehab & daily tasks like cooking. Read more: go.umd.edu/2hnh

Backed by a $150K grant, Jun Nishida (@umd_emd) and Nirupam Roy (@NeeeRooo9) are part of an interdisciplinary @UofMaryland team aiming to develop wearable hardware that turns rhythm, harmony and instrument textures into physical sensations for Deaf and hard-of-hearing music fans. Read more: umiacs.umd.edu/news-events/ne…

A biofilm can create big problems for a data center — or it can help remove pollutants from water. Birthe Kjellerup, a @UofMaryland Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-director of the Center of Excellence in Microbiome Sciences, studies how to control the damage biofilms cause and put their capabilities to work.

To a robot, a glass wall looks like an open path. UMD researchers are using light polarization to help autonomous systems spot invisible barriers like glass—a project that earned 2 of 5 workshop honors captured by UMD’s Perception and Robotics Group @prgumd at IROS, a flagship international robotics conference.

Congrats to computer science Ph.D. students Naitri Rajyaguru @naitri_r, Zhi “Leo” Wang @TX_Leo_Wang and Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, along with their collaborators, including group co-directors Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermüller. Read more: go.umd.edu/2g93

A new study @PhysRevLett shows that some quantum states previously thought to provide the "magic" needed for quantum computation can actually be simulated efficiently by classical computers. The findings redefine scientists’ understanding of the boundary between classical and quantum computing, and identify a more precise resource required for achieving a genuine quantum advantage. The study was coauthored by @JointQuICS Fellow @nicoleyh11, and @ParticulateDave and J.J. Thio from the University of Cambridge's @DeptofPhysics. Learn more: go.umd.edu/2dm8