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Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Professor Ning Zeng improves commercially available atmospheric sensors to collect actionable, research-grade environmental data.

For Jacqueline Deprey, a personal loss and a passion for problem-solving inspired Perpetua, a digital toolkit designed to simplify estate settlement.

Pratyush Tiwary is a member of an ARPA-H consortium led by Georgetown and the Buck Institute that was awarded up to $51.7 million to study misfolding proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.

University of Maryland researchers developed an artificial intelligence model that learns how hands, tools and objects move from videos and then uses those patterns to help robots perform tasks.

They helped design and build the IceCube Neutrino Observatory’s data storage, analysis and real-time alert systems, and they currently play a major role in operating the observatory and analyzing the data.

The statistical modeling skills Wesley DeMontigny mastered while studying genomics gave him an upper hand.

The NIH-NSF and FDA projects aim to predict hospital readmissions in high-risk heart failure patients and establish reliable methods for evaluating the safety and performance of AI-enabled medical imaging systems.

Biotech executive Krisztina Zsebo (B.S. ’77, biochemistry) has spent more than four decades working at the forefront of therapeutic discovery, bringing life-changing drugs to the patients who need them. 

Jared Wolinsky (B.S. ’09, computer science) credits his University of Maryland education and the QUEST Honors Program for preparing him for his current role as group vice president of software engineering at SiriusXM.

Paik (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’07, physics) helps researchers use the company’s increasingly powerful machines to solve challenging problems.

UMD geophysicist Nicholas Schmerr helped adapt a technique built to track marsquakes for NASA’s InSight mission, turning it on the moon.

Saúl Flores and Holly Hemesath are participating in the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Microbiome Sciences’ seven-month student fellowship program.