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Sragvi Nidamarti successfully defended his Master’s Thesis ‘Addressing Trust Concerns in the Electric Vehicle Supply Chain: A Knowledge Graph Approach’. The study discusses the socio-economic impact of EV batteries and addresses the trust concerns surrounding it.

Committee : Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) ; Tim Finnin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) ; Manas Gaur(University of Maryland, Baltimore County); Konstantinos Mersinas (Royal Holloway University of London)

Our undergrad team looking at privacy issues on smart homes (Tartela, Luke, Ruhshana, and Josh) will present a poster during UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) 2023.

Analyzing Privacy and Utility Tradeoffs in Smart Homes

Tartela Tabassum, Luke Zimmermann, Ruhshana Bobojonova, Joshua Cheeks

Our paper on one-shot federated learning has been accepted at ICMLA 2022.

One-Shot Federated Group Collaborative Filtering

Maksim E. Eren (UMBC/LANL), Manish Bhattarai (LANL), Nicholas Solovyev (LANL), Luke E. Richards (UMBC), Roberto Yus (UMBC), Charles Nicholas (UMBC), Boian S. Alexandrov (LANL)

Our paper on supporting sensor-based smart space analytical applications has been accepted at CIKM 2022.

Sentaur: Sensor Observable Data Model for Smart Spaces

Peeyush Gupta, Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine); Shantanu Sharma (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine)

Our paper on supporting query-time enrichment has been accepted at VLDB 2022.

JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta, and Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County); and Yasser Altowim (Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority)

A research team that includes UMBC CSEE faculty Naghmeh Karimi and Roberto Yus won the second place prize in the 2022 INCS-CoE Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust. The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE) is an international collaboration of government, industry, and academic organizations that have partnered to explore pioneering efforts to address cybersecurity challenges created by a growing borderless digital society. UMBC is a charter member of INCS-CoE.

Our paper on facilitating the administration of smart spaces has been accepted in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

The SemIoTic Ecosystem: A Semantic Bridge between IoT Devices and Smart Spaces

Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, USA); Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Our paper on the generation of realistic synthetic IoT datasets won the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at IEEE PERCOM 2022!!

SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations

Andrew Chio (University of California, Irvine, USA); Daokun Jiang (Google); Peeyush Gupta (University of California, Irvine, USA); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, USA); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)