OpenFieldUMD · College Park, Maryland, United States
The University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship public research university of the state of Maryland and an elite member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Located minutes from Washington, D.C., UMD is internationally celebrated for pioneering research in quantum computing, cybersecurity, atmospheric and oceanic sciences, aerospace engineering, and public policy.
UMD comprises 12 colleges and schools, notably the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS), and the School of Public Policy. The university partners extensively with major federal research laboratories including NASA Goddard, NIST, NOAA, and NIH, and operates premier research institutes such as the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Maryland Cybersecurity Center.
Undergraduate admissions use holistic evaluation via the Common App. Graduate admissions require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA, official transcripts, statement of purpose, three letters of recommendation, and English language proficiency scores (TOEFL iBT 96+ or IELTS 7.0+).
Elite doctoral program renowned for quantum computing algorithms, cybersecurity, distributed systems, machine learning, and human-computer interaction in partnership with the Joint Quantum Institute.
Top-ranked Clark School aerospace doctoral training featuring experimental rotorcraft, hypersonics wind tunnels, space robotics, and autonomous uncrewed flight vehicles.
Premier climate science program conducting planetary modeling, ocean-atmosphere interactions, data assimilation, and severe weather dynamics in close collaboration with NOAA and NASA.
Internationally acclaimed physics program leading experimental quantum science, topological insulators, non-linear dynamics, and particle astrophysics at JQI and NIST laboratories.
Rigorous policy curriculum leveraging proximity to Washington, D.C. for hands-on analysis of nuclear security, climate governance, international trade, and social equity.
Interdisciplinary biological training in host-pathogen evolutionary dynamics, marine biodiversity, plant genetics, and bioinformatics utilizing state-of-the-art sequencing cores.
Professor of Physics & Quantum Information
Department of Physics & Joint Quantum Institute
Dr. Monroe is a pioneer in trapped-ion quantum computing, coherent optical quantum control, quantum networks, and quantum simulations of many-body condensed mat...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Paley directs the Collective Dynamics and Control Laboratory, focusing on bio-inspired autonomous underwater vehicles, flocking behaviors, and nonlinear con...
View researcher profile ↗Associate Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science & UMIACS
Dr. Carpuat investigates multilingual natural language processing, machine translation robustness, cross-lingual representation learning, and semantic interpret...
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