News

Stay updated with the latest announcements, research highlights, and activities from the Causal Artificial Intelligence Lab (CAIL). We regularly share updates about new research publications, invited talks, workshops, datasets, student achievements, and other lab events.

2026

  • [Aug 2026] Our lab received a grant from the UMBC Cybersecurity Institute in collaboration with Dr. Shimei Pan and Dr. James Foulds to support a Graduate Cyber Fellow!
  • [Jul 2026] Muhammad Hasan Ferdous has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Ferdous!
  • [Jul 2026] Uzma Hasan has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Hasan!
  • [Jul 2026] We presented our work “OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility” at COMPSAC 2026.
  • [May 2026] ASM Mobarak Hossain received the COEIT Computing for Social Good Award for his work “A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility”! Congratulations, Mobarak!
  • [Apr 2026] ASM Mobarak Hossain has successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations, Mobarak!
  • [Apr 2026] Our lab received a grant from the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII)!
  • [Jan 2026] Uzma Hasan’s paper “DKC: Data-driven and Knowledge-guided Causal Discovery with Application to Healthcare Data” has been published in the Knowledge-Based Systems journal.

2025

  • [Dec 2025] Emam Hossain presented our work “Causal Time Series Modeling of Supraglacial Lake Evolution in Greenland under Distribution Shift” at ICMLA 2025.
  • [Nov 2025] Emam Hossain presented our work in the Polar Data Science workshop at SIGSPATIAL 2025.
  • [Oct 2025] Muhammad Hasan Ferdous, Uzma Hasan, and Emam Hossain were recognized as Ph.D. Candidates in the UMBC Ph.D. candidacy ceremony.
  • [Jun 2025] Emam Hossain passed his proposal defense.
  • [May 2025] Muhammad Hasan Ferdous passed his proposal defense.
  • [May 2025] Uzma Hasan received the COEIT Research Day Poster Award.
  • [May 2025] Muhammad Hasan Ferdous received honorable mention in the COEIT Research Day Poster Award.
  • [May 2025] Emam Hossain received honorable mention in the COEIT Research Day Poster Award.

2024

  • [Nov 2024] Uzma Hasan successfully defended her dissertation proposal. Congratulations, Uzma!
  • [Apr 2024] Md Fourkanul Islam received the Master’s Student Award at the COEIT Research Day

2023

  • [Apr 2023] Uzma Hasan was awarded 1st place in the PhD/Postdoc Work-in-Progress Research Track at the UMBC IS Student Research Symposium.

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