CSEE alumna Dr. Randi Williams ’16, B.S., computer engineering, is the keynote speaker for UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). She will give the keynote talk from 12-1 pm on April 16 in University Center room 312.

Dr. Williams earned her Ph.D. (’24) and M.S. (’18) from MIT where she was a member of Media Lab's Personal Robots Group. At UMBC, she was a Meyerhoff Scholar, Honors College student, CWIT affiliate, a founder of HackUMBC, and worked with Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee in the Mobile, Pervasive, and Sensor Systems Laboratory. She received a computer engineering B.S. degree in 2016.

She is currently leading research at Day of AI, where she works to help equip K-12 students of all backgrounds and abilities to thrive in an AI-driven world. She will join CMU as a research professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute in July 2026.

See the complete schedule of URCAD presentations, posters, exhibits, films and interactive video games here.