Dr. Don Edward Engel

Dr. Don Edward Engel

Associate Professor · Tenured

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Center for Space Science and Technology Office of Research and Creative Achievement

College of Engineering and Information Technology

About

Before joining UMBC Dr. Engel served as the AAAS/APS Congressional Fellow, the APS Senior Science Policy Fellow, and as a Senior Consultant for Deloitte. Dr. Engel holds a PhD in Physics from UPenn, an MS in Computer Science from Brown, and a BS in Math-Physics from Brown, with postdoctoral training at Hopkins and UPenn.

Research interests

Scientific data visualization, computer vision problems related to the natural sciences; computational physics.

Teaching interests

Algorithms; data visualization; computer vision

Education

  • Postdoc, Computational aspects of Radiation Oncology Medical Physics — Johns Hopkins University (2010)
  • Ph D, Physics — University of Pennsylvania (2006)
    Natural Protein Motifs and Their Use in Design
  • Postdoc, Physics — University of Pennsylvania (2006)
  • MS, Computer Science — Brown University (2001)
  • BS, Math-Physics — Brown University (2000)

Publications

  • Mobile augmented reality system for object detection, alert, and safety 2023 Society for Imaging Science and Technology Sharad Sharma, Donald Engel
  • Machine Learning and Student Performance in Teams 2020 Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science · Springer International Publishing · 12164 · pp. 301-305 Rohan Ahuja, Daniyal Khan, Sara Tahir, Magdalene Wang, Danilo Symonette, Shimei Pan, Simon Stacey, Donald Engel
  • Towards the Automatic Assessment of Student Teamwork 2020 Proceedings of ACM GROUP 2020 · Association for Computing Machinery · pp. 143-146 Rohan Ahuja, Daniyal Khan, Danilo Symonette, Shimei Pan, Simon Stacey, Donald Engel
  • Virtual Reality and Photogrammetry for Improved Reproducibility of Human-Robot Interaction Studies 2019 Proceedings of IEEE-VR 2019 · (In Press) Mark Murnane, Max Breitmeyer, Cynthia Matuszek, Donald Engel
  • De Novo Design of a Single-Chain Diphenylporphyrin Metalloprotein 2007 Journal of the American Chemical Society · 129 (35) · pp. 10732-10740 Gretchen Bender, A Lehmann, H Zou, H Cheng, H Fry, Donald Edward Engel, M Therien, J Blasie, H Roder, J Saven, W DeGrado
  • Parsing and Disfluency Placement 2002 Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · pp. 49-54 Donald Edward Engel, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson

Presentations

  • Exploring Career Opportunities in Academia 2015 2015 S&T Policy Fellows' Career Summit · American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Oral Presentation
  • The DARPA Shredder Challenge 2012 UMBC Physics Department Colloquium · UMBC Physics Department · Oral Presentation
  • ArtBytes Presentation 2012 ArtBytes Hackathon · The Walters Art Museum · Demonstration
  • DARPA Shredder Challenge Presentation 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge Presentations · DARPA · Oral Presentation
  • Clinical Commissioning of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy 2010 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Mid-Atlantic Meeting · American Association of Physicists in Medicine · Oral Presentation
  • An Overview of Science and Technology Policy Fellowships 2009 An Overview of Science and Technology Policy Fellowships · Johns Hopkins University · Oral Presentation
  • Congress, Medical Physics, and You 2009 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting · American Association of Physicists in Medicine · Oral Presentation
  • The Role of Scientists and Engineers in Decision 2008 2008 Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives Annual Meeting · Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives · Oral Presentation
  • The American Physical Society’s Outreach and Advocacy Strategy 2008 National User Facility Organization Meeting · National User Facility Organization · Oral Presentation
  • Non-Traditional Careers for Physicists 2008 April Meeting of the American Physical Society · American Physical Society · Oral Presentation
  • China and India: A New Sputnik? 2008 Louisiana State University Physics Department Colloquium · Louisiana State University Physics Department · Lecture
  • Postdoctoral Careers in Science Policy 2008 March Meeting of the American Physical Society · American Physical Society · Oral Presentation
  • Physics Education Policy Initiatives on Capitol Hill 2008 American Association of Physics Teachers Annual Meeting · American Association of Physics Teachers · Oral Presentation
  • 2006-2007 Congressional Fellow Report 2007 American Physical Society’s Executive Board Meeting · American Physical Society · Oral Presentation
  • Federal Funding of Physical Sciences and Engineering Research 2007 American Physical Society’s Texas Section Meeting · American Physical Society · Oral Presentation
  • How Faculty Can Influence the Federal Research Budget 2007 Rice University Physics Department Colloquium · Rice University Physics Department · Oral Presentation
  • High Energy Physics Funding in the New Congress 2007 Fermilab User’s Group Annual Meeting · Fermilab User’s Group · Oral Presentation
  • The Science Agenda of the New Congress 2007 American Institute of Physics Assembly of Society Officers · American Institute of Physics · Oral Presentation

Grants and Contracts

  • CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Enabling Big Computing and Data Intensive Cyberinfrastructure (EBCDIC) 2014 NSF · Grant · Funded Matthias Gobbert (Co-Principal), Jack Suess (Principal), Donald Edward Engel (Co-Principal)
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