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Michelle Trim Receives 2025–2026 Delphi Leadership Award
Prashant Shenoy Receives 2026 IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award
PIT@UMass Presents Workshop on AI Safety and Literacy to Belchertown Civil Servants
Assistant Professor VP Nguyen Named Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors 2026 Class
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Oindrila Saha
CICS doctoral student Oindrila Saha took the stage at Adobe MAX Sneaks 2025 to present Project Scene It, an AI scene generation tool.
Oscar Youngquist '22MS
PhD student Oscar Youngquist shares his vision for human-centered, lifelong learning that drives his work in Manning CICS’s Human-Centered Robotics Lab.
Venkata “Sam” Samyukta Malapaka ’25 MS
Venkata Samyukta Malapaka ’25 transforms personal adversity into resilience, using her UMass journey to champion mental health.
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