Academics
NSF Grant to Provide Scholarships to 40 Informatics and Computer Science Students, Boosting Diversity in Data Science
A $1.5M National Science Foundation federal grant will provide $10,000 per year to help lower educational barriers for underrepresented college students.
Rahman, Kalanadhabhatta Receive Technology Development Award From UMass President’s Office
Assistant Professor Tauhidur Rahman and doctoral candidate Manasa Kalanadhabhatta receive a project grant from UMass President’s Office
Adam Lechowicz '22 to Receive UMass Amherst 21st Century Leaders Award
Adam Lechowicz '22 was recently named one of 10 recipients of the university’s 21st Century Leaders Awards, to be presented at undergraduate commencement.
Eight Graduating Seniors Honored for Outstanding Achievements
Eight graduating seniors have been chosen to receive the CICS 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Awards
Xiong Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work on Long-Range Wireless Sensing
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Assistant Professor Jie Xiong has been granted a CAREER funding award of over $600,000 from the NSF.
Zilberstein, Ganesan Named 2021 ACM Fellows
Professors Shlomo Zilberstein and Deepak Ganesan have been named Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Bonab, Addanki Awarded College’s Dissertation Writing Fellowships
Doctoral candidates Hamed Bonab and Raghav Addanki have been selected to receive Spring 2022 CICS Dissertation Writing Fellowships.
CICS Doctoral Student Kalpesh Krishna Awarded Google PhD Fellowship
CICS doctoral student Kalpesh Krishna has been announced as a 2021 Google PhD Fellowship recipient in recognition of his work in the field of NLP.
New Health and Life Sciences Concentration for Informatics Major
New Program at CICS Will Meet the Demand for Graduates Prepared to Work at the Intersection of Computing, Data, and Health.
Computing for the Common Good Fellowships Support Graduate Student Research With Societal Impact
Ten graduate student and faculty teams received Computing for the Common Good Fellowships in support of research projects that align with the college's vision.
Computer Science Undergraduate Program Ranks Top 15 Public, No. 1 in the Northeast, According to U.S. News & World Report
CICS ranks in the top 15 of the nation's public computer science undergraduate programs.
Su, Sundarrajan Receive CICS 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Hang Su ‘20PhD and Aditya Sundarrajan ‘20PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2021 CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards.