Awards

Ramita Dhamrongsirivadh '24 is a computer science major who analyzes data from wearable sensors to better understand movement patterns in stroke survivors.

Professor Ramesh Sitaraman was inducted to the newest class of AAAS Fellows, among the most prestigious honors bestowed by the scientific community.

Jaime Dávila received the 2024 College Outstanding Teaching Award (COTA), which recognizes excellence in teaching by honoring individual faculty members.

Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusive Community Development Erika Dawson Head has received the inaugural Chancellor’s Emerging Leader Award.

Dan Parker has been selected to receive the 2023 College Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.

Kalanadhabhatta received the 2023 UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award in recognition of her contributions to the field of ubiquitous computing.

Jasmine Mangat ’23 is a computer science and economics major at UMass Amherst who has carried out original research examining how communities, known as subreddi

Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences doctoral student Adam Lechowicz has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship on its Mathematics and Computer Science track.

Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Assistant Professor Cindy Xiong Bearfield has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $631,846 to develop a formalized model to measure trust in human-data interaction and enhance critical thinking between humans and data in visual data communications. 

Assistant Professor Hung Le has received an NSF CAREER award of $655,466 for his project to advance the theoretical understanding of topological graphs.

Ryan McKenna '22PhD and Brandon Oubre '22PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2022 Manning CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards.

Doctoral students Ashish Singh, Ojaswi Acharya, Vignesh Viswanathan and Cen Wang have received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards.