Awards
McKenna, Oubre Receive CICS 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Ryan McKenna '22PhD and Brandon Oubre '22PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2022 Manning CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards.
CICS Team Selected to Participate in Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
CICS Team Selected to Participate in Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
Kurose Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Kurose Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Xiong, Cui Win ACM SenSys 2022 Best Paper Award
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that they have invented a low-cost, innovative way to harvest the waste energy...
Rupp, LaFlamme Honored with 2022 Outstanding Staff Awards
Victoria Rupp, assistant to the dean, and Tara LaFlamme, assistant to the associate deans in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, have been selected to receive 2022 Outstanding Staff Awards.
Gorbunov, Dale Invent Winning Cybersecurity Device During HackUMass X
Gorbunov, Dale invent winning cybersecurity device during HackUMass X.
Chloe Eggleston '23 Named Fall 2022 Rising Researcher
Chloe Eggleston '23 uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to process large swaths of text on social media to study sociological phenomena.
CICS Doctoral Candidate Binbin Xie Awarded 2022 Google PhD Fellowship
CICS doctoral candidate Binbin Xie has been announced as a 2022 Google PhD Fellowship recipient in recognition of her research in the field of mobile computing.
Sitaraman Receives Amazon Research Award for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming Research
Sitaraman Receives Amazon Research Award for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming Research
Mahyar, Sarvghad, Jasim Win Best Paper at EuroVis2022 for Critical Inquiry Into Civic Text Visualization
Mahyar, Sarvghad, Jasim Win Best Paper at EuroVis2022 for Critical Inquiry Into Civic Text Visualization
Zamani Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work on Conversational Information Retrieval
Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani receives $570,000 NSF CAREER Award
UMass Amherst, Rice Team Wins Grand Prize in National Automated Scoring Challenge
Doctoral students Nigel Fernandez and Aritra Ghosh, and faculty Andrew Lan, recently won a grand prize in the NCES Automated Scoring Challenge.