Awards

Doctoral students Nigel Fernandez and Aritra Ghosh, and faculty Andrew Lan, recently won a grand prize in the NCES Automated Scoring Challenge.

Associate Professor Brendan O’Connor has been announced as a Spring 2022 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award recipient.

Assistant Professor Hui Guan and collaborator have been awarded an ADVANCE seed grant for “Accelerating Fragment-Based Quantum Chemistry via Machine Learning.”

On April 8, 2022, the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences honored the recipients of its 2022 Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy awards.

Helia Hashemi is one of nine early-career researchers to receive the 2021-2022 Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship.

Professor David Jensen has been selected to for the college’s 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award, his second time receiving such an honor.

Adam Lechowicz '22 was recently named one of 10 recipients of the university’s 21st Century Leaders Awards, to be presented at undergraduate commencement.

Doctoral student Emily First and Professor Yuriy Brun receive a Distinguished Paper Award from ACM SIGSOFT 

Senior Teaching Faculty Cheryl Swanier and Assistant Professor Yair Zick have been announced as 2022-2023 ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Grant recipients

Five CICS graduate students have received Outstanding Graduate Awards for the 2020-21 academic year.

Sunghoon Ivan Lee has been selected as one of 46 UMass Amherst ADVANCE program faculty fellows for 2021–2022.