Research
Siobhan Meï Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture
The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.
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UMass Amherst Hosts Inaugural Reinforcement Learning Conference
UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.
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Allan, Zamani Co-Author Report on the Future of Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI
The CCC has released The Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Workshop Report, co-authored by James Allan and Hamed Zamani.
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New Study Finds Social Programs Could Reduce the Spread of HIV by 29%
Although HIV was used as a case study, the UMass Amherst researchers say their assessment tool has applications for other diseases
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How Games Might Be the Key to Avoiding Digital Censorship
Amir Houmansadr turns to game theory and AI to study surveillance in China and learn how to circumvent the world’s most sophisticated surveillance networks.
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Shiven Patel ’26 Named Fall 2024 Rising Researcher
Shiven Patel '26 is developing a robot guide dog to allow visually impaired individuals to navigate the world independently.
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Who (or What) Searches the Search Engines of the Future?
Award-winning team introduces a cost-effective method to redesign search engines for Artificial Intelligence.
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Bagdasarian Wins Distinguished Paper Award at 2024 USENIX Security Symposium
Assistant Professor Eugene Bagdasarian received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium for his work on “Adversarial Illusions in.."
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Northeast Robotics Colloquium Held at UMass Amherst
The Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) is a research meeting, networking event, job fair, and showcase for the robotics community in the northeastern US.
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Team Led by UMass Amherst Debunks Research Showing Facebook's Newsfeed Algorithm Curbs Election Misinformation
An interdisciplinary team of researchers calls into question the conclusions of a widely reported study published in Science in 2023 and funded by Meta
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Nguyen Awarded NSF Grant to Support Sustainable Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring
A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor VP Nguyen has been awarded a Computer Systems Research (CSR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Data Science for the Common Good 2024 Poster Session and Lunch Set for Sept. 18
The Center for Data Science invites the campus community to attend the Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) Poster Session on Sept. 18.
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