Research
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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Public Interest Technology at UMass Announces 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
PIT@UMass announces nine faculty members selected for the third PIT Faculty Fellows cohort
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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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Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Funds 11 Pilot Projects Totaling $2.3 Million
The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease has announced its third round of grant funding totaling $2.3M
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Social Media Polls Deliberately Skew Political Realities of 2016, 2020 US Presidential Elections, Finds Research Team Led by UMass Amherst
A team of scientists led by research assistant professor Przemyslaw Grabowicz shows that Twitter’s poll system deliberately reports biased public vote counts.
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Intercollegiate Research Team to Modernize First-Year CS Curriculum
A collaborative effort led by Charles Weems and Neena Thota has secured a $500,000 NSF grant to update first-year computer science curricula.
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UMass Amherst Researchers Create New Method for Orchestrating Successful Collaboration Among Robots
New research from UMass Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and wait for their teammates results in faster task completion.
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