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CICS ranks #21 among all 210 ranked public and private graduate computer science programs in the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Ghazaleh Parvini has received the 2025 College Outstanding Teaching Award (COTA) for her dedication to course development, student engagement, and mentorship.

For over a decade, leaders in the CIIR have been instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the ICTIR, leading to its recent renaming and rebranding

Keith Marzullo, computer scientist, educator, and policy leader with a passion for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, has been selected as the next dean

Neena Thota has been announced as a recipient of the Spring 2025 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award.

Towsley, Distinguished Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), has been elected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow.

As chair, Allan will help guide strategic initiatives across academia, industry, and government.

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.