College of Information and Computer Sciences

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Francine Berman Named Stuart Rice Honorary Chair

A renowned data scientist, researcher, and co-founder of the Research Data Alliance, Berman will work across the UMass campus to build an exciting new initiative in public-interest technology.

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Students Compete In Differential Privacy Challenge

A CICS graduate student team led by Ryan McKenna won $43,000 in prize money in the NIST Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge, which helps advance research for public safety communications while assuring data privacy.

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Skin in the Game

A UMass Amherst team led by CICS Assistant Professor Sunghoon Ivan Lee has designed a prototype battery-less wearable device that charges through human skin.

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Online M.S. Program Now Available

Expand your career opportunities with an online master's degree in computer science. Apply by July 15 to join our Fall 2021 cohort.

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Our highly-ranked Ph.D. program features world-renowned faculty, interdisciplinary research, and a spirit of collaboration.

Recent News

Computer Science Undergraduate Program Ranks Top 15 Public, #1 in the Northeast According to U.S. News & World Report

September 24, 2021

In the U.S. News & World Report rankings published last week, the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) is ranked in the top 15 of the nation's public computer science undergraduate programs, maintaining its spot at #... Read more »

Project to Promote Digital Literacy and Computer Science in K-12 Education Receives UMass REBLS Network Grant

September 22, 2021

Neena Thota, associate chair of teaching development and senior teaching faculty at CICS, is part of a team led by Ray Laoulache, dean of academic affairs at UMass Dartmouth, that is exploring ways to promote digital literacy and computer science... Read more »

Cybersecurity Institute Receives $4.4 Million NSF Grant To Play Leadership Role in Educating Future Cybersecurity Workforce

September 17, 2021

The university's Cybersecurity Institute has secured a renewal of its CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). A team of cybersecurity researchers, led by the College of Information and... Read more »

Su, Sundarrajan Receive CICS 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Awards

September 10, 2021

Hang Su ‘20PhD and Aditya Sundarrajan ‘20PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2021 CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards, which are given annually to graduating doctoral students in recognition of exceptional work and to encourage the... Read more »

Brun Receives Amazon Research Award for Automated Formal Verification

September 09, 2021

Professor Yuriy Brun is one of 26 recipients of a 2021 Amazon Research Award (ARA), which will fund his research on software formal verification via proof synthesis. The winning project, “Formal Verification via Language-Modeling-Based Proof... Read more »

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The College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) offers a world-class curriculum in support of BA, BS, MS, and PhD degrees. CICS is internationally recognized for its research activities and has one of the highest ranked and most competitive graduate programs in the nation. The College is distinguished by its culture of collaboration and leadership in multi-disciplinary research.