Utilizing Machine Learning to Tackle Biology’s Toughest Challenges
An intercollegiate group of researchers led by Associate Professor Dan Sheldon has released BirdFlow, a novel predictive model capable of accurately forecasting the flight pattern of migratory birds--one of the most difficult tasks in biology.
CICS Team to Participate in Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
A team led by doctoral student Chris Samarinas and advised by Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani is, again, one of just ten teams selected worldwide to participate in the Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.
A UMass team led by Associate Professor Jie Xiong won the prestigious ACM SenSys Best Paper Award for research detailing that waste energy from Visual Light Communication can be harvested using the human body as an antenna.
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The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst announces the appointment of twelve new tenure-track and teaching faculty in 2023 for its expanding academic and research programs.
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Six students from UMass Amherst’s Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) Program, including five Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) undergraduate students, were recently recruited by the U.S. Read more »
An interdisciplinary team led Manning CICS Associate Professor Sunghoon Ivan Lee has been awarded $1.14 million over four years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a revolutionary way of tracking body movements, with a primary... Read more »
The UMass Amherst Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Dolby Laboratories, an industry leader in audio and imaging technologies, have announced an innovative partnership aimed at advancing the future of immersive... Read more »
Distinguished Professors Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst have recently been named fellows of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). Read more »