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.
With the generous support of the Baker-Polito administration, UMass Amherst has broken ground on a new, world-class $125 million facility for education, research, and outreach at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.
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Distinguished Professor Ramesh Sitaraman will receive the 2023 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize with Kevin Spiteri ‘21PhD and Rahul Urgaonkar for their invention of BOLA, a widely-used adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithm for video... Read more »
Sao Myat Thazin "Yuki" Thane, a graduating senior of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst (CICS), has been named one of ten recipients of the university's 21st Century Leaders Awards, to be presented at... Read more »
Eight graduating seniors have been chosen by the UMass Amherst Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) to receive its 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Awards, the college's highest honor given to undergraduates. Read more »
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will honor Nicholas Perello '18 with the Commitment to Diversity Award for his exceptional service to the university community during Commencement 2023 on Friday, May 26, at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Read more »
Narges Mahyar, an assistant professor of computer science in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, has been named a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow for 2023-24. Read more »