Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences

A Quantum Leap

A UMass Magazine article features a round-up of predictions from UMass Amherst community experts including Distinguished Professor Donald Towsley and Ana McTaggart '15, and celebrates a transformational $5M gift for quantum information systems research.

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The Future of Search

Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani has been granted an NSF CAREER award to address a key aspect of the future of search technology by providing access to information through natural language conversations.

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Ramesh Sitaraman Named Distinguished Professor

An expert in content delivery networks and an award-winning educator, Sitaraman was honored for his exemplary teaching and research record.

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Recent News

Sitaraman Receives Amazon Research Award for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming Research

August 01, 2022

Professor Ramesh Sitaraman is a recipient of a 2022 Amazon Research Award, which will fund his research on adaptive bitrate algorithms for video streaming, a project in collaboration with Assistant Professor Mohammad Hajiesmaili, an expert in online... Read more »

Lost in Translation: A New Approach To AI Navigates World Literature

July 27, 2022

Assistant Professor Mohit Iyyer has recieved an $822,365 grant from Open Philanthropy to build AI models that help to translate digital foreign-language novels. Read more »

Mahyar, Sarvghad, Jasim Win Best Paper at EuroVis2022 for Critical Inquiry Into Civic Text Visualization

July 05, 2022

CICS Assistant Professor Narges Mahyar, Research Assistant Professor Ali Sarvghad, and doctoral student Mahmood Jasim with lead author Eric Baumer of Lehigh University, received the Best Paper Award at EuroVis 2022 (Eurographics Conference on... Read more »

Zamani Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work on Conversational Information Retrieval

July 01, 2022

Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani received a CAREER Award totaling more than $570,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the expansion of his project, Enriching Conversational Information Retrieval via Mixed-Initiative Interactions. Read more »

Sitaraman Appointed Distinguished Professor

June 24, 2022

Ramesh Sitaraman of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) was appointed Distinguished Professor by the UMass Board of Trustees at its June 2 meeting. Read more »

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The Manning 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.