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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Apply for an undergraduate degree in computer science or informatics and join an exciting community of students preparing to be the next generation of innovators.

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Recent News

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

September 17, 2021

Program will support 31 undergraduate and graduate scholars The University of Massachusetts Amherst will continue to play a lead role in protecting the nation's computing networks and infrastructure through a $4.4 million federal grant to educate... 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 »

Lee Selected as UMass ADVANCE Fellow

September 02, 2021

Assistant Professor Sunghoon Ivan Lee has been selected as one of 46 UMass Amherst ADVANCE program faculty fellows for 2021–2022. Funded through a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, UMass ADVANCE is designed to... Read more »

Fintech Bootcamp Boots Up Under the Direction of CICS’s Jim Flynn

September 02, 2021

Recently, over 60 college-aged students gathered together in the Applied Science Center at UMass Amherst’s Mount Ida campus in Newton. The first cohort of the Commonwealth Fintech Bootcamp, they were welcomed by Jim Flynn, assistant dean for... 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.