Awards

Emily First MS’20, PhD’23 is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Outstanding Dissertation Award.

CICS students were on the teams that placed first, second, and third in the final round of the Berthiaume Center’s 2025 Innovation Challenge.

Yair  Zick has received a five‑year, $600,000 NSF CAREER award to advance large‑scale resource allocation.

Ramesh Sitaraman has received a 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).

Assistant Director of Human Resources Jennifer Donelson has been selected to receive the 2025 College Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.

Butler has been named one of ten 2025–2026 Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Equity (TIDE) Ambassadors.

Eight graduating seniors have been chosen to receive the 2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Awards, the college's highest honor given to undergraduates.

Zilberstein is cited as having “established the field of decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs)"

Liberatore is one of four inaugural recipients of the UMass Amherst Delphi Leadership Award, cited for sustained efforts to advance equity for NTT colleagues.

Assistant Professor Ravi Karkar has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $659,861.00 in support of his work to democratize self-experimentation technologies.

Ghazaleh Parvini has received the 2025 College Outstanding Teaching Award (COTA) for her dedication to course development, student engagement, and mentorship.

Neena Thota has been announced as a recipient of the Spring 2025 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award.