Awards

Four UMass Amherst Class of 2025 graduates are poised to disrupt the wearables market with their sustainable tech start-up.

Ravi Karkar and Yair Zick have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2024–2025 academic year

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.