Awards

Third-year PhD student Alexander Scarlatos and Assistant Professor Andrew Lan, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 AIED Conference.

Shiven Patel received the top prize in the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition at the 2024 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.

CICS faculty members Neena Thota and Michelle Trim have been selected for the 2024-25 UMass Amherst Chancellor's Leadership Fellows cohort.

Public Interest Technology New England (PIT-NE), a consortium of seven colleges and universities co-founded by UMass Amherst, will receive $200,000.

Professor Emery Berger has received the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the programming languages community.

Three Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) faculty members have been named among the nation’s top 80 Best Computer Science Scientists

John Wamburu ’22PhD received the Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Energy.

A team of faculty and alumni of the University of Massachusetts Amherst received a Test of Time Award at e-Energy 2024.

CICS professor and director of the UMass Cybersecurity Institute Brian Levine was appointed Distinguished Professor by the UMass Board of Trustees on June 7.

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) program has announced Shiven Patel ’26 as one of this year’s recipients of the Crowley-Nowick Award.

Assistant Professors Hui Guan and Negin Rahimi have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2023–2024 academic year

NCWIT will recognize CICS Stuart Rice Honorary Chair and Research Professor Francine Berman as the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Pioneer in Tech Award.