Awards

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.

Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Teaching Faculty Siobhan Meïhas been selected as a 2024–2025 UMass Amherst Lilly Teaching Fellow.

Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Hung Le was selected for the 2024 Google Research Scholar Program.

Associate Chair of Faculty Development & Associate Professor Alexandra Meliou has been announced as a Spring 2024 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award recipient.