Awards
Erika Dawson Head Receives Chancellor’s Emerging Leader Award
Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusive Community Development Erika Dawson Head has received the inaugural Chancellor’s Emerging Leader Award.
Dan Parker Honored with 2023 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award
Dan Parker has been selected to receive the 2023 College Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.
Manasa Kalanadhabhatta Receives UbiComp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award
Jasmine Mangat '23 Named Spring 2023 Rising Researcher
Jasmine Mangat ’23 is a computer science and economics major at UMass Amherst who has carried out original research examining how communities, known as subreddi
Cindy Xiong Bearfield Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work Establishing Trust in Data Visualizations
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Assistant Professor Cindy Xiong Bearfield has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $631,846 to develop a formalized model to measure trust in human-data interaction and enhance critical thinking between humans and data in visual data communications.
Hung Le Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work on Graph Theory Algorithms
Assistant Professor Hung Le has received an NSF CAREER award of $655,466 for his project to advance the theoretical understanding of topological graphs.
Four Students Recognized at 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Doctoral students Ashish Singh, Ojaswi Acharya, Vignesh Viswanathan and Cen Wang have received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards.
McKenna, Oubre Receive CICS 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Awards
Ryan McKenna '22PhD and Brandon Oubre '22PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2022 Manning CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards.
CICS Team Selected to Participate in Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
CICS Team Selected to Participate in Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
Kurose Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Kurose Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Xiong, Cui Win ACM SenSys 2022 Best Paper Award
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that they have invented a low-cost, innovative way to harvest the waste energy...
Rupp, LaFlamme Honored with 2022 Outstanding Staff Awards
Victoria Rupp, assistant to the dean, and Tara LaFlamme, assistant to the associate deans in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, have been selected to receive 2022 Outstanding Staff Awards.