Awards

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. 

Assistant Professor Hung Le has received an NSF CAREER award of $655,466 for his project to advance the theoretical understanding of topological graphs.

Ryan McKenna '22PhD and Brandon Oubre '22PhD have been announced as the recipients of the 2022 Manning CICS Outstanding Dissertation Awards.

Doctoral students Ashish Singh, Ojaswi Acharya, Vignesh Viswanathan and Cen Wang have received the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards.

CICS Team Selected to Participate in Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge

Kurose Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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...

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.

Gorbunov, Dale invent winning cybersecurity device during HackUMass X.

Chloe Eggleston '23 uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to process large swaths of text on social media to study sociological phenomena.

CICS doctoral candidate Binbin Xie has been announced as a 2022 Google PhD Fellowship recipient in recognition of her research in the field of mobile computing.

Sitaraman Receives Amazon Research Award for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming Research