Research
Nguyen Awarded NSF Grant to Support Sustainable Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring
Public Interest Technology at UMass Announces 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
Data Science for the Common Good 2024 Poster Session and Lunch Set for Sept. 18
Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Funds 11 Pilot Projects Totaling $2.3 Million
Social Media Polls Deliberately Skew Political Realities of 2016, 2020 US Presidential Elections, Finds Research Team Led by UMass Amherst
A team of scientists led by research assistant professor Przemyslaw Grabowicz shows that Twitter’s poll system deliberately reports biased public vote counts.
Intercollegiate Research Team to Modernize First-Year CS Curriculum
UMass Amherst Researchers Create New Method for Orchestrating Successful Collaboration Among Robots
New research from UMass Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and wait for their teammates results in faster task completion.
UMass Amherst to Join $90M US National Science Foundation Large-Scale Research Infrastructure for Education
UMass has joined the newly announced NSF's SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and development infrastructure for inclusive education research.
Three CICS Faculty Selected to Receive 2024 UMass Interdisciplinary Research Grants
Anna Green, Brendan O’Connor, and Don Towsley will serve as team leads on three of the ten proposals supported by 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grants.
UMass Researchers Awarded $12M to Shrink Society's Carbon Footprint with AI & Other Computer Science Tools
UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization
To Optimize Guide-dog Robots, First Listen to the Visually Impaired
A study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024.
New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
DISCount, created at UMass Amherst, derived from two very different needs: Counts of damaged buildings in crisis zones and bird flock sizes.