Research

Seven CICS faculty members have been granted tenure at the UMass Board of Trustees quarterly meeting on June 11, 2025.

Alexandra Meliou, has been elected vice chair of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Edward K. Smith ’16MS and collaborators received a 2025 FSE Test of Time Award honorable mention for their influential 2015 paper on overfitting.

Since the field’s earliest days, UMass Amherst has been on the leading edge of reinforcement learning, a branch of AI that is now poised to be a disruptor.

Manning CICS community members Tom Bernadin, Brendan O’Connor, and Jay Taneja will serve on three of the funded collaborations

Associate Professor Ivon Arroyo is on a mission to make math multi-lingual

For over a decade, leaders in the CIIR have been instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the ICTIR, leading to its recent renaming and rebranding

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.

UMass Amherst, the birthplace of reinforcement learning, hosted the first conference dedicated to the field in 2024.

The CCC has released The Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Workshop Report, co-authored by James Allan and Hamed Zamani.

Although HIV was used as a case study, the UMass Amherst researchers say their assessment tool has applications for other diseases