Research

Assistant Professor Donghyun Kim has received an NIH Trailblazer Award to advance the development of robotic guide dogs for the visually impaired.

CICS PhD students Kyla Levin and Nicolas van Kempen, along with Professor Emery Berger, receive the 2025 FSE Distinguished Artifact Award

Assistant Professor Eugene Bagdasarian and Professor Shlomo Zilberstein have received a $500,000 Schmidt Sciences grant to advance AI safety research.

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.

Four UMass Amherst Class of 2025 graduates are poised to disrupt the wearables market with their sustainable tech start-up.

Ravi Karkar and Yair Zick have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2024–2025 academic year

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

Emily First MS’20, PhD’23 is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Yair  Zick has received a five‑year, $600,000 NSF CAREER award to advance large‑scale resource allocation.

PhD candidate Purity Mugambi leads a six-year, IDS-funded study probing inequities in cardiac care.

Zilberstein is cited as having “established the field of decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs)"