Research

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.

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

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

Assistant Professor Ravi Karkar has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $659,861.00 in support of his work to democratize self-experimentation technologies.

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.