Research
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.
Shlomo Zilberstein and Multi-Institutional Colleagues Receive a $5M NSF Grant to Improve Causal Decision Making
Schlomo Zilberstein is one of five co-principal investigators for a $5 million, multi-institutional NSF grant to improve AI-based decision making.
CICS PhD Candidates Ankita Gupta and Lijun Zhang Receive 2023 IBM PhD Fellowship
IBM has named Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences PhD candidates Ankita Gupta and Lijun Zhang as awardees of the 2023 IMB PhD Fellowship.
Ten CICS Faculty and Staff Present at SIGSE TS 2024
Ten CICS faculty and staff led a diverse range of activities during the SIGCSE TS 2024 conference held in Portland, Oregon, March 20–23, 2024.
UMass Amherst Researchers Join $26 Million Quantum Computing Effort to Build Internet of the Future
An interdisciplinary team at UMass, under the leadership of Don Towsley, is helping to lead the charge on quantum computing.
Lan, Students Assist Middle School Math Learning with Novel LLM Methodologies
A team of doctoral students, led by Andrew Lan, are contributing key research to an effort at the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI).
Arroyo, Haas, Osterweil Receive NSF Grant to Continue Developing Platform for Ethical and Responsible Computing Education
A team of researchers at UMass have been awarded a $651,238 NSF grant to continue developing an online interactive platform for ethical, responsible computing.
Applications Open for 2024-25 Public Interest Technology Faculty Fellowship
Public Interest Technology at UMass (PIT@UMass) has announced that applications are open for its 2024-25 Faculty Fellowship Program.
Wilson Co-Authors Second Edition of Research Monograph
The second edition of the research monograph, “Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables,” co-written by Senior Teaching Faculty member Mark C. Wilson, was...
Houmansadr Lab Wins Trifecta of Awards for Groundbreaking Work on the Great Firewall of China
Amir Houmansadr has just received his third award for his investigation into Internet privacy and security for his co-authored USENIX Security 2023 paper.
UMass Amherst Announces New Open Access Transformative Agreement With Association of Computing Machinery
UMass Amherst readers can now access all ACM publications, and corresponding authors will have their works published with open access licenses at no cost.
CICS Researchers Bring Dream of Bug-free Software One Step Closer to Reality
A team of computer scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced a new method for automatically generating whole proofs