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How Games Might Be the Key to Avoiding Digital Censorship
    Amir Houmansadr turns to game theory and AI to study surveillance in China and learn how to circumvent the world’s most sophisticated surveillance networks.
  
  
    
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  Who (or What) Searches the Search Engines of the Future?
    Award-winning team introduces a cost-effective method to redesign search engines for Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
    
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  Jie Xiong Honored with 2024 SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award for Influential Research on Indoor Mobile Tracking
    Associate Professor Jie Xiong has received a 2024 SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award for his 2013 paper, written as a doctoral student at University College London.
  
  
    
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  Bagdasarian Wins Distinguished Paper Award at 2024 USENIX Security Symposium
    Assistant Professor Eugene Bagdasarian received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium for his work on “Adversarial Illusions in.."
  
  
    
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  Team Led by UMass Amherst Debunks Research Showing Facebook's Newsfeed Algorithm Curbs Election Misinformation
    An interdisciplinary team of researchers calls into question the conclusions of a widely reported study published in Science in 2023 and funded by Meta
  
  
    
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  Nguyen Awarded NSF Grant to Support Sustainable Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous Tree Health Monitoring
    A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor VP Nguyen has been awarded a Computer Systems Research (CSR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  
  
    
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  Public Interest Technology at UMass Announces 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
    PIT@UMass announces nine faculty members selected for the third PIT Faculty Fellows cohort
  
  
    
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  Data Science for the Common Good 2024 Poster Session and Lunch Set for Sept. 18
    The Center for Data Science invites the campus community to attend the Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) Poster Session on Sept. 18.
  
  
    
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  Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Funds 11 Pilot Projects Totaling $2.3 Million
    The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease has announced its third round of grant funding totaling $2.3M
  
  
    
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  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.
    
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  Wamburu ‘22PhD Receives ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
John Wamburu ’22PhD received the Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Energy.
    
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  Intercollegiate Research Team to Modernize First-Year CS Curriculum
    A collaborative effort led by Charles Weems and Neena Thota has secured a $500,000 NSF grant to update first-year computer science curricula.
  
  
    
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