Skip to main content
The University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Give
  • Search UMass.edu
Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences

Main navigation

  • Academics

    Programs

    Undergraduate Programs Master's Programs Doctoral Program Graduate Certificate Programs

    Curriculum

    Academic Policies Courses

    Academic Support

    Advising Career Development Scholarships and Fellowships Commencement
  • Research

    Research

    Research Areas Research Centers & Labs Undergraduate Research Opportunities

    Faculty & Researchers

    Faculty Directory Faculty Achievements Turing Award

    Engage

    Research News Distinguished Lecturer Series Rising Stars in Computer Science Lecture Series
  • Community

    On-Campus

    Community, Outreach, and Organizational Learning Student Organizations Massenberg Summer STEM Program Awards Programs

    External

    Alumni Support CICS
  • People
    Full A-Z Directory Faculty Staff
  • About

    Overview

    College Overview Leadership Our New Building The Manning Gift

    News & Events

    News & Stories Events Calendar Significant Bits Magazine

    Connect

    Visiting CICS Contact Us Employment Offices & Services
  • Info For
    Current Undergraduate Students Current Graduate Students Faculty and Staff Newly Accepted Undergraduate Students

Research

First Wins 2022-2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Emily First MS’20, PhD’23 is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Published date Monday, June 2, 2025 Go to all news list News

Yair Zick Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work on Resource Allocation Optimization

Yair  Zick has received a five‑year, $600,000 NSF CAREER award to advance large‑scale resource allocation.
Published date Wednesday, May 7, 2025 Go to all news list News

A Chance Encounter Sparked a Project. Interdisciplinary Mentorship Helped It Grow. An IDS Seed Grant Made It Real

PhD candidate Purity Mugambi leads a six-year, IDS-funded study probing inequities in cardiac care.
Published date Friday, May 2, 2025 Go to all news list News

Zilberstein Receives 2025 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award for Multi-Agent Planning Research

Zilberstein is cited as having “established the field of decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs)"
Published date Friday, April 25, 2025 Go to all news list News

Speaking My Language

Associate Professor Ivon Arroyo is on a mission to make math multi-lingual
Published date Friday, April 25, 2025 Go to all news list News

Ravi Karkar Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Personal Health Tracking Technology Design

Assistant Professor Ravi Karkar has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $659,861.00 in support of his work to democratize self-experimentation technologies.
Published date Thursday, April 24, 2025 Go to all news list News

CIIR Leaders Instrumental in ICTIR's Past and Future

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
Published date Friday, April 4, 2025 Go to all news list News

Andrew Barto Named Co-recipient of ‘Nobel Prize of Computing’ for Foundational Work on AI Technology

Andrew G. Barto, has been awarded the 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
Published date Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Go to all news list News

Siobhan Meï Curates New York Exhibition on Haitian History and Culture

The show, based on Meï’s digital humanities project of the same name, is a queer, bilingual, feminist experiment in digital interdisciplinary scholarship.
Published date Thursday, February 13, 2025 Go to all news list News

Allan, Zamani Co-Author Report on the Future of Information Retrieval in the Age of Generative AI

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.
Published date Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Go to all news list News

New Study Finds Social Programs Could Reduce the Spread of HIV by 29%

Although HIV was used as a case study, the UMass Amherst researchers say their assessment tool has applications for other diseases
Published date Thursday, January 23, 2025 Go to all news list News

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.
Published date Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Go to all news list News

Pagination

  • First pageFirst page
  • Previous pagePrevious page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Current page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Next page
  • Last page

Site footer

Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
  • Find us on Facebook
  • Find us on YouTube
  • Find us on LinkedIn
  • Find us on Instagram
  • Find us on Flickr
  • Find us on Bluesky Social
  • Find us on Tiktok
Address

140 Governors Dr
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

  • Visit CICS
  • Give
  • Contact Us
  • Employment
  • Events Calendar
  • Offices & Services

Info For

  • Current Undergraduate Students
  • Current Graduate Students
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Newly Accepted Undergraduate Students
University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • ©2026 University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Site policies
  • Privacy
  • Non-discrimination notice
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of use