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.
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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.
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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.
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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)"
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Speaking My Language
Associate Professor Ivon Arroyo is on a mission to make math multi-lingual
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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