Research
Xiong, Cui Win ACM SenSys 2022 Best Paper Award
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that they have invented a low-cost, innovative way to harvest the waste energy...
Serafini, Guan Working to Improve Training for Graph Neural Networks
Assistant Professors Marco Serafini and Hui Guan have received an Amazon Research Award and a grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work on improving the training process for graph neural networks (GNNs). GNNs
Chloe Eggleston '23 Named Fall 2022 Rising Researcher
Chloe Eggleston '23 uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to process large swaths of text on social media to study sociological phenomena.
Iyyer Named 2022 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year
Mohit Iyyer was named one of five Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award winners in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of AI.
Zeng, Zamani Win Best Short Paper Award at 2022 ACM SIGIR Conference
Doctoral student Hansi Zeng and Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani received the Best Short Paper Award at the 2022 ACM SIGIR
Popular Science Names Mohammad Hajiesmaili One of 10 Most Brilliant Academics for His Work on Decarbonizing Computing
Mohammad Hajiesmaili, professor of information and computer sciences at UMass Amherst, has been named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10.
Brain, Body, World
Associate Professor Ivon Arroyo is leading research in the Advanced Learning Technology Lab.
The Scientist Finding Internet Freedom in Games
Amir Houmansadr was recently awarded a $1,000,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Jensen Appointed to CRA Computing Community Consortium Council
Professor David Jensen has been selected to serve on the council of the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium (CCC).
Musco, Rahimi Selected for 2022 Google Research Scholar Awards
Assistant Professor Cameron Musco and Research Assistant Professor Razieh (Negin) Rahimi were selected for 2022 Google Research Scholar Awards.
Negin Rahimi Selected for Google Research Award
CICS Research Assistant Professor Razieh (Negin) Rahimi was selected for a 2022 Google Research Scholar Award.
UMass Amherst to Join National Network of Universities Dedicated to Public Interest Technology
The Public Interest Technology University Network recently announced that the University of Massachusetts Amherst will become a member of the consortium.