Research

John Wamburu ’22PhD received the Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Energy.

A collaborative effort led by Charles Weems and Neena Thota has secured a $500,000 NSF grant to update first-year computer science curricula.

New research from UMass Amherst shows that programming robots to create their own teams and wait for their teammates results in faster task completion.

UMass has joined the newly announced NSF's SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and development infrastructure for inclusive education research.

Anna Green, Brendan O’Connor, and Don Towsley will serve as team leads on three of the ten proposals supported by 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Grants.

Assistant Professors Hui Guan and Negin Rahimi have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2023–2024 academic year

UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization

A study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024.

DISCount, created at UMass Amherst, derived from two very different needs: Counts of damaged buildings in crisis zones and bird flock sizes.

Schlomo Zilberstein is one of five co-principal investigators for a $5 million, multi-institutional NSF grant to improve AI-based decision making.

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.

An interdisciplinary team at UMass, under the leadership of Don Towsley, is helping to lead the charge on quantum computing.