Research
UMass Amherst to Join $90M US National Science Foundation Large-Scale Research Infrastructure for Education
UMass has joined the newly announced NSF's SafeInsights, a five-year, $90 million research and development infrastructure for inclusive education research.
Three CICS Faculty Selected to Receive 2024 UMass Interdisciplinary Research Grants
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.
Guan, Rahimi Receive NSF CAREER Awards
Assistant Professors Hui Guan and Negin Rahimi have each received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in the 2023–2024 academic year
UMass Researchers Awarded $12M to Shrink Society's Carbon Footprint with AI & Other Computer Science Tools
UMass Amherst has been awarded $12 million over five years by the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the field of computational decarbonization
To Optimize Guide-dog Robots, First Listen to the Visually Impaired
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.
New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
DISCount, created at UMass Amherst, derived from two very different needs: Counts of damaged buildings in crisis zones and bird flock sizes.
Shlomo Zilberstein and Multi-Institutional Colleagues Receive a $5M NSF Grant to Improve Causal Decision Making
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 Present at SIGSE TS 2024
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.
UMass Amherst Researchers Join $26 Million Quantum Computing Effort to Build Internet of the Future
An interdisciplinary team at UMass, under the leadership of Don Towsley, is helping to lead the charge on quantum computing.
Lan, Students Assist Middle School Math Learning with Novel LLM Methodologies
A team of doctoral students, led by Andrew Lan, are contributing key research to an effort at the Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI).
Arroyo, Haas, Osterweil Receive NSF Grant to Continue Developing Platform for Ethical and Responsible Computing Education
A team of researchers at UMass have been awarded a $651,238 NSF grant to continue developing an online interactive platform for ethical, responsible computing.
Applications Open for 2024-25 Public Interest Technology Faculty Fellowship
Public Interest Technology at UMass (PIT@UMass) has announced that applications are open for its 2024-25 Faculty Fellowship Program.