Research
Voices of Data Science Conference 2026
A student-led conference bringing together students, researchers, and professionals to explore the latest trends in Agentic AI and Autonomous System
Seminar: Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK), Using Wearables and Audio for Fitness and Health Monitoring
Cecilia Mascolo will describe her team's research in making use of wearable data—in particular, audio for making sense of our fitness and health.
Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Workshop: Module 5, Custom LLMs and Fine-Tuning
Learn how to build, fine-tune, and deploy custom AI models using UMass Amherst’s Unity Research Computing Platform’s infrastructure.
PIT Faculty Fellows’ AI Lightning Talks and Lunch | AI & Us
This session event will showcase the work of the 2025–2026 PIT Faculty Fellows as they present early outcomes from their Responsible AI seed-funded projects.
Systems Lunch for Students
The Systems Lunch for Students series aims to create a dedicated forum for PhD students in systems to: (1) share their research and receive constructive...
Book Launch: Dancing with Roomba by Joseph L. Jones
Join us to celebrate the publication of Dancing with Roomba by roboticist Joseph L. Jones—an inside look at the creation of everyone’s favorite robot.
CSSI Seminar: Ina Ganguli (UMass Economics)
Please save the date for this CSSI event—updated event info will be posted on http://www.cssi.umass.edu/events.
Human Language Technologies Poster Session
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) invites the CICS community to attend a Human Language Technologies Poster Session, an event that...
Research in the AI Era Seminar: Evan Coleman, Braintrust: Social Knowledgebases as Scientific Fiduciaries
This talk will demonstrate how accelerated research enabled by AI can unlock tackling interdisciplinary and long-horizon problems like climate change.
Seminar: P. Anandan, Translating AI Innovations into Solutions in the Global South
P. Anandan will share examples from India and other developing nations that demonstrate how AI-powered solutions are being designed, implemented, and scaled...
Research in the AI Era Seminar: Mark Sellke, Recent Mathematical Advances with Large Language Models
Mark will speak about recent mathematical advances made by large language models, including some specific new theorems where AI made a primary contribution.
Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Workshop: Module 2, Prompt Engineering – Skill-Based Training for LLMs
Learn how to get things done effectively with large language models (LLMs) through practical prompting techniques. This module will cover prompting strategies..