Professor Emeritus Andrew G. Barto will receive a Distinguished Achievement Award during the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 15, 2026.
Since the field’s earliest days, UMass Amherst has been on the leading edge of reinforcement learning, a branch of AI that is now poised to be a disruptor.
The new, on-campus internship program will be guided by the Manning CICS Center for Data Science and the UMass Amherst Public Interest Technology initiative.