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In the late 1970s – the pre-dawn of the internet – researchers in the LGRC low-rise were creating the building blocks that would someday lead us to ChatGPT.

The Secure, Private Internet (SPIN) Research Group, led by Professor Amir Houmansadr, is earning widespread recognition for work on censorship resistance.

Assistant Professor Chuang Gan has received a $599,814 NSF CAREER Award to advance research on embodied artificial intelligence.

Assistant Professor VP Nguyen has received a $600,000 NSF Grant to repurpose old smartphones into cameras and sensors that monitor the environment.

Collaboration between Assistant Professors Hui Guan and Zhou Lin (College of Natural Sciences) has received a $500,000 NSF grant

Assistant Professor Donghyun Kim has received an NIH Trailblazer Award to advance the development of robotic guide dogs for the visually impaired.

CICS PhD students Kyla Levin and Nicolas van Kempen, along with Professor Emery Berger, receive the 2025 FSE Distinguished Artifact Award

Assistant Professor Eugene Bagdasarian and Professor Shlomo Zilberstein have received a $500,000 Schmidt Sciences grant to advance AI safety research.

Edward K. Smith ’16MS and collaborators received a 2025 FSE Test of Time Award honorable mention for their influential 2015 paper on overfitting.

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.