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The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst announces the appointment of five new tenure-track and teaching faculty in 2025

Manning CICS Associate Professor Ivan Lee has been named editor-in-chief of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) Proceedings.

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

Four CICS faculty have been selected to serve on the Office of Faculty Development's Internal Advisory Board

Seven CICS faculty members have been granted tenure at the UMass Board of Trustees quarterly meeting on June 11, 2025.

Alexandra Meliou, has been elected vice chair of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Erika Dawson Head, Neena Thota named to the inaugural Dialogue Facilitation Fellows program.

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.