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Professor Shlomo Zilberstein has been named a UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar for his groundbreaking research on trustworthy artificial intelligence.

Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), James Allan, has been appointed Distinguished Professor.

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

Neena Thota has been named a senior member of the ACM, a designation that recognizes members who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership.

Senior Lecturer II Michelle Trim was selected for the inaugural cohort of Mid-American Conference Academic Leadership Development Program (MAC ALDP).

Charles “Chip” Weems has received the 2025 Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Teaching, recognizing his decades-long contributions to CS education.

Andrew Lan and Virginia Partridge are among 13 members of the 2025-26 cohort of Public Interest Technology faculty fellows.

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton ’80MS ’84PhD have been awarded the 2026 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award “for contributions to reinforcement learning and AI."