Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences doctoral student Adam Lechowicz has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship on its Mathematics and Computer Science track.
A team of Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) undergraduate student researchers, advised by doctoral student Cooper Sigrist, recently won the ProjectX Human-Computer Interaction prize at the University of Toronto for their project, “Recommendation Diversity Worth Caring About.”
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Assistant Professor Cindy Xiong Bearfield has received an NSF CAREER award totaling $631,846 to develop a formalized model to measure trust in human-data interaction and enhance critical thinking between humans and data in visual data communications.
Supporting international students and minoritized students within Computer Science and Informatics is a primary concern of Siobhan Mei and colleagues at CICS.
In its fifth year, Western Massachusetts’ first all-women and nonbinary student hackathon welcomed over 300 programming enthusiasts for 24 hours of innovation and problem solving.
An intercollegiate team of students, including Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) undergraduate Aniruddha Sen '23, recently won first place in the in-person IonQ challenge at MIT's 2023 Interdisciplinary Quantum Hackathon (iQuHACK)
Assistant Professor Hung Le has received an NSF CAREER award of $655,466 for his project to advance the theoretical understanding of topological graphs.
To help broaden participation in STEM, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has launched the Massenberg Summer Institute, which is geared toward low-income, underrepresented students of color that might not otherwise have exposure to opportunities in STEM fields, or understand STEM's importance and relevancy in their high school education.