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CICS at UMass Amherst announces the appointment of five new tenure-track faculty to increase capacity for its expanding academic and research programs.

Sitaraman Receives Amazon Research Award for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming Research

Mohit Iyyer receives $822,365 open philanthropy grant for AI-based translation model.

Mahyar, Sarvghad, Jasim Win Best Paper at EuroVis2022 for Critical Inquiry Into Civic Text Visualization

Assistant Professor Hamed Zamani receives $570,000 NSF CAREER Award 

Ramesh Sitaraman appointed Distinguished Professor by the UMass Board of Trustees

An interdisciplinary research team has received an NSF grant to create chatbots that can help understand the impact of COVID-19 on small-town communities.

Doctoral students Nigel Fernandez and Aritra Ghosh, and faculty Andrew Lan, recently won a grand prize in the NCES Automated Scoring Challenge.

Graduate student Aishwarya Sahai was selected to mentor a team of students during the NYU Abu Dhabi International Hackathon for Social Good.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Jim McGovern visited the UMass Amherst campus on April 14 to celebrate the nearly $2 million in congressionally directed funding.