We are inviting students, staff, faculty, and alumni to pledge to take two antiracist actions between now and October 9, when we will reconvene to discuss what we have learned and accomplished.
CICS researchers have developed a portable device, FluSense, that monitors coughing sounds and crowd size, helping to monitor waiting rooms for flu-like illnesses like COVID-19.
As high temperatures become more frequent and intense due to climate change, UMass Amherst scientists are developing interdisciplinary research aimed at helping communities increase resilience to extreme heat by monitoring physiological, mental and... Read more »
Three CICS faculty members have recently been promoted or granted tenure.
They are:
Subhransu Maji to Associate Professor with tenure
Brendan O'Connor to Associate Professor with tenure
Charles Weems to Professor
Please join us in... Read more »
UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) Dean Laura Haas was recently interviewed by IEEE Computer Society as a part of their Diversity and Inclusion Task Force's Women in STEM series.
Haas spoke with IEEE regarding her... Read more »
Professor and Chair of the Faculty James Allan has recently been chosen to receive an Amazon Research Award, a grant program that funds outstanding, innovative research proposals. Allan was selected for his proposal, “Explanation of Product Facets... Read more »
Associate Professor Dan Sheldon, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, along with colleagues Nicholas Reich, a biostatistician; Andrew Lover, an infectious disease epidemiologist; and biostatistics Ph.D. student Casey Gibson received a $300,... Read more »