Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst

Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst The Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ready for the next step? Level up your career with our online or hybrid MS in computer science, offering the same academ...
05/26/2026

Ready for the next step? Level up your career with our online or hybrid MS in computer science, offering the same academic rigor and high quality that you would find on campus.

Join us tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET to learn how our flexible programs can fit your goals and schedule! Registration is required.

Register today to secure your spot.
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Congratulations once again to the Class of 2026! 🎓We loved celebrating our newest graduates at Senior Celebration and ...
05/21/2026

Congratulations once again to the Class of 2026! 🎓

We loved celebrating our newest graduates at Senior Celebration and cheering on this incredible milestone with their families, friends, faculty, and staff.

Class of 2026, we’re so proud of you—and we can’t wait to see what you do next!

⭐ Help us congratulate PhD student Juan Altmayer Pizzorno on successfully defending his dissertation, “Efficient and Eff...
05/16/2026

⭐ Help us congratulate PhD student Juan Altmayer Pizzorno on successfully defending his dissertation, “Efficient and Effective Test Generation and Type Inference for Python Applications”!

Python’s dynamic nature helps make it simple and flexible, but it can also make it harder to ensure programs behave reliably.

In his dissertation, Pizzorno introduces three tools that efficiently gather and use runtime information to help developers test code, clarify it with type information, and catch bugs before they reach users.

We’re excited to see what Pizzorno accomplishes next.

Two students will take the stage as featured student speakers during this year’s UMass Amherst Commencement ceremonies...
05/13/2026

Two students will take the stage as featured student speakers during this year’s UMass Amherst Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 15.

Congratulations to Mansi Maheshwari, of Gwalior, India, who is graduating with a master’s degree in computer science and will speak at the Master’s and Education Specialist Commencement ceremony, and Shhreya Anand, of Bangalore, India, who is graduating with dual degrees in computer science and mathematics and will speak at the Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

Read more about their journeys: https://brnw.ch/21x2t9t

Congratulations to graduate student Kinjal Pandey, who won second place ($750 prize) in the UMass Entrepreneurship Clu...
05/13/2026

Congratulations to graduate student Kinjal Pandey, who won second place ($750 prize) in the UMass Entrepreneurship Club's Spring 2026 UPitch competition!

She presented Karnah, a platform that uses AI to verify in-kind donations and match them with nonprofit needs in real time, improving donation efficiency, transparency, and impact. Her initial goal is to build awareness of the app among students and nonprofits, with plans to expand to other colleges in the region.

“Ultimately, our goal is to divert 64 tons of waste by the end of 2027 by onboarding 58 nonprofits and 1,400 donors, giving new life to more than 16,800 items,” Pandey said.

05/11/2026

Happy Finals Week! Here’s what is using to power through study sessions.

What’s in your survival kit? Drop your go-to essentials in the comments.

Professor Emeritus Andrew G. Barto will receive a Distinguished Achievement Award at the UMass Amherst Undergraduate C...
05/11/2026

Professor Emeritus Andrew G. Barto will receive a Distinguished Achievement Award at the UMass Amherst Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

Barto is the co-recipient of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award—considered the "Nobel Prize in Computing"—for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. He joined the university as a postdoctoral research associate in 1977 and served as professor from 1991 to 2012.

Read more about Barto and the award: https://brnw.ch/21x2oFN

⭐ We’re proud to recognize PhD student Tanya Chowdhury, who has successfully defended her dissertation, “Interpreting ...
05/09/2026

⭐ We’re proud to recognize PhD student Tanya Chowdhury, who has successfully defended her dissertation, “Interpreting Ranking Models: From Feature Attributions to Mechanistic Comprehension”!

Large language models (LLMs) like Claude or ChatGPT are trained on large datasets, but the internal processes powering their outputs are still not fully understood.

Chowdhury’s dissertation outlines a program focused on reverse-engineering LLM internals to gain a more comprehensive grasp of how they learn. She also explores how these ideas can be extended to biomedical prediction models to guide the formation of scientific hypotheses.

Chowdhury starts a postdoctoral position at Stanford University after graduation. We look forward to following her next chapter!

Controlling a single self-driving car is one thing. A road full of them—each operating with limited information—is an en...
05/07/2026

Controlling a single self-driving car is one thing. A road full of them—each operating with limited information—is an entirely different class of decision-making problems.

A 2002 paper led by alumnus Daniel S. Bernstein ’05PhD, Professor Emeritus Neil Immerman, and Professor Shlomo Zilberstein proved that the real difficulty in multi-agent decision-making isn’t just uncertainty, but decentralization: multiple agents acting with different, limited views of the world. The work was recently selected as a landmark paper honoring the 50th anniversary of Mathematics of Operations Research.

“By isolating this source of complexity, it gave researchers a deeper understanding of why these problems are so hard, and how to design principled approximation and coordination methods that work well in practice despite the underlying complexity,” Zilberstein said.

Read more about the recognition and the team’s research: https://brnw.ch/21x2hKv

🏆 Congratulations to PhD student Sylvia Imanirakiza for receiving the Schlumberger Foundation’s Faculty for the Future...
05/06/2026

🏆 Congratulations to PhD student Sylvia Imanirakiza for receiving the Schlumberger Foundation’s Faculty for the Future fellowship, an international award that supports women pursuing advanced research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)!

The award comes with financial support for Imanirakiza’s academic studies and research, which focuses on the development and application of machine learning methods to infer unknown structural attributes, quality indicators, and inequity patterns within critical infrastructure.

“I hope my work helps give policymakers and utilities the tools to understand people's lived experiences so that infrastructure planning becomes more equitable and context aware,” Imanirakiza said.

Read more about her research and the fellowship: https://brnw.ch/21x2fcu

🎓 Class of 2026—there’s still time to pay it forward before graduation!Make a gift of $5 or more to and receive a phil...
05/05/2026

🎓 Class of 2026—there’s still time to pay it forward before graduation!

Make a gift of $5 or more to and receive a philanthropy MinuteCord to wear as you cross the stage—a meaningful symbol of your school pride and the legacy you’re leaving behind.

Your generosity helps ensure future students have access to the same experiences, programs, and opportunities that shaped your journey.

Make your gift today: https://brnw.ch/21x2dMv

P.S. Gifts of $20.26 or more earn you a spin on the prize wheel when you pick up your cord. 👀

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