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

From healthcare to finance, organizations across industries depend on sensitive data to make important decisions.Recent ...
06/03/2026

From healthcare to finance, organizations across industries depend on sensitive data to make important decisions.

Recent PhD graduate Cecilia Ferrando researches differential privacy, a mathematical framework that enables decision-makers to learn from data while protecting individual privacy. She defended her dissertation, “Differentially Private Statistical Learning: Uncertainty Estimation and Utility Preservation,” which develops practical methods for privacy-preserving machine learning.

Ferrando will join LinkedIn as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on its Core AI team. Congratulations, Cecilia!

What if smartphones, smartwatches, and headphones could use ultrasound to enhance interactivity, privacy, and accessible...
06/01/2026

What if smartphones, smartwatches, and headphones could use ultrasound to enhance interactivity, privacy, and accessible health monitoring?

Recent PhD graduate Shirui (Charles) Cao recently defended his dissertation “Ultrasonic Sensing Systems: From Hardware Design to Interactive and Physiological Applications.” His work demonstrated that better hardware, software, and machine learning can enable these everyday devices to detect movement, recognize whispered or silent speech, and even sense signals like blood flow in the body.

Congratulations on this milestone!

Computing jumped off the screen and into the real world earlier this month! Students in Assistant Professor Donghyun Kim...
05/31/2026

Computing jumped off the screen and into the real world earlier this month!

Students in Assistant Professor Donghyun Kim’s “CICS 256: Make: A Hands-on Introduction to Physical Computing” brought their final projects to life during a showcase at the Physical Computing Makerspace.

Across 14 teams, students applied a semester of hands-on learning in electronic components and circuits, embedded programming, product design, and rapid prototyping to invent, design, and build practical hardware projects that sense and respond to the world around them.

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

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