University of Massachusetts - Computer Science
 
 
Our faculty have been recognized through lifetime achievement awards, university awards, highly cited papers, as well as numerous teaching awards.
 

Faculty Achievements

Fellows

  • 9—Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • 5—Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • 6—American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • 2—American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Lifetime Research Achievement Awards

  • 2009 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (Victor Lesser)
  • 2008 CRA Distinguished Service Award (W. Richards Adrion)
  • 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for computers and communication networks (Donald Towsley)
  • 2004 IEEE Neural Networks Society Neural Networks Pioneer Award for reinforcement learning (Andrew Barto)
  • 2003 Gerard Salton Award from the ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (Bruce Croft)
  • 2003 ACM Sigsoft Outstanding Research Award for Software Engineering (Lee Osterweil)
  • 1995 Gödel Prize for Research in Theoretical Computer Science (Neil Immerman)

Major Junior Faculty Grants

  • 15 NSF CAREER grants to Assistant Professors (Micah Adler, Emery Berger, Oliver Brock, Mark Corner, Yanlei Diao, Deepak Ganesan, Erik Learned-Miller, Brian Levine, Sridhar Mahadevan, Gerome Miklau, Prashant Shenoy, Ramesh Sitaraman, Arun Venkataramani, Rui Wang, and Shlomo Zilberstein)

Peer Review

  • 50 editorial board positions
  • Top 0.5 percent of cited papers (ISI)—(Neil Immerman, Arnold Rosenberg, and Don Towsley)
  • Top 250 most cited (CiteSeer)—(Don Towsley and Jim Kurose)

University and College Awards

  • 4—University Distinguished Professors (Bruce Croft, Jim Kurose, Arnold Rosenberg, and Don Towsley)
  • 5—College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award (Roderic Grupen, Jim Kurose, Brian Levine, Victor Lesser, and Arnold Rosenberg)
  • 5—College of Natural Science and Mathematics Outstanding Faculty Research Award (Bruce Croft, Victor Lesser, Andrew McCallum, Arnold Rosenberg, Don Towsley)
  • 7—Samuel Conti Research Fellows (Michael Arbib, Lori Clarke, Paul Cohen, W. Bruce Croft, Edward Riseman, Arnold Rosenberg, and Donald Towsley)
  • 3—UMass Amherst Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (Jim Kurose, Victor Lesser, Don Towsley)
  • 11—Lilly Teaching Fellows (James Allan, David Mix Barrington, Emery Berger, Mark Corner, Deepak Ganesan, Jim Kurose, Brian Levine, Andrew McCallum, J. Eliot B. Moss, Prashant Shenoy, and Ramesh Sitaraman)

Supported Activities

  • $16.2 million in individual, collaborative, and interdisciplinary grants in fiscal year 2008