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Featured Research

Fact-checker, Academic, and Community Collaboration Tools: Combating Hate, Abuse, and Misinformation with Minority-led Partnerships (FACT CHAMP)

Brendan O'Connor, Weiai Wayne Xu, Ethan Zuckerman

Statistical methods for real-time forecasts of infectious disease

Developing methods to model and forecast the transmission of COVID-19 using tools from epidemiology, statistics, and machine learning.

DIRECT: A Framework for Diagnosis, Recommendation, and Training in Continuous Workforce Development

Ina Ganguli, Andrew Lan, Andrew Cohen

Developing a vertically complete upskilling and reskilling pipeline in manufacturing-related industries using artificial intelligence-enabled components.

Events

CSSI Seminar: CSSI Spotlights Mixer

Sep 26, 2025

We will be highlighting new faculty affiliates and…

CSSI Seminar: Nathan Wycoff, UMass Mathematics & Statistics

CSSI Social Event

Oct 11, 2025

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Joint Seminar: Incorporating AI in Social Science Research

Oct 24, 2025

CSSI-CDSAI-ISSR Joint Seminar: …

CSSI Seminar: Yair Zick, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences

News

Video for "ChatGPT and Education: Hype versus Reality" panel is available

Mar 25, 2023

Thank you to the more than 120 people who attended our…

CSSI YouTube Channel with Recordings of Past Events

Nov 9, 2022

CSSI has a new YouTube Channel with recordings of several…

CSSI Debuts New Website

Mar 31, 2021

After several months of development, the UMass…

Computer Science Meets Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Research Focuses on Heat Resilience in the Age of Climate Change

Jul 22, 2020 As high temperatures become more frequent and intense due to…

Federal Grants Support Research to Improve Pandemic Forecasting

Jun 30, 2020 University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician Nicholas…