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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
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Statistical methods for real-time forecasts of infectious disease

Nicholas Reich, Daniel Sheldon

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

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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.

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Events

Joint Seminar: Incorporating AI in Social Science Research
Oct 24, 2025

Join us for an interdisciplinary seminar…

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CSSI Seminar: Yair Zick, Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
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CSSI-DACSS Joint Seminar: Matthias Roesti (Brown University & University of St. Gallen)
Nov 21, 2025

Please join us for this joint DACSS and CSSI seminar:…

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CSSI Seminar: Graduate Student Spotlights
Dec 5, 2025

An opportunity for UMass graduate students…

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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…

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CSSI YouTube Channel with Recordings of Past Events
Nov 9, 2022

CSSI has a new YouTube Channel with recordings of several…

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CSSI Debuts New Website
Mar 31, 2021

After several months of development, the UMass…

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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…
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Federal Grants Support Research to Improve Pandemic Forecasting
Jun 30, 2020 University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician Nicholas…
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