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Featured Research

Identifying Mechanisms of Peer Influence on Youth Weight-Related Behaviors

James Kitts, John R. Sirard, Krista Gile, Mark C. Pachucki

Understanding the social clustering of health outcomes among adolescents, aiming to identify peer influence on health behaviors such as physical activity, screen time, and dietary patterns.

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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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Events

ADVANCE Annual Lecture with Timnit Gebru | The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and its Consequences
Mar 22, 2022

CSSI is co-sponsoring this year's UMass ADVANCE Annual…

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CSSI-EQUATE Faculty Mixer on equitable algorithms and systems
Feb 25, 2022

Join us for a virtual mixer for faculty interested in…

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the “Replication Crisis” in the Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2021

Researchers have discovered that many important findings…

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ISSR Scholars Seminar | The Post-API Age Reconsidered: Web Science in the '20s and Beyond
Nov 10, 2021

Despite its brevity, the essay…

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CSSI Group Hike at the Silvio O. Conte Nature Trail
Oct 3, 2021

Join us for a group…

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News

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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Internet Pioneer Ethan Zuckerman Named to Interdisciplinary Faculty Appointment at UMass Amherst
Apr 27, 2020 Ethan Zuckerman, Internet pioneer, author and co-founder of…
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Campus Team Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Tool to Aid Workers
Nov 20, 2019 A campus team led by research professor Beverly Woolf of the…
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