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October 31, 2022
Professor Brian Levine and University of California Berkeley Professor Hany Farid launched a new website to increase the safety of children online. The website, https://app-danger.org, is the result of a $250,000 grant from Oak Foundation. will... more
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August 31, 2022
Professor Yuriy Brun received a DARPA grant titled "PLATO: Enriched Tactic Prediction Models for Proof Synthesis & Repair." This 18-month $1M award (in collaboration with UIUC) is part of the Proof Engineering, Adaptation, Repair, and Learning... more
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August 31, 2022
Professor Yuriy received a $615,852 NSF Grant for the topic of automatically verifying software to ensure it doesn't have vulnerabilities."Toward Fully Automated Formal SoftwareVerification."
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July 20, 2022
The UMass Amherst's Cybersecurity Institute and the Digital Evidence Lab of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General (AGO) will offer an exciting new program starting in September 2022. The program is seeking UMass students to work in an on-... more
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July 05, 2022
The Cybersecurity Institute has joined forces with the Center for Data Science (CDS) to create Data Core, a new core facility at UMass. Data Core is a team of experienced software engineers and data scientists that are available to work with on-... more
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July 05, 2022
Prof. Wayne Burleson (ECE) presented a 2022 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, a series dedicated to acknowledging the work of UMass' most esteemed and accomplished faculty members. Each honoree is presented with the Chancellor's Medal, the highest... more
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May 31, 2022
Doctoral student Emily First and Professor Yuriy Brun (CICS) received a Distinguished Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on software engineering (ACM SIGSOFT) at the 2022 International Conference on... more
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May 22, 2022
Assistant Professor Adam O'Neill (CICS) is one of three authors who recently received the prestigious Test-of-Time Award from the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for their paper "Deterministic and Efficiently Searchable... more
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April 15, 2022
Professor Brian Levine (CICS) was named the 2022 Baskin School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Student Alumnus. This award is given to one Baskin School of Engineering graduate student alum each year who "has made major contributions to... more
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March 25, 2022
UMass is hosting New England Hardware Security Day, April 1. The event is jointly organized by several universities to bring together students, researchers, practitioners, and industry partners in the field of hardware security to share their work... more

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