December 31, 2022
Professor Brian Levine was the sole author of a 2022 Report to Congress published by the US National Institute of Justice on Increasing the Efficacy of Investigations of Online Child Sexual Exploitation. The 164-page report covers the challenges... more
November 30, 2022
On 11/19/22, members of the UMass Cybersecurity traveled to New Haven, CT and won New
November 17, 2022
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Healy and Northeastern District Attorney David Sullivan visited the University of Amherst campus in October to kick off a new collaborative effort with the UMass Cybersecurity Institute. The Institute and the... more
November 08, 2022
Amir Houmansadr, professor of information and computer sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was recently awarded a $1,000,000 Young Faculty Award (YFA) by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for his work on the... more
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
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."
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
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
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
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
