CICS research encompasses all major technical specializations across the profession and serves as the focal point for interdisciplinary computing research at UMass Amherst, with affiliated research centers such as the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Center for Smart and Connected Society, the Computational Social Science Institute, and the Cybersecurity Institute, and the NIH-funded Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer''s Disease. Among CICS faculty this includes NLP alongside machine learning, information retrieval, computational linguistics, computational social science, educational technology, digital media, computer vision, multimodal models, biomedical NLP, clinical NLP, child safety, robotics, security, AI safety, software engineering, and other areas; and elsewhere on campus, with researchers in linguistics, psychology, public policy, health sciences, and more ( https://nlp.cs.umass.edu/ ).