Eight UMass Amherst students – including two undergraduates – were recently awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. UMass Amherst had the third highest number of awards in the state of Massachusetts, behind only MIT and Harvard.
Renos Zabounidis
AMHERST, Mass. – Three University of Massachusetts Amherst juniors in the Commonwealth Honors College have been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
Nicholas Sbalbi of West Springfield, Mass.;
Meredith Stone of Wakefield, R.I.; and
Renos Zabounidis of Sharon, Mass., will receive scholarships to cover tuition, mandatory fees, books and room and board.
The three UMass students were among 1,256 students from across the nation to receive Goldwater Scholarships out of nearly 5,000 applicants. The students were assisted by Madalina Akli in the Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA) with their applications. ONSA is an advising service available to all UMass Amherst undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the university’s alumni community.
Student combines three majors to improve artificial intelligence
Renos Zabounidis ’22, computer science, mathematics, BDIC, Commonwealth Honors College
“It’s one thing to solve a problem and another thing to help someone else figure out how to solve a problem. In math and in research in general, it’s not just about the cold hard numbers, it’s about intuition.”
Having taken advanced classes at UMass Amherst, worked in campus labs, and benefited from summer internships, Renos Zabounidis ’22 has settled on a bold research quest: to fuse principles from cognitive psychology and statistical machine learning to better understand the nature of intelligence.
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