Faculty / Research News
Our Department and the Learning Research and Development Center are seeking applications for a joint full-time tenure-track position as an Assistant or Associate Professor rank to begin in the Fall Term 2010. Candidates are expected to develop a strong interdisciplinary program of research in Computer Science and Education.
Congratulations to the Faculty and Graduate Students who received awards at the 2009 Annual Welcome Back reception!
Congratulations to Professor Diane Litman who received an NSF Award in the Robust Intelligence and the Human-Centered Computing Programs. An Affect-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System that Responds Based on User Model and Multiple Affective States is a three year project with the goal to improve the state of the art in affective spoken dialogue systems along three dimensions, by drawing on the results of prior research in a wider spoken dialogue and affective system communities.
Assistant Professor Adam Lee receives an NSF Award in the Trustworthy Computing Program which supports research exploring novel frameworks, theories, and approaches towards secure and privacy-preserving systems. Towards a Dynamic and Composable Model of Trust is a three year project working on those goals. Congratulations Adam!!
Congratulations to Liz Marai, Assistant Professor, for receiving the 2009 Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) innovation in education award. Her proposal, Immersive Software Engineering, is one of only eleven to receive an ACIE award this year.
Congratulations to Rebecca Hwa for her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1st, 2009). Rebecca became the 4th Associate Professor in our department.
Assistant Professor Liz Marai and other colleagues in the Center for Simulation and Modeling have been awarded the 2009 University Research
Council (URC) Multidisciplinary Small Grant to establish a Program on Geriatric Research in Ambulatory and Cognitive Excellence (GRACE). Caterina Rosano, Bob Boudreau (Epidemiology), and Bill Layton (Mathematics) will contribute to this multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative endeavor.
Professor Alexandros Labrinidis was elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD,to serve a four-year term (July 2009 - June 2013). ACM SIGMOD, is the premier professional organization for database
researchers and practitioners. Congratulations, Alex!
Professor Janyce Wiebe has been named the Program Co-Chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009, the premier conference in Computational Linguistics which is being held in Singapore in August.
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Students / Staff / Alumni News
Undergraduate Yann Le Gall, has been awarded the Arts & Sciences Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Yann!!
Kathleen O'Connor, CS staff member, has served four years on the Provost Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns (PACWC). PACWC received the 2009 Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award in honor of making a significant contribution in affirmative action. See the PACWC article.
Instructor and Graduate Student Jonathan Misurda was recognized by the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education (CIDDE) for "Outstanding Contributions [...] Guiding, Instruction, and Nurturing Teaching Assistants" during the New Teaching Assistant Orientation (NTAO) sessions for the Academic Years 2004-2010. Congratulations Jonathan!!
The Pitt CS Technology Leadership Initiative, TLI , is the recipient of a 2009 award from the Google RISE Program .
Undergraduate Heather Friedberg (WiCS
undergrad coordinator) was awarded a Grace Hopper Celebration 2009 scholarship to
attend the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,
co-presented by ACM and ABI. Thank you, Heather, for all your hard work at WiCS!
Congratulations to Kelli Ireland, a 2009 Anita Borg Scholarship finalist. Kelli is a graduate student in the CoE graduate program, which is joint between CS and ECE.
CS Day was a great success!! CS graduate and undergraduate students participated in several competitions and the 2009 CS Day Awards are those judged as the best entries.
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Swapna Somasundaran, CS graduate students, received the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Congratulations to both of you!
Sri Mandayam (a WiCS coordinator), Kelli Ireland (CoE), and Tonya Groover (CS), all graduate students, have been selected to attend CRA-W 2009 Grad Cohort Workshop in March. Congratulations to all of you!
Colleges try to increase numbers of women, minorities in science and engineering and Tonya Groover, a graduate student in our Department, helps stimulate STEM interest.
Brian Wongchaowart, an undergradute student in our Department and a member of the ADMT Lab, has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 CRA Undergraduate Student Award Competition. Congratulations Brian!
Starting
salary offers for Computer Science majors continue to be among highest
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