Spotlight
The Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hosted in the School of Arts and Sciences and is one of the oldest CS Departments in the United States. Pitt's Computer Science Department takes pride in over 40 years' research and teaching excellence in all the core areas of Computer Science: artificial intelligence, algorithms, databases, systems and networks. With the hiring of new faculty, the Department has recently expanded to new directions in the areas of data visualization and medical imaging and strengthened the areas of embedded systems, compilers, computer architecture and natural language processing. The Department attracts substantial funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Homeland Security to support research and develop well-equipped research labs and centers.
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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.
Welcome KyoungSoo Park, Assistant Professor, the newest faculty member to the Department. The goal of Dr. Park's research is to find and establish the fundamental principles in designing and improving the large-scale networked systems which impact the daily lives of millions of people.
Equitable Resources Foundation is the latest sponsor ($25,000) of the Technology Leadership Initiative (TLI), the Department's pre-college program.
Welcome Adam Lee, Assistant Professor, a new faculty member to the Department. His research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields.
