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    Student life extends beyond the classroom for Computer Science majors. Our student clubs (co-)organize many events and activities.
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55 years of Computer Science @ Pitt

The Department of Computer Science is celebrating 55 years of research and teaching excellence. Our community includes 32 full-time faculty members, two staff members, over 100 graduate students, over 900 pre-CS/CS majors, and thousands of alumni. We are part of the School of Computing and Information (est. 2017).

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  • Max Dudek

    Max Dudek awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship

    Max Dudek, a computer science and computational biology major in our Department, was

  • WiCS members

    WiCS Club Creates Space for Community

    WiCS (Women in Computer Science) is open to students of all genders and is a club

  • Dr. Diane Litman

    Diane Litman receives Provost’s Award

    Dr. Diane Litman (professor, Computer Science & senior scientist, LRDC) received one of the three Provost’s Award for

  • Dr. Diane Litman

    New NSF Fairness in AI Grant

    A new project by Dr. Diane Litman (CS & LRDC) and Dr. Kevin Ashley (School of Law & LRDC) is 

  • Four CS Faculty Win Pitt Momentum Grants

    Dr. Malihe Alikhani (assistant professor, CS), Rebecca Hwa (

  • VaccinatePA.org

    CS Undergrads Create VaccinatePA.org

    Four CS undergraduate students created a website to make finding a COVID-19 vaccine appointment easier by collecting

  • Dr. Colleen M. Lewis

    Colloquium on Inclusive Teaching Practices

    Dr. Colleen Lewis (UIUC) discussed teaching practices that faculty can easily

  • Dr. Malihe Alikhani

    New Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant

    Dr. Malihe Alikhani (assistant professor, CS) received one of the four Fall 2020 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants, which

Dr. Adriana Kovashka

Dr. Adriana Kovashka receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Adriana Kovashka (assistant professor, CS) just received an NSF Career Award. Her project is looking into object detection, i.e., the task of recognizing object categories (e.g., dog, car) by learning from a dataset. Existing methods assume a dataset labeled meticulously by humans who draw boxes around objects in images and provide the category name. Dr. Kovashka's project explores a new form of more accessible (less expensive), but also noisier supervision akin to how children learn to name objects. 
 

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  • Max Dudek

    Max Dudek awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship

    Max Dudek, a computer science and computational biology major in our Department, was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

  • WiCS members

    WiCS Club Creates Space for Community

    WiCS (Women in Computer Science) is open to students of all genders and is a club designed to foster diversity in the field of computing by creating a community of support for its members. 

  • Dr. Diane Litman

    Diane Litman receives Provost’s Award

    Dr. Diane Litman (professor, Computer Science & senior scientist, LRDC) received one of the three Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring in 2020.

  • Dr. Diane Litman

    New NSF Fairness in AI Grant

    A new project by Dr. Diane Litman (CS & LRDC) and Dr. Kevin Ashley (School of Law & LRDC) is one of 11 projects just funded by NSF under the Fairness in Artificial Intelligence program.  

  • Four CS Faculty Win Pitt Momentum Grants

    Dr. Malihe Alikhani (assistant professor, CS), Rebecca Hwa (professor, CS), Diane Litman (professor, CS & LRDC), and Xulong Tang (assistant professor, CS) receive three separate Pitt Momentum grants. 

  • VaccinatePA.org

    CS Undergrads Create VaccinatePA.org

    Four CS undergraduate students created a website to make finding a COVID-19 vaccine appointment easier by collecting information from users about vaccine availability and allowing users to easily find the most up to date information.

  • Dr. Colleen M. Lewis

    Colloquium on Inclusive Teaching Practices

    Dr. Colleen Lewis (UIUC) discussed teaching practices that faculty can easily integrate into the classroom. Most importantly, these are practices that can have a differential benefit for students of color, women, and first-generation college students.

  • Dr. Malihe Alikhani

    New Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant

    Dr. Malihe Alikhani (assistant professor, CS) received one of the four Fall 2020 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants, which provide initial funding for novel and innovative multidisciplinary efforts that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission.

The CS Department in numbers (March 2021)

904
pre-CS/CS majors
75
Ph.D. students
32
full-time faculty
6
current faculty with NSF Career awards

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Women in Computer Science club creates space for community
Dr. Adriana Kovashka receives NSF Career Award
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