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April 9, 2021
Max Dudek awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Max Dudek, a computer science and computational biology major in our Department, was awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2, 2021
Adriana Kovashka’s Research Aims to 'Teach' Computers Object Detection
Dr. Adriana Kovashka (assistant professor, CS) just received an NSF Career Award.

March 31, 2021
Apr 9 Colloquium: "Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing" -- Herodotos Herodotou
Dr. Herodotos Herodotou will be the presenter of our CS Colloquium talk on April 9 at 2pm.

March 8, 2021
Women in Computer Science 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.

February 25, 2021
Dr. Adriana Kovashka receives NSF Career Award
Dr. Adriana Kovashka just received an NSF Career Award. Her project is entitled "Natural Narratives and Multimodal Context as Weak Supervision for Learning Object Categories".

February 22, 2021
Four CS faculty awarded Pitt Momentum grants
Drs. Malihe Alikhani, Rebecca Hwa, Diane Litman, and Xulong Tang received Pitt Momentum grants.
February 12, 2021
Mar 3 Colloquium: RF Beyond ID -- Longfei Shangguan
Owing to its low cost, small form factor, and high energy efficiency, RFID has emerged as a key enabler for the Internet of Things. However, existing RFID systems can only detect the presence of a tagged object within a few meters of radio range while lacking the capability to pinpoint its precise location and communicate over a long distance. In this talk, the speaker will share his experience in building three generations of RFID systems, each addressing a set of challenges and targeting a different application.

February 5, 2021
CS students 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.

February 4, 2021
Feb 26 Colloquium: Inclusive Teaching Practices for Busy Faculty -- Colleen M. Lewis
Teaching advice often comes in the form of transformative approaches that seem great for students, but would easily double or quadruple our workload! We’ll discuss teaching practices that you can integrate into your classroom without reinventing the wheel and sacrificing your work-life balance. Most importantly, these are practices that can have a differential benefit for students of color, women, and first-generation college students.

January 27, 2021
New NSF Award: Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice
Dr. Diane Litman (Professor, CS) together with Dr. Kevin Ashley (Professor, School of Law) received a new award from the National Science Foundation (through the Fairness in Artificial Intelligence program), entitled Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice.

January 19, 2021
Dr. Malihe Alikhani receives Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Malihe Alikhani for receiving 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.

December 16, 2020
2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (Honorable Mention) - Vasco Xu
Vasco Xu, Pitt CS undergraduate major (BPhil, Dec 2020) received an honorable mention in the 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards.

November 16, 2020
Dr. Malihe Alikhani Wins Grant to Support Underrepresented Students
Dr. Malihe Alikhani (assistant professor, CS) recently received a Google ExploreCSR grant to support students from underrepresented groups to pursue graduate studies and research careers in computing.

November 10, 2020
LRDC Scientists Receive $900,000 Grant to Study Robots in Math Classrooms
Dr. Erin Walker (associate professor, CS) is the principal investigator of a newly funded NSF project that will study the use of robots in middle school math classrooms.

February 21, 2020
Diane Litman receives Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
Dr. Diane Litman (professor, Computer Science & senior scientist, LRDC) received one of the three Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring in 2020.