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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.
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
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.
December 2, 2019
Dr. Rob Rutenbar Named to American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Rob Rutenbar was named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019 fellowship cohort for contributions to tools for the design of custom integrated circuits and systems, as well as novel architectures for curricula in computer science and engineering.
April 5, 2019
Panos K. Chrysanthis receives the 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Education Award from UMass Amherst
Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis received the 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Education award from the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
January 30, 2019
Dr. Adriana Kovashka Receives Funding from Amazon Research Awards
Dr. Adriana Kovashka recently received funding from Amazon Research Awards for her project studying how objects foreshadow film plots and explain advertisements.
October 18, 2018
Associate Professors Adam Lee and Rosta Farzan Receive NSF Award for Privacy Work
Drs. Adam Lee (professor, CS) and Rosta Farzan (associate professor, DINS), recently received more than $280,000 from the National Science Foundation for their project that explores privacy-enhanced sensor designs that provide people with the knowledge and assurance of when they are being recorded and what data is being captured.
August 31, 2018
Dr. Diane Litman Awarded Research Grant from Institute of Education Sciences
Dr. Diane Litman (professor, CS & LRDC) has been awarded a research grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to study undergraduate STEM education.