Faculty News

March 13, 2024

CS Faculty Members Receive Spring 2024 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants

CS Faculty Members Drs. Lorraine Li, Diane Litman, and Ryan Shi receive Spring 2024 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants for various projects.

February 28, 2024

Assistant Professor Longfei Shangguan Receives an NSF CAREER Award to Democratize Earable Computing Research

Dr. Longfei Shangguan (assistant professor) received an NSF CAREER award for his project “Ubiquitous Earable Sensing Using Low-Cost Earphones.”

February 15, 2024

Assistant Professor Stephen Lee Receives NSF Grant for Designing Sustainable Distributed Infrastructures

Dr. Stephen Lee (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his project, “Data-Driven System-Design for Sustainable Long-Lasting Distributed Infrastructures,” on Oct. 1, 2023.

February 15, 2024

Dr. Jacob Biehl Is Building Systems That Reshape Space

For Biehl, an associate professor with a dual appointment in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship and the Department of Computer Science, technical rigor and the usability needs of the people operating a system are not separate considerations.

October 26, 2023

SCI Faculty Member, Graduate Students Win Best Paper Award at ISMAR 2023

Dr. Jacob Biehl (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship), Master’s Student Thomas Downes and PhD Student Talha Khan won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).

June 29, 2022

Dr. Diane Litman and collaborators from the LRDC win Future Forums on Learning's Learning Engineering Tools Competition

The Future Forums on Learning awarded Dr. Diane Litman and collaborators from the Learning Research and Development Center, Lindsay Clare Matsumura and Richard Correnti, a Catalyst Prize as part of their 2021-2022 Learning Tools Competition.

June 22, 2022

Xiaowei Jia awarded Best Dissertation Award from University of Minnesota

Department of Computer Science assisstant professor Dr. Xiaowei Jia received one of four best dissertaion awards from his alma mater, The University of Minnesota. 

June 13, 2022

Dr. Xulong Tang receives new NSF award

Dr. Xulong Tang (Assistant Professor, Computer Science) received a new three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

June 3, 2022

Diane Litman and LRDC collaborators were awarded an NSF grant

LRDC researchers Diane Litman, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and School of Education collaborators Richard Correnti and Lindsay Clare Matsumura have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to address the limitations of existing educational technologies for writing.

May 24, 2022

New project uses AI to examine how COVID-19 impacts the use of physical space

Cameras are popping up throughout the 5th and 6th floors of Sennott Square to investigate how public spaces are used as part of a new research project from Department of Computer Science students and faculty.

May 5, 2022

Department of Computer Science adds two new faculty

After a year-long search, the Department of Computer Science has hired two new faculty.

Dr. Diane Litman
April 26, 2022

Dr. Diane Litman and LRDC collaborators awarded new NSF grant

Diane Litman and collaborators Richard Correnti and Lindsay Clare Matsumura were awarded a new National Science Foundation grant for their work in the Learning Research & Development Center this week.

March 25, 2022

Dr. Panos Chrysanthis chosen for inaugural class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Dr. Panos Chrysanthis was selected as part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's inaugural 2021 Class of Distinguished Contributors.

March 18, 2022

5 Pitt Computer Science faculty awarded Momentum Funds grants

During the 2022 round of funding, five faculty from our department were awarded Pitt Momentum Funds grants for projects they lead or collaborated on with faculty from other departments.

March 18, 2022

New to Pitt: Interdisciplinary research drew Alikhani to SCI

Malihe Alikhani has devoted the early years of her career to promoting diversity in computer research. Joining Pitt in fall 2020 as an assistant professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Information (SCI), Alikhani says she has always looked for “research that has real impact.” It shows in the projects she has been involved in.