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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.
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.
March 17, 2022
Drs. Diane Litman and Rebecca Hwa awarded Pitt Momentum Funds Scaling Grant
Department of Computer Science faculty Diane Litman and Rebecca Hwa were awarded a 2022 Pitt Momentum Funds Scaling Grant for their work on the Center for Text Analytic Methods in Legal Studies.
February 21, 2022
Rob Rutenbar receives Pioneering Achievement Award
Senior Vice Chancellor for Research Rob A. Rutenbar has been named the 2021 SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award recipient by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) for his “extraordinary leadership in analog design automation and general EDA education.”
February 16, 2022
Xulong Tang receives Pitt Momentum Funds Seedling Grant
Department of Computer Science professor Dr. Xulong Tang received a Pitt Momentum Funds seedling grant.
February 10, 2022
Pitt CS faculty awarded 2022 Momentum Funds
The Pitt Momentum Fund issued a grant to a collaboration of four faculty from the Department of Computer Science this week as part of the program's 2022 funding.
February 9, 2022
AMPED consortium receives NSF IUCRC planning grant
The Advanced Magnetics for Power and Energy Development (AMPED) Consortium has received a $60,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF.) The award will be evenly split between the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University.
January 27, 2022
Dr. Stephen Lee and Dr. Daniel Mosse receive Best Paper Runner Up at BuildSys 2021
Along with Dr. Yoones Rezaei, CS faculty Dr. Stephen Lee and Dr. Daniel Mosse received a Best Paper Runner Up award from BuildSys 2021 for their paper "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy-efficient Parking Video Analytics Platform."
December 13, 2021
Dr. Malihe Alikhani and collaborators awarded DARPA grant
Dr. Malihe Alikhani and collaborators awarded DARPA grant for their project developing AI moderators for social media.
December 13, 2021
Dr. Xiaowei Jia awarded best paper at the 2021 International Conference on Data Mining
Dr. Xiaowei Jia and collaborators were awarded the best paper award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM).
December 10, 2021
December 10 Colloquium "Multi-scale Data Integration and Causal Inference for Biological and Medical Research" -- Takis Benos
Dr. Takis Benos (Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Computer Science) will deliver a CS colloquium talk at 2 p.m. on December 10th.
December 3, 2021
December 3 Colloquium "Aging Scientists and Slowed Advance" -- Lingfei Wu
Lingfei Wu is a computational social scientist interested in discovering how innovation is made in Science and Technology and effective team mechanisms that accelerate this process. He will deliver a CS Colloquium talk on Friday, December 3rd at 2 p.m.