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June 3, 2022
PittInclusion creates sophisticated research opportunities for underrepresented minorities in computing
PittInclusion a paid research program started by Dr. Malihe Alikhani and Ariana Sutanto in 2021, aims to connect upper-level undergraduates with faculty mentors and facilitate research opportunities for students who may not otherwise have them.

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.
May 4, 2022
View photos from the April 2022 Graduate Recognition Ceremony
The Department of Computer Science held a graduation recognition ceremony for May 2022 gradates on April 29th, 2022.

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.

April 13, 2022
Pennsylvania could see huge benefits if Congress passes semiconductor chip production bill, officials say
One area of semiconductor research is at Pitt, where engineers and scientists are focused is photonics, or chips that use little particles of light to move data.

April 8, 2022
April 8 Colloquium: Robust and Delete-Aware LSM-Trees -- Manos Athanassoulis
Manos Athanassoulis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, Director and Founder of the BU Data-intensive Systems and Computing Laboratory and co-director of the BU Massive Data Algorithms and Systems Group.

April 7, 2022
CS student awarded University Honors College Research Fellowship
Zhen Wu, a third year undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science, was recently awarded a University Honors College Research Fellowship.

April 1, 2022
April 1 Colloquium: The Case for Reviving Discourse Relations in NLG -- Michael White
Dr. Michael White is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. His research has focused on NLG in dialogue with an emphasis on surface realization, extending also to paraphrasing for ambiguity avoidance and data augmentation in the context of Ohio State's virtual patient dialogue system.

March 28, 2022
CS Department's Spring 2022 Graduate Recognition Ceremony
We will hold our Spring recognition ceremony for graduating students (BS/MS/PhD) on Friday, April 29th, at 6:30 pm.

March 25, 2022
March 25 Colloquium: Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology: The largest decision-making machine in the world-- Tomas Singliar
Tomas Singliar, University of Pittsburgh CS PhD class of 2008, is a business quantitative scientist with experience in forecasting, inventory, pricing and profitability.

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.