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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.
March 18, 2022
March 18 Colloquium: Probabilistic Hashing for Scalable and Sustainable Machine Learning -- Sameh Gobriel
Sameh Gobriel is a senior research scientist at Intel Labs where he leads a team to drive research enabling future Intel products to be best-in-class in performance using software and hardware optimizations.
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.
March 15, 2022
March 15th Colloquium: Bayesian Quadrature -- Henry Chai
Henry Chai is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches an assortment of courses titled "Introduction to Machine Learning" at various levels. He will deliver a faculty recruiting colloquium on Tuesday, March 15th.
March 14, 2022
March 14th Colloquium: AI for Social Impact: Learning and Optimization in Network and Combinatorial Spaces -- Haipeng Chen
Haipeng Chen is a CRCS postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.
March 8, 2022
March 8th Colloquium: Database Design Theory and Normalization -- Sara Riazi
Sara Riazi is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She will deliver a faculty recruiting colloquium talk on Tuesday, March 8th.
March 7, 2022
March 7th Colloquium: Probabilistic Commonsense Knowledge in Language -- Xiang Li
Lorraine (Xiang Li) is a final-year Ph.D. candidate at UMass Amherst working with Andrew McCallum. She will deliver a faculty recruiting colloquium on Monday, March 7th.
February 25, 2022
February 25th Colloquium: Causal Targeting - It's not Causal Effect Estimation (and Why it Matters) -- Foster Provost
Foster Provost is Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship, Data Science, and Information Systems and Director, Fubon Center, Data Analytics & AI, at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He will deliver a colloquium talk on Friday, February 25th at 2 p.m.
February 24, 2022
Computer Science alum Yann Le Gall explores the intersection of art and programming
When Yann Le Gall was a student at Pitt receiving his MS in CS, he didn’t have an opportunity to take the computer graphic course with the abundance of electives offered by the program. Now, he’s using his expertise in coding to create generative art, or art that has been created by a program, rather than by hand.
February 24, 2022
February 24th Colloquium: Self-Balancing Binary Search Trees -- Tiago Januario
Tiago Januario is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. He will deliver a faculty colloquium talk on February 24th.
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.”