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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.”
February 18, 2022
February 18 CS Colloquium: Virtual Reality and Metaverses: Challenges for the next years -- Esteban Clua
Esteban Clua is a professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil) and coordinator of UFF Medialab, Scientist of the State of Rio prize in 2019 and Young Scientist of the State of Rio in 2009 and 2013.
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 11, 2022
February 11 CS Colloquium: Collaboration, Context, and Computing Science: Unlocking Next-Generation AI-Solutions for Complex Societal and Environmental Needs -- Kelly Rose
Kelly Rose, PhD, is a Geo-Data Scientist with over 20 years of service and research experience at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).
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."
January 7, 2022
CS Department Staff celebrate milestones with University
The Computer Science Department relies on many staff members to facilitate our excellence in teaching and resarch! This year, two of our staff members are celebrating milestones in their tenure...
December 29, 2021
Pittsburgh Flagged by Talent Firm as Best US City for Hiring Remote Tech Workers
Based on the percentage of candidates who passed the technical interview, Pittsburgh was the top city to hire remote workers. Karat said Pittsburgh has a great pipeline for engineers at two universities, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, and has computer science programs in the top 50 in the United States.
December 17, 2021
Fall 2021 Graduate Recognition Ceremony
We will hold our Fall recognition ceremony for graduating students (BS/MS/PhD) on Friday, December 17th, at 4:30pm.
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.