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April 29, 2021
Xiaowei Jia receives Best Paper Award in SDM 2021
Dr. Xiaowei Jia received the Best Application Paper Award in the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2021).

April 28, 2021
Katelyn Morrison nominated for the Emma W. Locke award
Katelyn Morrison (CS BS, 2021) is one of nine Pitt students nominated for the Emma W. Locke Award which is presented to a graduating senior in recognition of high scholarship, character, and devotion to the ideals of the University of Pittsburgh.

April 27, 2021
Pitt's Computer Science Club gets members ready for internships and beyond
Andrea Michael describes Zero to Offer, a relatively recent Computer Science Club internship training program dedicated to helping future Pitt grads accelerate potential careers in tech.

April 9, 2021
Max Dudek awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Max Dudek, a computer science and computational biology major in our Department, was awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2, 2021
Adriana Kovashka’s Research Aims to 'Teach' Computers Object Detection
Dr. Adriana Kovashka (assistant professor, CS) just received an NSF Career Award.

March 31, 2021
Apr 9 Colloquium: "Automating Distributed Tiered Storage Management in Cluster Computing" -- Herodotos Herodotou
Dr. Herodotos Herodotou will be the presenter of our CS Colloquium talk on April 9 at 2pm.

March 8, 2021
Women in Computer Science club creates space for community
WiCS (Women in Computer Science) is open to students of all genders and is a club designed to foster diversity in the field of computing by creating a community of support for its members.

February 25, 2021
Dr. Adriana Kovashka receives NSF Career Award
Dr. Adriana Kovashka just received an NSF Career Award. Her project is entitled "Natural Narratives and Multimodal Context as Weak Supervision for Learning Object Categories".

February 22, 2021
Four CS faculty awarded Pitt Momentum grants
Drs. Malihe Alikhani, Rebecca Hwa, Diane Litman, and Xulong Tang received Pitt Momentum grants.
February 12, 2021
Mar 3 Colloquium: RF Beyond ID -- Longfei Shangguan
Owing to its low cost, small form factor, and high energy efficiency, RFID has emerged as a key enabler for the Internet of Things. However, existing RFID systems can only detect the presence of a tagged object within a few meters of radio range while lacking the capability to pinpoint its precise location and communicate over a long distance. In this talk, the speaker will share his experience in building three generations of RFID systems, each addressing a set of challenges and targeting a different application.

February 5, 2021
CS students create VaccinatePA.org
Four CS undergraduate students created a website to make finding a COVID-19 vaccine appointment easier by collecting information from users about vaccine availability and allowing users to easily find the most up to date information.

February 4, 2021
Feb 26 Colloquium: Inclusive Teaching Practices for Busy Faculty -- Colleen M. Lewis
Teaching advice often comes in the form of transformative approaches that seem great for students, but would easily double or quadruple our workload! We’ll discuss teaching practices that you can integrate into your classroom without reinventing the wheel and sacrificing your work-life balance. Most importantly, these are practices that can have a differential benefit for students of color, women, and first-generation college students.

January 27, 2021
New NSF Award: Using AI to Increase Fairness by Improving Access to Justice
Dr. Diane Litman (Professor, CS) together with Dr. Kevin Ashley (Professor, School of Law) received a new award from the National Science Foundation.

January 19, 2021
Dr. Malihe Alikhani receives Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Malihe Alikhani for receiving one of the four Fall 2020 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants, which provide initial funding for novel and innovative multidisciplinary efforts that advance Pitt Cyber’s mission.

December 16, 2020
2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher (Honorable Mention) - Vasco Xu
Vasco Xu, Pitt CS undergraduate major (BPhil, Dec 2020) received an honorable mention in the 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards.