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September 24, 2021

Dr. Malihe Alikhani awarded best theme paper at ACL 2021

Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Assistant Professor, CS) was awarded the best theme paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021)

Dr. Malihe Alikhani
September 24, 2021

Dr. Malihe Alikhani, Chloe Ciora and Nur Iren receive best paper award at INLG 2021

In conjunction with undergraduate students Chloe Ciora and Nur Iren, Dr. Malihe Alikhani (Assistant Professor, CS) was awarded the best paper award at the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation.

July 1, 2021

Mingda Zhang, Dr. Adrianna Kovashka, and Dr. Rebecca Hwa, receive best paper award at ECV 2021

Pitt CS graduate student Mingda Zhang, assistant professor Adriana Kovashka, and professor Rebecca Hwa received the best paper award at the Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision CVPR Workshop (ECV 2021) for their work in collaboration with Drs. Chun-Te Chu, Andrey Zhmoginov, Andrew Howard, Brendan Jou, Yukun Zhu, and Li Zhang, from Google Research

Rakan Alseghayer
June 28, 2021

Rakan Alseghayer receives the People's Choice of Best Pitch Video Award at IEEE MDM 2021 conference

Rakan Alseghayer received the People's Choice of Best Pitch Video at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021).

Rakan Alseghayer
June 28, 2021

Rakan Alseghayer receives the Diversity and Inclusion Award at IEEE MDM 2021 conference

Rakan Alseghayer received the Diversity and Inclusion Award at the Ph.D. forum of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021). 

 

Dr. Xiaowei Jia
June 23, 2021

New machine learning methods could improve environmental predictions

Dr. Xiaowei Jia is leading a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and the U.S. Geological Survey in developing a new machine-learning method that will provide more accurate stream and river temperature predictions, even when little data is available. 

Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis
June 22, 2021

Chrysanthis, Costa, and their collaborators receive best demo award at IEEE MDM 2021 conference

A team led by Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis and Dr. Constantinos Costa received the Best Demo Award at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021) for their work entitled "HealthDist: A Context, Location and Preference-Aware System for Safe Navigation"

Dr. Constantinos Costa
June 21, 2021

Costa, Chrysanthis, and their collaborators receive best paper award at IEEE MDM 2021 conference

A team led by Dr. Constantinos Costa and Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis received the Best Industry and Application Paper Award at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021) for their paper entitled "A Context, Location and Preference-Aware System for Safe Pedestrian Mobility". 

Neha Manoj
June 10, 2021

Remote, but not apart: Neha's first-year experience

Neha Manoj, a first-year Computer Science student from California, shares her experiences attending her first year virtually.

Dr. Rob Rutenbar
May 26, 2021

Rob A. Rutenbar Earns Distinguished Professor Honor

Dr. Rob A. Rutenbar, senior vice chancellor for research at the University of Pittsburgh, has been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor in the School of Computing and Information (CS) and in the Swanson School of Engineering (ECE), in recognition of his extraordinary, internationally recognized scholarly attainment in his field.

April 30, 2021

The 2020-21 academic year will be the Year of Data and Society

‘Year of …’ initiative will focus on Data and Society in the 2020-21 academic year. In announcing the initiative, Provost Cudd said "Data science now permeates education, government, medicine, engineering, entertainment, science, the arts, humanities and business, touching nearly every facet of life. All parts of our University collect and use data and each offers unique perspectives on how data can contribute to student and faculty success, human well-being, and the greater social good."

Dr. Xiaowei Jia
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).

Katelyn Morrison
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.

Andrea Michael
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.

Max Dudek
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