One phrase to define students at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) is ‘go-getters’, and as the summer begins, undergraduates like Gina M. Agabegi, Benjamin J. Jackson, and Sarah M. Reyer, are switching gears from to pursue their professional careers.
Dr. Junyu Liu, a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is reimagining how quantum computing is taught for people with a traditional computing background.
The School of Computing and Information (SCI) collaborated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, Pitt Business Center for Branding, Pittsburgh Technology Council, and Responsible Data Science at Pitt to educate faculty, staff and members of the Pittsburgh community about integrating AI responsibly into their field.
Faculty member Ahmad P. Tafti is honored to contribute to shaping the scientific and educational direction of CPACE, who recently received a transformative $10 million investment in AI in medicine from a major industry partner, Leidos.
AI researchers, analytics industry leaders, and students across Pittsburgh came together on March 27, Pitt’s second annual Data Science Day, to share the latest innovations in their fields. Through a series of keynote speakers, interactive activities, and poster sessions, attendees were able to both learn from others and share their own research in many unique ways.
Dr. Cristina Conati, a professor at British Columbia University, says that human computer interaction transforms through responding directly to human needs in the final 2024-2025 Dean's Spotlight Series talk.
The world is full of leaders, but what makes a good one? Maurice Wheeler, Director of Archives at the Metropolitan Opera (SCI ’94), addressed this question on Jan. 27 in his talk, “Risky Business: The Politics of Successful Library Leadership”.
In today’s quickly developing technological landscape, it is important to empower students to take initiative towards a well-regulated and fair digital future through events like Hacking4Humanity event, which combines policy, technology, and ethics by giving students the opportunity to play their own role in stopping online hate.
Maria Harrington (SCI '08), PhD, and associate professor of Digital Media at the University of Central Florida, received research awards for her pioneering work in using virtual reality of natural habitats to explore botanical and ecological datasets from geographical information.
Angela Stewart’s love of technology was born in the classroom, specifically her middle school computer classroom where the teacher first introduced her to the basics of coding.
Dr. Nils Murrugarra-Llerena, teaching assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, received a $40,100 grant for his program PhawAI, a Peruvian workshop to promote artificial intelligence (AI) research.
SCI thrives at the intersection of technology, data, and societal impact, and when speakers like Northwestern University’s Professor Dashun Wang make an impact on our PhD students like Alireza Javadian Sabet, communities at Pitt and beyond benefit.
Dr. Xiaowei Jia, an assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science, and fellow researchers have been awarded $300,000 for the project "A Digital Twin Integrating Knowledge and AI for Understanding Carbon and Biodiversity Corridors in Central America".
This Pitt based team will coordinate with UC Berkeley, North Carolina State University (NCSU), and Aalto University in Finland, to integrate new personalization approaches for computer science education, by employing large language models (LLM’s).
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