Tony DeLuca (CS ’95) and Deb Mohapatra, professionals at CGI, one of SCI's corporate partners, share the impact the relationship has on the company, benefits for students, and more.
Michael Lewis, a professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, will be officially retiring from Pitt at the end of the 2025-26 spring semester. Lewis, who has been at Pitt for 40 years, has seen the University and hundreds of students grow, change, and develop throughout his time.
Through Debbie Day’s work as a program administrator, she helped to support multiple program and department chairs, while assisting students on their journeys toward becoming librarians, archivists, and information professionals.
Professor Yu-Ru Lin and doctoral student Rr. Nefriana, both from SCI's Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, received a Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant for their research into AI’s ability to counter health misinformation.
Professor Ahmed Ibrahim, of the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS), has been named a recipient of the 2026 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards.
A University of Pittsburgh and UPMC team, including SCI's Associate Professor Jacob Biehl and doctoral students Griffin Hurt and Ethan Crosby, have integrated mixed reality technology into the operating room.
“The future belongs to hybrid thinkers who can evaluate technology through a business lens and inform business strategy with technical understanding,” said Varun Shelke, a SCI master's student and the winner of the 2025 Pitt Business KPMG Cup.
Chuck Allias and Taylen Inthisane share their experience earning SCI's newest master's degree, the online Master of Data Science, after being among the program's first graduates in Fall 2025.
SCI is committed to removing financial barriers for students to attend prestigious conferences to network, learn about research opportunities, and broaden their horizons. In 2025, students attended conferences like AfroTech and the Grace Hopper Celebration.
A new paper by SCI's Morgan Frank cautions that graduate prospects in AI-exposed industries were worsening before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. AI is not the only source of economic uncertainty; young workers always tend to get hit hard when older workers cling onto their current jobs.
Susan Orr, SCI's director of communications and media, was named as the 2026 Pearl of Hope Award recipient by Sojourner House and Sojourner House MOMS. The regional nonprofit, which provides substance-use recovery and housing services for families in the Pittsburgh region, is recognizing Orr for “her extraordinary compassion, leadership, and more than two decades of dedication to women, children and families.”
James Joshi (professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) has been elected as the Transactions Operations Committee (TOC) chair for the IEEE Computer Society for 2026. With this role, Joshi will also serve on the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.
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