Junyu Liu, an assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science, was recently awarded an NSF grant for his research collaboration with the professors from the Pitt Swanson School of Engineering. They are using their awarded NSF grant to support their research project, titled “Simulating fluid dynamics using hybrid quantum-classical devices.”
In her last semester at Pitt, Michelle Star (SCI ’26) had her human-computer interaction (HCI) research paper accepted into the highly competitive Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Competition. Star was one of only six international undergraduate students to get their research paper accepted.
On November 20-21, 2025, Universidad Católica San Pablo in Arequipa, Peru, hosted PhawAI + TaReCDa 2025. This event united students, faculty, and researchers from around the globe for two days of discussion, learning, and collaboration surrounding artificial intelligence.
Pittsburgh is uniquely positioned to lead advancements in quantum research, said Bruce Childers, dean of Pitt’s School of Computing and Information. “Quantum is not just a physics story, it’s not just an engineering story, it’s not just a computing information story,” he said. “It’s actually a story of collaboration to address the biggest issues facing us today.”
On April 22, more than 125 participants from local high schools, nonprofit organizations and the University of Pittsburgh came together to solve shared problems of practice around the use of generative AI tools among high school and college students.
The award supports five years of research, rewarding Kaushik Seshadreesan with $875,000 to work on his project, titled ‘Quantum Networking for Efficient and Robust Distributed Services’ (Q-NERDS).
How can cybersecurity education come alive beyond the classroom? For Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim, a faculty member with SCI’s Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, participation in the 2025 DOE CyberForce Competition represents a unique opportunity to bridge theory and practice through immersive, scenario-based learning.
What does the post-AI job market hold for current and future graduates? Assistant Professor Morgan Frank (Department of Informatics and Networks Systems) set out to answer this question with findings from his time as a senior fellow at Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute.
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.
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.
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.
In the joint program offered by SCI and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English, students get hands-on experiences assisting communities through a blend of storytelling and technology. One example is through the Computing Technologies for Cultural Preservation capstone, which sent students to Ecuador to document Ecuadorian Indigenous cultures.
The second talk in the 2025-26 Dean’s Spotlight Series, featuring the University of Michigan’s Dr. Lu Wang, explored how AI tools are evaluated as trustworthy and how they can be improved by future research.
Morgan Frank, an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, said using AI to connect employers and job seekers is not necessarily new.
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