The Colorful Backgrounds EXPO, a 12-week reentry program led by Pittsburgh nonprofit West End P.O.W.E.R. and the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN), recently partnered with School of Computing and Information (SCI) assistant professor Aakash Gautam to provide digital literacy training and future envisioning tools that support returning citizens as they reenter their communities.
SCI researchers including Dr. Michael Lewis (DINS), Lucia Romero, a master’s student studying information science, and SCI alum Huao Li (MSIS ’19, PhD ’25) received a Best Paper Award at a Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop. This study introduces TALENTS, a novel framework that enables artificial agents to adapt to human partners in real-time.
Xiaowei Jia, an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $384,203 to focus on the hidden signatures in water isotopes, specifically rare forms of hydrogen and oxygen that act as natural recorders of Earth’s climate history.
Rebecca Morris, a Teaching Associate Professor with SCI’ s Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, and MLIS alumna Annie Malady were published in the May 2025 issue of Library Trends. Their article, titled “Facing the Questions Together: Faculty and Student Perspectives on Integrating Generative AI in LIS Education,” explores collaborative viewpoints facing educators and students at Pitt and beyond.
Inspired by the New York Times’ Connections game, César Guerra-Solano (SCI ‘26) proposed adapting the puzzle into a multilingual, culture-specific word grouping game, giving large language models (LLM’s) the task of identifying patterns and generating explanations for their groupings.
Peter Brusilovsky (Director, Intelligent Systems Program; professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) is one of three keynote speakers for the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media.
Adriana Kovashka, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, received an NSF grant to support her project the Representational Reasoning Assistant (RRA), which will help advance interdisciplinary research and practices in AI, computer science, learning sciences, and STEM learning.
As AI continues to seep into our day-to-day lives, a question that many often find themselves wondering is how this new technology will affect their careers. SCI Assistant Professor Morgan Frank is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University’s Block Center for Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) FutureTech, University of Virginia, the California Policy Lab, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to create a wide-ranging research effort focused on understanding AI’s labor implications using high-resolution data.
Dana Tudorascu, a faculty member with SCI's Intelligent Systems Program and an associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, is a collaborator on a Pitt research team recently awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Kirk Pruhs, a professor of computer science, is chairing a high-profile program through the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, the world’s leading center for collaborative research in theoretical computer science and located at the University of California, Berkeley.
Morgan Frank, an assistant professor at SCI, has recently been awarded a prestigious $80k fellowship from Microsoft’s newly launched AI Economy Institute to study how AI impacts education and the workforce.
Dr. Diane Litman, a faculty member with the School of Computing and Information and Senior Scientist at the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center, was among 44 scholars honored with the 2025 Distinguished AI Scholar Award.
Dr. Panos Chrysanthis, a professor with the Department of Computer Science, was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMOD Chapter for his work in the field.
Researchers like Na Du, an Assistant Professor with the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems at SCI, are working to make human-tech collaborations smarter and more seamless by designing technology that strengthens the gaps in team environments through situationally aware technology.
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