As quantum technologies continue to develop, researchers are exploring how quantum computers can do more than process information: they want to understand how these systems can learn from data, make inferences, and draw conclusions about the world around us.
As first-year students increasingly turn to AI for writing help, instructors are noticing a troubling pattern: essays are starting to sound alike. A collaboration led by Lorraine Li, an assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Computing and Information (SCI), aims to reverse that trend with an AI system designed to draw out students' ideas and encourage their unique voice.
A collaborative paper led by researchers at UMass Amherst, with contributions from Assistant Professor Longfei Shangguan and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2026.
Assistant Professor Amy Babay will serve as PI for a multi-year National Science Foundation grant to begin in October 2026 to explore the development of the “Intelligent Resilient Overlay NextG Network (IRONN).”
A research project led by PhD Students Andrew Aquilina and Quinn Wolter as well as Professor Yu-Ru Lin was featured on the Bright Initiative, a global Data-for-Good program founded by Bright Data.
In a collaboration between six researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, three of which come from the School of Computing and Information, a paper reflecting ten years of work was published just this year.
Four SCI faculty members—Frances Corry, Aakash Gautam, Eleanor Mattern, and Rebecca Morris—were awarded Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) grants. Established in 1996, the IMLS supports libraries, archives, and museums in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Recent PhD Graduate Deniz Sonmez-Unal and SCI Professor Erin Walker received the best paper award at the 2026 Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM) for their paper “Leveraging Privileged Multimodal Data to Model Cognitive States in an Interactive Learning Platform.”
Recent PhD Graduate Alireza Javadian Sabet (SCI ‘26G) received the Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) held in Burlington, Vermont, for his paper "How women's empowerment combats national brain drain."
Ahana Biswas, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in information science at SCI and researcher in the PICSO Lab, attended the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science from May 24 through June 5, 2026. A highly selective and prestigious program, the workshop brings together a small cohort of graduate students from leading institutions to collaborate on interdisciplinary research.
A new University of Pittsburgh-led research project aims to automate the scientific process, using a team of AI agents to harness a promising new type of quantum computing that could enable discoveries in chemistry and materials science.
Dr. David Rand of Cornell University visited SCI graduate students in Spring 2026 to talk about the relationship between AI systems and human reasoning.
What can archives learn from AI? A new open-access article by Frances Corry, Assistant Professor in SCI’s Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, argues the answer is: quite a lot.
The University of Pittsburgh Surreality Lab was featured in two sessions at AWE USA 2026, one of the leading conferences for extended reality and artificial intelligence, where its mixed reality surgical guidance work was presented to an audience of industry and academic leaders.
Fourteen SCI faculty members and six Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) faculty members ranked among Research.com’s 12th Edition of Best Computer Scientists in the U.S. and World’s Best Computer Scientists.
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