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.
A collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh, Dell Technologies, and NVIDIA is bringing innovative tech to campus, connecting Pitt’s research with industry leaders. As part of Dell's Partner Advisory Board, Pitt was invited to try new AI hardware and explore various research endeavors.
Supported by the Iceland-U.S. Fulbright Commission, the prestigious award permits Dr. Palanisamy to visit Reykjavik University in Iceland, where he will conduct a 5-month long research project on detecting security vulnerabilities in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Platforms.
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.
Research at Pitt led by SCI assistant professor Lingfei Wu explore the factors that affect innovation, from the size and structure of teams to the ways in which they collaborate. Those efforts have given the team methods to quantify the different types of impact new research can have.
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.
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