With a recent grant from the Google Academic Research Awards, Assistant Professor Ryan Shi continues to explore how to use artificial intelligence to create positive societal impact.
Frank joins a collaborative effort funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The project aims to improve data on labor markets and workers in relation to AI adoption, producing academic articles and policy-oriented reports.
Imagine adjusting your earphones’ volume with no buttons or screens, but a simple wave of your hand. Yongjie Yang, a PhD student in computer science at the School of Computing and Information (SCI), made this futuristic vision a reality.
Assistant Professor Longfei Shangguan and his interdisciplinary research team received the prestigious Best Paper Award at MobiCom 2024, the top international conference on mobile computing and networking. The award recognizes their paper introducing Asclepius, a novel medical device that repurposes recycled earphones as digital stethoscopes to enhance remote healthcare.
One phrase to define students at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) is ‘go-getters’, and as the summer begins, undergraduates like Gina M. Agabegi, Benjamin J. Jackson, and Sarah M. Reyer, are switching gears from to pursue their professional careers.
Dr. Junyu Liu, a newly appointed assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is reimagining how quantum computing is taught for people with a traditional computing background.
The School of Computing and Information (SCI) collaborated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Business, Pitt Business Center for Branding, Pittsburgh Technology Council, and Responsible Data Science at Pitt to educate faculty, staff and members of the Pittsburgh community about integrating AI responsibly into their field.
Faculty member Ahmad P. Tafti is honored to contribute to shaping the scientific and educational direction of CPACE, who recently received a transformative $10 million investment in AI in medicine from a major industry partner, Leidos.
AI researchers, analytics industry leaders, and students across Pittsburgh came together on March 27, Pitt’s second annual Data Science Day, to share the latest innovations in their fields. Through a series of keynote speakers, interactive activities, and poster sessions, attendees were able to both learn from others and share their own research in many unique ways.
Dr. Cristina Conati, a professor at British Columbia University, says that human computer interaction transforms through responding directly to human needs in the final 2024-2025 Dean's Spotlight Series talk.
The world is full of leaders, but what makes a good one? Maurice Wheeler, Director of Archives at the Metropolitan Opera (SCI ’94), addressed this question on Jan. 27 in his talk, “Risky Business: The Politics of Successful Library Leadership”.
In today’s quickly developing technological landscape, it is important to empower students to take initiative towards a well-regulated and fair digital future through events like Hacking4Humanity event, which combines policy, technology, and ethics by giving students the opportunity to play their own role in stopping online hate.
Maria Harrington (SCI '08), PhD, and associate professor of Digital Media at the University of Central Florida, received research awards for her pioneering work in using virtual reality of natural habitats to explore botanical and ecological datasets from geographical information.
Angela Stewart’s love of technology was born in the classroom, specifically her middle school computer classroom where the teacher first introduced her to the basics of coding.
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