Research
SCI Projects Awarded 2023-24 Pitt Momentum Funds
March 21, 2024
This year, three projects by faculty members at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) have received Momentum Funds from the University of Pittsburgh Office of Research! The Momentum Funds consist of three tiers of grants designed to support projects focused on scholarship, multidisciplinary work, and research by Pitt faculty. This year, 27 awards were granted to Pitt faculty across the University. SCI projects include:
Assistant Professor Xiaowei Jia Receives the NASA Early Career Investigator Grant
March 20, 2024
Dr. Xiaowei Jia (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science) received an Early Career Investigator Grant from NASA's Earth Science Division for his project “Towards Generalizable, Fair, and Knowledge Guided Machine Learning for Monitoring Earth Systems.” The grant was issued for $300,000, with the project estimated to last three years.
SCI Associate Professor Balaji Palanisamy and former SCI students Chao Li and Runhua Xu receive Distinguished Paper award at CCS 2023
Dr. Balaji Palanisamy (Associate Professor, Department of Informatics & Networked Systems) and former SCI students Chao Li and Runhua Xu receive Distinguished Paper Award at the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2023 held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr.
SCI Faculty Member, Graduate Students Win Best Paper Award at ISMAR 2023
October 19, 2023
Dr. Jacob Biehl (associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship), master’s student Thomas Downes and PhD student Talha Khan won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).
Emerging Voices in Computational Social Science: Lingfei Wu and Morgan R. Frank
October 12, 2023
In the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS), a new cohort of researchers are quietly making novel contributions to the field of human-centered information systems, earning them recognition from both prestigious academic bodies and mainstream journalistic outlets.
Assistant Professor Angela Stewart Receives NSF Funding for Project that Incorporates Black Girls into AI Design and Creation
October 3, 2023
Dr. Angela Stewart (Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems; Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project “Collaborative Research: Black Girls as Creators: an intersectional learning ecosystem toward gendered racial equity in Artificial Intelligence education.”
Innovative “Black Voices in Computing” Exhibit Showcases Overlooked Contributors to Computing History
October 2, 2023
On Monday, August 28, an exhibit titled “Black Voices in Computing” debuted in the lobby of the Information Sciences Building. Recognizing that conventional histories of computing have typically neglected the efforts of Black scholars; the exhibit aims to center the contributions of Black technologists and researchers in the field of computing and information.
Aakash Gautam Models a More Equitable Approach to Community-Based Computing Research
October 2, 2023
Dr. Aakash Gautam, (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship) has been thinking about the importance of communities throughout his life.
New article in Nature Communications identifies barriers to a “Just Transition” away from fossil fuels
September 26, 2023
Assistant Professor Morgan Frank (Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) has recently published a new article in Nature Communications.
Associate Professor Yu-Ru Lin Receives NSF Grant for Digital Accountability Study
September 21, 2023
Dr. Yu-Ru Lin (Associate Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems; Research and Academic Director, Pitt Cyber) has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the online behavior of U.S. officials across major social platforms.
Frances Corry Explores the Afterlives of Digital Platforms
September 11, 2023
We think of our daily posts on social media as incidental rather than being an important historical document. But you know, 50 years on, it might look different,” said Frances Corry, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship. She is always considering the implications of this possibility when conducting her research.
César Guerra-Solano, Rising SCI Sophomore and 2023 Center for Military Medicine Research Scholar
Working with computers has been a constant in César Guerra-Solano’s life.
“I grew up surrounded by computers,” Guerra-Solano said. “My dad is a data scientist and used to be a university professor in computer science."