News

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We think of our daily posts on social media as incidental rather than being an important historical document.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.

Dr. Dmitriy Babichenko Receives Pitt Seed Funding

Clinical Associate Professor Dmitriy Babichenko (Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) received Pitt Seed funding for his project STEM Through Games as part of the program's 2023-24 cohort.

Dr. Jacob Biehl poses in front of Pitt SCI sign

Dr. Jacob Biehl Is Building Systems That Reshape Space

August 17, 2023

Dr. Jacob Biehl builds systems with human users in mind.

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."

Xiaowei Jia awarded NSF CAREER Award for Machine Learning Research

July 26, 2023

How can new advances in machine learning impact real-world problems and discoveries?

Professor Diane Litman Receives NSF Grant for Reflection-Informed STEM Learning and Instruction

July 17, 2023

Professor Diane Litman (Department of Computer Science) received a research grant from the National Science Foundation for her project “Developing and Optimizing Reflection-Informed STEM Learning and Instruction by Integrating Learning Technologies with Natural Language Processing.”

2023 Staff Recognition for Years of Service

July 6, 2023

This year, eleven staff members at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) were honored for their years of service at the University of Pittsburgh. Please join us in congratulating these staff members on their acoomplishments and anniversaries:
 

​Five Years

Sung-Min Kim Kevin Loya Oana Nicola-Stephan Heather Springel

Ten Years

Jeff Lawson

Twenty Years