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Dr. Ibrahim shows students the necessity of cybersecurity
March 12, 2021
Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim teaches his students to think like an adversary. An assistant professor in SCI’s Department of Informatics and Network Systems teaching cybersecurity, he often starts his courses with an introduction to threat modeling, where students have to plan for how someone else would attack a networked system they created.
Student Profile: Alexa Spaventa (SCI '23)
March 11, 2021
Before the COVID-19 pandemic limited in-person interactions, Alexa Spaventa found herself at Westinghouse High School several times a month. Some days, she came with her Seminar in Composition Service Learning course, where they would help students write college scholarship essays.
Pitt Startup Makes Exercising ‘SimpL’
Kunal Gandhi was studying on a recent evening when an unexpected message popped up on his LinkedIn: His startup company was being considered for an award by the NFL Players Association.
“They wanted to learn more about our story and the next day, we talked with them,” said Gandhi, cofounder and CEO of SimpL, a fitness technique tracking app.
Associate Professor and Student Win Best Paper Award
SCI PhD student Yongsu Ahn and Associate Professor Yu-Ru Lin recently won the Best Paper Award for 2020 in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, a journal that publishes papers on research concerning the design, realization, or evaluation of interactive systems that incorporate some form of machine intelligence. Ahn and Lin's paper is titled "PolicyFlow: Interpreting Policy Diffusion in Context," which introduces a visual analytics system to analyze the diffusion of policies among states in the US.
Undergraduate Student Katelyn Morrison Selected to Attend ACC Meeting of the Minds
SCI computer science student Katelyn Morrison is among five researchers selected to represent the University of Pittsburgh at the 15th Annual Atlantic Coast Conference Meeting of the Minds, which will take place in April this year. The conference is an opportunity for universities to highlight the research being done by undergraduate students, and for students to share their work with peers.
Kayla Booth Receives Provost's Award for Diversity in the Curriculum
SCI Research Assistant Professor Kayla Booth recently received the Provost's Award for Diversity in the Curriculum for her work as Director of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3). i3 is an undergraduate research and leadership development program that prepares students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in information and computing. Each year, 25 students from universities across the country are selected to become i3 Scholars.
Student Profile: Andrea Michael (SCI '21)
March 1, 2021
According to Andrea Michael (SCI '21), a senior information science and computer science double major, Pitt’s School of Computing and Information fosters something lacking in computer science departments across the country — a culture of collaboration and support among its students.
Adriana Kovashka Receives National Science Foundation Career Award
SCI Assistant Professor Adriana Kovashka recently received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award for her project "Natural Narratives and Multimodal Context as Weak Supervision for Learning Object Categories." The project develops a framework to train computer vision models for detection of objects from weak, naturally-occurring supervision of language (text or speech) and additional multimodal signals.
Student Profile: Pedro Bustamante (SCI '16G, '21G)
February 26, 2021
Student Profile: Nico Campuzano
February 26, 2021
Student Profile: J. Stephanie Rose (SCI '22)
February 26, 2021
Malihe Alikhani and Yu-Ru Lin Receive Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants
SCI Assistant Professor Malihe Alikhani and Associate Professor Yu-Ru Lin were recently among the awardees for the Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants Program (PCAG). This program provides initial funding for projects that address critical questions of networks, data, and algorithms, with a focus on the ever-changing gaps among law, policy, and technology.
Martin Weiss Receives Provost's Award
SCI Professor Martin Weiss is the recipient of the 2021 Provost's Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. This award annually recognizes outstanding mentoring of graduate students seeking a research doctorate degree.
Rosta Farzan to Lead Diversity Efforts at School of Computing and Information
Rosta Farzan, an associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, was recently appointed associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the school.
University of Pittsburgh Announces Test-Optional Program Extension Through Fall 2023
The University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid announced the test-optional policy for fall 2021 admission has been expanded to first-year applicants in all programs, majors, schools and colleges through fall 2023.