Mackenzie Ball, SCI’s Director of Outreach and Alumni Engagement, is going to be a panelist at the 2025 Mentoring and Advising Summit to speak about the school’s Alumni Mentoring Program.
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.
Dr. Nils Murrugarra-Llerena, teaching assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, received a $40,100 grant for his program PhawAI, a Peruvian workshop to promote artificial intelligence (AI) research.
SCI thrives at the intersection of technology, data, and societal impact, and when speakers like Northwestern University’s Professor Dashun Wang make an impact on our PhD students like Alireza Javadian Sabet, communities at Pitt and beyond benefit.
Dr. Xiaowei Jia, an assistant professor with the Department of Computer Science, and fellow researchers have been awarded $300,000 for the project "A Digital Twin Integrating Knowledge and AI for Understanding Carbon and Biodiversity Corridors in Central America".
This Pitt based team will coordinate with UC Berkeley, North Carolina State University (NCSU), and Aalto University in Finland, to integrate new personalization approaches for computer science education, by employing large language models (LLM’s).
GHC is the largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists in the world, attracting thousands of students, experts, mentors, and leaders, aiming to transform the technology field to make it more diverse and inclusive to all.
These grants provide initial funding for multidisciplinary projects that address critical questions around network, data, and algorithms with a focus on law, policy, and technology.
Acosta received the Exceptional Early Career Achievement Award, which recognizes a staff member in the early years of their professional career who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the University and community.
As we reach the end of the fall 2024 semester, we want to take a moment to give a shoutout to SCI's Peer Advisors! They provide students with guidance and advice on their college experience, both at SCI and beyond.
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