Research Awards & Recognitions

SCI faculty conduct award-winning research and have been recognized for their expertise and contributions to their fields.

Faculty Fellows

James Joshi
Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems
Named an Honorary Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Jacob Biehl
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Information Culture and Data Stewardship
Appointed as an Electus Faculty Fellow in the David C. Frederick Honors College

Panos K. Chrysanthis
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Professor, Computer Science
Elected as a 2023 Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

Diane Litman
Associate Dean for Mentoring and Development; Professor, Computer Science
Named a Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

Best Paper Award - RSS 2025 Generative Models x HRI (GenAI-HRI) Workshop

Michael Lewis, Professor, Informatics and Networked Systems & Intelligent Systems Program
Huao Li, SCI '25G (Alum)
Lucia Romero '26G

Best Paper Award – Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (2024)

Best Paper Award – International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (2024)

Amy Babay, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Informatics and Networked Systems
Huzaifah Nadeem, PhD Student
Maher Khan, SCI ‘24G (Alum)
Benjamin Gilby, SCI ’23 (Alum)

Best Paper Award – IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (2023)

Jacob Biehl, Associate Professor, Computer Science & Information Culture and Data Stewardship
Thomas Downes, Master’s Student
Talha Khan, PhD Student

Award for “Validated Image Caption Rating Dataset” – NeurIPS (2023)

Aakash Gautam, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Information Culture and Data Stewardship

Best Poster Award – Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference (2023)

Diane Litman, Associate Dean for Mentoring and Development; Professor, Computer Science
Adriana Kovashka, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Erin Walker, Associate Dean for Research; Associate Professor, Computer Science
Yuya Asano, PhD Student
Mingzhi Yu, SCI PhD Alum
Colleagues from the Learning Research and Development Center

Distinguished Paper Award – 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2023)

Na Du (Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems), 2025
Longfei Shangguan (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2024
Xiaowei Jia (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2023
Lingfei Wu (Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems), 2023
Adriana Kovashka (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2021
Adam J. Lee (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies; Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2013
Rebecca Hwa (Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2008
Alexandros Labrinidis (Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2008
James Joshi (Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems), 2006
Peter Brusilovsky (Director, Intelligent Systems Program), 2005
Youtao Zhang (Professor, Department of Computer Science), 2005
Panos Chrysanthis (Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Professor, Department of Computer Science), 1995

Panos Chrysanthis
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies; Professor, Computer Science
Received the MDM 2024 Distinguished Contributor Award

Xiaowei Jia
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Received an Early Career Investigator Grant from NASA’s Earth Science Division

James Joshi
Professor, Informatics and Networked Systems
Received the NSF Director’s Award

Diane Litman
Associate Dean for Mentoring and Development; Professor, Computer Science
Received an NSF EAGER award

Stephen Arndt (SCI ’24)
Received an Honorable Mention for the 2023–2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Anna Baskin (SCI ’23)
Finalist for the 2023–2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Nitish Chandra (IS PhD)
Selected as a Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Fellow

Griffin J. Hurt (SCI ’24)
Named a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) scholar