Faculty / Research News
Associate Professor Alexandros Labrinidis was quoted in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in an article about
the pervasiveness of
smart-phones in modern society.
Associate Professor Bruce Childers has been named the Program Chair for the LCTES 2010 - ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems and is being held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dara Kusic has joined the Department of Computer Science as a 2009-2010 Computing Innovations Post-doctoral Fellow of the National Science Foundation (CIFellows).
The Department of Computer Science is seeking applications for a full-time tenure-track position at an Assistant Professor rank to begin in the Fall Term 2010. We are seeking outstanding candidates in the area of Networking and Systems. Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or closely related area and must demonstrate exceptional research potential and teaching ability.
Associate Professor Milos Hauskrecht received two NIH awards, one to study computational methods for detecting deviations in clinical care in intensive care unit (ICU) data, and the second to develop and study a new computational framework for off-line evaluation and optimization of clinical alerting systems based on retrospective electronic health record data.
Professor Jan Wiebe and collaborator Rada Mihalcea of the University of North Texas receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to study Word Sense and Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis.
Congratulations to the Faculty and Graduate Students who received awards at the 2009 Annual Welcome Back reception!
Professor Diane Litman receives an NSF Award in the Robust Intelligence and the Human-Centered Computing Programs. An Affect-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System that Responds Based on User Model and Multiple Affective States is a three year project with co-principal investigator Katherine Forbes-Riley, Research Associate at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Assistant Professor Adam Lee receives an NSF Award in the Trustworthy Computing Program which supports research exploring novel frameworks, theories, and approaches towards secure and privacy-preserving systems. Towards a Dynamic and Composable Model of Trust is a three year project working on those goals.
Liz Marai, Assistant Professor, receives the 2009 Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) innovation in education award. Her proposal, Immersive Software Engineering, is one of only eleven to receive an ACIE award this year.
Rebecca Hwa is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1st, 2009). Rebecca became the 4th Associate Professor in our department.
Assistant Professor Liz Marai and other colleagues in the Center for Simulation and Modeling have been awarded the 2009 University Research
Council (URC) Multidisciplinary Small Grant to establish a Program on Geriatric Research in Ambulatory and Cognitive Excellence (GRACE). Caterina Rosano, Bob Boudreau (Epidemiology), and Bill Layton (Mathematics) will contribute to this multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative endeavor.
Professor Alexandros Labrinidis elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD to serve a four-year term (July 2009 - June 2013). ACM SIGMOD, is the premier professional organization for database researchers and practitioners.
Professor Janyce Wiebe has been named the Program Co-Chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009, the premier conference in Computational Linguistics which is being held in Singapore in August.
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Students / Staff / Alumni News
CS Grad students, Michal Valko, John Yackovich, Maio Zhou, Santiago Bock, Socrates Demetriades, and Wenting Xiong will be presenting papers or posters at the 2010 Grad Expo on Monday, March 22nd. See the schedule for times of their presentations.
The Pitt CS Technology Leadership Initiative, TLI, has been awarded $7,500 from the Google RISE Program to further the TLI's goals.
Undergraduate Yann Le Gall has been awarded the Arts & Sciences Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Yann!!
Kathleen O'Connor, CS staff member, has served four years on the Provost Advisory Committee on Women's Concerns (PACWC). PACWC received the 2009 Chancellor's Affirmative Action Award in honor of making a significant contribution in affirmative action. See the PACWC article.
Instructor and Graduate Student Jonathan Misurda was recognized by the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education (CIDDE) for "Outstanding Contributions [...] Guiding, Instruction, and Nurturing Teaching Assistants" during the New Teaching Assistant Orientation (NTAO) sessions for the Academic Years 2004-2010. Congratulations Jonathan!!
The Pitt CS Technology Leadership Initiative, TLI , is the recipient of a 2009 award from the Google RISE Program .
Undergraduate Heather Friedberg (WiCS
undergrad coordinator) was awarded a Grace Hopper Celebration 2009 scholarship to
attend the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,
co-presented by ACM and ABI. Thank you, Heather, for all your hard work at WiCS!
Congratulations to Kelli Ireland, a 2009 Anita Borg Scholarship finalist. Kelli is a graduate student in the CoE graduate program, which is a joint program between CS and ECE.
CS Day was a great success!! CS graduate and undergraduate students participated in several competitions and the 2009 CS Day Awards are those judged as the best entries.
Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Swapna Somasundaran, CS graduate students, received the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Congratulations to both of you!
Sri Mandayam (a WiCS coordinator), Kelli Ireland (CoE), and Tonya Groover (CS), all graduate students, have been selected to attend CRA-W 2009 Grad Cohort Workshop in March. Congratulations to all of you!
Colleges try to increase numbers of women, minorities in science and engineering and Tonya Groover, a graduate student in our Department, helps stimulate STEM interest.
Brian Wongchaowart, an undergraduate student in our Department and a member of the ADMT Lab, has received an Honorable Mention at the 2009 CRA Undergraduate Student Award Competition. Congratulations Brian!
Starting
salary offers for Computer Science majors continue to be among highest
[NACE Salary Survey]
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