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March 6, 2024
March 29 Colloquium: "Emission Factor Selection with Neural Language Models"
To avoid repetitive analysis, environmental impact factors (EIF) of common materials and products are published for use by LCA experts. However, finding appropriate EIFs for even a single product under study can require hundreds of hours of manual work, especially for complex products. We present Flamingo, an algorithm that leverages natural language machine learning (ML) models to automatically identify an appropriate EIF given a text description.
February 28, 2024
Assistant Professor Longfei Shangguan Receives an NSF CAREER Award to Democratize Earable Computing Research
Dr. Longfei Shangguan (assistant professor) received an NSF CAREER award for his project “Ubiquitous Earable Sensing Using Low-Cost Earphones.”
February 23, 2024
March 22 Colloquium: "Multimodal Learning from Pixels to People"
People experience the world through modalities of sight, sound, words, touch, and more. By leveraging their natural relationships and developing multimodal learning methods, my research creates artificial perception systems with diverse skills, including spatial, physical, logical, and cognitive abilities, for flexibly analyzing visual data.
February 22, 2024
March 1 Colloquium: "Towards Automating Machine Learning Engineering"
When a skilled machine learning engineer is tasked with building a system for a specific application, they take several steps. Some of these include doing a literature review of the most appropriate models and datasets, choosing which ones to utilize based on accuracy and other constraints such as efficiency or latency, creating or curating training and testing data, training and comparing models, identifying weak points of the current modeling paradigm and iteratively improving.
February 16, 2024
SCI Students Receive CRA Research Awards
Two students from the School of Computing and Information (SCI) Department of Computer Science have been recognized for their undergraduate research by the Computing Research Association (CRA)!
February 15, 2024
Dozens of SCI Students Attend Renowned Grace Hopper Conference
Last month, 33 students (18 in person and 15 virtually) from the School of Computing and Information (SCI) attended the Grace Hopper Conference (GHC) in Orlando, FL.
February 15, 2024
Assistant Professor Stephen Lee Receives NSF Grant for Designing Sustainable Distributed Infrastructures
Dr. Stephen Lee (assistant professor, Department of Computer Science) received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his project, “Data-Driven System-Design for Sustainable Long-Lasting Distributed Infrastructures,” on Oct. 1, 2023.
February 15, 2024
Students Create Projects Aimed at Solving Problems in Healthcare During the Pitt Challenge 2023 Hackathon
In September, students from the School of Computing and Information, along with their peers from other schools within Pitt, came together to plan the Pitt Challenge 2023.
February 15, 2024
Dr. Jacob Biehl Is Building Systems That Reshape Space
For Biehl, an associate professor with a dual appointment in the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship and the Department of Computer Science, technical rigor and the usability needs of the people operating a system are not separate considerations.
February 12, 2024
February 16 Colloquium: "From Boxed Bots to Home Robots: Imitate, Generalize, Personalize"
In this talk, I will take you on a journey from the fundamental stages of imitation learning to the realms of personalized robotic companions.
February 12, 2024
February 23 Colloquium: "Exploring Dual Perspectives in Computer-mediated Empathy"
In this talk, I will focus on recent projects that explore how technologies can facilitate empathy. These approaches primarily focus on those who need to be empathized and help them express, reveal, and reflect on themselves.
January 25, 2024
February 2 Colloquium: "AI for Public Sector Applications: Deployed Studies"
We will start with a 4-year collaboration with a crowdsourcing food rescue platform, where we combined offline ML model with online optimization to improve volunteer engagement. We will discuss our randomized controlled trial, and our experience rolling it out to over 25 cities across North America.
November 2, 2023
December 1 Colloquium: "Towards bit-parallel database systems for analytic database applications"
In this talk, I'll present a new perspective on the data representation substrate for data platforms. I argue that a bit-level data shredding approach could offer significant advantages for future data platforms.
October 26, 2023
SCI Faculty Member, Graduate Students Win Best Paper Award at ISMAR 2023
Dr. Jacob Biehl (Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship), Master’s Student Thomas Downes and PhD Student Talha Khan won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).
October 25, 2023
November 10 Colloquium: "Reconfiguring Participation: Reflections on Community-Based Technology Projects"
In technology design for social change, we must continually examine the questions of "What is the right thing to do?" and "How do we know we have done it?" I reflect on two projects situated in Nepal and the US that sought to support vulnerable populations through participatory technology design.