University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

09/01/2026

🎉 Congratulations to recent PhD Graduate Deniz Sonmez-Unal and Professor Erin Walker on receiving the the best paper award at the 2026 Educational Data Mining Conference! Read more:

Recent PhD Graduate Deniz Sonmez-Unal and SCI Professor Erin Walker received the best paper award at the 2026 Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM) for their paper “Leveraging Privileged Multimodal Data to Model Cognitive States in an Interactive Learning Platform.”

08/31/2026

PhD Student Yiling Lin will be presenting her proposal defense, "The Death and Life of Great Scientific Concepts," tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Read Yiling's abstract and get more information on how to watch her defense here: https://bit.ly/4wP4yvG

08/27/2026

Check out some of the organizations our SCI students interned at this summer! 🏖️

08/26/2026

📢 Calling all SCI graduate students: Don’t miss out on our Welcome Social this Friday! Join fellow SCI graduate students for an afternoon of food, games, prizes, and community. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4qgTYvL

08/21/2026

🚶‍♀️🌳 SCI Graduate Students: Join SCI's Senior Director of Student and Academic Affairs for a 90-minute guided walking tour showcasing some of the best free activities on and around campus.
✅ No RSVP required
✅ Free to attend
✅ Open to all new SCI graduate students
Arrive a few minutes early. The tour will begin promptly at 3 p.m.

08/20/2026

Behind successful students is a mentor who believed in them first. Thank you to our amazing SCI Mentorship Program mentors for showing up and making a difference! 🌟

08/19/2026

📸 Explore campus AND win prizes with our Graduate Orientation Photo Challenge. Read the photo prompts and how to enter here: https://bit.ly/45rJPCN

08/19/2026

Please join us in congratulating LIS PhD student Elaine Kong on being one of the recipients of the Paul Evans Peters Scholarship offered through the Coalition of Networked Information! 🎉 https://bit.ly/4zmPXKu

08/18/2026

New graduate and professional students: Check out these two welcome week events! For the complete Welcome Week schedule, visit pi.tt/welcomeweek
or download the ExperiencePitt app. 💙 💛

08/18/2026

SCI UBelong 2026 wrapped up this past Friday. Thank you to everyone who helped make the third year a success, and good luck to all our incoming first-years as they begin their Pitt and SCI journeys! 💙 💛