A University of Pittsburgh and UPMC team, including SCI's Associate Professor Jacob Biehl and doctoral students Griffin Hurt and Ethan Crosby, has performed the first endoscopic endonasal approach to the skull base for resection of a pituitary tumor using mixed reality integrated into the operative workflow.
“The future belongs to hybrid thinkers who can evaluate technology through a business lens and inform business strategy with technical understanding,” said Varun Shelke, a SCI master's student and the winner of the 2025 Pitt Business KPMG Cup.
Chuck Allias and Taylen Inthisane share their experience earning SCI's newest master's degree, the online Master of Data Science, after being among the program's first graduates in Fall 2025.
SCI is committed to removing financial barriers for students to attend prestigious conferences to network, learn about research opportunities, and broaden their horizons. In 2025, students attended conferences like AfroTech and the Grace Hopper Celebration.
A new paper by SCI's Morgan Frank cautions that graduate prospects in AI-exposed industries were worsening before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. AI is not the only source of economic uncertainty; young workers always tend to get hit hard when older workers cling onto their current jobs.
Susan Orr, SCI's director of communications and media, was named as the 2026 Pearl of Hope Award recipient by Sojourner House and Sojourner House MOMS. The regional nonprofit, which provides substance-use recovery and housing services for families in the Pittsburgh region, is recognizing Orr for “her extraordinary compassion, leadership, and more than two decades of dedication to women, children and families.”
James Joshi (professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems) has been elected as the Transactions Operations Committee (TOC) chair for the IEEE Computer Society for 2026. With this role, Joshi will also serve on the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.
Addy Agastheeswaran, a computer science student at SCI, is the co-founder of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), a new student organization dedicated to creating a supportive community for members to learn, connect, and grow in a field where they are historically underrepresented.
In the joint program offered by SCI and the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English, students get hands-on experiences assisting communities through a blend of storytelling and technology. One example is through the Computing Technologies for Cultural Preservation capstone, which sent students to Ecuador to document Ecuadorian Indigenous cultures.
The second talk in the 2025-26 Dean’s Spotlight Series, featuring the University of Michigan’s Dr. Lu Wang, explored how AI tools are evaluated as trustworthy and how they can be improved by future research.
Morgan Frank, an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, said using AI to connect employers and job seekers is not necessarily new.
ISP PhD Student Zhengbo Zhou received the Magna Cum Laude Science Poster Award for his paper “Long Range History of Prior Mammograms for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction” at the 111th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Michael Keslar, a member of SCI's Board of Visitors, divisional chief information officer for the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY), and president of BNY Pennsylvania delivered the address at the College’s 21st annual Winter Commencement on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.
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