This year, five projects by nine faculty members of the School of Computing and Information (SCI) received Momentum Funds from the Pitt Office of Research. The Momentum Funds consist of three tiers of grants designed to support projects rooted in scholarship, multidisciplinary work, and research by Pitt faculty members. Awardees of the 32 total funded projects will be celebrated at the Fueling the Future Funding Showcase in September 2022.
SCI projects include:
- Seeding Grant Awards, with funds up to $25,000.
- Modeling Driver Situational Awareness in Highly Automated Driving
- Na Du (Department of Informatics & Networked Systems)
- Situated Task-Driven Multimodal Intent Modeling and Applications
- Adriana Kovashka, Diane Litman, Malihe Alikhani, and Rebecca Hwa (Department of Computer Science)
- Q-GPU: A Recipe of Optimizations for Quantum Circuit Simulation Using GPUs
- Xulong Tang (Department of Computer Science)
- Modeling Driver Situational Awareness in Highly Automated Driving
- Teaming Grant Awards, with funds up to $60,000.
- Cultural Representativeness in the Principles of AI
- Yu-Ru Lin and Morgan Frank (Department of Informatics and Networked Systems)
- Cultural Representativeness in the Principles of AI
- Scaling Grant Awards, with funds up to $400,000.
- Center for Text Analytic Methods in Legal Studies
- Kevin Ashley (Intelligent Systems Program), Daqing He (Department of Informatics & Networked Systems), Diane Litman (Department of Computer Science), and Rebecca Hwa (Department of Computer Science)
- Center for Text Analytic Methods in Legal Studies
For more information on this year’s Momentum Fund recipients, visit the Office of Research website.