Intriguing Work of Department of Computer Science Faculty being Recognized with NSF Grants
Assistant Professor Adam Lee and Professor Diane Litman in the Department of Computer Science have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) grants for their work in the Trustworthy Computing Program and the Robust Intelligence and the Human-Centered Computing Programs, respectively.
- Professor Lee’s project, Towards a Dynamic and Composable Model of Trust, is a three-year project and a joint effort with Dr. Ting Yu from North Carolina State University. It is expected to advance the state of the art in trust management through the design of a unified framework for specifying composite trust policies and the design and analysis of efficient algorithms for policy evaluation.
The Trustworthy Computing Program supports research and education activities that explore novel frameworks, theories, and approaches towards secure and privacy-preserving systems, recognizing that a number of intertwined scientific, technological, economic and sociological challenges must be overcome, if we are to realize a trustworthy computing future.
- Professor Litman’s project, 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. It is expected to advance the state of the art in both spoken dialogue and computer tutoring technologies through the development of more natural and effective spoken dialogue-based systems.
The NSF Robust Intelligence (RI) program encompasses all aspects of the computational understanding and modeling of intelligence in complex, realistic contexts. The RI program advances and integrates the research traditions of artificial intelligence, computer vision, human language research, robotics, machine learning, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and related areas.
The Human-Centered Computing (HCC) research explores creative ideas, novel theories, and innovative technologies that advance our understanding of the complex and increasingly coupled relationships between people and computing. HCC supports social and behavioral scientists as well as computer and information scientists whose research contributes to the design and understanding of novel computing technologies and systems.
More information about the work of both faculty members can be found at www.cs.pitt.edu.