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ISP Graduation 2017

Mahdi Pakdaman, Lingjia Deng, Shaghayegh Sahebi and Philip Walker graduated this year from Pitt’s Intelligent Systems Program and earned their PhDs. Watch video coverage of the ceremonies, follow this weekend's events on social media and view the photo gallery

Clues to the Relationship between Schizophrenia and Rheumatoid Arthritis

“There is a wealth of genomic data on both schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis. Analyzing it jointly with known protein interaction information could provide invaluable clues to the relationship between the diseases and also shed light on their shared roots,” said Madhavi Ganapathiraju faculty member of the Intelligent System Program in a study published in the npj Schizophrenia journal.

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Provost’s Mentoring Awards

Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, faculty member of the Intelligent System Program, won the Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

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Mellon Fellowship

Three ISP students won the Mellon Fellowship for the 2017-2018: 

ISP Faculty awarded funding
  • The project entitled: “We Are Strong! Leveraging Information Technology to Empower Marginalized Communities,” by principal investigator Rosta Farzan, faculty member of the Intelligent System Program, has been awarded funding by the Office of the Provost
  • The NSF awarded Ervin Sejdic, faculty member of the Intelligent System Program, a five-year, $549,139 award to research on the analysis of swallowing disorders

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