Intelligent Systems Program (ISP)

Established 1987

Profs. Diane Litman & Janyce WiebeCo-Directors

• A multidisciplinary graduate program in the Dietrich School dedicated to Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Program Goals• Provide an outstanding interdisciplinary research

education to graduate students (primarily PhD)

• Serve as the center of expertise in Artificial Intelligence within the University of Pittsburgh

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What is the ISP?

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ISP Faculty• Approximately 30 tenure-stream faculty,

with primary appointments throughout Pitt • Arts and Sciences• Education• Engineering• Health & Rehabilitation Sciences• Information Sciences• Law• Learning Research and Development Center• Medicine• Public Health

• High diversity for STEM (about 30% female)

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Faculty and the Dietrich School

• ISP appointments are secondary in the Dietrich School, and enrich AI research and education across the University• Voluntary faculty involvement• Collaborative program governance, service, and

advising

• Admission and training of Dietrich School graduate students• Interdisciplinary, customized curricula

LRDC ISP

Human Language Technologies

Machine Learning & Decision Making

Artificial Intelligence in Education

Social Computing

Biomedical Informatics

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International Leadership in Applied AI

• Outlier detection for patient safety

• Visualization of information dispersion in social media

• Big data to knowledge via causal discovery

• Opinion mining to discover points of view

• Teaching argumentation with AI and peer review

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ISP Students• 21 Current Graduate Students (20 PhD, 1 MS)

• High diversity for STEM (43% female)

• Research Oriented (only fellowships and GSRs) Advanced Distributed Learning Lab (DOD) Advanced Research and Development Agency (ARDA) Air Force Office for Scientific Research (AFOSR) Army Research Office (ARO) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) Institute for Education Sciences (IES) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Naval Research (ONR)

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ISP Student Achievements

• Numerous best paper awards (spanning multiple research areas)

• Excellent alumni placement, e.g., Academic (US): Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University,

Florida International University, New York University, North Carolina State University, Queens College/City University of New York, University of Arkansas, University of New Mexico, University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California …

Academic (International): Al Akhawayn University, University of British Columbia, University of Crete …

Government/Non-Profit: Food and Drug Administration, Institute for Defense Analyses, NASA, National Library of Medicine …

Industrial: Amazon, BBN Technologies, Boeing, Carnegie Learning, Google, HRL Laboratories, Hulu, IBM, MDT Software, Pearson, SAS, Technicolor Research Center, Two Sigma Investments, Yahoo …

• Applied AI is at the vanguard of computing

• ISP is an interdisciplinary center for University collaboration in Applied AI

• Faculty and student excellence

• Cutting edge and impactful research

• Training of future leaders in research and education

• www.isp.pitt.edu

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Summary