2 Pitt people were recognized as among the best in Pittsburgh tech

Two engineers overseeing University of Pittsburgh research were recognized as among the best in the Pittsburgh tech industry by Technical.ly.

The annual RealLIST Engineers are not only rising stars in their industry but show impressive community leadership and collaboration skills. They’re nominated by their peers, though emails and a public form.

Paola Buitrago is the director of AI and big data for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center with Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University. She’s led the artificial intelligence research group for six years, and before that studied machine learning, chemical engineering, and systems and computing engineering at Carnegie Mellon and The University of the Andes in Colombia.

Katrina Knight, assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering, also runs the Knight Laboratory, which is using bioengineering to research ways to improve life for women with pelvic floor disorders. Along with her research, Knight (ENGR ’17) directs the Swanson School’s Camp BioE, and is piloting an initiative geared toward getting elementary school children interested in STEM.