Please join the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems in congratulating Dmitriy Babichenko on his promotion to Clinical Full Professor!
After 16 years in industry, Dr. Babichenko joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 2013 as Professor of Practice in what was then the School of Information Sciences. He was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor in 2018, after successfully completing his PhD program in the School of Computing and Information. He has taught an amazing array of courses over his time here including (but not limited to) CMPINF 0401 Intermediate JAVA Programming, INFSCI 1500 Database Management Concepts and Applications, and INFSCI 2710 Database Management. He designed (or co-designed) and teaches several extremely popular courses including INFSCI 0201 Intermediate Programming with Python, INFSCI 1430 User Experience Engineering, and CMPINF 1201 Digital Narrative and Interactive Design.
Dr. Babichenko is a founding faculty member and co-creator of the Digital Narrative and Interactive Design major in the School of Computing and Information, and contributed to the development of the Applied Data Driven Methods Certificate and the Professor Master's Degree in Data Science. He has pursued a rigorous research agenda at the confluence of cultural, behavioral, and professional aspects of immersive media technologies including games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In particular, his work focuses on the design and use of serious games and interactive narrative in healthcare, cultural preservation, and education. He has served as PI, co-PI, and/or Investigator for a number of grants funded by teh Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Clinical Full Professor Babichenko!