August 2026
LRDC Senior Scientist Diane Litman, professor, School of Computing and Information, has been included in Research.com's 12th Edition of Best Computer Scientists in the U.S. and World’s Best Computer Scientists. Litman ranks 1200th nationally and 2496th worldwide. To create the ranking, Research.com analyzed a total of 279,971 scientist profiles worldwide using the most prominent and reliable bibliometric databases available to the research community.
Dr. Litman's research is in artificial intelligence, specifically artificial intelligence and education, computation linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language learning, spoken language, and user modeling. Her work has included both fundamental research and applied research resulting in technology transfer and patents. Her most recent research has primarily focused on Natural Language Technology for Educational Applications.
Dr. Litman is the School of Computing and Information’s (SCI) Associate Dean for Mentoring Development, a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, has twice been elected Chair of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, has co-authored multiple papers winning best paper awards, and has been awarded Senior Member status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
In total, fourteen SCI faculty members and six Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) faculty members were included in the rankings.