Pinar’s main research area is artificial intelligence but she does multidisciplinary research linking AI with other parts of cognitive science. Her research activities lie in  knowledge representation and modellling, case-based reasoning, multiagent systems, and recently text mining/information extraction areas. The last one is particularly in the context of literature-based scientific discovery within climate science.

Pinar currently teaches these courses: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence , Distributed Artificial intelligence  and Multiagent Systems, and Context Sensitive Systems.