Two students with robots

Home

Student welcomes visitors into the CSE AI Makers Space

Two AI Courses Launch in Fall 2026 - Register Today!

CS&E has developed two new courses to ensure that students across the entire university have access to AI training. Registration for CSCI 2521 and CSCI 4821 is now open for fall 2026! 

Vipin Kumar poses in front of red windows in Keller Hall

Vipin Kumar Elected to UN Panel on AI

The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence is the first global scientific body dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence and established by the UN General Assembly.

View more events
Rishi Mukherjee smiling with robotics equipment

CSpotlight: Diving Deep Into Robotics

PhD candidate Rishi Mukherjee shares how an early spark in robotics led him to pursue underwater systems research.
Xianyu Chen headshot

Xianyu Chen Earns Distinguished Dissertation Award

Recent PhD graduate Xianyu Chen's dissertation explores the role of visual attention in building interpretable, human-aligned artificial intelligence.
Shady Ali headshot

CSpotlight: Exploring the Frontiers of AI

Undergraduate student Shady Ali combines a passion for mathematics, research, and innovation as he explores reasoning in large language models at the University of Minnesota.
View more news

2,215

undergraduate students

619

graduate students

73

faculty members

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota has come a long way in the past 50 years. We have made tremendous progress and have become one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary departments within the College of Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota, and the computer science field at large.

Watch and listen to stories of how the department started, the years of growth, and where we are headed in the future.