Two students with robots

50 years of computing excellence

Outside of Keller Hall on a blue sky day

New department mission statement

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering recently updated their mission statement and commitment to research, education and community. Read more about our values!

Maria Gini, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos and Daniel F. Keefe laugh together

2022-23 faculty recruitment

CS&E is seeking applicants for multiple tenure-track positions. Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. 

Tarik Merzkani poses in front of a sunset

CSpotlight: Tarik Merzkani

Undergraduate Tarik Merzkani discusses the impact of diversity in the Twin Cities and his work as a teaching assistant.

Jinglin Li teaches with a whiteboard.

Jinglin Li Brings Learning to Your Living Room

Living Room Tutors is a completely free tutoring service meant to lessen the hardships brought by pandemic-era learning.
Stevie Chancellor, Loren Terveen, and others collaborate on video conferencing project

Chancellor and Terveen Partner with Cisco to Fight Online Conferencing Bias

Chancellor and Terveen developed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to mitigate partiality during video conferences.
Ju Sun poses in Keller Hall

Ju Sun Co-Led Project Using AI Technology for COVID-19 Diagnosis

Working with Christopher Tignanelli from the University of Minnesota Medical School, their work was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

2,193

undergraduate students

572

graduate students

62

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.