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White House Honors Maria Gini

Professor Maria Gini has earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from President Joe Biden.

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Kumar Wins IEEE Taylor L Booth Education Award

Kumar was selected for his contributions to computational science and engineering through his foundational textbooks, outstanding mentoring, and exceptional scientific leadership.  

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Myers Leverages CRISPR in Mapping Project

Professor Chad Myers has been working on decoding this complex network of genomic data for over a decade. His lab focuses on understanding gene function and leverages computational biology to make inferences about biological networks.

Mar 28 Fri 11:15am

CS&E Colloquium: Social Science as a Problem Space for Natural Language Processing

Apr 11 Fri 11:15am

CS&E Colloquium: Edit Distance to Clustering: A Fine-Grained Approach to Approximation Algorithms

Apr 14 Mon 11:15am

CRAY Colloquium: Data Valuation in Machine Learning, AI, and Data (MAD) Systems

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Akshara Molleti

CSpotlight: Combining CSci with BME

Undergraduate student Akshara Molleti reflects on being open minded towards a double major in computer science and biomedical engineering.
Arunachalam Manikandan, Dipan Bag, and Erina Karati

CS&E Team Triumphs at Hackathon

CS&E hackathon team discusses their process of building the winning platform, MinneDigest.
Shonal Gangopadhyay poses by red Keller Hall windows

Meet the Faculty - Shonal Gangopadhyay

Shonal Gangopadhyay joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2024 as a teaching specialist. He received his MS in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 2023
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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.