
CS&E wins prestigious 10-Year Highest-Impact award at ICDM 2020
“SLIM: Sparse Linear Methods for Top-N Recommender Systems” was published by alumna Xia Ning (Ph.D, 2012) and her advisor, Professor George Karypis in 2011.

Traffic, transit data paint a picture of COVID-19 impacts
CS&E's Shashi Shekhar is using privacy-protected spatial data collected from cell phones to understand how Minnesotans responded to the pandemic.

Kumar collaborates to study carbon credits for farmers
Professor Vipin Kumar will be bringing data mining expertise to the project team, which received a $4.5 million award to develop commercial carbon credit tools.

Mokbel named 2020 IEEE Fellow
He is being recognized with this esteemed award for his contributions to building spatially- and privacy-aware systems.

Computing COVID-19
Location data collected by smartphones could allow health officials to monitor the disease—as well as assist with contact tracing.
Research in this area explores efficient storage, retrieval, analysis, and visualization of data for analysis and pattern discovery. This encompasses a wide range of topics including improved indexing and query languages, data compression, multimedia storage and retrieval, data clustering, pattern matching, and high-dimensional data modeling. Specific research thrusts in the department include geographical databases, mapping models, anomaly and pattern detection, query processing, and spatial and scientific data mining for application domains like bioinformatics, cyber security, sensor networks, transportation, and the Web. This group has extensive connections with industry and national labs, providing a rich source of problems, datasets, and experience for students.
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Labs and selected projects
- Data Mining George Karypis
- Database and Spatial Data Mining Research Group Shashi Shekhar
- Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining George Karypis, Vipin Kumar, Shashi Shekhar
- Karypis Lab George Karypis
- Unsupervised Document Set Exploration Using Divisive Partitioning Dan Boley
Related centers and programs
Latest research projects, publications, and talks

Conversational Agent for Daily Living Assessment Coaching [conference paper]
Posted January 7, 2021
Aditya Gaydhani (M.S. student), Raymond Finzel, Sheena Dufresne, Maria Gini (professor), Serguei Pakhomov
AI4Function Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

A National Research Agenda for Intelligent Infrastructure: 2021 Update [preprint]
Posted January 1, 2021
Daniel Lopresti, Shashi Shekhar (professor)

More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search [journal]
Posted December 30, 2020
Erik S Steinmetz (Ph.D. 2016), Maria Gini (professor)
IEEE Transactions on Games

The structure of behavioral data [preprint]
Posted December 23, 2020
Aurélien Defossez, Morteza Ansarinia, Brice Clocher, Emmanuel Schmück, Paul Schrater (associate professor), Pedro Cardoso-Leite

Robotics Enabling the Workforce [preprint]
Posted December 16, 2020
Henrik Christensen, Maria Gini (professor), Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Holly Yanco

Distant-Supervised Slot-Filling for E-Commerce Queries [preprint]
Posted December 15, 2020
Saurav Manchanda (Ph.D. 2020), Mohit Sharma (Ph.D. 2017), George Karypis (professor)

Comparing Generic and Community-Situated Crowdsourcing for Data Validation in the Context of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders [preprint]
Posted December 13, 2020
Sabirat Rubya (Ph.D. student), Joseph Numainville (undergraduate research assistant), Svetlana Yarosh (associate professor)

RegulaTOR: A Powerful Website Fingerprinting Defense [preprint]
Posted December 11, 2020
James K Holland (Ph.D. student), Nicholas Hopper (professor)

Artificial Intelligence & Cooperation [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2020
Elisa Bertino, Finale Doshi-Velez, Maria Gini (professor), Daniel Lopresti, David Parkes

A Generative Approach for Detection-driven Underwater Image Enhancement [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2020
Chelsey Edge (Ph.D. student), Md Jahidul Islam (Ph.D. student), Christopher Morse (undergraduate research assistant), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)
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- Architectures, Compiler Optimization, and Embedded Systems
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Graphics and Immersive Computing
- High Performance Computing
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Software Engineering and Programming Languages
- Theoretical Foundations