Department news

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Student awards and honors

Qixin Zhang receives Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MEAS Workshop

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PhD candidate Qixin Zhang's paper outlines a multi-agent system solution to the issue of video delays in remote driving.

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Meet the Faculty

Meet the Faculty - Junaed Sattar

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Associate Professor Junaed Sattar joined CS&E in 2016. His teaching and research interests include robotics, computer vision, and programming languages.

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Student awards and honors

Kanav Gupta wins BizPitch Competition

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Computer science major Kanav Gupta pitched GoTix, a peer-to-peer ticket marketplace for Big Ten students, at the competition.

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CSpotlight: Data and Design

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Undergraduate student Lasya Makinedi discusses how video games and art led to majoring in data science.

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Excellence in Visual Computing

VR + Healthcare: Improving How Patients Recover and Rehabilitate

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PhD candidate Sam Adeniyi is exploring how VR can aid different healthcare settings, focusing on building BR environments to improve patient rehabilitation outcomes.

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Staff awards and honors

Victoria Interrante Earns CSE Distinguished Professorship

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The Distinguished Professorship highlights Professor Victoria Interrante’s work in virtual reality and her accomplishments in teaching and research.

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Meet the Faculty

Meet the Faculty - Abhishek Chandra

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Professor Abhishek Chandra joined CS&E in 2004. His teaching interests include computer systems, operating systems, and distributed systems.

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CSpotlight

CSpotlight: Diving Deep Into Robotics

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

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Student awards and honors

Xianyu Chen Earns Distinguished Dissertation Award

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

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CSpotlight

CSpotlight: Exploring the Frontiers of AI

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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.