Department news
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abraham Jaeger Mountain Wins 2026 Riedl TA Award
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Abe, an Electrical Engineering PhD student, was selected for their dedication and service to the students.
UMN Team Advances to ICPC World Finals in Dubai
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Three computer science students will represent the University of Minnesota at the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Dubai this November — a first in 10 years.
VR + Robotics: Enabling Collaboration Between Humans and Robots
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PhD Student Walter Sands uses virtual reality tools to foster collaboration between humans and robots, allowing users to see what a robot does.
Ju Sun Receives Guillermo E. Borja Career Development Award
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The Guillermo E. Borja Career Development Award recognizes exceptional research and scholarly achievement by faculty during their probationary tenure period and includes a $3,500 award to support continued research activities.
GopherHack Takes Fourth Place in TracerFire Challenge
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In their first appearance at Sandia National Labs’ TracerFire challenge, GopherHack members Hassan Fares, Ian Kim, Jordan McVay, and Keegan Volk earned fourth place.