Department news

CSpotlight: Involvement for Personal Growth
Posted August 17, 2022
Undergraduate Leita Nguyen cultivates a well-rounded college experience with student groups, internships, and studying abroad.

CS&E Wins 2022 SDM Best Paper Award
Posted August 8, 2022
Ph.D. candidate Kshitij Tayal (with advisor Regents Professor Vipin Kumar) won the Best Paper Award at the 2022 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).

Gang Fang Promoted to Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Posted August 3, 2022
Computer Science Ph.D. alumni Dr. Gang Fang was promoted to full Professor in Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

CSpotlight: Accessible Art Through Virtual Reality
Posted July 26, 2022
Ph.D. student Zahara Spilka is blending art and psychology with virtual reality research to make art more accessible.

Congratulations to the 2022 CS&E scholarship recipients
Posted July 25, 2022
The department awards scholarships that recognize merit each spring. 38 students are receiving scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year.

CSpotlight: Leveraging Linguistics in Computer Science
Posted July 11, 2022
Recent Computer Science B.S. graduate Zed Wu leveraged his linguistics minor to better understand coding languages.

CS&E Ph.D. Graduate Wins 2022 Graduate School's Best Dissertation Award
Posted July 6, 2022
Xiaowei Jia won the 2022 University of Minnesota Graduate School Best Dissertation Award in the "Physical Sciences and Engineering" category.

Jafarian Uses TikTok to Advance Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Posted June 21, 2022
Computer science Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian is leveraging data from TikTok dances to design computer algorithms that create more realistic 3D digital avatars.

CSpotlight: Turning Interests into Opportunities
Posted June 21, 2022
Recent B.S. graduate Jonah Calvo has been diving deeper into his interests since high school, which helped him build a strong resume of internships in computer science.

Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone
Posted June 9, 2022
CS&E assistant professor Stevie Chancellor joins Northwestern University researchers to examine the impact of unpaid social media contributors on Reddit.