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Meet the Faculty - Dan Challou
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Dan Challou joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2013 as a lecturer. Before coming to work at the University, Challou served as the Army Programs Manager of M&S, Product Integration, and Test from 1997-2009 and later as the DARPA Programs Principal Investigator/Technical Fellow from 2009-13 at BAE Systems.
Meet the Faculty - Elizabeth Jensen
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Elizabeth Jensen joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in September 2023 as a lecturer. Prior to joining the University, Jensen was an assistant professor at St. Olaf College and served as a visiting instructor at Macalester College.
Meet the Faculty - Zhu-Tian Chen
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Zhu-Tian Chen joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in spring 2024 as an assistant professor. His research seeks to augment human intelligence in everyday activities.
Meet the Faculty - Bernardo Bianco Prado
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Bernardo Bianco Prado joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in September 2023 as a teaching specialist. He as M.S. degrees in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering. He currently teaches computational linear algebra.
Meet the Faculty - Yogatheesan Varatharajah
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Yogatheesan Varatharajah joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2023 as an assistant professor. He is broadly interested in leveraging the recent advances in machine learning (ML) to improve the healthcare system.
Meet the Faculty - Harmanpreet Kaur
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Harmanpreet Kaur joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2023 as an assistant professor. She is a University of Minnesota alumni (B.S., 2016) and earned her M.S. (2019) and Ph.D. (2023) from the University of Michigan.
Meet the Faculty - Qianwen Wang
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Qianwen Wang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2023 as an assistant professor. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Wang served as a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
Meet the Faculty - Samuel Fountain
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Samuel Fountain joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in January 2023 as a teaching specialist. He finished his M.S. in computer science at the University of Minnesota in December 2022 and is starting his Ph.D. program this fall.
Meet the Faculty - Chris Dovolis
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Chris Dovolis is a teaching professor and University of Minnesota veteran with over 30 years of experience. He specializes in teaching introductory level courses for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
Meet the Faculty - Lana Yarosh
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Associate professor Lana Yarosh joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2014. Her work focuses on human-centered computing.