Department news

Maria Gini with robot
Faculty awards and honors, Research

Maria Gini wins the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award

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Maria Gini's research and leadership within robotics and multi-agent systems earned her this prestigious award.

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Faculty awards and honors, Research

Konstan paper selected as one of Most Influential Articles in 2020

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The research on computational advertising by CS&E Professor Joseph Konstan was honored by the American Academy of Advertising Journals.

Vipin Kumar and George Karypis accepting the 2021 Test of Time Award at the 2021 Supercomputing Conference
Department news, Faculty awards and honors, Research

Karypis and Kumar receive Test of Time award at SC21

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Their paper introduced algorithms that have been incorporated into METIS and ParMETIS, and enable the efficient parallel execution of complex computations.

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Data science, Department news, Faculty awards and honors

Vipin Kumar appointed first director of Data Science Initiative

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He will lead the effort to enhance the quality, impact, and visibility of data science research and build collaborations with U of M and outside partners.

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Faculty awards and honors

Kluver rated among RecSys 2021 best reviewers

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Congratulations to CS&E teaching faculty member Daniel Kluver on recognition as an outstanding reviewer for the ACM RecSys Conference.

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Alumni news, Faculty awards and honors, Research

CS&E faculty, students, and alumni instrumental in DEEPSPATIAL2021

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Professor Shashi Shekhar gave the keynote and served as co-chair (along with three alumni) for the workshop focused on deep learning in spatio temporal data.

Maria Gini headshot
Faculty awards and honors

Gini serving as 2021 IJCAI conference chair

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The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is a premier international gatherings of AI researchers and practitioners.

Seal of the Board of Regents hanging on the wall in the boardroom
Department news, Faculty awards and honors

Six CS&E faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion

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Congratulations to Dan Keefe, Rui Kuang, Feng Qian, Paul Schrater, Eric Van Wyk, & Catherine Zhao on the next step in their careers at the University of Minnesota.

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Faculty awards and honors

Kangjie Lu wins NSF CAREER Award

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This prestigious award provides support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.

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Department news, Faculty awards and honors

Professor Interrante announced as new CRA-E board member

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The mission of the Computing Research Association’s Education (CRA-E) committee is to address the need for a continuous supply of talented computing researchers.