Department news

Learning High Fidelity Depths of Dressed Humans by Watching Social Media Dance Videos (CVPR 2021)
Faculty awards and honors, Graduate news, Research, Student awards and honors

CS&E wins best paper honorable mention at CVPR 2021

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The work by Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian and assistant professor Hyun Soo Park used TikTok dance videos to learn high fidelity depths of dressed humans.

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Department news, Faculty awards and honors, Research

Department faculty ranked among top CS researchers in the world

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Professors Vipin Kumar, George Karypis, and Joe Konstan were among the leading 1,000 computing researchers worldwide in the latest Guide2Research rankings.

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Faculty awards and honors

Chancellor gives keynote at MAISoN 2021 workshop

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The talk discussed her recent research on human-centered machine learning as a lens to make predictions more ethical and compassionate.

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Faculty awards and honors

Cloud Connected Delivery Vehicles project receives award from CTS

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CS&E professor Shashi Shekhar and Ph.D. student Yan Li were on the research team that received the 2021 Robert C. Johns Research Partnership Award.

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Department news, Faculty awards and honors, Research

Karypis wins PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award

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This is the highest award presented by the PAKDD, and Karypis was selected for his outstanding contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining.

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Faculty awards and honors, Research, Student awards and honors

GroupLens research receives honorable mention at CHI 2021

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The work by Ph.D. student Irene Ye Yuan and associate professor Lana Yarosh looked at tabletop games in the age of remote collaboration.

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Faculty awards and honors

Dan Keefe wins Bowers Faculty Teaching Award for 2021

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This award recognizes an outstanding professor with exceptional interest and commitment to the teaching of students in the College of Science and Engineering.

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Faculty awards and honors

Professor Lana Yarosh honored with Morse-Alumni Award

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This University of Minnesota award acknowledges outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.

Best Paper Award VRST 2020
Faculty awards and honors, Graduate news, Research, Student awards and honors

Illusioneering Lab wins ACM VRST 2020 Best Paper Award

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Ph.D students Jerald Thomas and Courtney Hutton Pospick worked with Assistant Professor Evan Suma Rosenberg on this research.

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Data science, Faculty awards and honors

Daniel Boley named Distinguished Member by the ACM

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This recognition from the Association for Computing Machinery celebrates his long-term commitment and outstanding scientific contributions to computing.