Department news

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Alumni news, Department news, Faculty awards and honors

CS&E wins prestigious 10-Year Highest-Impact award at ICDM

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“SLIM: Sparse Linear Methods for Top-N Recommender Systems” was published by alumna Xia Ning (Ph.D. 2012) and her advisor, Professor George Karypis in 2011.

Dan Knights standing next to a screen
Faculty awards and honors

Knights named 2020 Highly Cited Researcher

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Associate Professor Knights is one of the most influential researchers in his fields, according to analysis of citation counts by Clarivate Analytics.

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Faculty awards and honors, Research, Student awards and honors

MELT group wins Distinguish Paper award at SLE2020

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This research was done by Ph.D. student Lucas Kramer and assosciate professor Eric Van Wyk from the Minnesota Extensible Language Tools (MELT group).

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Faculty awards and honors, Undergraduate news

University shines in latest national rankings

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The U of M's outstanding engineering and computer science programs have been recognized in rankings just released from College Choice and Guide2Research.

Zhi-Li Zhang headshot
Faculty awards and honors, Research

Professor Zhang receives AWS ML Research Award

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His is one of 28 projects that aim to develop open-source tools and research that benefit the machine learning community.

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Faculty awards and honors

Lana Yarosh named McKnight Presidential Fellow

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This recognition is given to outstanding faculty who have recently achieved tenure and promotion to associate professor.

George Karypis headshot
Faculty awards and honors, Graduate news

Professor Karypis receives COGS Outstanding Advisor Award

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This award from the Council of Graduate Students recognizes exceptional contributions to graduate education and advising.

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Department news, Faculty awards and honors

CS&E Professor Victoria Interrante wins VGTC Virtual Reality Career Award

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This award recognizes her lifetime contributions to visualization and visual perception for augmented and virtual reality.

Mats Heimdahl speaking at 50th Anniversary
Department news, Faculty awards and honors

Heimdahl appointed to second term as CS&E department head

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This reappointment extends his leadership role through June 30, 2025.

Lana Yarosh
Faculty awards and honors

Yarosh receives Taylor Career Development Award from the College of Science and Engineering

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The Taylor Career Development Award recognizes exceptional contributions to teaching by a candidate for tenure during the probationary period.