Department news

Professor Mattia Fazzini presenting his work
Faculty awards and honors, Research

Fazzini receives Facebook Testing and Verification Research Award

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This work will thoroughly assess app quality to avoid severe failures due to undetected bugs for mobile apps relied on by millions of users for daily activities, like reading the news, streaming content, and communicating with family and friends.

Joe Konstan headshot
Department news, Faculty awards and honors

GroupLens paper on new users selected as ACM IUI 2020 Most Impactful Paper

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Konstan recalled that this paper reshaped not only the MovieLens system, but also the way other systems chose items to prompt users for opinions.

Maria Gini with a robot
Faculty awards and honors

Professor Gini recognized as 2019 ACM Fellow

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Gini is one of 58 members selected by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) for significant contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, combating cybercrime, quantum computing and wireless networking.

 Kangjie Lu
Faculty awards and honors, Research

Professor Lu earns Outstanding Paper Award

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Lu's paper addresses a fundamental and challenging problem in the areas of systems security and software engineering.

Mohamed Mokbel headshot horizontal
Faculty awards and honors

Mokbel named 2020 IEEE Fellow

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He is being recognized with this esteemed award for his contributions to building spatially- and privacy-aware systems.

Gini with robot arm
Faculty awards and honors

Gini receives President’s Award

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Gini was selected for her tireless effort to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the computing discipline.

Dan Knights, CoreBiome team, and U of M innovators Professors
Faculty awards and honors

CoreBiome takes home OVPR’s Innovation Award

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The team was selected for their groundbreaking research into the human microbiome and their entrepreneurial drive to bring this science to industry.

Maria Gini with a robot
Broadening participation, Faculty awards and honors

Professor Gini wins award for championing underrepresented members in computer science

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As a researcher and professor at the University of Minnesota, Professor Gini has helped increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in the Department.

Shashi Shekhar headshot
Faculty awards and honors

Shekhar re-elected to CRA Board

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The CRA Board of Directors is a distinguished group of leaders in computing research from academia and industry.

Associate Professor Daniel Keefe
Faculty awards and honors

Professor Keefe receives the Morse-Alumni Award

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Associate Professor Daniel Keefe has received the 2018-19 Horace T. Morse award from the University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.