Department news
CSpotlight: Swarming towards robotics
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Ph.D. student John Harwell is measuring and modeling the behavior of swarm robots (which is inspired by the natural actions of insects like ants and bees).
GroupLens research shines at CSCW 2021
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Six papers and posters from CS&E faculty and students were shared during the virtual conference, with one being awarded an honorable mention.
Alumni spotlight: Aruna Nookala
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Aruna Nookala (B.S. 1994) has built a successful career at two top Minnesota companies, and also is a strong supporter of empowering women and other groups who are underrepresented in tech.
CSpotlight: Cracking the climate code
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B.S student Audrey Kelly dreams of using her computer science degree to build a career where she can directly mitigate climate change.
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.
New research teaches AI to see the world in first-person
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Hyun Soo Park is working with Facebook AI and the Ego4D University Consortium to create the biggest and most diverse computer vision dataset ever collected.
CSpotlight: Building a peer support network
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Moving to the U.S. from Vietnam was a huge change for B.S. student Dat Luong. Luckily, support from the SASE student group helped him navigate the transition.
New UMN networking research presented at SOSR 2021
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The research by Professor Zhi-Li Zhang and his students was shared during the ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research (SOSR).
Kumar's climate work featured on Minnesota Public Radio
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MPR News' Paul Huttner interviewed CS&E professor Vipin Kumar about how the new NSF-funded AI-based climate modeling center will help improve future models.
CSpotlight: The recipe for future success
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B.A. student Reese Kneeland has always had an appetite for technology. Since building his first computer at 14, his passion for computing has only grown.