Department news
Shana Watters Earns the Women’s Center Charlotte Striebel Equity Award
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The award recognizes a University of Minnesota faculty or staff member who goes above and beyond daily responsibilities to promote access for the common good, to undo bias and discrimination, or to build capacity for diverse and equitable campus communities.
Yixuan Wang Wins Best Student Paper at IEEE Conference
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Yixuan Wang wins the best student paper award at the 2023 IEEE conference.
Chad Myers Harnesses AI to Improve Disease Prediction from Genetic Sequences
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The majority of genome-wide association studies focus on one-to-one relationships between genes and diseases. Myers’ work focuses on combinations of variants to better explain the relationship between a person’s gene’s and specific diseases.
Dan Knights Utilizes AI to Predict Emissions on Ships
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Shipping accounts for a significant fraction of the total global carbon emissions, and most ships in the ocean are not currently required to report their emissions or fuel efficiency. Knights’ work is intended to help paint a fuller picture of the actual shipping emissions for individual vessels.
Creating a Safe Space for Hispanics in STEM
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Maria Paula Cadena Amortegui works to create a space for Hispanic women in STEM
Meet the 2023-24 CS-IDEA Committee
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Our mission is to to attract and retain diverse students, staff, and faculty in computer science and engineering and help all students, staff, and faculty thrive within the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Ju Sun Receives $4.5M in Funding for Medical AI Projects and Beyond
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Sun’s lab GLOVEX works at the intersection of machine and deep learning, numerical optimization, computer vision, and data science, with an aspiration to push the frontiers of AI in order to tackle major unsolved problems in science, engineering, and medicine.
GroupLens: A Human-Centered Approach to AI
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With the emergence of publicly-available AI tools like ChatGPT, the world is abuzz with the possibilities and risks that AI brings to the table. Embedding human values into AI systems is a necessary and complicated step that involves a variety of technical and societal factors.
Yoga Varatharajah Combats Clinician Burnout with Artificial Intelligence
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Working with clinicians at the U of M Medical School and Mayo Clinic, Varatharajah aims to develop AI methods to help interpret tests, optimize treatment decisions, and improve patient outcomes.
CS&E Undergraduate Rhett Olson Wins Student Research Competition at ACM SIGSPATIAL
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Rhett Olson creates a new system that will make it easier for historians to find the different changes in maps over time.