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Jinglin Li posing outside
CSpotlight

CSpotlight: Learning to Become a Stronger Software Engineer

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Jinglin Li talks about her experience of learning about being a software engineer in a career setting.

Potential Energy poses together at a High Tech Kids event
Broadening participation, Department news

CS&E Sponsors Local Team for 2024 FIRST® Robotics World Championship

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Potential Energy is an FTC team composed of Mounds View High School students, and is one of four Minnesota teams advancing to the World Championship. CS&E is pledging $1,000 to help fund the trip.

Vipin Kumar posed in Keller Hall
AI for a Changing World, Research

CS&E’s Vipin Kumar Serves as Key Partner on Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine

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Kumar’s group will bring the power of machine learning to optimize different steps involved in the treatment of waste water while recovering nutrients in an energy efficient manner.

Hemanth Kumar Tirupati
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CSpotlight: Using Machine Learning to Understand Medical Data

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Hemanth Kumar Tirupati talks about his work in developing machine learning to understand medical data

Dan Challou poses in Keller Hall
Meet the Faculty

Meet the Faculty - Dan Challou

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Dan Challou joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2013 as a lecturer. Before coming to work at the University, Challou served as the Army Programs Manager of M&S, Product Integration, and Test from 1997-2009 and later as the DARPA Programs Principal Investigator/Technical Fellow from 2009-13 at BAE Systems.

Aditya Prabhu
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CSpotlight: Aditya Prabhu talks about his growing business

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Undergraduate student Aditya Prabhu founder of Canopy Systems participated in the 2023 MN Cup. His work at Canopy Systems has earned him a semifinalist spot in the competition.

Yao-Yi Chiang and Chang Ge headshots
AI for a Changing World, Research

Yao-Yi Chiang, Chang Ge Support NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 Project at UMN

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The interdisciplinary team is developing Aquasense, a low-cost, compact, easy-to-use, rapid water quality sensor platform enabled by artificial intelligence (AI).

Raphael Mwangi
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CSpotlight: Learning How to Prevent Cancer

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Raphael Mwangi talking about his cancer research.

Female researchers gather at the first ever SpatialW networking event in 2022
Broadening participation, Faculty awards and honors, Student awards and honors

CS&E’s Yao-Yi Chiang and Jina Kim Named to First DEI Committee for ACM SIGSPATIAL

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After the success of the networking events in 2022 and 2023, John Krumm, the president of SIGSPATIAL, decided to increase DEI efforts moving forward and appointed Chiang as the first chair of this new committee.

John Modl
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CSpotlight: Learning the Power of Artificial Intelligence

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John Modl talks about his research experience at the University of Minnesota