Department news

Drew Erikson
Student awards and honors

Erikson receives honorable mention for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

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He is currently in his third-year at the University of Minnesota, studying Computer Science & Engineering and Mathematics. He also works as an Undergraduate Research Affiliate with GroupLens.

 Dr. Aarti Sathyanarayana
Alumni news

Alum Sathyanarayana wins AES Young Investigator Award

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Her abstract, Measuring drug effects on brain dynamics through electroencephalography, was selected from over 1,300 submissions.

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.

Jon Herlocker and Panos Pardalos
Alumni news

Herlocker and Pardalos selected for CS&E’s Distinguished Alumni Award

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The award recognizes CS&E alumni who have spent their professional and research careers contributing pivotal work to the greater computer science community.

 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.

Department news

Cheers to 50 years

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Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota has come a long way since its founding in 1970.

John Carlis
Broadening participation, Department news

Introducing the John V. Carlis Memorial Lecture Series

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The John V. Carlis Memorial Lecture is dedicated to the advancement of education and inclusion in the field of computing, and is named in honor of Professor John Carlis, who passed away in February 2018.