Department news
Ph.D. student Yiqun Xie receives Best Vision Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019
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The paper by Xie, Shekhar, Feiock and Knight envisions a revolution of tree management by automatically mapping trees and their properties using innovative spatial techniques.
Ph.D. student Ibrahim Sabek wins ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition
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This work presents Flash; a framework for generic and scalable spatial data analysis, with a special focus on spatial probabilistic graphical modelling.
Alumni Spotlight: Mike Calvo
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He currently leads teams in Target Digital developing e-commerce guest experiences for target.com, creating mobile apps and high scale APIs to enhance web experiences and optimize browsing, but before this, his work has brought him experience with some of the largest technological leaders in the world like 3M and Microsoft, working on such notable products as Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, and Expression Blend.
Jae Shin Yoon receives Top Graduate Research Award
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He presented a framework for behavioral imaging---to computationally measure human behaviors with millimeter accuracy using a system of RGB cameras.
University of Minnesota opens new robotics research labs
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Robotics research at the University of Minnesota received a big boost with the opening of new state-of-the-art robotics research labs.
CS&E Ph.D. student receives SSTD 2019 Best Paper
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The paper by Xie and Professor Shekhar introduced a novel and efficient framework that incorporates statistical significance into DBSCAN, a widely-used fundamental clustering technique (Test of Time Award winner at ACM SIGKDD 2014).
University announces three-year collaboration with Target on cyber security education
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The gift helps build course curriculum and offers hands-on information security experiences, student scholarships, fellowships and grants, as well as opportunities for students to network with cyber security experts.
CS&E welcomes Assistant Professors Fazzini and Sun
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Mattia Fazzini’s interest is software engineering, while Ju Sun’s focuses on machine learning and data sciences.
CS&E professor initiates data mining conference’s first-ever ‘Earth Day’
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Vipin Kumar has spent years using data to track climate change and is now rallying big data experts for conversation.
Congratulations to the 2019 CS&E scholarship recipients
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The Department of Computer Science & Engineering has selected 26 undergraduate students to receive scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year.