Department news
Professor Keefe receives the Morse-Alumni Award
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Associate Professor Daniel Keefe has received the 2018-19 Horace T. Morse award from the University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
CS&E Ph.D. student wins best poster at MinneWIC
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The focus of the poster is on analyzing the power flow of smart grid systems. By employing machine learning models, Hu and her fellow researchers are able to map the rules of power systems.
Professor Boley receives top university award for post baccalaureate, graduate and professional education
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Boley has been a fixture in graduate studies at the University of Minnesota since 1981 and has been in involved with the management and creation of a number of programs.
Park receives NSF CAREER Award
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The award supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.
Professor Terveen inducted into the CHI Academy
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Professor Terveen’s work in human-computer interaction has helped reveal emergent biases in peer production and sharing economy systems like Wikipedia, Uber, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Ph.D. student Louai Alarabi wins ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition
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Ph.D. student Louai Alarabi placed first in the ACM SIGSPATIAL Graduate Student Research Competition for his paper “Summit: A Scalable System for Massive Trajectory Data Management.”
Citizen science projects have a surprising new partner—the computer
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Computer machine learning techniques that teach the computer specific image recognition skills can be used in crowdsourcing projects to deal with massively increasing amounts of data—making computers a surprising new partner in citizen science projects.
U of M start-up CoreBiome acquired by OraSure Technologies, Inc
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CoreBiome is based on discoveries by Computer Science & Engineering associate professor Dan Knights.
Immigration to the United States changes a person’s microbiome
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The study of communities migrating from Southeast Asia to the United States, published in the scientific journal Cell, could provide insight into some of the metabolic health issues, including obesity and diabetes, affecting immigrants to the country.
University of Minnesota awarded federal grant to research autonomous vehicles
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This research rethinks transportation services to enable smart, connected communities. The University of Minnesota’s project is one of only 13 projects chosen by NSF nationwide.