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Analyzing big data to understand the developing brain

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Data science graduate faculty Mark Fiecas co-leads the analytics core at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB).

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Faculty awards and honors

Vipin Kumar appointed first director of Data Science Initiative

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He will lead the effort to enhance the quality and visibility of data science research at the University of Minnesota.

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Charles Geyer named IMS Fellow

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Dr. Geyer was honored for his fundamental contributions to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, likelihood methods, and statistics genetics.

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Dr. Galin Jones announced as Co-Editor of JCGS

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The journal presents techniques on improving computational and graphical methods in statistics and data analysis.

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Four data science graduate faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion

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Congrats to Dan Keefe, Rui Kuang, Paul Schrater, and Catherine Qi Zhao.

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Faculty awards and honors

Parhi Awarded IEEE CAS Society John Choma Education Award

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The award recognizes Professor Keshab Parhi's contributions to the circuits and systems field.

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Data science faculty ranked among top CS researchers in the world

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Vipin Kumar and George Karypis were on the Guide2Research list of the world's 1,000 leading computing researchers.

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Dan Keefe wins Bowers Faculty Teaching Award for 2021

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This award honors a professor with an exceptional commitment to students in the College of Science and Engineering.

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Faculty awards and honors

Professor Keshab Parhi named ACM Fellow

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He was recognized for "contributions to architectures and design tools for signal processing and networking accelerators.”

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Wei Pan chosen for the Academy for Excellence in Health Research

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Biostatistics and data science professor earned the U's highest recognition of distinction in health-related research.