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Faculty awards and honors

Daniel Boley named Distinguished Member by the ACM

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This recognition celebrates his long-term commitment and outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

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Faculty awards and honors

Keshab Parhi inducted Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

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This reflects his contributions and commitment to VLSI architectures and integrated circuit design.

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Faculty awards and honors

Lilja receives BenchCouncil Achievement Award

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This award recognizes contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing computer systems.

Ruyuan Wan
Student awards and honors

M.S. student receives Outstanding Poster recognition at CSCW 2020

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The poster presented research into the impact of likes and comments on CaringBridge user retention.

Visualization of art and science
Research

Keefe's visualization work featured in American Scientist

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Data scientist Dan Keefe is working to create visualization tools by blending the languages of science and art.

Stefano Martiniani
Research

Collaborative UMN research team awarded $1.13 million from NSF

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Data science graduate faculty member Stefano Martiniani will be working on the development of ColabFit project.

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Research

Kumar collaborates to study carbon credits for farmers

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He will be bringing data mining expertise to the project team, which received a $4.5 million award from ARPA-E.

People spread out wearing masks on the bus
Research

Traffic, transit data paint a picture of COVID-19 impacts

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Data science faculty member Shashi Shekhar is using spatial data to understand how people responded to the pandemic.

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Faculty awards and honors

Shen joins editorial board for Statistica Sinica

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The data science graduate faculty member began his three-year term as co-editor on August 1, 2020.

Data science student Sai Kumar Kayala holds his award for Best Project
Student awards and honors

Sai Kumar Kayala earns top honors for capstone project

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The annual Data Science Poster Fair highlights the work of students in the Master of Data Science program.