CSE DSI Affiliate Spotlight

Audience listens to panel discuss GenAI at GenAI Day, May 20, 2025.

CSE DSI’s GenAI Day a Big Success

CSE DSI's GenAI Day in May gave faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students the chance to explore the use of generative AI across the sciences and engineering.
Ju Sun (CS&E)

Ju Sun leads team focused on developing novel models for materials discovery with $500K NSF grant

Computer Science professor and CSE DSI affiliate Ju Sun is leading an interdisciplinary team focusing developing new models for materials discovery that will predict the properties of new materials
Mingyi Hong (ECE)

Professor Mingyi Hong awarded 2025 Egon Balas Prize by INFORMS Optimization Society

ECE Professor and CSE DSI affiliate Mingyi Hong is the recipient of the 2025 Egon Balas Prize awarded by the INFORMS Optimization Society.
Jeff Dean and Vipin Kumar standing at front of large lecture hall

Computer Science Alumnus & Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean Returned to Campus

Department of Computer Science & Engineering alumnus Jeff Dean (CSci, ‘90) returned to the university in May to give the keynote address at the CSE Undergraduate Commencement and also give a
Hydrologists taking various measurements including temperature on the Delaware River.

Best Paper Award to Team with UMN Data Science Ties

A group of researchers with strong ties to data science at the University of Minnesota won the Boggess Award for their paper published in 2023 in the Journal of the American Water Resources
KGML2024 workshop audience

Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Workshop Brings Researchers to Campus

CSE DSI hosted a one-day workshop on Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (KGML2024): A Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery.
AI for Science Workshop 2024

CSE DSI Hosts Agenda-Setting NSF-Sponsored Workshop on AI-Enabled Scientific Revolution

The CSE Data Science Initiative hosted the 2nd NSF-Sponsored Workshop on the AI-Enabled Scientific Revolution at McNamara Alumni Center.
Methane bubble in thermokarst lake

How Melting Arctic Ice Leads to Methane-Belching Arctic Lakes

U of MN researchers pioneer a method to understand the freeze-thaw cycle of Arctic lakes and methane emissions.
Outside of Amundson Hall on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

New 3DEAP program will train next generation to use AI to address multi-faceted research problems in energy, sustainability, and health

The University of Minnesota will receive $3 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program to fund a new program that will train scientists
Chad Babcock, Vipin Kumar, Shashi Shekhar, David Mulla, and Zhenong Jin

AI-LEAF Institute: Curbing Climate Change with Artificial Intelligence

CS&E Professor and CSE DSI Associate Director Shashi Shekhar is leading a $20 million National AI-LEAF Institute aimed at tackling climate change through the agriculture and forestry industries.
Traffic camera view of north ramp at Hwy 36 and White Bear Ave

Developing Alternative Technologies to Detect Traffic at Intersections

CS&E Associate Professor and CSE DSI affiliate Yao-Yi Chiang recently finished a study for MnDOT recently completed a study comparing nonintrusive traffic systems with traditional in-ground
Prof. Tianhong Cui presenting to water workshop 2024

Water Quality and Data Science: Bringing the Experts Together Across Disciplines

The CSE Data Science Initiative sponsored a workshop that focused on water quality and data science and brought together experts from academia, industry, and government.