Food, Energy and the Environment
![few nexus graphic](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/webp_scaled/public/FEW%20Nexus.png.webp?itok=AQVc9J_U)
CSE faculty are spurring innovations in the agricultural and environmental sciences by addressing key issues, such as sustainable farming techniques, crop surveillance, and green energy.
Affiliated Faculty
![chris](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/bartel-new.jpg.webp?itok=4MZATUBU)
![Rene Boiteau](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/rene%20boiteau_headshot.jpg.webp?itok=d99A8kBQ)
![Rui Cheng](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Rui%20Cheng.jpeg.webp?itok=gxlNg6UB)
![Ardeshir Ebtehaj](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ardeshir%20Ebtehaj-web.jpeg.webp?itok=IC7y9hvp)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Jason Goodpaster headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/JasonGoodpasterNP.jpeg.webp?itok=8oqigsRf)
![Christy Haynes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ChristyHaynes%202023_2.jpg.webp?itok=JQCSeXEy)
Department Head, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Zhenong Jin headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/zhenongjin_2019_headshot2.jpeg.webp?itok=6P1tTao0)
![Melissa Kenney](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/MelissaKenney.jpg.webp?itok=jF8_V_Qq)
Director of Research and Knowledge Initiatives and Principal Environmental Decision Scientist, Institute on the Environment
![Vipin Kumar headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kumar_Vipin_1.jpg.webp?itok=6RYEj1QF)
Regents Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing,
Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
![Murti Salapaka headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Murti%20Salapaka.jpeg.webp?itok=pjzLlRxh)
Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Cara Santelli](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Santelli%20crop_0.jpeg.webp?itok=tSM9prPy)
![Lian Shen headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Shen_200x300.jpeg.webp?itok=5T8FKG7u)
![J. Ilya Siepmann](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/SiepmannJ_IljaNP_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=pO1suWjx)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Michael Steinbach umn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/steinbach.jpeg.webp?itok=xegda2ou)
Researcher, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Assistant Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
![Harvey Thorleifson headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/harvey_thorleifson_0.jpeg.webp?itok=9HRh-Cr-)
![ceyang.jpg Ce Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019-07/ceyang.jpg.webp?itok=f_3y1EBK)
![Suo Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yang_200x300_0.jpg.webp?itok=RrjLYP6n)
Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
![Qi Zhang](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Zhang_Photo.jpeg.webp?itok=H393leAc)
Labs and Research Groups
- Agricultural Robotics Lab
- Computational Reactive Flow & Energy Lab (CRFEL)
- Decision Discovery and Optimization Lab
- Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- Goodpaster Research Group
- Minnesota Geological Survey
Selected Projects
- Extending Forecast Skills of Global Precipitation: A Deep Learning Framework for IMERG Data Assimilation over the Wasserstein Space. See also Study explores impacts of a warming climate on global snowfall patterns
- AI-CLIMATE (AI INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE-LAND INTERACTIONS, MITIGATION, ADAPTATION, TRADEOFFS AND ECONOMY)
- Advancing Deep Learning to Monitor Global Change
- Building Communities to Harness the Data Revolution
- Harnessing the Data Revolution: Knowledge Guided Machine Learning, A Framework for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
- Innovations for Sustainable Food, Energy, And Water Supplies In Intensively Cultivated Regions
- NSF Expedition in Computing : Understanding Climate Change - A Data Driven Approach
- Removing plastic particle pollution from Minnesota water bodies
- Simulations of Air-Sea Boundary Layers at Submesoscale Fronts and Filaments