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This page contains links to nearly all of the major resources you’ll need as a CS&E graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
Ph.D. student Qingquan Zhang recently won a best paper award for his paper "Collaborative Scheduling in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Error Inference" at the International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2011). His paper was selected from 135 papers submitted.
Zhang's work was completed under supervision by Associate Professor Tian He, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Tennessee Knoxville and Singapore University of Technology and Design.
A group of three CS Ph.D. students is selected as finalists in SIGMOD 2011 Programming contest. The group is led by a first-year Ph.D student Ahmed Eldawy with Emery Mizero and Mohamed Khalefa as members. The group is advised by Professor Mohamed Mokbel. The group is awarded a $4,000 award to attend ACM SIGMOD 2011 in Athens, June 2011. The SIGMOD programming contest is sponsored by NSF and Microsoft. The task for this contest is to implement a high-throughput main-memory index that uses flash-based SSDs for durability. Details about the SIGMOD programming contest are available here: Third Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest
Ph.D. student James Faghmous was awarded a National Science Foundation Nordic Research Opportunity Grant (NSF NRO) to conduct research at one of the world's top climate research institutes, the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, Norway. While at BCCR, Faghmous will research the effects future North Atlantic storms might have on marine ecosystems.
Faghmous is currently working on developing novel machine learning algorithms to study climate change and its effects on Atlantic hurricanes.
The NSF NRO program is a competitive grant open to NSF graduate research fellows. The NSF covers relocation costs, while the Research Council of Norway will provide a stipend for the duration of the visit. Faghmous, who is also the co-founder and CEO of the local nonprofit, MuslimBuddy, Inc., will begin his visit in September 2011.
