CS&E Excellence and Awards

Awards

CS&E Excellence: By the numbers

Ranked 3rd in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
(The Chronicles of Higher Education, January 2007)
Ranked 9^th for Citation Impact of Published Research Papers.
(Science Watch, January 2007)
Current department faculty members have authored more than 2,500 refereed publications, including 800 journal articles.
CS&E faculty are among the most cited authors. More than 11,000 citations of just 10 CS&E faculty authored papers and books.
(Google Scholar, August 2007)
Ranked 15^th for annual number of conferred doctorates.
(CRA Research News, January 2007)
23 CS&E faculty members received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, since the inception of the program in 1995. This number of awards is among the highest for Computer Science departments nationwide.
One of only five CS&E departments in the nation with multiple recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Alumni have founded more than 180 companies.

Best Paper Awards

Best Student Paper Award for Chatterjee

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Soumyadeep Chatterjee received the Best Student Paper Award at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2012 for his paper titled "Sparse Group Lasso: Consistency and Climate Applications" authored by Soumyadeep Chatterjee, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Arindam Banerjee, Snigdhansu Chatterjee and Auroop Ganguly.

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Best Poster Award for Kawale

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Jaya Kawale received the best graduate poster award at MinneWIC 2012 for the poster titled "A Graph Based Approach to Find Teleconnections in Climate Data" by Jaya Kawale, Vipin Kumar, Stefan Liess and Michael Steinbach.

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Best Student Paper Award at UMAP 2011

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Computer Science graduate student Aditya Pal, working with Rosta Farzan, Joseph A. Konstan and Robert E. Kraut, won the James Chen Best Student Paper Award for "Early Detection of Potential Experts in Question Answering Communities" at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) 2011, held in Girona, Spain, July 2011.

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Best Paper Award for Associate Professor Interrante and team

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Associate Professor Victoria Interrante and her team of students and researchers were recently awarded a best paper award at the 2010 Joint Virtual Reality Conference. The paper, titled "A Further Assessment of Factors Correlating with Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments," was written by Lane Phillips, Victoria Interrante, Michael Kaeding, Brian Ries, and Lee Anderson.

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