-
Department Info
-
-
Admissions
-
-
Academics
-
-
-
Research
-
-
-
Main navigation | Main content
Invest in Tomorrow! To make a difference, you can:
CS&E alumnus and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Arvind, a world-renowned leader in computer languages for parallel processing, has been named the winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2012 Harry H. Goode Award. Arvind is an MIT Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He was recognized "for fundamental contributions to research in dataflow computing, memory models, and cache coherence protocols."
The Goode Award was established to recognize achievement in the information-processing field-either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance; or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended period.
Arvind was also recently elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will be inducted into the 232-year-old academy at a ceremony on October 6, 2012 in Cambridge, Mass.
Hui Xiong, an associate professor, began his three-year appointment on July 1 as Vice Chair for the Department of Management & Information Systems at Rutgers University.
CS&E alumnus Gaurav Pandey's dissertation was recently awarded an "honorable mention" at the 2011 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award (http://www.sigkdd.org/awards_dissertation.php). Gaurav's dissertation, titled "Data Mining Techniques for Enhancing Protein Function Prediction", proposes several novel data mining methods for addressing various challenging aspect of the important computational biology problem of protein function prediction. These methods utilize classification, clustering and association analysis methods for inferring protein function and functional modules from large-scale biological data sets, such as gene expression data and protein interaction networks.
Gaurav will receive a certificate of recognition at the KDD-2011 conference at San Diego in August.
ACM announced the GroupLens team as the winners of the 2010 ACM Software System Award. The group was honored for their innovations in computing technology that have led to practical solutions for a wide range of challenges facing commerce, education, and society. The award reflects outstanding achievements that have resulted in personalized recommendations from information filtering.
The GroupLens team includes John Riedl (University of Minnesota), Paul Resnick (University of Michigan), Joseph A. Konstan (University of Minnesota), Neophytos Iacovou (COVOU Technologists), Peter Bergstrom (Fluke Thermography), Mitesh Suchak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Maltz (Microsoft), Brad Miller (Luther College), Jon Herlocker (VMware, Inc.), Lee Gordon (Gordon Consulting, LLC), Sean McNee (FTI Consulting, Inc.), and Shyong (Tony) K. Lam (University of Minnesota).
The Software System Award is given to an institution or individuals recognized for developing software systems that have had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts and/or commercial acceptance. ACM will present the award at the ACM Awards Banquet on June 4, in San Jose, CA.
Brian Bailey (Ph. D. 2002) received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
Chen Even (B.A. 1989) was appointed chairman of the board of directors for a biodiagnostics company, Glycominds Ltd., which specializes in glycan biomarkers for disease diagnosis and management. Even is the Senior Corporate Vice President of Commercial Operations and board member for the Italian diagnostic company, DiaSorin.
Dean Hougen (Ph.D. 1998) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Oklahoma.
Richard Keeney (B. S. 1986) ran for a seat on the Prior Lake City Council in 2007, but lost by approximately 100 votes. Keeney is employed by Electronics for Imaging with an office in Eagan, Minn. Since graduating, Keeney has authored nearly a dozen U.S. Patents and received a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1991.
Kurt Krebsbach (Ph.D. 1993) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Lawrence University.
Steve Lindfors (M.S. 1976) completed a new APL interpreter. The features include complex numbers, user-defined functions, recursive functions, and both real and complex simultaneous equations.
Colin McMillen (B.S. 2003), a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, received a Best Paper Award at the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) for his paper entitled ‘Thresholded Rewards: Acting Optimally in Timed, Zero-Sum Games.’
Nancy Reed (Ph.D. 1995) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Get involved! Mentor a student through the CSE Mentor Program
CS&E alumni are invited to participate in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering Mentor Program, in which students are matched with professionals working in science, math, and engineering fields. Matches are made considering factors like common interests and areas of expertise.
Participating alumni will have the chance to introduce students to their business, exchange ideas with a new generation of leaders, and help a promising student succeed. Mentors not only gain personal satisfaction, but they also help their company with recruitment and community service efforts.
The time commitment is approximately two hours per month, October 2007 through April 2008. University staff provides the training, guidance, and invitations to campus activities, including professional meetings, lectures, and sporting events.
Registration begins in September. More information can be found at the CSE Mentor Program page. The deadline to register for the 2007-2008 season is September 30. For more information, contact the College of Science and Engineering Alumni Society at 612-626-8282 or at .
Thank you for supporting CSE students!
Alumni, we want to hear from you!
Please send your news about milestones, jobs, promotions and awards to the External Relations Coordinator at . Submissions will be included in the next newsletter and on the CS&E department Web site.
Alumni Spotlight - an excerpt from the fall|winter 2007-2008 issue of the CS&E Soundbyte newsletter. (pdf)
