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Assistant Professor Dan Keefe awarded the University's McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

The University of Minnesota has awarded Assistant Professor Dan Keefe the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Keefe's research integrates 3D computer graphics, human-computer interfaces, and real-world (often data-intensive) applications. His goal is to enable scientific discovery, creative workflows and new applications of computer science — creating new opportunities for humans and computers to collaborate in virtual spaces used for engineering, medicine, art and more.

The goal of the McKnight program is to advance the careers of our most promising junior faculty at a critical point in their professional lives. Recipients are honored with the title McKnight Land-Grant Professor, a special award they will hold for two years. The award consists of a research grant in each of two years and a research leave in the second year.

CAREER award for Kuang

The CS&E department is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor Rui Kuang a CAREER Award. Kuang's grant is titled "Predicting and Mining Phenome-genome Association across Species."

Dr. Kuang and his lab will attack the problem of understanding how genetic material determines the observable characteristics (phenotypes) of an organism by investigating new computational methods for predicting and understanding the relation between the whole collection of phenotypes and the complete genome (phenome-genome association) across multiple species. This work can have applications in areas such as disease treatment, biofuel generation, and food production

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

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