Zhang Promoted
Zhi-Li Zhang was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
Faculty Members to Serve on Editorial Boards
Vipin Kumar has been invited to join the Editorial Board for Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics, an archival publication series in the fields of computer science and engineering, interdisciplinary computational sciences, and information technology published by World Scientific Publishing.
Shashi Shekhar joined the editorial board of GeoInformatica: An International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers) starting March 2002.
Anand Tripathi has been appointed as a member of the Publications Board of the IEEE Computer Society, starting Janaury 2002.
Gini to Co-Chair Conference
Maria Gini is the General Co-Chair for the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), to be held July 15-19, 2002, in Bologna, Italy.
Tripathi to Serve on IASTED Committee
Anand Tripathi has been appointed as a member of the Technical Committee on Parallel & Distributed Computing & Systems of IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology for Development) for the period 2002-04.
Sturtivant Voted Best I.T. Instructor by Students
Carl Sturtivant was selected as the top professor from the CS&E department by the students in I.T. for the second year in a row.
Champine Replaces Borowicz as CSA President
John Champine has been elected to serve as the Chairman of the Computer Science & Engineering Associates for the 2002-2003 school year. He succeeds John Borowicz, who has chaired the CSA since 1998. John has been with the Datacard Group for the past six years as senior Manager for Systems Software Engineering. Prior to that, John worked in the supercomputing industry for nine years at both Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) and Cray Research. It was during this period that John first became involved with the Computer Science Associates, initially as a member representing Cray Research, and subsequently as the Chair for three years during the leadership of the CS department by Professor Sameh. During these years John became very involved with the goals of the CS&E department in such areas as lobbying for the new CS & EE building, assisting in the search for department heads and faculty, reviewing curricula for relevancy to the needs of the IT industry in Minnesota, and generally being an advocate for the CS&E Department. During that period he also fostered outreach programs with other universities by holding representative positions on the industrial advisory councils to the CS departments at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and the University of St. Thomas.
Faculty Members Speak at Various Conferences
Vipin Kumar gave a Keynote talk at the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-2002), held May 6-8, Taipei, Taiwan.
Maria Gini was a plenary speaker for the 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress, which was held at the COEX convention center in Seoul, Korea, May 26 - 29, 2002, along with 2002 FIRA Robot World Cup. Her talk was entitled: "Are many robots better than one?"
Vipin Kumar gave a keynote talk at the 5th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Computational Sciences (June 26-28, 2002, Porto, Portugal).
Researchers Receive "Best Paper" and "Best Poster" Awards
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos and co-author, Osama Masoud, received the IEEE VTS 2001 Best Land Transportation Paper Award for their paper "A Novel Method for Tracking and Counting Pedestrians in Real-Time Using a Single Camera," September, 2001, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. "Using SAS for Mining Indirect Associations in DATA," written by Pang Tan, Vipin Kumar, and Harumi Kuno, received the Best Contributed Paper Award in Applications Development Section in the Ninth Annual Conference of the Western Users of SAS Software, 2001.
Howland Receives Travel Awards
Peg Howland, a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering, received travel grants from the Xi Chapter, Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science. and from the SIAM Student Travel Fund to attend the Second SIAM Conference on Data Mining, April 11-13, in Arlington, Virginia. She presented the paper "Extension of Discriminant Analysis based on the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition," which was written with her advisor, Haesun Park.
Two CS&E Students Receive President's Student Leadership & Service Award
Amy Larson and Jeff Thompson, graduate students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, received the President's Student Leadership & Service Award from President Mark Yudof at a banquet on May 2, 2002.
Collins has Best Poster Presentation
John Collins won "The Best Ph.D. Student Poster Presentation" award for his poster on the MAGNET system at the 2002 University of Minnesota e-Commerce Conference, Carlson School of Management, 11-12 April.
Bailey Accepts Postion in Illinois
Brian Bailey will be an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign beginning Fall Semester 2002. Professor Bailey's advisors were Joe Konstan and John Riedl.
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