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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.
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.
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.
The work of Associate Professors Yongdae Kim, Abhishek Chandra and Ph.D. student Abedelaziz Mohaisen was recently featured on MIT Technology Review. The article "The Imminent Rise of Social Cloud Computing" discusses Kim's work on the issue of trust in the use of social cloud computing.
Kim, Chandra and Mohaisen have "modeled the way such a distributed computing system would schedule, distribute and complete tasks in several real-world networks. One interesting result is that social networks seem to be well matched to the task in hand. These networks ensure that tasks are distributed in way that most of them can be completed relatively quickly, provided that fewer than 30 per cent of users are outsourcing at any one time."
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